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First post Covid soccer tournament this weekend. It was his clubs tournament so the team could not say no. One game Friday, two yesterday (including a 1.5 hour rain/lightening delay so got home after 9 pm) and the championship game today. Peter plays left center back so he doesn’t get to score many goals but he has become their designated penalty kicker and scored two during the tournament. We nicknamed him “Vanilla Ice” because he is a very calm kicker and unlike Lionel Messi, he has never missed a penalty kick in a game. They ended up winning their division so now we just have to wait and see if it becomes a superspreading event. Peter is the one you would expect to be nicknamed “Vanilla Ice”.

Replaced the six year old $11.99 generic Chinese Bluetooth adapter with a modern $14.99 generic Chinese Bluetooth adapter. Improved SQ and 2010 Kia Optima now slightly less embarrassing.

Took some time but eventually I got a CD sent to me. Thanks for post!

Err, do you mean nervous_testpilot's "Menu" music for Frozen Synapse?

I like my obscure 90's rap with a bit of old school country thrown in. I miss Tammy Wynette.

Possibly the best track by the best MC of the 90's. One of those songs that I'm sad when it ends, and I usually listen to it again (and again). Kind of obscure, but if you listen to other 90's rap, you'll recognize this as being sampled all over the place. to wit

The pads are smaller than standard Akai type pads. They're 25 x 20 mm. One feature that I like with pad and the keyboard is the velocity curve can be quickly changed between 3 settings. The most compressed setting decreases the difference between high a low velocities. The sensitivity changes quite a bit with the different setting too (the volume is about 2x higher between the lowest to highest setting with identical ergs). Overall, I'd consider the pad to be better than average. I'd love to try a Handsonic. I'm sure there's no comparison to the expression you could produce with something like that. Pretty pricy though.

Any one tried these out yet?

We are really liking the fat ratio, it was a 10lb pork belly slab from Costco. I am not really sure about the people that want their bacon on the meaty side. And I don't think I want to find out. Guess I should just make lardo. (or make some pig tails for Al)

I shook some salt on them and the soundstage shrunk.

^ Epic! (virtual chest bump to @mikeymad) Unrelated: Been thinking about this one since last night:

Has it been cryo-treated? I heard that's important to truly get the best temperature readings from an analog thermometer. Otherwise try giving it a few hours back and forth between warm and cold places to accelerate the break-in process.

Ditto!

Fucking amazing looking bacon. Want. 🤤

Batch two of home made bacon. Salt Sugar Pepper Black pepper seeds Coriander seeds Mustard seeds 5 days cure, 10 days hung to dry. The other 5lbs is in the fridge. Sooo good.

Up in Maine at the condo, took a nice little ride in Kennebunkport for lunch, then around a few nearby sites. Water picture is Cape Porpoise Maine, and two sunset pics are in our condo complex, taken by Karen earlier this week.

... and is step up the right position?

That's what penile injection therapy is for. Just saying ....

I made quite the discovery today. In the early 2010s, I bought a lot of indie video game bundles from a variety of sites. A number of them no longer exist (Indie Royale), have been sold to a much larger company (Humble Bundle) or have mutated into storefronts (Fanatical, who used to be *mumble*). One oddball from that era was Groupees. Strange name, even stranger site. They sold product keys for Steam, Desura and ShinyLoot (the latter two no longer exist.) They often included comic books in PDF format and lots of music in their bundles. As part of the massive data migration I've been working on for a year now, I went through some ancient bundle detritus. Among the files was a bunch of stuff from Groupees. Out of curiosity, I checked their site out. They're still very much active, primarily selling indie music now including a bunch of synthwave(!) I was surprised to see that they didn't have no-name artists either. For example: https://groupees.com/occamslaser Occams Laser is the \m/ of synthwave. There is nothing chill about the music he makes. It's like the soundtrack to an action/horror movie from a much cooler version of the 1980s that never existed. I own a bunch of his EPs and I'm still buying that bundle because there's a couple on there I don't have in FLAC.

Soon Hifiman HE-R10. 😭

Missed it this week... Monday Blues.....

We bought a new outdoor thermometer yesterday so I am trying to find a nice place to hang it. Thermometers are a lot like new headphone amps I guess in that they need some time break in before they display accurate readings. There is no way it is 44 degrees here, it feels more like 100.

You're on your own there, mate.