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A fixture of growing up in Indiana and attending Indiana University. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/01/bob-knight-basketball-coach-dead-indiana-hoosiers

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Types as he stares down at ground in shame reminded of his commitment to kill every remaining Twix and Snickers in the better half's trick or treater's basket... HS

Neat.

I got lucky with them, usually they charge if you don't supply CNC files directly. I made vector drawings to-scale, but don't know solidworks or such, so they definitely had to do some conversion and recreation to some degree, but I didn't get charged for the additional file creation fee. Gianluca and I went back and forth probably 50+ times over a number of months. Definitely great to work with, and like you mentioned, easily cheaper than sourcing locally or taking a risk with aliexpress/etc. If anyone with a CFA hasn't tried the ubal2baltube boards, they add just the right amount of "tube" flavor, and still keeps the CFA detail/slam. I splurged on nice Siemens E288CC tubes (not quite the same as a 6922, double heater and plate current) which meant some additional tweaking of the tube boards, but I think it was worth it. Compared to basic EH 6922 they are a clear improvement. They ARE a bit taller than a 6922 though, so they may end up sticking out the top of the chassis, we'll see, ha! Could look pretty neat with some tube cages, and make swapping easier. Like this:

Normally around Thanksgiving in years past, Modushop has done a sale at something like 20% off. A couple of years ago, they included the customizations in that sale, which is where they get expensive with the machining, anodizing, etc. I did my DynaFET and Salas FSP cases on one of those. Still not cheap, but probably quite a bit cheaper than finding a CNC machine shop, designing your own cases, etc. as Kevin did for the T2's.

About $650 shipped, with all the customizations and upgraded alum top/rear panels and 10mm front panels. Rear panels are machined and labeled as well. Pricey, but fair I think, I wanted to go all-out. The tube input boards are fantastic sounding.

Nice. How much did you pay for them?

Just wanted to share a sneak peak of the machined panels for my split chassis tube input CFA3. Just got pics from modushop. 10mm thick. Very pleased with how they turned out! Will be 1x 2U Dissipante and 1x 2U Pessante. Gianluca was amazing to work with, top notch customer service.

Updated for 571-1-770873-0.

RIP, Bobby! He could be a real piece of work at times, but he sure could coach. As intense as they'll ever get and the results spoke for themselves.

I bought this finished protector board on Taobao for about $12. The parts look reasonably good. It could use better cleaning off the flux residue on the bottom side. Totally worth the time I would otherwise have to spend soldering it.

^ I'm Halloween drunk, but you know everyone talks about the influence of Elvis and The Beatles, but Denver...

My 28th Reese Peanut Butter Mini Cup for the night. I'm done eating these forever.

I used to love sitting aisle but lately window has been calling my name. Love seeing cool stuff from the air. Rainier, Shasta, a few of SF and Mt. Hood.

For those who don't have trick-or-treat plans tomorrow, why not spend it with Paul Lynde, Betty White and KISS? Wikipedia: Christopher Muther of The Boston Globe, in a 2021 retrospective review, described the special as the most "fabulous train wreck of a holiday spectacular ever filmed," "a vision of horror" and a "phantasmagoric, polyester-clad, rhinestone-studded time capsule of bad jokes and disco medleys with a nonsensical storyline(.)" Lynde's singing, dancing and wardrobe and Vilanch's writing were singled out for their poor quality, but the review noted that Lynde's sincerity made the special likable camp and an enjoyable kind of bad instead of an unwatchable mess. A 2009 review at The Bootleg Files, a running column on Film Threat, described the special as "so bizarre and over-the-top in its acid-camp that it is almost impossible to believe anything of its kind could ever be shown on TV(.)" The review praised Lynde as the "queen from hell" and the program's "saving grace," with author Phil Hall expressing surprise that the special—aimed at family audiences—drew no complaints from Christian conservatives despite Lynde's thinly veiled homosexuality and references to Deep Throat, among other innuendo.

Well, they look amazing.

Yesterday we were in a aerial festival here. It's the Patrulla águila.

a moment between a brother and sister, who also happen to be among the best kayakers in the world. The sister had just come in 3rd in the world among women, and the brother was about to come in first for men.

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.

125lb ~1200mm (1217mm, specifically) F/6.3 aerial espionage lens from WWII: It makes an "if you have to ask" sized image circle.

I took 4x5 classes in college and this pretty much lines up with my experience. Indeed, the more expensive the camera gear, the worse the results seemed to be. Take a look at the Mamiya Super 23. It's a 120/220 camera that is a rangefinder but that also incorporates bellows for tilts and swings. It has a ground glass back available for utilizing those (as well as a Polaroid back). It also has 6x6. 6x7, and 6x9 backs and really excellent glass. I had one on loan for a while and it's probably my favorite camera I have ever used.

I've been lurking on the large format subreddit for a while now. It's given me mixed feelings. Some (many) of the submissions are remarkably poor. I see people laboring with giant cameras and expensive film stock (is there any other kind at this point?) producing results that can be charitably described as mediocre. For me the issue isn't the composition or exposure, it's the printing. Of course that's where the real skills of a B&W photographer come out. Conversely, there's a dude with a Linhof Technorama 617s III (a "small" Lin that shoots panoramas on 120 film, and costs north of $8500 without a lens) and a Schneider Tele-Xenar 250mm MC F/5.6 (around $7000). German gear is is kilometers deep into "if you have to ask" territory, schweinhund. With that said, the Linhof is a handsome looking unit: The lens looks like ...every other Schneider to me, but I will admit I know jack shit about them in general. The widget necessary to attach the Schneider to the Linhof is ...odd. All of this is superfluous, because the dude who uses ^ is a bit of a mushroom cloud laying MFer: NYC sunset on Ektar 100. Some place in the US I think. Ektar 100. Schneider Apo-Symmar L 180mm F/5.6, Ilford Kentmere Pan 400, 25A filter. Old Westbury Gardens, Schneider Apo-Symmar L 180mm F/5.6, Ilford SFX 200 | R72 IR filter. NYC night, Super Angulon XL 58mm F/5.6, Kodak Ektar 100. There's also a few brave souls who shoot Velvia on large format. 4x5" w/ a 90mm something-or-other. I rate this one a solid Velvia/10. I think most modern cars are hideous, indistinguishable lumps. These shots are amazing. Velvia panorama. The above are the exceptions and not the rule of what I've seen in the LF subreddit. It's enough to make me swear off anything bigger than 35mm forever. The rest of the time I think about selling the mainland house and buying a Tachihara 11x14" field camera.

I wouldn't be sad to see the head of HBO fired for this. This is unbelievably stupid. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hbo-casey-bloys-secret-twitter-trolls-tv-critics-leaked-texts-lawsuit-the-idol-1234867722/

My wife at the time was the CEO of a residential care charity - Brendoncare https://www.brendoncare.org.uk/. When the government came up with the wheeze of sending thousands of recovering Covid patients from hospital to residential care homes Carole refused point blank, as did the Trustees, to do this. Turns out that this directive was in fact unlawful, and is something that will be a feature of the enquiry. As will the idiot policy of "Eat out to help out" in which the government, via Rishi Sunak (who was Chancellor then) stumped up a billion in subsidy to reduce the cost of going out for a meal. Many months before there was a vaccine. Not surprisingly with restaurants crowded there was a surge in infections and death as a result. And how come those in the government staff and ministers who were found to by guilty of parties during lockdown received a nominal £50 fine. But those of the public who did something similar have been financially ruined with fines of £10k plus. Still three years later being processed in the courts. Different rules for those in power. All this and much more will come out in the public enquiry.