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Nice day and my best time in the crono. 2 th of my group but at 5 minutes of Joseba Beloki. A nice guy, great cycling,. climb with he has been a honor. I'm finding a transport for the Brent bike :-)

This week I will see if my 11 year mtb still works. Been years since I’ve been on a trail.

Chicken curry, on an AGA!

Done!

You'll also get to see if your 11 years older body still works!

And I see that you even have a bike for Brent!

I have a post about photos I took of Katherine the dancer in 2006 and am still processing in 2023 with modern software (and, ahem, 17+ years of refined skills) as well as what I've actually been doing lately. That's all gonna hafta wait because I learned that it's possible to attach the absolutely gargantuan Canon FD 800mm F/5.6L to Canon DSLRs and Sony mirrorless bodies. Or attach the lens to the camera, as the case may be. To the surprise of no one, the old FD 800L is a cult lens. Of course someone stuck one on a Graflex Speed Graphic 4x5 camera. Don't ask me about coverage. WTF does one shoot with an optical trombone like that? The moon, obviously. Long teles are actually really good for landscapes. They compress the perceived distance between objects. This is reason #497 why large format cameras are better at landscape photos. Sony bodies actually let the user enter the lens type so it appears in EXIF. It might be the case that modern Canons can do this as well. Now this is my kind of photo. Nearing abstraction. There are also a legion of critter photos taken with the FD 800. TBH if I had one I'd probably attempt that as well. Quack.

Pinhead: You mean, The Tetrubiksis Configuration, hmmm?

Each bottle represents one year. I have ...questions. Squint. True for most people under 40. Sprocket Rocket, Kodak ColorPlus200, a Swiss kitty.

If anyone wants to see the original Canon 1D CCD 4.1 megapixels boring test shots output, see below (bumped up in Topaz’s Photo.ai). You can do a lot with 4MP, but I think I’m more comfortable with “high res” 6MP+. Certainly a step up from the Nikon D1’s 2.7MP. Tweaked on mobile with Snapseed.

More traditional English dishes, in the home of the Royal Navy (salmon soba) (shirodashi ramen)

So you only had 60 minutes to fix them?

New Steven Wilson album released today The Harmony Codex

Manzier or Bro? You decide

I don’t want to start a political discussion here but DiFi had an incredible career as a public servant. There’s room for debate on whether keeping her in office this long was appropriate but she did it as another service to her state and country. The republicans claimed they would not follow senate protocol and would refuse to allow her appointed replacement to take over her committee assignments etc. They held her hostage in my opinion and I’ll be curious to see how it plays out after she died in office. /end rant RIP Senator Feinstein, you deserve the rest.

I don't have an image but this one is worth a share purely from a curiosity / oddity... The better half and I went to try a Puerto Rican Chinese restaurant for lunch yesterday. The place was packed. Too funny and pretty good. I had some sweet spicy chicken dish with mofongo on the side (very garlicky plantain mash dish with pork cracklings in there). Better half had some tofu dish with tostones (green fried plantains...very garlicky). They used silken tofu which was different. Having been born and raised in Miami it actually felt pretty normal being there...LOL HS

^ Fine then, I'll take one. My BL's buttons are scratchy and it's lost its functionality. This seems to be a decent upgrade, so...

And now for the Deluxe edition. It adds dual mono Golden Reference regulators and a motor w/ remote for the 47-step attenuator

Okay, the iFi Signature Finale is now an additional $50 off. I'll just keep posting here until it's free.

iPhone photos while I was in Seattle for business...

Yesterday I received this bad guy

"Easily worth the 7500$ price tag"... ehhh sure 🙄 It's great that the big players are entering the market but these prices are just silly.

In a few weeks I'll have a new pedals: A Favero Assioma Duo. It's my first pedals with watt measure. A friend of mine has ones and he is very satisfied with this thing...The price here in EU is "correct" if you compare this with the Garmin for example (450€ vs 1000€). I'm not sure why this technology is so expensive. Curiosity my friend spend 450€ in this pedals around 4 years a ago. I hope that this thing will be than hard like my old Look Keos 2 with 12 years of abusses. Someone have experience with this pedals?