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An old man lived alone in New Jersey. He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, as the ground was hard - too hard to dig up. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament: Dear Vincent, I am feeling pretty sad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up the garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would be over. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days. Love, Papa A few days later he received a letter from his son. Dear Papa, Don't dig up that garden. That's where the bodies are buried. Love, Vinnie At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire garden without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son. Dear Papa, Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances. Love you, Vinnie

You're listening to fog?

Sleeping Jax. Hard to believe he’s 10 now!

RIP to an actual patriot.

It's 'cause he knows he's a cutey.

Getting some culture...

Continuing the theme:

Just a generic clip-on desk light from The Evil Empire. I did not realize when I purchased it that it is touch sensitive to turn on and cycle through the brightness settings, which is really handy. I modified it to be able to work with my slab platform as the clip that it has does not open wide enough (Joke setup was unintended).

# special boxlympics

Let me first modify the output stage. The mod affects only the performance with lower impedance loads, and even there it can take us only so far, but it is a start. The front end modification that increases the feedback loop gain will be posted separately. The changes are simple. Here is the schematic: R33-R36 are replaced with 0.22ohm 3W resistors, R19 is reduced to 470..560ohm to allow proper biasing, and R37-R38 are replaced by a single 47..51ohm resistor. The bias will need to be re-adjusted. Note that 50mA per transistor that resulted in 100mV between the test points in the original will now give 11mV - still easy to measure with a DVM. The performance improvements are as follows. With 1W and 5W into an 8ohm load: With 4Vpeak (2.8Vrms) into a 33ohm load the effect is much smaller: Distortion into 100ohm does not change appreciably, so I don't show it here.

Was the first album I bought with my own money as a kid (quickly followed by Weird Al's In 3D).

RTJ hands fixed Honestly, I'm pretty psyched with how these came out and they were a great test bed for figuring out how to accurately combine/sequence engraving and cutting. Now for a light sanding and finishing and then delivery to their owner.

For reasons unknown Sam likes to go head first and squish his head against the wall in this particular cat tree

I'm surprised someone hasn't posted about lighting up the bong tonight. This would be the day for it. Pardon me if the bong is not still in fashion. I haven't kept up with these things.

I present to you...a box. But it's fully parametric. Now I need to figure out how to do each component in CAM. Baby steps.

RIP Neil Sheehan, reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times https://apnews.com/article/neil-sheehan-dead-af7893e6608a0eb2417ccf3f460179f1

RIP, Alto Reed, sax player for the Silver Bullet Band. Boy, if you don't feel the chills when he kicks in here... well, it sure gets me every time.