Saw this on the Moe Lane blog....great analogy to Flash Crowd....

http://moelane.com/2009/06/08/mc-hammer-reads-larry-niven/

So...filling in this week for a vacationing coworker...standing in at the Berkeley National Lab and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center... great sign on entering SLAC - "WARNING UNIQUE HAZARDS ( Read more... )

http://consumerist.com/362926/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables

So much for many $$/ft cable...

Well...watched a number of hours of the 24 Hours of Daytona over the weekend...also put bunches more stuff up on ebay. (seller jimf42 ( Read more... )

Great post on high end audio...

http://haloscan.com/tb/hogonice/11425

I believe in reasonable equipment...and buy it used... I think hogonice has the right idea....

we need to start an audio company with a fancy name and pretty cases.

Hard to believe...the Voice of the London Underground canned for having a sense of humor...

http://www.metafilter.com/66883/The-Voice-of-the-Underground-is-silenced

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Well...my friend and I decided that we were not going to be able to start our 1965 Turner race restoration in the conceivable future...so we sold the project on ebay and whew, we did a little better than break even. The new owner is sending a semi to pick it up on Monday ( Read more... )

Well...again, I have failed to post for a while... anyway, time to get back to prepping for the season. Started reassembly of the gearbox the other night; got the mainshaft and layshaft in and properly clearanced...maybe finish tomorrow. Still lots to do to the car...the head has to go to be flowbench tested, then we can see if Elgin can design a ( Read more... )