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But yea, let's blame the Russians!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/

Like AWS (Amazon Web Services), when CloudFlare makes a big mistake a ton of web sites go down.

Actually I’m on good terms with Danny and he said they have some new gear for us in the next couple weeks. I don’t know what though. They’re super nice people.

The one time I stopped by the Raal booth last LA CanJam they were indeed very nice. No attitude.

@purr1n lol you're confusing RAAL with Abyss. RAAL powers all their gear at meets with RME DACs for heaven sake. They do pay a lot of attention to head-fi but they've been very kind to my requests for loaners, and also very responsive about a recent amp I didn't even buy new, but bought used, They're taking a look at it for free. Hopefully I can get one of the CA headphones from them for a loaner!

Check if Tony's ok

Thinking it was probably this guy: https://44.media.tumblr.com/34291760cebfb86a55f5fcf3413ca62d/tumblr_p1hd8eOBof1spkic4o3_540.gif

Let me into your bedroom and I’ll stop.

@YMO , people who send me texts after 8PM get responses at 3:45 AM.

> 4 Double IPAs = 8 PM bedtime for me.

@crazychile IPAs are for people with no taste

Crypto? Yes, like a basket of hyped penny stocks.

I'm just guessing it is really pop, esp. when folks I know ask my opinion.

Will not comment more b/c I suspect whatever I say will result in the web crawlers picking it up and spamming us with it. But let's just say clear minded me thought it was convincing but amazingly stupid.

Let me come to your house.

sometimes I go to a concert with a headache. Sometimes it cures it!

I was thinking that "Atrium" is a funny name for a headphone. But it turns out that it isn't. :)

I have earned my headache. I’m glad you ended your day without one!

I use a Fifine T669 for work calls. It’s perfect for that. Good bang for the buck, but it’s still a $40 mic.

Razer seiren x was $49.99 on sale in Nov. Pretty solid.

I use the Samson Go for all video meetings and it has been great.

Don't forget the fat ratio of the cat...I have this one fat cat in my house where the plan it make it a Tuesday Dinner.

@BenjaminBore is spot on. Various breeds secret different levels of this protein. My wife and daughter are ridiculously allergic to cats but my daughter desperately wanted one. We found a breed, Siberian, that naturally has exceptionally low amounts of this protein and we have had a cat going on 5 years now without any issues

I'm pretty sure I will have a Siberian too someday. The most amusing cats along with being less allergenic.

It's meeting other cats that I wonder about. Example with sibling cats - went over to a friends, one of the cats was out beside me on the couch for an hour without issue. Then the other cat comes out and within 5 minutes I'm getting noticeable allergy symptoms.

Let it flow

Sandwich is kind of a misnomer. It was a bread from 85C that happened to have a few pieces of chicken on it... all the other bread was "just bread" and I briefly overlooked this on the first 2 bites.

Thank goodness no flows.

Talk about your butt problems with YMO, you have his number.

Amazon Prime Target, it seems!

Track my order...

... currently being stolen from a train

:/

RDR2 VR is getting crazy.

IMO bigger problem is bad policy that let's them get away with it if it's been an ongoing organized thing. Also, why would this not be prosecuted under RICO as it seems to be organized crime...

So... that silver hammer came down upon her head, it seems.

It's made clear to her to not name names lest her fate be like Epstein's.

I guess a naive part of me thinks that if she has any shred of decency left within her or if she suddenly thinks "bUt I nEeD to dIE wiTh A CleAr conCioUS guYS!!!!" she will spill the beans.

Otherwise... actually on 2nd thought, it'd be better if I just stopped talking about this on an audio forum.

1st season could have been better but I enjoyed it regardless. 2nd season was noticibly better IMO with better production value, plot, etc. as well.

Kind of glad the plot deviates slightly while still being good - it wouldn't be as interesting if I were to see the same story over and over and over again.

Hope there aren't too many timelines bouncing around. S01 broke my brain. Rewatching in preparation.

Binged the season on Saturday. Liked it a lot. Better than the first season. More straightforward. I played Witcher 2 and maybe 75% of 3 and read the first book so I am just familiar enough to be really confused on how close to sources it is.

Cause you were the dork who brought it. Backpage for you.

^ i cri now

Elex x Vali 2 v1.1 same same.

Vali 2+ really is the little amp that could.

I was actually listening to the very combo when I saw op. Warmed my pea-pickin' Lil heart.

Thanksgiving 1998 in the Mountain Top Surf Club, Choteau MT ("Clinton slept here, but not with me"): somebody had taken out the critical power pole so the bar was run off a generator on the owner's truck. Couple of outages but otherwise an excellent night featuring great pizza, locals vs visiting hunters vs college kids back home from Missoula and a cowboy one-man band playing Beatles songs in waltz time. Good times!

At least it wasn't 15˚F outside. We've had several "fun" power days.

Glad you got your power back.

I didn't lose anything as I have surge protectors for all of my electronics, but some other stuff in the neighborhood did get damaged.

My stereo needs some tuuubz. Looking at Freya+. I mean it sounds awesome but my gut says get some fucking tubes dude.

Freya+ is excellent. Highly recommended for sure. What’s the rest of your chain?

I posted it here https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/whats-your-chain.8814/#post-287931
Some minor changes like lower crossover due to different position. The shd is doing preamp, dsp, streamer and crossover duties. Will need to sort out some stuff. Since integration is perfect now.

So... When are off to France?

Hopefully next year. Who knows though. Dream is to go and just go around the country and eat (good) food for a month. Ideally I'd even take some cooking lessons but I don't think I can get fluent enough in 1 year.

Wow! My comment was flippant --- but you really are off to France! Great! Hope stuff like covid doesn't stop you doing all that magic stuff.

I think their redundant backups were compromised and bots were mining data or something like that, so they had to shut some stuff
down.

@Azimuth, I think it was far less competent than that.

We have discovered that three different public-facing-products all ran on the same system. We then heard that even stuff like office-door security locks were affected because they ran on the same system too. Who designs systems like that? Competent IT folk? Or... Just my hunch... a megalomaniac boss who is not as clever as he thinks.

... Facebook is his hammer and the whole world looks like nails.

Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

The museum with more art stored in closets than many others have on display :)

I flew out of St Petersburg once. I will always regret not planning a day to see the city. We just did a driving tour in the light of late night/early morning.