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Morning........ MKP :-)

It's amazing how many people ask me how long I've been in this country when I tell them I'm from NEW Mexico. Que?

it’s only 11:27 pm here in the wild west; but, i put the coffee on for you of the other time zone persuasions. Told the boss today that this is my final lap -- next year spring, i’m calling it quits. I had promised him I’d give him as much notice as possible since it takes forever to get a replacement. he said he was going to be bummed. i told him me leaving is something to look forward to because he can hire a young person still building a career so they’ll be a hard charger. He said, “But i’ll have to show the person everything. I don’t have to look at a thing that you do.” I decided to work one final year so i could pay off some debts before i quit. ​When i get to Oregon, i’m sure i’ll look for a part-time job -- guys like me can get in trouble with too much idle time. ​Enjoy your Friday gentlemen -- it’s my day off (these three day work weeks are grueling).

I finally got running water in the bathroom today.

Yes, pending site visits of course. Road trips

Good Friday morning gang Installed the power supply in the Cave Pc last night and found hard drive has gone south Good to have back up's, Pc's that is. Have a few spare "New" hard drives, so I dig those out, I find they have changed connectors since 5 years ago It seems my stash of "New" hard drives is older than the Pc I built. Maybe a trip to Fry's a little later, 5 year warranty on these things and I made it six, no biggie New Receiver came in yesterday, still acquiring "New" ant goodies for the new radio. Of course I just had to hang a wire on it and throw the wire out the window, it works well. In fact someone, somewhere around here has a "Bug" in their house, HUMMMM? I could hear everything going on in a normal home, interesting. Never heard a "Bug" in the lower KHz range, and we are talking 200Khz, just below AM radio. Packages arriving daily for "New" Ant/install. Neighbor's be-a-talkin, Man, That guy sure get's a lot of delivery's Postman say's anymore packages he wants his own coffee cup. FedEx guy wants to come over for a beer and see the new "Listening" station when completed This is what im doing spending the SB winnings, the wife has had her share, can you image, a wife who does NOT want to go shopping? Huevos rancheros sounds pretty dam good right now. Happy Friday.

Congrats Steve. It sounds like you have a game plan, and and end date to shoot for. It's admirable you giving them another year to find your replacement, I'll bet that year will move by quickly. Did you officially chose Bend as your retirement location? Good luck man

Do warning points have an expiration date? If you give me 9 points today...do i still have nine in the year 2525? (If man is still alive). Maybe you can trade the points in for a Klipsch t-shirt. Of course, you would still be responsible for shipping costs.

You are going to need one of those bumper stickers that state; "I owe, I owe, so off to work I go." In the quote above, back in Nov 2014 Jeff started a thread where one aspect that was discovered was that investment banks and private equity firms had gotten entrenched on both sides of the education game where they owned schools and were lending tuition money to students and packaging those loans into securitized/collateralized debt structures that are then sold to investors. It would seem that this type of situation is ripe with incentive to extend the debt of these students as far as possible and another example of financial ingenuity where Wall Street continues to find ways to make huge profits, just now on student loan debt. An interesting aspect is that there has been practically no attention given to Wall Street’s role in the student debt run-up while Wall Street brings in an estimated $45 billion off higher education each year and a significant portion of this amount is made from student loans being securitized and sold as investments. Later in the year I'll try to find time to update the numbers; however, from 2011 to 2013, the amount of debt held by recent graduates increased 20% with a total student loan debt amount over $1.2 trillion. Think about it, pickings were slim in opportunity to make big returns as the asset-backed mortgage securities (ABMS) that were instrumental in the credit crisis beginning in 2007 had cooled with investors, although the ABMS seem to have rebounded somewhat now as I see more ABMS being issued and sold, along with credit card securitizations and auto loan securitizations. Of course, with financial ingenuity wheels turning, they found a way to capitalize on student loan debt and turn that debt into big returns. This debt is sometimes known in Wall Street circles as student loan asset-backed securities (SLABS) and they are looking for ways to grow that $1.2 trillion pie (actually $1.3 trillion in 2014 and still increasing since new student loan originations had been increasing at a rate of about $100 billion each year). Take a look at the special interest lobbying dollars in this area and you will find that the big Wall Street investment banks and other financial institutions that profit from student loan debt are spending more than ever to influence political elections and to prevent policy solutions from being enacted. From 2008 to 2012 the amount of money Wall Street institutions gave to Congress through political donations practically doubled, from $55.9 million to over $108 million. This increase can be attributed to the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which lifted restrictions on corporate spending to influence elections. [source: Center for Responsive Politics] Wall Street isn’t satisfied with the return on SLABS. So what next? It seems that financial brokers have been promoting an investment product called capital appreciation bonds (CABs). In fact, CABs have now been issued by more than 400 California school districts and from what I have read; some have repayment obligations of up to 20 times the principal advanced (or 2,000% of the principal). Still not satisfied and unable to meet certain investor demand, financial institutions are promoting public-private partnerships (PPPs) to public universities as a funding mechanism. The private developer would provide the capital to construct facilities and the universities sign a long-term lease to occupy the space. Sure seems like a slick way to divert public money to private debt holders who can further capitalize on the venture by securitizing the debts as another type of asset-backed security. Historically, asset-backed securities have a unique way of spreading out and masking the level of risk that actually exits in the portfolio. I’m not sure anyone has really figured out a way to understand the "quality" of all of these many types of asset-backed securities and how far out the overall risk to the financial system has been spread. According to a Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee report, about $100 billion of federal student loans are in default, which is approximately 9% of the outstanding balances of student loans. Bottom line is that somewhere down the road, it would seem reasonable that Wall Street and these debt holders may be sticking it to education institutions, students and ultimately all of us taxpayers with another unsustainable level of debt. All in the name of “we are in the business of facilitating capital formation where it is needed,” where do you suppose this will all lead? Now just where are they going to find enough U.S. Marshals to go after people that have defaulted on over $100 billion in student loan debts?

Let's all take a deep breath and go back to the pictures Luther posted of his creation. Posters should be drooling over his craftsmanship not sniping and ducking. Let's get back to appreciating the amp.

Wonder if they knew the Dodge brothers

It does look nice, well done and a special thank you for not putting A Duder pic with a shocking reflection in the mirror.

Let me introduce you to a couple of old friends of mine. On the left is Harley and right is Davidson. They were into motorcycles.

Yes, pending site visits of course.

When I was a senior in high school I threw a dart at the map and where it landed is where I was going. Unfortunately I completely missed the map, so I just decided to stay here.

here is a dish that some of you might just like, some might consider it the Breakfast of Champions though cold Pizza fits that description very well also. Just had my green bean cold soak brew of coffee with two teaspoons of fine ground raw cocoa nibs and I am set for the day.

I have lost count on how many states I've been to...and you really can't grasp how BIG this country is until you drive accross it. But the two states I lived in for awhile and really liked were...Texas-El Paso....and Washington-Seattle.... Right now I'm stuck in Maryland..... I'll tell ya were I'm going in May.....alittle town in Arkansas called Hope....they have some factory there were they make speaker's....... MKP :-)

IF... I never read the original post in question before posts were deleted, but IF... If Cindy posed a legitimate question... AND...Craig called her a name or was rude because he MISTAKENLY thought she was The Sloth (a banned member) using another forum name THEN... Then IMHO Craig owes her an apology. I believe Cindy is a real female human being who is her own person. +++ I could be wrong about any ^^^ of that. The fact is, I have only met a couple of you guys in person, so truly, I don't know anything. Craig, I'm asking you take Cindy at face value. At the very least, give her the benefit of the doubt and talk to her "off the air." Because if she is a real person, I think you hurt her feelings. AND CINDY...if you fired back and the post was deleted by a mod (I have no idea) then you might have over reacted as well. +++ I suggest we re-set and turn the clock back a week to before any of the comments were taken wrong or out of context, and start over with no pre-judgements on any side. We all make mistakes.

Why is Bieber in the background? That's just bizarre.

I get lost a lot traveling around the country. I am looking at this map and there is no Ne - bras- Ka.

It's amazing how many people ask me how long I've been in this country when I tell them I'm from NEW Mexico. Que? So how long HAVE you been in the Country??? Rog

We don't need no education ... we don't need no thought control ... no dark sarcasm in the classroom ... teachers leave them kids alone.

I don't see Jarvis as a troll. Are you guys on your period or what?

What I would suggest to the mods, is that as a courtesy, when you issue warning points you send a pm to the awardee an explanation and of course that means a tacit confirmation of who gave the warning points. I have had posts deleted in the past and had to dig it out of the mod that they were the one who did it. This simple courtesy would go a long way towards understanding.

You should start a church. You wax eloquent. A fantasy portrayal of the world in which we live. I'm just able to see a bigger picture than you. A common difference of abilities.Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk And you cry insult when I accused you of being condescending after you insulted me! Your condensension is obvious fact. You are smart enough to spin a good web but don't see how entangled in it you are. You have much more free time than myself so enjoy your time at your keyboard as you pontificate to the rest of us novitiates. I find these threads more entertaining with your posts blocked.

We're pushing 70, im thinking open the windows and blow some dust off of the horns[emoji12] Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

True Dat! 62F and bluebird skies here. Its a beautiful day and we are going to watch a baseball game. Does it get any better?

It's kind of hard to fault him for using the same word for an avatar that PWK used to wear on a pin. If you have an issue with a post, use the report button at the bottom of the post in question. The moderators will deal with it appropriately.

Carl, looking very S-W-E-E-T. Speckles and all

Strange how when you give a notice you are suddenly needed much more, should have given a month and for a nice raise stayed the extra year. Good for you, the year will give you time to have no need to rush with any decisions and to get everything set up for whatever you decide.

I think I could find it, from what I hear I would need to drive south for an hour. If you and the family ever wanted to go you have a place to stay, just let me know, in case were off trying to find Omaha or something. Being from Omaha do you need a passport to come down here ? Going to NO in a little over a week, to catch a boat to go much further south with about 25 friends, Jamaica mon.

So I think you're saying that you're considering two options: 1) 3-in, 9-out fronts, and 1-in, 2-out subs (assuming you want to control your subs separately) and 2) 5-in, 15-out surround sound (or perhaps two more surrounds), and 1-in, 2-out subs _____________________________________________________________________________ My suggestion is to split out the subs using something like a AVP and/or DSP front-end sub amps. I use Crown XTi1000s (one for each sub) and they are very effective in that role. The AVP could also be used to do EQ--especially the room EQ firmware stuff, like Audyssey, YPAO, etc. So that leaves the full-range channels. I've found the 2-in, 6-out units are more plentiful on the used marketplace. For instance, the Yamaha SP-2060s that I posted in the alerts section a couple of days ago are really good bargains at ~$500 each, since these are the most hi-fi sounding units that I've heard thus far. That sounds expensive--it isn't (less cost than 3rd party passives that I've seen on this forum). Two of those will get you all three fronts plus subwoofers. That would be the easiest approach. Put your best amplifiers on the midrange and tweeter channels, and use something powerful but less costly for the bass bins. Adding the surrounds is easy: just add another 2-in, 6-out unit. You can wait on that part until later, and just EQ the surrounds as using an AVP and firmware room correction in the meantime. That would get everything but the most spectacular surround recordings, like Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Swingin' for the Fences DVD-A. Most of the time, you'll not hear any difference. Yamaha SP2060s are quite good--very transparent and hi-fi. Used Xilica XP series are difficult to find, but if you can find a XP4080 at a good price (4-in, 8-out, 24/96), you might be able to use one for your three fronts (L, C, R), depending on how many ways your center has. The XP4080 can be had for about $1100+ new. This is a real hi-fi unit, like the Yamaha. I've heard that Ashly Protea sounds good (24/48), as well as the ElectroVoice DC-One (2-in, 6-out, 24/48). Both are available used. Chris

There are pros and cons to that I think, and I feel like I can see both sides. I'd be slightly biased in my opinion of it - but I don't really complain about my loans to boot. On the one hand, federalizing the loans increases chances of loan forgiveness after a certain time - or debt negotiation. On the other, that means that my next door neighbor who is barely getting by, just floated the bill for my or someone else's education. It's kind of one of those "can't have your cake and eat it too" things. I'm in a field I love, with a track to do something I'm going to enjoy. I am not doing anything I'm doing for the money, but just because it's going to be what I do for the rest of my life - I'd rather be happy. If that means I get strung out on student debt that I signed off on, so be it. I'd rather live modest and be happy where I'll be spending the rest of my life working, than rich and hating what I do.

We all know how to surf. But, if that happens, the cataclysm would reach you soon enough, so eat that popcorn quickly.

The whole state isn't going, only enough to give me beach front property.

i’m a college drop out. Teaching a student how to think and how to view a whole instead of focusing only on one part bring value to society.

Do warning points have an expiration date? If you give me 9 points today...do i still have nine in the year 2525? (If man is still alive).

What,,,, we have rules???

Health and prosperity to all on this lunar new years day. As a new years born myself just spreading the cheer and good will to all the Klipschers here!

No. I sail for real. Real sailboats. Not ***** engines on a barge.

That is a sexual and demeaning post and directly conflicts with the rules for posting... I am reporting you so that you get warning points so that you might interact better with others in the future mister! Roger

I'm no tube freek by any means, but that is awful purdy Roger

The word Bullshit is acceptable here. Thanks, PWK.

A really nice set of Walnut H2's listed and sold for $40.00 in Tyler (TX) last week.

it won't let me post the video...

Well good then. I don't think I'd like the picture if he were on this side. Yes you would, you're THAT kind of guy! Rog

Ok so I did have coffee today (and the in the know folks hang here) so I'll ask this OT question here. We have an '07 Honda Odyssey Touring that I de-paxed and now need to find a spare; what years will fit? I found a new spare kit on line but with shipping it's over $200 and want to look around at the junk yards.

Love them old boat tail Riviera's, i had a couple. Just changing out the gears wakes up the 455 to new levels, a little carb and timing work makes for a nice sleeper.

The best defense against a troll is not to feed them (respond).