Craig Sawyers

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,

Katy Perry = Grayson Perry

This really warms the cockles - cheers! We're off for a week of walking (and a bit of running) in the English Lake District tomorrow morning, so unless I can find a WiFi hub I'll be off line for a week.

You have to crystallise the meth before it becomes dope

^Constipation is never an attractive look

^That is so Japanese. I've visited on business a couple of times, and it is a fine country - but some things really do give you a WTF moment for sure.

Holy crap! Like they say, it trashes the saw. And if it was a regular table saw that sort of force would buckle the axle and frame, so an entire new saw. But better than a lost limb.

As cluttered at my office. Different kind of clutter though

^That is hilarious!

Great pics. Hi did pretty damned well, produced some fine music and lived long, considering he was fueled for large parts of his career on cocktails of dope and booze. A great survivor.

Happy birthday - and have a great one, OK

That is awesome