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Sorry for your loss mike. I got the bill for the rocks that my wife it in the middle of the road last night. 2 tires 2 rims 1700 dollars. Merry f****** christmas.

Nice. There's still another box that'll get launched your way, hopefully Friday.

I'll be thinking of you mike.

it's more a function of the fact that the road is covered in ice. I just went by a tractor trailer truck facing the wrong way in a ditch.

Currently stuck in traffic that is moving an average of 2 miles per hour on the highway that looks very much like a skating rink.

x2

I put in for a replacement for the wife's, would love to see a current gen come back as a replacement. But haven't been asked to send the original back so I don't know if that means she's SOL.

It's a quote taken loosely from Office Space and meant with much sarcasm.

Get some rest, Mike and I'm seriously glad is wasn't a stroke.

40 minutes on hold and I was granted a one time exception with apple support so that they could not help. I finally asked if I should just delete any app that prompted the ios forced account (which never should have been able to download anything since it was never verified or given any sort of billing info). The guy said, "Uh, yeah, that might help." So I did it for the one offending app and the iPad is working again, for now. I still think it's bullshit that ios5 forced me to create a second account and Apple acknowledged that it's their issue, that they receive a lot of calls about it and don't have a solution. The kind gent also mentioned that a) next time it'd be $30 or I could pony up $79 for Applecare. Uh, no thanks.

So ios5 continues to have issues for me on the iPad. It's now to the point where iTunes won't let me into the app store more than 50% of the time because the iPad forces me to use the @gmail account that it forced me to create as a part of the ios5 install. When it lets me revert back to my old itunes account name (seemingly at whim) I have no issues, but so far today it won't let me log into that account and it has me about mad enough to sell the thing. Cherry on the cake is that I can't log into the @gmail account either because it won't let me validate that account because the email address is associated with another account. Not that I want to activate that account since I don't want two fucking itunes accounts. Apple support is goddamn useless and I've found tons of threads online saying this is a known issue and users are invited to purchase a support package for any apple product out of the 90 day free support window to get it sorted. Fuck me.

On the lighter side... http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/20-ridiculous-things-you-never-knew-about-kim-jong

Birgir, I think you're way out of line here regarding Don.

What chris said, as far as I know there's only 1 person around here who built one and it was a long time ago.

Doesn't look like it'd be very easy to attach a TO220 device to that heat sink. Not saying it couldn't be done but the picture clearly shows something pretty different.

It's no surprise I'm a huge fan of the gain config on this amp.

Happy Birthday!

Needs moar techflex.

Chris, you and your family will be in my thoughts.

Taking care of the kids while the wife does some Xmas shopping. Two kids is 10x harder than one.

We could always mill down stock heat sinks.

Epic article, Tyll. Loved it.

This.

We put our tree up a few weeks ago. I don't like putting it up right after Turkey Day but given how busy the weekends were looking it was then or never.

This is about all I can think of now.