Simply random stuff

[Sonik Wiz]

its been super windy here all day. we have a high wind alert in effect. And about an hour ago my weather station recorded a 64 mph gust !
I dont like North New Salem weather

Too late now, dear friend...

 

[JohnN]

its been super windy here all day. we have a high wind alert in effect. And about an hour ago my weather station recorded a 64 mph gust !
I dont like North New Salem weather

da beans?

 

[barfle]

Records mixed directly to matrix quad make me sad because they sound wrong un-decoded and lose substantial definition when decoded. It's a lose-lose scenario, because no other version exists!

I attended an AES conference back in the day when quad was bleeding edge (1974?) and one of the presenters (no idea who) noted that the fold-down was just as important as the dematrixed sound.

Of course, whether that actually happened on any particular recording is debatable.

 

[Quadmon]

its been super windy here all day. we have a high wind alert in effect. And about an hour ago my weather station recorded a 64 mph gust !
I dont like North New Salem weather

The wife got the trash can from the neighbors yard this morning. We were supposed to have 55mph winds. We slept through it.

 

[texeast]

its been super windy here all day. we have a high wind alert in effect. And about an hour ago my weather station recorded a 64 mph gust !
I dont like North New Salem weather

But Ricky how can you hear any wind in your super nice listening barn with all the subs turned up. LOL

 

[Bruce00]

Oh, the Underground Railroad.

I drink the stuff. Mostly black. Never have found what booze mixes good with tea. So you know, just the tea.

As a reformed professional drinker, I can say without a doubt:
Jack Daniels and hot tea
Jack Daniels and ice tea
Jack Daniels and green tea
Jack Daniels and ice
Jack Daniels out of a flask

 

[mandrix]

As a reformed professional drinker, I can say without a doubt:
Jack Daniels and hot tea
Jack Daniels and ice tea
Jack Daniels and green tea
Jack Daniels and ice
Jack Daniels out of a flask

I was a JD drinker for over 40 years. I mostly drank it mixed with cola. I sometimes used JD to spice up a roast cooked in a pressure cooker in my single days.

For at least a week a few years ago I could hardly get out of bed. My wife had a test kit for sugar and it maxed out her device. She took to me to the ER and it was so high they marveled I was not in a coma.
That's when I found out I was diabetic.
That ended my cola drinking, and with it JD.

I'm happy to say I only had to inject insulation for about 6 months and have been good in that regard ever since (3-4 years ago)

I love sweet iced tea, and drink it with every meal, usually. I still put a little sugar in when I make it, but I never did like it syrupy sweet anyway. No sugar is okay also.

So I came up with a concoction of Vodka, dirty martini olive juice, a bed of orange slices, and use a Soda Stream device to carbonate water with a touch of baking soda in it.

 

[Bill B]

I was a JD drinker for over 40 years. I mostly drank it mixed with cola. I sometimes used JD to spice up a roast cooked in a pressure cooker in my single days.

For at least a week a few years ago I could hardly get out of bed. My wife had a test kit for sugar and it maxed out her device. She took to me to the ER and it was so high they marveled I was not in a coma.
That's when I found out I was diabetic.
That ended my cola drinking, and with it JD.

I'm happy to say I only had to inject insulation for about 6 months and have been good in that regard ever since (3-4 years ago)

I love sweet iced tea, and drink it with every meal, usually. I still put a little sugar in when I make it, but I never did like it syrupy sweet anyway. No sugar is okay also.

So I came up with a concoction of Vodka, dirty martini olive juice, a bed of orange slices, and use a Soda Stream device to carbonate water with a touch of baking soda in it.

When I was younger I would drink Jack and Cokes. As I got older I started just doing shots, why ruin a perfectly good Coke.,

 

[mandrix]

When I was younger I would drink Jack and Cokes. As I got older I started just doing shots, why ruin a perfectly good Coke.,

Some would say why ruin perfectly good JD with coke?

 

[somethingcleveridunno]

Got a new cable for my battle-scarred SM58. Like putting new Michelins on a 300k mile Lexus.

 

[mandrix]

Got a new cable for my battle-scarred SM58. Like putting new Michelins on a 300k mile Lexus.

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"Shure" you did.

 

[Bill B]

Some would say why ruin perfectly good JD with coke?

Definitely works both ways. Since I started doing shots, I have really grown to appreciate the taste of JD.
With that said, I'm not much of a drinker. A fifth lasts me more than a year and a case of beer lasts me more than a month LOL.

 

[Owen Smith]

A fifth lasts me more than a year

A fifth of what? That's not a known measure of liquid in the UK.

 

[mandrix]

A fifth of what? That's not a known measure of liquid in the UK.

It was 1/ 5th of a US Gallon. Unfortunately the liquor industry uses metric now. Liters and all that crap. 1.75L being the common largest quantity now.
You know: charge more, provide less.
We old farts grew up with fifths and gallons as a way of buying liquor.

 

[Bill B]

A fifth of what? That's not a known measure of liquid in the UK.

LOL. …of a gallon, of course.
A gallon of liquor is also called “a handle” over here due to the handle on the bottle it comes in.
And as per @mandrix, the bottle I have probably isn’t a fifth of a gallon but it’s about the same size and that’s what I grew up with.

 

[mandrix]

lol. I think it's funny. We are supposed to know all the terms you UK use but you have no clue about us.

 

[Owen Smith]

It was 1/ 5th of a US Gallon. Unfortunately the liquor industry uses metric now. Liters and all that crap. 1.75L being the common largest quantity now.
You know: charge more, provide less.

A fifth of a US gallon is 0.7570824 litres according to online conversions. Wine in the UK usually comes in 0.75l bottles, but for reasons I've never understood spirits come in 0.70l and more recently 1.0l since duty free limits when travelling are in whole litres. It's never made any sense to me why wine and spirits come in different size bottles.

And don't get me started on fluid ounces, or flozes as my mum calls them. They never made sense to me in any quantity.

 

[mandrix]

LOL. …of a gallon, of course.
A gallon of liquor is also called “a handle” over here due to the handle on the bottle it comes in.
And as per @mandrix, the bottle I have probably isn’t a fifth of a gallon but it’s about the same size and that’s what I grew up with.

Yes. Likely 750ml.

 

[Owen Smith]

lol. I think it's funny. We are supposed to know all the terms you UK use but you have no clue about us.

No I fully accept that we're all equally clueless about each other. Divided by a common language and all that.

 

[mandrix]

No I fully accept that we're all equally clueless about each other. Divided by a common language and all that.

Have you traveled to the US? Last time I was in the UK was way back in the early 70's.