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Amazon says Mike should have his package by 12/23. Now, if the lights would stop flickering he might get another package some time next week as well.

In order to help Dr. Wood along my latest acquisitions are: and

Last week's Chuck.

Well, I wouldn't say the winner is better really, just a bit more subdued so it made a better card. I love that picture and lobbied for it to be the card. There's a whole series of them with some pretty funny ones in it. I'll upload more, assuming the power stays on, the lights just started dancing again. And not in a "damn that was some good whiskey" type of way.

You're definitely not wrong there Colin.

Thanks, she is a cutie. And yes, those are bling Music Posts. I had them and figured I might as well use them.

Well, as my west coast counsel I do count on your advice regarding these things. redlamdawhatever should consider this his first and only warning. If I get so much as a sniff of asshatery from him I'll whack him with the banstick so fast he won't know what hit him. (i wish that were my smiley)

You've got that backwards, it's reks that let's us stay.

I'm fairly certain behavior like that won't be tolerated here.

Stick around awhile and avoid the asshat moniker and you'll find you've only just scraped the surface.

Thanks Mike, that was the runner-up for the Xmas card.

I actually did a bit of assembly last night by flashlight during one of the outages.

Not in my book.

Further research indicates that these might have been a special order since the website has nothing on them. I got a data sheet ASC and these are "NON-INDUCTIVE WOUND METALLIZED POLYPROPYLENE" for whatever that's worth.

Ok, ok, ok, so I should be working on other stuff but I made an interesting discovery this weekend. When the power is off, you can still use a battery powered drill and hand operated tools like chassis punches and such. So, with that in mind I figured the chassis fab on the simpleSE was about the only thing that I could actually get some work done on. You should have seen the look on Lily's face when she found out I was working on it again, oh wait, I got it on film... Anyway, so I got 99% of the chassis fab done this weekend and decided tonight, as the lights started to go on and off again that I'd install everything and see what the results looked like. I'm pretty happy with how things came out, there are a few things I'd love to have done better but with the tubes installed you'll never see them. Shot From Front Shot From Back And just a couple quick shots of the capacitors that I got in today, which literally dwarf the caps that I'm using on the Simple. The caps on the simple are roughly the size of a can of Coke for real world scale. Simple Cap on Left, Big Dog Cap on Right. Oh That's Right, they have built in mounting hardware! Not sure when I'll get to temp wire the Simple and test it out since I still plan on painting the chassis to cover at least some of my sins of fabrication. Maybe this weekend if mother nature doesn't decide to stick it to me again.

I'm watching the power flicker on and off. It just went out for 15 minutes and then came back on, who knows what will happen next. All I know is that this show sucks.

Dude, return the 16d's if you can. I've got a huge (20# or more) box in the basement. I've probably got some other stuff that you can use but we'll discuss that via PM.

FYI - avoid buy.com like the plague. I just spent a half hour on hold trying to find out where the hell the digital picture frame that I ordered two weeks ago is (paid for 3 day shipping no less). Turns out it was back ordered but they didn't send out email notices because they were still looking for a vendor to fill the order. Then they proceeded to bend me over and tell me that refunding my canceled order will take an additional 3 to 5 business days. So I canceled and filed a paypal dispute just to drive the point home that I don't appreciate the BS. Grr f'ing grr.

REPOST (although the original was no longer functional)

Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer

While Mike would prefer it if I had shipped him the beta22 there is another package headed his way.

Yeah, mine is a C2D version. I don't have a Duet to hook up so I can't do any direct comparison for you.

The label on mine says: GLY513 600MFD +/- 10% 500 VDC 0446 And specifically states that it was manufactured in the USA. But for what I paid I'm sure they'll be just fine. What is hilarious is that evidently the ebay seller was running a buy 2 get 1 free special so when I ordered 4 I got 6. Maybe I'll use 2 of them in a CMoy or something.

In my opinion, and I'm pretty picky, the Macbook fans aren't loud at all even when fully spun up. I game on my Macbook (to the extent possible) and when it winds up it's still barely audible without headphones on. With even open headphones on I can't hear a thing.

You'd best bring your flashlight if recent history is any indicator.