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Quite proud of this one. A fair amount of work went into it. Doesn't look nearly as effortless as Peter's work but happy with how it turned out nonetheless.

actually forgot to buy the beans, onions and tomatoes.

9 hour slow cooked barbacoa beef tacos on tacos that my classmate's mom made from scratch. I think I ate too much

Hiking in Killarney National Park, Ireland.

Found out from our neighbors in India that Mr. Sundaram, my math tutor, passed away earlier this week of old age. He was 99. He was a retired Indian Air Force pilot and a retired professor at IIT (India's MIT). Up until 6th grade, I used to get A's in every class except for math and it turned into a problem in 6th grade when my teacher refused to let me slide by with less than mediocre grades. My parents found a tutor and I was told I needed to seek help. Going to a tutor in India was considered in a very negative light. I still remember walking up to him tiny home and being left at the door. He welcomed me in, taught me the first chapter and asked me to do the problems. I made my first of two mistakes with him by asking him which ones. He replied, "what do you mean which ones? All of them." Then he went back to tapping his fingers on the side of his chair while 3 other students and I started doing the problems. A few minutes later, I made the second mistake by asking him to help me with a problem I couldn't solve. He looked at me and said that he had already taught me the lesson and there were no tricks. I protested saying I didn't know how to solve it. He asked me how many times I had read the question. Irritated, I replied with some stupid number. He calmly said give it a few more readings. After 5 minutes of grinding my teeth and not really reading the question, I asked him again. He replied with the same response as earlier - read it a few more times, you will get it. The other 3 kids laughed at me under their breaths. I went home pissed thinking my parents were paying this guy to help me with math and he just sat there playing with his fingers and I was to go to him for an hour every freaking day and for two hours on weekends. I remember waking up in the middle of the night that night, scribbling down the answer to the question and proudly took it to him the following evening. Expecting praise, I walked in with a smug look and proclaimed that I had solved the question. He looked at it and said, "good. Now finish the other 119 problems in this chapter so you can go on to the next chapter. You have a lot to make up before you get to where the others' are." In the three and a half years I worked with him before leaving India, I asked him 3 questions after that first day (he answered only 2 of them). He taught me a lot of math but more importantly he taught how to think on my own and not give up if I couldn't find the solution in the first few attempts. He showed me how math could be incredibly beautiful and elegant. He taught me how to be patient not just with others but with myself. After working with him, I went from barely passing math in 6th grade to the 5th highest scorer in the 10th grade national board exam for math in all of India. It remains one of my proudest accomplishments to date. RIP Mr. SS. Thank you for all that you taught me and for being the most wonderful teacher I ever had.

I see boxes with question marks as well.

Alyson

I'd wager f/14. amirite?

Gorgeous light Peter.

I knew about the reservation price but didn't know the part about the 2 month trial period. Shall investigate it. If I can get my money back, then sure, I'll support a new company.

Martian and sicario. Can't tell which was better. Loved them both.

Ergonomically it looks horrible but I think the image quality is the biggest decider for me. No one has seen raw files. To plop down the same amount of money as one would for an x100 series without seeing what the camera can really do is absurd.

Mizen Head, Ireland. Taken with the iPhone.

Battery life on my MBA seems improved with El Capitan (a welcome surprise).

I owe you a tasty treat.

Is there any way to click on the thread title and have it go to the last read post automatically like you could in the past? Every time I click on the thread name it takes me to the first post of the thread.

It is one of the most wonderful places I have ever been to. Julie and I hope we can get back there some day. It's a small island but even in the 10 days we spent there, we barely scratched the surface.

On the way to the Cliffs of Moher.

Ana

Slow cooked pork loin with mushroom in a citrus adobo sauce. Not pretty but very tasty.

It's alive!

Hmmm had a post typed and it didn't go through for some reason... Anyhow, the amp was in gestation for some 9 months. Last December I bounced some ideas off of Doug for an amp for the JH16s but kinda fizzled out over time. This past summer I got a new roommate who studies at home as well so I couldn't use the speakers anymore to watch lectures or listen any music. Approached Doug again to design/build something that I couldn't head the noise floor of which had been the issue with all the amps I had tried in the past. Happy to report that I don't hear anything that I am not supposed to with this amp. Doug calls it the DB3 - Diamond Buffer V3 and man does it buffer the shit out of whatever it is buffering. I gave full creative control of the amp to Doug and was very pleasantly surprised to open up the box. I had not seen any pictures of the amp prior. Was going to wait for finals to be over to plug it in but he mentioned something about a blue led so had to try. JH16s have never sounded better. Hooray for Doug

Can't eat it but picked up a little something from Meester Doug from the mail room a few minutes ago.

My dad has a pair of Betsy's. He quite likes them. Not nearly as big as the Hawthorne but he is also not playing in a huge room. They play far better than a $100 pair of drivers. http://www.wildburroaudio.com

once my contract with att is over for this 6 plus I'm going back to a flip phone. The happiest and least anxious I have been in recent memory were times when I either didn't have my phone for weeks at a time. Disconnecting from the internet and the little burst of dopamine from the constant notifications has made for some very unhealthy habits.