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I must be imbecile, I didn't see the prices. How much?

There is the EX-1a too: https://www.eslabhk.com/ex1a The prices are also very fair and I will be buying both.

https://www.eslabhk.com/es-2a

Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthonyBourdain/s/tc1umavf7Y

A conversation starter, if you will.

Bob Uecker the storyteller.

Huge fan of Lynch. This sucks.

Maybe he finally is in the front row ... RIP Bob

for reasons Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Soundtrack (1992) https://album.link/i/46734067 Example: I was not up for watching this movie, but I was up for the amazing soundtrack by Badalamenti.

Sideways Brick, anyone?

Belated Happy Birthday! Tickety-boo and all that!

RIP Bob Uecker!

Even In The Quietest Moments... by Supertramp (1977) https://album.link/i/1440868388 Example: Based on listening above, I just kept on listening to Supertramp... As I should...

RIP Bob Uecker who passed at the tender age of 90. He delivered one of my favorite voice lines in all of cinema:

Sad - I was getting ready to watch Mulholland Drive soon, I guess it will be sooner.. RIP David.

"We have iMac at home." A temporary system I cobbled together for my (sainted, octogenarian) mother from spare parts: a 2012 Mac Mini, 1920x1200 Lenovo monitor of about the same age), a Macally compact keyboard and a Microsoft Trackball Explorer that's now 25 years old and a bit of a collector's item. It all works just fine. This photo is actually a little out of date. I've since replaced the trackball with a conventional mouse (mum did not like the trackball at all), added USB speakers, a webcam and a printer. The Lenovo is actually a really good panel. 16x10 monitors were never really consumer products. It's only 60Hz, but it's LED backlit and its color accuracy out of the box blows away every non-Apple display I've ever owned. There's a reason I've hung on to it for over a decade now. The Mini is an interesting story in that I bought it refurb'd from OWC and it was supposed to be a 2014 model. They sent me a 2012 and by the time I figured it out, the return window had long closed. This is only one of many examples of the precipitous drop in quality OWC has exhibited over the last decade. Things are so bad that I'm scuttling my plans to buy one of their 8 bay enclosures because I just don't trust them. I'm now looking at an equivalent (and cheaper) model made by by QNAP. Also, observation: The base model M4 Mini is such a good deal, it utterly kneecaps the refurb'd market and does a lot of damage to the used one. I spent several hours a few nights ago looking at the Minis for sale on various sites (including Apple's own) and nothing comes close to the price/performance of the base M4.

Oh no! My favorite director ever. Will have more thoughts later but RIP, David. This one is a shock. Twin Peaks is my favorite show ever. Blue Velvet, Elephant Man, and Mulholland all stone cold classics. 😢

RIP David Lynch, just shy of his 79th birthday(!) I was never a huge fan of his work, but it was clear from the get-go that he was a true auteur with a very uncompromised vision. EDIT: Ninja'd by dsavitsk

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twin-peaks-and-muholland-drive-director-dies-aged-78

Enjoy the silence

I swear I don't just log in here to report medical mishaps. Yesterday was a banner day by anyone's standards. MV is an expensive place to live. There's few doctors on the island because full time general practitioners cannot afford to live here. Mum doesn't have a doctor and neither do I. She had a followup phone call yesterday from a nurse practitioner. When mum went to the ER on Christmas day because of covid, they detected what they thought was a heart murmur. Mum didn't see fit to mention that to me until yesterday, but that's another matter. The fallout of all of this was that I had to drive her to the hospital yesterday afternoon. After many hours there, they determined that she has Lyme disease from a tick bite this past summer. That is a recurring theme here on MV. I am cursed to spend my whole life in places that are hotbeds for tick borne diseases. Still, much better news than actual cardio problems. With that in mind, I've mentioned the Dreyer family here on MV before. They're a nice couple in their 80s. Peter is a photographer, who shot 4x5" for decades. Adele is a piano teacher with a Steinway. They're both in as good health as any member of the silent generation. They have a daughter named Gwen. She's my age and in far better shape than I am. Yesterday she was giving blood and fainted. The staff could not revive her and she ended up in the ER. A blood test revealed high levels of troponin. TIL (or more to the point, YIL) troponin is a protein found in heart muscles and a high percentage of it is in the blood stream, that most likely means a heart attack. I repeat, Gwen is a healthy woman in her early 50s. The MV hospital doesn't have the necessary equipment to perform the required heart tests, so they doctors ordered Gwen be sent to MGH in Boston. There were no beds there, so she had to be sent to Mass General Brigham. She was to travel there by helicopter, which arrived sometime after 1AM. At 3AM, the helicopter had to make an emergency landing because of instrument failure(!) It wasn't until 6AM that there was another one available (as of yet I have no idea where the copter touched down) so Gwen spent a number of hours in the early morning (and COLD) waiting. I still have not heard what the tests performed at MGB revealed. I did learn that one of her cats has been keeping vigil on Gwen's bed during her absence. It's been quite a 24 hours.

Belated Happy Birthday, Grahame! You might ask your vet if you can get that antibiotic in an ear ointment. It's much easier to apply to the cat that trying to force something down its throat.

I could quit any time I wanted, honest. https://pmamagazine.org/golden-ears-anonymous-a-12-step-program-for-recovering-audiophiles/

Happy Birthday!