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Thanks everyone! My family has been in town this week so that's been nice. Had a cookout over at my mom's place + cake, not a bad way to spend the day.

Worth remembering https://www.instagram.com/p/CSAaOJFBqi6/

FYI, and fingers crossed for tomorrow. https://youtu.be/8w1pWBgI7Rg

^^ that was in the queue.. Esja Hania Rani 2019 Example: She really is a great composer.

Alice Sara Ott, Echoes of Life -- largely Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, interspersed here and there with other short pieces. That album cover hurts my eyes, though. EDIT: Oh, wow, she (Ott) wrote a piece on this one, albeit based on fragments of Mozart's Lacrimosa.

What a race!!! Fernando driver of the day for a reason. Alpine and Ocon must be very thankful. The second start is something I hadn't even imagined was possible

I bought two of those t-shirts. Still have one of them.

More Hiromi -- dang I love (and low-key miss) her use of synthesizers:

vinyl

Virtuoso Joe Pass 1973 Example:

Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish 2021 Opening track:

St. Vincent – Daddy's Home Annie Clark got the funk like Midnight Vultures via Pink Floyd

Just now realized you live in Austria, I love Kaiserschmarm! Anywhere near Tyrol?

The... Kaiserschmarrn

Very nice, ER. I use a several year old food scale from Amazon we also use to weigh our pooch’s meals. That scale looks very high tech relatively speaking. HS

Hiromi Uehara, Spectrum solo jazz piano, I forgot how great this one in particular is. E.G., This is just so insanely great! I should also mention that it appears her entire back catalog (including personal favourites, Time Control, Brain, &c.) has been uploaded to streaming platforms Tidal and Spotify, so...yay!

I would put a higher load if you want to load test it. Like at least 0.5A or even 1A. Here you can build a simple and flexible load tester.

That is rated lifespan at the maximum temperature, ripple current and voltage. Pretty insane conditions for most audio gear. Lifespan increases dramatically as temperature and ripple current fall to more reasonable levels.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11883318/bacon-in-california-may-soon-be-more-hard-to-find-as-pig-rules-take-effect Nooooooooo!!!

Today in "no good deed goes unpunished" I divested myself of a bunch of things including a pair of JBL 630s from the mid 1980s. In the process, my wallet disappeared. I noticed it was missing when at the checkout of the local grocery store. Two calls later and neither place I'd visited had seen it. I've torn apart my house and my car, but it's just flat out missing. Great way to start the weekend.