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Passed the first round of interviewing on my dream job!

Joined the aesthetes of Ross to see "Eos Ensemble: Pastorale in the Redwoods Bask in the dappled light of our rustic Redwood Amphitheater to the sounds of a string trio joined by flute and harp in this program of chamber music with renowned local musicians." A very pleasant way to spend a summer evening

Experimental Bluegrass with a very talented guitarist

Thank you Mr. Gilmore for help and all projects you have published for us to play with. I've wired 3.3V from arduino to one input and measured output voltage as suggested. It seem to work properly to me: Looks like Log pot to me like it should do. Kind regards, Milan

put a 1.5v battery on the input, and cycle thru the steps and watch the output voltage.

Now that looks like the real thing already! Congrats, James!

Let us know what it tastes like.

This one hurts a good amount. RIP Chris Sommovigo, only 55. Say what you want about cables, but he did some amazing work over the years, some at dirt-cheap prices; some of my favorite cables have been his inexpensive trials, prototypes for some of his later designs. I have been a fan & customer for more than 2 decades, we conversed a bit about his move to Japan and then back again to the US to help his ailing mother, amongst several other things. A supremely decent human being for sure.... Very sad to hear....RIP

Years ago I read a book called the "Tyranny of Choice" about that very conundrum. It's a funny one though, which is more tyrannical, what to do with the extremely versatile, malleable RAW files I got from a very modern one-body, two-lens setup, or what to rifle out of Ric's gear closet for any particular given outing, to get files with more "look" baked in? These are the amusing wonderments of life, no? Not to suggest I don't have a gear closet of my own, though my recent experience is perhaps inspiring me to cull some of the DSLR lenses I still have hanging around, good as they are.

@mikeymad, for Heilung any of their previous stuff is good IMO. More "primitive," with some plodding but somehow involving percussion. Ofnir (2015), Futha (2019), and the live album Lifa (2017)....all have received some heavy rotation. Not every song hits my ears and tastebuds well, but overall have liked it a lot.

WUHOO! Now 3/4’s of the way home, this place rocks.

Yep, smaller seems doable. Lm339 in so14 package and smd relay. Should be able to cnc mill board myself.

I've always been intrigued by the Foveon cameras, but never managed to convince myself to tolerate the trade-offs. Nearly convinced myself to try a DP2m a couple of times, but just never took the plunge, and figured if the technology truly had merit, eventually Sigma or someone else would develop it into something more usable. While perhaps my previous post made me come off as someone who loves doing work in post, if anything I am the opposite. It's my least favorite part of digital photography, but a necessary evil to get the results I want. Anything I can do upfront in the shooting process to make post work less demanding appeals to me (hence capturing optimal data), but as far as I can tell, there's still no algorithm that can predict the look I want consistently and bake it into a JPEG for me. The closest I can do is a few sets of my own Adobe presets, but even those are dependent on correct exposure to work as intended and are far from universal. I do take plenty of more spontaneous / less pre-visualized photos, but generally working from the same approach of data-gathering that informs my aperture/SS/ISO/focus point decisions, and is familiar and well-trained enough to often not require much more than a reaction rather than involved thought. That is to say, I can spend more effort thinking about what goes in the frame and where, rather than how to execute the shot itself. And It's that puzzle of what goes where, how, and why, that ultimately I think I find most rewarding and enjoyable about photography. I don't see the alarm with finding charm and enjoyment in older gear either, and I can certainly see the appeal of various traits of various lenses and bodies that have been around over the years. I personally prefer to have a fairly small footprint of "stuff" in my life, so am naturally drawn to things that are closer to do-it-all, than extremely characterful specialists. In photography, much like in audio, this has generally tended to draw me to devices at the leading edge of technical development, often derided as dull, cold, soul-less, or the like by certain other enthusiasts. Put me in a target-rich environment, and I do believe I'd enjoy shooting it with any camera. But I'd enjoy it more shooting one with fewer caveats, limitations, and work-arounds required to get the results I want. I'd probably enjoy the results I got from those cameras, (perhaps even enjoy some of their results MORE, depending on the circumstances?), but I think I would enjoy the journey to those results less. And I've come to discover that I enjoy the journey of photography as much as or perhaps more than the result. I just spent 4 days in the backcountry of Kings Canyon NP. I brought one camera that I know very well, and two lenses, and had a glorious time searching through scenes to find compositions I liked, and capturing them fairly effortlessly with files that I knew would stand up well and turn out great, due to the incredible and consistent performance of that gear. I didn't have to worry about running out of dynamic range, having inconsistent acuity across the frame, name your photographic malady, basically. I just had to concern myself with getting my camera to the right place at the right time with the optimal settings, and know that the results wouldn't disappoint me. And at first look, they haven't. I've scarcely ever had more fun with a camera. But I understand someone could say exactly the same thing about doing nighttime urban photography with a Holga, and it would be completely true for them as well.

Over all I like the vibe of it. New to me. Let us know if there is something else in the catalog to check out, that is on your list. Also new to me. Negative Act of Denial 2021 https://album.link/i/1575238753 Example: Melodic Death Metal. I didn't know I need this in my life, now I do. Kind of a Metal supergroup from a collection of good players.

Wrapped up the flip cart, now time to start on the Rocking chair Adirondacks for the new fire pit platform down by the lake.

Just bought this.

I haven't yet no. I did source what I need in a trade just now so for the immediate future I'm ok

Here's a long but VERY eye-opening twitter thread of what's going on that details one Russian paratrooper's account of his experiences. TL;DR the levels of corruption and incompetence in the Russian armed forces is simply staggering and defies any comprehension to people who are used to relative competence in western countries. And if you're wondering "how can Russia be losing with so much modern equipment, or have all of these capabilities that they don't use" etc etc... read this. Now take a look at the 600 foot yachts Russian oligarchs sail around on and ask yourself where that money came from, and then thank your lucky fucking stars that you live here and not there. I asked a Russian/Ukrainian friend what his take on all of this was, and he simply said "you know how some countries have a mafia? Now imagine if the mafia had a country." P.S. If you don't have a twitter account, just replace "twitter.com" with "nitter.net" in the url. Nitter is a free open source front end for twitter and while it's buggy, at least it won't require you to sign up or collect your data without asking.

Yeah, a little waist of pixels if you smear them around like that.

My sub.

All my passwords are super random and long and are stored in a password vault (highly recommended). But if someone dressed as me starts posting a lot in the: What are you drinking now? What are you watching now? What tv show are you watching now? What are you listening to now? What is the last movie you saw? ...threads - let me know.

Easter update... a friend of mine has a 3D-Printer: And this is what those parts are for: There will be an additional PCB mounted on top of the volume pot that will also serve as wiring distribution and protection circuit. I will only need tapped holes to the heatsinks, all PCBs are otherwise held in place by the plastic spacers.

As many of you know i have been searching high and low for the world's best headphones. I have finally found them.