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mhardy6647 wrote: »soundfreak1 wrote: »I can see some verbal malfunctions with that name, especial when excited. LOL toughsheets
They'll have great cheers.
When I was in college there was an intramural
softball team called the Nads.
Folks would cheer 'em on:
"Go Nads! GO NADS!"
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It's a very good movie -- and Big T's second best 'OO album, I'd opine (after Who's Next).
Sting was... pretty darned good as the Ace Face.
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In other news -- our son tipped me off last week on a very good sale price from Home Despot on a Milwaukee M18 7-1/4" circular saw with a 5 amp-hour battery (less than half 'list price')... so I ordered one. Got it today.
(I am heavily invested in the M18 ecosystem already
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I have a beautiful old Craftsman circular saw that belonged to my father-in-law. The saw still works perfectly, but... The only problem with it is that will only take up to a 7-inch blade -- a 7-1/4" blade won't fit.
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I like the M-18 the smaller scale M-12 (IIRC)gear. I like that C-saw Doc, those 5amp hour bat'rees are not inexpensive!
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But worth it. At least for my DeWalt stuff. It lasts much longer on a single charge. Like, much longer. They aren't cheap though....you are definitely right about that.
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. ~ -
My son, son-in-law, and I have built up an ecosystem of Milwaukee tools. The former, of course, lives too far away for hot swapping
but we co-mingle resources when we're together projecting. The latter and I pool batteries and tools when duty calls; it's a win-win.
'Twas our son-in-law who started it by picking up a Milwaukee 18V cordless drill at a pawnshop in Keene, NH years ago. That drill (and its original battery) live at my house now, and still work fine.
Indeed, our son-in-law managed to get a very short screwdriver bit caught in a 1/4" impact driver. He and I tried to extract it, to no avail. He took it to various resources, including a machinist who advised him to send it back to the mfgr for repair
Our S-i-L kind of gave up at that point and bought another one (and also a larger Milwaukee impact driver, which is a force of nature, BTW). He passed the 1/4 incher along to me.
So... yeah...I put it in the basement. I'd look at it sometimes, thinking there's gotta be a way to extract that $@# bit. The challenge was purchase -- it was hard to get a grip on the little bit of the bit that protruded from the chuck.
June 2020. COVID-times. I was gonna cut the grass, but the weather was bad, so I was in full-on puttering mode. I was in the basement and I looked at the small impact tool -- and I had a thought.
(see below)
The power of a (small) Vice Grip comes through!
The trick was... finding my pair of small Vice Grips. I had been been looking for them... and that day (28 June, according to the email I sent to my S-i-L) I managed to locate them... in (of course) my tool chest!
The Power of Positive Puttering. The impact tool is alive and well.
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Gulf Shores And Orange Beach
Dubbed Redneck Riviera by Alabama & Oakland Raiders QB Kenny Stabler.
Setting the Record Straight
I have noticed several references in the media lately where the entire Gulf Coast beach stretching from Panama City Florida to Gulf Shores Alabama was referred to as the Redneck Riviera.
Wrong! I know this area quite well venturing from Panama City Beach Florida to Gulf Shores Beach Alabama and beyond to Dauphin Island Alabama where I saw the ocean (Gulf of Mexico really) and discovered an ocean beach for the first time at age 10-12.
Vacationed with family on beaches of Panama City Florida year after year. Went to Destin Florida, the fishing village, many times with my father and other family members to go deep sea fishing when there were only 2-3 motels exclusively for "fisherman". Still going to all these places after all the years but now with droves of people and massive density of beach properties.
In the past, this bar on the Florida and Alabama state lines always separated the more upscale Florida part of the Gulf Coast beaches from the down home Alabama beaches. The Alabama beaches are the most fun now.
Who would really want to get into this mess?
"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
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saw this at hifihaven -- pretty much no matter how you look at it, it's kind of troubling...
sort of like baby oil...?
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Well, today (10 June) Google's splash graphic honors scones. I thought it was to hono(u)r National Scone Day. There is a National Scone Day, of course (at least in the UK) -- but it was on 30 May! Perhaps (???) this explains why these two scones are eyeing each other so warily...
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Brian
One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM -
Some of these speedbumps are overkill.
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WOW!!!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."
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No doubt!
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. ~ -
Supposedly happened in Taiwan sometime in 2010. Crazy.
Brian
One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM -
mhardy6647 wrote: »Well, today (10 June) Google's splash graphic honors scones. I thought it was to hono(u)r National Scone Day. There is a National Scone Day, of course (at least in the UK) -- but it was on 30 May! Perhaps (???) this explains why these two scones are eyeing each other so warily...
They're kind of funny looking scones, too... no wonder they look so suspicious...
They certainly are strange looking scones (pr. scones or scons, you decide) as they do not look to be cut
in half. The wary looks are probably because the guy on the left us a Devon scone (cream then jam) and the guy on the right is a Cornwall scone (jam then cream). -
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Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons
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Brian
One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM -
Saw this Someplace Else...
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That's a pimped out mower that will never see a day of actual duty.
City Boys make me laugh.
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. ~ -
Looks like it belongs at a marina with those boat colors.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 -
mhardy6647 wrote: »
... and, for some reason this one made me think of @Jstas
(despite the fact that it is resolutely not flammulated)
I got the same impression, but it needs to lose the candy@ss blue paint and add in some flames & skulls.
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Looks like it belongs at a marina with those boat colors.
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Could be a 1950's themed resto-mod...
The colors look Mopar.
The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
indeed, akin to this Maggotbox Magnavox console amp.
Someone on audioasylum "did" this one. He also did another one in turquoise and white which would 'match' that zero-turn mower nicely -- but I don't think I saved a picture of that amplifier.
