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Haboob arrived (in plastic wrap)! 🙃

The newer vaccines are two part, with a month in between shots. I'm told this is superior to the one shot vaccine. I too had no reaction. However, I've never had any reaction to any vaccine. As someone who while in his 40s spent 30 minutes looking for my cell phone, while it was in my hand the whole time, I cannot confirm this lower dementia risk factor.

This is going to be fairly long walk (and a puerile one at that), without much point. Okay, maybe two points. Also, I'm not suggesting anyone actually watch any of these videos, other than to maybe skip around a bit. Remember Rebecca Black and her big vinral song "Friday" from 2011? Do not press play. You entire day will go better if you don't. The internet hated it, but gave it tens of millions of views (175M as of this writing.) Poor Rebecca was 14 at the time and not ready for the vitriol of the entire internet. She handled the whole situation far better than most, I think. Eight years later, BuzzFeed (bless their hearts) did a video on her as part of their "I became a meme" series: I actually did watch this when it came out. I don't remember much, except that Rebecca seemed pretty well adjusted. This is the Boiler Room. At one point the "premiere underground" broadcaster of electronic music. There was a time when they were THE hit thing and nearly every famous DJ wanted and in many cases did play on there. Their rise paralleled Rebecca Black chronologically. Even in they heyday, I had my suspicions. I have always viewed the world's most famous DJs with at best a significant reservations (Richie Hawtin) and at worst, unimaginable and unending scorn (David Guetta). Well, now how the mighty have fallen: This is the only video in this entire post I actually encourage anyone to watch. It's a pretty good synopsis of what made the Boiler Room good (if it ever was) and what a wretched corporatized state it exists in now. TIL (or, strictly speaking, YIL) Rebecca Black did a Boiler Room set last year. The whole thing missed me when it happened. I skipped around and it's weirdly fast vocal driven EDM and dear GOD am I not on the same page a club music this ...last 15 years. What I took away from this video is that Rebecca Black is now a fully grown woman in her late 20s and she has huge ...tracts of land. Of course [NSFW] there is a subreddit dedicated to her girl Fridays, which was the top result when I searched redderp for stuff on her Boiler Room set.

I use LTspice to understand and to get a hint how things work. I got this table with help from LTspice. Supply voltage +/-400 V, Rupper is upper tube cathode resistor, Rlower is lower tube cathode resistor, values give offset zero for given Rupper , the resistance is the total of paralleling resistors. Looking forward your findings.

Someone noticed the d-_-b airplane 🤣

Thanks for the pin tip. This beyond my understanding. But as I see it, with 400V/22mA the Vgk will be what it will be with offset zero. 12 W with EL34 shouldn’t be much of a problem. My EL61 will also handle that, I hope.

OK, I am convinced! Thanks for the input all!

It is supposed to last about 10 years with very little drop-off in efficacy during that time. I already have my calendar marked.

These were posted in the audiophile subreddit and there was much cluck-clucking over room acoustics.