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  1. Worked a rehearsal today where we repeated a segment nearly three hours. The music played throughout? Survivor's Eye of the Tiger. I actually missed 2020.
    5 points
  2. All these dumb vinyl resurgence articles always neglect to mention what percentage of people buying LPs actually listen to them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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  3. When I was 16 or so, we visited my older brother who was going to grad school in Chicago. My brothers took me out one night and I used his 23 yo ID to get into a number of places, including seeing a local band called Survivor. The venue was a weird hall with hay bails along the walls for seating. It was pretty funny to see them rocket to star status a couple years later after Rocky 3 came out.
    3 points
  4. Sure, they were awkward Midwestern white guys then too.
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  5. Just catching up with this thread. About ten years ago we had a Renault something, and it had a quirk. If you half closed the door the central locking would fire. So in January I parked in a remote car park to go for a run in cross country shoes through the mud and slush snow. Got back to the car soaked in sweat, tossed the keys on the drivers seat and as I moved to the boot (truck) to put dry clothes on, the door half closed - clunk. Keys and phone inside. Me outside in freezing temperatures, soaking wet, and it is getting towards dark. Fortunately there was an elderly couple in this carpark in the back of beyond. Their children had bought a mobile phone for them for Christmas, which they had not used. They offered to let me use it to phone for recovery from the company we paid for (RCA). "What is the postcode" "No idea - it is a remote car park" "Can't help you caller if you don't have a post code" "Please understand - if you don't help me I will die from hypothermia!" "OK - I'll walk to Little Whittenham and your guy can meet me there" "What will be the post code caller" "Look - Little Whittenham is about ten houses - he won't have a problem finding me!!" To cut a long story short, the recovery guy extracted the keys and I got home unscathed. Craig
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  6. that reminds me of the joke Q: how do you recognize a Swedish extrovert? A: He's the one looking at your shoes. cf: http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/10-29-01/comm-introverts.html
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  8. * Cheery upbeat background music * * Friendly reassuring voice * "And in this week's podcast we discuss planning for dystopian events in your neighborhood."
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  9. I am pleased to announce that the life changing podcast you have all been waiting for is slowly going public. Only the trailer is up so far and only on Spotify, but they are coming. Prepare for enlightenment
    1 point
  10. Still off the charts in my area (Eugene Or). Not much ash falling now and we should be getting much better by Thursday.
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  11. I was able to open the windows last night and air my place out. Today there is <100AQI air all over the bay area. It feels amazing to be able to spend time outside and see blue sky for the first time in a week.
    1 point
  12. I was sent this and it was posted on SBAF so one can expect the level of discourse over there: There is so much here that I don't even know where to start. First off, they claim this circuit is "unique"...well it isn't. Old as the hills this one, same as the old TubeCad stuff, the Rudistor amps, the prototype Schiit built, that Trilogy H1 piece of shit and I've been building similar amps for the last 15 years. Stax also released something similar in the 60's so no...not unique. The amp circuit is simple and works well enough for a cheap amp so nothing wrong with that. I also like that they used a CCS on the front end (though they claim it is on all stages but that's not true) but my issue is with the PSU and the bias supply. What an utter clusterfuck.... The circuit requires a bipolar PSU so with a center tap transformer the bias supply can be a bit tricky but simple to solve really. I just don't understand what the hell they did with that delay circuit. It's just adding tubes because... tubes? Makes no sense at all. The bias supply seems to be driven off a tap for some reason. Also, those ballast resistors look like RN55 units and they are nowhere near adequate for the job. Smaller issues, twisted output wires are a no no, not sure what's up with those output "sockets" and an unregulated heater supply is never a good idea. Still I like the colors. Might have to do something like that...
    1 point
  13. Day 5 of 200 plus. And no real fires around us. ..but we put a temp ban on beans regardless.
    1 point
  14. It still has those freaky moving rocks.
    1 point
  15. My theory is that Trump has ordered his spray tan dumped in the upper atmosphere. Hoping that it turns California residents Orange, in a false show of unity.
    1 point
  16. Death Valley is the safe spot now?
    1 point
  17. Um, Might have to leave the planet..
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  18. The whole shaving off the top of the main transformer scares me. Insulation is there for a reason. 1st order of business, try NOT to kill the user.
    1 point
  19. Adding to the apocalypse documentation. Approaching noon in Mtn View. Was brighter after sunset. Keeping on eye out for boils tomorrow.
    1 point
  20. The haze cleared long enough to get a view of Mt Tam this afternoon.
    1 point
  21. The ESP6,7 and 9 were all single ended so the amp won't like that at all if you've somehow connected the back stators together. You can isolate them though as I did back in the day on my esp6's.
    1 point
  22. I wasn't sure about posting this but it kinda had to be done. Pic is from HF and the usual nonsense in the peanut gallery there: So this is the Sirrah V3 from high-amp.de...aka yet another slight twist on the Stax SRM-1 Mk2 or derivatives. For me it is just the build here and well... the total shitbox we have here. First off, what's up with all the hotglue? As somebody who has built hundreds of amps at this point... I don't even own a hotglue gun nor would I ever think of using this crap. Some other goodies, top of the transformer sanded for it to fit in the chassis, no insulation on the mains plug which means this would fail even the basic CE tests, nice bit of cloth underneath the pot there to presumably stop it from shorting something on the board and I just love all the transformer leads, not twisted in any way, coming really close to the input wiring. The hand cut heatpads on the output transistors are also nice and I very much doubt that tiny ballast resistor for the bias supply is rated to 600V.... On top of that, look up the design of this thing. Basically a SRM-212 with a full size power supply and some things changed. +/-200V rails, no CCS for the VAS stage and very little power.
    1 point
  23. Never have I felt so personally attacked. Would not wear. People are going to think it's a MAGA (or "KAG") hat at any distance. 2020 in one photo. "Strangers, lovers and a family." BMW R100 RS “Good Ghost” Bentley Mark IV, 1940's V-12. Heatman/Caton.
    1 point
  24. This thing is fucking hawt, but I forgot to order the $50 windscreen. So far it is behaving even better than I had expected in my shitty space.
    1 point
  25. he's very careful to not post a lot, but when he does, it's not worth reading
    1 point
  26. I spent the evening tidying and organizing my desk. Cable management, schmable management. My studio is in the corner of an unfinished basement, and I think this fall and winter I'm going to try framing in a room and finishing it.
    1 point
  27. I love Fang. Did I ever tell you guys about the time he rear-ended me in Tianjin and then had his wife's dad fix my car while I took painting lessons at his expense?
    1 point
  28. John Prine’s 15 Essential Songs https://www.nytimes.com/article/john-prine-songs.html?referringSource=articleShare
    1 point
  29. The Irisih ambient composter Mick Chillage Gainford took a bunch of photos of the Irish coast and posted them to FB (I'm enough of a nerd to be FB friends with him.) I especially liked the look of one of them: I spent half an hour working it over in Photoshop (I finally upgraded from my ca. 2012 CS6 version) and came up with this: Look for Mick Chillage's new field recording and synth drone release "Sea Wall" later this month (not really.)
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  30. Down here we are still averaging 80-150.
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