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The cats broke the glass lamp in our entryway, so I needed a non-glass replacement. Similar to a design I made a few years ago, but smaller and with some refinements.

From buns to bundts... A Midori bundt cake. I used to make these in the 80's. I'd kind of forgotten about them. Made one Friday evening, for the Saturday crew. Now baking this one for the weekday crew tomorrow. Remember Midori? Well, the cake is a very lovely Green as well, especially since it also contains a package of Pistachio pudding mix. It's quite good. I'm glad that I remembered it.

When Pope Francis was visiting America, he told the limo driver that he had the sudden urge to drive. The driver was a good Catholic man and would never dream of questioning the Pope’s authority. So the Pope sat at the wheel, while his driver got in the back. The Pope pulled out safely onto the road, but quickly revealed himself to be quite the adrenaline junkie when it came to driving. He was soon whipping in and out of traffic and speeding down roadways, easily doubling the speed limit. He was a wild man behind the wheel. Eventually, a policeman spotted this limo flying down the road, flipped his lights on, and pulled the limo over. Before approaching, he called his chief to warn him about a limo he'd just pulled over with a VIP inside it. Chief: Who is it, the mayor? Cop: Nope, bigger. Chief: What, the governor? Cop: Even bigger. Chief: Wait, did you pull over the President??? Cop: Nope. Bigger than that. At this, the chief ran out of patience. "Okay, I give up. Who is it?" And the cop answered, "I think it's God." "What in the world makes you think that God is riding around in a limo?" the chief exploded. To which the cop lowered his voice and replied, "Well, who else would have the Pope as His chauffeur?"

Message from the male offspring, with accompanying Spotify link. "I feel like this today. A bit lost, but resolute, and ultimately optimistic."

Loving this song always makes me wonder if I'm gayer than I'm aware of? @swt61 may have to rule on this.

Pro: open-top motoring in Napa Valley is amazing. Con: Driving yourself means you have to spit at tastings.

Bananarama - A Trick of the Night Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)

Tried a new to us local restaurant, Maison Pucha Bistro. Pleasant experience on the food and drink. For anyone in H-town, I would recommend the escargot, beef empanadas, the bouillabaisse and the lamb osso buco. I asked them to make a rye sidecar and they did a great job...not overly sweet. HS

Maybe I post to much - I'm With Her.... (I don't really care.)

Ray on Midnight Special...

The duality of man.

Just Finished Easter Brunch with the Brits, and one of our group who had just returned from Blighty was kind enough to bring back a culinary treat that makes you think about the real meaning of today.

As my dad used to say, raining like cow piss on a flat rock. He was a wwII vet, so maybe he picked it up in France?

Have you considered completing the trifecta, albeit with a change of pace? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_by_Front

Chuzos de punta (point down spiky sticks)

Wish I had seen them.....came close, but I didn't know who they were early on. In 1979, I was working as part of the "Miscellaneous" (aka "Shit") Crew at a hotel in Lynn, MA. It had The Main Act, a concert club, attached to it. I was only 14 at the time and working with a permit. But even though underage, they let me stay for shows sometimes. Saw some great local and a few national/international bands. Even met a drunk/high Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze! In any case, I saw an ad for Pere Ubu that they were playing, but they were in suits & ties in the ad. So I dismissed them, and regret it now as I never got the opportunity to see them after that. I think I would have loved them.... RIP David Thomas.

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Started to read Binding Chaos series by Heather Marsh. Almost finished first book. Gonna start "The creation of me, them and, us" tomorrow. Started to dig into reading E-Books. Lot easier to read while lying on bed with Tablet on the stand.

I prefer to think of it as his Holiness's final act was giving JD Vance the gasface.

Week Two of Krafting... How could I not?

Replay of Lady Gaga's Set from Coachella As they say, She does put on a good show.

Let's go back to 2006 for a second (no, seriously, let's go back.) Then 1968 and 1969 for a second followed by 1962. Finally, back to 1994.

finally. higher signal to noise ratio, more than 110db. takes signals up to 20 volts peak to peak unbalanced, 40v peak to peak balanced. no input attenuator that adds noise for those stupidly high voltage dacs. ( requires 30v power supplies) (volume control in the middle) thd about .005% no feedback. work in progress 4 layer board. preamp2025f.PDF

Really enjoying Tom Hardy in this.

Not even at my final twinkweight? Having a few issues with the guitar levels but I hope whoever miked the drums got an extra beer!

No change needed. With LT1021-10volt the current is 10V/787ohm + 1 mA from ground pin = 13.7mA. One builder increased current to 18mA by changing resistor to 590R. Now I use 590 as well in my mini T2 DHT with Emission Labs tubes and I’m happy.

I mean we all thought that but wanted to wait till you were ready.

This is good. It is about computer components, but the same factors that affect that industry affect a lot of industries. People are going to flip when prices of consumer goods start going up.

I can report that JoaMat's new mini T2 boards are working as designed/intended (apologies for the very untidy photo setup): This is with EH 300b and Amperex 6DJ8 and same filament regulators as JoaMat has shown before. Have only listened to it in mono (which sounded great) since I managed to blow channel nr 2 by re-using a 1N100D that I thought was fine but which wasn't. Lots more current through one of the lt1021's than designed for and it blew after a couple of minutes. Spare parts are on order so expecting to get back to a stereo setup by the end of the week. If you intend to build this, get yourself some 1N100D now. The only place I found with some in stock before next year is TME and it's dwindling fast (was 115 this morning, is 83 this moment).

Remember? Midori was my gateway drink. Manly drinking hard liquor. Cake looks yummy.

Definitely. RB survives thanks to Max's insurmountable talent. McLaren has a bit more than the rest, but Lando seems to be overwhelmed by the responsibility. Very interesting season. Maybe more than the next one, which I don't completely believe is going to be tighter.

This is an absolutely wild one.

"I'm glad you asked me where I'm from. I'm a bilingual illiterate. I can't read in two languages."

I keep my (now nearly 20 year old) Nikon D200 and 300mm F/4 on a lowboy chest in the kitchen, ready for whatever fauna shows up. Mr. Cardinal, being his usual show-off self. The pond froze for a preciously small period of time. Missing from these photos is the excited "roof roof roof!" noises that green sweater dog kept making. The sounds echoed off the ice and trees surrounding the pond. It was quite a scene to behold. Tune in next time for a 2006 logging camp!

Three weeks later, here is the outcome. A single enclosure all-in-one with GRHV and GRLV with high voltage and heater soft-start. The 10M90S is attached to the side wall, and thanks to the large size of the metal, the temp is about 104℉(40 ℃) after 1 hour. The only thing is I made the mistake of the main soft start module(the one on the power outlet), which makes it only functional when you use the back power switch. In this way, I keep the front power switch on all the time to avoid the ripple current. Still have a huge room to be improved. Planning to add a DC power supply for the heater for the DHT version, as well as the flashing soft start indicator.

The pcb's showed up and the "unfuck" mod has been applied. The grill does help tame the top end a little bit and the end result is quite good. Still some irregularities but I'm not bothered enough to spin up a couple of new plates to try and change that. Now would I recommend this mod to anyone? Yup, the Corina sounds like shit in stock form and this totally transforms it to something not quite perfect... but far superior to stock. Now would I recommend anybody actually being crazy enough to do this... no! The plastic discs are really glued in there and getting the shards of plastic out there... well it isn't pleasant work. Some blood was spilled and injuries sustained plus some nasty chemicals used. Now I'll go back to listening to them which I'd never want to do in stock form

This was the first Warren Zevon song I ever heard. In some mate's dorm room in the late '80s -- hardly his best or most productive period. But I remember thinking: "Huh, I should see what else this dude's done." Which was a very good idea.

soren asked for the board with onboard grlv preamp2025g - CADCAM.ZIP preamp2025g.PDF

Pavement’s Spit On A Stranger EP ex.

Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt (1974) https://album.link/xzjmctstnw69b Example: Just admiration of talent....

Nothing more fun than peeking inside a "balanced" preamp to find a dual gang volume control... 🙄

MobLand (2025) - Paramount+ a Guy Ritchie joint, which tells you all you need to know.

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My experience is that the balance servo is very efficient so 50 mV is expected. As for offset – 5K trimmer parallel with 510R resistor reduces highest emitter resistance to roughly 465 ohm which probably is too low. May I suggest replacing R73 (6.2K) with a 10K trimmer and keep R64 (510R) untouched? I have used that for a long time and it works great.