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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,504
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    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    So -- of course I won't know for sure until tonight -- I'm thinkin' that last night was peak firefly in the Upper Valley. :)

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    As usual, the piccies don't quite do justice to the display we were treated to last night. :|
    I may have better photos that I haven't gotten through yet. I did take a bunch. :#

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,300
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    2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,123
    Well, I guess there is a bright side to a tampon shortage, huh?

    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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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,949
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,598
    I have to admit the firefly pics are really cool Doc! We don't have them here. One thing I miss about rural Iowa is the warm summer rains, thunderstorms and fireflies.
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    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    edited June 2022
    one more from last night :) It was very windy last night. Not so many flittin' around. Probably past the peak now -- we'll see what tonight brings.

    Longer exposure at large aperture -- the focus last night was a bit "off" :/

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    That cluster of light near the center of the image is in our raspberry patch. :)

    I love seeing 'em and it's fun and somewhat challenging to photograph them, too.
    The enzyme system ("luciferase") that powers their light converts biochemical energy (from adenosine triphosphate, the fuel that cells use for energy) to light. Seliger (who was one of my profs) & McElroy at Hopkins sorted out the biochemistry in the 'sixties. Today, lucifease is used as a tool in molecular biology. It's easy to find things if they light up as part of the assay! :)



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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    Bonus etymology aside about entomology ;)

    The word/name Lucifer (Rolling Stones' song notwithstanding) means bringer of light.
    B)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    speaking of light

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    (as seen @ ASR)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    Funky COE truck from the 'fiddys. :)

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    source: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/uncategorized/truckstop-classic-peterbilt-451-cab-over-engine-and-sleeper-over-cab/
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  • NotaSuv
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  • Milito
    Milito Posts: 1,960
    One of my favorite bumper stickers. "Old truckers never die, they just get a new Peterbilt."

    I sold them for 3 years in the mid to late 90's. I don't know what the engines put out now as far as horsepower and torque, but the big Cat engines back then put out 550 hp and a 1850ibs of torque rating. They had a 18 speed dual overdrive trans in them. Lots of fun to spec out a truck for a customer on the computer program we had back then. Lots of choices to spec the truck out to meet the customer's needs. I had to have a CDL to sell them.

    The top of the line Pete's road very nice for a truck too. I hate to think how much they cost now. Independent drivers would finance one back then and have a payment of over $2,000 a month.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,123
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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
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    OleBoot wrote: »
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    Sometimes ya sees a picture, and ya sez to yerself, "Self, there's a backstory of some sort to this."
    B)
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,547
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    "Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow


    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    daddyjt wrote: »
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    I guess the corollary question is: Do they have a Lizzie Borden Signature Model?
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,772
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    OleBoot wrote: »
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    Sometimes ya sees a picture, and ya sez to yerself, "Self, there's a backstory of some sort to this."
    B)

    Grandma dies, house is cleared out, junk put in trash, trash goes to landfill, seagull gets dentures from landfill. Or, it's photoshopped.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    OleBoot wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    OleBoot wrote: »
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    Sometimes ya sees a picture, and ya sez to yerself, "Self, there's a backstory of some sort to this."
    B)

    Grandma dies, house is cleared out, junk put in trash, trash goes to landfill, seagull gets dentures from landfill. Or, it's photoshopped.

    ... or a guy who normally wears an upper plate has a tasty, juicy hamburger -- but a standoff has developed.
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,949
    Mark on a scale of 1-10 how stoned are you right now?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    Clipdat wrote: »
    Mark on a scale of 1-10 how stoned are you right now?

    What?
    Dude...

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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,949
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    exaclty. B)
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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,581
    Another Caucasian, Bob.
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