Craig Sawyers

Heh. Long time since I've been on the list (too much damned work), but watch Dalbani. This was the outfit that sold me the fake 2N3675's that are used in quantity in the T2. They also sold me some 2SJ79 in plastic packages (there IS NO plastic packaged 2SJ79's!) that there was absolutely no evidence of anything other than a short circuit between pins. Check back in the thread for the chaos that this caused me, and the massive collateral damage. Had to replace just about every bit of silicon in the amp. Still working flawlessly by the way, and acting as a nice bedroom heater. Craig

Shelly - have a truly great one!

Wierdly, the musically brilliant, piano classically trained (Royal College of Music, piano and clarinet) Wakeman of Strawbs and Yes fame, and many concept albums now makes a buck on a BBC consumer programme called Watchdog

The very best, good sir!

It depends on whether you have a wooden head or a synthetic head.

^ Damn. Now I know why one of my CD players is flakey. Wilma, get to Bedrock and find the Audio Demon.

Solidly ENTP. Been tested several times over the years - still the same. It has me bang to rights.

I've never really been particularly into motorsport - but after catching the last three hours of the Le Mans last year, I am absolutely going to stay up all night and watch the whole damned thing. Men and machines pushed to their endurance limit - the equivalent of ultra-marathon running, but involving four wheels and an engine.

For some horrendous statistics, have a look at this http://www.btselem.org/ , the website of an *Israeli* human rights organisation. One quote: "Ninety percent of [Gaza] factories and industrial workshops have closed, and the rest have had to scale back operations. After Operation Cast Lead, the International Red Cross reported that 3,750 businesses had closed and that approximately 40,000 persons (some 94 percent of workers in these businesses) had lost their jobs."

David Cameron, on the introduction of Tax on Pasties (a pasty is a hot pastry filled with mince and vegetables, traditional in Cornwall) "I'm a pasty eater myself," he said at an event about the Olympics. "I go to Cornwall on holiday. I love a hot pasty. I think the last one I bought was from the West Cornwall Pasty Company. I seem to remember I was in Leeds station at the time. The choice was to have one of their small ones or their large ones. I've got a feeling I opted or the large one and very good it was too." Then it turned out that the West Cornwall Pasty Company in Leeds station closed down in 2007. The moral of the story is: Never trust a fucking politician.

Way to go, Doug! Happy birthday!

Sporting a glitzy new Samsung G2 Android for control, I just have to get on this bandwagon. Then I can retire the Audio Research LS3.

Bit late - but hope you had a great day!

It is for things like this that I *know* why I love this forum so much!

Oh dear - damascus steel chassis. I can just imagine the etched grain pattern of the layers. I have no idea why the bits of my brain that control desire are illuminated so brightly at that thought.....

Problem with liquid helium is the latent heat of vapourisation is bugger all. The heat capacity of the vapour is huge, which is where all the cooling power is. Liquid nitrogen has a huge latent heat, and bugger all heat capacity of the vapour That is why you precool a superconducting magnet with (cheap) liquid nitrogen, and only go from 77K to 4.2K with helium. The final conclusion is: cool the drink with liquid nitrogen directly. Using it to cool balls of some sort, and then use them to cool the booze just adds a further step, and loses cooling efficiency. Just sling the liquid nitrogen straight in - a sort of nitrogen sling

With my new fibre broadband

That was fucking awesome!

That is freakin' lovely

Especially since they are no longer made. Rubycon pulled the plug on making them for Mr Gate-san a couple of years ago.

You too, Birgir? I have got just far too much "stuff" in your typical compact (by US standards) UK house.

ISRAELI efforts to convince the world of the gravity of Iran's suspected atomic drive had web surfers quacking up on Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warning over Tehran's "nuclear duck". "If it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, then what is it? That's right. It's a duck. But this duck is a nuclear duck!" declared Netanyahu,