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Got the east coast ping pong table reassembled.

I made standing rib roast for dinner last night and Claire made the Yorkshire pudding and the Paris-Brest cake, both of which were awesome.

Looked like he was coming after the cameraperson for a moment. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmK7FDqJbvk/ Of course added to my follow list... 'at least for now'. And 'Just kidding' above. After making the last setting modifications, I have had not issues, glitches or errors on the Alienware. Event Viewer (for Windows people) is clear of the errors that were causing the issue after long 4k testing. There are a few very minor things that I would like to still fix, but I am now very happy with the machine, and the pretty screen.

Lots and lots of 4k content. I was having an issue of my screen glitching on the new computer, so I have been in diagnostic mode for the last 24 hours (almost straight). I am kind of sick of fly over videos now, and that was one of the main reasons that I bought this computer in the first place. Anyway, after many updates and many forums, I may have fixed the primary issue. But the only way to tell is more 4k. Happy new year to me. Good thing that some of these are like 11 hours long so I can let them play and then check the event log for errors.

Nay. I decided the flu was better than tiny corgi teeth and did that instead.

Armadillo eggs.

Good to hear and yeah they don't make commercials like they used to. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm1zuhVJiSh/

Speak for Yourself Imogen Heap 2005 https://album.link/i/1016968922 Example: Thought I would share one of the lesser known, but no lesser of the songs for the Example. I just pulled up the album to do some testing, one of my go to albums. But I cannot seem to listen to my test tracks and then not listen to the entire album. Of note, the TIDAL mix seems to be slightly different than the 2005 CD release that I have. This maybe because of the deluxe versions that they released last decade. Not that it is bad, just slightly different than what my acoustic memory is telling me. I will have to do some more testing.

^ This should help for your 4K testing. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmsNJwApdK_/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmvJUmApqLy/ More: https://instagram.com/radvertising_co

Just don't do any of this, none of it is an improvement and just fucks up the sound for no good reason.

The guy certainly didn’t know and understand what he had done - what a pity!

Happy New Year!

50yo Still Bill Bill Withers 1972 https://album.link/i/989376986 Example: I still have a handful of 50yo albums that I had in my queue as I came to the end of the year. But after doing some sampling, I had to go with Bill. There is the classic Lean on Me, but I had to share the 'get up and dance', Use Me. It is really a good album. Not a perfect recording, or voice, or playing. But it got the groove down perfectly. I wanted the next song to come along so I could keep head bobbing along. Deep Purple and Jethro will remain in the queue. I will get back to the others some other time. I enjoyed the 50yo explorations, I probably wont continue it in the new year. Got too many things in my queue.

I mentioned starting Fleishman Is In Trouble, but now that I’ve completed the limited series I gotta say it’s really something. Give it a shot.

50yo Honky Château Elton John 1972 https://album.link/i/1440910513 Example: A good Album with some gems. Thx Elton.

Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live (1994) Apparently it's that time a year again when I have to watch this concert... Always breaths life into me.

Porchetta and Delia's Red Cabbage (Not shown, various potatoes and veggies)

So I bought a lot of modified headphones on ebay, SR-Lambda Signature, SR-007Mk2 and SR-009. They looked to be in rough condition so I thought, worst case I'll tinker with them and have some more spare parts for my stock. Now... the first two units were bad... really bad but I fully rebuilt them from my stock of spare parts. Now I've been fixing up lost cause headphones for 20 years but still, these were the worst I've ever seen. Missing parts everywhere and utterly retarded ways of "improving" them by making everything worse. Now, I had left the 009's in their box until this morning and wow... just wow... So what are we looking at, these are the outside protection grills... taped to the outside of the housing with some rubber/butyl type tape. The earpads are fixed in place with it as well and it covers up the cable entry on both earcups. Now... this is after repairing two utter clusterfucks of incompetence and stupidity but yeah, not prepared for this one. Pull off the earpads and the tape around the cable entry and this is what greeted me. Just look at that soldering, the holes in the dust covers and well... the driver in backwards. These are dipoles like all Stax... it won't change anything to put it in backwards. There was nothing holding the earpads in except more of that glue and notice one missing screw on the driver. It gets worse though... Here is the driver removed and there is no dust cover at all. Yeah...nothing at all. Here is the other channel with just the tape over the cable entry removed. How this is supposed to improve performance is completely beyond me... Here is the housing with the driver removed and just look at all that adhesive residue. That ties into this, the earpads: Now they are utter trash at this point but look at the adhesive residue on them, that is hot glue! The most useless of adhesive which should only be used by kids in arts and bloody crafts! So end results is these headphones are completely fucked. The arc and housings can be used and the cable might be ok but the drivers are probably beyond hope. Add to this all the missing hardware and I'm not sure what I'll do with them. I might try to find a dead set of 009's with driver failure and make one good set out of the two or something creative. Final lesson, if somebody says they are modifying headphones and improving performance... odds are it is something like this.

https://wwd.com/eye/people/war-fashion-photographer-tony-vaccaro-dies-at-1235458580/ https://medium.com/vantage/the-life-of-tony-vaccaro-a-lens-into-modern-history-4d0e422b73eb

Photographer Tony Vaccaro passed on his 100th birthday. The range of his photos, from war-time ugliness to his beautiful fashion images, is incredible & always thought provoking.