Craig Sawyers

When your life is under threat, you'd better be careful what you grab

113 confirmed dead, looks to increase. 4000 injured, looks to increase. Estimated to be around 1/3 the explosive power of Hiroshima. Ammonium nitrate storage facility, three thousand tons of the stuff. I'm almost shaking having watched that on the BBC news. RIP everyone in Beirut It has destroyed whole swathes of the city.

Just as Nate said! Happy birthday chief - have a truly great one!!

Cream's first gig in 1966. In some poky club in Manchester. Bruce on left, Baker of course on drums, and an impossibly young looking Clapton on right. And in 2011, Baker in full flight in Toad

Happy birthday!

That, Nate, is some fancy pedalling.

Or The Beast with a thousand FET's. A 50W amplifier comprising J74/k170 cells. 2352 of them. Pass is nothing short of a nutter. http://www.firstwatt.com/pdf/art_beast.pdf

And then there is El-Pipo. Which he combined with the above KleinHorns (small [!!] horns). http://www.firstwatt.com/pdf/art_elpipeo.pdf The best sentence in that article is "Funny things happen when your speakers are flat to 13Hz. You have to be careful about your tone arm, your windows, your neighbors, and your bowels"

Happy birthday!!

Wow - a Hollywood legend eventually goes. RIP Olivia de Havilland. 104 is not an unreasonable age to go; born half way through the First World War.

Because Nelson Pass is a bit of a nutter with building stuff. He apparently has a big house.

That is way too young. RIP Grant.

That is a thing of beauty. My only concern is - is it stiff enough? It would seem to be prone to lateral bending if pedaled hard.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday baker headphone man!

Alternatively, Sigourney Weaver in the UK comedy series Doc Martin. There are no aliens...

I think you could get away with that sort of shenanigans to automatically shoot an intruder in the 1880's. I was amused, though, to read in the link above that "The Brineys and Katko then joined together in a lawsuit against the neighbor..."

I thought the revolver/rodent trap was spoof - so I looked it up on the US patent office website. It isn't. It also says that it can be used to automatically shoot burglars. Revolver.pdf or any other things

OK - I sprung for a Chinese one from an eBay seller for sixty quid and free shipping. We'll see. It'll take a couple of weeks to get here. Chinese can often be quite good with what they say it is worth on the customs form, so it sneaks past customs.

The Entech meter has of course been improved upon by the Chinese https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07NY21XG2?pf_rd_r=1BCER1ZTYCX3V67DZW7G&pf_rd_p=e632fea2-678f-4848-9a97-bcecda59cb4e . There is an image of the circuit board; trivial it is not. At least the Chinese one shows a value in millivolts of noise, and does not have a random knob. So there is at least a pretense of it being an objective measurement rather than Entech's random number. Looking further it covers 10kHz to 10MHz, much wider than Entech's, and is multi-standard - so you can plug it into both 120V 60Hz and 240V 50Hz.

I'm a bit skeptical about the Entech meters, and what they are actually measuring. I have heard it said that they look in the band 300kHz to 700kHz, so the am medium wave radio band. Whether that is representative of problems in audio is debatable. After all audio gear cheerfully picks up 800+ MHz from mobile phones, Monster Cable had a variant of the Entech meter that they provided to their cable and conditioner outlets so that a sales person could demonstrate how good the product was. Same as Shunyata do now. I'm trying to buy one just out of curiousity. If I snag one for not much, I'll do some tests (oh and probably take the back off to find out what is in there...).

Well that is just weird. Almost as weird as the Portsmouth Sinfonia