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Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew Dies at 95 “If you’re a Southern boy, if it moves and it’s not supposed to, you use duct tape.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Hk8.IFsM.u4gMmyOIc10U&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (Gift article)

Did this today today – in full dayligt. Replaced EML 20B-V4 with 2A3 tubes in a Megatron with solid state constant current sources. Changes are filament voltage and cathode resistors (from 640 ohm to 3600 ohm. Only light is from blue and red LEDs and some light from the tubes themself.

Sturgill Simpson in Knoxville. This is a fantastic show.

Enjoy your day Chris! Cheers!

^^ this - way different than the album cover would leave me to believe. Also different based on the merkin album cover. Anyway... - earlier - ABBA by ABBA (1975) https://album.link/fptvwf6qp87bb Example: 50yo release. Wanting to celebrate a past Eurovision winners. And test out the new satellite service for music streaming.

Belated Happy Birthday, Chris! Hope it was great.

Trying to keep up. Du Blonde’s Sniff More Gritty. Ex.

Say what? I have to admit, I thought they were talking about the glasses on the table.

Happy Birthday

Belated Happy Birthday!! Hope it was great!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Chris!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Chris!

Happy Birthday, Chris!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

HBD!!!

Happy Birthday!

Hope it's a great one!

Cheers Chris-- Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Bday!!!

Expensive Shit by Fela Kuti (1975) https://album.link/wnq0mtcswj66r Example: Influential 50yo two track album. Enjoyed the groove.

I saw The Waterboys (although it might have been just Mike Scott solo at that point with a backing band) live at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1994. They kicked ass. As they do here.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/八十八ヶ所巡礼/八＋九/ New (?) 88kasyo junrei double album -- I recognize several of the tracks, probably because they were released as singles and I ate them up, but I'm still not sure (because language barrier, and they're weird anyway) if this is a compilation or entirely new music, but whatever, I'm loving it.

Celebrating a few beautiful female trios.

Almost a year has elapsed since I reduced the 300V section to 150V. The amplifier has worked well, and I haven’t noticed any sonically differences. So, some time ago I decided to make the same change on my modified T2 and its original T2 PSU we have at our summer cottage. But unfortunately, it was not possible to bring the voltage down to 150V. 190 – 200V was the lowest I got. I’ve had a Golden Reference power supply for the T2 in mind for a long time. Now I had to do something the get the desired 150V section with the original T2 PSU… Made a daughter board with GRHV regulator for the original T2 PSU. Works like a charm.

I use a pair of Optivisors with the strongest (10x ?) lenses. If I did much of this stuff I'd be getting a microscope...

R.I.P. Joe Don Baker. Walking Tall in heaven.