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Built another Ropiee appliance. This time used RopieeXL and the 7" Pi touchscreen display.

Had BBQ new york steaks and admired this D2HBaaaA This one is a is a OM1A with brazilian rosewood one of only six made

It's as much room (and Herman Miller) porn as it is speaker porn, innit?

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The lovely cassette deck I mentioned above. TBH it wasn't as good sounding as the looks would suggest. Still I recorded a ton of vinyls into cassettes with that machine.

http://www.331fish.com/ We got there just before closing to avoid any crowds. We could have called in the order from home, but waited until we were within 5 minutes. Went in, paid for order, waited outside. (Packed) Order bought to the table were we were waiting. Picked it up and proceeded to the car in the parking lot where we enjoyed it, piping hot. I had an iced Usual waiting, and Joanne's "Tea" in her Contigo seemed to have a frothy head and an ABV. Allegedly.

RIP Fred. Loved him in so many things but this always comes to mind first.

You say, “toe-mah-toe”... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zoiks Honestly, I was too afraid it was short for god’s oinks.

Socially distant fish and chips

Remember it well. It actually had a second life replacing No Soap Radio, which only lasted five episodes. Such a different world.

enjoy...

Cheers Chris - Happy Belated Birthdays

Belated Happy Birthday Chris!

Belated Happy Birthday, Chris! Hope you had a great day.

I've had the opportunity to spend time with all the Heart roasters coffees purchased using the Chemex and the French Press (even the Hoffman method a time or two). I do recommend the sample pack #2 which included two Ethiopians and two Kenyan coffees, described as more fruit and flower. I also added a 12oz bag of Columbian La Toma to enjoy the free shipping. A few observations: they choose and handle the coffees well. Very approachable roasts. The beans look attractive (of varying sizes depending on variety) with very few broken bits and they are roasted to medium based on the five coffees which is a sweet spot for my tastes. My favorite has been the Ethiopian Gedeb which has notes of rose oil, peach and sugarcane. I have to say their descriptions are more sophisticated than I am accustomed to and, frankly, I can sometimes identify. One of the Kenyans was my next favorite. Overall, I'm pleased this thread has me casting my net wider...I can be a creature of habit (understatement...). I believe I'll try Onyx Coffee Lab next once I start running low... HS

Why are you changing those caps? Any of the claims out there that this cap sound like this and this one is good for this spot... it is all bullshit. This is a niche circuit so special care has to be taken when picking caps for that.

I'm a DPS main but have been trying out tanking lately, and found it way easier than I expected. Much more relaxing for dungeon runs.

1972 Citroën DS.

Happy Birthday, Chris!

Hope it's been a good one, Chris! Cheers!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday - have a great one!

Happy Birthday!

God's Oinks, she's hot!

This has been perfect for life in quarantine. Few games scratch the "parts of the machine" itch better than this one. None of the three roles (damage dealers, healers, tanks) can do it by themselves, but all need to work together in harmony to accomplish the group goals. It feels so good when everyone plays well and overcomes hard challenges as a team. If any HC'ers play and want to add me, let me know!

I gotcher vales righ cheer:

Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Wait, it is? I thought it was just a normal contraction, for "is truth". (wanders off to Google) Goddammit, now I have to stop using it.

No, I should probably disable the motherboard logo LED too, and have no RGB lighting enabled.

New fans came earlier than expected, so I installed them in the case and got some initial fan curves setup. Two 140mm intakes in front and one 120mm exhaust in back (and changed the cpu cooler fan to match)

Just got these in...

if you have 15 minutes and don't mind 100s of traffic and pedestrian near misses

No, that’s not Esmé, my cousin took that picture with her daughter.

Pringles, the offical snack of Pandemic 2020.

I don't know how many times I've watched this video, but no matter what kind of day I'm having, it still kills!

First two episodes of The Last Dance about the 97-98 Chicago Bulls on ESPN. Wow... this is fun! It isn't especially deep, but the characters are some of the most compelling in the history of sports. I'm looking forward to catching the full thing in the weeks to come. Oh, and when this old Alan Parsons track started playing I admit I did get the chills a bit. When you heard that music you knew it was time for Michael to kick somebody's ass!

Folks, I replaced all the electrolytic capacitors in my SRM-600. I can't say for sure if this has happened before, but this (photo) capacitor at 10V 4700uF is heating up. Not very much, around 55C. The headphones aren't plugged in. Can you tell me if this capacitor is in normal operation? Does it have to warm up? My SRM-600 for 230V voltage. First, I supplied a cheap Jamicon TKR472M1AJ26 capacitor. It was heating up.Then I decided to place EEUFR1A472L Panasonic Low ESR capacitor. However, it's warming up, too. I checked the diodes next to it - they're not broke. On the cap about 7V. Any other caps running cold. Only 4700uF/10V running warm. I double-checked all capacitors parameters and they match (or exceed) the original: Original: ELNA LAH400V221MS36 220uF 400V 25х45mm/10mm <--- Rated ripple current (RRC Arms) = 0.87 Replacement: TDK/EPCOS B43642B9227M0 220uF 400V 25x35mm/10mm <--- RRC = 1.03 & ESR at 100 Hz = 460 & Impedance = 680 Original: ELNA RJ4 4700uF 10V 12.5x25mm/5.0mm <--- RRC = 1250 & ESR = 0.11 Replacement: Panasonic EEUFR1A472L 4700uF 10V 12.5x30mm/5.0mm <--- RRC = 3630 & Impedance = 0.013 Original: SANYO 35ME470HC 470uF 35V 10х16mm/5.0mm (S.E.8N Black 85°C Standard series) <--- RRC = 585 Replacement: TDK/EPCOS B41888C7477M000 470uF 35V 10х20mm/5.0mm (B41888C7477M000) <--- RRC = 1500 & ESR at 10 kHz = 0.050 & Impedance = 0.046 Original: ELNA RC3-16V470MF0 47uF 16V 85°C 6.3x5.0mm/2.5mm (RC3 F0 Blue 85°C) <--- RRC at 85°C = 70 Replacement: HITANO E5R 47uF 25V 105°C 6.3x5.0mm/2.5mm <--- RRC at 105°C = 60 Original: ELNA RC3-50V100MF0 10uF 50V 85°C 6.3x5.0mm/2.5mm (RC3 F0 Blue 85°C) <--- RRC at 85°C = 40 Replacement: ELZET CD50H 22uF 50V 105°C 6.3x5.0mm/2.5mm <--- RRC at 105°C = 40 Before the replacement, I did not check if the 4700uF/10V had been warmed. This could be his normal operating condition. It is simply not clear to me which components of the circuit can affect it: from the transformer comes two BLU-wires at 6.3V AC current, then there are two diodes in parallel converting to DC current, and then there is a 4700uF/10V capacitor, which receives these 6.3VDC. There is simply nothing to break. Any suggestion?

Lynn Shelton American director of many episodes of television and a few films “Blood disorder” #fuck2020

We got hit by a major storm last night. Power was out for over 6 hours. 10 minutes after 8 until well past 2AM. I had all sorts of fun issues during it. My iPhone refused to connect to my laptop. I had a lightning cable handy and when I connected them, the iPhone went nuts spamming "trust this device" confirmation popups. The problem was that it the popups disappeared immediately and wouldn't let me click on any of them. It also made a chime noise every time a popup appeared, which quickly wore away at my already fraying sanity. Weirdly, the two devices did pair wirelessly and I was able to get on the internets, sort of. I checked my electric company's website and they had a handy map showing my house smack dab in the middle of it. There was a crew assigned, but the estimated time of power restoration was noon *today.* After half an hour of staring at slow internet on my phone/laptop pair, I had enough. I found my car keys, wallet, etc. (keep in mind I have not left my property in over 8 weeks at this point) and fired up the Fit. I have a "Battery Tender" trickle charger, so the Fit's battery (notoriously fickle) was full. I had also put air in the tires (which go soft after sitting for prolonged periods of time) two days ago. Happily, the engine started right up and purred like a 1.5L kitten. I got halfway down my street when I realized that I was only hearing music out of one set of speakers. I cursed, futzed with the cable, caused all sorts of ear shredding static to pop out of the speakers, but could not get actual music in both channels. I cursed further and drove back home. By flashlight, I located a spare 1/8" to 1/8" cable. The one I'd been using was in service constantly from late 2013, so it didn't really owe me anything. New cable found, I went back out to the Fit and installed it. Yay, music in both channels! I drove around my town and saw exactly what I expected. Other than my immediate area, everyone had power. This has been the story living here for 20 years. I went to a near-ish ATM and checked my bank balance. Not terrible. Funny thing, I haven't been spending much money apart from regular bills in the last 2 months. Not sure why. I got through the better part of X-Dream's landmark 1998 album Radio before I got bored. I also charged the iPhone a bit. I got back home and of course the power was still out. I was headed back in the house when a giant electric company truck went down my street. It had a bright AF searchlight on the roof and was scanning the wires. "Looking for the electricity" as a friend of mine described it. Depressingly, the went all the way down my street without stopping. I once again sat in my comfy chair with a couple candles lit and did some IP-over-telephone browsing. I took a nap earlier, hoping to sleep through the blackout. I didn't, but I was wide awake as a result. Sometime after 2AM, the power came back on. As it always does, it arrived with a surge. I've been through this before many times in the last two decades, so I have a small army of surge protectors. There's a whole house unit with a very low (that's better) clamping voltage that cost me a pretty penny. I also have 3 UPSes and countless power strip form factor surge protectors. Well, once of the devices NOT connected to a power strip was the PSU for my ca. 2001 class compliant (doesn't require drivers) USB audio interface. Of course, it died. It was only my laziness and ineptitude that kept it from being plugged into a power strip. Much foul language and rummaging later, I found a spare USB audio "interface." It's a Blue Icicle I bought off ...some Head-Caser around a decade ago. I never used it other than to test it. It plugged in and lit up, but Windows refused to recognize it. A google search later, I found an amazingly helpful YouTube video from a British fella who found out that some Hercules drives from 2009(!) called Hercules_2009_GMXLPLT3_2_Win7 worked with the Icicle with both Windows 8.1 and 10. There were a couple other casualties. The batter for the APC UPS I have powering my network hardware (essential) gave up the ghost. I need to order a replacement, which is a nontrivial task in the best of times. I also had some weird issues with a few other devices. I'm going to have to carefully test a bunch of shit over the next week or so. This weekend has gotten off to an amazing start. Obviously, I didn't do my radio show last night. To be honest, I'm not sure I'm going to do it tonight, either. After last night's debalce, I'm just not in the mood. I think I'm going to go outside and clear brush.

RIP, Mssr. Glenn. Godspeed, Fred Willard. Just watched an American Pie movie with neighbors. You made me smile, sir... https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/fred-willard-best-in-show-actor-dead-obit-1000942/ HS

RIP Jimmy Glenn, boxer, cutman, trainer and bar owner due to coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/may/15/jimmy-glenn-boxing-bar-times-square?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other “I’m not going to be a billionaire,” Glenn once said. “It’s too late now. So I sell three-dollar beers.”

I decided to let this roaster pass me by, because it would complicate my divorce. I think it'll be 6 months til I buy a good roaster.