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I had no idea they were the first ever Conan musical guest. Talk about starting on a high note!

I've never been a big Frank Zappa fan. But I can't deny how clever he is. Qobuz has a 1970 playlist that I was listening to, and I liked one of the songs on this album. So, I decided to listen to it. I enjoyed it, kinda. It's short about 40 minutes and that's just about enough. ex.

Game went so well. One of the kids couldn't make it, so I played the big guy. Really leaned in to his 9 INT, named him Tonk, spoke in third person. At the end they found a Deck of Many Things and everyone drew 1-2 cards (I had removed the game ending ones)... Tonk got 'avoid a tragic event from your past' and suddenly his INT shot up to 15 and his manner completely changed (basically just made him me), the kids loved it. My son was definately MVP, being a 3rd lvl fighter dual wielding light Katana with Elemental mastery and 30ft of reach was devastating. He basically got all the HDYWTDT's as he one shotted all the bosses, was a complete riot. 🙂 Any suggestions on Tonks 'educated' full name? Maybe something like Tonculis Reginald Fairweather III? 😄

Meanwhile...

Oh. Shit. There's someone on island selling off their EF lens collection: 24-70mm F/2.8 II (very functional but not super interesting zoom) 100mm F/2.8L Macro (expensive new, unfamiliar to me) 135mm F/2L (niche, but exceptional) 100-400mm F/4.5-5.6 II (bird annoyer tele-zoom) 85mm F/1.2L II (Gojira) BRB, selling off some antiques.

I think it is a Specialized Prospero. Was on sale at the local bike shop in town.

i looked at the ltspice file for a bit. best guess is that there is something wrong with the jfet model that causes issues. replace the fets with bipolar and see if it works right. the reason all the darlington transistors are on the heatsink is so they can thermally track. effects thd. another thing that really effects the thd is the power supply rails. anything under +/-20v is too low and causes much higher distortion. +/-30v is the sweet spot. and once you do that, you end up with an amplifier that is a lot more than 5 watts. in your second schematic, you have taken out the low impedance load on the output of the current mirrors. lots more voltage gain resulting in required high amounts of feedback. definitely not the original design goals. if you want lots of open loop gain, probably best to pick a different design. as far as the bias servo, would have to see thd with and without it.

For what it's worth jury still out here too and much of that depends, of course, on what the eventual payoff is. I probably have a different relationship to sci-fi, and first episode isn't my favorite, but some of the theories out there* about what the show is truly about, takes me back all the way to weekly discussions during Twin Peaks' initial run (which may have never been resolved). Certainly feels like what Severance seemed to be for others and wasn't for me. A lot of this is trust, as you implied, with Vince. . . . . . * spoilers kinda . One of the theories, unlikely, but interestingly, is it's about individual (warts & all) love versus universal love. . . . . . spoilers likely . Another is that there are not only two teams in play.

Gordon Murray (designer of the McLaren F1) modifies cars - his Alfa Romeo Junior Z from Alfaholics:

Hehe, I don't think I'll ever be there but I have a lot of fun messing with this stuff. I might open this up as a DIY project if anybody is interested as this isn't all that hard to do and no bad chemicals are used. While on the subject, I finally got the last parts to get my reclaimed SR-009 drivers up and running with new diaphragms and dust covers. I skipped straight to the Mk2 version of the main diaphragm rings and they are now sitting on my head with nothing holding the earpads on them and cables just dangling off. I keep reiterating the new cable entry design so I won't post pics until the system is all complete.

Helmsman/Navigator, Master Gunner/Quartermaster, Cook/Surgeon, Shipwright/Powder Monkey, Boatswain/Mystic... Captain/Master-at-arms in the front The Shipwright/Powder Monkey is the Tinkerer (reskinned Wizard) and will have an actual Monkey familiar that will be trained to assist the Gunner with the cannons. It's a little blurry, but the swashbuckler with the Rapier has a hooked hand, which I love. The fishman karate master will use natural weapons or improvised weapons like mops, oars, etc. I'm having way too much fun with this, lol.

At least the Swedes are still doing punk.

I don't know how many decades it has been since I was last in an IHOP, but I ended up without another breakfast option after dropping off my car for service. Damn the food is ridiculously lame! I should have taken a picture of the pathetic shriveled little bacon slices because Grahame would have cried. A bit of scrambled eggs and semi cooked tasteless pancakes topped with cold tasteless butter rounded out the "meal." Yeesh.

I've been off the air for nearly 3 years at this point. So today I did the logical thing and pay Native Instruments to upgrade from Traktor Pro 3 to 4. So far the experience has been absolute misery. Their install app wants to contact every tracking site in the known universe and has taken ...45 minutes to download what purports to be a 500MB install.