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Returning from Tribune KS with this travel trailer

Self approved bacon cheeseburgers.

The avgRPM assignment does a bit of smoothing. There are not a lot of mechanical losses, the belt has reasonable friction on the pulley and platter, so it can alter the platter speed with reasonable accuracy without it acting like a flywheel. I don’t know how much is audible but I can say that +/- 0.03 rpm isn’t audible and it makes adjustments less than this. Gor reference, the added friction of lowering the needle into the groove slows rotation about this amount.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - In Between Thoughts...A New World. As long as these two keep making albums, I'll keep listening to them! Bought tickets to see them when they come through town this summer.

More "V" production background, merchandizing and a word from our sponsor you won't forget in a hurry.

Chris Miller’s Chip War

Rendez-Vous Jean-Michel Jarre 1986 https://album.link/i/1027735025 Example: Everything's fine? Everything is fine. It doesn't sound like it is fine Jean-Michel. It's fine. Okay... {doesn't sound fine} It has been a long time since I have listened to this (decades). Spending most of my time listening to Zoolook over the years with it's audiophile goodness. Rendez-Vous has a much more ominous soundtrack feel to it.

I don't listen to a lot of newer Country, but in the same vein I can highly recommend Jamey Johnson. Especially these albums...

Well...let's look at "Souvenir" (from his The Concerts in China album) -- his ground-breaking trip to China from all accounts was full of joy and positive memories...so why does "Souvenir" sound so sad? Answer: because he's French. It doesn't sound sad, it sounds French. I have this from my History Of Music professor. Back to Rendez-Vous -- this album was also the one with the ill-fated saxophonist Ron McNair who was supposed to record his part from space...on the space shuttle, Challenger. I think that might've flavoured the overall tone of the album.

But artistic AF Oh wait, that works in a photography thread.

Maybe the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 is too new? Coincidently yesterday I got stuck at a "drop off" party at California's Great America, or as I call it "hell hole", and I've only been there once before, with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5, also 10 megapixels, but CCD. Really loved the colors, which sent me down the CCD rabbit hole. This time the only camera I had with me was the hipster Hasselblad with a Voigtlander lens that required using electronic shutter and these 44 x 33mm medium format Sony sensors are known for the horrible rolling shutter. Anyway, in case there is any doubts, the 13 year old tiny 1/1.63" sensor Panny LX5 destroys the Hasselblad 907x 50C II with ES on moving objects.

Yes, especially the vise mechanism. Nice project!

Well, I did it. I finally got a digital camera with some Leica glass. No, not like that. I went to the second hand store on MV and saw a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7. Some of you may remember when Panasonic licensed the Leica name for their point and shoots in the late 00s, to the sound of much snickering from the photography world. This thing is very silly. It has a tiny 10MP sensor, a "25-300mm equivalent" zoom with an F/3.3-F/4.9 max aperture. In a word, yick. A super range zoom is more or less the opposite of what I like (fast, short primes) Also, the exposure controls are lousy. Even my mid 00s PowerShot S60 had manual (push button) controls for shutter and aperture. I actually kind of like 00s digital cameras. I've shot with a bunch. My OG IR 5D is still in service (once I give the sensor a proper cleaning). As I have said before, I now have an active disdain for the pseudo HDR look that current SMRT phone cameras shit out. The somewhat goofy behavior of older digital cameras is vastly preferable to me. With that said, this Lumix isn't the kind of vintage I like. I cannot complain too much because I got the camera for $8. Strictly speaking, the charger and battery were $8. The young fella at the second hand shop who sold it to me (who appeared to be more stoned than I was at his age and, well... 1996 was the best year of my life that I don't remember) couldn't figure out the price of the camera. His solution was to consider the camera, charger, battery and case to be one item use the price tag he had at hand. Oh, the punchline: The TZ7 can address has a maximum SD card size of 32GB. The only SD card I had on hand was a 64GB. I went on a rummage and found a 256 megabyte card that is doubtlessly older than the sentient cloud of pot smoke that sold me the camera. Fortunately, it formatted just fine and the Lumix was happy with it.

Got the last set of maple vice jaws from In-Kleind and the mounting points and through holes are almost a full 1/4” off center so that required dramatic work to salvage and keep the length. Now that I have the maple vice jaws on, I think i am going to build more Jatoba jaws as the Maple bores me.

Thanks again for all your support and generosity. NFLO! I really liked the shirt design that we had this year. It was a 'chance of rain' type of day, like normal around here. But we had a nice gathering, lovely sharing and connection with the community, and then a nice 2.8 mile walk around Green Lake. We hope to continue to make it grow and involve more partners. And continue to share the idea that 'We believe in a world where everyone belongs.” Cheers and thanks, Mikey 🙏 https://givebutter.com/Walk4Belonging

What the hell is this show? One of the stronger pilot episodes I can remember. Buckaroo Bonzai vibes crossed with The Prisoner, starring the brainy bombshell from GLOW. I’m intrigued.

V: The Original Miniseries (1983) More than a fashion show

Boss pulled me aside this morning. Told me that I came in well under the projected budget on the job I finished up about a month ago. He asked me if there was any tool that I hadn't already bought for myself? I told him that the only tool I own that still needs a wall outlet is my table saw. So... I found the best deal on it that I could, and they told me to put it on my company card. And as soon as I ordered it, one of my coworkers offered me $150 for my corded version. Makita doesn't make a cordless table saw, but this will work just fine.

So, a bit of a stretch for this thread and I am doubting anyone will see the humor in this. But as y’all know o have been working in a tachometer feedback loop for my platter. With the lid off it looks like this: Previously I had an acrylic platter with a white dot that triggered the IR sensor each time it went around and used that to calculate the platter speed. Now I have an aluminum platter. To make it all work I had to add a black dot and update the code as follows. .. anyways I found this humorous.

nice surprise! Picked up at the Harvard Book store while visiting

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - Fun bit of pop science. I enjoyed it. He went into topics that I don't follow and gave them some history and context with humor. and another Short (Brief) history book. A Brief History of Black Holes by Dr Becky Smethurst Dr. Becky is someone that I follow on YouTube to keep me updated on my Astronomy news (all things JWST). And she wrote a book. It is overall a good read. It only suffers, like most physics (astro or otherwise) books, for me in that there is a lot of time spent in history and background before getting to the few new ideas and concepts. Like the Katie's book above, I did get a few new things and I enjoyed her writing. She writes as she speaks, which I always enjoy. An example of a recent post. So, I mostly read non-fiction. I don't mind novels and can enjoy them now and then. I tried to read this the other day: (no pic) To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway This came after watching - Midnight in Paris (2011). It got me thinking, how much Hemingway have I read? Not much. So I picked this at random. And I have to say that I didn't get very far. The writing and voice were okay, but the use of the term, nigger, was so pervasive and derogatory, that I just couldn't continue. I thought of it is this way, what if he was saying, 'filthy whore', over and over, would I continue? Nope. I may try something else at some point, but I was done with that book. So, now I am reading: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients by Sheldon B. Kopp Good luck all..