Craig Sawyers

Happy birthday tall fella! Hope you are having a spectacular one...

Just catching up with this thread. About ten years ago we had a Renault something, and it had a quirk. If you half closed the door the central locking would fire. So in January I parked in a remote car park to go for a run in cross country shoes through the mud and slush snow. Got back to the car soaked in sweat, tossed the keys on the drivers seat and as I moved to the boot (truck) to put dry clothes on, the door half closed - clunk. Keys and phone inside. Me outside in freezing temperatures, soaking wet, and it is getting towards dark. Fortunately there was an elderly couple in this carpark in the back of beyond. Their children had bought a mobile phone for them for Christmas, which they had not used. They offered to let me use it to phone for recovery from the company we paid for (RCA). "What is the postcode" "No idea - it is a remote car park" "Can't help you caller if you don't have a post code" "Please understand - if you don't help me I will die from hypothermia!" "OK - I'll walk to Little Whittenham and your guy can meet me there" "What will be the post code caller" "Look - Little Whittenham is about ten houses - he won't have a problem finding me!!" To cut a long story short, the recovery guy extracted the keys and I got home unscathed. Craig

RIP Diana Rigg, aged 82 from Cancer In her pomp: BBC obituary for Diana Rigg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27986272

I thought the kookaburra impersonation was impressive too!

I saw the title of this thread and read "mistresses" instead of "mattresses" That'll be an interesting thread I thought...

Diamond based semiconductors have been worked on for at least a decade. Note on the site there are no specifications for such devices. There are still massive hurdles to be overcome in fabricating semiconductor devices on silicon. And - a real irritation - how many women do you see on their team?

OMG I can't unsee that....

And looks a hell of a lot neater than my rig does!

Honey - I bought some new speakers. Honey? Honey??

That is awful. I have two friends in their 50s that are living through this. One has been through hell and back and is still here. The other went into remission for it to come back to the extent he has to wear a bag permanently. If ever there was a case for extending screening to those younger than 60, all these horrible examples would stand a much better fighting chance.

The leaning shed of Nebraska?

RIP Chadwick - 43 is no age at all. And to work through operations and chemo is really gritty determination not to just roll over. Carole's mother died at 42 from the same thing - colon cancer - when Carole was 18. There is no logic to it hitting someone so young. Once you get to over 60 in the UK, every two years they send you a poop-kit, and they screen it for bowel cancer (free of charge of course - this is the UK). There has to be a case to roll that out to younger people.

You're missing a trick

Happy birthday!

How did they get away with calling it Veryron? Didn't Bugatti object??

All I can say Nate is that I'm glad I'm not trying to keep up with you!

A warning. The voltages inside an E/S headphone amp can kill you stone dead. If you don't have experience frigging around with something of this complexity and lethality - don't. And if you get something wrong and kill any of the silicon it will spoil your day. I have not found the schematic for this, but I'm betting that many devices in there are now obsolete. Proceed at your own peril.

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/stax-727-voltage-conversion-100-to-117-help.679447/ Just noticed that link was for a 727, and yours is a 717. They are very different beasts.

Bream? That is a great loss to classical guitar. RIP

That was deliciously weird

Oh*my*word. Looks very fishy Anyone here remember the late lamented Peter Belt? Even the names of the strange and wonderful products evoke a feeling a mystery and imagination. How about some Morphic Green Cream with which to adorn your Friendly Four Legged Stance Device? http://www.pwbelectronics.co.uk/product-information .

At $500 it was possibly the best deal I've seen in audio.

Baker looks like the crazy guy he was. He and Bruce hated each other, to the extent that Baker attacked him with a knife at one point. When, post Cream, Baker went to set up a recording studio and live in Lagos (in Nigeria), Bruce said that the best place for Baker was on another continent to him, but Africa was not far enough. But they were often off their heads on dope. Clapton disappeared for several years into his house and got lost on a cocktail of Class A drugs. Then he got off drugs and turned to alcohol. To the extent he couldn't play and sing, and often just staggered off stage after one mumbled number. It is a wonder he is still alive. Unlike the bass player they brought in for Blind Faith, Ric Grech. After playing bass with a wide selection of bands, he retired at 31 and died at 43 from kidney failure as a result of alcohol abuse. Was lucky enough to see Clapton and Winwood with my son maybe five years ago in Birmingham. They did pretty much everything on Blind Faith's single album, and then some Cream stuff. Factoid - Crosby, Stills and Nash approached Winwood to join the band. But because of other band commitments he turned them down. So instead they approached Neil Young....