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<3 I'm overwhelmed. He doesn't know yet, but he's going to flip out. I love you guys. <3 DOTU, I haven't had a biscuit in weeks, and I shall forego one tomorrow in your honour! **BRENT** He's so happy!

He's over his goal now. Good luck and enjoy the ride. No biscuits until you're done!

Thanks, Shelly! Xavier and I had an awesome time at the champions dinner last night. He also got some bibs, so he finally has some "kit." Still raising money, and we ride tomorrow morning. Will send updates! **BRENT** Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk

Done.

Awesome Brent and son-of, and awesome DOTU! #NFLO

Guys I'm worried about Colin. He hasn't posted a 6 course meal in weeks. How is he surviving?

Fear not, and did you not see the 3.5lbs of carnitas I made the other night? I also had Paseos last night After a couple hours with a friend at an event at Westland distillery

Strange Angels. In her earlier stuff it was either speech or vocoder. For Strange Angels she had to go to singing lessons. On other topics: The Ring. Saw the whole thing live three years ago here https://lfo.org.uk/ . Each part was separated by a day, so the whole thing fitted into a week. Awesome. My wife is not a Wagner fan, but she was in tears at various points, and latched on to the massive story arc of the whole cycle. And if you like Gould, and a very strange guy he was too, buy the boxed set of everything he ever did. 40 CD's. It is particularly interesting to compare his two recordings of the Goldberg Variations, one as a young man and one a year before his untimely death at the age of 50. They are very, very different. In all his recordings you have to ignore his grunting though.

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Still use my original microZOTL in one of my bedroom headphone rigs.

Meanwhile ... Oh Yes!

So much of Laurie Anderson's genius is as a performance artist. That being,.. I suggest doing some long winded trolling on YouTube.

Find Dom and stay safe, my Floridifriends. Today at work I went to my second Toastmasters International meeting (something that was recommended to me by my Mentor at work.) We drew cards randomly to see who had to give a 2-3 minute "table talk" or a full-blown 5-6 minute speech. I had nothing prepared, and it was my first time speaking, and the area director was there, so of course I went with the 5-6 minute option, because fuck it. I did an off-the-cuff speech about cycling, bringing up the joys of youth, how I had used it as PT, and segued into a few quick tips for getting a "real bike." I got high marks on the speech, especially for off the cuff. I surprised the evaluator by going with a PT angle instead of straight fun, and it rounded out our day with something more enjoyable, as the first speech was work related, the second was tips on voicing during a speech, and mine was interesting. The area director who was sitting in on our meeting today wound up doing a good speech, and won the "best speech" prize, but coming in second to someone who's been doing this for years, who had the framework of this speech worked out, isn't a bad way to jump into a new program. Doing the entire speech with my fly unzipped, however, may come back to haunt me. **BRENT**

Cliff Notes;

Hype level: Critical.

I love this group!!!!!

Brent and I are negotiating a Project Cars racing evening on Saturday around 10PM EST or later. Anyone else interested? I also just bought a long HDMI cable, HDMI repeater and active USB cable to see if I can get the Oculus to work with a significant cord length for whole room VR since Touch and extra sensors go on sale on Monday... I hope it works because while racing games will still be #1 the whole room walk around VR is just plain cool

I bought the black Delrin one on ebay from knoberik and haven't had a chance to put it in an amp but it looks good quality and Stax headphones plug in fine. It looks like the same guy is making the teflon one... not sure why he made a different account.

OK Colin, now what about lunch and dinner?

I just treat that as an "audiophile tax". Seriously though, I appreciate the recommendation. I do like Gould, and I'm happy to dig in.

Massive Attack – Protection

The Mary Onettes -- Islands Can't remember who turned me on to them but know it was someone here. Thanks! Such a good wistful-rainy-day album.

Very cool. He looks excited.

Why not just use a thermal switch on AC mains? Check out the Cantherm product line at Digikey.

I've tried B+ relay from this article, but haven't tried the AC relay: http://www.audioxpress.com/article/arduino-based-tube-power-amplifier-controller/9883 The included C code got temp. sensing, so you can adapt it to your need. I used Adafruit Pro Trinket, half price of the Arduino board and it uses the same IDE.

Actually, the microZOTL 2.0 is licensed from Berning by Linear Tube Audio, who also build a number of Berning's other designs. I used a Berning EA-230 amp for a number of years for my Quad electrostatics - nice amp. The big thread on H-F is largely about substituting better power supplies for the original switching PS. I heard a demo of different power supplies at the Albuquerque Head-Fi meet earlier this year, and it does make a difference, but it also gets expensive pretty fast.

The Bioshock 1 & 2 "remasters" have been an absolute shit show on PC. Both just got patched, in theory resolving most of the issues. Steam is downloading both updates for me right now. I'm kind of hoping the remaster for the first game actually runs on my machine. I've been waiting 9 years to play it.

There's a version 2 out, licensed from Berning by some nice gents called Urban Audio....big stuff over on H-F, but this time rightfully so IMO. Have one myself.... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

So that's his excuse for taking up residence in "The Champagne Room" Stay Safe, Floridians, and others.

Saw this when I was compiling Nobel authors online. Entire picture made with red and green fluorescent bacteria.

I love Laurie Anderson. Remind me, some time, to tell the stories of seeing her live. I have that on CD somewhere, but don't remember it beyond confirmation that yes, it was mostly an art piece, not that there's anything wrong with that. I should dig it out and give it another listen. George -- I am not Craig, but: Big Science and United States I-IV Live. EDIT: Oh, and without a doubt: I wasn't at the New York show, but I was at the DC show just a couple days earlier, but immediately after 9/11, and it was just her and her backing band, with no performance art whatsoever, and it reminded me just how powerful she is with even just her music.

Picking up some last minute supplies. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

it needed fire and cedar planks, but other than that it was good

Wanted a new guitar my Ibanez late 80s rg570 (had it 20 years) wasn't doing it for me. Picked up a PRS S2 Singlecut hollow body. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Steve?

I want Brent to kick ass, because I want every boy to be proud of his Dad.

Happy birthday!

It really ties the room together ...