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4 hours ago, scalawag said:
This is the method I've used over the 40-plus years I've enjoyed my 'Scalas, partly because I appreciate the "natural look" of the raw birch cabinet and partly because I lack the confidence in treating something as large as the 'Scala. I def wouldn't want to screw them up, cosmetically or audibly. Mine have held up relatively well considering the lack of any applied protection, which can be attributed to the very controlled environment they exist in. To the OP: whatever you decide, hope you enjoy the LS as much as many of these Forum members do.
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Got to love that cinder block you've got in your photo. Somehow if I tried that here it would land on my foot in the middle of the night!
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53 minutes ago, Emile said:
Unless you are fully committed to a "tube" amp, I suggest you look at some vintage SS amps also. Personally, I tried some (OK; just 2) tube amps and they did not even come close to my Marantz 1060 and 2252B. Just an opinion
OK; reread the thread and saw "tubes" are not a necessity. And, found recommendations for the "solid state" HK-930. Very good receiver! Maybe also look into units like the Yamaha CR-1020. Let us know what kind of horsepower you are looking for and maybe we can "refine" our recommendations. Good luck
There are hybred Fisher Tube amps too that use a combination of tubes and transistors. I have one in pristine shape in my basement.
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1 hour ago, mr clean said:
I just picked up a tri tip a a butcher shop a few towns over. This place has some killer meat! I should have not went in there. Picked up 2 really nice ribeyes also. I had to get out of there pretty quick. OK experts how do I want to prepare this. I could find ways online but
I want some ideas on here:
You can smoke em' if you got a Tri-Tip with lots of attached fat or you could cook them using the recipe I posted a link to above if you want to cook them quickly go with that one. I make the following changes to it:
- Rub room temperture dry meat all over with cut Garlic (I use a paper towel, but never rinse the meat in water).
- Cook 4 pieces of smoked side bacon in the fry pan you're using and reserve the bacon fat. If you don't eat or can't eat bacon use a couple of pieces of beef fat and render the fat first to use that instead (I use a frying pan with lid on to render beef fat).
- Rub the meat with a mixture of spices and not just seasoning salt. (I use freshly ground pepper, salt, celery salt and a pinch of sugar).
- While the meat is resting after you've sprinkled on spices; cook some carrot, celery, onion and a small sliced purple turnip piece in the rendered fat.
- Brown the meat on the stove top in the frying pan using the rendered fat or part of it (with the vegetables set aside for later). Scrap the pan using white vermouth, sherry or sake and reserve the scrapings.
- Place the cooked vegetables in your pan's bottom and place the meat on top of them with the fat side up. Add some of the rendered fat if necessary and put it all into a pre-heated 425 Degrees F oven for 15 to 20 minutes/lb.
- Confirm the meat has reached an internal temp of 135 Degrees F or more (I like 140 Degrees F) with an instant read thermometer.
- Remove it and wrap it foil along with the cooked vegetables and make either an Au Jus along with the pan scrappings.
- Slice it as thin as you can against the grain (i.e. English Cut).
Eat and enjoy. 🍴
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8 minutes ago, CECAA850 said:
And motor scooters are called donorcycles. I quit riding for the same reasons listed above.
For me it was the arrival of my first child. Too many 'nutz' on the road even 30 years ago. It's only getting worse!
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7 hours ago, joshnich said:
Didn’t know that Star Wars was still a thing. I have absolutely no interest in seeing this movie. Nothing specifically against the franchise other than I haven’t found the ones I have seen particularly interesting. Then again, I rarely go to the movies and prefer for the most part to watch them at home. That way I can just turn them off when I realize they are not worth my time and that happens probably 80 % of the time. Now please get off of my lawn.
Josh,
You could always make your own without having to worry about driving in the supports with a five lb slege to get below the frost line. This guy did. Nothing says fanatical, dedicated and commited like a homemade wooden sign!
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3 minutes ago, Edgar said:
I stopped riding about ten years ago for exactly this reason. The maniacs in their 6000 lb Suburbans, driving at 85 mph while talking on the phone, swerving in and out of traffic with no regard for anyone else's safety, convinced me that it had just gotten too dangerous.
I still bicycle. It's going the same way -- too many maniacs, even on the back roads.
Here we have bike paths off road that go downtown through the river valley. I don't have to worry about someone texting, drinking coffee or looking in their mirror while applying Hag Putty because they're late for work.
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5 hours ago, Tsut said:
We've had a lot of fog in the last few days. And I like this weather.
Do you live on the coast or inland? Morning fog or at night?
13 minutes ago, babadono said:Here come those Santa Ana winds again.
Last few days have been warm even into the night time hours. Came home after dark last night still 82 in the valley. Was down to 76 at the house at 2000' elevation.
Great! We are headed for our annual summer this weekend with temps like that! I thought we were going to miss it this year too. Double bonus!!
Still going to have to fly down and rent a car, but summer is just 3 hours away by air.
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4 hours ago, Dave A said:
I do too. But for me the question is leave them raw or use poly.
I vote for Raw and maintained.
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15 hours ago, oldtimer said:
Thebes on a motorcycle? I'm scared.
Ever been on one of those at high speed? With or without Thebes driving and considering you are probably old enough now to realize that you're mortal; you should be scared. Especially of other nearby motorists in larger vehicles.
Helmuts are known as 'brain baskets' in ICU's for good reason.
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2 hours ago, mr clean said:
Has anyone had a chance to hear one of these magic boxes yet?
Do you mean the unit above or this 'magic box': http://www.magicboxaudio.com/ ❓
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3 hours ago, JohnJ said:
Thanks but I've known not to go to mcD's since the 1970s for a real hamburger
If you are desperate, starving, traveling with a pet and your local Rotten Ronny's will cook to order at your request (i.e. from from raw patty to cooked while you wait the 15 minutes) McD's is just okay. However, I believe most of their beef comes from outside of N. America and mostly from old Bulls, not beef cattle. God only knows how the source animal is treated (which should be respect and good care) or what they are actually getting in their feed! That said, avoid their chiken sandwiches like death!!
My wife likes A&W burgers and convience but if I'm picking it up she waits (for my 'cooked to order A&W burgers'). Believe me it is worth the wait compared to the reheated, tastes like shat alternative.💩
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39 minutes ago, WillyBob said:
I had a GermanShorthairPointer. A 75lb cat. Coyote smart. Behaved more like a cat, when left to his own means. After him [he lived a long time, 17years] I can easily say NO to offers of dog. I can borrow one for as long as I care to pet one. The neighbor has a beautiful hound [of some sort]. She's more white than black. I/we call her Daisy. She gets loose often enough to come visit. Try to confine a hound when they get scent of something. My shorthair used to sit, waving his head back and forth like radar. I knew he was getting ready to go for a run.
could not keep him indoors. He would not stay.
Had one place with a Beware of Dog sign on the front door. What it didn't say.... the dog was coming up behind you
Willybob,
It took us ten years to acquire another Bichon after the first one passed away at only 7 years of age (i.e. ten years before normal life-expectaancy for Bichons). All the money in the world would not have been able to save him (believe me, my wife tried).
Still miss that dog a lot but having brought a couple more into the family (from a different breeder), at the insistence of my youngest daughter, I only regret walking him and his young buddy when it gets to minus 40 here and windy or over 90 when we are down south. He hates the extreme heat on his paws even more than the extreme cold and the salt and sharp gravel the city throws all over the roads here now though.
The only dog we owned that some people really feared was our Minature Schnauzer, no Beware of Dog sign required. A Terrior that could strike fear in the eyes of large non-dog delivery people and even some local large breed dogs.
Bichon's have the look of wounded sheep and think they are either cats or Blood Hounds.
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On 10/21/2019 at 9:44 AM, Dave A said:
No I have no idea why the double post!!!!
Stereo effect?
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Saw the original of the series and then the version with Jar Jar something or other. Never seen another SW movie since.
Unlikely I will see this one either. Not much of a movie goer since they quit making movies with large casts based on true stories. The movie version of 'A Bridge Too Far' I can watch every few years.
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1 hour ago, JohnJ said:
Well everything else, bread, potato chips yada, yada has been ruined already by "them, they, it"
lays, "can't even force me to eat one"
At least this is still the same and doesn't taste like the box it comes in!
& love it heated with extra milk in the wave on a cold am!
Considering it all started after being ripped off from the Kellogg Brothers Grape Nuts and Post has done well. Much better than Special K and Corn flakes, which tastes like dried cardboard to me. I'm still partial to my Oatmeal in the mornings here. Wife refuses to buy me and make my childhood favorite 'Roman Meal' for reasons I can never figure out and she seemingly won't explain beyond 'UGH!'.
I keep putting it on the grocery list and it never arrives.
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1 hour ago, thebes said:
It was a dark and stormy day actually, just a few days ago. Rained out of work, I cast about for something to do and my eyes lit upon a corner of my stereo playroom. Ensconced behind two turntables, an amplifier, a failed all-acrylic amp, all of them drawing dust in their resting place upon an mid-century Telefunken console was a door to a closet tucked away underneath a stairwell.
There was a secret there, a long hidden part of my past, no not an enigma wrapped in a mystery, but a phase of my life put away for awhile, but now in need of resurrection. "Time, more than time I thought". Flexing both mental and physical muscles I moved in and shifted the electronics, one by one and then gently, taking care for the spindly feet of the console moved it aside, revealing a plain white door. Not just any door, though, the entrance to the Crypt of Thebes, a journey to another time, another world. And there preserved for 19 years rested a molding, rusty deflated tired example of the glory of British motorcycles, my 1962 Triumph 3TA.
Was it also 'the best of times and the worst of times' or just raining?
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What's in that suddenly popular Beyond Beef Burger?
Check out the ingredients in your dog's food. Notice the commonality?
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20 minutes ago, Gilbert said:
What's a brain?
Head Cheese. But only if you're really, really unlucky.
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1 hour ago, Islander said:
Back around 2010, I got to see Dave Brubeck perform. He was 88 at the time, and his energy level was very low. This just meant that he played only very low-energy tunes, and it was still great to see and hear him. He did have some humourous banter between tunes. The audience laughed when he introduced one particular tune, saying that he wrote it before his band was born. Since they appeared to be in their sixties or older, it really must have been an oldie.
I would have regretted not going, and I still regret not seeing Prince when he played here, as I posted recently elsewhere.
Most recent regret was not seeing Weird Al Yankovic a couple of months ago. I had something important the next day, and wanted to be wide awake, so I passed on the concert. Got to bed at a good time, and then was awake for a few hours in the middle of the night and was useless the next day. That was a lose-lose.
If you really want to see someone perform, and ticket prices are high, it might be best to just grit your teeth and pay up, for the chance may not come again.
WRT Weird Al:
Welcome to Heaven; here's your Harp!
Welcome to Hell; here's your Accordian! Unless you're French or German than the Devil rewards you with Bag Pipes.
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13 minutes ago, jimjimbo said:
Petey the Peckerhead Parakeet
I had a nice blue male when I was a child. Then one day he flew a little too low and close to my cat.
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8 minutes ago, oldtimer said:
I don't think they go that far north either.
Neither did Racoons. We've got them here now.
Didn't Granny Clampet had a recipe for o'Possum Stew'? I wouldn't want to risk catching leptospirosis or any of the other nasty diseases they can carry and transmit so I'd pass on the stew or even trying to catch one to put in the pot.
After reading the ingredients list, I stay away from Beyond Meat burgers too.
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25 minutes ago, oldtimer said:
I have a few that patrol the place, new family every year. This little tyke is from the past spring.
Wouldn't last long here where weasels patrol the fence lines. Weasels' tend to punch far beyond their weight category.
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7 minutes ago, BigStewMan said:
Hey Greg ... congrats on having your thread locked. You’re now in a special group of well ... many, many members.
I was in the midst of responding when they closed it. Nothing political though.
Elections here tend to be more civilized then what I witnessed while in Scottsdale in November 2016 and again in November of last year. Although this last one here somehow managed to be boring and unusual at the same time.
Minority governments here mean we'll all get to have a redo in less than four years.
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On 10/18/2019 at 10:54 AM, BigStewMan said:
Hey ... i sat through the movies On Golden Pond and My Favorite Year (well, most of that one) ... i can take one for the team when necessary. I would have suffered through the entirety of My Favorite Year; but the husband of the couple we were with at the movies, puked in the theatre -- right there in his seat. His wife was so mad and told him that he couldn’t sit around and drink beer after work anymore. He claimed that it wasn’t the beer; but that the movie was so bad it made him sick. I think he had a point.
Worst show I ever had to sit through was the off-Broadway version of 'Cats'. Wife dragged me to see it at a theatre in downtown Toronto. Closest I ever came to actually pulling the Fire Alarm and running out of the place screaming!
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Cables, Coffee, Cycles, and Cocktails
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I used to make bread with that as part of the mix. Good for what ails you!
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