1: Inmate Central, Typically, you shoot them down when their cross into your airspace.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-06, 19:08:11 (204.94.81.82)
The current news talks about a balloon that crashed near Hawaii, one somewhere near Guam and weak data on a balloon near or over Florida. Pundits claim that the information was divined from logged dat .......

2: Inmate Central, The only problem is that no one knew until now.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-06, 13:13:12 (204.94.81.82)
Sounds fishy like that Russian disinformation. .......

3: Inmate Central, Am I the only one not getting a check? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-06, 13:03:46 (204.94.81.82)
Where's my money, Ivan? .......

4: Music Lane, Which one was Pink? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-06, 11:57:57 (204.94.81.82)
Anderson also became an unusual footnote in rock history when Syd Barrett, a young man in Cambridge, England, combined Pink's first name with the first name of another obscure bluesman (Floyd Council .......

5: Inmate Central, Be careful.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 20:28:29 (204.94.81.82)
The NSA and QAnon are listening. ;) Didn't CNN say that it was all Russian disinformation? .......

6: Inmate Central, How do you know what the purpose was? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 17:55:02 (204.94.81.82)
Perhaps spying was never the purpose. It may have been a diversion while the real purpose was to distribute a new COVID-23 virus over the US. One thing is for sure. We'll never find out the truth. :: .......

7: Inmate Central, Wouldn't the Chinese provide a self destruct button? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 17:50:32 (204.94.81.82)
An altimeter could do it automatically. .......

8: Inmate Central, RE: A strong magnet is great for a stud finder.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 17:45:29 (204.94.81.82)
True, but I usually have a level too and run the magnet up the stud. If a pro hung the drywall, they're typically dead on. If I'm drilling for a lag bolt for something heavy, I tend to use a small nai .......

9: Inmate Central, It's just facts, Mike... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 11:20:03 (174.65.32.33)
You're projecting and have no idea what I think. Look at the facts. Different states made different choices and the numbers suggest that for the most part, the impact had little difference in COVID de .......

10: Inmate Central, Do your homework, Mike... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 10:09:41 (204.94.81.82)
The federal subsidy was $600 per week, that's $15/hour for 40 hours that they didn't work. In addition, the state unemployment benefits might add $100 to $400 or whatever. Any way you cut it, it's far .......

11: Inmate Central, A strong magnet is great for a stud finder.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 10:03:59 (204.94.81.82)
The best part of the magnet is that it finds the center of the stud where the drywall is nailed or screwed into the stud. .......

12: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: On the tweeter horn extension another question (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 09:09:57 (204.94.81.82)
It looks like cork that was used on the horn. The 811 horn can have some resonance, so it likely does help. Adding foam around my 811 horns made quite an improvement. However, I don't quite get the id .......

13: Inmate Central, Who forced them to close? Newsom, Cuomo, Fauci... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 08:47:16 (174.65.32.33)
Texas and Florida opened more quickly. California, New York and other blue states took a lot longer. While a lot of businesses got money and many of them fraudulently, thousands more went out of busin .......

14: Inmate Central, Unemployment of $400 plus $600 more per week is a lot of free money.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-04, 08:35:34 (204.94.81.82)
Perhaps you forgot or you didn't get your share. Millions of lower wage people in the food and hospitality industries were getting more on the dole than they would get if they took a job. $4,000 a mon .......

15: Inmate Central, It's surprising how easy it was by just letting the businesses re-open (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-03, 17:51:17 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

16: Inmate Central, I do have a job and I do pay into SS & Medicare (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-03, 12:53:15 (204.94.81.82)
Do you prefer to be a lazy taker? .......

17: Inmate Central, RE: But, but, but... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-03, 11:40:28 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

18: Inmate Central, Do you have ground squirrels? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-02, 10:00:21 (204.94.81.82)
If we had squirrels in the trees, they wouldn't be much of a problem. With our ground squirrels, they are a nuisance and quite destructive. These pests burrow under the foundation of the house and und .......

19: Inmate Central, RE: You need the Squirrelinator! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-01, 17:51:30 (174.65.32.33)
Well, the law in California requires that you kill rodents and you can't drown them which is the easiest thing. I used a pellet gun a few times and it's not like the movies where they bad guys drop de .......

20: Inmate Central, You need the Squirrelinator! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-02-01, 12:04:05 (204.94.81.82)
I got a few every day for relocation and ended up moving about 15 of the rodents in a few weeks last year. Come spring, I'll get the rest! .......

21: Inmate Central, RE: Did you actually watch the video? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-30, 14:08:09 (204.94.81.82)
I did watch it, but the videos that I saw started with a cop pulling him out of the car, so I didn't see how the stop started. Is there another that shows the beginning of the stop? It's not that I th .......

22: Inmate Central, Why do some people choose to NOT comply with police? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-29, 17:52:38 (204.94.81.82)
There's no excuse for those cops, but whenever these travesties happen, it seems to also come with a struggle or fight with the cops. Back in the 70s here, it was well known that if you were a long ha .......

23: Inmate Central, Millennials are moving away from Cali, NY, etc. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-28, 12:20:25 (204.94.81.82)
The U.S. Census Bureau this week released once-a-decade population tallies that show California, for the first time, losing a congressional seat, joined by New York, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsyl .......

24: Inmate Central, My son's Mazda 3 had Dunlop tires that lasted nearly 80K miles.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-28, 11:42:07 (204.94.81.82)
I couldn't believe it. But he was largely doing freeway driving. We put Michelin Sport tires on it and hope they'll last at last half the miles of the Dunlops. .......

25: Inmate Central, I often know that I have something and can't find it.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-28, 11:28:45 (204.94.81.82)
until I buy another one and then run into the one that I couldn't find a month or so later. .......

26: Inmate Central, RE: The carbon footprint for EVs is huge! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-27, 12:08:56 (204.94.81.82)
>>Wonder how often you need a battery change? Considering that the warranty for batteries is 100K miles or 10 years, that footprint goes way up! and replacement batteries might cost upwards of $22K. : .......

27: Amp/Preamp Asylum, The internet says otherwise... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-27, 07:22:11 (204.94.81.82)
Try the margin calculator. .......

28: Inmate Central, Oops....yeah and look at this... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 20:06:19 (204.94.81.82)
The problem with this chart is that it assumes nearly zero cost for operation costs. Now, maybe you have solar and never use power from the grid that may be coal fired. It's suspect. Here's anothe .......

29: Inmate Central, It's bad, but can be done somewhat safely... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 19:51:35 (204.94.81.82)
Trust me, I used to do some jewelry on a side hustle back in the 90s and needed a plater for nickel, gold and silver. The owner was likely 70, but he did look like the chemicals make have taken a toll .......

30: Inmate Central, The carbon footprint for EVs is huge! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 18:07:18 (204.94.81.82)
A diesel Golf has a smaller footprint than the equivalent EV for the first ~120K miles. . .......

31: Inmate Central, California wants to ban the toxic chemical that gives chrome its classic shine (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 18:01:00 (204.94.81.82)
First, it was coal, then natural gas, now CHROME! From hot rods to low riders, life in Southern California is still synonymous with classic and customized cars of yesteryear, and chrome's legacy rema .......

32: Inmate Central, Me too...Classe' DR9.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 17:57:02 (204.94.81.82)
It's a killer that will drive just about anything with finesse and is as sweet as the best tube amps. .......

33: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Profit margins are the typical retail metric.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 17:50:53 (204.94.81.82)
A $100 price with a cost of $30 is a 70% margin. If you're selling through dealers, margins are typically 40-60% for dealers and a manufacturer needs another 40-50% to stay in business, so a manufactu .......

34: Inmate Central, RE: What's knockin' around in PA... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 11:48:39 (204.94.81.82)
Why would you need to pay a mileage tax if you're already paying gas taxes? Having a minimum mileage tax doesn't make sense either. Let's be fair, pay for what you use. My problem in general with taxe .......

35: Inmate Central, RE: Should I ever be guilty of posting a link to a news site.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 11:42:43 (204.94.81.82)
>>OWNED by the Democrat(ic) party, feel free to call me out. :-) Did you stop reading the NY Times and the Washington Post? .......

36: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Large monitors are expensive.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 11:41:29 (204.94.81.82)
I totally agree. While the Mac laptops are twice as expensive as most PC laptops, the screens are nice. What I noticed was the 27" iMacs was the small extra cost over a Mac 27" monitor. It's actually .......

37: Inmate Central, Get real Ivan... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-26, 08:56:11 (174.65.32.33)
Let's discuss the topic, not shoot the messenger. Personally, EVs need to pay mileage taxes. However, either the gas tax needs to be repealed or mileage taxes would only apply to EVs. Sorry, Ivan, you .......

38: General Asylum, Good idea... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-25, 20:31:19 (204.94.81.82)
We think alike. I just tagged some speaker wire from the mains to the subs and set the volume and crossover. .......

39: Films/DVD Asylum, Top Gun is great . . . (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-25, 18:50:14 (204.94.81.82)
entertaiing, somewhat predictable, but much better than I thought it would be. Action movies are rarely 'Best Movies', they tend to be on the boring side. Best chance is photography. We saw Avatar on .......

40: Inmate Central, RE: Yeah, but there's a difference today (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-24, 20:25:55 (204.94.81.82)
True, but someone has to pay for rebuilding the Ukraine. We already wasted a fortune on other foreign adventures. It's time that we take care of Americans and our own crumbling infrastructure. As Opah .......

41: Computer Audio Asylum, Large monitors are expensive.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-24, 18:41:41 (204.94.81.82)
I just looked at 27" Mac monitors and they're great and prices start at about $1,600. 32" 4K monitors are reasonable, not as nice as the Macs, but can be had for under $400. My Samsung U32J59s were ab .......

42: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: "Accommodates 2.5" SATA SSD and NVMe M.2 drive." (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-24, 18:18:14 (204.94.81.82)
I don't get the Hagibis hubs. Having the M.2 NVMe and SSD seems redundant and doesn't make much sense to me. If it used Thunderbolt, the M.2 NVMe might be worth while if you needed the speed. Otherwis .......

43: Inmate Central, If You Break It, You Own It... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-24, 10:42:50 (204.94.81.82)
As Colin Powell famously told President George W. Bush, "If you break it you own it." Let the Europeans have it. .......

44: Inmate Central, Not in California..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-22, 20:38:35 (174.65.32.33)
Property taxes go up 2% a year, but at least it's limited to 2% and about 1.2% on valuation. But the valuations are triple or more elsewhere, so it's not a great low rate. What's worse is that CA depe .......

45: Inmate Central, The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-22, 11:24:16 (204.94.81.82)
Watch live. The waves don't look like much until you see a crazy person on a 40 foot high face. View YouTube Video .......

46: Inmate Central, No, but we bought a vehicle w/o the title? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-22, 11:18:42 (204.94.81.82)
It took a lot of time to get it done which wasn't a big deal because it took that much time to get the car cleaned up and the engine rebuilt. As I recall, we had to get the last owners information fro .......

47: Inmate Central, Here kitty, kitty.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-20, 13:55:21 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

48: Inmate Central, Spinning Crosby, Stills & Nash....RIP, you'll be missed (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-19, 18:59:24 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

49: Inmate Central, California storms were not likely caused by global warming, experts say.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-19, 17:49:08 (204.94.81.82)
Oops! As California emerges from a two-week bout of deadly atmospheric rivers, a number of climate researchers say the recent storms appear to be typical of the intense, periodic rains the state has .......

50: Inmate Central, Alec Baldwin is an idiot and a liar.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-19, 13:01:24 (204.94.81.82)
The whole production was a disaster and Baldwin was a primary producer and responsible for everything on the set. There was talk that live ammo had been on the set and that people were doing target pr .......

51: General Asylum, This song? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-19, 12:32:54 (204.94.81.82)
View YouTube Video .......

52: Inmate Central, Hard to say how much is real money... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-17, 17:22:34 (204.94.81.82)
Brady may have been given stock in return for promotions that he did for FTX. Even if Brady did buy any stock, it's likely pennies on the dollar considering the stock price of FTX when it tanked. It .......

53: Inmate Central, I don't have a dog in this fight.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-16, 18:43:14 (204.94.81.82)
I just wish the war would be over and we can stop blowing 100s of billions of dollars that we don't have. Let Europe do it. Anyway Chris, let's tone if down and just agree to disagree and both you and .......

54: Inmate Central, RE: Sweet setup... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-16, 18:25:38 (204.94.81.82)
How would they know if you had batteries? Is it enforced? You might want batteries in the case of outages where a medical device might be required 24/7. OTOH, right now, there's no need for me to get .......

55: Inmate Central, Well, maybe Victor and you can agree to a deal.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-16, 18:11:00 (204.94.81.82)
Victor? .......

56: Inmate Central, Chris, let's kill the word..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-16, 17:51:29 (204.94.81.82)
Ukronazis. It inflames the discussion and delutes your argument. Thanks. .......

57: Inmate Central, How do you like me now, ghost? A 99 yard fumble return on a QB sneak (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-15, 19:36:30 (204.94.81.82)
Just when you thought the Ravens would put it away. .......

58: Inmate Central, Did you buy an induction stove? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-15, 19:33:54 (204.94.81.82)
I looked, just for grins. The cheapest induction stoves were $1,199. Gas overs could be had under $500 with the nicer ones up to all of $600. But hey, there's a $200 tax credit! Dang, the batteries ar .......

59: Inmate Central, Nice Tesla.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-15, 17:49:28 (204.94.81.82)
If you don't mind, how big is the battery and how much do they cost? We're still grandfathered into the old Net Metering and have enough panels to bank enough in summer to cover the winter bills. But, .......

60: Test Audio Asylum, RE: Test (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-15, 09:04:47 (204.94.81.82)
Another cap? .......

61: Inmate Central, Nice shot (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-14, 19:36:05 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

62: Inmate Central, RE: Most recent version of Catalina. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-14, 19:25:27 (174.65.32.33)
My 2012 Mac Minis always work and turn off the monitor using HDMI. My 2018 with Catalina is the same. Just pulled the cable to the 2018 and it came right up. The monitor is a cheap 22" Acer that I use .......

63: Inmate Central, Interesting.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-14, 17:31:25 (204.94.81.82)
I had somewhat similar issues with hdmi on a PC. If the display was set to power off, it never did, always stayed on. I switched the output to a DVI connection and no problem. In my case, I think it w .......

64: Inmate Central, Yeah, fiesty little guy....check this acrobat.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-13, 19:58:03 (204.94.81.82)
On Instagram... .......

65: Inmate Central, Big cat vs little cat... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-13, 13:41:38 (204.94.81.82)
TikTok video with mountain lion in Julian, CA .......

66: Inmate Central, What are you complaining about? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-12, 20:32:35 (204.94.81.82)
We got billed for 122 therms in December for $332.78, $2.72/therm. Next month, it goes 114%, $712.15. I cut the heat to the bones and am looking like Jimmy Carter wearing a sweater, long johns and a s .......

67: Inmate Central, RE: Rod - a question for you (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-12, 10:48:58 (204.94.81.82)
Try it now. .......

68: Inmate Central, RE: Calling All Electricians: (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-11, 06:00:26 (204.94.81.82)
Victor has a good idea for troubleshooting. Find all the other plugs or switches that feed from the GFI. I'm betting that water has gotten into one of the boxes causing a short. If everything checks .......

69: Inmate Central, RE: Calling All Electricians: (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 19:41:17 (204.94.81.82)
GFIs do get weak particularly if power tools and compressors are involved. But considering the rain, it could be water. I had some water in the basement a few years ago like these storms where a box w .......

70: Inmate Central, The only folks get a real pay check is the lawyers.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 18:19:19 (174.65.32.33)
You're right, 16 cents is total joke and waste of money. But the settlement for 50 million people adds up to real money even after the lawyers take 30 or 50% plus costs. This is funny. 16 cents mailed .......

71: Inmate Central, RE: Agreed. Part of balancing the books should come from collecting... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 13:33:06 (204.94.81.82)
Uncle Mike, please be nice to folks and contribute to the discussion rather dismissing others opinions. Thanks. .......

72: Inmate Central, Try to stay dry.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 13:14:38 (174.65.32.33)
We've gotten some winds down here in So. Cal. Rain didn't come until late last night and my wife claimed that it was fairy heavy for a while. All morning it's been light and misty on and off. Just as .......

73: Inmate Central, Nice try.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 11:12:25 (204.94.81.82)
Obama added $5.761 Trillion by the time he left! .......

74: Inmate Central, Since 2008 we've nearly doubled the debt.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 10:36:05 (204.94.81.82)
How long can that go on at that pace? .......

75: Inmate Central, RE: Tax revenue is not defined (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 10:31:39 (204.94.81.82)
The chart is next to useless. Basically, it shows that war cost money in excess of tax revenues. The problem now is that the ratio of revenues to debt is rising without a major war. The current ratio .......

76: Inmate Central, Living within your means is 100% TOTAL nonsense,balderdash, poppycock, bunkum? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 10:05:00 (204.94.81.82)
Hey, buy yourself a brand new Telsa Model S. Get the best, it's only $100K. Just do it. Some one else will pay the bill, right? Look at the interest and impact on the debt over time: We are curren .......

77: Inmate Central, How about fiscal prudence... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 09:20:33 (204.94.81.82)
Prudence, while simply put, means: exercise of good judgment, common sense, and even caution, especially in the conduct of practical matters. So when we add fiscal to it, you can infer the meaning as .......

78: Computer Audio Asylum, 1969 days and 15 hours.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-10, 07:51:22 (204.94.81.82)
Or 5.39 years on WD Red 8TB drives. These were pulled from the QNAP TS-853A and moved to our original QNAP TS-853 Pro. The old HGST 4TB NAS drives were installed in February of 2016 were just under 7 .......

79: Inmate Central, I just went to the bathroom with TCU driving and it's now 65-7 (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-09, 19:49:07 (204.94.81.82)
It's definitely the worst championship game ever. At least Ohio St made it a game, down the the last drive. Michigan had the same problem as TCU tonoight, 3 turnovers with points. Otherwise, we'd be s .......

80: Inmate Central, You don't win with 3 turnovers... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-09, 18:24:08 (204.94.81.82)
Yeah, I gave up on the back when Georgia was up 17 points. It's all over but the tears, unless TCU has spent all their tears and have none left. .......

81: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: my tolerance is very low (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-09, 18:15:39 (174.65.32.33)
He was the original architect and CTO for Nextag which was one of the price comparison service and made a fortune with arbitraging Google ads to their site, picking up advertising money by sending the .......

82: Inmate Central, So much for hoping a good game with Georgia & TCU... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-09, 17:51:42 (174.65.32.33)
24-7 Georgia. Two turnovers from TCU and Georgia marching down for yet another TD with 6:00 left in the half. .......

83: Inmate Central, RE: Ordered a Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-09, 13:47:06 (204.94.81.82)
Good call. I have some VGA adapters and seriously, I can't tell the difference from it and hdmi. I also have DVI adapters which tended to work better on some monitors that wouldn't put the monitor on .......

84: Inmate Central, RE: Dell monitor. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-09, 12:49:13 (204.94.81.82)
It's surely weird. Is seems a thunderbolt to hdmi adapter is an option. If you just can't fix it, I just bought a 2012 Mac Mini with 16GB and SSD for about $200 on ePay. .......

85: Inmate Central, Electric stoves should be banned.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-09, 12:47:15 (204.94.81.82)
I hate them. But, in California, natural gas is being outlawed in many cities for any new housing and businesses. Restaurants are going crazy with chefs not knowing how they could do a majority of th .......

86: Inmate Central, RE: Calling all Mac mavens.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-09, 07:17:15 (204.94.81.82)
What kind of monitor are you using? I found some complaints that appear to be issues with TVs as monitors, possibly with Samsung or using 4K TVs. Other strange things were mentioned about possibly 11. .......

87: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: my tolerance is very low (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-08, 19:45:38 (204.94.81.82)
>>> Then they made me a project manager and I immediately quit :) Avoiding future blame is a better part of valor. It's the old 80/20 rule, except it's more like 95/5 or less for a real architect. My .......

88: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: my tolerance is very low (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-08, 17:47:17 (174.65.32.33)
>>>If so and it is buggy, based on my own 20+ years of development experience, the architecture and/or code probably sucks, and I expect it will never be not buggy. You remind me of an old partner, on .......

89: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Trial of Audivarna (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-08, 17:40:10 (204.94.81.82)
I don't see how upsampling a stream to DSD would improve the sound much if at all. It's garbage in, garbage out. If you were upsampling and your PC doesn't have enough horsepower and memory, crashing .......

90: Inmate Central, RE: We'll collect--the offer was made by the insurance company... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-08, 14:22:54 (204.94.81.82)
That's great. Maybe you can also contribute to the Asylum. ;) .......

91: Inmate Central, RE: I have googled hawks in Louisiana. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-07, 18:02:19 (204.94.81.82)
Ah, yes, all the bones. My buddy has a nesting pair of owls. Everywhere under the owl house is covered with small bones. He says that it comes from their droppings. I can only say that they're well fe .......

92: Inmate Central, It's a big thing around here.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-07, 17:57:41 (204.94.81.82)
Most don't have good entertainment though. The area around N. San Diego County has been dubbed the Hops Highway. It seems like a new one pops up ever month. .......

93: Inmate Central, Sounds good....if you can collect! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-07, 17:45:31 (204.94.81.82)
Either you were lucky and the perpetrator has deep, deep pockets or good luck. Hardly anyone would have that much liability insurance. Otherwise, it will take while to take their house, retirement and .......

94: Inmate Central, RE: Thats pretty close. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-07, 13:23:08 (204.94.81.82)
They're hard to catch. I see them all the time, but they're to far away and I haven't got the gear to get a good shot. Don't ask me what kind of hawk this one is. .......

95: Inmate Central, RE: Thats pretty close. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-07, 13:15:02 (204.94.81.82)
I need to ask Coby. They're coming down in a couple weeks. I suspect that he was using a big telephoto lens and was cropped down quite a bit. .......

96: Inmate Central, Former adult film star Ron Jeremy, 69, dodges rape charges! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-07, 13:01:05 (204.94.81.82)
Jeremy - whose legal name is Ronald Hyatt - was first charged in June 2020 with raping four women he had met in West Hollywood bars and clubs. The case quickly ballooned, as dozens of women came forw .......

97: Inmate Central, That tough to get....here's a close up (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-07, 11:35:05 (204.94.81.82)
It's a picture of a photo that my daughter's boyfriend got in Alaska. When I saw it the first time, I thought is was fake or a painting. They've got a shop with his pics in Anchorage. . ::: TOPIC: .......

98: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Valencia vs. Model 19s and crazy prices for 19s (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 20:12:00 (204.94.81.82)
I haven't really done extensive listening to Valencias as Stephen has a pair that he uses for his office system for background music. From the comments, I'd tend to agree that the 19s have deeper base .......

99: Inmate Central, It seems like scammers would love it....... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 18:12:45 (204.94.81.82)
I only use it for the typical monthly bills, so I don't care. But I nearly canceled my Citi Visa via Costco. My son uses it for gas and pays his bill. He'd signed up for a year subscription and then c .......

100: Inmate Central, How do you train those three? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 18:00:00 (204.94.81.82)
Are they siblings? That's the best. We did and then, lost one to wandering and the new one was never real friendly. And then went we lost the older one, she never liked to new teenager. She passed and .......

101: Inmate Central, Sorry, Toyota shows it as $27,450 MSRP... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 17:48:55 (174.65.32.33)
My wife's Prius C was a level 2 or whatever was in the middle that had navigation for about $24K in 2015. The new one with XLE trim is now $31K, but it's a bigger car than the smaller C which isn't ma .......

102: Computer Audio Asylum, Here you go with touchscreen and case... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 14:13:03 (204.94.81.82)
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103: Inmate Central, That's her 'Are you talking to me?' eyes.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 14:01:54 (204.94.81.82)
This is her sleepy eyes. .......

104: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Then try next week.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 13:56:29 (204.94.81.82)
I seem to recall that the business was nearly going to close and one of the main techs took it over a few years ago. That may be why it is what it is. .......

105: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Did you call them? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 12:22:23 (204.94.81.82)
The website is there. There's Great Plains maybe: https://greatplainsaudio.com/services/ .......

106: Inmate Central, Liars, liars... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 10:07:28 (204.94.81.82)
SDG&E's excuse for this current surge in pricing is an article from CNBC. The only problem is that article was published Wed, May 25 2022. .......

107: Inmate Central, I surely don't believe SDG&E! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 10:01:09 (204.94.81.82)
They're blaming a spot price surging to $9, but that peaked at $8.81 in August. Today's price is back down to $3.78. Either they're trying to get back some costs when they lost money on the rates last .......

108: Inmate Central, Busted! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 09:48:28 (204.94.81.82)
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109: Inmate Central, RE: Looks like your utility is charging you about 10x the spot price.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 08:58:44 (204.94.81.82)
What's the correlation between the spot price to a therm? Comparing my cost in June 21 to 22, I paid 2.04 and 2.66 per therm. Given their information, we pay a fixed amount of about $1.65/therm in cos .......

110: Inmate Central, Well, I don't see it exactly.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 08:38:26 (204.94.81.82)
If I were to guess, SDG&E may have been doing some futures buying as rates are fairly stable until 2018 and then you see the steps up with the 2021 ans 2022 prices being about even. What you don't see .......

111: Inmate Central, Ok, I just got my weekly update....$4.74/therm (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-06, 07:49:26 (204.94.81.82)
We're getting charged much higher prices: Dec 20 $1.99 Dec 21 $2.27 Dec 22 $2.73 Jan 23 $4.74 I re-programmed the themostat and got more miserly. We were running 3 to 6 therms a day in December which .......

112: Inmate Central, RE: Contrast that with this (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 20:30:15 (204.94.81.82)
So, SDG&E is actually charging us for the spot price at it's high and will be paying at the plunging low price? Tell the pensioners to buy the stock for dividends. .......

113: Inmate Central, Statistics lie.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 20:14:27 (204.94.81.82)
I don't see the correlation with your chart to my real data. .......

114: Inmate Central, RE: Future Advertising Campaign (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 19:38:45 (204.94.81.82)
From what I've read, it's the only folks to ever survive going off that cliff. It also said that the car rested on a rock out cropping, so it may have only gone less that all the way down of the cliff .......

115: Inmate Central, New Prius is $26K (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 19:34:42 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

116: Inmate Central, Update on natural gas prices.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 19:30:35 (174.65.32.33)
SDG&E claims most folks will only see an extra $120 for January, yet the rate doubled for January, now it's $240 for that "average customer". SDG&E's transparency is nice, though not comforting. .......

117: Inmate Central, RE: Four foot 4-tube LED Shop lights at Harbor Freight (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 17:55:24 (204.94.81.82)
I know what you mean. We've got some round LED ceiling light and it's just a circuit board full of LED chips when you open the cover to install them. They're on a motion/light sensor switch and they g .......

118: Inmate Central, It's all a big mistake....the car was on auto-pilot! (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 17:40:10 (204.94.81.82)
Musk is the murderer. .......

119: Inmate Central, RE: Gold Coast Sea World chopper crash - pasenger video emerges (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 13:37:48 (204.94.81.82)
My neighbor's son is working to build up his hours so that he can become a commercial helicopter pilot. She and I agree, bad choice. But what can you say to him and his dream? .......

120: Inmate Central, Cozy on a rainy day... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 12:03:37 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

121: Inmate Central, Hum, wonder who's fault that is? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 12:01:51 (204.94.81.82)
It's not me. It must be your fault. .......

122: Inmate Central, It looks like rates have gone up by 3-4X since 2012... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 12:00:52 (204.94.81.82)
Well, it doesn't get real hot typically. Usually, we'll get a little Indian Summer where it's in the 90s for a week or two. My office bakes in the late afternoon and it's still tolerable, but in my ol .......

123: Inmate Central, RE: I'm experimenting with electric space heaters..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 10:43:17 (204.94.81.82)
I see that you're in CA, so if you can get solar by April and get grandfathered into the old Net Metering 2.0, it's likely worth it. Current costs are less than $3/watt, so a 4.2kW system would cost l .......

124: Inmate Central, We have mini-splits in my office, bedrooms and family room..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 09:03:39 (204.94.81.82)
My office is a separate building tagged onto the garage and had no heat, so that was the first to get a mini-split. Our back bedrooms never got a lot of heat and we didn't have any A/C, so we opted fo .......

125: Inmate Central, Our gas bills have already gone up about 25% year to year... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-05, 08:49:42 (204.94.81.82)
Now, it's another 100%. Ouch! In summer, we have an average bill of $25 that go up to around $100 until we hit November through March that go from $150 to now, $350. I just reprogrammed the thermostat .......

126: Inmate Central, Yeah, windfall profits.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-04, 20:12:56 (204.94.81.82)
Never happens. But a new higher tax on natural gas kicked in this month, something like $71 billion this winter, a bit less than Congress gave to Ukraine. I believe it was in the green section of the .......

127: Inmate Central, What's Higher Than 'Skyrocketing'? Consumers Should Prepare for SDG&E-Bill Shock (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-04, 17:41:46 (204.94.81.82)
Not only does SDG&E have the highest electricity rate in the 48 states, on January 1st, one of the coldest of the year, our gas bills will go double, with a 100% increase in natural gas cost. Last mo .......

128: Inmate Central, RE: Pretty sure unusual here given 170 years of record keeping... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-04, 12:17:58 (204.94.81.82)
"Just barely missing the all time record for wettest day, 5.54 set back in November of 1994." 1994 isn't 170 years ago. .......

129: Inmate Central, RE: Not really (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-04, 12:14:11 (204.94.81.82)
Ok, we'll see. I surely don't trust our politicians to be fair and would bet that repealing the gas tax would not be a given. .......

130: Inmate Central, RE: You know electricity is taxed (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-04, 12:12:21 (204.94.81.82)
Sure, but electricity taxes don't pay for roads. .......

131: Inmate Central, RE: Folks love their Teslas... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-04, 12:10:44 (204.94.81.82)
Yeah, Tesla may have more to go in the shorter to mid-term. But, you look at the charts and Tesla still has a P/E of 39.54. Ford's P/E is 5.30 and has an EPS of $2.27 to Tesla's $2.87 and Tesla costs .......

132: General Asylum, RE: Something for us to argue about :-) Isn't it time we stop misusing "subjectivist" and "objectivist"? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-03, 20:00:37 (174.65.32.33)
>>>Ultimately all things objectively measured are considered to be objectively measured because they are measured against a standard. Not because tools were used. That just makes the measurements more .......

133: Inmate Central, Folks love their Teslas... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-03, 18:06:42 (204.94.81.82)
I was tempted, but they're too expensive and none are truly ready for prime time. My biggest issue that the batteries are far too expensive making the EV as a disposable product. Currently, the plug-i .......

134: Inmate Central, I don't know if it's unusual or back to normal.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-03, 17:57:05 (204.94.81.82)
I've lived in So. California for most of my life and when I was growing up, we always had a week or two of rain 2 or 3 times in January and February. Often, it was pouring rain for hours. These curren .......

135: Inmate Central, Nice link and it's issues.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-03, 17:51:07 (204.94.81.82)
Yet another issue with a mileage tax is the inequality. Poor contractors that commute all over the county will be hurt with extremely high mileage tax costs while rich work at home folks will pay near .......

136: Inmate Central, You're missing the point.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-03, 17:40:26 (204.94.81.82)
EVs are getting a free ride now. You advocate that the solution is a mileage tax. My issue is that the vast majority of people are already paying a gas tax. To be fair, any mileage tax should be fair .......

137: Inmate Central, Damn those unintended consequences.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-03, 12:09:45 (204.94.81.82)
Although you can do this like our crazy law makers, create a loop hole. For plug-in hybrids, charge them just like EVs, except the hybrids can collect all their gas receipts and get a rebate for the E .......

138: Inmate Central, RE: "But the whole idea is to make gas expensive" (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-03, 10:21:04 (174.65.32.33)
>>>No, the whole idea is to have those who use infrastructure (roads in this case) pay for the infrastructure in proportion to their actual "use" of it. If that were the fair amount for use and abuse .......

139: Inmate Central, Is it fair to tax gas and mileage? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-03, 08:07:34 (204.94.81.82)
The writing on the wall is that EVs are getting a free ride and aren't paying their fair share, so an EV mileage tax is only right. However, it's double taxation if you're paying a gas tax and an EV m .......

140: Inmate Central, I'll bet the game isn't going to continue...almost an hour already (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-02, 18:41:47 (204.94.81.82)
My prayers are with him. .......

141: General Asylum, +1 (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-02, 11:46:14 (204.94.81.82)
Bob Dylan as a singer? Songwriter, sure, but not much of a singer. Willy isn't a great vocalist though he can surely carry a tune. IMO, he's way better than Bob and rated much lower. I've never heard .......

142: Inmate Central, Interesting chart..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2023-01-01, 11:32:00 (204.94.81.82)
OSU only needed to score a touchdown instead of a field goal at the end of the 4th quarter. Hand it to Georgia, their D saved the day and gave them more time than needed to put them up for the win. :: .......

143: Inmate Central, 8 seconds and a 50 yarder for the Ohio win.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 21:04:22 (204.94.81.82)
The field goal is wide left. Georgia/TCU for the playoff. .......

144: Inmate Central, 55 seconds to glory....Georgia up 42-41 (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 20:49:50 (204.94.81.82)
CJ and Ohio have time, all they need is a field goal....in 55 seconds. .......

145: Inmate Central, It could be an underdog playoff....Ohio St. up 35-24, early 3rd Qtr (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 19:34:44 (204.94.81.82)
After watching TCU today, it should be a great game and this one with OU and Georgia is great. It's so refreshing not to see 'Bama blowouts. .......

146: Inmate Central, RE: Good for TCU. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 18:53:29 (174.65.32.33)
That's a bitch. At least half of the college games are on ESPN or ESPN2. It was 3/4 today with Iowa/Kentucky being the only one on the on air networks. .......

147: Inmate Central, Well, you got your wish.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 17:08:23 (204.94.81.82)
I couldn't believe what I was watching, two pick sixes and a fumble from Michigan with a 1st and goal from the 1/2 yard line. Then, Michigan roars back from a 20 point deficit like two fighter trading .......

148: Inmate Central, Michigan can't get a break.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 14:04:35 (204.94.81.82)
A pick six and just now, fumbles on the a half yard and goal. TCU leads 14-3 for now, just into the 2nd quarter. .......

149: Inmate Central, RE: 21-10 Bama at half. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 11:00:10 (204.94.81.82)
Yeah, not getting that last touchdown and giving 'Bama a minute cost Kansas big time. .......

150: Inmate Central, Uh oh, 'Bama down 10 zip in the 1st quarter... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 09:45:20 (204.94.81.82)
I doubt that Kansas can keep it up, but I hope so. My expectation was a blow out the other way. .......

151: Computer Audio Asylum, The Quadra looks awfully sweet and cheap! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-31, 09:42:01 (204.94.81.82)
I'm tempted even though I've got 3 RPis and don't need it at all. .......

152: Inmate Central, My in-laws are always complaining about deer.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-29, 19:23:35 (204.94.81.82)
Forget a garden, all the tomatoes and anything else is gone overnight. They live near a conservation area that has finally decided that the herd needs culling. Our brick in the grass areas were set in .......

153: Inmate Central, LOL! No deer, lots of coyotes, racoons, cotton tails, skunks and gophers. (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-29, 18:04:13 (204.94.81.82)
, .......

154: Inmate Central, RE: Good point.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-29, 17:56:58 (174.65.32.33)
While watching OU and FSU, tied with 3:35 left. FSU with the ball. But I digress, you should be able to see, read and write data on a USB drive if it's plugged into your NAS. The Mac isn't writing, th .......

155: Inmate Central, My mowing days ended with our last home purchase.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-29, 13:18:25 (174.65.32.33)
While it's an acre lot, much of it is hard-scarped with the rest having ground cover, paths and succulents and hedges. We had only two small grass areas between a brick walk from the back porch when w .......

156: Inmate Central, Hondas are the best.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-29, 12:55:23 (204.94.81.82)
While I did like my Toro mowers, the Honda was great. Always, started on the first pull. .......

157: Inmate Central, Cold and cloudy here.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-29, 11:52:40 (204.94.81.82)
Only 59° just short of noon today. .......

158: Inmate Central, Best lawn mowers.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-29, 11:50:29 (204.94.81.82)
I'm watching the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl and was curious who the Bad Boys were. Of course, I got an ad for the best mower and out of curiosity, I clicked. I'm guessing that Abe has an Ego Power+ .......

159: Inmate Central, We have a similar issue...... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-28, 13:43:40 (204.94.81.82)
Other than delivering to a neighbor once in a while, Amazon drivers nearly always leave packages on the side door by the kitchen nook that we never see because no one uses that door. FedEx or UPS alwa .......

160: Inmate Central, RE: Good point.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-28, 09:04:41 (204.94.81.82)
Yeah, I know. Most of my scripts are just copy, paste and edit. Here's a typical one: rsync -rav -e --delete /share/Dir/ --exclude='Junk/' /share/USB1-16TB It gets more complicated if you're doing it .......

161: Inmate Central, RE: Good point.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-28, 07:53:34 (204.94.81.82)
Whatever works. I used to use cygwin to use rsync from my PC when I used FreeBSD. Later, I found the robocopy on the PC worked quite well and was simpler. For the Macs, you can just use the Terminal .......

162: Inmate Central, RE: I use Synology SHR (Hybrid RAID) ................... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-27, 20:24:49 (204.94.81.82)
The Synology SHR is interesting and nice for small systems, allowing for incremental increases in storage. QNAP has flexible storage pools as well with what they call Thin volumes, but it comes with a .......

163: Inmate Central, RE: yep, 64kb allocation unit size to get 256TB. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-27, 20:20:32 (204.94.81.82)
I wouldn't know. If there are open slots, they add to the array. QNAP sells add on boxes with extra slots that are integrated with the master, but I never had the need to look into those. .......

164: Inmate Central, RE: How long does it take to upgrade an 8 bay NAS? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-27, 17:40:39 (204.94.81.82)
Not really. Neither one of the NAS had enough space to copy one fully to be able to do that. Swapping drives and then expanding the capacity can be done without taking anything down and can be used wh .......

165: Inmate Central, RE: I wonder ................ (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-27, 14:08:21 (204.94.81.82)
It's hard to say. Syncing seems to be exponentially slower as the drive size increases. It laos seems to be that CPU and memory are major issues as I did notice the one NAS is a bit quicker and has a .......

166: Inmate Central, Good point.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-27, 13:59:10 (204.94.81.82)
I format the USB drives with NTFS on the QNAP box. It's got four 3.2 USB ports, so I plug them in directly. If I want to read them on the PC, no problem. If I access the NAS via SMB, then I can read t .......

167: Inmate Central, How long does it take to upgrade an 8 bay NAS? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-27, 10:37:33 (204.94.81.82)
Short answer...a month or more. Most of you may know that my wife does a lot of 4K video, so we have two 8 bay QNAP NAS boxes with 24TB and 42TB respectively. Since she was filling it up along with my .......

168: Inmate Central, Mayfield stunk until he moved to LA (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-26, 17:54:05 (204.94.81.82)
Surprising how that works. .......

169: General Asylum, RE: Streaming to projector setup (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-26, 17:50:23 (174.65.32.33)
That should work. Personally, I'm partial to the Roku boxes and sticks. The apps and the variety of apps for Roku seem to be more plentiful and more up to date than some other products. Edit: You migh .......

170: Inmate Central, Christmas Stars (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-25, 17:29:35 (204.94.81.82)
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171: Inmate Central, Yeah, a nice day today...while hell is freezing over.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-24, 18:46:58 (204.94.81.82)
Sorry, E. Coasters. .......

172: Inmate Central, Until today.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-23, 20:28:55 (204.94.81.82)
The package was overnight....now, it's still in Memphis. What's up, it was sunny and in the 70s today. .......

173: Inmate Central, IME, battereis last just a bit longer than the warranty.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-22, 10:48:52 (204.94.81.82)
3 to 5 years seems typical these days. .......

174: General Asylum, RE: Christmas Music (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-20, 18:15:27 (204.94.81.82)
Like you, I have many Christmas CDs ripped from various artists along with some classical tracks. Typically, I just select the genre and put it on shuffle. I do like the classics though, Nat Cole woul .......

175: Inmate Central, It's because Lands' End is fighting climate change! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-20, 12:28:35 (204.94.81.82)
Thinner cloth and smaller sizes are good for the Mother Earth. .......

176: Inmate Central, Not quite, more like 18 months.. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-19, 12:09:58 (204.94.81.82)
See his posts: .......

177: Inmate Central, I'll take that as a vote for 'send them to the chopping blocks' (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-18, 17:45:58 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

178: Inmate Central, Will King Charles III Invite Prince Harry & Meghan Markle to His Coronation? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-18, 13:03:52 (204.94.81.82)
Or send them to the Tower of London if they show up? .......

179: Inmate Central, RE: They Choked? You're No Sports Fan (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-18, 12:03:43 (204.94.81.82)
If you say so...but, to be fair, the Argentine goaltie made a great play to block a goal kick and one Frenchman choked on his shot . .......

180: Inmate Central, BOTD (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-18, 10:53:55 (204.94.81.82)
Today's paper had an interesting group of birthday folks: Keith Richards, 79 Steven Spielberg, 76 Brad Pitt, 59 "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, 58 Christina Aquilera, 42 And the youngster, Billie Eilish, 2 .......

181: Inmate Central, RE: Jeez, isn't it obvious? (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-18, 10:44:37 (204.94.81.82)
Sure, comparing tacos and burritos as all Mexican food is like comparing hamburgers as all American food. We used to go down to Ensenada, Puerto Nuevo and Rosarita a lot with my wife loving the chicke .......

182: Inmate Central, Yup, sadly France choked (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-18, 10:18:32 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

183: Inmate Central, RE: Jeez, isn't it obvious? (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-18, 08:27:59 (204.94.81.82)
Yeah, I grew up and still live in N. San Diego county which as you know has always had a large 'Mexican' population which is a misnomer because most of them were indigenous people that had been here f .......

184: Inmate Central, Jeez, isn't it obvious? (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-17, 17:12:12 (204.94.81.82)
Come on, you're smarter than that. .......

185: General Asylum, RE: But maybe a pre/pro would be better than a receiver? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-16, 19:29:55 (204.94.81.82)
Back around 2000, I'd bought a Marantz pre/pro that was quite good compared to what I'd have at the time. A Belles 150A did the R/L and center with my old Marantz 2270 that had the jumper for the pre .......

186: Inmate Central, RE: Slow boat to China... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-16, 11:59:53 (204.94.81.82)
I try to buy local as much as possible. Yingst Appliance has been here for 60 years or more with the grandkids running it these days and we buy all of our appliances from them. For hardware stores, w .......

187: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Ask Abe if he still has his LA4..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-15, 19:05:20 (204.94.81.82)
On price and with a couple of tubes, the BHK seems like a big step up. The LA4 couple be a half step, but for a lot less. With a PS Audio trade-in, it's interesting. You can always send it back. ::: .......

188: Inmate Central, Slow boat to China... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-15, 17:56:27 (204.94.81.82)
Or more like a mule train. I ordered a couple of drill bit sets for the boys to go with DeWalt drill motors from Lowes on Monday, the 12th, because they were $5 off with free shipping online. An o .......

189: General Asylum, RE: But maybe a pre/pro would be better than a receiver? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-15, 11:23:52 (204.94.81.82)
It's surely an option if he wanted to use the same pre/pro for 2 channel music as well with the same unit. I was thinking that the receiver route would be much cheaper and simple enough to integrate w .......

190: General Asylum, RE: As Kal mentioned, you need discrete sources.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-15, 08:01:30 (204.94.81.82)
You don't need amp outputs for the surround channels. The receiver can handle the power for surround speakers. If you have the option, that's nice, but you'll only see receivers with outputs for separ .......

191: General Asylum, RE: As Kal mentioned, you need discrete sources.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-14, 18:39:11 (174.65.32.33)
Just be sure that the receiver has a mic for setup and has at least optional amp outputs for R/L speakers. Typically, you won't find outputs on the lower models. .......

192: Inmate Central, At least it didn't automatically brake you back to 55 mph (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-14, 18:26:57 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

193: General Asylum, RE: As Kal mentioned, you need discrete sources.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-14, 18:24:42 (204.94.81.82)
You have enough gear, but you need a processor. I found that using a receiver for processing and handling the desired auto-setup features is the simplest method. Most are plenty good for powering the .......

194: General Asylum, Actually, tweaking isn't necessary..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-14, 18:06:15 (204.94.81.82)
Most any receiver these days will automatically set up all the speakers including EQ, sound levels, delays and so forth. Just plug in a mic and let it do its work. In our family, I have my main 2 chan .......

195: General Asylum, As Kal mentioned, you need discrete sources.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-14, 17:51:23 (204.94.81.82)
Using a 2 channel CD with synthesized surround sound is interesting, but I never cared for it. My processor will do many effects like various night club or other venues and it's interesting, but I alw .......

196: Inmate Central, I was guessing a Caddie, the model is a classic (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-13, 20:52:07 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

197: Inmate Central, I'm guessing early 20s, but then, the car looks much older (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-13, 20:46:18 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

198: Inmate Central, RE: Mike Leach died. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-13, 18:21:35 (204.94.81.82)
I'd read about his heart attack yesterday and the news didn't sound good. Too bad, I always admired Leach. He was a great innovator with his 'Air Raid' and he changed the game. RIP, Mike. .......

199: Inmate Central, Did you read the article? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-13, 07:12:51 (204.94.81.82)
Perhaps you didn't notice that the headline was in all Caps. I just copied and pasted the headline. .......

200: Inmate Central, What happens if you need to turn left and park? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-12, 21:21:13 (204.94.81.82)
Interesting physics. Knowing sailboats, being in the irons is a bitch. .......

201: Inmate Central, Wind turbines kill whales and birds.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-12, 20:13:17 (204.94.81.82)
Animals or power? The environmental conundrum. .......

202: General Asylum, Between the basement and under the house.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-12, 18:57:43 (204.94.81.82)
I don't even want to think about how many empty boxes I have. .......

203: Amp/Preamp Asylum, How would you characterize the McIntosh sound from your listening? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-12, 18:51:05 (174.65.32.33)
I don't have a clue about their preamps and SS amps. Vintage McIntosh tube amps are fantastic, smooth, dynamic with a sweet midrange, solid bass and just does it right. For fairly high efficiency spea .......

204: Inmate Central, How many times did I tell you to get dressed before you read the paper?!? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-12, 11:59:33 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

205: Inmate Central, ELECTRIC CAR GOAL ALONE WON'T ASSURE CALIFORNIA'S GREENER FUTURE (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-12, 11:56:34 (204.94.81.82)
I'm all for renewables, but there are challenges. A new article in the paper today proposes that we need to stop living in the suburbs to reduce miles driven. I'm doubtful that people will want to mov .......

206: Asylum Feedback/Support, Got it..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-12, 09:12:32 (204.94.81.82)
It is just weird. We'd moved the Trader to a new server and the leave feedback routine that has worked forever suddenly didn't work. The libraries appear to be the same, so I had to recode the process .......

207: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: Unable to modify email address (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-12, 09:09:07 (204.94.81.82)
I can't duplicate the problem. If there is an error, you need to look at the entire page as the specific error will tell you what the problem is. .......

208: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: Unable to modify email address (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-08, 17:37:48 (204.94.81.82)
Your password can't be correct. I just tried it with the wrong password and you would get this error at the bottom of the page. If you're getting that error, the click on Logout in the upper right .......

209: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: Unable to modify email address (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-08, 15:40:47 (204.94.81.82)
Did you enter your password at the bottom of the page? It's likely that you didn't or you have forgotten your password. .......

210: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: Unable to modify email address (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-08, 07:52:42 (204.94.81.82)
What does the error say? Here's how it should work: .......

211: Inmate Central, We either stream or record TV..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-05, 20:14:28 (204.94.81.82)
Using MCEBuddy, recording get stripped of commercials. A two hour show is as little as an hour and 20 minutes. Typical hour shows are 42 minutes. .......

212: Vintage Asylum, RE: Sony CAP-CX355 300 cd changer player, any opinions?. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-04, 13:55:37 (204.94.81.82)
I had several of the Sony 90ES 200CD changers and a 400 model. They're great, never had any issues. After I went streaming, I sold them all. The ES changers had pretty good DACs over the basic ones. A .......

213: Inmate Central, Well, likely boring for the first round.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-04, 10:39:17 (204.94.81.82)
I can't see Ohio St or TCU putting up much of a game, but surprises do happen. Watching Michigan the last two weeks, I think that they may match up quite well with Georgia. Let's hope so. I hate blow .......

214: Inmate Central, Parity depends on the conference.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-04, 10:33:40 (204.94.81.82)
What has happened with Alabama, Georgia, Ohio St, Clemson and others is that the top of the heap get all the best players. 'Bama has 3rd and 4th string players that would be 1st stringers on most othe .......

215: Inmate Central, The committee cheated..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-04, 10:21:44 (204.94.81.82)
No one wanted a Michigan/Ohio St retread for the semis. .......

216: Inmate Central, Did you forget the no politics rule? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-03, 20:30:40 (204.94.81.82)
Maybe a week off will let you recall in the future. .......

217: Inmate Central, RE: If it did, it would probably keep Alabama out. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-03, 14:57:28 (204.94.81.82)
Well, if there was any logic to the decision, the Tennessee would get the nod because the beat both LSU and Alabama. It makes no sense that Alabama is ahead of both in the rankings. I would hope that .......

218: Inmate Central, RE: Hard to believe. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-03, 14:43:32 (204.94.81.82)
>>then an interception off the LSU receivers helmet. Yeah, sometimes the luck of the bouncing ball seems to always go one way. .......

219: Computer Audio Asylum, ASUS 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Optical Drive DRW-24B1ST (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-03, 13:58:36 (204.94.81.82)
$23 on Amazon. I just bought one a few months ago, works fine. .......

220: Inmate Central, What if LSU pulls off yet another upset? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-03, 13:42:17 (174.65.32.33)
Which isn't looking too good now after a blocked field goal that no one bothers to cover letting Georgia to pick it up for a 95 yard scoop and score. But if this was the new version, the Conference Ch .......

221: Inmate Central, I sure hope not (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-03, 13:32:03 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

222: Inmate Central, That's enough useless speculation (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-02, 20:36:14 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

223: Inmate Central, Do your part...Stop tweeting hate! (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-02, 10:14:15 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

224: Inmate Central, RE: THANK YOU !! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-12-01, 17:46:54 (204.94.81.82)
We had T-shirts for some time, but they got to be fairly expensive and what's worse, the USPS rates have gotten even more expensive. However, we do have a limited number though many are size challenge .......

225: Inmate Central, What kind of lefty conspiracy are you pushing? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-30, 20:34:11 (204.94.81.82)
What if people get free speech? Folks might wake up? .......

226: Inmate Central, Plunging? My last fillup was $5.29 a month ago...30 cents is plunging? (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-30, 20:09:34 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

227: General Asylum, RE: RIP Christine (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-30, 17:45:36 (174.65.32.33)
I'm with you, Mike. The Peter Green era was still a blues band. The wiki says that Christine played as a studio musician with Green before she became a member of the band. By '71, Green had moved on. .......

228: General Asylum, RE: RIP Christine (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-30, 12:30:05 (204.94.81.82)
Dang, I was just 41 seconds behind you looking for an interesting Youtube video. .......

229: General Asylum, RIP Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-30, 12:28:08 (204.94.81.82)
View YouTube Video Trivia: The USC Trojan Marching Band recorded Tusk with Fleetwood Mac in 1979 and performed in this live show. .......

230: Inmate Central, That's enough! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-30, 12:02:58 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

231: Inmate Central, Oh no...NOT NEEDLES! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-29, 20:37:34 (204.94.81.82)
Thank God, your investigation was for nought. We choose a plan with not cheap premiums, but it covers anything that Medicare doesn't and allows us to use it anywhere and for anyone we choose without r .......

232: Inmate Central, US knocks off Iran, 1-0, and lives for another day (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-29, 13:17:01 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

233: Inmate Central, RE: John Mayall (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-29, 13:11:59 (174.65.32.33)
Mayall is amazing for recuiting band members. And then, they leave like that line up from '67 which was the core of the initial Fleetwood Mac. Prior to those guys, Mayall guitarists included Clapton, .......

234: Inmate Central, It's a bit more complicated.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-29, 11:43:03 (204.94.81.82)
An article in the NY Times is quite interesting for the history of closing down institutions as the medical professionals believed that drugs could fix the mentally ill. The idea was to put these folk .......

235: Inmate Central, BDOTD (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-29, 11:10:31 (174.65.32.33)
Happy Birthday, John Mayall. 89 years young. View YouTube Video .......

236: Inmate Central, A week's ban? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-28, 19:55:11 (204.94.81.82)
Everyone knows all we need to know. .......

237: Inmate Central, It's a New Year's Six Bowl...AKA Second place for OSU (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-26, 17:43:29 (174.65.32.33)
Or likely to put Ohio St out of the College Playoffs. .......

238: Inmate Central, No worries, I wore my greens to give the Irish the hex! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-26, 17:30:56 (204.94.81.82)
It's going to be won in the trenches. All SC needs to do is score TDs in every possession. Who needs D? .......

239: Inmate Central, Ohio St set to play in the Rose Bowl! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-26, 14:10:25 (204.94.81.82)
C.J. Stroud's Heisman hopes are dashed. And even better, South Carolina knocks off the big dogs for the second time in two weeks, Clemson and Tennessee are both done. .......

240: Inmate Central, I got one of the last Samsung Plasmas.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-25, 19:39:47 (204.94.81.82)
Great picture. I still have my old Panasonic 42" Plasma that over 20 years old and still works just fine and looks great. It wasn't cheap either, about $2K back then. .......

241: Inmate Central, Depends on use and pocket book.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-25, 19:36:18 (204.94.81.82)
We have a 75" Sony in the family room that is fantastic. Viewing angles are no issue. But this was before OLEDs went hardly over 55". I surely wouldn't mind a bigger 85", but if it ain't broke.... We .......

242: Inmate Central, 65" TV for $228? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-25, 11:22:35 (204.94.81.82)
Unreal. It's not the best TCL Roku TV, but for this price, a steal! .......

243: Inmate Central, It's why I hate kickball... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-24, 19:07:33 (174.65.32.33)
You watch them playing keep away for 89 minutes and then, you miss the goal when you get up to piss and get another beer. Hell of a play though. .......

244: Inmate Central, Oregon unveils rivalry uniforms.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-23, 18:02:26 (204.94.81.82)
I actually prefer the classics that never change. But Oregon does some interesting twists from time to time. Some are just terrible. These aren't bad. .......

245: Inmate Central, Likely never... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-23, 12:27:36 (204.94.81.82)
I've been semi-retired for quite a while, working when I want to and have the passion for it doesn't seem much like working. Then, my wife has plenty of honey-do projects, build this, remodeling that .......

246: Inmate Central, Mrs. M says she's out of oven space.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-23, 12:17:54 (204.94.81.82)
So, one of the boys will have to tend to the tri-tip on the grill. Our last house had a double oven. It only got used a handful of times on Thanksgiving. .......

247: Inmate Central, Great idea! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-23, 10:53:21 (204.94.81.82)
I was planning to pull a Tri-tip out of the freezer to supplement, but a spiral ham would be much easier and gives me more leftovers! .......

248: Inmate Central, Agreed, but I rarely get enough leftovers.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-23, 10:52:12 (204.94.81.82)
We usually have a friend or two or three and nephews and nieces along with the boys and a 20+ pounder. It seems like plenty until my wife generously packs leftovers for all the clan leaving me barely .......

249: Inmate Central, How big a turkey is big enough? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-23, 09:05:45 (174.65.32.33)
A couple weeks ago, I bought a 15 pounder. Usually, we go for 20+ pounds, but this year, my youngest is going to his girlfriend's, so we decided to do the turkey on Friday with he and his girlfriend a .......

250: Inmate Central, RE: The baby-faced killer in Colorado (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-22, 20:35:05 (204.94.81.82)
BTW: Fierro did three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan during his 15 years of service in the Army and saved many lives. He's a hero, but he's not a Marine. The public defenders for the suspect in .......

251: Inmate Central, $5.29 on my last fillup.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-21, 10:50:48 (204.94.81.82)
That was almost 2 weeks ago, Gas Buddy claims that Costco is down to $4.75 today, still a $1,50 to $2.00 CA gas tax. .......

252: Inmate Central, Taylor hasn't had a 5 star album since 2012... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-21, 09:32:08 (204.94.81.82)
The last of her albums that I bought was 1989 when she went full pop. Lately, she's been recreating her old albums because Scooter Braun bought her Big Machine catalog a while back. Anyway, her old 5 .......

253: Inmate Central, If you can't post a link, don't post (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-21, 09:16:23 (204.94.81.82)
Thank you. .......

254: Inmate Central, No, say it ain't so! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-20, 07:07:54 (204.94.81.82)
I can't wait for the future playoff. At least the conference champs will all get a shot. But then, the committee will add Alabama and several of their favs to the pack. How could they still have Alaba .......

255: Inmate Central, Scratch off Tennesee too! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-19, 20:00:45 (204.94.81.82)
So. Carolina wins 63-38! .......

256: Inmate Central, 56-31 Carolina with 8:17 to go? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-19, 19:35:21 (204.94.81.82)
Wow! SC was looking to blow it big time with 2 misses in the red zone and spotting UCLA 14 points. Now, they're cooking and took the lead, 27-24. It's a slug fest. Uh oh, fumble on a 3rd and long with .......

257: Inmate Central, My wife left Cleveland for Sunny, Southern California after the winter 1977... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-19, 17:06:15 (204.94.81.82)
After clearing her old Camaro from the snow, she went in for a quick shower. Heading back out to go to work, she found the snow plows had filled the driveway with another 10 feet of snow. .......

258: Inmate Central, Well, Tennesee needs to get going or they'll be out too... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-19, 16:50:39 (204.94.81.82)
South Carolina (3-4 in conference), has a 21-7 lead in the 1st quarter. .......

259: Inmate Central, LOL! Do you hate Notre Dame too? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-19, 13:11:21 (204.94.81.82)
If so, we have a lot in common. OSU should knock off Michigan. It's too bad that TCU looks to be a lock and I don't see them being that good. LSU will be out when Georgia plays them for the Conference .......

260: Inmate Central, TCU dodged a bullet.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-19, 12:33:25 (174.65.32.33)
Michigan looks to dodge one too, 13 seconds to go for a field goal from the 17 for the win. I was hoping for both of them to go down! .......

261: Computer Audio Asylum, How much storage do you need? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-19, 11:52:08 (204.94.81.82)
If you have a 14TB backup, it would seem that SSDs won't work for you. The maximum now is 2TB for SSDs that I've seen. In a 6 disk RAID, you'd get roughly a bit less than 10TB with 6 2TB SSDs. For the .......

262: Inmate Central, Fans across German stadiums call for Qatar World Cup boycott (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-19, 09:38:06 (204.94.81.82)
Germany's professional soccer leagues have been marked by widespread protests against the World Cup in Qatar, with rival fans joining forces to condemn FIFA corruption and human rights abuses in the .......

263: Digital Drive, RE: Doubtful (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-18, 20:34:56 (204.94.81.82)
I find YouTube music to sound pretty good. For the most part, 256kbps is possible detect with A/B with fast switching, but it won't sound obvious. I get Amazon music downloads when I buy a CD and I al .......

264: Inmate Central, RE: Amen! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-18, 17:44:26 (204.94.81.82)
One of my sons went the community college route and at least about 5 years ago, it was only about $250/semester. But you do need books and they can be expensive for certain books. Most aren't too much .......

265: Inmate Central, Amen! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-18, 10:30:33 (204.94.81.82)
It's not totally free, but community colleges are still quite cheap, maybe $250 per semester for tuition, and are an easy commute for most kids, so they can stay at home. One can transfer to 4 year st .......

266: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: Password change failed - locked out (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-15, 06:10:54 (204.94.81.82)
Just use the link below: .......

267: Speaker Asylum, It is! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-14, 08:38:11 (204.94.81.82)
Jon was with Altec for a long time, so who knows what drivers and horns that he's using. But he's got it down, smooth and holographic. All MacIntosh amps, MC-30s and 240s, I believe. I don't recall ho .......

268: Inmate Central, RE: I'd let it play out (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-13, 10:18:37 (204.94.81.82)
We'll see. Thus far, I'll try Ivan's suggestion and try to trim a little fat and leave the meat. .......

269: Inmate Central, RE: Sorry Rod, but this isn't politics. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-13, 09:22:39 (204.94.81.82)
Of course, it's history in the making, so I let it go to honor your wishes. Now, others have taken the thread into partisan politics. My guess is that the thread will continue to degrade into more nas .......

270: Inmate Central, Musk also told workers not showing up at the office to quit... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-11, 09:06:25 (204.94.81.82)
He has to stop the bleeding. My guess is that the bankruptcy threat is designed to avoid any issues with the massive layoffs. .......

271: Inmate Central, Cool, Zac has great taste! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-09, 17:31:45 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

272: Speaker Asylum, A wall of sound... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-08, 10:41:56 (204.94.81.82)
The cabinets on the sides have either 3 or 4 15" JBL woofers each for subs. .......

273: Inmate Central, More like poor timing.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-08, 10:24:53 (174.65.32.33)
We bought our current home out of foreclosure in 2010 for half its pre-recession price. I wish I'd had the cash to buy a half dozen more. At that time, you could easily buy houses om the cheap and ren .......

274: Inmate Central, True....and some flippers are f#$%^ed (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-08, 09:09:56 (204.94.81.82)
Here's a typical starter house built in 1975, now priced at $1.2M. It looks like the original owners paid maybe $50K and probably, their kids sold the place in 4 days on 2/22/2022 for $897K or the own .......

275: Inmate Central, The Fed creates bubbles and then claims to have the solution.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-07, 08:21:52 (204.94.81.82)
Greenspan missed the mortgage crisis in 2007 and now, the Fed has kept interest rates at nearly zero for way too long creating more 'excess exuberance' in the real estate market again. Real estate pri .......

276: Inmate Central, The first post was misinformation and inflamatory.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-05, 14:40:31 (204.94.81.82)
The twit claimed 75% of the moderation team was axed. It's not true. Try actually reading news that is fairly fact based. Twitter was losing $4M/day. Musk cut about 50% from the workforce. Twitter In .......

277: Inmate Central, JD, let's lose the political stuff.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-05, 13:59:57 (204.94.81.82)
This isn't about free speech, it's liberal cancel culture. And now, we'll close this thread. .......

278: Inmate Central, It's just paper loses.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-11-03, 13:09:06 (174.65.32.33)
Meta is off more than Google and Amazon but those two have lost about half of their stock price as well. Meta now has a P/E 9.04 and EPS of $9.84. Zuckerberg can spend $10 billion or more every year o .......

279: Inmate Central, How many times are you going to beat that horse? (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-30, 20:25:48 (204.94.81.82)
/ .......

280: General Asylum, +1 for Audioengine....bought a little pair that grew to two more big boys (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-30, 19:30:05 (204.94.81.82)
My wife had old $20 speakers, so I got the bigger ones and she got my old little engines. Then, I replaced her main video system with new big ones and moved the old ones to her other workstation. They .......

281: Inmate Central, EVs are cheaper? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-30, 09:43:50 (204.94.81.82)
How long does your cell phone battery last? A couple years? Most people get new phones instead of getting a new battery. Now, take EVs. The battery is only guaranteed for typically 8 years or 100,000 .......

282: Inmate Central, Don't worry, you can get a manual wheelchair...no electricity needed (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-29, 19:59:46 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

283: Inmate Central, I nearly signed up for a MACH-E.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-29, 19:49:57 (204.94.81.82)
Wow, fun to drive, nice tech and only good for 100,000 miles and then what? Buy a new battery for $20K? We're just not there yet and no one knows what the long term issues are. If we need to power wit .......

284: Inmate Central, Fall colors... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-29, 19:22:24 (174.65.32.33)
And a deer. When does hunting season start? My wife and oldest son are in Cleveland, nice shot girl! It's just another boring 72 degree day in California watching football and the series. ::: TO .......

285: Inmate Central, RE: Buckeye's- Nittany's still 14 - 13 (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-29, 11:56:34 (204.94.81.82)
It's a close game with Penn St taking back the lead at 21-16. But it's surprising that Ohio St is kicking field goals instead of touch downs. If Penn St wins, my in-laws will be crying and setting up .......

286: Inmate Central, RE: Elon already cleaning house ... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-27, 20:41:15 (204.94.81.82)
After the stock tanks, it could be a good buy, if it was still public. Of course, Musk will offer Twitter in new IPO at a nice profit. .......

287: Inmate Central, That's it dude... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-27, 20:37:52 (204.94.81.82)
What do you think will happen? One last month ban? .......

288: Inmate Central, We had youngins like most there..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-27, 19:19:29 (204.94.81.82)
Grandma would be pushing strollers with all the grand kids and Moms in costume. I bought extra bags of suckers and skittles and let the kids grab what they wanted. After dark, the teenagers would come .......

289: Inmate Central, I used to buy far more....kids were bused into our old neighborhood (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-27, 17:31:02 (204.94.81.82)
The tract had nice sidewalks, the neighbors were generous and it was a quick jog from house to house. Packs of kids came one after another, often keeping us at the door, seemingly forever. Try to sit .......

290: Inmate Central, And META went down 25% today, Amazon, off 18% after hours (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-27, 14:01:06 (204.94.81.82)
Time to buy some bargains? .......

291: Inmate Central, It's not me that I worry about... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-25, 18:03:17 (174.65.32.33)
We have a small mortgage at 3% that will be paid off in about 10 years with a rental property that nearly pays our mortgage, so we are in great shape. But for the millennials, the idea of home ownersh .......

292: Inmate Central, No, your problem is that you choose to be disagreeable... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-25, 17:56:55 (204.94.81.82)
It has nothing to do with the 1st Amendment. It's about being civil instead of choosing to be a jerk. Like my Grandma always said, "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar". ::: TOPIC .......

293: Inmate Central, Let's lose the caustic dialog. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-25, 14:29:44 (204.94.81.82)
Please be nice unless you'd prefer another ban. .......

294: Inmate Central, Most folks can't afford the weather tax.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-24, 19:31:08 (174.65.32.33)
Apartments in not the nicest parts of town are $2,000 for a two bedroom. Rents of $3,000 to $4,000 are not uncommon. So anyone with a family needs an income of $6,000 to $10,000 a month to reasonably .......

295: Inmate Central, +Yeah, we just did a review on Friday.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-24, 14:03:06 (204.94.81.82)
And acted on it today with undervalued, high dividend picks with a small part of our cash on hand. I expect the market will go lower and it'll likely take 18 to 36 months before the market goes back o .......

296: General Asylum, Periodic downtime this weekend... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-22, 12:30:16 (204.94.81.82)
We're moving the main web server to a new one and will move the Trader and the Search apps first. Assuming there are no issues there, then we'll move the rest of the site. So, there may be some short .......

297: General Asylum, That's enough! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-21, 10:50:27 (204.94.81.82)
All you're doing is throwing out ad hominem attacks. You can have a week off to consider being a nicer, more respectful person. .......

298: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: Hey RodM., Asylum Uploaded Picture Quality Heavily Degraded Lately (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-18, 13:06:12 (204.94.81.82)
Well, as Abe mentioned, yes, we do convert images to a max of 1,000 pixels and then resize them for the largest size, either width or height, and then save the images using ImageMagick. I just increas .......

299: Inmate Central, Let's slow down Tim... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-17, 17:39:55 (204.94.81.82)
Please just stop posting political trolls. Or, you can be gone again. Your choice. .......

300: Inmate Central, I did over 8,000 steps in the corn maze.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-16, 20:31:56 (204.94.81.82)
with the grandkids. Does that count? It wasn't actually that big, but a good maze at the pumpkin patch. Luke and I solved it in 10-15 minutes. Since it cost $10 a head, we had to look for the girls. T .......

301: General Asylum, Tough ask... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-16, 17:48:05 (204.94.81.82)
I had a custom furniture maker build one for me years ago with extra wide shelves and deep ones, 21"D and 20"W, with heavy duty slides on the shelves to be able to get into the back from the front. L .......

302: General Asylum, Retail price or ? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-16, 13:24:01 (204.94.81.82)
Let's see, my main system might retail for perhaps $25K, but some of the gear was used and some is DIY, so my cost is more like $10K. My office system is all used, except the streamer and DAC, and mo .......

303: Inmate Central, Wow, scathing article.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-16, 12:15:25 (204.94.81.82)
Baseball and football or any sport often have some luck or bad luck. It's just the way the ball bounces. While the Dodgers had a poor series, the Padres peaked. The bottom of the order, Kim, Grisham a .......

304: Inmate Central, Our Padres knock off the Dodgers! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-16, 10:43:16 (204.94.81.82)
It took a long time, since 1998, that the Padres have gotten this far. And I dozed off in the top of the 7th and had written them off when the Dodgers went up 3-0. I was shocked this morning with the .......

305: Inmate Central, Let's cut the poltical trolls, thanks (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-15, 14:19:51 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

306: General Asylum, Yes and no.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-14, 11:23:21 (204.94.81.82)
Most large A/C units do run on 240, both phases. But I believe that the OP was using a 120V window A/V unit in the music room. Isolating the circuits from things like the fridge and furnace is also a .......

307: General Asylum, Hire an electrician.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-13, 14:13:55 (204.94.81.82)
Or do it yourself. It would be a good idea to run the dedicated circuit on the other phase from the AC. And install a quad box for the stereo plugs, maybe even two quads. .......

308: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: question Rod M (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-13, 10:25:39 (204.94.81.82)
As Sondek guessed, yes, some game players cause mischief from time to time. This morning was one of those times. .......

309: Inmate Central, Please stop posting poltical trolls... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-13, 10:11:54 (204.94.81.82)
You've been warned. .......

310: Inmate Central, You're lucky that the other guy had high coverage.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-12, 12:22:35 (204.94.81.82)
A low cost liability coverage in CA only covers $15,000 for bodily injury and $30,000 per accident. My daughter had an accident where a low cost policy driver rear ended an SUV and pushed it into her .......

311: Inmate Central, RE: Here's yer booster dose of global diplomacy! Euro-diplomat in a tell all speech! Only 5,000 words! Read it here! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-11, 18:08:19 (204.94.81.82)
Sorry, vacuous. The folks just can't discuss topics without taking a partisan bent forcing me to put a close to this discussion. At least the globalists have realized that their position is not susta .......

312: Inmate Central, It's time to buy some more! (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-11, 18:04:05 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

313: Inmate Central, It nearly reeks of authoritarian government poiltical prisoners.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-10, 18:41:46 (204.94.81.82)
Chelsea Manning was sentenced for 35 years and yet served only 7, the same amount that Assange served in the Ecuadorian embassy and he's been held another two and half years since then. .......

314: Inmate Central, TSOTD (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-09, 18:32:39 (204.94.81.82)
Nice shirt. .......

315: Tubes Asylum, Here's the thrread... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-09, 17:34:10 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

316: Inmate Central, San Jose Fire Dept doing Uber rides? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-09, 13:50:54 (204.94.81.82)
A stunning video posted on social media has sparked a major investigation at the San Jose Fire Department. The video appears to show a woman in a very tiny bikini getting out of a fire truck with its .......

317: Inmate Central, That's enough Tim (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-09, 11:54:50 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

318: Inmate Central, I like the hot and cold drink holders... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-09, 11:38:54 (204.94.81.82)
Who wants warm beer? .......

319: Inmate Central, Let's stop with the personal attacks... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-09, 11:37:52 (204.94.81.82)
You're been warned. Stick to topics and debates, not ad hominem digs toward those that may disagree with you. .......

320: Inmate Central, See ya... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-09, 11:30:29 (204.94.81.82)
You're banned for a week to consider why you post too much about too little with nothing behind it. .......

321: Inmate Central, RE: Saudi's are cutting production to preserve profits, yet we're expecting US oil companies to do just opposite? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-07, 19:57:37 (204.94.81.82)
The Saudi's are just doing what is in their best interest. It's not complicated. .......

322: Inmate Central, Question? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-07, 18:20:12 (174.65.32.33)
I'd heard or read somewhere that a pundit claimed that if the Keystone XL oil pipeline hadn't been canceled, it would be complete by now and we would be getting 900,000 barrels a day to refineries per .......

323: Inmate Central, Costco $5.99...68% more than NM (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-07, 18:13:32 (204.94.81.82)
On food, drought and other issues might have some effect. Some land is kept fallow, but we're emptying the Colorado quite effectively. However, oil based fertilizer, diesel tractors and trucks all .......

324: Inmate Central, Google is your firend... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-07, 17:32:54 (204.94.81.82)
"The more pain that we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles," Buttigieg said, with a tone of voice and an expression i .......

325: Inmate Central, So tell me... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-07, 14:12:56 (204.94.81.82)
Why are food prices going through the roof? Try being thoughtful rather than being.... .......

326: Inmate Central, RE: Can you post a link (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-07, 14:10:46 (204.94.81.82)
Well, it's somewhat of a gut feeling and some common sense. Energy has gone up everywhere. Airlines prices due to labor shortages and fuel costs have doubled and tripled. Diesel prices are up 40-80%. .......

327: Inmate Central, Interest rates are killing housing, but oil is much of the root cause.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-07, 13:11:29 (204.94.81.82)
Sure, the government pumps too much money into the economy and stressed the supply chains. However, gas prices affect everything from food prices to Uber trips. Most everything goes on planes, trains .......

328: Inmate Central, Don't forget John Mellencamp....Happy 71st Birthday (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-07, 13:00:37 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

329: Inmate Central, Smog check every 2 years...~$50-60 (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-06, 19:02:50 (204.94.81.82)
Plus registration. In CA, it's based on value and newness. Minimum is about $150-$200 for 20+ years old and up to $500 for a brand new medium priced car. What CA should do is charge EVs a road tax. :: .......

330: Computer Audio Asylum, Then, it's time to put them on eScalp...... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-06, 17:50:34 (204.94.81.82)
I was surprised on the prices. My RPi 4 cost me $40 and now it's $129! What is the deal on the RPi Zero? From what I gathered, it's only 512MB, but maybe faster? Of course, that $15 board is now $129 .......

331: Inmate Central, Offering Judge is a great idea.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-05, 19:19:20 (204.94.81.82)
And then I realized that if the guy lives in California or New York, between Federal and State taxes, he'll only get half the bounty. .......

332: Inmate Central, That's enough guys..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-05, 19:11:34 (204.94.81.82)
Just agree to disagree. .......

333: Inmate Central, RE: 5% (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-05, 19:10:04 (204.94.81.82)
If you can't add a link, please don't post this junk. Thanks .......

334: Inmate Central, Another one...RESPECT (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-05, 17:54:49 (204.94.81.82)
Jennifer Hudson is terrific. .......

335: Inmate Central, If you do, move slowly away... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-05, 13:51:56 (204.94.81.82)
When my Dad was stationed at Camp Lejuene, they had a large lake and we could check out canoes to paddle around. My brother and I did this often. I was about 14 and my brother 18 month younger. There .......

336: Inmate Central, So, does he get a record or an '*'? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-04, 20:04:12 (204.94.81.82)
Like it's the record except for the steroid record. .......

337: Inmate Central, You nailed that one.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-04, 18:30:02 (204.94.81.82)
Right now, there isn't even a common charger plug AFAIK. Even if you do spend $1,200 or more for a fast charger in the garage, I believe that the vast majority of folks with garages can't park a car i .......

338: Inmate Central, The issue is chargers for road trips.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-04, 13:06:52 (204.94.81.82)
It all sounds good: The proposed standards, which will be published next week in the Federal Register, dictate that a charging station be located every 50 miles along the interstate and no more than .......

339: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: And oldie but a goodie... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-03, 21:17:21 (204.94.81.82)
Stephen has had an old deHavilland UltraVerve for the longest time. It seems that he's left his MC-30s for the deHavilland 805s. .......

340: Vintage Asylum, +1 Mike Zuccaro did a couple for me.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-03, 20:06:53 (204.94.81.82)
A Marantz 10B and a Fischer 200B. I haven't seen him in years, but when I did, he must have had a dozen or more sweet and rare jukeboxes that were in various stages. .......

341: Inmate Central, RE: Age 105, with girlfriend, (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-02, 11:20:31 (204.94.81.82)
Alzheimers is great, falling in love every other day.... .......

342: General Asylum, Downtime.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-10-02, 10:14:08 (204.94.81.82)
Sorry, folks. I'd been fighting some problems with the site for a few days now. Part of the problem is the typical Russian and Chinese hackers playing games. Typical blocking maneuvers usually work qu .......

343: Inmate Central, RE: question Rod (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-30, 07:41:38 (204.94.81.82)
I don't know how it showed up, but it's easy to get rid of it. If it's starting up automatically, you can disable it and make it so it only runs when you want to start it. I had issues with Amazon Mus .......

344: Inmate Central, RE: I don't understand oil heaters and boilers..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-29, 19:13:35 (204.94.81.82)
Man, radiators and base board heat is common in Europe as well. I'm imagine it was the best solution in the olden days unless you had a fireplace in every bed room. Retrofitting water pipes is far eas .......

345: Inmate Central, Jay, cut it out... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-29, 18:20:33 (204.94.81.82)
Words like 'red-headed clown' will get you a weeks ban the next time I see anything of that type of political dig. .......

346: Inmate Central, Again......... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-29, 18:03:44 (204.94.81.82)
Be part of the solution rather than going down the name calling pit. .......

347: Inmate Central, Try sending an Alert! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-29, 18:01:21 (204.94.81.82)
Do you think that the moderators are watching and reading every post, every minute? Be part of the solution and help us out. .......

348: Inmate Central, Ah, environmental terrorists! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-27, 17:12:41 (204.94.81.82)
Europe needs more renewables and not more fossil fuels. .......

349: Vinyl Asylum, Sure, but usually I spin once..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-27, 14:02:22 (204.94.81.82)
And store it on the server. Raise the Roof is a good CD. Raising Sand is too. .......

350: Digital Drive, RE: Call me pessimistic... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-27, 10:30:46 (204.94.81.82)
Well, remastered CDs are usually quite good, even at just 16/44. I bought the Very Best of the Eagles (2003), two disc CD, and it's excellent and far better sounding than the old 1975 one disc version .......

351: Inmate Central, If anyone needed a Batmobile.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-26, 19:03:21 (204.94.81.82)
It's only $200K. .......

352: Inmate Central, It's hit and miss.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-26, 18:52:50 (174.65.32.33)
I got a few Eddie Bauer t-shirts a few Christmases ago and bought a few more. None have failed with seams in the underage like many do. The neck is reinforced in the back. And Amazon was selling them .......

353: Digital Drive, Call me pessimistic... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-26, 18:06:24 (204.94.81.82)
I have to believe that they're just upsampling from 16/44 file. Otherwise, someone needs to get the original masters and digitize them. I'm not buying it. .......

354: Inmate Central, James Earl Jones is being replaced by an AI bot! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-26, 18:02:19 (204.94.81.82)
After 45 years of voicing one of the most iconic characters in cinema history, James Earl Jones has said goodbye to Darth Vader. At 91, the legendary actor recently told Disney he was "looking into w .......

355: Speaker Asylum, RE: Stereo subs (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-26, 12:05:32 (204.94.81.82)
Ok, I was wondering about that. Can you do the equalization for that for the subs? .......

356: Asylum Feedback/Support, Fixed.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-26, 08:22:46 (204.94.81.82)
I have it done for uploads on the forums, but I still need to add the fix for the Trader which I'll get in a few. .......

357: Asylum Feedback/Support, Yeah....I'm working on it (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-25, 14:41:52 (204.94.81.82)
It's a permission issue with one of the libraries where it can't write a temp file. The problem is finding out where the temp dir is. .......

358: Inmate Central, RE: QOTD (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-23, 19:41:49 (204.94.81.82)
I don't believe you. Nice troll though. .......

359: Speaker Asylum, RE: Stereo subs (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-23, 19:09:08 (204.94.81.82)
I just run the second outputs of my Ayre preamp to my Velodyne's, but they do their own EQ for each one. From a picture of the back of the SMS-1, it seems like you only need one unit. Just run the st .......

360: General Asylum, Thanks (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-19, 14:47:30 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

361: General Asylum, RE: Rod, are you aware that the AudioAsylum user database has been hacked? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-19, 12:06:43 (204.94.81.82)
Well, it's not impossible, but I did see some questionable issues in late June. That problem didn't appear to get into the database. To get into the database, you literally need to be on one of the se .......

362: Speaker Asylum, RE: Setting Sub low pass (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-18, 18:35:39 (204.94.81.82)
I have my Altec Model 19s set at about 70hz and set the volume so you don't hear them sticking out and they blend nicely. Adjusting for music is a compromise. My preference is to set the volume for mu .......

363: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Is TAD really better? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-18, 18:08:05 (204.94.81.82)
Well, like anything, your mileage may vary. It's not like the TAD 4001s were terrible, not at all, they're excellent. However, I felt the JBL 2441s were smoother, had more depth and painted a more org .......

364: Inmate Central, It started as registered car owners and up to two cars.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-18, 17:54:18 (204.94.81.82)
So much for being fair. Why should people without a car (and EV owners), get paid for a rebate for high gas prices? .......

365: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Is TAD really better? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-17, 17:49:06 (204.94.81.82)
Bruce Edgar had sourced my JBL drivers which I recall are 2440s with 2441 diaphragms. Later, I bought a pair of TAD 4001s from Mike B. He had also included a crossover with a notch filter that made th .......

366: General Asylum, RE: What's the AA email address? thx /nt (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-16, 12:46:38 (204.94.81.82)
I explained those issues in response to your Support post below: .......

367: Inmate Central, It worked yesterday.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-16, 10:08:24 (204.94.81.82)
I can only guess that it went viral and the fool make the YouTube owner take it down. .......

368: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Looking for an inexpensive tablet. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-16, 09:50:41 (204.94.81.82)
I bought an Amazon Fire basically to just read the newspaper as the paper version for delivery had gotten insanely expensive. It works great and it's quick with a nice screen. I paid about $155 for a .......

369: General Asylum, RE: What's the AA email address? thx /nt (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-16, 08:06:53 (204.94.81.82)
Here's the page to contact us. .......

370: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: ALL of the OTL forum posts have disappeared again (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-16, 08:04:24 (204.94.81.82)
I can't duplicate the problem. It may be a setting if you're using the Threads view. Here's the Classic view and you should see you recent posts there. .......

371: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: Rod - I need to know what email address i.e. " @ " AA uses (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-16, 08:00:59 (174.65.32.33)
Typically, emails from the web server would be sent from _www@paula.audioasylum.com. This is likely to change as we planning to move the web server to molly, hence _www@molly.audioasylum.com. However, .......

372: Inmate Central, Great news! My thoughts and prayers are with you and your daughter. (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-15, 17:53:13 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

373: Inmate Central, We've got 3 red cars....a gray truck and an orange Prius (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-15, 14:13:24 (204.94.81.82)
No black. .......

374: Inmate Central, Stupid is what stupid does... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-15, 13:59:15 (204.94.81.82)
View YouTube Video .......

375: Inmate Central, I love laser printers... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-14, 10:50:09 (204.94.81.82)
We also have an inkjet all in one and only use it for scanner and a copy once in a while. The old HP Laserjet 4000 is still chugging away with over 230K pages printed. We had a color laser printer and .......

376: General Asylum, RE: Some 'Moderator' Has A Burr Under His Saddle (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-13, 18:07:37 (204.94.81.82)
Perhaps you hadn't noticed lately, but we choose to change the moderation in Central to strict enforcement of the rules for politics and religion. The standard response is to close the thread and resp .......

377: Inmate Central, We lost power as well on Saturday, the 3rd.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-13, 12:45:01 (204.94.81.82)
It was right in the middle of the Ohio St/Notre Dame game and right in the middle of one of the worst days of the heat wave. The problem was a local transformer that went kaput likely due to age and h .......

378: Inmate Central, That's terrible..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-13, 12:32:52 (204.94.81.82)
My oldest daughter had lymphoma a couple years ago, so I know what you're feeling. She was lucky and thus far, chemo has worked. Still, we fear each of her Doctor's check ups. Just thinking about it, .......

379: Inmate Central, RE: Similar story here but maybe on a smaller scale. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-13, 12:25:57 (204.94.81.82)
Wow, April is typically a good month for us as we often get grey May and June gloom. We usually go about even in March and then bank credits through September with a 12.9 kW system. If we didn't have .......

380: Inmate Central, RE: Batteries saved California! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-13, 12:14:26 (204.94.81.82)
You're right. Every time that they get close to nailing down NEMA 3.0, thousands of solar workers and owners raise hell and they chicken out and shelve it for a while. I believe that we're grandfather .......

381: Inmate Central, RE: Batteries saved California! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-13, 11:46:05 (204.94.81.82)
NEMA 3.0 will kill rooftop solar by adding an $8/kWh solar tax. A typical system would cost the owner $40 per month and net metering will change to essentially not net metering. Instead, you'll get ch .......

382: Inmate Central, Actually, God gave us sunny skies during the heat wave... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-13, 11:38:54 (204.94.81.82)
We were averaging about 65 kWh per day of solar up to the 7th of September. Then, for the three later days, the 8th to the 10th, we got a total of a bit over 65 kWh. .......

383: Inmate Central, RE: Texas goes up 19-17 over 'Bama with 1:29 left... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-11, 11:30:08 (204.94.81.82)
Yeah, I was cheering until the Young slipped the tackle. Of course, if Texas had one scored one of their four field goals as a touchdown, they'd have won. And then, losing the starting QB in the 1st q .......

384: Inmate Central, I was stunned! (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-10, 17:35:29 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

385: Inmate Central, RE: Texas goes up 19-17 over 'Bama with 1:29 left... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-10, 17:32:13 (204.94.81.82)
>>>Alabama is over rated? Or is Texas under rated? It would seems so. Ah, but Texas had so many chances. One missed field goal and otherwise, 4 more field goals, a few from inside the 10 yard line. Yo .......

386: Inmate Central, Texas goes up 19-17 over 'Bama with 1:29 left... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-10, 12:26:43 (204.94.81.82)
Can they do it? .......

387: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: That's why I chose it over some others.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-09, 20:24:12 (174.65.32.33)
I have two 8 bay QNAPs. My recollection is that the QNAP was a bit more robust on larger arrays, so I stuck with them. Synology seems to have a better UI and pricing for small systems, but QNAP has th .......

388: Computer Audio Asylum, Just wait for the hacker... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-09, 18:20:01 (204.94.81.82)
That turns off your fridge, turns the stove and heat full blast and runs your car all night. .......

389: Inmate Central, No worries, Califrnia has a plan... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-09, 18:03:30 (204.94.81.82)
I'm with you. The weather changes and the weather people are usually good at predicting the weather in a day or two ahead and still get it wrong at times. Whether it's sun cycles or polar shifts or C .......

390: Inmate Central, RE: Yes, on the 22nd of September... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-09, 17:49:31 (174.65.32.33)
>>Still think CA has a good solar deal? Nope, they're working to kill roof top solar for the profit of the public utilities. The only folks that might benefit are low income folks that can't afford so .......

391: Asylum Feedback/Support, RE: I can login and post but I'm not shown as logged in (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-09, 14:52:53 (204.94.81.82)
Very weird. If you post and enter your password, you should get logged in. If you still don't see your Moninker and Profile in the upper right of the page, try the login link there. As a last resort, .......

392: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: QNAP ransomware.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-09, 10:48:17 (204.94.81.82)
I updated my firmware, but really don't have any risk because I don't allow anything from the outside into our internal network. It's a major reason why I'm not into the internet of things. Why does a .......

393: Inmate Central, Yes, on the 22nd of September... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-08, 18:00:22 (204.94.81.82)
Just like every year. .......

394: Inmate Central, It's not so much where Lithium is, it's who controls it.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-08, 17:54:50 (204.94.81.82)
Then, there's the nasty processing needed to actually make batteries and China has most of those factories. .......

395: Inmate Central, Agreed, my '97 has only one little electronic problem.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-08, 17:44:17 (204.94.81.82)
The silly orange LED display has lost about 30% of its pixels. .......

396: Inmate Central, Paying the royals? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-08, 17:39:46 (204.94.81.82)
Better yet, pass a law and take all their castles and estates. Then, use the spoils to pay off their national debt. .......

397: Inmate Central, Ok, so after 10 years, you send your EV to the junk yard, right? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-08, 11:34:16 (204.94.81.82)
Tesla batteries cost about $12K installed. It's built in obsolescence. Meanwhile, my truck is 11 years old with just 52K miles. The Prius is 8 years old with 54K. And then we've still got working MR2s .......

398: Inmate Central, The Queen has died...Long Live the King! (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-08, 10:39:56 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

399: Inmate Central, An average Tesla uses 34 kWh of electricity per 100 miles........ (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-08, 07:55:08 (204.94.81.82)
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. household consumed approximately 877 kWh per month in 2019 but it can vary from anywhere between 700 and 2000 kWhs. In Califo .......

400: Inmate Central, Cutting about 7.5% of usage from a new record isn't a 'good job'... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-07, 23:10:22 (204.94.81.82)
What happens when we only have EVs? .......

401: Inmate Central, Ouch! Down south here, we've only hit the mid 90s.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-06, 19:30:05 (204.94.81.82)
Still 90 degrees at 7PM in the shade, but there's a nice breeze. We had a Labor Day party with the family on Sunday. Most everyone was in the pool. .......

402: Inmate Central, Serena....Last chance.....down 5-1 in 3rd set (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-02, 19:11:11 (204.94.81.82)
Can she do it? 7-5 5-7, now 5-1, close match tied 30-30. On ESPN now. .......

403: Inmate Central, Cool.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-02, 11:06:31 (204.94.81.82)
Viridian had recommended an Irish pub in Newport, OR, so we had to have a Guinness. It's been years since I'd had one and I enjoyed it immensely served not cold, nor room temperature either. ::: T .......

404: General Asylum, So many questions..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-02, 10:55:54 (174.65.32.33)
Taylor Swift deserves to be on the list, but not at #10. The Highwomen is just mind boggling, not that it isn't good, but the best 100? Others that are on the list seem fine for the artist but not for .......

405: Inmate Central, Do you not realize what is a political post? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-02, 09:32:12 (204.94.81.82)
Please stop it. Next time will give you a week's ban. .......

406: Inmate Central, Naked Ladies on a hot summer day.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-02, 08:01:25 (204.94.81.82)
Pretty in pink. .......

407: Inmate Central, RE: Which TV brand to buy on the Labour Day sale? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-09-01, 08:33:31 (204.94.81.82)
TVs have gotten so cheap. I've bought several of the TCL Roku TVs and like the internet streaming with them a lot. The picture on the 6 series is better than the 4s, but the only real issue with the 4 .......

408: Inmate Central, Yeah, a $30 USB to multicard reader is the answer ... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-31, 20:48:31 (204.94.81.82)
My Samsung phone drives me crazy. One time I can connect with PC with the charging cable and copy pics and other times, it's like a cat, not interested in anything I want it to do. .......

409: Inmate Central, RE: did you ever serve Victor? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-30, 20:39:31 (204.94.81.82)
Please be nice. I'd be offended with that question in your tone. .......

410: General Asylum, RE: And... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-30, 17:36:42 (204.94.81.82)
The Roku remote also automatically recognizes the TV to turn it on, control the volume and has a mute switch. .......

411: General Asylum, RE: Anyone else get a "we will no longer support your device" letter from Roku? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-30, 11:39:16 (204.94.81.82)
It's no big deal. The product will still work, but the apps won't get updated. .......

412: Inmate Central, And here I thought it was a myth.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-29, 19:24:51 (204.94.81.82)
It's clear that EVs aren't ready for prime time if your plan is for a road trip. For running around town and charging from solar panels, it's great....at least I hope it will be. .......

413: Inmate Central, RE: Emergency Backup Power..... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-29, 18:14:22 (204.94.81.82)
That system seems pricey. I had looked at natural gas generators and figured that I could run the whole house 22kW unit for about $6K or so. My issue with batteries is the cost and replacement time. M .......

414: Inmate Central, RE: The playing field is changing (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-29, 17:44:46 (204.94.81.82)
Time of Use can be advantageous, but not without batteries. We have the option in CA and SDG&E tells us we'd save. I don't believe it because we only had a $14 bill for the year with the regular tier .......

415: Inmate Central, RE: I was impressed with the Mach-E.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-28, 12:08:23 (204.94.81.82)
Yeah, it appears that the Mach-E Premium will go up to right at $55K, a $6K increase. Tesla may not raise prices until the 2023 version which isn't due out until late Summer or later. On the up side, .......

416: Inmate Central, RE: Little League World Series.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 17:58:49 (204.94.81.82)
Curacoa has played 4 games in the loser bracket this week, so I suspect they don't have their top pitchers. If so, then it could get bloody with Hawaii knocking the ball out of the park. Most of the u .......

417: Inmate Central, Old news... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 17:39:24 (204.94.81.82)
Check out Youtube, it's full of video of shape sifting, reptilian politicians. .......

418: Inmate Central, Every other day in the paper, yet another biker loses... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 17:37:06 (204.94.81.82)
My neighbor is a major biker. His crew and their ladies even went to the Tour De France to watch and ride the Alps. On our trip down the Oregon Coast, you've got a windy, 2 lane road with a white line .......

419: Inmate Central, I was impressed with the Mach-E.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 13:59:56 (204.94.81.82)
Unfortunately, you can't get one until next year and it seems that the list price is going up as much as any tax credit which is questionable based on the new battery sourcing rules. The Tesla Model .......

420: Inmate Central, RE: Little League World Series.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 13:50:56 (204.94.81.82)
Lately, Hawaii has been on fire for the West spot. I think they should move them back to the Northwest Region. ;) Our local LL made it to the LLWS back in 2005 and had a great shot at winning the tour .......

421: Inmate Central, RE: Little League World Series.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 13:36:09 (204.94.81.82)
I'm surprised how well Tennessee is playing with Hawaii thus far considering that Tennessee had to come through the loser bracket which is real tough for pitching. Likewise Curacao is probably on it l .......

422: Inmate Central, Little League World Series.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 11:21:22 (204.94.81.82)
The international teams are playing now. Curacao is up 1-0 over Chinese Taipei in the 6th. Next up is Hawaii, a monster of a team with home run hitters all through the lineup scoring 42 runs over four .......

423: Inmate Central, It feels like Teslas are the most common cars in S. Cal.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 11:13:20 (204.94.81.82)
OTOH, on our road trip to Seattle and down the Oregon Coast, we saw literally one Tesla in Oregon. .......

424: Inmate Central, Used EVs are going for more than the new list price.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 11:08:46 (204.94.81.82)
My concern is battery life. With guarantees of only 8 years or 100K miles, it's risky considering that replacing a battery is way more than replacing a gas engine. A plug in hybrid might be an option. .......

425: Inmate Central, Wow! That's a big gamble.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 10:48:28 (204.94.81.82)
I know folks that have sold their over priced California houses and moved to Oregon and bought houses for cash at half the cost. That makes sense. I wish your friends good luck. They may save 10-20% .......

426: Inmate Central, RE: Yes, historically, 5-6% is the norm.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 08:17:29 (204.94.81.82)
All real estate is local. Around these parts, the prices are way too high and are dropping. It's not the time to be buying. It's better to save money to have a bigger down payment on a lower price in .......

427: Inmate Central, RE: Yes, historically, 5-6% is the norm.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 08:05:27 (204.94.81.82)
According to Zillow, our house has lost nearly $200K in value since May. Sales are off over 40%. The current bubble was completely due to the low rates. At 3%, buyers could afford to make offers for $ .......

428: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: What drive did you get? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-27, 07:21:48 (204.94.81.82)
No, I didn't notice any weird noises on booting. However, I noticed that the one that I'd replaced appears to be the same ASUS model. The old one was a 2019 model, so it was only about 3 years old. I .......

429: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: What drive did you get? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-26, 14:01:46 (204.94.81.82)
It's an inexpensive Asus drive. .......

430: Inmate Central, Yes, historically, 5-6% is the norm.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-26, 13:13:17 (204.94.81.82)
The problem right now is that the pricing has gone bonkers largely because of the artificially low interest rates. In San Diego County, prices were up nearly 30% in 2021. Starter houses were in the $4 .......

431: Inmate Central, RE: Cash is king and ... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-25, 13:54:55 (204.94.81.82)
My son is in a similar boat. I keep telling him to wait. The prices are still too high and the worst part is the interest rates have doubled. Prices are coming down. One house was listed for $900K an .......

432: Inmate Central, You've been warned.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-24, 20:23:56 (204.94.81.82)
Please don't post political trolls. .......

433: Speaker Asylum, RE: Floostanders with Mid-bass slam (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-24, 18:44:04 (204.94.81.82)
Well, I'd look for speakers with 15" woofers, old Altecs would be a good pick, old VOT, Model 19s, Valencias, etc. .......

434: Computer Audio Asylum, I wore out my CD drive.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-24, 12:53:53 (204.94.81.82)
Using dBpoweramp, I'd get a random track here and there that came up inaccurate, so I'd rip that one again and usually, it would match the CRC. Lately, it's been getting worse and I had one CD that I .......

435: Video Asylum, RE: HDMI audio with Sony XBR 65 X850C (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-24, 08:15:45 (204.94.81.82)
The ARC input is the one that you'd usually use for a receiver where the TV can turn the receiver on and off and automatically control it for switching of inputs. So, if you had a cable box and a DVD .......

436: Inmate Central, Get a Ninja... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-23, 21:06:26 (204.94.81.82)
Costco had them for $50, usually $100 or so. Make your own, ice, powder, fruit, veggies, almond milk, it takes it all. .......

437: Inmate Central, RE: Who knows, you don't ever post any proof! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-22, 17:56:25 (204.94.81.82)
Look at your post today: https://www.audioasylum.com/members/mgeneral/messages/50/500838.html There's no url. Please don't give me more nonsensical excuses. .......

438: Inmate Central, Why do you insist on getting banned? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-22, 17:44:11 (204.94.81.82)
You know the rules. Perhaps a month ban might help. .......

439: Inmate Central, Who knows, you don't ever post any proof! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-21, 12:55:20 (204.94.81.82)
If you can't supply a url in the optional link box, please don't post this garbage. Thank you. .......

440: Inmate Central, So does the fridge scan the contents and text an order to the store? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-19, 17:44:57 (204.94.81.82)
Now you only need a robot to put away the groceries. .......

441: Inmate Central, RE: I don't thiink so (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-18, 18:04:25 (204.94.81.82)
Good idea. I just noticed on of mine was over spraying today and I swear that we just checked all the circuits recently. But, we've got about a acre and over a dozen circuits to check now and then whi .......

442: Inmate Central, RE: I drove a Ford Mach-E recently.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-18, 17:52:38 (204.94.81.82)
Thanks for the feedback. The question now is whether Ford will get the full tax credits next year and if the price increases will exceed the cost level for credits. The mandate for mined lithium in th .......

443: Inmate Central, Not quite, just 280... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-17, 20:01:56 (204.94.81.82)
Looks like he's got some tiny love handles. . .......

444: Inmate Central, I drove a Ford Mach-E recently.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-17, 18:22:25 (204.94.81.82)
Unbelievably, the sales guy let me drive a trade in with 12,000 miles that was sold and getting charged for delivery later. He just handed me the keys and said to come back later, he was busy. We only .......

445: Inmate Central, Nearly all NFL running backs are obese too.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-17, 10:55:25 (204.94.81.82)
At least based on the charts of height and weight. Muscle weighs more than fat. .......

446: Inmate Central, RE: 10,000 steps and diet root beer... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-17, 10:36:11 (204.94.81.82)
I had gotten up to about 210 pounds and decided that I needed to lost some weight. Recalling a co-worker years ago, Laura shared that she had lose a lot of weight by looking at what she was eating. In .......

447: Inmate Central, RE: I don't thiink so (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-17, 10:27:44 (204.94.81.82)
Well, if you are sure everything is turned off and the water meter doesn't move for a good while, then it's not a leak. But it still seems like a huge increase. You might also check all of your sprink .......

448: Inmate Central, Universal remotes don't work.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-16, 19:30:03 (174.65.32.33)
Well, they do, but won't handle everything. That's why I have 6 remotes, 3 that sit on the coffee table and others less used on the mantle of the fireplace. OTOH, the system is all SS and on in the fa .......

449: Inmate Central, RE: Imperial Valley farms east of San Diego are still using flood irrigation. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-16, 18:25:03 (204.94.81.82)
You're right. Imperial Valley has major rights which is why San Diego is better off than LA and some other areas. I would have thought the Central Valley would be major users. Going up I5 and US 99, y .......

450: Inmate Central, Do you have a leak? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-16, 18:21:36 (204.94.81.82)
We had one a few years ago. The bill was 50% and about 70% higher with the usage doubling. But then we've got many 85 year old cooper pipes. It took a while and the addition of several valves that we .......

451: Inmate Central, TOTD (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-16, 17:43:46 (174.65.32.33)
We were looking to drive through the tree in the Redwood National Park. But the sign said 'Drive through the Trees', not THE tree! Alas, the famous sequoia, not redwood, the Wawona Tree, was in Yos .......

452: Inmate Central, RE: Colorado River & Lake Mead Report - Water Shortage out West (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-16, 13:54:16 (204.94.81.82)
This morning's paper was all about the issues. Sadly, California has done next to nothing to mitigate the problem. After a road trip from Seattle down along the Oregon coast, there's plenty of water w .......

453: Inmate Central, RE: I'm trying to get an explanation of one thing (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-16, 13:36:38 (204.94.81.82)
Like Abe said, the answer is that Google has hooks in most ecommerce sites, so they'll get your cookie and what you're looking to buy. Then, they can place those ads on the next site. What always bugs .......

454: Inmate Central, Please don't alert me to an Ad hominem remark after you respond with your own (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-16, 13:32:07 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

455: General Asylum, Wrecking Crew Guitarist Bill Pitman Dies At Age 102 (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-14, 13:34:43 (204.94.81.82)
The Wrecking Crew were a group of all-purpose, highly revered studio musicians who appeared on thousands of popular records-including massive hits such as "Mr. Tambourine Man" by The Byrds and "Calif .......

456: Inmate Central, Nice pic, here's another... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-14, 12:14:52 (204.94.81.82)
Yaquina Head Lighthouse at Newport, OR .......

457: Inmate Central, I remember when they had drive in liquor stores (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-14, 10:22:49 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

458: Inmate Central, Are there left handed watches? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-13, 19:56:41 (204.94.81.82)
I used to wear a watch until I worked in the food brokerage biz and kept breaking watches due to banging stuff with my left hand. No watch for me for the last 40 years or more. Strangely, I can always .......

459: Inmate Central, Happy Left Handed Day! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-13, 17:47:08 (204.94.81.82)
.......

460: Inmate Central, I found a new one too! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-13, 13:21:57 (174.65.32.33)
During our vacation, my check of the room turned up a 5 bar water resistant watch of an unknown Chinese maker under the bed. It keeps perfect time which is about all I can say about it. ::: TOPIC:: .......

461: Inmate Central, RE: Rod M and war in Ukraine (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-12, 20:18:04 (204.94.81.82)
What is fair? The war is an issue. Political basing is a problem. Can you give me some guidance? .......

462: Inmate Central, In Prescott, AZ, the schools have set guidelines.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-12, 17:41:17 (204.94.81.82)
No mandates for vaccines or testing or masks, but parents are free to mask their kids and/or vaccinate them, just not the other way around. It's basically a pro-choice system. .......

463: Inmate Central, Please don't post political topics... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-12, 17:35:19 (204.94.81.82)
Thanks .......

464: Inmate Central, RE: Yup, cell phones have gotten too good... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-12, 11:33:54 (204.94.81.82)
I'm not sure what you're asking, cropping or what. Just for grins, I cropped the image below from 4K to about a 2K portion. It surely shows more detail; however, the Asylum code resizes images over 1, .......

465: Inmate Central, BOTD (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-12, 11:17:30 (204.94.81.82)
Dang crow! Or is it a raven? .......

466: Inmate Central, Yup, cell phones have gotten too good... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-12, 07:27:14 (204.94.81.82)
This one is from my wife's Samsung phone, 4K, 24 bit color. .......

467: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Hey Rod! Help! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-12, 07:11:30 (204.94.81.82)
Ah, I figured it out, strange quirk. You should be good now. .......

468: Inmate Central, Just take a week's ban... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-12, 06:59:52 (204.94.81.82)
Not joking. .......

469: Inmate Central, Is that off the Oceanside pier? (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-11, 20:40:46 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

470: Inmate Central, RE: Next Canon upgrade from Canon 6D? Stay DSLR or go mirrorless (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-11, 18:33:35 (204.94.81.82)
Quite a question. I had Nikon lens when my wife was looking to upgrade cameras for video. We ended up with Panasonic GH2s and later GH4s for two reasons, 1) the Nikon lenses could work but not fully a .......

471: Digital Drive, RE: So there. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-10, 19:23:26 (204.94.81.82)
By definition, the internet and disk drives are bit perfect. Otherwise, computer networks just don't work for browsing or buying on Amazon. Transfer of data packets include check sums to ensure perfec .......

472: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Hey Rod! Help! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-10, 08:35:45 (204.94.81.82)
I just tried it and it was fine for a new topic. Could it be something about a response to a post that might be the issue? .......

473: Inmate Central, Stop posting politicial topics, thanks.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-09, 18:25:50 (204.94.81.82)
Next one gets you a week long ban. .......

474: Digital Drive, Good point.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-09, 09:52:23 (204.94.81.82)
I was thinking solely of a streamer and DAC versus the CDP with its internal DAC. .......

475: Digital Drive, RE: Streaming vs CD Which Really Sounds Best? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-09, 09:04:19 (204.94.81.82)
In theory, the CD and a streaming version of that CD should be identical. Of course, a CD player might not be perfect at reading the data, but for this purpose, you can assume that they are the same a .......

476: Inmate Central, Some knee pads would be more helpful than a yellow jersey for that kind of riding! (mt).. (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-08, 12:38:02 (204.94.81.82)
. .......

477: Digital Drive, RE: I NEED YOUR HELP, PLEASE! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-08, 07:25:16 (173.195.177.115)
At the Pacific Audio Fest, many of the rooms were using Innous products. One of our little group has the Zen and loves it and its simplicity, just drop a CD in the slot and it loads it up in minutes a .......

478: Inmate Central, My son bought a new Mazda 3 in 2018 and loves it.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-05, 18:18:02 (204.94.81.82)
He went with the standard 4 banger and gets about 30-35mpg. Driving it is lots of fun, it handles more like more my old BMW 328i than an inexpensive compact and the little 154 horsepower with an auto .......

479: General Asylum, Pacific Audio Fest -- Best of Show (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-04, 09:51:07 (204.94.81.82)
The Von Schweikert system was truly impressive, perhaps not for its sound, but surely for its insanely high cost possibly exceeding the million dollar mark! The Ultra 7 speakers retail at $180K and t .......

480: Inmate Central, Nice pics.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-03, 13:28:14 (204.94.81.82)
We were going to go to Mt Rainier which would have taken an extra 2 or 3 hours and just didn't have the time as the drive to Seaside was already about 4 hours. .......

481: Inmate Central, Back on the road to Seaside.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-03, 12:42:47 (107.190.211.221)
Actually, these pics are from Monday, August 1st, as we left Seattle to Seaside, OR. Mt. St. Helens..... Logging trucks are everywhere, apparently hauling loads to the Columbia River. There must .......

482: General Asylum, Pacific Audio Fest --- Most Realistic (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-03, 09:57:52 (204.94.81.82)
If you want real music and love gorgeous gear, these guys have it in spades! I asked the fellow showing the guitars in the first shot below about the prices. $6-8K, awfully cheap in audiophile dollars .......

483: General Asylum, RE: Pacific Audio Fest (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-03, 09:22:43 (204.94.81.82)
You are correct.I recall talking to the designer and he said that it was a proprietary air motion design or something along those lines. .......

484: Inmate Central, SOTD (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-03, 08:45:50 (204.94.81.82)
Here's a sunset from Maxi's on the 14th floor of the hotel at the Pacific Audio Fest during a jazz quartet hosted by the show. .......

485: General Asylum, RE: Pacific Audio Fest (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-03, 08:29:21 (204.94.81.82)
Wow, $572 seems nearly cheap compared to the $800 that was the best price that we'd found. Since my wife was coming too, we figured we could do the road trip and cover most of the hotels from the savi .......

486: Inmate Central, Silver is way under valued.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 20:51:22 (204.94.81.82)
I remember when silver was over $40 with gold being less than today. Historic ratios for comparison The ratio of silver to gold in the earth's crust is 17.5:1. In Roman times, the price ratio was se .......

487: Inmate Central, Same here...any good contractor is picking and choosing and backed up for months or years.... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 18:41:42 (107.190.211.221)
I wanted to get a friend of mine's grandson to build our She Shed, but I couldn't even get a quote. Thankfully, another friend is a semi-retired framer and builder and between he, myself and a handy m .......

488: Inmate Central, What!?! (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 18:12:29 (204.94.81.82)
Out here in California, marking utilities is done with sensors and a wand, there's no digging at all! I don't get it. Granted, the cable and phone lines may have been in the same trench as underground .......

489: General Asylum, RE: Any Chance You Got to the Daedalus Audio Room? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 17:36:12 (204.94.81.82)
It has been a great trip. We just left Seaside, a nice little tourist, beach town and went down the 101 right by Tillamook's corporate headquarters and a whole bunch of cows. The scenery is amazing an .......

490: General Asylum, RE: Any Chance You Got to the Daedalus Audio Room? (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 12:06:49 (204.94.81.82)
I think we did as the name sounds familiar and I believe the room was fine, just didn't peak my fancy. On the first day, I didn't have my phone so I only included rooms that struck me. I do have a .......

491: General Asylum, Pacific Audio Fest --- Bargain Best of the Show (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 11:51:30 (204.94.81.82)
These speakers are similar to the AudioEngne products with the little one being 7.5H x 4.75"W x 7.75"D and the big boy, 10"H x 6.5"W x8"D. Both speakers use an aluminum cone woofer along with a passiv .......

492: Inmate Central, Never get gas near the airport... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 10:35:03 (204.94.81.82)
Yesterday, the gas was $5.99 around the Seattle airport due to the rental car tax. Checking GasBuddy, we paid just over $4 at the Costco in Federal Way, WA and we haven't seen any place sporting less .......

493: Inmate Central, COTD (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 09:52:39 (204.94.81.82)
No, it's not a cat, it's the carousel in Seaside, OR. .......

494: General Asylum, RE: Pacific Audio Fest (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 09:50:13 (204.94.81.82)
Turn out was quite good for a new show, not too many and not like there were not many. Airfares were insane which is why we decided to drive and take advantage of going by Yosemite and Crater Lake on .......

495: General Asylum, Pacific Audio Fest (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-08-02, 08:36:39 (107.190.211.221)
The show was at the DoubleTree by Hilton at the Seattle airport. Honestly, the sound at the show was generally quite good. Most vendors had sound treatments and did a fine job though the music was too .......

496: Inmate Central, More on the road to Portland... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-07-28, 11:13:49 (204.94.81.82)
Portland is a short hop from Salem and we pulled into the Mark a bit after noon. Since we couldn't check in right then, we headed out to find some food. The hotel clerk gave us a few options and Kenny .......

497: Inmate Central, On the way to Salem... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-07-26, 19:37:50 (96.76.100.249)
A walk in the park in Bend...along the river. And the Deschutes River... Leads to the Deschutes Brewery, the 8th largest craft brewer, good food, good beer and great fries! In the quaint litt .......

498: Inmate Central, 1949' deep (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-07-26, 18:57:14 (204.94.81.82)
According to Google. .......

499: Inmate Central, 73 now in Bend...... (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-07-26, 09:15:35 (204.94.81.82)
And heading to a 104 degree peak in the afternoon, time for some AC at a brewery! .......

500: Inmate Central, RE: Crater Lake (0.00)
Posted by Rod M on 2022-07-25, 19:56:01 (204.94.81.82)
I thought you were supposed to hang the wieners up in a tree at night to avoid the bears. Yeah, you could shoot 100 pictures at every lookout point and still never get the full magnificence of the vie .......

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