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Decided to have a little fun with the Traeger since it is, in essence, a wood-fired oven. My parent's watched the kids one day this week and picked up some fresh peaches so I figured it was time for cobbler, round 2. lnitial phase Mid Cook Done

The Creedence have the power to charge my batteries ... and this album much more

I've enjoyed most of his books, but The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. was terrible. It had the outlines of Stephenson's usual obsessions, but the plot was terribly weak, the characterizations were cartoonish, and it went way too far in terms of self-indulgence and laziness. I took a hard pass on The Mongoliad. I read half of Seveneves before my library loan expired – I'll get back to finishing it at some point. I loved Reamde, despite its flaws, and I'm looking forward to reading Fall.

I'm a sucker for Stephenson stuff, even his more navel-gazey work really does it for me. Fall is perhaps not the place to start if you're not already a fan, but I just find his thought process and world-building compelling. I did not enjoy it as much as Seveneves, and Diamond Age remains my favorite of all his books. I did prefer it to Reamde. The reviews are a little harsher but similar in tone to those of Seveneves. Normies don't like 600+ pages of exposition from a layman on fringe tech with their speculative fiction, maybe? I just discard out of hand any review which mentions Snow Crash.

Quokka

Fusion, discovered from the r/porcupinetree discord—pretty cool, simple performance video, too

This gets an AMEN!

Successfully solved a ceiling fan long wobble (rubber octopus!) and extracted a broken light bulb from its socket. Why am I feeling this triumphant? #2020

It was a little heavy on the sale and pepper but other wise turned out good. I took the right 1/3 and turned it into burnt ends, those came out better. and "Super Smoke" mode on the Ironwood appears to do the job.

I was thinking exactly the same thing!

enjoyable - but infinitely distracted by the wobbling keyboard. Dude - get a real stand!

It's 2020. Take whatever triumphs you can get!

We haven't forgotten and it still hurts, but we miss you dearly and hope you're somewhere brewing beer and listening to great gear.

Cheers Younger. May your glass be full... cheers and fuck you

There is so much more whisky we ought to have consumed together, bro. Got an Edradour in the glass for you right now.

the jumper was supposed to be .1 newest software loves to keep switching to metric (fixed) forgot about the size of the caps, can always put them on the bottom. i had thought that 18awg was enough. size increased to 60th not going to be able to move the caddock resistors much. only 25th. then runs into the output wire

Sorry we never met. Happy belated birthday.

Fuck you, Matt! I had to meet you.

To quote Banksy “I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” Matt.

Always loved our conversations. IEMs forever.

Miss you Matt.

Fuck birthdays. Love you Matt! What the fuck.

fuck you Matt (I posted on Facebook instead, I'm bad about birthday threads here)

Four. Didn’t get to know you but definitely fuck you Matt.

Happy Birthday Matt! Miss you buddy

That's racist!

And hopefully still calling Brent a dumfuck.

If not for those Klipsh, I'd have thought it was 1974. Oh, and what a funny picture on that easel.

John Scofield (with MMW) - A Go Go

Thanks everyone for your patience. I did not realize so many of you have yet to receive the package. I sent the packages out in a few batches and usually 6 - 7 at a time. I am at a loss making sense why some of the packages arrived so much later than others.

Maybe a little redundant, but I finally received my copy of J.G. Ballard's High-Rise and I'm enjoying it immensely. The novel is clearly satirical and the film seems to have lost that feeling somewhere in translation. I got the one with the movie cover on purpose, as the novel is supposed to be about a disaster and the movie was one, unintentionally. Looks like a slew of cover artists attempted to visualize the story with varying degrees of success. It is a near-insurmountable challenge to make a condominium appear fascinating to the reading public. https://www.4thestate.co.uk/2015/11/high-rise-40-years-of-cover-design/

Holy thread resurrection. Martin de Candre has been my favorite shaving soap for years. A jar literally lasts a year or longer. I think Vetyver is my favorite fragrance yet.

This image is too good to be part of a mega post.

Camera humor

The general consensus on this site seems to be that the Clears have better tonal balance and fewer flaws than the Utopia, but I recently got the Utopias and I definitely prefer them over the Clears. I find them to have better dynamics, clarity, and speed with a similar tonal balance (a little brighter, but still relatively warm, at least compared to my Lambda NBs). What exactly do people dislike about the Utopias in comparison to the Clears?

Yes, "traditional" armadillo eggs are just* sausage packed jalapeños stuffed with one's choice of cream cheese and cheese (that's my choice) and some add BBQ rub or spices too but I prefer au naturel. But then I found the recipe that said to wrap them in bacon and I was like, "Why the fuck not?" I definitely got a look or two while preparing them, but all objections were silenced upon sampling. I'm now imagining working any leftover bits, if there are such a thing, into an omelette. Because life deserves complicated breakfast. * Note that there is nothing just about non-bacon wrapped armadillo eggs. They too are delicious. But, you know, bacon and all that.