Craig Sawyers

This is how Guinness used to do it up to 60-odd years ago. The only machine task was trimming the length of the staves first. At the time, Guinness employed 200 coopers (who served an apprenticeship of 7 years) maintaining the stock of 250,000 barrels.

Is it any wonder that Norse mythology is all to do with fire and ice?

Audiophilia 6 - cinephobia 6

Projector in the ceiling and a tiny 6' screen that comes down. With that seating and whacky speaker set up you really want a MUCH bigger screen.

For those with a home cinema

That is so sad. RIP Mike.

Happy birthday!

I use Sophos. Paid for licence that covers three machines - I buy it in 3-year chunks. Been using it for nearly 20 years; industrial grade. https://www.sophos.com/en-us.aspx .

My collection of leads somehow never looks like this

Have a great one Justin - happy birthday!

Hope you had a great day, Matt!

Have a great one, Ari!

Yup - cut and pasted from head-fi http://www.head-fi.org/t/807614/need-recommendation-for-earbuds#post_12568046

Blimey. RIP Tomita.

Have a truly great one Shelly!

Happy birthday!

This!

RIP Harry Kroto, Nobel prizewinner for carbon-60 "buckyball" fullerenes, at 76.

And what did your partner say about that then

Brubeck - X3! Take 5 was actually composed by Paul Desmond, the Quartet's saxophonist.

I'll have to check that my router does not have a grandfather clock

That is a watch made for Marie Antoinette. Took 45 years to build from 1782 to 1827 at which point Antoinette had been 34 years dead from the Guillotine. The work was partly done by the original Breguet, and finished by his son after his death. There are currently two of them. The original was stolen, and Breuget (still in business!) made a duplicate, which even with the original drawings took them three years to build. Then the original was recovered - and is currently insured for $30m. One of the most famous watches in existence, and a thing of real beauty - particularly when you consider it was completed nearly two centuries ago.

Miss Atomic Bomb 1957

Nice looking set up. Quad power amps - don't recognise the deck - a Linn? And what is the pile of stuff behind the left speaker? Sub amp and mains regenerator?