n_maher

Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

Happy Birthday, Jeffy!

Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme

Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps

For the record, I like your way with words. Second, I like Glass Candy. There's something Goldfrappy about them which is not at all a bad thing.

Rolling with Tidal Hifi on the Macbook today fed thru the Ayre. Sounds pretty great. A stable setup will start being assembled today and hopefully get this party started right.

Happy Birthday!

Attempted a new kind of social distancing, rode the new-to-me Cannodale flat out (for me anyway to the coast and back. Very happy with the effort. Early season Zwifting has paid off.

Thanks for posting that, I'm all over $4 to get me thru July.

Thanks for the input Nums. I'm wading into this pool before diving in.

That's sort of a defining characteristic of the Isle of Man. But I'm with you, choose your where you spectate from carefully. The bikes top 200mph on the course and as you saw in that video, cars top 170. Just insane for public roads.

You have such a way with words, Stretch.

^^^ maybe their beans aren't half bad, but I can't drink the store brewed stuff anymore. I'd rather go without. And their donuts are dead to me at this point. @Aura- interesting that you enjoy the Burundi. I love lime everything, except evidently coffee that inspires tasting notes related to lime. I find the Burundi undrinkable. I've tried playing around a bit with grind size and brew times to extract more or less flavor and it just hits a bad note with me. If you want a 1/4lb of it let me know and I'll try to send it your way. Seems a shame to chuck it.

Thanks for the opinions, guys. I need to look at the respective lists of artists and start a trial or two. I'm with you Jeff, where I just want stuff to work and not be fiddly. I've got enough of that in my life.

I'll likely give a trial a shot as soon as I can get the basics of the front end setup. My home office has been thrown into chaos as a result of full time WFH and I was unprepared for the acceleration.

Let's see if name dropping drags him to this thread, otherwise I'll hunt down New Guy on the interwebs and see what's what.

The DAC question is largely (completely) solved with the Ayre QB-9, which i'm in the process of trying to see if I want to upgrade to Twenty status. If I make that kind of investment (~$1500) I can't imagine replacing it pretty much ever. I'll have a look at the Best Buy website to see if that's enough of a savings to justify, or whether or not I just need to accept parking a laptop permanently on the desktop to serve as the "bridge". I admit that I never really have bothered to look at subscription services like Tidal, but at $1k for a front end like the Mac Mini would cover a lot of months (looks like $20 for high-res subscription).

Sorry for your loss, Brent, and thanks for giving ZoeBelle a great home.

^^^^^ Very nice!

Outstanding Al and Steve, if you have any interest in making a little label or tag to go on the under side of the table to commemorate the project I have some cherry in the shop and the laser and/or CNC router in the garage. Maybe not for this project, but any time you want, just drop a message. Which reminds me, I've still got a package to send your way Al...

The Aged & Ore glasses have become my go-tos. They are perfect for smaller cocktails and neat sipping. I really enjoy the perfectly sized ice balls too.

Finished work early enough to hit the local trails. They are riding nice but we've gotten a lot of rain lately so they're a bit sloppy in parts.

I'd wager that @spritzer has measure the bias voltage, or that Gilmore has.

Lily still loves cooking shows and recently has been bugging me to have a cake-off with her. It was my turn this weekend to make my cake for judging. She helped me in preparation for making her cake next weekend. It's a chocolate cake with dark chocolate frost and chocolate ganache and raspberry filling between each of the three layers of cake, topped with more frost and ganache. It was fun to make, I'll report back with how. it tastes later. Maybe not professional grade, but at least the flour that I buy at the grocery store is going to good use. I rode 30 miles to prepare for the fact that this cake is allegedly nearly 1000cal/slice. EDIT - not sure I ever posted a "complete" picture of the kitchen, if not, this gives you a good idea of what it looks like now.