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Getting ready to reheat for dinner but early snacking is promising.

Spatchcock chicken and grilled corn

Astonishingly 43 years after they were launched, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are still alive and broadcasting back to earth. NASA have progressively turned instruments off that are irrelevant at the enormous distance they are now is at - 17 light hours for 2 and 20 light hours for 1 - to conserve energy. It looks like the power sources (radioactive) will eventually peter out in the next year or two. They are based on early 1970's technology, to the extent that the data store is a tape recorder! Of course since the *nearest* star to us is 4.3 light years distant, the Voyagers would take 75,000 years to get there (even if they were headed in that direction).

Carl Sagan in 1994 after Voyager took a similar image from even further away: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." Looking at the numbers, Voyager at the time of the Pale Blue Dot image was 1.5 times the distance to Pluto away, 5.5 light hours distant, 4.5 time further way than Saturn.

Someone made a spreadsheet with best games from "Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ReIRGAVldZiIqro4E9tO5UAD1w2vUj8cNVzrmNVlgJk/edit#gid=0

Deck Curry

The only case that I know the brisket fairy has is a Louis Vuitton.

I watched some crazy dude in a wing suit flying near some crazy rock face in a GoPro sponsered video. But what stole the show for me was this wonderful (background) music and this angelic voice -

Aja – Steely Dan

Nope https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

Oh yes, been waiting for this one for a long time. Can't wait to play this weekend.

So technically, that should say, “You were here”.

Haven't come across these guys. Seems to come from India. Nothing the matter with that. After all they have particle accelerators and an active space programme. The thing that determines the quality of a stepped attenuator is the resistors. For surface mount they ought to be thin film, which are quite pricey - typically 25c each in 1000 off. There are 96 resistors in that attenuator, so $25 for the resistors in 1000 off quantity. Now they say they use thin film resistors and quote the resistor spec. But the price is ridiculously low. These guys are the place to go for switched attenuators https://khozmo.com/index.html . Note that they specifically use Vishay thin film resistors. This https://khozmo.com/ladder_khozmo_attenuator.html is the equivalent of the allo one and is $259 - so ten times the price. I'd say of allo - too good to be true.

Does the Brisket Fairy have a case for IP infringement?

\ #ScottishPeopleTwitter Israeli protesters practicing social distancing. You Are Here.

Science begins at midnight tonight. 8-1/2 lbs, before trimming, a little over 6 after. It's mostly the flat with a little point left for making some burnt ends. Plan is to have it ready to pull off around noon so plenty of rest before dinner and no stress.

early dinner.

Well... The channel imbalance is gone. Thanks for the help Pirx and DefQon. Your posts gave me just enough information to get confident. The driver split apart just as expected and the recoat went without incident. They're singing properly for the first time since I've had them!