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I know there's a bread thread, but this isn't exactly bread. There were like 7 rotting bananas this morning so I made two loaves of banana bread and coffee cake (not pictured).

That sounds awful, swt61...so sorry. I had a bad food induced event a couple of months ago and I empathize fully! On a lighter note, we did a PCH tour starting outside SF at Half Moon Bay and ending in Santa Barbara before flying out of LAX. Lovely trip and we got lucky with the weather...or is that oxymoronic with CA?!? This was my favorite dish...little neck clams and chorizo...a play on mussels in wine sauce...lovely dish! The chefs at Pebble Beach can burn! HS

La Tresse by Ludovico Einaudi (2024) https://album.link/i/1718940638 Example: I have not seen the movie - but I know that it will at least sound good.

Thanks all! Work is sucking so the day was ugly.... But son Andrew and his GF Amy came by late afternoon, and we spent some time and went to dinner. A few tears where Karen wondered if we'll be able to do the same next year. 😪 But we then focused on the now and had a wonderful dinner.... Heading to New Orleans next week with my 2 best friends and significant others. We all turned 60 this year. Looking forward to that!

Taco salad, after getting my hair cut next door.

Happy belated, Todd!

4K or "4K" ? https://www.howtogeek.com/4k-blu-rays-have-an-ai-upscaling-problem-buyer-beware/

Some properly quick GT's with the occasional fake Brit accent.

That's what I was thinking, the margins must be insane on these as its a store not really known for any good deals. Now I'm thinking if I did a deep dive on this earlier in the year when I got a set dirt cheap... or I just sent all of that to Kevin? Well first off input, bunch of parts here USB xmos, A/D etc: All of this leads to a pair of ESS 9028 dacs: Not the best picture but that looks a lot like filtering to try and make up for the utterly retarded driver design: Finally output stage... yeah this is pretty dire. Remember this thing is 4k$... Now how does this thing actually work? The clue is those two gray caps and the wires going to the headphone plug. 450V B+ on a single rail so shall we say a maximum voltage swing of ~840Vppss and the bias is clearly 2000V. The bias is superimposed on the audio signal after the output caps and then we have the grounded shield, that's it. These are even simpler than what Koss were doing in the 60's where the back stator on the ESP6 (and 7, 8 and 9) are grounded but otherwise normal electrostatics.

This is one of the better videos I have seen explaining the different tire categories and why you’d pick one over the other. I will be sharing this with my friends who still keep their sports cars on all-season grand touring tires to let them know what they are missing out on!

^ Big mistake!!! Although I did have a delicious dinner at the MOA compound last night, I believe this taco salad to be the culprit. As it was much spicier than expected. I had a horrible night! Not only once, but twice, with no warning at all, I had two of the worst GIRD events I've ever had. The first one was about 1:00 am, when out of nowhere a river of lava came gushing through my esophagus onto my pillow. After cleaning that up, taking some acid reducers and allowing my esophagus to calm down (about an hour before I could even think about going horizontal again), I tried to go back to sleep, which I did successfully. Successfully until about 3:30 am, when river #2 did the exact same thing. No sleep after that and my throat is still raw. I coughed for two hours. Fast forward to 20 minutes ago when another river decided to take a different path. I barely made it onto the porcelain bomb containment device when an explosion that probably caused another California quake, created a not so coveted Jackson Pollock on the inside of said bomb containment device. And now I can feel a second atmospheric river beginning to stir. All I want to do is sleep, but I'm literally afraid to even try. Sorry about the graphic, too detailed mind paintings that I've gifted you.

And then there is this.