The Canadian province of Ontario is governed by corrupt and insanely incompetent morons (our premier used to deal hash and related products with his brother out of the trunk of their car). He campaigned on bringing the price of beer down to a "buck a bottle!" (how he could force that, no one...

I mentioned my inkling of a plan to my wife last evening: <slight look of horror> "You're not going to do THAT on a work night, are you? That's a vacation project!" Or a weekend project...🤔. Now, if I do this, I'll have no DAC that's comparable to the Gumby for my headphone stack in my bright...

I've been known to stop traffic on both lanes of a busy commuter road more than once to rescue an errant turtle who just HAD to get to the other side.

Ah, headphones. I have 4 decent pairs, but I'd also like to eventually go much higher end. I'd have to make a trek to Toronto to audition them, but even then It wouldn't be with my audio equipment unless I could arrange to take some of my stack with me. I wonder which YGGY iteration sounds best...

I haven't, and the Kara isn't on my radar. I wanted the Freya specifically for its tubey goodness, and it's nice to have the flexibility to switch modes, especially with some modern musical production that sounds more listenable (to my ears) sans tubes. Tube mode is engaged well over 90% of the...

What is this "sub out" of which you speak? In my world, one acquires and accumulates (gear for audio, astronomy, photography; books, animal beds, garden plants) until the walls explode or a larger accommodation is found. 🙃 Seriously, the Gumby utterly smokes destroys every D/S DAC I've tried...

My Freya N Pre and Gumby will have to be pried from my cold, dead hands. Seriously, the Freya with certain tubes has been (to use an over-used cliché) game changing. I can't imagine a system without either the Freya or Gumby. I'm sorely tempted to move most of my headphone stack components down...

I was introduced to his "Spectrum" album in the 80's by a friend who also introduced me to Frank Zappa and John McLaughlin/Mahavishnu Orchestra. My home village, now a major golf destination, was fairly culturally isolated back in the day, especially musically. He came from New York City with...

I'll check it out, having also been on a bit of a fusion spree. Billy Cobham has been getting lots of headphone-time.

Thanks for posting this. I'm listening to the 3-disc set and enjoying reading some more Tolkien after a wonderful afternoon's storm chase. I'm a huge fan of Blades and McBride, and I'm just dipping my toes into Corea's music.

a quarter or so teaspoon of baking powder whisked in will make them very light and fluffy.

Mine is usually at 125, with occasional spikes to 129-132 (measured with a calibrated Fluke 287 multimeter), and lows in the air-conditioning season of 119.

Just this item that popped up in my news feeds: "NASA completed a thorough analysis of recent space weather activity and determined it posed no risk to the crew aboard the International Space Station and no additional precautionary measures are needed".

Here are a handful from last evening's aurora, some from the Lake Huron shore, a couple from near my home. Through excitement or sheer stupidity, my camera with the better red sensitivity was out of focus for almost the entire night. So many lost shots... Luckily I had a second camera and my...

Interesting, and thanks for this. I have 4 of the GE 5 star 5670's and 5670 adapters for my Freya N. I should give them a try in there sometime soon.

Thanks for the info - much appreciated. I'll keep Backyard Observatories in mind. Wayne Parker's SkyShed company is not far from me (anyone remember Canadian 80's hit-makers Glass Tiger? Wayne's the bass player). Their larger SkyShed Pod domes have my eye. They now only sell the plans for...

Nice personal and club observatory! I'm a bit of an observatory research junkie these days - I'm in the early planning stages of my own observatory. Next month I'm picking up a Celestron 9.25 CPC Deluxe fully kitted out for imaging (HyperStar, Atik Camera, etc.), a 152mm APM refractor, a pile of...

Beautiful scope, one of Roland’s finest! I’m still kicking myself for passing on an AP 152mm a decade or more ago. I still have my AP 102mm.

Whaaaaaat?? Producer Steve Albini died. He produced many of my favourite albums from the 90's. 61. Way too young. I've had 3 former colleagues and an old friend pass away in the past 4 months, all 61. I'm not too far off from that age myself 👀...

My Mac and Linux systems get Midnight Commander installed first thing. it's very similar to Total Commander except it runs in a terminal window, with mouse support.

*sigh*. My top-trim Honda Passport has, at a rough count, 78 buttons and switches, many things can be done remotely via a phone app, has an extensive diagnostics menu if you're into that sort of thing, and is a rolling many-networked-microcomputers (read: many points of potential failure) thing...

For an insanely configurable and powerful Explorer replacement, take a look at Directory Opus. One of the first things I do after I install it is set dual-pane as the default. It got its start on the Amiga 30+ years ago. It's not free (nor inexpensive), but I won't use any other file manager on...

I was issued the first Mac luggable as my work PC at the university in the early 90’s. I loved that little machine.

I currently have a paltry 20Tb in my 8-bay Synology NAS. I should bump it up to 200+ Tb 🤔

I installed BSD on one of my 2 ~2017 vintage laptops recently just for something new. It works fine, all devices work properly, though the video is a little laggy when scrolling a webpage. Not a big deal. As for operating systems, I still have fond memories of NeXTSTEP from the 1990s. I had...