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saw the Taj Mahal Quartet in a small theater in knoxville last night. It was fantastic. If my recording turned out I'll post it soon. https://archive.org/details/tm-20230416.4015gs.d-01t-16

Because reasons. Happy Moods Ahmad Jamal 1960 https://album.link/i/1443907095 Example: Sad, but this helps. RIP and thanks Ahmad.

Where's the knife? 🧐

^ No one to talk you off the ledge today?

Sorry Steve, I can't approve of this meal. I thought I knew you better.

In the wake of Sir Ahmad Roon Radio continued with...

On that note... https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142467098/emerald-city-nights-revisits-jazz-pianist-ahmad-jamal-in-a-series-from-the-1960s

Delta Sleep, Spring Island mathrock joyous (in a jamband way) syncopated groovy proggy e.g.

I can confirm it is upside down. I saw a documentary. Thanks for the additional support team. We are getting closer to our goals with the walk this coming Saturday. We will be having a busy week getting everything ready from t-shirts to raffles, information tables and herding cats. Cheers. With gratitude - Mikey.

If The Moon Turns Green Diana Panton 2011 https://album.link/i/1443526888 Example: Lovely female jazz voice. I have been away from jazz vocals for a while. I think I need a little more in my life. This did nicely.

Bah Dah, Bah Bah Bah. What I really wanted was a fractional muffin, but damned if I didn't have a knife!

We Get Requests Oscar Peterson Trio 1964 https://album.link/i/1443078246 Example: You know, it is just required listening now and then. Still strikes me as one of the most beautiful jazz albums ever made. Just overhearing it for a few seconds compels me to cue up the album and 40 minutes later, I am happier than I started that time. Thx Oscar and friends.

So no fractional muffins? Got it.

I could have guessed it was Brits just by the photo. Who else would use a knife with muffins?

Even though I tend to pontificate about cartoonishly large format cameras, I must say I find the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson and his "humble" Leica 35mm rangefinder (usually with a fairly slow 50mm attached) far more compelling than nearly everything that Ansel Adams did. HCB's nighttime Paris photos are directly or indirecty an inspiration for all the long exposures I did in the second half of the 00s. The same can be said for his candid portraits and street photography. Candid portraiture was the one area of photography where I excelled in spite of myself. I put the most effort into landscapes, but in spite of the planet, you know, in general holding still and not GAF if I was photographing it, I only ever had mixed results. Conversely, I was quite good at annoying people I barely knew with an oversized DSLR and large-ish lens and getting interesting results from them. Of course, as descendents of tree monkeys, we're programmed to study each other's facial expressions and consequently find faces far more interesting than some mountain range. Maybe I'm a hack after all. 🙃 Case(s) in point: I've never done much true street photography, but I've always lvoed this shot of a young couple on vacation on MV during the "shoulder season" of early September. As many/most HCers know, I ran a one man nightclub lighting business for over 15 years. I originally got into photography to take photos of my lighting gear in action to market it. Quickly I became more interested in photography than nightclub lighting. One thing I learned early on was how to take photos in low light conditions with mid 00s low ISO digital sensors: This photo has a bit of a story: I was taking some pictures from the stage and two inebriated idiots wandered up, wanting to talk to the DJ. They didn't know (or didn't care) that I was shooting, and stood right in my way. I set the AF point to the center, and used the two drunks to mask the sides of the image. I cropped the photo to 5x4, but otherwise did no edits. The subject is actually a fairly awful person, but in this moment she was a dancefloor diva. A good friend of mine with his then girlfriend. She was nothing but trouble for him, but I like this moment captured. Bonus: that Asioan woman out of focus above his arm is his *ex* girlfriend. I did not plan that. Hooray, beer.

Looks intense. I spent my day getting signed off on the local makerspace's ping-pong table. Well used but still runs very well. Plus has a real nice 3-phase spindle.

All out of sunlight so no glamour shots, but I declare…Jatoba vices are sexy vices. That is all. (Sapele racing stripe for bonus points)

DIY T2 amplifier with 300B tubes. Amplifier is built on Kevin’s board. Only modification is decreased high voltages, +/-400V instead of +/-500V. Homemade 300B to EL34 adapters connected to four Traco 5V switched PS for filament power. I only replaced the EL34 with 300B along with the filament power supply. No other adjustments. It works – I’m in no harry to change back to EL34.

Yeah any headphone giant you plug in is gonna get killed.

Agreed, Craig. I used to love to pour through my dad's copies of Mad.... To this day, I still remember one cartoon that I repeated to my son. A kid is bugging his dad and keeps saying something like, "Dad lookit....lookit what I'm doing....lookit, lookit, lookit....!" And the dad then retorts, "I'm lookiting!!" Don't know why that stuck with me, but I still use it occasionally.....

Mad even got across the pond. I'm astonished that the responsible cartoonist was still alive and drawing at 99! 102 is not a bad age.

RIP Al Jafffe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in https://13thdimension.com/13-mad-fold-ins-an-al-jaffee-birthday-celebration/ https://www.cc.com/video/k79bmy/the-colbert-report-sign-off-mad-magazine

Built a box out of quarter sawn oak. Drawer faces just sitting there waiting to be mounted. Now comes legs. Only took a couple hours to make a simple box 🙄

Here is 1 channel of a blue hawaii running on +/-100v instead of +/-400v, with a single 6as7 dual triode for balanced output instead of a pair of EL34. The tube current sources have been increased from 20mA to 75mA, resulting in a grid voltage of about -30 or similar to the original design Feedback resistors reduced to drop gain from 500-1000x to about 20x into a high impedance load i tested 1khz/50Vpp out at .008% thd in order to meet "today's standard" of 15W into 50 ohms balanced, I'm estimating 16x 6AS7G tubes per amp?? Sennheisers would work nicely with a baby blue Hawaii but IDK of any protection circuit that could be trusted to run no transformer or capacitor coupling into a dynamic or planar headphone!! That's why I think this may be a better project for the purpose of phase splitting/inversion, voltage gain, and buffer driver. For example, Kevin's 'tube input unbal/bal' board with the 6922 is basically the first 2 stages of all of the SS/Hybrid e-stat designs at lower voltage but a 6922 itself can't do the job completely if the job is to get to a low distortion 100Vpp balanced output to feed Uber-buffers to get the 15W into 50-ohms but you could use this baby BH type design, such as this with a single 6AS7 per channel or maybe 2x with the sections paralleled for more power, if wanting to have the ability to drive "Hi-Z" headphones directly with a very very good protection circuit, or maybe more realistically, a large film cap

RIP, Ahmad Jamal age 93

Al Jaffee, Inventive Cartoonist at Mad Magazine, Dies at 102 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html