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What a coincidence -- someone on Facebook asked where we first heard Kate Bush -- several of us answered the same: her appearance on SNL -- you say 'transfixed', I said 'mesmerizing':

Have a TICEtastic birthday Steve! Cheers!

I just picked up an outin nano espresso maker and fino grinder. Total cost under $300. Battery powered, and comparable in size to an aero press and hand grinder. makes pretty darn good espresso from my beans. Good crema, good body.

Thought this was worth a re-listen, given the movie release:

Even as a 10 year old, I thought this was great.

Someone told me D3a is a good tube, Did this in LTspice… Modified Megatron – one less capacitor in signal path and no feedback. Works in LTspice. That's always something.

I enjoyed watching this guy go apoplectic: Definitely microtonal.

My condolences Peter.

So sorry Peter, I know how much you've loved them. You can take some comfort in knowing you gave them a life they never would have known otherwise.

Old, but never gets old.

Exactly right. My own little slice of heaven. It has honestly been a really good post so far.

A new daughter board to my Megatron something. It sets the grid potential of the output tubes. A few resistors, one trimmer set offset and the other the balance plus a small 120V GRHV supply completes the whole thing. So, I removed cathode resistor along with its decoupling capacitor. EL34 has Vgk 40 V and 2A3 has Vgk 92 V. The amplifier has solid state CCS (no top tubes). Works? so far so good.

Thanks to @Shawn, who found the device used in Elekit filament supply module, I now have a working DHT switched mode filament regulator ”prototype” (in red circle). Board size 23mm x 15mm (0.9in x 0.6in) Soldering looks awful, but remember my eyes are 69 years old and my hands are not that steady.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/18/hazardous-substances-headphones Well...fuck.

Robert Duvall, Oscar-Winning Acting Legend, Dies at 95.

Bobby (the cat pictured in the beginning of this thread) was put down a year and a half ago. Skye (companion I got for Bobby in 2014) got sick the next month. I fed her through a feeding tube and saved her life. But not fully. She passed away a week ago. In my hands. I was heartbroken. She made this trilling sound -- like a pigeon cooing -- all the time, to get my attention. It was always very insistent. I heard it today. I started to respond (I make a version of that noise in response, to let her know, "I hear you."), but then I realized I will never hear that sound again from her. My heart broke all over again. RIP Skye (2014-2026)