Craig Sawyers

I've done the falling asleep thing too, with much more inedible consequences. I then faced around an hour of cleaning the carbonised mess off the bottom of the pot.

Bloodhound LSR hits 461mph on just the jet engine. Next is to add the two rockets that will take it from there to 1000mph. Bloody amazing how quickly it gets to speed (and back down to rest too). The driver, Andy Green, is a fighter pilot, and was the guy who took Thrust SSC to beyond the speed of sound in 1997. Bloody awesome!

I'm a Brit, so I had to look this up. And suddenly Voltron's comment made perfect sense

In spite of being convicted as a cocaine trafficker (twice!), he was responsible for a long string of iconic films in his roles as movie mogul and producer. RIP Robert Evans, a real character.

The news in the UK shows how bad this is. Looks totally insane. Keep safe all of you in the general area of this firestorm.

Carry On Brexit - ha ha ha!

That is one outrageous system - love it! The JBL one with the mega-deck that is

Four . Why four??

A question for the few who might have an original fried-egg-temperature-case original Stax T2 - is there a problem with the battery trimmers in that?

Well, open baffles are superb (I have Linkwitz LX521's) but those above are far too close to the wall - they need to be 4 to 6 feet from the back wall. In fact Bastanis website shows their latest offering (Sagarmatha duo) about that distance in front of a curtained wall (which will tend to absorb rear radiation)

Happy birthday!

Na na na na na BatFord. Love it.

FWIW I have the same problem with the 6DJ8 telflon sockets on my original Gilmore T2 Clone. Like you, I must get around to sorting it out more permanently than just jiggling the tubes until it behaves. The power tube sockets have been just fine though.

That statistic is quite correct. Not just London, but the entire UK is the most surveilled on the planet after China. I have no clear idea why.

Happy birthday Dusty!

Happy birthday Peter!

Have a great one! Happy birthday

Oh *that* chair! I hadn't even seen that one in the first picture. Must change my specs ??

The first picture (if you look at the pattern of the carpet) shows the chair is absolutely on axis between the speakers. The second photo's angle gives a deceptive perspective.

O think it is an AC regenerator for the turntable motor. The variac is used to set the voltage. I think that the knob at the bottom is a frequency switch to set the motor speed (45/33/78). Looks homebrew.

This is long, but fascinating. A serious Scottish rock scrambler going up Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis. This is Grade 3 - the highest grade, with some spectacular exposure.

The infamous Edsel is a bit of a classic car now. Typically $20k+ in good condition.

All you need is a tall listening chair

Because of the power intensity of data centres, and the cost of noisy air conditioners for cooling them, there are very serious studies to build them in the bottom of lakes and the sea - the water is cold and becomes the cooling. Which removes the air conditioning entirely. And makes them quiet. And inherently secure too.

Ginger Baker in full flight in 2011 with an 8 minute drum solo in "Toad".He was a mere 73 at the time....