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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,812
    edited August 9
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    Recent excavations have shown that the "giant heads" on Easter Island are actually buried "stone giants" whose heads emerged from the earth..

    Not exactly "recent."
    This was big news 10 years ago, but the scientists actually knew this going back more than 100 years.
    https://explorersweb.com/easter-island-statues-bodies/
    For rig details, see my profile. Nothing here anymore...
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,784
    edited August 9
    Kex wrote: »
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Kex wrote: »
    It’s worth noting for sure… so I’ll just add that something similar happened to my wife in Fresno, of all places.

    She was competing in an equestrian event and was parked at a hotel overnight in our almost 20 year old Mercedes-Benz.

    When she came out next morning, she found a note from a young rider from Palo Alto staying at the same hotel. She had backed into the car in a borrowed pickup truck and pushed it over the cement bump at the end of the space (the ubiquitous things that frequently delineate the end of a space).

    Her dad was a doctor from 🇫🇷 working in the 🇺🇸. He didn’t want to bother the owners of the truck his daughter had borrowed with an insurance claim so he asked us to get a couple of estimates for the repairs and sent us a check for $3,500.*

    Not everyone has lost all sense of decency and community spirit. I know I’ll do the same if I ever make a similar mistake.

    * (Bent trunk lid, damaged bumper cover, bent bodywork behind the bumper etc.)

    Way to once again try to make things all about you…
    I’ve been away for over a week, but this might be the stupidest post I’ve ever read

    Well Sir (or Madam, not trying to gender assign) I take umbrage
    (gawd I love that word)
    at the inference that that is the stupidest post you've ever read ! 😳

    For instance:
    "She was competing in an equestrian event and was parked at a hotel overnight in our almost 20 year old Mercedes-Benz"

    Now, a n'er do well would make some sort of untowards comment like
    "Oh, what size saddle does she wear ?" 🤔
    or
    certainly ungentlemanly inferences regarding parking at a hotel overnight
    "Why didn't she just get a room ?"

    As you can see, some of us Polkies are successful graduates of the "Mr Nightly 'Careful What You Say, That's My Wife !" graduate school.

    I'll now retire to my LazyBoy, saitisfied that, once again, I've been able to bring edification and edumacashun to the masses 🧐


    Sal Palooza
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  • OleBoot
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  • treitz3
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    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,772
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,433
    treitz3 wrote: »
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    Tom

    Oh I know........Jerimiah.....he always had some mighty fine wine!!! :D
    Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2

    Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,433
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    Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2

    Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,784
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    Sal Palooza
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    Sal Palooza
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,784
    Hmmm....that butter sculpture art takes some real skill 🤓

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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,294
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    New "phase plug" design.... o:)

    LOL!! These Hartley drivers are expensive, and can be hard to come by, a guy I work with is sitting on a bunch of them, his whole system is built around them..
    Polk Audio SDA 2.3tl Fully Hot Rodded. 😎

    SVS SB16 X2

    Cary SLP-05/Ultimate Upgrade.
    Cary SA-500.1 ES Amps
    Cary DMS 800PV Network
    OPPO UDP 205/ModWright Modification
    VPI Scout TT / Dynavector 20x2
    Jolida JD9 Fully Modified

    VPI MW-1 Cyclone RCM

    MIT Shotgun 3 cables throughout / Except TT, and PC’s
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,981
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    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,981
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    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,156
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    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,304

    This year in April was the anniversary of IBM Mainframe - celebrating the memorable milestone of 60 years of existence and transformation.

    IBM System/360 Model 65 Mainframe Computer
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    The IBM System/360 was a groundbreaking family of mainframe computers announced on April 7, 1964. Designing the System/360 was an extremely risky "bet-the-company" project for IBM, costing over $5 billion. The platform was initially designed to serve the Apollo project, launched in 1961 by American President John Kennedy. The Apollo project carried out its great mission in 1969 when man set foot on the Moon for the first time. The S/360 was the protagonist of this project, from the construction of the aircraft to monitoring its entire trajectory, from launch to the return of the aircraft and astronauts to Earth.

    Although the project ran into severe problems, especially with the software, it was a huge success, one of the top three business accomplishments of all time.

    System/360 set the direction of the computer industry for decades and popularized features such as the byte, 32-bit words, microcode, and standardized interfaces. The S/360 architecture was so successful that it is still supported by IBM's z/Architecture mainframes.

    Release date March 1965
    Discontinued March 1974
    Memory 128 KB–1 MB Core
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"

    Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
    You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.     Jim Butcher




    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,553
    edited August 10
    Memory 128 KB–1 MB Core
    Just think, the phone in your hand has more processing power by a factor of 10 to 20 times than the computer used to allow man to step foot on the moon. Think about that.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,772
    This is not funny, but is informative as it shows what a teenager thinks a 30 year old looks like.

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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,772
    An what this means is that this woman has to be around 105.


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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,772
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,294
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    Polk Audio SDA 2.3tl Fully Hot Rodded. 😎

    SVS SB16 X2

    Cary SLP-05/Ultimate Upgrade.
    Cary SA-500.1 ES Amps
    Cary DMS 800PV Network
    OPPO UDP 205/ModWright Modification
    VPI Scout TT / Dynavector 20x2
    Jolida JD9 Fully Modified

    VPI MW-1 Cyclone RCM

    MIT Shotgun 3 cables throughout / Except TT, and PC’s
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,294
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    Polk Audio SDA 2.3tl Fully Hot Rodded. 😎

    SVS SB16 X2

    Cary SLP-05/Ultimate Upgrade.
    Cary SA-500.1 ES Amps
    Cary DMS 800PV Network
    OPPO UDP 205/ModWright Modification
    VPI Scout TT / Dynavector 20x2
    Jolida JD9 Fully Modified

    VPI MW-1 Cyclone RCM

    MIT Shotgun 3 cables throughout / Except TT, and PC’s
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,644
    Ah, home B)
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    edited August 11
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    oops... I mean... I like that one, but I actually meant to post this one.
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    (both seen at ASR)
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