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What about the Greeks, who seems have invented a lot of things. I asked, by the medium of mime, and the shopkeeper said, " For you my friend, special price, The "Mr. Steve" very special, not on display so as not to frighten the children"

"Meza" in Fira

... and when the satellite company doesn't want their dish back, you can make a bird bath.

ProTip: They normally tell you to be wary of places that don't have prices on the menu ... But "are you here to dine, drink, or dance?" Drinks. (Bread + local Cheese for starters) Greek Salad (and a to go box for what we didn't finish) Chicken Gyros (and chips!) Complementary Melon Dessert And a pirate pussy? 20 Euro's cash (no receipt 😉😉) For the pair of us. 👌 https://maps.app.goo.gl/EGj3gHS1JaTyzZ1A7

Did someone say ice cream? And a view?

I started posting this in the ambient/IDM thread and quickly realized I was talking about cats, not ambient music. I have mentioned Martin Strutzer to my (sainted, octogenarian) mother a number of times over the years, specially how he does live ambient "jams" while his incredibly well behaved cat sits patiently beside him. She asked me to play a video of him performing, and I found this one on the YouTubes: The cat does its job to a T. I continue to be amazed how cooperative it is. Compare to my attempts to DJ with the "help" of Ozzie the cat some 15 years ago: I never DJ'd around Heidi the cat, but I am positive I know what she'd have done if I did. It would NOT be "sit there patiently and wait to be petted."

I like the idea of dessert on the house. As do the local cats

Pre-fiber: Post-fiber: Eat your fiber boys....

so what do we have here stax 717 in a huge metal case now the weight has increased from 5 kg to 11 kg it seems like the case is made well, all the places for fastenings are made accurately the main thing is that it works

He's a featured character in Jon Ronson's 2001 book Them: Adventures with Extremists (whether by luck or by some insight, Ronson has been ahead of this stuff for decades) On that topic, Ronson did a podcast series exploring the origins of lots of the culture war fights. Definitely worth a listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cpr/episodes/player?page=1

Congrat! That's faster than mine!

Good god, they're gonna bruise that banana!

It's GRHV with either 325V or 330V secondaries (don't remember exactly), and I lowered the current limiting resistor to 3.6R I think.

I see no drop under load at +/- 400V, so you might be just on the edge of your current limiting. I did run my XL at 33mA for a while which worked (and sounded) fine, but then changed back to 23mA to test some other stuff and right now it's dismantled for fitting of 2A3 heater supplies, so can't help with data points.

take that AI...

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.

All kidding aside, even rainbows can't do anything for that fuggly truck. It looks like an ice maker at Motel 6. "We'll leave the stank on for ya."

Haboob arrived (in plastic wrap)! 🙃

See! Here you fuckers go again! You find an object so hideous that even straight people can't stand to look at it, then you decide "oh, let's paint a rainbow on it and make it homo-chic." Even rainbows and fairy dust have their limits! Stop misusing my culture!

Once properly warmed up for an hour or so, the transistor legs sit at around 110, transistor casing at 100 and hottest part of plastic tab at 90 (all in degrees Celsius and with at least +/- 5 degrees or error possible; the IR-gun I use is not the most sophisticated). Definitely too hot to touch, though still a bit cooler than the EL34s . So a bit of margin on both die temperature and what PLA Pro can withstand, though I guess the latter will age quite a bit faster than it would at ambient temperature if I would leave the amp turned on 24/7. I normally don't post pictures because my case work is rather poor, but I found a long exposure mode on my phone which after some experimentation captures the tube glow without leaving the rest in darkness, so I thought I'd make an exception. Pardon the somewhat battered front panel. Should also add that it sounds great.

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