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  1. Morning guy's In Reno, Peppermill, room service Breakfast. Im dam tired and at least three day's to go before leaving to Sac town/home. Everything working according to plan(s). Bob's Diner, Thank you gift, seems to be working out, more on that later. Just finished Belgin Waffle and Coffee, called room Service and Reorderd the same. Looks like everyone is doing well, sept maybe Joe's little one, he looks to be doing well, not too bad for a Shiner.
    5 points
  2. I received mine as well. I brought 2 down to the camper but forgot the booze[emoji33] . At least I have beer. Fast shipping I will say.
    5 points
  3. Baxter states that he's jealous and p.o.'ed that Jake is getting a nap since my step daughter's dog is visiting and raiding his sanctuary. It really is a riot since he weighs some 68 lbs and the little one is about 6 lbs. She swipes his crate (where he hangs out for naps) and he has no idea how to evict her other than coming and snitching to us. Typical pacifist Springer. Woof to Jake.
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  4. Good Sunday afternoon everyone... WOW, looks like the glasses are shipping and LOOKin' great ! I can't wait to put a FINE wine into those that arrive... OH, and we got our season opening dinner show tonight!! Up to 16 members of our riders club coming! 12 will be sitting in tables right in front of my side of the stage for general heckling ... That is ok, I have already alerted our leader to make one of them in particular HIS 'ball of yarn' ... She deserves to be teased, as her name in the club is 'Mayhem' Should be a fun time for all.. I will have the iPad for photos to post here..........the SLR is in use also for the website stuff. When I get a free hand from playin' the keys, I always grab some photos of our audience and some of the stage musicianship as well.. See you all later... .............Gary
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  5. Daughter called yesterday and said our Four glasses look perfect, well done
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  6. Yes she does and sewing plus the cloths and other things with vinyl stencils. We like to make and design things, it's probably why we loved landscaping, you can make it look however you want ? I guess She seen a picture of a sign she liked so I made her one using vinyl stencils. She put a pic of the sign on her page and for the next 3 weeks people wanted them, I made 56 18"x24" signs . I like making the signs and have some more to do, it's actually a lot more fun than glass, etching glasses really takes a lot of time to get it ready for about 5-10 seconds of sandblasting, the fun part. But I like it all, it keeps me busy and if I don't stay busy I want to build things, it's how the bar area outside came about, and other things.
    4 points
  7. What came in the mail today? Four very nice highball glasses from my buds Christy and dtel. Very high quality work and these glasses are heavy. Put one to use right away
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  8. I have someone that takes hand drawn images/ideas, cleans them up and digitizes them for embroidery designs for me. Costs about $20 to have it done.
    3 points
  9. well someday i may have a embroidery request for her -- if i ever get around to hiring a graphic designer to take the image i created and make it professional quality.
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  10. No talent really just patience, it's a bunch of steps Thanks, I hope everyone likes them, it's different.
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  11. Those are really nice looking -- i think Elden and his bride are exceptionally talented.
    3 points
  12. I went to this local eatery that does “kettle” cooking. Had some seafood in a tomato-cream broth…you select how hot you want it (1 - 10). I selected 7 and it wasn’t hot enough; BUT the taste was VERY good. A bit pricey, $63 for two of us.
    3 points
  13. That is kind of what I surmised, and is actually less then I was guessing. If you take the high end of those numbers, add in Cornwalls and K-Horns, it is less than 5% of their total sales. Fred Klipsch sold the company for 170M, a great deal of that price was attributed to good will. If I recall correctly, about 7M was attributed to actual assets. Heritage remains, I am specilating, because it is an integral part of that goodwill, not because it is a significant source of revenue. No one shoild be surprised by this, or saddened, this was the case going back to the time that Fred bought the company. Professor Hunter, who should know, was quoted as saying: "Unfortunately, the company's sales reps only knew how to sell speakers for the home market, according to Hunter. "We got in and out of the professional market several times," he said. "The only thing that held on was the cinema portion." In 2010, right before Fred sold the company, Klipsch issued a press release about reaching a deal with a major electronics retailer in Mexico, but it mentioned the stronghold Klipsch had in cinema. So in 2010 how many theaters do you think Klipsch was in down in Mexico? (No fair peeking below, what is your honest guess?) Here is the relevant portion of the press release; Klipsch is no stranger to the Mexican market, Klipsch loudspeakers are a staple in Mexico’s cinemas. Installed by the leading cinema professionals throughout Mexico, Klipsch professional loudspeakers continue to power unrivaled sound to over 1,750 cinemas throughout the country. The partnership with Tesco will make it possible for Mexican retailers to offer their consumers a chance to bring Klipsch’s trademark cinema sound into their own homes. “This valued partnership with Klipsch allows us to provide retailers with superior audio solutions,” said Federico Bausone, president of Tecso. “Klipsch is a global icon in the audio industry, and we are delighted to make the company’s products available to the home and personal audio market in Mexico.” So you were way low like I was right? My guess was 300. Does anyone know what the average sales revenue to Klipsch for a single theater? Does anyone know what other countries Klipsch has broken into and is targeting cinema in? I will conclude with this for all of the nostalgia fans. In college I had to do a case study on a company that got started in the late 50s by a guy named Kloss and his teacher, Edgar Kilcher, out in MA. They came out with a speaker called the AR-1. They said it provided big bass in a small package, and very accurate. It was called acoustic suspension. But it was only 88 or so db efficient and power was expensive in those days, so it was very slow going for Dr. Edgar and his former student from MIT.. One choice was Mac, and they were big money. Then a tiny audio transformer company started by a guy named Hafler decided to make a low cost alternative power amp available, 50W or so, in both kit form and eventually assembled. The company was called Dynaco. The market ran to Dynaco amps to power their AR-1 speakers. Henry and Edgar were now starting to sell their speakers and they improved upon it and came out with the AR-3. By the mid 60s Acoustic Research had one-third of the loud speaker market share of loud speakers in the US. Think about that for a minute. One out of evey 3 speakers sold in America were AR, and most of those were AR-3s. It doesn't matter how they sounded, the market thought they were the best thing since sliced bread. So what happened to Acoustic Research? They continued to try to inovate, the IP ran out on the a acoustic suspension system, and they were faced with major competition from companies like Klipsch, Bose, JBL, etc., etc. They faded into oblivion, were purchased by Voxx, the current owner of Klipsch, and the name is relagated to adorn the packaging of such illustrious products as RCA interconnect cables in stores. That didn't happen to Klipsch because Paul found a buyer, his cousin, who allowed him to continue to tinker, and allowed Roy and Hunter to continue on tinkering,joined by Troy, and the host of other bright innovative minds I unfortunately have not had the opportunity to meet. They were bought again, and apparently Voxx has the wisdom to continue to let them tinker and come up with a better mousetrap that Paul originally built, AND, to let them not only reinvent that mousetrap, but to let them dream and innovate new products to kill things no one had thought of before. Travis
    3 points
  14. And Jake napping on a rainy afternoon......
    3 points
  15. 3 points
  16. Very sharp! Looks like they blend in perfectly with your room.
    2 points
  17. I underlined the language which shows a value-laden attempt to measure "success" in education. To use "passing them in the fast lane of life" as a valid measure, you must first posit (or at least concede) that the accumulation of material things is the best indicator of success. On doing that, we can then agree that a good education ought to be measured by how much it will assist a person in accumulating material things. There is not anything particularly incorrect about this value system, since after all, it matches the values of probably 80% or more of the rest of the population. But nonetheless, I question whether this is the best we can do. At some point, the pursuit, by itself, of money and material things can become dull. Money is certainly important, but dying with it... not so much. We spend quite huge chunks of our precious lives trying to accumulate things to leave behind when we die. It's unfortunate. On the other hand, it takes money to accomplish many things we consider challenging and worthwhile. If you have enough money and some other skills, you can do some great things that are also fun, like finding cures for cancer, etc. However, most people don't seek money for that purpose. They seek it for raw consumption - the McMansion, trips, watches, and just to say, "Look at my money!" More unfortunate is that many of us blame our kids for this type of behavior. "I want to make sure my kids are okay. I want to treat them well. I want to leave them something." Many of us say all those cliche things to hide behind the fact that it is our greed we are trying to satisfy. Don't blame it on the kids. The kids are going to be just fine without all the crap you might leave when you die. Consider another possibility. The kids might have a little more fun in life without you handing them all your crap when you die. The thrill of the chase and all... I might not be a typical person, but I'd much rather go through life finding my way as opposed to somebody blazing a known path and then handing me a walking stick. I realize that nobody truly blazes their own way, but some do more than others. The curse of being "successful" might be to handicap your own kids. Over time, I have seen my values concerning money change from being a status symbol to being a tool. By that, I do not mean a tool to buy a McMansion. I have had my McMansions. It was fun "accomplishing" that. But what's next? A bigger McMansion? Dull. There has to be more in life. I realize 80% or more of the population doesn't see it like I do, and so perhaps raising kids to be greedy and materialistic is what it takes to unleash their unfettered creative potentials. Something has to inspire them. But at least, I think we need to make room for the possibility that some kids might not be quite as enthused about Cadillacs as we'd hope. Should the goal of education be to train kids to accumulate wealth? Should we measure the effectiveness of education by how much wealth children accumulate by using it? When I went to U of H Business School, there were all kinds of poster boards around the hallways, showing many of the "successful" graduates from U of H. So-and-so, MBA, 1950. So-and-so, BBA-Finance 1974. On and on. What was the common factor warranting such recognition? Wealth. Where were all the posters of the people who did not become rich? "So-and-so. BBA - Marketing. Didn't make a lot of money, but was happy as a lark all his life." Those kind of people are not recognized very often, if ever. So, the yardstick we use for education is "success." But are we defining "success" correctly? I became bored with the law. After 20 years at it, I saw that my mind was not growing anymore. I saw I was not hungry anymore. That led to burn-out. That led to a mid-life crisis. That led to some entrepreneurialism and risk-taking. I am having fun like a high school kid again. These last few years have been like a new beginning. Fun, exciting. A new path to blaze for myself. This had nothing to do with the legal profession. I would have followed this same path no matter what profession I chose. 20 years is a big chunk of life - a long as heck chapter. There comes a point when you just want to start a new novel. For example, I have a degree in accounting. I could not imagine it would have been any different had I gone that route. "Counting people's money? Is that what my life is supposed to be about? Counting other people's money all my life and then, I die?" The only thing I can take from my own experience is that life is too complex to be reduced to something formulaic. The moment we put a formula to measuring "success" in the education system is the moment we begin to fail a whole lot of students. We are trying too much to mold them into robots who function according to specified formulas. Naturally, this is bound to happen in specialized societies. However, we need to always be aware of this and how limiting it can be.
    2 points
  18. Sounds like your doing pretty good, now to try and get that service back home, I wouldn't try calling the wife from the bed to get her to bring you breakfast, that would be pushing your luck I would think.
    2 points
  19. I was wondering what you did with for the 3 weeks you have been gone. I take it you trust her to do the right thing and take care of herself. Good job mom and dad for raising a fine child. :emotion-21:
    2 points
  20. I have someone that takes hand drawn images/ideas, cleans them up and digitizes them for embroidery designs for me. Costs about $20 to have it done. i will be in touch
    2 points
  21. Having used the Ti Crites tweeter diaphragm in my KLF10 and KG4, I noticed more air and detail. It's not a fatiguing sound, simply more accurate IMHO. The stock poly diaphragm material just isn't that great as a tweeter. I haven't messed with the midrange diaphragms, which could be poly or fabric. They sound so great, I haven't had any urge to change them. Some people prefer fabric or poly midrange sound to metal. It's certainly up to the listener! :-) I have titanium midrange drivers in my Khorns, which sound great as well.
    2 points
  22. Sean I must say, you all ways have some wonderful dishes to share. Thanks for taking the time to post those.
    2 points
  23. At 55 I still listen to the music of my youth. But my whole life I have been a music explorer. If it is good music I am there no matter what genera Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
    2 points
  24. I did see a flock of Klipsch advertizing signs on the TV coverage of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies. Made me wonder if they used Klipsch speakers there. JJK
    2 points
  25. I wager it would have been more productive to introduce them to leverage, risk, and hedging than 401K...and to also discus with them that the three concepts extend well beyond the confines of money. Extra credit would be how to protect themselves from other people's interest in that regard. Perhaps....but, we were already being admonished for slowing the students progress through the 'system' and our bottleneck was getting them to figure out the measly 10%. I learned a bit yesterday myself. I got to better understand the 'get them in, get them out' mentality as it relates to the local schools. I found it quite unfortunate for the students.
    2 points
  26. This is a very nice sounding solid-state amp. I've used this exact amp with Cornwalls and was very impressed. Price is pretty nice and it is hard to get Classé products at this price-point. http://app.audiogon.com/listings/solid-state-classe-audio-70-amplifier-seventy-lower-price-2015-04-16-amplifiers-06109-wethersfield-ct
    2 points
  27. There are some nice photos of a good Belle build below for those who might be interested. http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/268959-zobsky-contemplates-variation-belle-klipsch-6.html Here is a photo to inspire a Scala build with fine wooden horns and killer esthetics
    2 points
  28. Used 2009 Klipschorns: $3500.00. Being able to have a concert (and/or movie) in my basement anytime I want: Priceless.
    2 points
  29. I was watching a show about home flippers called Flipping Vegas. In one episode the guy is wearing a Klipsch shirt. In another, he’s having In-Celing Klipsch speakers installed. he made a comment about great audio.
    2 points
  30. don’t sell yourself short ... your wife still doing embroidering?
    2 points
  31. Buy only with the right to return. My NAD C 272 power amps emit a slight hiss that can be heard only when one gets a few feet from one of the Khorns, but my NAD pre/pro hissed like a puff adder in heat. My current pre/pro AV7005 is as quiet as the c 272s (I use them together).
    2 points
  32. Saying that the market for Heritage isn't there (true or not), therefore it isn't worth widely marketing them, is self fulfilling prophecy. In the case of Heritage, I'd like to see them more widely demonstrated, rather than more widely advertised. Or both. A pair of Khorns in two corners of sound stores, and any other appropriate venues, might greatly increase the sales of Khorns over the 10 - 15 pairs per month Trentster5172 cites. Demonstrations can have a bleed over effect, increasing the sales of La Scala IIs, Heresy IIIs, etc., particularly on the part of people who cannot afford them --- yet --- but may eventually. As I said before, AR used to demo their speakers in a room at Grand Central Station. Khorns are conversation pieces, tuck nicely into corners, and don't look like every Tom, Dick and Tower. I hear big, old Retro speakers are popular in Asia, where having them shipped would be a pain in the ***. Having 2 Khorns at one end of a lounge at the San Francisco Airport, with two Jubs at the other end, might feed that fire. Next to nobody has heard the Jubs, including me, What would we think if we did? I know it is debatable whether or not Jubs are Heritage, but since they were designed as the next Khorn ....
    2 points
  33. Southern fried chicken and dirty rice tonight.
    2 points
  34. Morning gang, breakfast this morning is scrambled eggs with quinoa, onion, green peppers. Along with toast and coffee. Good ole Folgers for me this morning. Been some good spring rain here is spring. Well soccer at 930. Then some home work, then hopefully off to the campsite. I'll check in shortly. Forgot to add the picture
    2 points
  35. More yard work yesterday. I have never been able to prune all the azaleas without cutting through a power cord. Yesterday was no different. I have to string my three (now two) cords to reach the border by the road. So after cutting one in half I had to finish the last ones by hand Have fun on your ride Gary and post pictures. Threw out fertilizer yesterday and rain called for today. Have a great weekend and as always....... Cheers Ladies and Gents
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  36. Good Saturday morning coffee gang...... Up early, as our first motorcycle riders club event is today, and my first time on the bike since late fall .... All is ready, putting on the warm gear, as it is 30 degrees out !! I will bring back some photos, as I am our club's photographer as well... We got a grilled chicken and baked potato dinner being cooked up by our gals, and all the added salads etc..... Meanwhile, a nice biscotti with rich chocolate covering from Whole Foods and Mellita coffee ;0) Enjoy the day everyone..... .......Gary
    2 points
  37. I guess I'm not even close to a vegetarian. Oh well.
    2 points
  38. Personally I can't fire the grill without throwing on some chicken.
    2 points
  39. By the way, Sam's has VERY good steaks. Over here anyway.
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  40. How about some ribeyes tonight while listening to Sirius Classic Vinyl?
    2 points
  41. Here's a real easy one: Pulled Pork (for sandwiches, tacos, etc.) Ingredients: Fajita Seasoning Seasoned Salt Brown Sugar Yellow Mustard BBQ Sauce Pork Butt Roast Instructions: Make enough rub to coat the roast, using 1/3 fajita seasoning, 1/3 seasoned salt and 1/3 brown sugar - all mixed evenly on a plate or in a bowl. Do not apply to roast yet. Squirt a bunch of yellow mustard onto the roast and coat it using your hand. Using your hand, apply the rub to the roast. The mustard helps it stick. Put the roast in a crock pot on low. Do not add water or anything else. Cook for about 8 - 10 hours (for a 4 - 5 pound roast). Usually, these roasts are sold as roughly 8-pounders. You can cut in half and put it in the freezer for another day. Place cooked roast on a cutting board or other flat surface (a baking sheet, for example). Using 2 forks, start pulling it apart until it looks nice and shredded, like chopped BBQ beef. It should pull apart very easily. No knife required. Add BBQ sauce. Just mix it in to desired taste/consistency by glopping it on and stirring it until it is mixed evenly. This is such an easy recipe. Some people might prefer to make it (or part of it) without adding BBQ sauce. I tried it both ways. Without BBQ sauce, it would make tasty tacos, which you could dress with onion, cilantro, peppers, etc.
    2 points
  42. Dinner for two....... Remembering our bud Boxx......
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  44. Outstanding idea & build. I'm jealous. Great job. I hope the end result performs well. Lloyd Dobler approved.
    1 point
  45. I will quite simply side with Bruce Willis on the thread. "You Wanna Pizz Me Off, Play some Rap"
    1 point
  46. I created the material from scratch and taught a graduate-level engineering course for several years whose basic premise was the synthesis of engineered systems (as opposed to natural and human self-organizing systems--the subjects of biology and psychology/sociology). I found that there was a great divide in the students' abilities for individual students to abstract and think intuitively across multiple domains, like engineering, mathematics, finance, organizational and decision-maker psychology/sociology, advertising, competitive analysis, operations analysis/management science (OR/MS), and the target domain of the system from user/developer/evaluator/supporter standpoints. When the students were asked to pull together the concepts into a candidate set of top-level design views on a topic of their choice for an individual semester project, I found deep disconnects in understanding the material in an integrated way. Some of the student difficulties fell along lines of personality (Myers-Briggs/Keirsey), the level of experience of the students in general (perhaps correlated to age), prior educational paradigms in which they were educated in (i.e., rote or algorithmic approaches vs. liberal arts vs. abstract/integrative methods), and even what part of the world that they were raised. What I've found is something called "Bloom's Taxonomy" that relates the depth of knowledge of the educational material to the levels of use of the material by the student, the highest levels of which shows synthesis and judgment of other people's use of the material, and the lowest (beginner) levels exhibits "parroting back" of the material. A Bloom's Taxonomy-like view is useful when discussing these type of "educational failures". I think that the people who decide what students should know and how well they should know it don't have much a clue as to how to do it, and exactly what outcomes they should have for each student, i.e., education as a system design. Even if they did, they couldn't enact these educational system designs since they are not empowered to do so. No one is in charge. If you look at the U.S. Department of Education for instance or state school boards (a subset of the world educational views) and what they say that students should be educated to do, I think that you'll understand why there is so much thrashing on this general subject area: they never actually state what the outcomes/objectives of student education should be, only a poor set of quality factors like "equality of educational experience", "appreciation for the values of the community" (i.e., things that the parents should teach their children), etc--nothing that can be used to determine whether or not the educational system itself is performing as designed. We're focused on students and educational failures, but what we have is educational system design problems, IMHO. No one can agree on what the students should be able to do/know/understand when they graduate.
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  47. I don't see why not, just as long as the area follows the exponential equation. This means the area has to double every X distance down the length. PWK called it Lamedh, the Hebrew for L. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamedh. This double every x is inherent in the exponential equation. You see it describing bacteria population which doubles every hour -- or a blob in science fiction which will grow to take over the county, then the state, then the nation, then the world. The function doesn't have to double (2 times every x whatever) it can grow 1.05 times a year, as in growth of money funds with compound interest. But I'm getting off topic. If the top and bottom and parallel and the side walls are diverging straight, you don't get a conical expansion. A conical expansion must have an area which is the square of the distance down the length. This is easier to do with a cone or a square pyramid, or even a rectangular pyramid. You might have seen diagrams where a single point of light is radiating into pyramidal areas (a fraction of space). The intensity drops as the square of the distance because it is falling on areas which increase as the square of the distance. Again OT, but can be interesting that you sort of know this stuff already but teachers don't put it all together in one lesson. If the top and bottom are parallel and the side walls are diverging straight, you get something which approximates a hyperbolic horn. Baranek has a drawing of a hyperbolic megaphone which looks like this. You also see it as the matching section (throat to the bell section) of constant directivity horns which were started by Don Keele. Klipsch uses it in some of their THX systems. WMcD
    1 point
  48. That scrape in the woofer hurt my heart.
    1 point
  49. I have made something like that for tacos, I even use chicken time to time. Some great ideas for a quick Saturday dinner. Thanks for sharing.
    1 point
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