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Steve-like shot of the pizza I made last night. I hadn't made a standard one for awhile (as opposed to Detroit style) but it turned out pretty good.

Bobby Knight again. Touching. https://www.facebook.com/BTN/videos/1034189737615695/

No conflict. It's ugly.

Ill Communication Beastie Boys 1994 https://album.link/i/724771323 Example: Yeah I know 'Sabotage' rules, but I just really like how much Jazz is on this album. Probably pissed a lot of people off back in the 90s, but I think that this is really a great complete album. Well done.

WIP of a new KGST. I've had the stuffed boards sitting in the closet for who knows how long, so I've decided to finally finish building them. Still waiting on toroids and some other parts, but hopefully I can have this thing playing music within the month.

Neat.

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.

Due to its oft being played, I lost interest in Sabotage; indeed other songs on that album are great. We had a consultant working with us in 1994, he was a big Beastie Boys fan; we chatted music a lot. On one of the visits to our office, he joined me to see October Project in Cambridge, MA. Very different music, but he liked it a lot. For the next week he stopped singing/humming BB and hummed OP songs all the time.....

As balanced audio do not touch ground at all, think of the „shield“ as shield only, which is not even necessary for differential signals (caried over twisted wires), but, if shielded balanced cables are used, that shield connects to chassis only and a (metallic) equipment chassis extends that shield to the electronics and connects input to output cable shields. In order not to introduce a ground loop, the shield connects only to the star ground at a single point (in the PSU chassis near the IEC inlet) and nowhere else. In case multiple chassis are used, chassis and ground connectios are caried separately to the PSU chassis.

Well, right as I was about to give up and buy a pre-made board I figured my issue out. 4P XLR shield shouldn't be connected to protector board gnd apparently? If I disconnect the ground between 4pin XLR jack shield and the protector board, no noise. Also no noise if I ground the 4P XLR connector shield to star ground. Protector board itself is also connected to star ground of course. So, ground loop/shared ground return current issue? Sure was a high pitched noise... What gave me the idea to try this was when I touched the barrel of the XLR jack, the noise lessened and then slowly went completely away. Let go, noise came back. That told me "ground issue" and here we are. Fixed.

Marvelous! Here the crimp sockets for the cable side connectors, Mouser # 571-770988-1

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.

RIP David Kirke, the world’s first modern bungee jumper, piano skier, and early Dangerous Sports Club member. https://people.com/david-kirke-the-worlds-first-bungee-jumper-dead-at-78-8383202 'David Kirke’s old chums found the peaceful circumstances of his death last month — in bed, at age 78 — paradoxical. “He could have been killed at least 20 or 30 times many years ago,” his friend Edward Hulton said. For instance, on April Fools’ Day in 1979, when Mr. Kirke put on a tuxedo, attached himself to elastic ropes, and stepped off a bridge in England clutching a bottle of Champagne in the world’s first bungee jump (https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-29819029) Or the time he flew over the English Channel standing in the pouch of a giant inflatable kangaroo held aloft by helium balloons. Mr. Kirke was the founder of the Dangerous Sports Club, a group of University of Oxford students who, typically while not sober, hatched deranged stunts in English pubs during the 1970s and ’80s, often as a metaphorical middle finger to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s society of squares. “Most people think we are mad,” Mr. Kirke once said. “We think they're mad to endure such humdrum lives.” Decades before extreme sports such as bungee jumping, kiteboarding and wingsuit flying became mainstream, Mr. Kirke and his coterie of foolhardy mates were skiing down Swiss slopes on grand pianos, skateboarding (not running) with the bulls in Pamplona, and flying makeshift microlight gliders across imprudent distances.'

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

I was wishing a 27" display iMac. It didn't happen