Craig Sawyers

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Just don't ask the waiter if he has a knob of butter

Always worth waiting for

You're a fine looking chap. Good luck in the interview! In any photo I alas always look like a manic axe murderer. Amuses my family no end.

This appeared yesterday on the Tekscopes mailing list: "I have excellent results using a small amount of butter..."

We survived that in the mid 70's, and got to our 39th wedding anniversary yesterday.

Have a great day!

135dB at 1 metre for one. So 138dB for two. To find out how much blood can come out your ears and how quickly your eyes pop out.

Active crossover, 2400W for the bottom cab, 2400W for the bass units in the top cab, 550W for the mid and 275W for the tweeter. 330lb weight for the top cab and 308lb for the bottom (290 kg in all, 638 lb). And that is just one - double for stereo. Bit of an animal, really. Oh yes - they are British

This thread is so weird, so head case. Love it

I told my son and daughter about Chester Bennington, and talked to my son today on the phone. His take was that yes, it was a real tragedy but he was not really surprised; he said "in hindsight, listening to some recent Linkin Park last night, Bennington was pretty anguished". And apparently a good friend of his in another band (Chris Cornell) killed himself in the same way (by hanging) in May, which may have been a major contributing factor.

Salad fingers is such a disturbing series.

The global kitten. Would you want to be Australia?

There is a long European tradition going back to the middle ages (and possibly before) in blood sausages: In England, Black Pudding (there is also white pudding, also an ancient recipe of pork meat and fat, suet, bread and oatmeal) In Germany Blutwurst In France Boudin Noir They are all subtly different. As you might tell I am something of a fan of this delicacy. I have not yet tried the Spanish variety though, but plan to when next in Spain.

Yes indeed it did. Took an hour or more to reliably charge. I actually wired the same neon flasher circuit that is in the ESL63 to monitor charging current/leakage. Visible through the rear grille. Once it was down to one flash per second or so the films were charged and leakage was confirmed as very small.

Belated happy birthday Jose! Love the blood sausage - in the UK called Black Pudding - absolutely delicious.

That is absolutely brilliant. I just wish he'd return to his roots in stage acting too - I think he would be totally superb. But I said the same thing about Patrick Stewart when I watched him play Jean Luc Picard; I think my words were "I'd walk over hot coals to see him act in Shakespeare" - and we've now seen him six or seven times on stage, including a superb MacBeth in a studio theatre seating 200. An extract from the film version: In fact, in that same theatre we've tickets to see Ian McKellern play Lear later this year. Can hardly wait.

WTF???

An uber-late happy birthday!

The CMS (stands for Compact Muon Solenoid) on LHC at CERN is pretty tongue in cheek when it comes to the word "compact"

Absolute madness close to being completed. A fully balanced phono stage, Erno Borbely design that appeared a couple of years ago in Linear audio. Three 19" rack width units. Two independent power supplies in one chassis, Left in another and right in another both fed from shunt regulators. Pass the medication....

Here was me thinking I was retro - and it turns out I'm actually mainstream

I so want that to be true, and not at the same time

Have a truly great day, namesake!

Blind Faith. Only one 1969 album with a massively controversial cover. Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech. What a stunning virtuoso album with the best of the best.