Yeowzer!
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Cheers y’all. May the winds of 2022 be at your back…and not strong enough to blow dirt onto your nice gear.
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@Dirk I got busy with work stuff. Even though its a work from home gig, it’s kept me away from my rig. That plus my was here for a month from Canada. Then a friend of my Son’s visited for a week.
My rig is in a bit of a state of flux at the moment. I’ve almost got these Orchard Audio Ultra printed circuits stuffed with all their tiny surface mount parts complete and then two chips I need to finish the job are not in stock (one maybe tomorrow - ?). This chip shortage is real. These are usually in stock devices.
Then I place an RFQ at a dodgy Chinese outfit and they claim stock but are charging triple what the devices are worth ! No thanks, I’ll wait it out.
Anyways, all the best in 2022 Dirk. Thanks for opening up my ears this to music I’d either never heard of or taken a chance on.
Joe
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Great news. Cheers, Joe.
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Happy New Year to every one and your loved ones. Let’s count our blessings and enjoy our systems and the music, especially when things get rough.
Thanks to PS Audio for hosting us.
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Indeed. Thanks to @Elk to the amazing and considerate moderator for maintaining our harmony. Thanks to our educators @Paul , @tedsmith , @rower30. Thanks to our supporter-in-chief @jamesh. Thanks to all members and participants. You have made 2021 a worthwhile year for many. May you always enjoy good health, be happy and may your wishes be fulfilled in 2022.
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This is an amazing place. It is a wonderful confluence of interesting, thoughtful people.
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Hi @michael-denmark, hope you are doing fine. We had a great vacation in Denmark this year. Nice country and nice people.
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Hippy Gnu Ear all!
Jeff & the 5 pound hound.
I AM Canadian but Jeff & the 2.268 kilogram hound just doesn’t have the right ring to it.
This year’s deeeep thoughts excerpts by pik… (my G rated ones)
Santa goes to people’s house ONCE a year.
AND he waits til they are sleeping.
And ONLY if he deems that they’ve been ‘good’ enough to merit his visit.
I really ought to strive to heighten my social standards to that level…
Last year I made a New Year’s resolution to limit myself to ONE drink per day. Seems I’m approximately five and a half years ahead of schedule…
Life Rule #32: Real friends don’t let friends drink and Karaoke.
Some mornings it is all you can do just to get all ten galldang toes THRU the leg holes of your frikkin UNDERWEAR! It’s like the leg holes are the goal posts, your foot has the ball but all your toes are BLOCKERS! And there’s most definitely some hopping going on in this game.
Ageing Joy # 207b. Science states that the fastest growing things on earth are Bacillus Stearothermophilus and bamboo; some species which can grow up to 91cm (35”) per day which is almost 4cm (1.5”) per hour. However, in fact, the fastest growing thing on earth is ACTUALLY ear hair in men over 50.
When speaking to your dog, everything MUST be repeated at least twice. “Who’s a good boy, WHO’S a GOOD boy?” With the one exception: When you pet stretches, you are absolutely obligated to blurt out – but only once – “BIIIIIIG Stretch!”
Ageing Joy # 74d. When you wake up in your 20s with an odd pain somewhere in your body, you stretch it off, scratch and carry on with your day forgetting it ever happened by the time you paste up your toothbrush. You wake up on your 50s with an odd pain somewhere in your body, you just lay there in bed planning out your last wishes and final arrangements.
Constant Updates. I went to work yesterday, by the time I updated my PCs, alarm, lights, outlets, phones, mobile, radios, electronics testers, watch, tablets, appliances, cooking devices, browsers and email – it was time to go home.
I was eleven before I realized my name wasn’t Goddammit. “Come here Goddammit!” “Where’s your sister Goddammit?” Take the dog for a walk Goddammit!” “GodDAMMIT – who left the door open???” Mind you I also thought Kermit’s name was Kermithy Frog. I still think Kermithy would be a real swell name. G’off - quit laughing at me!
The tensile strength of a Q-Tip. I am positive that these buggers are engineered so that one fuzzed end will adhere to a mate and the two swab tips will bind together just long enough to exit the box, cross the counter and once there is a clear path to the floor, they will lose all clingability and one will drop. Everydangtime!
Why is it that all the great & hot actors I’ve followed throughout the years are now starting to play people MY age?
The ‘inability to accept your hair loss ponytail’ guy. Jeez H man, you have a 1.3mm long piglet-tail wrapped in one of those mini elastic bands used to bound kids’ upper and lower braces. You’ve skillfully twisted seven rubber band loops around those three teeny microscopic wisps of hair behind your head. The elastic loops are LONGER than the locks that you were somehow able to collect into a micro group. Now, it looks like you HAD a ponytail, but the tensile grip strength of the entire hair braid/rubber band assembly just let go but the elastic managed to snare a desperate hold right at the end of your locks before shooting across the room. From any distance beyond 3.5 inches away, it looks like you have male pattern baldness AND a piece of gum stuck to the back of your head. For pride’s sake, just let it go! You know what they say about the length of a man’s ponytail don’t you?
Life Rule #104. A washing machine is manmade device that will consume large quantities of water to take articles of clothing and turn them inside out. The dryer is manmade device that will consume large quantities of hydro electricity to calculate the amount of socks inserted, choose one to three matching pairs and vanish a single sock from each pair. Sometimes permanently, sometimes for an undetermined length of time where one may reappear in a subsequent load. Though this will often merely be a trade off for yet another different hostage sock. The whole sock disappearance phenomenon is really quite remarkable considering the exertion I have to exude to break the static bond that binds those little buggers together.
Food choices throughout the day. 2:15 PM thoughts: I’m going to make a kale salad with tomatoes, quinoa and olive oil, some fresh salmon and some berries for dessert. 6:45 after two beer: I need to inhale something with white bread and a buttload of processed meat and CHEESE on it…
Uncomfortable Facts People Aren’t Supposed to Talk About # 17: Fat people can get WAYYY more tattoos. And if you get a tat on your shoulder you MUST wear a sleeveless shirt. Always. Any season. Winter or summer. Any weather.
Camping Rules: If you’ve decided to go camping on an arbitrary weekend, but when that date arrives and the forecast calls for freezing rain, hail, sleet, snow, tornados, earthquakes, typhoons, acid rain, tsunamis and an earth bound asteroid strike in your area – you cannot change your plan –you MUST STILL go camping!
Life Rule # 714: A tap is a device that designed to spray water at velocity barely enough to remove a crumb from plate, but if it finds the path of a spoon it will suddenly revert to a fire hose and stream water up at your shirt with approximately eleven thousand PSI.
I preferred A.I. a bit better when it was still learning speech recognition:
Me: “Alexa – remind me to be more of a leader; more risky, and to go to the gym. And my new motto is: Unwind!”
Alexa: “I’ve added a litre of Whiskey and Gin to your shopping list. And a new bottle of Wine.”
Life Rule # 72: Nobody warned me about the ridiculously vast amount of time I would have to relinquish coughing and clearing my throat strictly due to my moronic inability to correctly and effectively swallow my own spit.
I just saw this young girl in the passenger seat of a moving vehicle who was NOT staring downwards… she was just looking straight forward out the windshield. Like some sort of crazed phoneless lunatic! Should I be concerned? Is this some sort of signal that she is being kidnapped or something?
Life is just one big long experiment trying to figure out which combination of foods do or don’t give you gas.
Dear makers of jam, mayo, peanut butter, cheese whiz… here’s a lil common sense science tip for ya: measure the BLADE length of your AVERAGE table knife. THAT’S the height of you jar. THIS way I can scoop out the last portions of you delicious product WITHOUT GETTING IT ALL OVER THE KNIFE HANDLE AND MY FINGERS!
Difference between Men & Women # 109:
Men: “Alexa – hall light OFF.”
Alexa: “OK”
Women: Hey Alexa, um, if you’re not busy and if it’s not too much trouble could you possibly please turn off the light that is currently on in the hall way to my left? My HUSBAND left it on. As USUAL! Thank you!
Alexa: “I don’t understand”
Yeah… Welcome to the party Alexa, we don’t understand either.
Little known fact - the infamous and endless "I dunno - What do YOU want for dinner” argument originated in 1978 from a death row female inmate trying to evade the inevitable.
“What would you like for your last meal?”
“I dunno - what do YOU want?”
"No, this is YOUR last meal - you must choose something.
“I don’t care. You pick.”
“No - I can’t… You have to… OK fine - Veal.”
“No”
“Tacos?”
“No.”
“Chicken?”
“No”
“Pizza?”
“No.”
“Lobster? Steak? Chinese?”
“No, no, no.”
“Are you a vegan?
“No”
“Salad?”
“No.”
“Look lady, this is ridiculous - just PICK something!!!”
“You decide.”
“OK I’m putting down lasagna!”
“No.”
She died nine days later from starvation.
Difference Between Men & Women #58: When a man comes home drunk, the woman will fold her arms, adorn a look of sheer contempt and condescending displeasure, wag a scornful finger and after several calculated moments of laser eyed silence bark out a snappy: “You’re DRUNK!!” With a long drawn out “you’re” and an abruptly terse yet bitter emphasis on the “drunk”. When the woman comes home drunk, the man will form a smirkish side mouth smile that eventually ebbs into a full on grin and wag a light hearted mischievous finger and jestingly announce in a playful wavering tone: “You’rrre Drunk!” Followed by an even larger grin accompanied with the up & down head nod.
If Men Were Women: Fred: “Heya Bob, got a problem - my transmission is making a serious clunking noise when I shift the gears manually – and there’s a shimmy when taking left hand corners at about 35 – 45kmh…” Bob: “Ah yeah, no problem – let’s take it on a test drive and analyze the symptoms and I can adjust the transmiss…” Fred: (Bursting into tears): “Jeezuz H Krist BOB!! I don’t NEED YOU to FIX the problem… I just want you to JUST… LISTEN …TO… ME and HEARRRR ME!!!”
And lastly,
Gear-head car enthusiasts & their need to need to spout off every part they’ve installed into their hot rod. “Nice car!” “Yeah, it’s got Marko D421 forged concave head 9 stage pistons with K16 rings and P8679 bearings & forged diamondite kote push roller rods, a dynoblap hedonic rear-end, a shiftomatic probofluid macro-mesh turbo transmission, stage 3 hypoturbulator flywheel, a dynamatic anti phase detractor clutch, ultra viscous phase reversing oil pump, neo-splining anti-roller shifter with type R side-toothed bushings and hetodonic fracture seals, bounceomatic gravity detracting motion cancelling suspension, linear digital friction reverse slip brakes, hush noise canceling flow thru wheezer exhaust, a johnholmes straightline locker driveshaft and a limited production gearhead grease nipple scented rear view hanging mean-ass duck shaped air freshener!”
“Awesome, I have no idea what you just said, I just meant I like the color…” “Oh yeah, that’s a custom special order Espresso metallic Lagoon rally moon dust infrared pearl chromaflair diamond-flaked edition alubeam tri-coat chameleon candy apple……”
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Happy new year to you and your loved ones too. Hope we won’t be needing the mask anymore soon.
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