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My friend rested the day before yesterday. 59 years. Many other clubs showed their respects. A great person, kind, loving, always taking care of the weakest boys in the cycling peloton Our club will place a commemorative plaque on one of his favorite routes.

Gemelli pasta con fungi, pollo, basil, Cambozola, truffle.

Taste is subjective. An educated opinion from a grilling icon https://barbecuebible.com/2020/09/22/steak-three-ways-which-cooking-method-is-best/?fbclid=IwAR0iY6pOz5xvVQnqkxw_5MI3PUmqUilaGHEABGrHqYtuuMJ8w7jOb8Pj7_4

Got out for an early morning ride this morning to meet a friend that's doing a double-metric today. I offered to pull him for the first 25miles or so so I rode 20 miles up to the starting point, played locomotive for an hour or so, and then turned home. Other than the 98% humidity it was near perfect conditions.

Reverse sear is definitely my new favorite way to do steak, and I like the idea of smoking to temp. I'll have to try that.

Super-thin Piaget wrist watch

Aside from the soundtrack significance (first film with continuous music) there was an urban legend about one of the lines Lugosi had with Karloff in The Black Cat. It was said that it was filmed before Lugosi could speak English and that he performed his lines phonetically. Who knows for sure? Always a great talking point for Creature Features hosts.

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That's pretty impressive. I just did a pokey little ride to finish my September climbing challenge:

Diana Krall | This Dream of You

In case it’s not obvious, they’re linked to the Monterey Jazz Fest.

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I have been doing steaks and even tri-tip this way. Take it to about 20 degrees below your desired temp, wrap and remove, crank to searing temp, unwrap and sear until 5 degrees below desired temp. Remove and let rest as it will continue to cook. Serve

Lots of fantastic tutorials. My favs are the ones from Kenny Gioia/ Reapermania/Kennymania Very comprehensive. http://www.kennymania.com/reaper-videos/ Also Jon on The Reaper Blog is very cool and would likely answer your emails https://www.youtube.com/user/audiogeekzine

I was BBQing a steak in the dark last night which became very distracting when the bats started doing dive bomb maneuvers just over my head then the coyotes started barking what seemed less than a fifty meters away. Sheesh, the animal kingdom needs to learn social distancing too.

RIP Juliette Gréco. Actress for/with Jean Cocteau, Ingrid Bergman, Orson Welles and Ava Gardner, muse for Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, and longtime girlfriend of Miles Davis. That's a life. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44230634

My sainted mother is visiting from Marthas Vineyard, so I've been showing her a few old films. Last night we watched The Black Cat (1934), which stars Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. Both men were at the peak of their careers, coming off the huge success of Dracula and Frankenstein (both 1931) respectively. I saw The Black Cat many years ago because of ...well, me obsessing over electronic music. The Norwegian collective known as Neural Network in this case. Their second album Modernité is an unknown ambient classic. However, their first album Brain-State-In-A-Box is the one that sent me on the journey that lead me to The Black Cat. On the song "Under The Sun" there is a repeated sample "There are many things ...under the sun." The spoken sample is both used brilliantly in the song, but also said with such authority that I was intrigued enough to track down the original source. Flash forward a dozen or more years, and I developed a renewed interest in The Black Cat after learning that the director was Edgar G. Ulmer. Ulmer is a fascinating character who had a gift for turning out a masterpiece (or at least a mini-masterpiece) on a shoestring budget. He learned this skill after he fell in love with a producer's wife, ran off with her, and got blackballed in Hollywood for 10-15 years. (To be fair, he stayed married to her for decades.) The Black Cat is one of the films Ulmer produced before his exile, and was actually a huge hit at the time. Lugosi and Karloff were rivals, and Ulmer deftly used their adverse professional relationship to extract stellar performances from them. It's a horror film, but there isn't much in the way of death, monsters or gore. It's an early psychological thriller more than anything else. It's also quite a short film, clocking in at just over an hour (another trademark of Ulmer, getting things done quickly.) After watching The Black Cat, I explained the significance of Edgar G. UImer, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff to my mother. I also covered the career arcs of the two main stars. Lugosi's fizzled and he developed bad habits like morphine and working with Ed Wood. Karloff, meanwhile, sustained an admirable career for many years. She was quite taken with the film. It has stood the test of time and is well worth a watch even now. Side note: I also attempted to explain to her the renaissance in popularity Bela Lugosi and Ed Wood experienced in the 1980s and onward. I even went into the Bauhaus and their famous track named after Bela. I showed her a live video of the band performing at Coachella in 2005: She was so taken aback by Peter Murphy hanging upside down for the entire performance that the song was king of lost on her. She's a bit out of the post punk demographic anyway. So tonight, naturally, we watched Plan 9 From Outer Space. Unsurprisingly, she thought it was amazingly awful. I attempted to explain that the terribleness the film was the point of it, and how Ed Wood became so famous for his ineptitude. She did find some parts amusing, but in general thought it stunk. I think tomorrow night we'll watch Edgar Ulmer's famous 1945 noir film Detour to make up for it.

Got a little over halfway framing my latest project... A 7' tall x 20' long set of monkey bars for a 5 year old boy. It's a former client, and she requested me, and my company just told her to let me have the project. It's a bit small for them to mess with. Of course it's overbuilt and it's kind of a fun little project. I'll snap some pics when it's done.

Here is my T2 power supply, now with Pro Bias Maida regulator style. The small board with three blue filter capacitors is the 21st Century Maida Regulator by Tom Christiansen producing 580 volts after change of resistor. The Maida regulator replaces the 10m90s current source with Zener string and filters. I feed the regulator with unregulated 660 VDC. Only 5.1M resistor on psu board is used. Works great. P.S. still need some wire clean up… will probably never happen

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RIP Sci-Fi Designer Ron Cobb https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2555223/mark-hamill-pays-tribute-to-star-wars-designer-ron-cobb https://film-book.com/ron-cobb-the-artist-behind-star-wars-alien-and-back-to-the-future-has-died-at-83/