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A Belated Happy Birthday Ian!

I agree with you Jose. The current practice in the US is to utilize controlled burns. They are smaller and lower temperature fires, that mimic the temporal fire ecology of these forests. Do they do a good job with that mimicking? That is up for debate. But it is certainly better than the previous preservationist policy of total fire suppression. But then again, what the fuck do I know?

It definitely captured my interest, but I think there were only two episodes that I finished and did not think that they were really fucked up. Not that it was necessarily a bad thing.

Mojave Desert, My Computer

Just finished "The Boys". Still not sure how much I like it or even my feelings about it. It surely is fucked up, but probably more real in its portrayals.

Oh, I understand completely.

I'm so glad that I am old enough to tell IT and any institution I work for to go pound dirt or I will bring in my grants as a private consultant. Science is not for political hacks, i.e campus administrators.

Agreed! Windows sucks, but it sucks a lot less on a Mac.

RIP Toni Morrison

Or a Princess Bride fan.

Happy Birthday, Antonio!

Happy Birthday, Birgir!

Happy Birthday, Mike!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Headamp!

Went for a nice walk on the beach this morning. Spent quite a bit of time watching a pod of dolphins and a squadron of pelicans hunting/feeding.

Very cool. I like it.

Anybody know what that component is between the two turntables?

I will get it out of storage tomorrow and get back to you.

A Belated Happy Birthday, Kerry!

I have a Marantz AV7005 that has been sitting in its box in an air conditioned storage unit since we moved to Florida. It is yours for the shipping cost if you want it.

Looks like a nice HT receiver. I like the mdc on my M12, as it allows a bit of customization. I am glad they are expanding it to their other units.

NAD is quality gear. Having owned Yamaha, Rotel and NAD gear I would go with NAD or Rotel over Yamaha. I would also look at what Marantz has to offer especially if you are interested in DSP.

Just finished eating a couple of Sirloins done on the Weber. Did a simple salt, pepper and garlic rub and then a Rosemary butter baste using Rosemary sprigs to do the basting. More importantly, this was the initial run for my new MEATER Block. True wireless meat probes with a nice phone app. I was cooking these to a non HC medium rare (15 year old taste buds) and it came out absolutely perfect. No guess work. Very pleased. I did have to wait a fucking Long time as it was bought on Kickstarter. They have a web site now so you should not have to wait a year and a half for yours.

Finished the first two episodes of Che(o)rnobyl. IMO the tone is spot on for both the visuals and dialogue.

Madrid definitely has to rebuild, but this seems like a really good start.