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Lunch.

Mezzanine Massive Attack 1998 yup:

The Onyx Christmas coffees order showed up. I’m stoked. HS

I'm watching the news that three asshats have been found guilty of murdering an unarmed jogger in Georgia. Thank you to the jurors for being human.

Have a great one! Cheers!

Roon pointed to this for me. For some info about the recording follow this link.

Hope you had a fantastic day!

Happy belated BDay! Glad to know you had a good one with gifts and all

Happy Birthday!

Thanks, everybody:)... Have a Jockamo's Cheese Louise with extra bacon all to myself...turkey's thawing...got a usb-c flash drive capable of 1,000MB/900MB a second r/w in the mail for the fastest phone backups in the game...but hoping for the gift of entertainment...

Happy Birthday 🥳🎉🥳!

Happy Birthday

Fancy for something that comes out of a double wide just to the northwest of me.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Long form, but a fantastic watch for anyone who had a modem in the late 80s or early 90s.

A right channel is finished now. Here is an aerial picture. Output current sources differ between channels. Left, as said in a few posts earlier, has T2 style CCS while right channel only has 01N100D/DN2540 CCS - a “Carbon style” CCS. The boards are ready for both CCS. The boards have same size and tube positions as mini T2. I run this on +400/-460V PSU, same PSU as I use for mini T2.

Another of Cameron's stunning photographs. Charles Darwin in 1868

Finally got the output stage of my amp at least somewhat functioning. Spent a solid few weeks scratching my head and thinking I screwed something up. Nope, both 45 tubes I have had bad heaters. Bought another tube and now everything is as it should be. Next stop: find some output transformers.

Actress Ellen Terry, aged 16 - photographed in 1864 by a wizard of early photography, Julia Margaret Cameron in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. I've visited the museum in her house and studio. (Apart from Cameron's astonishing work, there is a bronze statue outside of Jimi Hendrix)

I have to say that I've been hugely impressed by the little Breville Bambino (I guess technically I have the "Plus" but they didn't call it back then). It's dead simple to use and my taste buds tell me it produces as good or better shots/drinks than my local coffee shops with precious little effort. It's just one piece of at least a three-part chain (coffee, grinder, brewer) so buying it or any other decent quality piece and failing at the others does you less good than setting yourself up with good or better pieces at each point. As this thread has shown, you can clearly invest a lot more and I'm not arguing that the results aren't better, but I've hit a nice sweet spot for me that doesn't drive SWMBO insane. That's my 2c.

Okay, I like this one.

Missed this one from earlier in the year - Tim Bogert, bass player for Vanilla Fudge/Cactus. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vanilla-fudge-bassist-tim-bogert-dead-obit-1114424/ #FuckCancer

Sylvère Lotringer, who popularized French critical theory in the United States, helped inspire the Matrix movie series, hosted conferences for counterculture celebrities, lent his name to a character in an acclaimed novel and a television series based on it [I Love Dick], provoked rants on Fox News and founded an influential publishing house — all while trying to outrun memories of a childhood spent on the precipice of disaster [damn Nazis] — died on Nov. 8 at his home outside Ensenada, Mexico, in Baja California. He was 83. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/books/sylvere-lotringer-dead.html https://www.artforum.com/news/sylvere-lotringer-1938-2021-87164

RIP the dead when an SUV ripped at speed into a Christmas parade in a small community in Wisconsin. At least five dead and 40-odd injured. He first hit schoolchildren and then a parade of dancing grannies. The police have the bastard in custody,