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i brought some coffee equipment with me to otakon.

I've bought from NAC for shipping to the UK. They have no minimum order charge, unlike my supplier in the UK (Micross) who without warning imposed a UKP200 minimum order charge (plus shipping plus VAT). Happy I was not, and let them know, vociferously. Buying Linear Systems parts from NAC was straightforward, with very reasonable shipping to the UK, and with very nice personal service. Five star.

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Joe Pass - Virtuoso A recent video from Rick Beato about this album:

Aiming for under 4, 20:300. Not gonna hit it. My draw down got real slow 250-300 How is this for a blast from the past?

Another chicken tikka masala.

Hunting down Schmigadoon! scenes. Last pitch.

My first day back at construction work for over a year. Well, first day back at a job not run by Milo and Otis. Well, it was really only a half day, gathering materials for the project. You can't rush into these things all at once. I found it refreshing to get back to it, but Suzy has a completely different attitude about this whole back to work thing. Oh, and I got a haircut.

Flair Royal. I have an old and cheap Bodum Bistro burr grinder that is perfectly acceptable for pour over, but I’ve just been using the Royal for espresso and pour over. It’s a very consistent and precise grinder. I’m not going to get a better counter top grinder until I move, as I just don’t have a lot of space in my kitchen. I don’t have it quite dialed in for pour over yet, hence the sudden draw down slowing this morning, but I have it dialed in pretty well for espresso. My coffee setup is unfortunately space constrained, and I also travel to see my partner pretty often, and she has a Mr. Coffee (well, she has a V60 and Encore that I bought her, but… she has a Mr. Coffee). We plan on putting a bar in her basement after I’m finally there, and I really do think a Lelit Mara X is going to be on the end of that bar, but I’m unsure of the grinder. I’m thinking Lagom P64, but they are as hard to get as a Niche, and the new Mignon single dose might end up being good, and I bet a Eureka will be a lot easier to actually buy. I have agreed to keep the espresso coffee setup (pour over coffee and kettle are fairly well sorted at this point!) to around $3,000 (I’ll probably cheat) as apparently there are “other things she would rather we spend money on.” *jerk off motion* That’s a serious setup!

Nice piece on The White Lotus in the LA Times today. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-08-06/the-white-lotus-hbo-cast-mike-white-hawaii-resort-tourism

It is very much a rehash of older designs and nothing unique there. The "special bias supply" also doesn't hold a lot of water but good for them to get somebody to give them a patent on something nobody cares about. In terms of performance this is worse than the new SRM-400S for a lot more...and the 400S is a pretty crummy amplifier. A huge step back for Stax in performance.

Wow, where’s my dinner? Congrats on the marriage and move. Still in South Florida? If so, sorry.

Set back up the equipment rack Steve gave me a long time ago, to get some of the mess off my desk.

A look at Sebdti's finished Carbon boards - Seb wanted to mount these flat against the heatsink so the L-brackets in the pic are just to help position the transistors precisely and protect during transport. Here is one of my own Carbon boards set for horizontal mounting (Joachim, the DN2540's are mounted underneath the PCB ) Also the completed PSU. For anyone who is interested - I'm using the 1200V Wolfspeed SiC's - https://www.digikey.co.uk/products/en?keywords=1697-C3M0350120D-ND‎

Today in "no good deed goes unpunished" I divested myself of a bunch of things including a pair of JBL 630s from the mid 1980s. In the process, my wallet disappeared. I noticed it was missing when at the checkout of the local grocery store. Two calls later and neither place I'd visited had seen it. I've torn apart my house and my car, but it's just flat out missing. Great way to start the weekend.