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Skillet breakfast. Potatoes, onion, red bell pepper, tomato, avocado, link sausage, cheddar cheese and eggs. This is going upstairs to divide three ways with Dave and Sherri (landlords). Oh yeah, mushrooms too.

I liked the old SDA series too. Remember the ads with Matthew Polk in the White lab coat?

I still have a lot of chili left, so... I'm normally not a big fan of American cheese, but for chili and grilled cheese sandwiches, it's so melty.

A senior Head Case member sent me two tubes some days ago. An old 6080 and a Westinghouse 12AX7A. Today I completed this in my kitchen. Amplifier is based on Jade, what now that is? PSU as mentioned above is based on Kevin’s GRHV power supply. It has been some fun building days.

I mentioned Katherine the dancer a number of times, but I haven't posted a photo of her in ages. She was a woman I met in a local nightclub not quite 20 years ago. She was a dancer in the New York club scene in the early 90s. For a variety of reasons she left NYC and now lives in a hill town in western MA. Katherine is ...quite a character, but I always had very good chemistry with her as a subject for photography. I took two sets of photos with her in 2006. The first of which was about 3 days after I got my first DSLR (the never very good EOS 30D) and the second was with the same camera 3 months later. At that time I had bought a 35mm F/2 and 50mm F/1.4. I also had learned quite a bit about taking photos, but still effectively knew nothing. Starting 2020, I began revisiting and re-editing the shots I took during those two sessions. I still pick away at the remaining unedited ones that I think are worth pursuing, but I'm largely done. In '06, I ran a bunch of the photos through the Holga and Lomo Photoshop scripts I liked at the time. In retrospect, it's clear I leaned in to lo-fi nature of the results those scripts produced to mask flaws present in the originals. 14 years later, I had different ideas, software and skills for editing photos. Instead of overly dramatic PS scripts, I've been working the use of lookup tables. LUTs are a thing primarily used in video, but with some careful work they can make subtle but impactful changes in still images as well. This shot always reminded me of the Houses of the Holy album cover. Taken with the never spectacular EF 75-300mm F/4-5.6 USM III. Her face is a bit blurred in this one, but I like the look of determination. A rare B&W conversion. This one just works better without color. Observant viewers will note that while I left behind many of my mid-00s bad habits, I still put a vignette effect on most of these images. I like how it looks on portraits.

It looks like most of the voltage adjustment comes from the wandering reference, no wonder you said RV1 doesn't have much effect. Assuming your Q16 path works okay, comparing the two diagrams, V(R42) dropped (6.22-6.56)/6.56=-5.18%, almost the same as the LED string voltage drop (11.4-12)/12=-5%, which means the 2SK246 ccs didn't have much effect at all. To give you a data point, my mocked-up 2SK246 ccs changes V(22k) from 6.5496V to 6.5446V (less than -0.1%) when the supply changes from 12V to 11.4V. Your LED string seems not great, either. When the current drops from 703uA to 663uA (-5.7%, ignoring the Q16 base current), the LED string voltage drops -5% as well. Not much of regulation, isn't it? I grabbed a random red LED from my stash and in similar situations its forward voltage changes from 1.7914V to 1.7881V, only -0.18%. Your LED probably has 700uA right around the knee on its IV curve. It may not be a bad part, just not suitable for this location. The above assumes the Q16 and the rest of the battery circuit works okay. Oh well, let's fix one problem at a time.

Going to need a sample to verify their authenticity.

I'm in complete agreement to your rant. Usually there are reasons why the labels didn't include those tracks in the original release. This is getting so absurd that I don't care for new "ultradeluxeanniversarynewfoundgems" anymore. Just an excuse to cash from the devotees.

Have you seen prices lately? I mean, i made the right call to make a lifetime buy a while back..

You can get it free if you have the appropriate measuring equipment.

You've Got To Learn (Live) Nina Simone 2023 https://album.link/i/1689102364 Example: Much more of a historical release than an audio one. Some great performances of 1966, at the Newport Jazz Festival. Just not engineered very well, lots of vocal clipping that is tough if you are really trying to listen and get into it. Still really glad it was released, it will just not be in rotation. Rant - I find that so much with the deluxe and super deluxe ultimate extended anniversary release of some albums with 74 tracks for an album that had 9 songs. Cool, I was glad I heard it once, now I am going to go back to the original album. I usually don't need to listen to the 4th take of a demo that didn't make it on the album in the first place. I feel that I have written about this before. - End Rant. So, speaking of a band that I know much more by name than music, or I should say I did until now. Nightlife Thin Lizzy 1974 https://album.link/i/1443836724 Example: Really great dual guitar led rock. I, of course, am very familiar with 'the boys are back in town' off of Jailbreak, but there is a lot of music before and after that that I was never exposed to. I guess I will keep my TIDAL account for a little bit longer.

Samsara Blues Experiment, Rock Hard in Concert (Live) Stoner, my beloved. Very comfy. Nicely psychedelic touches.

What I love about this story (as a non-attendee) is that I literally couldn't tell the difference between reality and an Onion article. He has become the living embodiment. If I was an attendee, I would've been pissed. Oh, and finally, snarky response: Animals Redux (Not Even the Music)

Last Fish & Chips this trip.

It cost me a lot of time (and money) to get an untouched vinyl copy:

There's a French fella on Flickr named SBA73. He's got a Soviet made KMZ FT-2 panoramic camera from the mid 60s. Weird AF looking device. He's quite good with it: Apparently he develops the film himself.

Peter Gabriel last night in SF. I’m glad I got to see him while he is still doing his thing. With the same warhorse band he has been with for damn near 50 years at this point, no less. He can still hit the high notes, but his voice is more fragile now that gives the songs a different feel, appropriate for a guy who is now 73. The new songs are pretty good!

Under all that gooey, amazing looking cheese? We hit a ramen joint for a late lunch yesterday. Interesting in that they had a lot of less traditional dishes including this spicy one with pork and a poached egg. So much cilantro made it a lot like a pho in texture. HS

^^ Sounds like it's worth going to the second half of the show. But I wouldn't give him my money.....

I give up, can’t find a way to significantly shrink it. But this one has four pair output transistor each channel. BIAS servo controlled. Flat on Modushop 300mm x 80 mm heat sink. Project name is CFA3 smd something X4.

RIP Rudolph Isley, harmony singer and one of the main songwriters of the Isley Brothers.