1: Inmate Central, Well we both have large land expanses, and yet Australia - despite the bush, the outback and broad-field (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-05-27, 18:33:08 (124.171.159.117)
farming, is still one of the most urbanized countries there is! >95% of us live in cities / towns. Since the 1890s. The other countries represented are also similar enough. So, I do see the comparison .......

2: Inmate Central, A comparison of how some countries are doing. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-05-27, 16:47:30 (124.171.159.117)
At last! I'd noticed, down here, that we weren't seeing straightforward, clear comparisons. The chart is further down. But it is up to date. .......

3: Inmate Central, should we be wearing masks? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-05-27, 16:42:05 (124.171.159.117)
Nope! Click below. .......

4: Inmate Central, Given that it was 'aimed' at London, the task was to shoot it down before it got to London. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-31, 16:47:31 (124.171.65.46)
The 'aiming' was achieved by setting the gyros to 'aim at London'. And the distance before shutting down the motor was set to a count of revolutions of the tiny spinner-prop at the nose. Dr RV Jones, .......

5: Inmate Central, IIRC the first to do it / figure it out, was called Middleton. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-31, 16:22:02 (124.171.65.46)
It's to do with differences in air-pressure between the top-surface of the fighter's wing-tip and the underneath of the V1's wing-tip. Causing it to lift! Quickly enough to make the VI's own gyroscope .......

6: Inmate Central, Hi John, that would have to be one of the best views of Middle Harbour? ever! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-30, 15:51:17 (124.171.99.63)
No matter how many times you've posted it. Down here we are experiencing even more rain!!! This means even more work suppressing the inevitable weeds. More later and separately. .......

7: Vintage Asylum, Tears of laughter running down my cheeks. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 19:13:45 (124.171.208.102)
IME, often preceded by, ROTFLMAO. Rolling on the floor laughing my arse off! These, of course date from when we were still trying to write short messages. .......

8: Vintage Asylum, LOL!!! Thanks, you almost got me to TOLRDMCheeks! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 16:52:34 (124.171.128.45)
Once again, thanks! .......

9: Critic's Corner, But no comments!!? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 16:49:22 (124.171.128.45)
Ah well! .......

10: Inmate Central, Awww, give her a gentle timbo-cuddle, eh?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 15:52:40 (121.45.220.252)
We are BOTH missing having a couple of furry friends. Books are not anywhere near as comforting as such are. The empty hole is palpable! I'm off to ride the exercise bike. A fortuitous item dating fro .......

11: Inmate Central, An update? the Australia supplementary manual, says 90 minimum, and the local service agent/seller (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 15:24:49 (121.45.220.252)
are very against standard unleaded - 91 octane - 'which varies too much', they tell us. So that a 95 (premium) octane fuel is their recommendation. But, given the NRMA's strong positive position on E1 .......

12: Critic's Corner, picture this? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 14:45:34 (121.45.220.252)
Ann over-size infantry battalion is in the field, during our humid Aussie Summer. And, as usual the HQ Company's Assault-Pioneer platoon has built/dug plenty of long-drop karzis, two per infantry comp .......

13: Inmate Central, LOL! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 14:31:25 (121.45.220.252)
So, are US parents really that slack?! ;-) and :-) .......

14: Tube DIY Asylum, Another post to confirm me against tube-rolling. TVM (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 14:25:35 (121.45.220.252)
;-) and :-) .......

15: Classical Court, Placido has caught it, too! and Anne-sophie Mutter (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 14:19:30 (121.45.220.252)
Touchy-feely has just gone out the window for a good while ah-rekkins! .......

16: Inmate Central, Placido Domingo has caught it (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 14:16:35 (121.45.220.252)
Maybe he hadn't stopped the feel-ups?! ;-) and :-) .......

17: General Asylum, Tick! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 14:05:24 (121.45.220.252)
;-) and :-) .......

18: Tubes Asylum, IME valves last a LONG time. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 13:58:31 (121.45.220.252)
They are designed to. .......

19: Inmate Central, Unions 'work' down here. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 13:54:53 (121.45.220.252)
:-) and ;-). .......

20: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Have a guess? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 13:17:18 (121.45.220.252)
Eh?! Hint? The kind we both despise for whizzy reasons? .......

21: Inmate Central, It just struck me that execs and managers must be paid a HECK of a lot more than staff in that place. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 13:11:50 (121.45.220.252)
for such a small pay-cut to allow for that. Is that typical across the USA? hmmm. .......

22: Inmate Central, Nothing will return to normal, and that was my point, for the whole planet. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 13:07:43 (121.45.220.252)
I'm not particularly taken with the idea that WWII was all about the USA. Nor was 11th September. And I'm NOT expecting a return to normal, in any way, at all. Covid19 is very likely to come back, it .......

23: Inmate Central, Nothing less than 92, in the manual. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 12:50:31 (121.45.220.252)
IIRC, and the car and manual have gone old-folks 7AM shopping with Trisha. And, basic petrol is 91 octane here in Aussie. .......

24: General Asylum, I feel for you Chris. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 03:17:26 (124.171.76.147)
We are trying to deal with all that down here too! .......

25: General Asylum, The 'Spanish Flu' experience is built into what governments are trying to do - across the globe - right now. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 03:15:55 (124.171.76.147)
Do get your heads around that, folks. The diggers from China turned up towards the end of the war, and were mostly used for digging new deeper / safer? graves. Later still, for the 'War Cemeteries', .......

26: General Asylum, Good , tight, clean connections matter way more than $$$$ cables. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 03:04:35 (124.171.76.147)
? Logic, and a teeny bit of accepted circuit theory. You had to change them over, no? Next time, clean and tighten the connections, with the old cables, first. Only then can you be certain. BSBBrain .......

27: Inmate Central, Strangely enough I was not writing about the USA on its own, but global life. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 02:47:29 (124.171.76.147)
Can you think outside the 'Good-Ole USA' ? Trade between nations, just for one thing, Global travel, .... eh? This forum isn't just for the USA, dig it. .......

28: General Asylum, Thank you. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 01:26:59 (124.171.215.48)
Got it in one. .......

29: General Asylum, we've signed up to pay typical ticket prices for on-line concerts (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 01:24:31 (124.171.215.48)
Which has made me keen to wi-fi the four systems. .......

30: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Hi there Bwain!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 01:22:38 (124.171.215.48)
Write to me. .......

31: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, The largest Tannoy GRF corner enclosures, but in the right room, and with the right listening position,..etc, (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 01:21:28 (124.171.215.48)
Horns with FR? drivers just ARE shouty. .......

32: Inmate Central, Hullo there! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 01:13:12 (124.171.215.48)
:-)! and ;-) .......

33: Inmate Central, These are good signs for now. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-27, 01:11:54 (124.171.215.48)
We are attempting to ring at least two friends or friend-couples each day. Mostly from our parish, but also our secular friends. It's not easy, as we will keep running out of contact details, but the .......

34: Inmate Central, The way we looked at things up to now? Yeah that WILL change, for some folks. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 22:12:09 (124.171.214.23)
But I'd be betting some folks will refuse!! ;-) and :-)! .......

35: Inmate Central, I do hope you haven't caught it!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 21:12:55 (203.206.37.208)
If you like I can put you in our prayers. Can't hurt! .......

36: Inmate Central, think McDonalds?! ;-)! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 21:10:18 (203.206.37.208)
When the boys were young and with us, and when travelling we did sometimes use Macca's as they are known down here. I don't like their food, nor do I like KFC!!! We recently travelled to Toowoomba in .......

37: Inmate Central, I often wonder about all this! Viz. Subaru say I need 92 Octane minimum, AND NO Ethanol10 @ 94 octane. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 20:13:09 (203.206.37.208)
BUT, our National Roads and Motorists Association (NRMA) who we will take it to for servicing, when the 5 yrs are up (SOON!), say E10 is just FINE. We've had this MY2015 Forester 2.5L, since May 2016 .......

38: Inmate Central, Thanks, I know the site, and i) am usually ahead of it, and, (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 19:56:02 (203.206.37.208)
ii) we started doing things to reduce our impact on the climate when we bought the house we still live in, ~ 1980-1. No, it's not a Mc-Mansion, we couldn't afford one of them, but it did run almost pe .......

39: Inmate Central, I think that means you get my fairly broad (Blunt?) point!? ;-)! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 19:11:37 (203.206.37.208)
Viz. when this outbreak is over, ..... when will the next one come?! And, leaving aside Covid19, when's the next 'thing' from wild-food processing, aka WFP. And, JBTW, WFP happens in Africa, too! Who .......

40: Inmate Central, Yes. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 16:45:47 (203.59.20.87)
:-)! .......

41: Inmate Central, Does anyone else still think about 'when things get back to normal'? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 16:42:32 (203.59.20.87)
Over the last few days as I've been working on finishing a bunch of books I'd started reading, ..... Still mostly unfinished!! I began to realise that all this just will - change - a lot of things we .......

42: Inmate Central, Plagues and other more recent pandemics are much more curvey. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-26, 16:36:32 (203.59.20.87)
My main experience with the S-curve was when I was a change-agent in Health -Informatics and Billing. We did surveys - in DoH and the HIC (~ to yr HFA) which did confirm the theory. .......

43: Planar Speaker Asylum, How do you get 100 W from ONE 300B? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 20:28:51 (124.171.154.209)
and ? .......

44: General Asylum, The problem with that is that you cannot know how it is supposed to sound. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 20:22:32 (124.171.154.209)
So you cannot assess whether the equipment and room and seating ... does its job correctly. With simply recorded acoustic music you are a lot closer to that ideal. I used to have a part-time business .......

45: Inmate Central, I will give that a try. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 17:05:45 (124.171.84.97)
:-)! .......

46: General Asylum, wel, they either rely on cone break-up or whizzer buzz to 'do HF' and fail. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 17:02:09 (124.171.84.97)
A bit of L-rise eq can help but you really do need a 1st LP and 1st HP to a tweeter. For HT and TV, and casual listening to Classic FM, in the HT/Kitchen/Family room system, using original FE103s and .......

47: General Asylum, I would never use highly processed pop recordings to assess equipment, (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 16:46:33 (124.171.84.97)
raving sums it up! I one used a Crown 300 power amp to drive a few subs on stage, a good use for it. Their 150, from that period was, from memory, slightly kinder sounding. .......

48: Inmate Central, I like the task itself. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 16:40:07 (124.171.84.97)
We have three plungers :- one 2 mug maker, plus a 4 mug maker, both in stainless steel, and one also large clear-glass item. Enough for the largest group of guests we'd ever have. A 2 litre electric k .......

49: Inmate Central, Finishing reading a bunch of books I'd started. Walking and riding our exercise bike. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 15:25:05 (124.171.84.97)
Listening to ABC Classic FM. https://www.abc.net.au/classic/listen-live/player/ Watching free-to-air ABC TV and SBS, using TV guides to avoid the crap. And, trying - so far unsuccessfully - to find bo .......

50: Inmate Central, Even more 'irony'? Down here Aldi's premium bog-paper is called 'Confidence' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 15:19:36 (124.171.84.97)
Wipe your arse 'with confidence'! But, it -is- VERY soft! ;-)!! .......

51: Inmate Central, I just do plunger coffee, aka French Press - from Aldi's bag of Italian 'style' beans, ground to ~2-3mm (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-25, 15:16:17 (124.171.84.97)
I fill the grinder's clear lid with beans and fit the body down into that, and grind. The plunger makes about two short mugs of coffee, with boiled water. It makes a very, very strong mix, then I pour .......

52: Inmate Central, I LIKED Earl, too. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-24, 05:51:21 (203.206.41.251)
Sad, isn't it?! Hope you got to laugh, with me and LCpl Jones, too! Have you read my 24/03 response to you? what follows, follows on from the funeral, and etc. I am flat out gardening* & simply self- .......

53: Inmate Central, Go below and click on my 24/03 post, which was missed by all of you lot! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-24, 01:23:35 (121.45.220.34)
:-) and ;-) .......

54: Inmate Central, I did post, on 24/03 in response to '1973shovel' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-24, 01:14:33 (121.45.220.34)
But, not one of you read it. here is what I linked on Facebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0lOtdvqyg I've been utterly unsurprised by the me,me,me stuff, the idiotic refusal to understand how ep .......

55: Inmate Central, You might even laugh! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-23, 22:54:35 (203.214.0.27)
click below / let's hope it works!!! .......

56: Inmate Central, Ahh iz Back!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-15, 03:40:18 (124.171.72.198)
:-) !!! .......

57: Inmate Central, i've been having a rest, and dealing with a very serious issue with a 'very-ex friend' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-03-14, 00:01:24 (121.45.194.74)
He's basically gone mad! Baseless debt claims and death threats!!! And we've been travelling a good bit, too! Just got back from Toowoomba in Queensland. A 5-day trip starting Tuesday - one day in Too .......

58: Inmate Central, Don't know, don't stream yet! Long post! :-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-02-10, 15:17:39 (124.171.150.245)
Once the QUAD 63s plus swarm subs is built and in place in LDRoom, I will start saving for a 'smart TV' to fit the wall-unit in THE FR/Kitchen, where our 70"? Plasma SD TV is now. I'll have to disasse .......

59: Inmate Central, The new 'Midway' movie? Is IMO excellent! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-02-10, 14:10:01 (121.45.221.190)
Way better than the 1976 one. Much more authentic even if it's CGI'd. 'Real' Japanese triple 25s on the IJN ships, and 'real' 28mm Hudson guns on the USN ships. Patricia generally hates war movies, wh .......

60: Inmate Central, The disaster here in Australia was not due to arsonists. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-02-06, 01:29:57 (124.171.220.208)
When you've got your head around that, we can talk. But not until then. .......

61: Inmate Central, And, if it does, it just WILL NOT be due to 'climate change' and it will be arsonists! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-31, 01:44:54 (124.171.192.113)
NEVER ember attack, never lightning strikes, and NOT EVER due to anthropogenic climate change! At ALL!!!! ...... .......

62: Radio Road, Not me, because ABC Classic sounds like shit on-line or DATV cf over the air (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-31, 00:37:42 (124.171.192.113)
Lower bit rates being the issue. .......

63: Inmate Central, ROTFLMAO WTOLRDMCheeks (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-31, 00:28:54 (124.171.192.113)
China is an ancient culture, where tradition matters way more than modern cleanliness. With a highly politicised - authoritarian (top-down) public service, laid over it, to very little real positive e .......

64: Inmate Central, ALL small cylinder Hondas are great. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-31, 00:04:16 (124.171.192.113)
There was a tiny 6 that won races. .......

65: Inmate Central, How tight, is tight enough! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-31, 00:02:41 (124.171.192.113)
Loved that book. I was lent it, read it, and bought a used copy on line. I think I gave that second copy, to someone who I figured needed it more than I did. Helped me shoot better, and to stop worryi .......

66: Inmate Central, It's a battle to keep the house cool, IF the wind is shifting, but I keep on top of it. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-30, 23:58:29 (124.171.192.113)
Today it's tough because it is just so HOT! Another day of it, tomorrow. Really, really tired of all this! .......

67: Inmate Central, 105.4 F at 4:34 PM today - Intelligent magpies standing in the exhaust screen door for cooler 27C air!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-30, 21:35:49 (124.171.149.169)
From the evaporative-cooling system. .......

68: Inmate Central, Mistakes are very, very likely when you are stressed for weeks! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-30, 14:01:59 (124.171.111.111)
I know! As part-time soldiers we were taken from a field exercise during Annual Camp one year, to fight fires. To the West of the Putty Road but South of the exercise area. We were already tired, swe .......

69: Inmate Central, It's been down-graded!! Phewww! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-28, 14:40:16 (124.171.143.244)
:-) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-28/namadgi-orroral-valley-fire-to-canberras-south-easing/11907438 .......

70: Inmate Central, Fires?! We now have a growing - out of control - fire to our South West (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-28, 14:23:14 (124.171.143.244)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-28/namadgi-orroral-valley-fire-to-canberras-south-easing/11907438 So far it has been moving to the East North East. And is now no longer seen as a threat. But I wil .......

71: Propeller Head Plaza, "And know enough not to 'try this at home'. " (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-28, 12:01:12 (124.171.143.244)
Yes. Very few reported ABX and DBT tests meet the low enough Beta requirement. So, they prove nothing. I can recall one, by Audio magazine a few decades ago, about speaker cables IIRC which didn't. An .......

72: Propeller Head Plaza, Are you writing about hypothesis tests, which ABX and DBT tests are? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-28, 01:33:14 (124.171.153.239)
I'm not at all sure that the tests you are describing are relevant to audio testing, where we are trying to find out what 'we' as human beings, collectively / reliably can hear ALL ABX/DBT tests of wh .......

73: Radio Road, But, the spacing will still (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-22, 03:00:58 (124.171.82.71)
be wrong. .......

74: Inmate Central, The idea that this is a problem with ONLY binary solutions is just a tad strange. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 23:33:38 (121.45.214.179)
Ronnie Raygun and the GE ads were just a political point of view. Dig it. .......

75: Inmate Central, But,you do't live in a moral society and aren't 'moral' yourself. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 23:16:55 (121.45.214.179)
Shit, eh?! .......

76: Inmate Central, We've been very effective investors!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 23:14:49 (121.45.214.179)
I can count! RofReturnOnInvestment, and any other formula. Lying down in bed and kicking it out with my feet. .......

77: Radio Road, mate? next time you want advice? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 23:08:38 (121.45.214.179)
How about you respond to the advice you get? Even give us an outcome? Other wise, don't come asking for help, ever, again. .......

78: Inmate Central, You mean "GREED is GOOD!!!!" !? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 20:43:47 (121.45.214.179)
Well, yeah. It's plainly silly, if not evil! But I was happy to be involved in the cuts to tariff protection. Excepting car production. That's a core skill-set for a small country a long way from an .......

79: Inmate Central, Maaate! Thanks!!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 19:42:42 (121.45.220.1)
Yes, I need to do the sums soon. Including the cost of (ink) while waiting for the Canon to cark it, .......

80: Inmate Central, Don't feel bad - obesity - is a Western World problem! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 18:08:04 (121.45.220.1)
My BMI is still a few % too high! Working on lowering it. .......

81: Inmate Central, "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 18:05:52 (121.45.220.1)
ROTFLMAOff WTOLRDMCheeks. Wish I had that quot available a week back. I do have a few of his, but not that one! .......

82: Inmate Central, But, but American news sources get EVERYTHING RIGHT, or so I was told, quite recently! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 17:59:19 (121.45.220.1)
BSEGrin. .......

83: Inmate Central, More rapid rate of change in market behaviour? Geeze, wassa matter? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 17:56:15 (121.45.220.1)
If this means that foodie-ism is in decline, I won't mind. A decline in TV food shows wouldn't hurt either. Learn to cook? eh? I cook, at home, so I can smell and taste as I go. So, I learn. Grow yo .......

84: Inmate Central, RE: Bathroom scales. Any recommendations? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 17:50:36 (121.45.220.1)
Unless the tiled floor of your bathroom is horizontal, and IF yours has springs and a moving needle, use it in the master bedroom on a FLAT service. Ours fits under the stereo only TV/Video/RCVR stan .......

85: Inmate Central, My two decades in industry policy and reform, covered that crap!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 17:44:35 (121.45.220.1)
Most of the reforms to industry protection were based on inquiries and reports by our own national Industries Assistance Commission or IAC. There was one problem though. Import statistics were classif .......

86: Inmate Central, See above for LONG discursive answer to the hail issue!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 17:33:09 (121.45.220.1)
;-) .......

87: Inmate Central, We got a few tiny bits of hail and )12mm of rain in about 10 minutes, followed by 1 hrs very gentle rain.. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 17:32:15 (121.45.220.1)
But, North Canberra copped a hiding. Millions upon millions of $ worth, to home roofs, parked cars, gardens and trees. Our car was outside!!!!! ALL CSIRO's green-houses have been smashed along the Eas .......

88: Inmate Central, Thanks for the tip. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-21, 17:09:44 (121.45.220.1)
What model/s Epson, precisely?! That are scanners as well? Because when I come to top up the Canon, with the usual un-branded inks! I'll be informed re options and costs. TIA! .......

89: Inmate Central, Our boys were discouraged from rugby codes! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-15, 15:15:13 (124.171.158.190)
By both of us. .......

90: Inmate Central, Yes! When I read up on this, I thanked my luck in mostly playing with folks below 140 lbs / 10 stone. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-15, 15:02:06 (124.171.158.190)
Even then, only for three years. My younger brother was concussed on three occasions I can recall. He was playing Saturdays and in school competition. Mum made him stop, after the third instance. Did .......

91: Radio Road, Unless the antenna is cut for FM, it won't work very well. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-15, 14:57:43 (124.171.77.34)
It might work - acceptably - in a given context. .......

92: Tubes Asylum, Thanks, me too! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-15, 14:06:26 (121.45.209.158)
:-)! .......

93: Inmate Central, I think John's post nailed it. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-14, 12:49:09 (124.171.221.30)
They are flat out feeding themselves. .......

94: Inmate Central, +1, my thoughts exactly. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-14, 12:28:53 (124.171.221.30)
Silly heading. .......

95: Inmate Central, The people who fight bushfires are volunteers trained to fight bushfires. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-14, 12:03:57 (124.171.221.30)
In NSWales they're the Rural Fire Service. Local community fire services are called Community Fire Units, and we didn't have any such gas-masks. Same threat. .......

96: Inmate Central, The smoke was reaching New Zealand, months ago!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-14, 11:59:47 (124.171.221.30)
Long before December. .......

97: Inmate Central, Well, if you actually THINK about it ...... (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-14, 02:07:15 (124.171.221.30)
In - risk - terms .... Even without a beard and mo', you hair, down the sides of your face but above your ears, is still at risk. And, it's not that MUCH further away, really! That's why we try to sta .......

98: Inmate Central, From the Australian Academy of Sciences. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 17:36:30 (124.171.150.238)
Worth a read. .......

99: Inmate Central, we have a saying down here (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 12:36:35 (124.171.152.234)
It's about a way to make it difficult to find the sausage. X fingers!!!! ;-) .......

100: Inmate Central, LOL! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 12:31:20 (124.171.152.234)
Thanks! .......

101: Inmate Central, Good for you mate, we need LOTs more recent aircraft. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 02:12:45 (121.45.222.104)
But given your view that climate change isn't REAL, perhaps we shouldn't bother? So, to be consistent, you should oppose any upgrades / increases to the global fire fighting aircraft fleet. Replacemen .......

102: Inmate Central, Except when You Lot are instructing us about fire and global warming, eh? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 02:01:16 (121.45.222.104)
.......

103: Inmate Central, All the other posts had a basis, that they knew better than I did! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 01:49:09 (121.45.222.104)
And, if I didn't read the NewsWEAK article I was failing in my duty, to follow your commands. Ask yourself this basic question. "Does Timbo in Oz, know more about fires in Australia than I do, being h .......

104: Inmate Central, Thanks, and more thanks - for the lack of 'advice' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 01:00:14 (121.45.222.104)
:-) .......

105: Inmate Central, We've had lots of little isolated bits of rain, lately. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 00:50:39 (121.45.222.104)
Not enough, mind. I am, still, expending a good deal of energy, on monitoring what's actually developing or dieing out, and keeping my lads and families informed. Along with TMFW&F who is getting her .......

106: Inmate Central, No Dave, you're not on my 'list' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-11, 00:08:18 (121.45.222.104)
'list' making is something fascists do. Sadly, I am on some such lists, in the USA. Like I'm frightened? Dave, I've been shot at! ;-) .......

107: Inmate Central, The now combined monster that JDK referred to, is to our South West. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-10, 15:49:58 (124.171.208.170)
But today the winds are SE!!!! .......

108: Inmate Central, Thankyou (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-10, 12:49:07 (124.171.208.170)
:-) .......

109: Tube DIY Asylum, That's pretty much what I meant an artisan is someone who makes things like a metal worker. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-10, 12:44:03 (124.171.208.170)
My mother was a commercial artist, and worked on aircraft camouflage design during WWII. Until mid 1942, when Dad, shipped home on a hospital ship, caught the train down to Melbourne and brought he .......

110: Inmate Central, You're not on such a list. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-10, 01:18:38 (124.171.218.94)
Not at all. .......

111: Radio Road, Brian Beezely? Yes! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 20:31:59 (124.171.132.156)
But I have a locally mfd one now. Plus a DTV antenna. Both antennas are aimed at Black Mountain Tower. Over a ridge just Nth of us and then another >10 km I'm only interested in two FM stations, on .......

112: Radio Road, There's even a computerised design page for high-gain antennas (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 17:33:38 (124.171.216.151)
On line, that is. And there's quite a bit about building them. .......

113: Radio Road, APS antennas out of business? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 14:58:30 (124.171.133.231)
That appears to be the case. https://www.fmtunerinfo.com/antennas.html There's a post dated 2014. .......

114: Inmate Central, Dance?!?! Just dance?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 13:22:23 (124.171.133.231)
;-) .......

115: Inmate Central, I do not dsilike Americans what I do dislike is people who are ignorant telling me that they know better than (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 12:49:29 (124.171.133.231)
what I know. And that is what has happened. The USMC is the US Marine Corps. And it's a TOUGH SHIT chit for people who are unhappy they've been disciplined / found out. I have been educated about our .......

116: Inmate Central, You betcha arse I am! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 12:35:50 (124.171.133.231)
I live in a democracy where just about everybody votes, under national laws. Americans live in a republic, where people regularly organise to take voting rights away from, mostly, black people. Respe .......

117: Inmate Central, I simply think that Americans have a way too high opinion of themselves. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 12:22:36 (124.171.133.231)
The fire crisis began long before you began to get interested. Because you news services only belatedly bothered to tell you. That is what happened. When you have a fire crisis, we know straight away. .......

118: Inmate Central, Go and read KavaKidds post where he did write that. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 00:27:02 (124.171.133.231)
https://www.audioasylum.com/members/mgeneral/messages/34/340556.html Sums the lot of you up, rather well. A retraction is WAY due. You and others were very keen that I read the Newsweek article! I wou .......

119: Inmate Central, Go and look at my recent post linking to the ABC. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-09, 00:01:10 (124.171.133.231)
The arsonists are NOT the cause. Click on every link. And then, drop, the arsonists as a cause. .......

120: Radio Road, So? What have you done? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 23:47:27 (124.171.133.231)
Have you contacted the station that hums? .......

121: Inmate Central, Foisting that 'Newsweek' article .... (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 22:09:02 (124.171.133.231)
Newsweek sought out who it wanted. .......

122: Inmate Central, Don't think I'll bother to respond in detail beyond the two points below. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 21:42:44 (124.171.133.231)
The idea that 24 fires had been successfully lit, simultaneously, by 24 arsonists, and was the cause of this several months long disaster? That's not a leap? Also, very telling about the mindset revea .......

123: Speaker Asylum, The Allison 4 with the Bass Eq'r would be even better! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 20:30:40 (124.171.133.231)
:-)! .......

124: Inmate Central, More investment is needed, yes! The existing global fleet is not brand new. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 20:28:22 (124.171.133.231)
Scooping up water into tanks (that already have fire retardant in them) seems a very different task to transporting avtur. Noting that I don't know about designing water bombers. If the task could be .......

125: Inmate Central, I prefer to think of myself as a normal heterosexual male human! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 18:07:00 (124.171.207.168)
:-)! I just like girls. .......

126: Inmate Central, The latest on the fires from our public ABC. Click below. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 17:31:36 (121.45.219.231)
As Americans most of you do not have any deep knowledge of the nature of Australia. Most of you do not have any training in fighting Australian bush-fires, nor on their behaviour. Yet I do. Most of yo .......

127: Inmate Central, Cruel, but fair! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 16:13:41 (121.45.219.231)
;-)! .......

128: Inmate Central, Because you've been led by the nose by the crazy right! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-08, 00:16:46 (124.171.144.139)
What's more you don't know Adelaide from Sydney, nor how big this all is. Australia the continent is about the same size as the USA - leaving out Alaska. But it just is, the driest place on Earth, bu .......

129: Inmate Central, Getting change to happen is all I can think about. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-07, 20:52:14 (121.45.217.8)
:-)! .......

130: Inmate Central, The REAL story! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-07, 20:47:26 (121.45.217.8)
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/01/its-not-arson-you-absolute-morons/ .......

131: Vintage Asylum, I had one of them too!! Sold it. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-07, 18:52:20 (124.171.143.80)
:-)!!! .......

132: Vintage Asylum, Put mine in a Luxman pre-power system and sold it within the year. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-07, 18:50:12 (124.171.143.80)
It diminished everything. It was new. .......

133: Inmate Central, But, they didn't start simultaneously! Lightning strikes during thunderstorms were the main cause. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-07, 17:24:08 (124.171.143.80)
Most of them had been burning for weeks. Months!! Where on earth did you get that idea from? More? How could 24 people light fires simultaneously, yet separately, up almost the entire East Coast of Au .......

134: Tube DIY Asylum, I think soldering is an art. As in artisan. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-07, 12:52:05 (124.171.152.93)
Which I am not I just come up with ideas and have them built. .......

135: Tube DIY Asylum, I begin to wonder sbout the effect good soldered joints have in DIY tube amps and modified classics. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-06, 22:25:04 (124.171.80.14)
What might we hear from not so good soldering? .......

136: Inmate Central, Falcon. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-06, 10:23:32 (124.171.141.208)
The first model produced down here looked like that. .......

137: Inmate Central, I've watched it and yes he was savagely pointed, necessary I'd reckon! ..... (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 23:54:55 (124.171.141.208)
But, I eventually stopped watching. 'cause, I, don't, like, him, or his manner. .......

138: Inmate Central, Living things, other than us, matter! More than we do! Keep it up! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 23:33:38 (124.171.141.208)
Have a man-hug eh? .......

139: General Asylum, Nature is full of music. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 23:21:47 (124.171.141.208)
wind in the trees & bird song, On the coast, surf and creeks and rivers. .......

140: General Asylum, Pretty much straight away IIRC. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 21:55:21 (124.171.141.208)
Apparently I started 'singing' tunes I liked quite early on. Some of the products of 'the music industry' have had profound effects on me. I have a boxed set on LP of Sinatra singing with Tommy Dorse .......

141: Inmate Central, I see! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 18:13:42 (124.171.77.167)
But don't you know that de-regulation is a good thing. Just ask a de-reg'n proponent economist from the 1980s on! Aka a cheap-fogger! That being my nick-name for all the publicly employed types who be .......

142: Inmate Central, I use the Forester to transport spkr enclosures I've built, mostly subs these days. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 18:03:17 (124.171.77.167)
And will again, soon. Just to move my four 'swarm' / 'henge' subs, to be finished. To lounge room standard in colours selected by TMFW&F, from a palette / range, that my painter son and I will devise, .......

143: Inmate Central, This might seem a bit premature, but here goes, anyway! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 17:39:15 (121.45.198.106)
I wanted to thank those of you at Inmate Central, who've shown support and concern over the last few weeks. Not just to me and John in Sydney, but to our nation. I know I'm a bit blunt most of the tim .......

144: Inmate Central, They are not a practical car to drive in public roads, very noisy, hot, and a harsh ride. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 12:48:32 (121.45.198.106)
It's a racing car, in fact. Bloody ball-tearer of a racing car. The related chassis (IIRC) 250 GTB Lussos are a bit more practical, while still rare and very expensive. .......

145: Inmate Central, Sadly there are a lot of dead birds, down here in Aussie!. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 12:41:52 (121.45.198.106)
So, thanks for cheering me up. And, yes, you are getting better at it. Birds are amazing things. Part of God for me. Evolved though they are! ;-) Email me? .......

146: Inmate Central, Look up Andrew Bolt with the coup against Malcom Turnbull over climate change. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 12:33:38 (121.45.198.106)
He is afraid of Andrew Bolt, I'd reckon. During this period of horror, Bolt had a go at a couple of Fire Chiefs for saying that this was the final proof of 'climate change'. Guess who AB writes for? .......

147: Amp/Preamp Asylum, I think we agree, on average the half-power point is 340 Hz (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 12:26:15 (121.45.198.106)
:-). .......

148: Inmate Central, Yup, trucks are driven by drivers with good records. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 12:22:01 (121.45.198.106)
Cars are driven by the general population. .......

149: Inmate Central, the reality is that you have posted on the topic of anthropogenic climate change, that it's just weather. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-05, 12:15:00 (121.45.198.106)
More than a few times Yes? And I don't dislike you, I simply don't respect you. And I don't think I'm alone here, in that. How often have I been banned here, compared to you? .......

150: Inmate Central, Sunday!! the cooler change is here, and no fires in the Australian Capital Territory. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-04, 21:46:24 (121.45.198.106)
And, we've even had some light rain, several times. More is predicted. Low 20s C but we will get back to high 20s / low 30s by the end of the week. That's pretty normal for January. There are a few di .......

151: Inmate Central, Thankfully, today, Sunday, is a lot cooler (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-04, 21:33:41 (121.45.198.106)
low 20s C. And, there's even been some light rain. We will get back to the low 30 Cs by weeks end. But that's more typical. .......

152: Inmate Central, My first bike was a Malvern Star with 3-speed Sturmey Archer hub-gears (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-04, 17:00:46 (121.45.220.199)
It looked like a touring bike, but it was built for a tween / teen, Drop handlebars, with leather wrapping? tick. Bell tick, water bottle, tick! Alloy rims? ? Bright yellow frame with red writing and .......

153: Inmate Central, the article came out in 1984! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-04, 14:24:02 (121.45.220.199)
:-)! SA's site didn't give me a promo code so I couldn't pay for a download / complete the transaction! IT people, eh?! .......

154: Inmate Central, LOL! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-04, 13:45:19 (121.45.220.199)
Someone doesn't like being 'well known'. My old USMC friends had the term, a TS chit. Cop it sweet. .......

155: Inmate Central, The only thing I've done is to run the tyres just below highest recommended pressure. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-04, 12:17:20 (121.45.220.199)
And I can always switch to S mode. ? 2.5L flat-4 petrol injection. I did own several modified cars when I was young and an idiot, and I agree in hindsight that a quick stock vehicle would have been as .......

156: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Depending on the piece of music? But the half power point is 340 Hz, IIRCorrectly. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-04, 08:30:35 (203.59.51.111)
:-) .......

157: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: ROTFLMAOff, WTOLRDMCheeks!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-04, 08:21:24 (203.59.51.111)
'kay! Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off, with tears of laughter running down my cheeks. Howzzat?! .......

158: Inmate Central, 48C NOT 48F (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 22:13:41 (114.198.118.253)
Got it now? :-)! .......

159: Inmate Central, Sydney, NSWales, Australia, in JDK's case, and in my case Canberra, ACT, Australia. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 21:57:22 (114.198.118.253)
You must pay more attention, y'all! :-) and ;-)! .......

160: Inmate Central, Evaporative cooling is an ancient method used for cooling in dry and hot parts of the world, principally, (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 21:45:31 (114.198.118.253)
in the Middle East. In Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Sinai, Egypt, and across North Africa. Some of the earliest systems used water tanks under the houses, but with ways for wind to come in and the .......

161: Inmate Central, Are they conical cones with sorta lattice surface and some nuts and chocolate on top, vanilla ice cream inside (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 20:41:35 (121.45.216.253)
Belchhhh!!! .......

162: Inmate Central, OUCHHHH!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 20:39:48 (121.45.216.253)
Making with the positive waves! In a NNE direction! Still waiting fro the change to arrive!! Sighhhhhh!! .......

163: Inmate Central, We've just reached )111F outside. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 20:26:30 (121.45.216.253)
But as I51 would post, it's just weather. See?! .......

164: Amp/Preamp Asylum, You would be better asking on a pro-Audio site! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 18:26:29 (203.206.40.77)
This is a home-audio / hi-fi site. .......

165: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Speed? Nope. 340Metres / second for all sound at Sea Level. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 18:05:49 (203.206.40.77)
Horns cannot be faster, but they are a lot louder than most other home-audio speakers. .......

166: Amp/Preamp Asylum, ROTFLMAOff, WTOLRDMCheeks!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 17:57:21 (203.206.40.77)
Thanks for that. Not Science, and lots of Friction. .......

167: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Sorry, but what you are wanting is impossible. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 17:55:18 (203.206.40.77)
All recordings lose dynamics, even with high-rez digital storage and a simple 2-mike (capable of LOUDDDD) array. How so? I've made quite a few classical recordings for a local community FM station. Ev .......

168: Inmate Central, ;-) A box - of 4 - can last two weeks or more. ;-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 17:40:04 (203.206.40.77)
But it IS Summer, and I am stressed. Yes? When the boys were growing up we had dessert at least once a week IIRC. I cooked them. We did have desserts at Xmas. .......

169: General Asylum, Ben! I forgot to thank you. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 16:46:46 (203.206.40.77)
Rod Elliot - an Aussie too - is more to the objectivist side, but he does care about sound quality. And he had changed his address, so thanks for that, also. I will be having one of them built, at som .......

170: Inmate Central, I think the politicians in power down here now, will suffer the consequences! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 14:56:24 (124.171.101.106)
I'll be pushing for the Senate to deny supply, and bring on an early general election. .......

171: Inmate Central, Thanks for asking! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 13:53:30 (124.171.101.106)
Check out my posts about the evaporative cooling system. It's a ducted whole of house system and uses mains water pressure to feed water up onto the roof and down through fibrous pads. This does filte .......

172: Inmate Central, Wowww! he's not pulling any punches is he! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 13:37:51 (124.171.101.106)
:-) The idea - that all christians attend right-wing 'happy-clappy churches' and don't believe in climate-change - is a bit much and I do feel fairly angry about ScoMos smug attitude. .......

173: Inmate Central, Today is the day that things will escalate down here! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 12:22:07 (124.171.101.106)
There IS a cooler front coming, but it will push the HEAT (onto us) that's ahead of it into SE NSWales & ACT. But temps should drop tomorrow! If we come through today, we should have more manageable c .......

174: Inmate Central, Thanks, I will be watching, all day! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 12:18:35 (124.171.139.27)
:-) and :-)! .......

175: General Asylum, I wouldn't mind such, either! :-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 12:06:11 (124.171.139.27)
Add differential delay - then into a spare stereo amp - as per Linkwitz. .......

176: Vintage Asylum, Rethinking a piece is an option, too! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 11:57:15 (124.171.139.27)
If it's got a LOT of gain and used LOTS of NFB, why not get the gain down. I swapped an OEM LEAK Stereo 60 - a gift - for two OEM LEAK Stereo 20s, with that plan in mind. To bi-amp my 2-way spheres. ? .......

177: Radio Road, why not have ONE really good antenna and a rotator (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-03, 01:06:54 (121.45.220.192)
and, sell all but one tuner to fund that move? :-) .......

178: Inmate Central, Dinner, Friday night (tonight) about 6 hrs away ? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-02, 17:40:10 (124.171.155.60)
The Apperitifs will be a shared cooled bottle of soft red from Spain. El Toro Macho - Superior. Bobal & Tempranillo grapes. From Aldi!!! Two nice thick grass-fed organic porterhouse steaks! Done mediu .......

179: Inmate Central, We just buy frozen crumbed prawns and bake them in the oven. Or crumbed Calamari, or fish fillets, or ...... (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-02, 17:26:28 (124.171.155.60)
WE don't live on the South Coast of NSWales. Whenever we are down there - it's one of the areas that's taken a hammering - we would eat fresh caught. When I was young and could fish, I did. Newcastle .......

180: Inmate Central, Good for you!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-02, 13:26:30 (124.171.146.194)
:-) .......

181: Inmate Central, Kiwis and bungee jumping!? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-02, 12:34:01 (124.171.146.194)
Sighhhhhh! Many folks are surprised to find out that Bungee cords were used in early aircraft for the undercarriage, And, in WWI they were used in the Scarff mounting for the observer's Lewis gun or t .......

182: Inmate Central, A couple of URLs to keep up with, for the ACT / Canberra?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-02, 11:21:45 (124.171.146.194)
https://esa.act.gov.au/?fullmap=true This map will show any fires and any other event involving our ESA's teams. We live right at the very top of Kambah, beside Mt Taylor Nature Reserve. The current f .......

183: Inmate Central, That's down on the South Coast of NSWales and in Victoria (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-02, 11:10:09 (124.171.146.194)
They are the sources for most of the smoke we are coping with, plus the fires to our North. .......

184: Inmate Central, Hve finally eaten up all the left-over turkey, and almost all the left over ham. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2020-01-01, 21:03:18 (124.171.71.117)
It is still smokey, but still no fires threatening our area. .......

185: Inmate Central, Tap water is wonderful down here in Australia, esp, Canberra's water. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-31, 21:02:18 (124.171.99.123)
Bottled water is one of the drivers of our environmental problems. Buy a water-filter for the kitchen taps. .......

186: Inmate Central, Yes. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-31, 15:30:56 (124.171.154.76)
Thanks! .......

187: Inmate Central, Way too much smoke, for that to apply, but yes glass acting as a magnifier is a known cause down here. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-31, 15:10:48 (124.171.154.76)
And, our roadsides are sweep/vacuumed regularly. .......

188: Inmate Central, It's bearable inside, but way not, outside. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-31, 15:07:36 (124.171.154.76)
The wet pads are doing their job, so the air coming out of the ceiling vents is quite nice, but most houses are a bit leaky, hence there is a bit of smoke inside. It's bearable and will get better by .......

189: Inmate Central, I have two fire and air websites open on my desktop, plus the usual two weather sites! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-31, 14:59:25 (124.171.154.76)
We've got Ruby, too! .......

190: Inmate Central, Actually we DO know, the vast majority of climate scientists have told us. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-31, 13:57:56 (124.171.154.76)
! .......

191: Inmate Central, Thick orange smoke all around and some inside. BUT no fires threatening nearby. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-31, 13:32:42 (124.171.154.76)
We are not going outside. I tried it and came back in real quick. AQI is 'Hazardous Extreme, the worst. The smoke, from the South Coast fires, will thin after midday, but thicken by night time. Fire d .......

192: Tube DIY Asylum, Big Aussie HUG, Mike!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-30, 14:36:21 (203.173.9.110)
And, Pray for us that we don't have any MORE major fires!! .......

193: Inmate Central, Yes, we know! quite common down here, but more expensive to buy, and especially to run, than we could afford. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-30, 13:05:26 (203.173.9.110)
Patricia is only just now beginning to understand about exhausting the cooled (pressurised & damp) on the lee-side of the house, which shifts as wind shifts. The Natural Gas heating is under scrutiny, .......

194: Tubes Asylum, So, have you contacted McIntosh yet? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-30, 00:18:36 (124.171.149.196)
Please do. .......

195: Inmate Central, Radio-active waste isn't a global warmer! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-30, 00:02:06 (124.171.149.196)
and we can always fire it at the Sun. .......

196: Inmate Central, It would at least be effective in getting slow-pokes out of the passing lane!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 21:16:15 (121.45.217.86)
I am very happy with the MY2015 Forester 2.5 CVT we have. In S-mode it is very capable at getting around mobile-chicanes, and etc. I've triggered the ASC just twice in the 3 yrs. Wheel-spin on wet ro .......

197: Inmate Central, It IS a bittuva worry for us, as we've been through the worrying/not knowing before. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 20:16:19 (124.171.75.114)
See down below. And, https://www.audioasylum.com/members/mgeneral/messages/27/274819.html I was once a volunteer Community Fire Unit member - CFU 22- and led it for a few years. Helped the idea take .......

198: Inmate Central, So, is Marshawn an American name for 'God is good'? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 19:41:29 (124.171.75.114)
EMWTKnow. .......

199: Inmate Central, :-) and ;-) - but someone would complain about 'reducing freedom' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 19:38:01 (124.171.75.114)
;-) yes? .......

200: Inmate Central, Yeah, me too, mate! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 19:24:39 (124.171.75.114)
Best moderator ever! .......

201: Inmate Central, Sydney's been doing that since 1997. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 19:14:12 (124.171.75.114)
I am not opposed to it. We'll probably watch it tomorrow night. But it is a LOT of money. The Rural Fire Service has reserved the right to cancel it. Not that they'd be expecting to get any of the mo .......

202: Inmate Central, We need to cut the 'gordian knot' of coal-exports for one. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 19:10:24 (124.171.75.114)
Start building energy efficient homes, and high-rise. That's just a few points. But there's no wanna from the current mob, and the silly left are even less helpful. .......

203: Inmate Central, You might like to read the short biography of Mac linked above! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 18:27:27 (124.171.75.114)
Revealing. .......

204: Inmate Central, If it were me, and the redcution in stress / tiredness were worth it, I'd be using the place myself!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 18:18:04 (124.171.75.114)
It was not my intention to ruin your day, :-)! Being retired we have to budget. Viz. when we need to be in Sydney, we take the train. And stay in one of the shoe-box rooms of a 'cheap but clean' hotel .......

205: Inmate Central, I always enjoy it when people reveal their embedded value-system. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 17:50:52 (121.45.214.36)
Richard-cranium. .......

206: Inmate Central, Sooo, how is it going down here in SE Australia?!?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 16:12:51 (203.214.8.214)
Today the Fire Rating is Severe until Wednesday. Just below Extreme. Along with a Total Fire Ban until Wednesday. At least the winds should be 'light'. Predicted max temps are - today (Monday) 39C/10 .......

207: Inmate Central, You lucky bastard, you! ;-) and ;-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-29, 14:45:23 (203.214.8.214)
Some days in Summer we get a cooling on-shore evening breeze. All that way from the South Coast? Over the Great Diving Range? Yes. We are sort of IN the GDR, which helps. See below Today the Fire Rati .......

208: Inmate Central, RE: How many flashlights do you have? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 19:33:43 (124.171.71.117)
Four - torches - that I can think of. One each - in handbag and man-bag. Two big ones, running 6V batteries. One is recharge-able in the car or from the mains, and has a spot-light option for seeing h .......

209: Inmate Central, These are for your W-O-House reverse cycle AC? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 19:13:59 (124.171.71.117)
Or do you have to add a furnace, for Winter, in some states? .......

210: Inmate Central, Nope, doesn't appeal to me! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 19:11:34 (124.171.71.117)
Our genealogy is well researched. LBNL, I wouldn't want my health-care costs to go up! .......

211: Inmate Central, JBTWay - that nickname comes from the US Army and the USMC, maybe the USN. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 19:05:30 (124.171.71.117)
Once Mac was forced to accept how good the Australian Army was, he set out to limit their employment and limit their press coverage, as well. 'Allied troops' was the cover-all language. Especially wh .......

212: Inmate Central, The triumph of spin over achievement?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 18:50:45 (124.171.71.117)
He failed spectacularly in the Phlippines. E.g. having all his aircraft lined up as if on parade - after he'd been told about Pearl Harbour and Japanese aircraft were close by. The first defeat of the .......

213: Tube DIY Asylum, I could care less! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 14:39:45 (124.171.71.117)
Into the difficult reactive load of QUAD 63s- zero problems. Even off the 8ohm tap, on Stravinsky's Firebird, played LOUD. Switched to the 4ohm tap next day, when I realised. Tried both amps. On top o .......

214: Inmate Central, Named after Dugout Doug, eh? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 14:29:25 (124.171.71.117)
BBBrains. .......

215: Inmate Central, Well the Alice is in the middle of the driest continent on Earth.. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 14:00:23 (124.171.71.117)
So, very few people live in the Red Centre. Way the most Australians live in the large coastal cities down the East Coast. In Qld - Cairns, Townsville, Bundaberg, and Brisbane/ In NSWales - Newcastle, .......

216: Inmate Central, While our last two cats were still alive, thay had a live show from the Striated Pardalotes that nested in the (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 12:20:03 (124.171.71.117)
roof of our front porch. So they would sit there in front of the screen door in Summer. The timber door being open to allow the damped air out. And watch the tiny birds coming and going, better than .......

217: Inmate Central, We have the Kings Highway down to the coast. It is currently closed, thanks to bushfires, just past Braidwood. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 12:01:32 (124.171.71.117)
https://aboutregional.com.au/kings-highway-closed-again-between-braidwood-and-coast/ It's not a highway but it does go to double-lanes for passing from time to time. On either direction. It's mostly j .......

218: Tube DIY Asylum, Give us a circuit, and chassis, you are working on. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-28, 00:08:57 (124.171.158.125)
Or, all this is pretty much, pointless. My techie and I have optimised / rethought a few OEM valve amps. Two Leak TL12.1s, which I wish I had not sold. Two pairs of QUAD IIs. And two LEAK St20. Which .......

219: General Asylum, I don't listen to 'music' since a decade or more ago. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-27, 23:55:24 (124.171.158.125)
why? I garden. To eat from. I maintain a house. I'm building, too slowly, an ultimate - budgeted - 20-20Khz system. which will - eventually - be time and phase coherent. It will, still, be fun to lis .......

220: General Asylum, How about we have a maximum negative points rule? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-27, 23:46:02 (124.171.158.125)
So that after that, the offender is gone, for good. .......

221: Inmate Central, I am not surprised, IME most US citizens know SFA about anywhere else. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-27, 20:42:09 (124.171.74.25)
I do hope that 'professor' finds it difficult to find work. .......

222: Inmate Central, Yes! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-27, 19:18:58 (124.171.74.25)
I had to write a strategic report on using stored electronic records as evidence, in courts. Got a LOT of input from the HIC's (?like your HFA) legal team. All four of them said I should have written .......

223: Inmate Central, How many of you know any 'good' lawyers? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-27, 16:37:57 (124.171.74.25)
One I know is my brother, Ian. He pioneered 'construction law' here. He's the professor of the CL department at Monash University in Melbourne. He's a Senior Counsel (barrister). He's also a B.Arch. W .......

224: Inmate Central, It's more that Canberra is inland to the West of but in the Great Dividing Range, in the driest continent. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-27, 14:38:07 (124.171.130.95)
So, evaporative cooling was a real option. It IS a lot cheaper to run than reverse-cycle AC and we are retirees, limited income plus assets. We now have solar panels, too! Zero interest loan. :: .......

225: Inmate Central, 'We are of the same mind!' / I concur / yep / (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 21:37:21 (203.206.40.132)
Loud, bully, private-school type. Preppy in USA, and in UK 'public school'. Down here? A-hole! .......

226: Inmate Central, Merry Xmas, maaate! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 21:34:46 (203.206.40.132)
{;~)} .......

227: Inmate Central, Three Xmas's here, juggled to fit folks, kids and exes req'ts (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 21:33:33 (203.206.40.132)
{:~)} yep! Belchhhh! .......

228: Inmate Central, We have weathered the heavy smoke haze fairly well. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 17:05:11 (203.206.40.132)
Thanks to the wet filter pads on the WOHouse (ducted) evaporative cooling. Plus, three large ceiling extractor fans, so we didn't have to risk opening windows or doors, and letting smoke in. The highe .......

229: Wine Asylum, Imagine a decent Loire made Sauvignon Blanc for less than $Au 10 (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 16:37:12 (124.171.75.170)
Daily drinkers come from Aldi. But they come from France, Chile, Spain, Sicily, Italy, and form Australia and NZ. With a few exceptions, like 1 litre bottles from our very own wine lake. For special o .......

230: Inmate Central, you poor bastard!!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 09:12:25 (124.171.64.112)
We've had three feast and present days! Xmas Eve, with our sons, their ladies and Ruby our granddaughter. Xmas Day, on our own at home. And, Boxing Day, with our wonderful neighbour couple, to a BBQ' .......

231: Inmate Central, A long tough year!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 09:02:29 (124.171.64.112)
Hang in there! .......

232: Radio Road, So, now the USA has FM Fool and Radio Locator. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 08:52:42 (124.171.64.112)
Good. .......

233: Inmate Central, Geeze, Dave! You're way too practical! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 08:49:58 (124.171.64.112)
;-)!! .......

234: Radio Road, A 'good enough' antenna. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 08:47:29 (124.171.64.112)
! .......

235: Radio Road, It can't be your antenna or tuner/s so it must be the station. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 01:43:47 (121.45.210.243)
Get in touch with them. .......

236: Radio Road, I think we've (you've?) exhausted all the options for better reception of that particular station. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 01:42:35 (121.45.210.243)
Yes? .......

237: Radio Road, Does it tell you where each transmitter is? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 01:37:44 (121.45.210.243)
If it doesn't, then it isn't really a 'locator' is it? Nor can it possibly help with reception, which I think you claim. FM Fool in the USA does do that. Looking at its listings of Australian FM stati .......

238: Speaker Asylum, see Planar asylum right next door????? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-26, 00:06:39 (124.171.138.245)
:-) .......

239: Inmate Central, I stopped in one day, but every now and again I'll have OPs. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-25, 22:35:38 (124.171.138.245)
Just the one. .......

240: Video Asylum, Hi there, you have mail (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-25, 02:25:56 (203.206.39.210)
:-) .......

241: Inmate Central, Same to you Chris! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-25, 01:53:29 (203.206.39.210)
:-) .......

242: Inmate Central, Not in my case, my Mum made all us boys cook, in the 60s. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-25, 01:52:22 (124.171.158.125)
And I've always cooked since then. IME, into the 80s, girls are really impressed if you can cook. Foodie-ism bores the pants off me. I see it as a monied, middle to upper-class wank! | Leaving aside t .......

243: Tube DIY Asylum, Energy storage in any PSU = 0.5 C X Volts squared (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-24, 22:21:48 (203.206.39.210)
So the PSU will have very high storage, and, likely, very low ripple. It might sound a whole lot better than your circuit, with more headroom. But it may have issues due to the effects on the power t .......

244: Inmate Central, NOT going to 'persist' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-24, 00:54:26 (124.171.194.254)
Okay?! .......

245: Inmate Central, I'm pleased to read all the responses. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-23, 15:43:49 (121.45.219.135)
When we are having guests, I do most of the cooking. Except for soups from our garden vegetables, especially Asparagus, and Spring Onions. Today is Christmas Eve and we are in the midst of getting rea .......

246: Inmate Central, Yes, she is a hero. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-23, 14:07:01 (121.45.203.194)
But so was my FILaw. [My 4th 'Dad' in fact! to my mind I had four fathers. IE three extras.] He was a member of MacArthur's Allied cryptanalysis secret-squirrel unit, called Central Bureau, based in .......

247: Inmate Central, "They must really care, some of the helicopters aren't finished!" (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-23, 13:06:11 (121.45.203.194)
One of my colleagues at the Health Insurance Commission was an ex RAAF Pilot & chopper pilot, and Point Cook flying instructor. He was in Vietnam, too on Hueys, and on those little bubble Hughes? item .......

248: Inmate Central, a range of heats, YUP! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-23, 12:50:07 (121.45.203.194)
a tableau, even! .......

249: Inmate Central, How many of the blokes here cook meals as often / ) / as your partner? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-23, 00:27:52 (124.171.146.171)
We share the job, but when we have guests, I cook. .......

250: Radio Road, do you have a partner who would hate a ceiling antenna? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 23:51:19 (124.171.146.171)
Did you understand the suggestions I posted? You haven't answered my queries? Did you find them difficult to understand? I'll leave it ALL up to you. Not particularly positive. .......

251: Inmate Central, We've got a jar of Chilli flakes in the pantry and one of chilli powder. Both are to the end of Scoville's (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 21:40:41 (124.171.146.171)
scale but I don't plain ruin food with them. We have a favourite pasta dish that uses a bit of chilli, search on spinach pasta under me. I like making chilli-con-carne too, but keep it for Winter. .......

252: Inmate Central, Bell 47? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 21:35:32 (124.171.146.171)
Been up in a couple, and in the Kiowa 206. Flown by Aust'n. Army Aviation. And both the UH1B and UH1D. Flown by the RAAF. Dubba, dubba, dubba, .... the continuo sound of 'Nam! My favourite, having had .......

253: Inmate Central, So far, my walking group have not come across any wild dogs! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 21:03:54 (124.171.146.171)
Quite a few of the walks do include known hot-spots for attacks on farmer's livestock, so the dogs probably avoided us. .......

254: Inmate Central, Varminting is 'a thing' down here, too! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 20:52:44 (124.171.146.171)
Bipods, heavy barrels. Spotting scopes on tripods / bipods, as well as mounted telescopes. I was almost always a stalker, but did a bit of 'sitting-over' and spotlighting at night. Have owned a .222 R .......

255: Inmate Central, The seas are after all, theirs. Long before we evolved / lost any sense of restraint. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 20:46:54 (124.171.146.171)
:-)! .......

256: Inmate Central, Chilli, Thai foods? Capsacin heat is not spicy, it's just HOT! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 20:44:38 (124.171.146.171)
It seems to me that for a LOT of men an attachment to really hot-food is a macho thing. Bores the pants off me. .......

257: Inmate Central, Yeah, I've got a lazy $Au 30K stuck away!!!! NOT! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 20:37:55 (124.171.146.171)
And I don't NEED a sports car! A bird-puller is not on my horizon. .......

258: Radio Road, Do you have a loft space, That you can work in? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 16:58:35 (203.206.36.216)
Can you figure out on the plans of your dwelling the direction of the transmitter concerned. FM fool will help you with where that is. If possible. Build a wire rhombic in your loft space, from 300 oh .......

259: Planar Speaker Asylum, But, the QUAD 63 and its family are coherent, point sources. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-22, 14:43:26 (124.171.84.122)
Yes? .......

260: Inmate Central, Doesn't sound like it is. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 21:11:08 (121.45.204.127)
:-)!!! Can't comment on taste / aroma, it being video. ;-) My main beef with foodie / cooking TV shows!! .......

261: Inmate Central, How many $ per cartridge? Does the bounty cover it? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 20:04:15 (203.206.39.71)
Having been a keen hunter and a bittuva dead-eye dick in the h'army I still miss it. Would a .22 Hornet suffice for coyote, or are we looking at something heavier? For foxes / dingoes I had a .222 Rem .......

262: Inmate Central, The main reason I don't keep chooks! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 19:46:49 (203.206.39.71)
:-) and ;-) Difficult to control for foxes and dogs. We are tucked into a nature reserve. I'd love to have chooks, for the garden, but it's just not on. .......

263: Inmate Central, Wherever there've been tourists and Dingoes for a few decades, ... (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 18:09:46 (203.206.39.71)
They become dangerously interested. .......

264: Inmate Central, I almost quoted Gerard Manley Hopkins (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 18:07:43 (203.206.39.71)
Beautiful. I love clouds, and there are some above the smoke haze!! .......

265: Inmate Central, Well the heat wave is over, until the next one. 28C today. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 14:04:43 (124.171.220.136)
Fire Danger? High. The smoke haze might ease by Wednesday. So, I am almost relaxed!! ;-) Code Red/ Extreme/ Severe / Very high / high / low-moderate. NB The ratings are an estimate of how difficult to .......

266: Inmate Central, Does California have a WINTERRRRR like Canada & the rest of the USA does! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 13:59:02 (124.171.220.136)
Ocean currents? .......

267: Inmate Central, A key-hole, very like in a door!? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 13:56:58 (124.171.220.136)
And the last few cars I've owned had the same features. Once charged the key holds its charge for a long time, if not used. My wife doesn't drive a lot and knows that well. One key's battery for the C .......

268: Critic's Corner, LIGAS! ;-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 00:58:15 (124.171.142.241)
and :-) .......

269: Inmate Central, see above and +5 (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 00:56:57 (124.171.142.241)
;-) .......

270: Inmate Central, RE: Rechargeable ? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 00:41:53 (124.171.142.241)
No, it goes in the slot on the steering column, where you turn it and the car / engine comes on, and releases the steering wheel. Before that, you walk up to the car and press the concave button to op .......

271: Inmate Central, WTF has that response got to do with OUR impact on the planet (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 00:35:28 (124.171.142.241)
Right now! Sweet F All. Given that you do not have anything coherent or apposite to post, don't bother. .......

272: Tube DIY Asylum, So, here you are hammering away, and you haven't 'heard' !!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 00:17:53 (124.171.154.39)
So you are theorising - aggressively - without experience, or knowledge. .......

273: Tube DIY Asylum, Have you restored any valve amps, or re-thought them? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-21, 00:11:48 (124.171.154.39)
Even a baby valve amp - with an early Valve Rectifier PSU - can KILL you, easily. Oh yes, JTBTWay, Carbon films are way less inductive than MF resistors. And, as I stated, more reliable than CC Rs. .......

274: Inmate Central, Horses are a LOT of work, twitchier than Aristarkis is, though more grateful, and very prone to getting sick (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 23:46:29 (124.171.154.39)
Puppys are not as expensive. But as much work. .......

275: Inmate Central, Wild dogs in the ACT?! And foxes, of course. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 21:11:50 (124.171.154.39)
In response to the Coyote thread!? https://www.accesscanberra.act.gov.au/app/answers/detail/a_id/738/~/foxes-and-wild-dogs Worth clicking on the full story Many of the Wild Dogs are big animals!!! Saw .......

276: Tube DIY Asylum, Carbon film R's are more reliable and have the same positives for this job. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 21:05:06 (124.171.154.39)
None of my valve amps have CC Rs in grid stopper positions. .......

277: Tweakers' Asylum, Consider using Room/Spkr DSP Eq. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 20:31:43 (124.171.154.39)
Hi Bob! The above may be cheaper, might not. But likely a far higher SOF / WAF approval. OR get decorator assistance / let her choose fabrics. Our listening room is our L-shaped Lounge/Dining room, an .......

278: Tube DIY Asylum, + 2! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 20:20:11 (124.171.154.39)
Why use something that - might - lead to problems, on the say so of a limited opinion sample, when a perfectly suitable, and well understood alternative, is available. .......

279: Inmate Central, Made me smile! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 20:15:52 (124.171.154.39)
Rufus the Doofus, has his little ways. When John brings him here, he always comes to say hullo, to us two. Right to the back door. .......

280: Critic's Corner, IME really expensive products are rarely worth the money. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 18:58:07 (124.171.154.39)
This perspective comes from having to budget and save, since I married. Effectiveness/cost is where it's at for me. I am or was a management consultant, change agent and risk manager. But if you are w .......

281: Inmate Central, Give this on-line feed a go?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 17:53:02 (124.171.154.39)
ABC Classic is a publicly funded, Classical FM station. They use a satellite up and down to feed a digitized high-res signal to the satellite which fires it down to all the ABC Classic stations. Which .......

282: Inmate Central, Re travel and dick-heads. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 17:28:45 (124.171.154.39)
You are going to meet them, all the time. Just as at home, out shopping, dining out, ..... . When cruising with TMFW&F I always take a book or two / three. And, go find the library on day one. This he .......

283: Planar Speaker Asylum, "A closer analog would be a dynamic driver line source using identical drivers." (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 16:43:12 (124.171.154.39)
Wrong. It's not a line-source. It is, deliberately, a point-source. While delay is used successively, its effect is time and phase coherence. from one point. .......

284: Vintage Asylum, It isn't a Bulgin socket, at least. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 14:45:21 (124.171.160.47)
:-)! I somehow came into a pair of LEAK TL12.1s. And their AC sockets were Bulgins. Wish I'd NEVER sold them. .......

285: Inmate Central, CR2032 batteries are easy to find. Some others are NOT. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 14:28:07 (124.171.160.47)
Down here, battery shops tend to belong to auto-electrical shops. .......

286: Inmate Central, If it were me I'd take it to an automobile electrics / lock shop. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 14:25:24 (124.171.160.47)
They'll do it for you, and may even be willing to sell you their preferred edged tool. Get them to show you how, too! IF doing it yourself, slow and steady IS vital. My key for the MY 2105 Forester, s .......

287: Tube DIY Asylum, I agree about age-ing R & C components. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 13:48:32 (124.171.160.47)
The original tags for wire links are usually fine, once restored. And, 9-pin noval sockets seem to last well. .......

288: Planar Speaker Asylum, 63s and family not only sound like a point-source, they measure like one. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-20, 13:03:25 (124.171.160.47)
There's no problem here. .......

289: Inmate Central, +100!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-19, 15:29:52 (124.171.156.1)
Thanks to all involved in keeping AA going! And a happy peaceful Christmas!! .......

290: Inmate Central, Maybe just maybe our nation will wake up! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-19, 00:34:40 (124.171.199.47)
Cross fingers. .......

291: Inmate Central, Rural Fire Service units throughout Australia. And, (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 22:57:23 (124.171.142.93)
Community Fire Units, which are an amalgam of the similar units in the State of Victoria and those around Sydney in New South Wales. .......

292: Inmate Central, I had TWO truly good years at School, yrs 11 and 12 (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 16:15:32 (124.171.142.93)
Thanks for reminding me. .......

293: Inmate Central, It's too good a drama to do that to it / you!? ;-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 16:01:05 (124.171.213.71)
It's very complex, mind. .......

294: Inmate Central, Anthropogenic climate change is a reality. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 15:58:56 (124.171.213.71)
Yes, the chances are that we will be alright, this time, And that the drought will end. And the rain will come. But, even IF the next drought is not as bad as this one, there will be a drought worse t .......

295: Films/DVD Asylum, Loved it! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 14:00:59 (114.198.117.63)
A tour-de-force who done it! .......

296: Inmate Central, I was going to post, but I won't. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 12:59:16 (103.216.196.6)
;-)!!!! .......

297: Inmate Central, The OTHER reason for having lots of extractor fans? How did I forget to mention it!? Evaporative cooling, plus ...... (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 12:43:59 (103.216.196.6)
Wind direction, calms, plus of late, days and days of smoke haze, plus dust clouds from the drought. You need to have a way to exhaust the moist air or the cooling effect doesn't work. And things like .......

298: Inmate Central, Hang in there, eh? And Gardening in HIGH SUMMER, with 'Fire Danger' up again. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 12:33:17 (103.216.196.6)
That ice can break trees if it builds up, and power lines, too? Down here, we've got two days of 40C and one of 41C - > than 104F - to get through, starting today!! Fire Danger Rating is Severe, whic .......

299: Inmate Central, Movies at the local multiplex cinema! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-18, 12:14:48 (103.216.196.6)
Saw 'Knives Out', which was truly gripping. And yesterday we saw 'Fisherman's Friends'. Both recommended. .......

300: Inmate Central, Difficult, precise, awkward task. Yesterday. Installing a powerful 25cm / 10" exctractor fan (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-17, 21:24:27 (124.171.223.91)
In our laundry, above the big wash-tub & stowage. Deep stainless steel tub and a cabinet above it. Right beside that, a big top-loader washing machine. And above that a drier, for rainy days. This .......

301: Inmate Central, LOL!!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-17, 20:24:49 (124.171.223.91)
Reminded me how not simple some things are even without trying to complicate them. .......

302: Inmate Central, Send me the link, eh?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-17, 17:45:26 (121.45.212.78)
TIA. My email's still the same. .......

303: Inmate Central, Send me the link, eh?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-17, 17:43:02 (121.45.212.78)
TIA .......

304: Propeller Head Plaza, I might / Could have said BGBO. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-16, 22:30:30 (124.171.131.108)
Blinding glimpse of the Bleeding Obvious. Geoff? please engage with what I'm about, eh? .......

305: Inmate Central, Doesn't open for me. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-16, 22:15:17 (124.171.131.108)
try again? TIA .......

306: Speaker Asylum, Miss-spelt (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-16, 14:17:29 (124.171.143.74)
TAS review below. .......

307: Radio Road, well done, maate! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-15, 22:55:38 (124.171.138.246)
PSU's matter! everything matters. .......

308: Inmate Central, TMFW&F is determined that we travel & cruise. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-15, 17:03:31 (124.171.143.168)
But we do now have facilities for us to dog-sit Rufus, and this will happen enough. This also means that his master, our son John can house-sit with Rufus when we need him to. It'll work out. I must a .......

309: Inmate Central, Sighhhh! We are missing Rufus! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-15, 14:04:02 (124.171.71.188)
But thanks for the reminder!!! and, missing all four of the cats!!! Made me look for the post entered below. Possibly one of the most delightful interludes between us two beings. .......

310: Speaker Asylum, Agreed. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-15, 13:51:05 (124.171.71.188)
And several are better than two. There's a D-speaker single stereo set-up in my future. A henge of 4 subs plus 63s. Asymmetric odd-order HP and LP, and 4 1/3rd octave eqr's for the subs. D-speaker whe .......

311: Speaker Asylum, +2!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-14, 18:35:33 (124.171.153.48)
Silly and pointless. .......

312: Speaker Asylum, Subwoofers are do-able IME&O, but full-range, no! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-14, 18:14:08 (124.171.153.48)
But you need bass-box Software and good box-making skills for that. I made a pair of 2-ways using an old veneered chipboard box by a UK firm, that used an 8" whizzer driver. As the Vb was larger than .......

313: Inmate Central, Sloppy statistical methodology, and, shallow thinking (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-14, 01:16:34 (124.171.64.110)
:-| ? ask. .......

314: Classical Court, Norman is a good critic and a thinker. His 'Maestro ...?' book was an eye opener for me. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-12, 15:48:51 (124.171.149.237)
Didn't reduce my attachment to classical music, either. Deepened it. .......

315: Classical Court, I think I am going to have to read that book. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-12, 15:45:08 (124.171.149.237)
Looks to be a bit of counter-note to "The Decline of the West", on which I gave up! .......

316: Critic's Corner, How much did the treatments cost, were they precise about where to put them, and did you install them? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-12, 15:15:08 (124.171.65.120)
Total cost? In my case it's an L-shaped lounge-dining room and the treatments we did had to be acceptable to us both. Before the final stage I'll be using individual 1/3rd-octave Eqrs on each of 4 he .......

317: General Asylum, One of the greats. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-12, 01:13:42 (124.171.213.254)
Inevitable, as is life. .......

318: Speaker Asylum, I'm not skeptical about measurement (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-11, 18:05:21 (203.173.11.52)
I am skeptical about DBX and other published 'audio tests,' because so few have low enough beta to be valid. I am skeptical about a lot of the 'beliefs' in audio. I became a paid performer of one of t .......

319: Speaker Asylum, Spell it out, maate, or go jump in the lake. Eh? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-11, 00:31:58 (124.171.86.98)
:-) .......

320: Inmate Central, RE: White Island Volcano NZ. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-10, 18:44:52 (203.214.8.224)
So, 'risk managing' bush-walks, may not be excessively bureaucratic, and may be just plain common-sense. They walked when activity was rising? Sheesh! IMO the guide leading them should have had more .......

321: Inmate Central, You and my family are in mny thoughts a lot! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-10, 18:41:52 (203.214.8.224)
Putney Pt, Artarmon, ..... .......

322: Inmate Central, About every second to third year, historically. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-10, 18:08:25 (203.214.8.224)
Did our estate have a fire to its West. Usually put out / 'under control' in less than a week. My impressions, not fire science assessments. But now it comes in blocks of 2-3 years, along with each dr .......

323: Inmate Central, AS you might recall I spent a week plus in SF in the 1990s staying on the top floor of the Grand Hyatt. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-10, 15:35:40 (124.171.79.33)
Health Level Seven working groups meeting / conference. To which I was invited!!! Loved SF, and Greens - the restaurant on the bay. .......

324: Inmate Central, Our Fire Danger Rating today is - VERY HIGH (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-10, 15:03:24 (124.171.79.33)
Next up is SEVERE. Then EXTREME. Then CATASTROPHIC. We are staying home today. Yesterday we manged to keep the inside down to 21-23C, despite 38C outside. The evaporative cooling system's wet pads hav .......

325: General Asylum, Will attend Nine Lessons and Carols - Next Sunday night. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-10, 14:49:54 (124.171.79.33)
Looking forward to it. We put our tree up on Monday 1st December. Decorating it with Ruby's help. Assembling it and doing ALL the decorations took a good while, what with question time. .......

326: Inmate Central, Pop culture celebrates the individual going along with its shit. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-08, 23:56:14 (124.171.154.205)
A responsible society, governs, itself! .......

327: Inmate Central, I'll put it on the list for my next fasting bloods test. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-08, 18:40:38 (124.171.216.149)
GP's advice, IF I am low. .......

328: Inmate Central, Lighting fires is a 'schoolboy thing' - down here, at least! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-08, 13:07:51 (124.171.136.93)
And there's always the 'grown-up' pyromaniacs! One thing we've found over the last 15 years is that our CFU's do not attract such folks. You have to be a resident and own your home. The fuel in our ca .......

329: Inmate Central, But there's plenty of fuel and Summer school holidays start soon. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-08, 12:02:07 (124.171.136.93)
We are both very sneezy, and a bit coughy as well. .......

330: Inmate Central, LOTS of SMOKE haze here, for the next few days. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-08, 01:51:00 (203.206.41.116)
But this isn't from the dry inland but from our South Coast, which normally isn't dry!! Spent this morning guiding the "Class of '69" around their alma mater. Royal Military College, Duntroon. Just ho .......

331: Speaker Asylum, Coupla points?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 22:53:58 (124.171.134.46)
Dipoles don't generate as many room problems as do omni-pole speakers. Tick! BUT you do need to have SO / WAF approval even with dipoles. Because you will need to try things out. I am lucky that my w .......

332: Inmate Central, I am sipping a medicinal Chardonnay now, while getting an early dinner togther. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 22:19:37 (124.171.134.46)
Waiting for Travel Man doc'y to finish. The principal talker being the guy who played Moss in "The IT Crowd". It doesn't work for me. ? Yes? .......

333: Inmate Central, Thanks, very good shots! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 22:00:35 (124.171.134.46)
Wish I had the skills. .......

334: Inmate Central, Thanks folks, see below!? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 13:22:22 (124.171.151.133)
Do remember that Summer has only just started and we are in a severe drought, from Queensland down through NSWales, and across through Victoria, South Australia, and WA. So that our big storage dam wa .......

335: Inmate Central, Friday was YESTERDAY down here, and yes I do regret it this AM!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 13:19:21 (124.171.151.133)
Furry mouth, even post brush and gargle. Water is helping. 12 gently fried (EVOOil) pork-and-veal meat-balls, in a heavy iron pan, and a big salad mostly from the veggie garden. EV and WWV dressing. O .......

336: Inmate Central, I used to lead our Community Fire Unit 22, and helped the idea start here in Canberra / ACT (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 13:08:20 (124.171.151.133)
As the Territory is large, with large Rural farms - grass-lands - and National Parks of dry forest, we also have lots of Rural Fire Service RFS units. Plus the ACT's municipal Fire Brigade, of which t .......

337: Radio Road, Thanks, my best tuner has the renewed PSU of an OLD (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 00:51:15 (124.171.151.133)
simulcast receiver, plus some extensive mods, including adding the two AM stages to give out to 15khs audio. It's AM output is flat to 14-15Khz, on the two stations I bother with. For stereo FM it is .......

338: Speaker Asylum, If they are MKPPs they won't have shifted in specs. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 00:26:30 (124.171.77.179)
;-) .......

339: Speaker Asylum, I'll stick with my spheres / QUAD ELS63s, thanks. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 00:25:05 (124.171.77.179)
;-) .......

340: Speaker Asylum, There's a Tough Shit chit on its way. That Should do the trick. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-06, 00:18:16 (124.171.77.179)
IF you do not understand my abbreviations, have the calmness to ask for a transalation. IF OTOHand your real objection is to my skepticism about audio systems DRIVEN by making pop-music sound GREAT. .......

341: Speaker Asylum, It has a whizzer cone, that's a fail right there. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-05, 23:52:57 (124.171.77.179)
Whizzer-coned drivers sound a lot better with the whizzer-cone scalpelled off. A good wide-range driver that doesn't need lots of cossetting but doesn't do bass, nor tries to do treble, would be nice, .......

342: Inmate Central, US firefighters who've arrived here today will soon be at work. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-05, 21:11:34 (124.171.77.179)
Three fires to the West and North of Sydney have become a MEGA fire. Canberra is safe, for the moment! .......

343: Inmate Central, Naming pets? Thanks Dave, for the idea. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-05, 19:07:12 (124.171.192.106)
Our/My cats names? Pouncer and Pretty Puss - Pedigreed Brown-Burmese litter mates, who sort-of chose us, by coming out to to say Hullo. Dog cats, they come when you call them. Well, ours did. Until t .......

344: Inmate Central, VERY good! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-05, 18:45:47 (124.171.192.106)
Shaped AND Charges?! .......

345: Inmate Central, "Hassan CHOP!!!!" with Bugs Bunny in the treasure cave?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-05, 18:44:36 (124.171.192.106)
:-)! .......

346: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, BS. Biamping raised sound level, and reduces distortion from each path - amp and spkr (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-05, 15:04:56 (124.171.192.106)
That's been my experience using the existing HPass spkr xover and line-level 1st order LPass xovers (for the mid-bass driver). Into the mid-bass duty amp. Both the rebuilt amps had matching gain, one .......

347: Inmate Central, Ospreys are a global raptor species (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-05, 10:35:46 (124.171.192.106)
They are (were?) quite common along our coasts, too. ? Haven't been down the coast for quite a while! Life still struggles on, it seems. Good to see! .......

348: Inmate Central, You just described a good marriage! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-04, 19:42:22 (121.45.221.206)
Same here. I worry about the same things. .......

349: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, You are confusing senstitivity Vs efficiency (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-04, 00:38:17 (124.171.66.56)
One of the most sensibly 'efficient' spkrs are LS3/5A and its licensed variants. Most of the 'most sensitive,' tend to be horn spkrs, most of which are much more coloured than any LS3/5A. Given the re .......

350: Inmate Central, Saw the film yesterday, with Patricia, and she LOVED it. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-03, 20:10:50 (124.171.66.56)
So did I. That LOUD BANG sound with gear changes is bang-on JBTW. Reminded me, as well, how much I hate middle-managers as a type! .......

351: Films/DVD Asylum, Saw it yesterday - excellent film! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-03, 20:01:45 (124.171.66.56)
Reminded me how much I hate bureaucrats!!! And, JDFYI, Bebe WAS a bureaucrat. Bureaucracy is not restricted to government agencies. .......

352: Inmate Central, In the film it's Carrol Shelby that takes HF-II for the ride. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-03, 19:57:07 (124.171.66.56)
;-) .......

353: Inmate Central, Maate, thank you! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-01, 20:00:37 (124.171.74.238)
I'll have a couple on you at the Officer's Mess at Royal Military College Duntroon early this evening. They'll have to be light beers, as the FUZZ are out in force for XMAS party boozers, with their R .......

354: Inmate Central, Australia is a very big place, and there's been very little rain here for over a month! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-01, 19:52:40 (124.171.74.238)
UopP until today, Monday, we'd been breathing dust and smoke haze for a week. We got a few sprinkles on Saturday*. when we were walking along Cooleman Ridge to our West, which was hit hard by the 2003 .......

355: Inmate Central, A flying, meet her parents lunch visit. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-01, 12:22:58 (124.171.78.28)
Sunday we drove to Amaroo in Gungahlin to meet Robert's new lady's Mum and Dad. She is a member of the Mackerras family. which includes Sir Charles and Malcolm the Psephologist, who would have known P .......

356: Radio Road, Just have the best antenna you can for the stations you WANT to listen to! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-12-01, 00:34:36 (203.206.39.205)
Tuner specs are way less useful than knowing where your 'desired stations' are - on what compass bearing - how far away - and how strong each transmitter is. This information will tell you how good an .......

357: Radio Road, Note that this means, when it matters, that the 8000's timing is way better. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-30, 22:31:11 (203.206.39.205)
this is a VERY good thing. Keep them both. .......

358: Critic's Corner, I hear musical waveforms from acoustic instruments and human voices at least once a week. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-30, 21:55:24 (121.45.214.54)
What you have posted is silly. What speakers do to that, comes after what the engineers and producers did to it. Most, of what most of you listen to, has so little fidelity to music-making as I prefe .......

359: Inmate Central, Righteousness, after, the fact. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 23:54:25 (124.171.221.186)
It took Pearl Harbour to get your nation on board against Axis fascism. Ford and GMH and many other US companies stayed on in Germany / Austria or helped out via Switzerland. Thanks for the P40s, thou .......

360: Radio Road, What about mounting it/them in the loft? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 19:42:24 (121.45.214.3)
Kinda depends on the directions and the extent of arc of stations. I do not have leukemia, but I do have a few health issues, mostly blood-pressure, IBSyndrome, and a stressful year. Getting better .......

361: Critic's Corner, Sooo, - Acoustic music concerts have NEVER happened, never Will happen? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 02:55:07 (121.45.223.241)
ROTFLMAOff WTOLRDMCheeks. You have managed in one post, to ensure I do not bother with any future posts by yourself. Well done. SIASDoes. .......

362: Critic's Corner, Never been to a live acoustic music concert, then? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 02:40:16 (121.45.223.241)
Sheesh! Do try to tell me how you can exist, walk around, and eat with your head back-down-and-in-there. Our speakers should not get in the way of the original signal. .......

363: Critic's Corner, Most popular recordings don't even have the folks in the same room/time/space anymore (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 02:35:37 (121.45.223.241)
So BANG goes interplay. Bang goes ensemble. ..... ...... WGAS eh? But we need $K spkrs to listen to it. Spare me! .......

364: Inmate Central, Brie and champers? A nice big dry red instead. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 02:28:26 (121.45.223.241)
Sheesh! .......

365: Inmate Central, Hmm, politics? BUT funny, nonethless. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 02:23:32 (121.45.223.241)
The queue of 'jeeze I wish I'd never' folks, gets longer and longer every week / day. "You just grab them by their ***** ......" "Gee what a mouth, By the North and South, B'limey, what a mouth he's g .......

366: Critic's Corner, URRRKKK! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 02:03:12 (121.45.223.241)
and I'll leave it at that. Bricasti Audio = $$$$$$$ and probably crap anyway. .......

367: Inmate Central, I hate the '$$$$$Xmas$$$$$' you hate, but I also love the Xmas I do / make. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-29, 01:23:13 (124.171.99.170)
With and for people I care about, and anyone else I deal with .... Like I try to do the rest of the time. .......

368: Classical Court, Midori Seiler? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 19:48:25 (203.206.36.94)
She's from Europe. Part Japanese and Concert Master to two ? HIP Orchestras. Click below. .......

369: Inmate Central, Dads Army s1E2 (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 19:28:25 (203.206.36.94)
Click below! .......

370: Inmate Central, Alastair Sim!!!!! 'Misleading Cases' wonderfully funny BBC series based on A.P. Herbet's wonderful series. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 18:25:24 (203.206.36.94)
There's one other BBC comedy you might have caught. "Dad's Army". About a unit of the Home Guard. Typically BBC 'accurate' in that the unit carried M1917s with the red dot, not obvious as it was in B& .......

371: Inmate Central, It seems that the family that owned Duntroon - the Campbells were involved with Bunker and Australian whaling. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 18:04:49 (203.206.36.94)
Via investment / perhaps owning a ship or two?! Thanks guys. .......

372: Inmate Central, Nope, the Massachusets whaling mob. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 18:02:50 (203.206.36.94)
I did watch Archie Bunker a few times. it was shown down here. Nowhere near as funny as the British 'Steptoe and Son' from which it was copied. .......

373: Radio Road, Energy level!? Yeah, I know! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 16:59:00 (203.206.36.94)
I'm 69 as of last Monday, and needed to cut down on outside volunteering. Flat-out gardening in a drought, down here in Aussie. Still have four (of 11) veggie beds to empty / fill How open is your lof .......

374: Inmate Central, "Yes, DEAR!" (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 16:44:22 (203.206.36.94)
Keep it UP! I know, maaate! We watch Poirot and Miss Marple, a LOT! It's 'a good thing' I enjoy them. And, I always have YouTube on the PC and my 'phones!!! .......

375: Inmate Central, Bunker family? Boston? Are they still around? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 14:24:37 (203.206.43.120)
One of them came out here, under a ruling by KGIII about former loyalist sea-captains from America, who would be given preference in getting posts as captains of UK merchant ships. His name was Eber B .......

376: Inmate Central, Xmas Day here - food?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-28, 14:02:30 (203.206.43.120)
A large (2.4kg) free-range chook. Done French-herbed style. Roasted in the Charcoal Webber!! with a few extra coals, to boot You mix up marjoram/oregano, crushed garlic, butter and french mustard. Usi .......

377: Inmate Central, And, the same to you! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 22:28:58 (124.171.86.140)
Our foundation day is 26th January, known to some as 'invasion day'. 26-01-1788 was the day the First Fleet arrived in Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) with its convicts. Brought here because the UK coul .......

378: Inmate Central, Did you watch any Rugby League games? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 22:22:03 (124.171.86.140)
I started out as a front rower - the small one - the hooker. And, ended up as the scrum-half. Ball distributor. .......

379: Inmate Central, Mondays are GP duty with Ruby and the TV is HERS! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 17:34:17 (124.171.64.249)
We don't have cable. .......

380: Inmate Central, Ahmmm, in American football are ooposing players allowed to intercept a pass. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 15:43:10 (124.171.221.16)
I have to confess that I STILL haven't found a game on broadcast TV, OR found one on YouTube, if they're there? We don't have TV from the 'net quite yet. Next year, maybe. Want Netflix. .......

381: Inmate Central, But, but, de-regulation was a GOOD THING! Wasn't it? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 15:32:13 (114.198.119.144)
Ah kins remember it bein' all the rage, oncet. When ah was in economic policy work. .......

382: Radio Road, How many stations are you trying for, in how many directions and what sort of antenna are you using? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 12:22:34 (203.206.37.48)
Eg? A directional antenna with serious gain and a rotator? .......

383: Classical Court, I didn't become a performer until I was 9 years old, and didn't become a 'leader' until I was 11. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 01:39:13 (121.45.217.121)
I was never all that interested in MUSIC as a career, because it wasn't a real CHALLENGE. Football, maths, and soldiering, became a lot more interesting, sequentially. (along with figuring out females .......

384: Classical Court, I didn't become a performer until I was 9 years old, and didn't become a 'leader' until I was 11. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 01:37:04 (121.45.217.121)
I was never all that interested in MUSIC as a career, because it wasn't a real CHALLENGE. Football, maths, and soldiering, became a lot more interesting, sequentially. (along with figuring out females .......

385: Inmate Central, The power is 'To advise and warn' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 01:13:12 (124.171.221.5)
Something you lot badly need, but don't have. .......

386: Inmate Central, "An amazing bird is the Pelican, (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 00:54:49 (124.171.221.5)
Its beak can hold more than its belly can" We have Pelicans here in Canberra because we have lakes with fish in them. Given my age, I have watched more than a few landings by flying boats & amphibians .......

387: Radio Road, I'd suggest that the effects from the mountains are a fixed problem. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 00:40:51 (124.171.221.5)
Leaving aside atmospherics which will be NOISY. .......

388: Radio Road, As I've pointed out before, we are all, listening to the antenna and THEN the tuner. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 00:37:45 (124.171.147.232)
No matter the station. With the antenna? we are hearing its ability / inability to discriminate and to drive the 'tuna' into full limiting and minimal multipath on any given signal. .......

389: Vintage Asylum, You've got one of each?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-27, 00:22:48 (124.171.147.232)
for what purpose?! .......

390: Speaker Asylum, Thanks even more. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-26, 17:53:15 (124.171.143.223)
But the tweeters would need to be forward of the mid-bass drivers? Which have no low-pass crossover,just inductance-rise Eq across them. .......

391: General Asylum, I've never found dedicated lines to be necessary. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-26, 17:44:04 (124.171.143.223)
Even my 'Once were LEAK St20s' - valve amps - are pretty damn quiet, at the speakers! BTA I do live in a 240V 50Hz country, maybe that makes a difference? .......

392: Propeller Head Plaza, Because 'n' is way too low! :-) and ;-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-26, 17:41:17 (124.171.143.223)
Beta will be VERY high, close to 1.0 / 100%. .......

393: Radio Road, What antenna do you have? If directional, does it have a rotator? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-26, 16:29:54 (124.171.143.223)
Were it me I'd keep both. Given the Audiolab's known issues. .......

394: Speaker Asylum, Thank you! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-25, 23:14:16 (121.45.215.63)
Getting the tweeters in time & phase with the un-filtered WR mid-bass is not feasible, without DSP/Eq. 90ms being 30.6 cms distance. At least the speakers are phase-coherent. .......

395: Inmate Central, The USN (re-) learned a lot through the Midway class. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-25, 00:51:17 (124.171.67.196)
i) carriers need to sail straight and level at speed for take-offs & landing on. ii) More armour against vertical attack is valuable, but where to put it. iii) Stability during operations is as import .......

396: Tubes Asylum, Am I up to date? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-24, 01:29:14 (121.45.193.98)
TIA? .......

397: Inmate Central, i haven't posted much about the horror of the CA fires, not just in Fall, but much of the year. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-23, 13:25:57 (203.206.43.91)
But I did think of you all. Hope that rain happens. We may get some rain over the next few days. It is so dry here that much of the empty fallow/veggie bed's soils, and the spare pile of soil, have be .......

398: Speaker Asylum, total delay of a 3rd order HP passive xover, -3db at 3.5Khz?. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 21:15:07 (124.171.213.245)
I do not have spkr SW on the PC, wouldn't ask otherwise. TIA .......

399: Inmate Central, We've only had a teeeny bit of rain the last few weeks. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 21:12:26 (124.171.213.245)
Bother, as Moley would rather I said. ? WITWillows. .......

400: Inmate Central, Smoke and dust haze all around us, thanks to the drought and the bush fires. Anthropogenic climate change at work! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 20:34:20 (124.171.213.245)
I am NOT looking forward to the next 5 months, at all. I just hope we don't get hit again, like in 2003. Apparently, my Community Fire Unit - CFU 22- wants me back, which is no surprise. Patricia says .......

401: Vintage Asylum, Way too much gain, is NOT a good thing. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 14:55:28 (121.45.208.184)
And, there's probably more loop NFB than necessary. Modify it and reduce both. .......

402: Cable Asylum, For Palustris, Davey, and Duster, et al, I'd prefer this topic to be threaded over at Propeller Head (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 14:41:11 (121.45.208.184)
Because that's where I write about type 1 and type 2 error, and what aspects of a test, being p, and n, drive their probabilities, alpha & beta, of occurring with a test. Further the thread needs to f .......

403: Cable Asylum, Please read my response to Palustris's post. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 14:32:16 (121.45.208.184)
Because it is core to the point I am making about far too many audio hypothesis tests. .......

404: Cable Asylum, But the probability of type 2 error, aka Beta, would be close to 100% (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 14:29:44 (121.45.208.184)
which is my core point. The double blind-ness is of little importance compared to the number of trials and the setting for p (.9, .95?) Thanks for making my point for me! :-) .......

405: Classical Court, see above, didn't bother!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 14:22:38 (121.45.208.184)
;-) .......

406: Classical Court, I was not going to bother, ackcherly, and didn't! :-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 14:12:35 (121.45.208.184)
Hi docw! Thursday 21st we attended a concert by Midori and the Australian Haydn Ensemble, at one of the great venues - the Albert Hall. Packed. They played two VConcs, by Haydn and Mozart, and two Sym .......

407: Inmate Central, our oldland-line no. is now a VOIP phone! Cheaper! But we still get the Private Caller calls, which go through (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-22, 13:55:28 (121.45.208.184)
to the phone's answering machine, and we get nowt. It's a cordless as well. So I do tend to take it outside under the shaded verandah OR in the study, juts so we can be annoyed!!! If I'm having an aft .......

408: Classical Court, Complete total and utter bullshit! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-21, 23:42:00 (121.45.195.73)
Unsupported opinion is not going to cut it, with me. :-) .......

409: Classical Court, No, you don't! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-21, 23:26:25 (121.45.195.73)
Think about it. Critique the premise. .......

410: Classical Court, WGAS, seriously! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-21, 23:23:44 (121.45.195.73)
It should be, must be, about their affect, on us, as individuals. Silly, almost pointless, and about playing them, THE SAME WAY. Modern instrumental style. YaaaawwwWWWRRRNNN. .......

411: Tubes Asylum, Valve rectifiers do tend to go off, eventually. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-21, 22:44:07 (121.45.195.73)
Do follow through on all the suggestions. Next? Ditch the VRs and get a really serious, quiet, and reliable power supply. This is a high fidelity amplifier and you do not need a limiting factor for pe .......

412: Propeller Head Plaza, Testing aka hypothesis testing is subject to errors, Type 1 and type 2 (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-20, 20:54:04 (124.171.195.14)
How about some paras about type 1 and type 2 error, for ANY kind of testing. DBT & ABX, together or separately are hypothesis tests. The Null hypothesis being that 'we can't hear the difference .....' .......

413: Inmate Central, I've read several of Baldwin's books. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-20, 20:39:10 (124.171.195.14)
But the rest? .......

414: Tube DIY Asylum, No but there are two such FET CCS's in my two 'Once were LEAK Stereo 20s' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-20, 20:18:19 (124.171.195.14)
To keep the LTP splitters, a 6CG7 in each case, in balance. As the designer of this new board suggests. They've been in there for a few decades, IIRC. .......

415: Inmate Central, Well strictly speaking, anything that just fires at angles above 45 degrees is a mortar (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-20, 20:10:38 (124.171.195.14)
And that includes all the big sea-coast mortars used by the US Army along the USA's coasts and in the Philippines. Until 1945 or so. ? Battleships were mostly armoured against horisontal fire from oth .......

416: Inmate Central, For Fender Lover (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 23:38:04 (124.171.158.114)
What are the differences between a mortar and a howitzer? Nothing to do with calibre, shell weight, or equipment weight. Let alone, intended targets. .......

417: Inmate Central, As I posted above SdKfz (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 21:22:56 (124.171.158.114)
stands for Sonderkraftfarzeug Special Use Vehicle. And so, in the case of the PzKfWs they all still had their SdKfz numbers, as well!!!! As did all the StuGS and later PJs. The later 42-43 (to 45) ve .......

418: Inmate Central, The middle one is explained by the third one. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 20:56:50 (124.171.158.114)
Hard to get clean shots of very fast, panic, wing-beats. .......

419: Inmate Central, Strange thing, the German language, esp. in re Krieg (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 20:21:22 (124.171.158.114)
SdKfz stands for SonderKraftfarzeug- aka - 'Special Use Vehicle'. Just about all Wehrmacht vehicles had a SdKfz name plus a number. At least some of the PzKfws too! .......

420: Inmate Central, The US 37mm's real weakness wasn't it's MV it was the (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 20:07:55 (124.171.158.114)
performance of the projectiles at impact, that was lacking. As far as MV goes it was a good bit better then the PAK35/36, and the 2pdr. MV matters, as it's the driver of kinetic energy. ::: TOPIC: .......

421: Cable Asylum, for the mods, at all DBT free-zone fora. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 19:33:13 (124.171.158.114)
How about some paras about type 1 and type 2 error, for ANY kind of testing. DBT& ABX together, or separately. In fact any kind of hypothesis test is subject to these errors. Given that a high enough .......

422: Inmate Central, Was it really a copy of the Pak35/36? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 19:20:02 (124.171.158.114)
The US gun's barrel was 54 calibres long as against 42. The projectile weights were similar. But the US one would have hit a lot harder. ? Higher MV. .......

423: Inmate Central, But it isn't an SdKFz it's an American armoured vehicle and the US Army called it an 'armoured car', no!? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 19:02:02 (124.171.158.114)
Fender, mate, in future please, tanks are things with tracks, and usually, a revolving turret. .......

424: Inmate Central, Can be read as armoured, 'wheeled' or even 'road' vehicle. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 14:33:42 (203.173.9.8)
Panzer means armoured? tick! Rad means wheeled /road? tick! :-) .......

425: Inmate Central, But it isn't a tank, not ever called a tank! It's on wheels with pneumatic tyres! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 12:46:57 (203.173.9.8)
I did recognise the 37mm gun. But couldn't find any of the Stuart series with those gaps they were sitting in. .......

426: Inmate Central, Nope - useful Vs pointless is my Jag with BSH (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-19, 01:10:45 (124.171.85.237)
'Kay? .......

427: Classical Court, "I lean way from period instruments." (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 23:44:07 (124.171.85.237)
Reads like a personal problem. Dig it. .......

428: Inmate Central, So, explain it to me?! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 23:39:34 (124.171.85.237)
I'll bet you'll be wrong. And/or you won't see what I see. .......

429: Tube DIY Asylum, In a PSU you want minimal ripple for a Phono stage PSU you need to nail it down (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 18:34:32 (124.171.85.237)
And,I wouldn't put a PSU anywhere NEAR its pre-amp, anyway. Remote siting is a very good idea. IMO&E passive RIAA can sound best, IF the PSU is very quiet, and remote. .......

430: Tube DIY Asylum, The shop's name is in business, whether Trev is still around, I don't see. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 18:26:37 (124.171.85.237)
NO TL labelled valve gear, anyway. I doubt that TL was to blame for the noise and smoke. Valve amps store LOTs of energy, so when anything fails it gets let out. .......

431: Radio Road, Lightning is weird shit (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 16:04:01 (124.171.85.237)
What you've down may help! Strikes can take out your entire house-wiring, or just hit a tree! IF I'm home and there's electrical storm activity I know about I unplug the coax cables. If we go away I d .......

432: Inmate Central, If it was influenza you would still be ill. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 15:48:29 (124.171.85.237)
BS as usual. .......

433: Inmate Central, We have a little soreness for a day or so on the injection site. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 14:02:22 (124.171.85.237)
Neither of us has had the flu, in Winter, since we began having these shots. .......

434: Speaker Asylum, Interesting article! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 13:30:06 (124.171.130.134)
Confirms the claims by Foster, sort of. .......

435: Classical Court, Non-reflective ignorance along with commitment to narrow views is very common! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-18, 12:08:49 (124.171.130.134)
:-) .......

436: Inmate Central, Pointless, given the speed limits we all have. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 23:58:10 (124.171.80.67)
98, 99, 100, change hands, 101, ...... .......

437: Inmate Central, 98, 99, 100, change hands, 101, .... (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 23:49:49 (124.171.80.67)
Why? WTF For?! Teach your kids to read, instead. BTAgain, ..... .......

438: Classical Court, As IF there's a universally applicable rule?????? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 23:45:34 (124.171.80.67)
Yawwwwwrrrrnnn. IF the child is happy, is being supported without being PUSHED, .... Are YOU good at multiple variables? For me, and IME, musical talent, and any other kind of talent needs nurturing, .......

439: Music Lane, Emmylou, can rip your guts out, differently to RL Burnside, but just as powerfully. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 23:37:52 (124.171.80.67)
I'm not a woman, and only made sons, but I do have a tough little 4 yr old grand-daughter, who's K'recting me, every day we are together. We planted a whole bunch of Parsley and two Pumpkin plants, to .......

440: Tubes Asylum, The idea of an expensive 12AU7 is just a teeny bit amusing, for me. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 23:20:02 (124.171.80.67)
Unless, as with a NOS Brimar 13D5, which I've had in Cathode-Follower mode for a VERY long time. IE 100% local NFB, and blameless and a nice low output Z :-) and ;-). .......

441: Inmate Central, us boys were tuned in to auto racing by our Senior Legatee, Eric Ross. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 21:42:36 (121.45.222.177)
He was then the manager of the Queensland Tourism Bureau's office in Newcastle, NSW. He'd been in the Light Horse and then in the 6th Div'ns Cavalry regt. But he was also a LCCA and CAMS official. So .......

442: Inmate Central, Those were the days!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 18:27:17 (121.45.222.177)
IF you severely disapprove of the time when people could and did drive fast on public roads, you won't enjoy this. 'Romsey Quints' was a very funny writer on cars, but didn't actually exist. And anoth .......

443: Inmate Central, I'd love to go, but it's not likely! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 16:38:24 (121.45.222.177)
Dago was one of the places my USMC friends used to talk about. We will be doing some ore cruises, soon. One of which does a figure-8 around New Zealand with lots of stop-offs! Another circumnavigates .......

444: Tube DIY Asylum, I had a Trevor Lees modified Radford STA25 here for a while, and an STA15, AND the Radford 22 pre-amp (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 16:05:35 (203.206.39.112)
The STA 25 blew up one night! .......

445: Inmate Central, Every one of our military dead are on the Roll of Honour at our AWM. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 16:00:22 (203.206.39.112)
Fortunately the rate IS falling so we've still got room. But it still understates it all because unless you die soon after a conflict .... WWII took its time with my Dad. 14-15 yrs. .......

446: Tube DIY Asylum, I've had several valve and SS phono stages. ALL the valve ones were figured out with my techie. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 00:38:50 (124.171.195.14)
IME&O the best, far the best, for noise and neutrality is the RCA passive Eq twin 12AX7LP, into a low-gain line-in stage, and into a cathode follower 12AU7 output. Fed by a BIG high storage, quiet, re .......

447: Inmate Central, Creativity isn't just an artsy-fartsy thing. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 00:23:56 (124.171.134.70)
it IS a necessary and inevitable thing. And it's much more powerful outside of the 'yartz' .......

448: Inmate Central, Hornets - must - have - a role (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-17, 00:19:53 (124.171.134.70)
Dig it. God, aka 'all of it', let them happen. .......

449: Inmate Central, Torque wins races !!!! :-) (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-16, 17:39:36 (121.45.210.65)
And, reliability doesn't hurt, either. I grew up loving the GT40 effort. I have slightly greater respect for the 5-litre engined effort that followed, run by John Wyer. Who had clearly learned a great .......

450: Inmate Central, Our block is shaped like a pie slice, with the rim at the front on the street. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-16, 17:25:48 (121.45.210.65)
I wish it were reversed, and I could grow more food! OTOH it's enough work as it is. .......

451: Inmate Central, we give ours to the worm-farm, to generate super-fertiliser for our vegetable garden. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-16, 00:51:05 (124.171.72.159)
Do you have a house and garden? :-) .......

452: Inmate Central, RE: Shedding just under 1 stone in a week does not strike me as a safe plan, at all. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-16, 00:47:03 (124.171.72.159)
Wriggle, wriggle. so, why post about it? Bull-shit-head indeed. .......

453: Inmate Central, Shedding just under 1 stone in a week does not strike me as a safe plan, at all. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-15, 18:15:39 (124.171.222.62)
Eating a sensible / balanced diet and taking some exercise is a far better plan. .......

454: Inmate Central, I've been VERY lucky, it seems. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-15, 18:13:05 (124.171.222.62)
So far, every time the sewerage main backs up, it's downstream of our riser on the boundary between our block and the Territory's land. _|_ with a screw-down lid. We had that riser put in, and paid fo .......

455: Inmate Central, Lucky you, and them, too!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-15, 13:34:55 (124.171.222.62)
Farms can be very stimulating places. I Jackeroo'd on a > 1,000 acres place one long summer! Sheep for wool, mostly. Horses and pack horses. Mostly hills. Sheep-dogs, too! .......

456: Inmate Central, I do know that we get more fog around the large artificial Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, in Winter, (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-14, 19:59:24 (124.171.101.164)
But I don't think we get 'Lake Effect', down here. .......

457: Inmate Central, Ahmmmm!? yeah, okay!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-14, 19:50:17 (124.171.101.164)
Fine. Got it in one!! ;-) .......

458: Inmate Central, whoops, Captain Blunt got let out again! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-14, 19:47:40 (124.171.101.164)
Having known personally quite a few of the RAAF's Bomber Command veterans, through my Dad, I became very interested in the 'systems' / Operational research / technology side of the story. Let alone th .......

459: Inmate Central, Brake Mean Effective Pressure? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-14, 17:13:04 (124.171.133.225)
Well, piston area is a factor in pushing up power. But it does put piston speed up. Swings and roundabouts. For me, in everyday traffic driving, torque matters. Even for passing. .......

460: Inmate Central, The rate of change of the rate of change, eh? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-14, 17:04:57 (124.171.133.225)
Desperation on Ford's part? Are Mustang's not selling? Does it really matter?! :-) and ;-)! .......

461: Tube DIY Asylum, Just don't use the 12AU7 for gain. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-14, 00:51:45 (124.171.128.128)
They make great, cheap gain-less followers. Mu or Cathode. Most classic era valve power amps have too much gain and sound a lot better when you use low-gain high gm valves. See below, enough NFB is en .......

462: Inmate Central, Took you a good while, eh? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-14, 00:19:57 (124.171.128.128)
BSH is his very own problem. .......

463: Inmate Central, Like it was ever significant, eh? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-14, 00:18:25 (124.171.128.128)
AKA, it didn't happen. .......

464: Inmate Central, Airborne Cigar? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-13, 17:45:28 (124.171.147.229)
Three tun-able jamming txers, and a scanner for finding transmissions by fighter controllers.. But easy to track onto, so needed escorting. Or 'Corona' using German speaking WAAFs. .......

465: Inmate Central, the only white plain bread I eat is Sourdough and not often. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-13, 16:24:42 (124.171.147.229)
Multi-grain mostly. That's not a sandwich either, THAT is two meals, no wonder Nth America has an obesity epidemic! :-) Where's the dietary fibre, where's the vegetables, lettuce, rocket, sorrel, mus .......

466: Inmate Central, Is it a flare for lighting up a target from well up in the air? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-13, 16:09:30 (124.171.147.229)
The PFF came up with lots of stuff. I'm pretty stumped else! .......

467: Inmate Central, Is it a Target Indicator? A Pink Panzy? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-13, 15:32:54 (124.171.147.229)
Most of the containers for weapons to partisans were cylindrical. .......

468: Inmate Central, It's a Tallboy or a Grand Slam. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-13, 14:57:31 (124.171.105.241)
About to be lifted into the long bomb-bay of an Avro Lancaster (Lincoln?). Or just been lowered from it. Actually it can't be a GS, as IIRC they had to be carried externally with the bomb bay doors re .......

469: Inmate Central, Thanks, see my further posts to this thread. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-12, 16:18:14 (121.45.214.187)
Below. We came through yesterday OK, no fires, but Sydney did not. Some 50 homes! It was a very windy and DUSTY day, thanks to the drought. So, Trisha took the car to have her hair done, when she usua .......

470: Inmate Central, Ah, well, true, ..... but I DID, see! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-12, 14:33:52 (121.45.214.187)
;-) .......

471: Inmate Central, We do get snow here, but it IS quite rare. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-12, 14:31:59 (121.45.214.187)
Even rarer? It's enough to build snowmen and have snow-ball fights. We do have our own seasonal snow fields, the Snowy Mtns, which we cam see from here in Winter. Which I used to ski - 'cross-country' .......

472: Inmate Central, Well, I reach 69 soon, and I've been a 'Junior Legatee' and I watched Mum 'sort of cope.' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-12, 14:19:06 (121.45.214.187)
She put us under a LOT of pressure, to do well! And, we did! Click below for a few posts about all of that! .......

473: Speaker Asylum, No current Polk subs do worse than 25Hz!!? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 21:09:50 (124.171.208.87)
I think you are mistaken. .......

474: Inmate Central, I'm seriously considering joining Legacy as an alternative to guiding at the AWM (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 17:35:28 (124.171.208.87)
It would involve me more in the impact and helping. But I do get involved one on one with our VA. Because I should, because 'they' did. Guiding gets very difficult with the vets, I find, as I feel for .......

475: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, So, is 2.2khz ideal for your tweeter and mid-bass? do you know? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 17:21:48 (124.171.208.87)
What sort of crossover is IN the speakers now? .......

476: Inmate Central, The urban environmnent can be fire-prone, and the bits and piecse of parks and bushland can contribute. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 17:14:36 (124.171.208.87)
I'd still rather have the green bits. X fingers, eh? .......

477: Inmate Central, Well now, IME The majority of veterans from the counter-insurgency / asymmetric wars they've been in (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 17:08:27 (124.171.208.87)
are more or less affected. Some are coping, a tiny minority cope quite well, but they are still changed. Many have become even more giving The middle cope most of the time. But, a significant group a .......

478: Inmate Central, Give him a man-hug next time you see him Posted by Timbo in Oz (A) on November 11, 2019 at 17:02:42 (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 17:03:49 (124.171.208.87)
Email me, too? .......

479: Inmate Central, We have similar problems, and we are a willing ally to boot. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 13:44:51 (124.171.208.87)
My Grandad survived WWI and out-lived his son, whom WWII took its time to kill, in 1960. To give you an idea Sue, about WWI, and its impact on Australia? IF the USA had suffered, in WWI, the percentag .......

480: Inmate Central, My family are Sydney-siders, most are well into the urban areas, but you are in our thoughts! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 13:34:10 (124.171.208.87)
It's just 'VERY HIGH fire danger' down here. .......

481: Inmate Central, Very high fire danger today for ACT/Canberra due to high winds. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 13:31:18 (124.171.208.87)
IF we lose power where we are I will be switching on my little pocket radio, going to AM/MW and 666 Khz to listen to what to do. Bear in mind folks that this is late Spring, not high Summer, which run .......

482: Inmate Central, Our local CFU, which I led for a few years, wants me. back (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-11, 13:26:06 (124.171.208.87)
Wife says NO Soul says yes. Dr. says no, too But at least we do have the unit. I was involved in establishing them after 2003. VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER today for Canberra, ACT and surrounding regions of .......

483: Inmate Central, Grey-pusses!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-10, 17:23:34 (203.173.11.89)
Sigh! .......

484: Radio Road, RE: This station, nationwide Classical. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-10, 14:32:46 (124.171.101.219)
Main FM tuner is a rethought old Kenwood W8 simulcast rcvr - search here. power amps off. Two more rcvrs FR/Kitchen and bedroom. Plus on line in study. .......

485: Radio Road, This station, nationwide Classical. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-10, 14:30:55 (124.171.101.219)
But the sound on-line is data reduced. .......

486: Inmate Central, see the thread on fires in Australia. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-10, 12:18:16 (124.171.101.219)
connected. .......

487: Inmate Central, I've got my fingers and toes and eyes crossed for down here, too! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-10, 12:15:04 (124.171.101.219)
:-)! The Monsoon season has been far longer than normal and has seen very heavy rain, hence the onion crisis!!! .......

488: Inmate Central, There's a standing story here in Oz! about Range Rovers. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-09, 21:35:32 (124.171.136.133)
The scene? Outback / country town, main street, mid week, hot. The mechanic at the only petrol / service station in town has his head well down in the engine bay of a vehicle. Moneyed looking chap wal .......

489: Inmate Central, But, what about low-end torque! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-08, 21:56:44 (124.171.72.161)
Turning moment. ? .......

490: Inmate Central, So do we, I don't use chemical fertilizers except on the shrubs and roses. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-08, 18:09:02 (124.171.79.23)
We have a worm farm, and a tumbler compost bin. Eleven veggie beds. One peach tree, and one lemon tree. We do use seaweed fertilizer, and I do use Epsom salt solution to keep greenhouse veggies green. .......

491: Inmate Central, Abe used to call the AOTP 'MacLellan's body-guard.' (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-08, 00:53:38 (121.45.213.124)
Gotta love a natural strategist with a sense of humour! .......

492: Inmate Central, You probably postdate Tinear here! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-07, 21:07:18 (121.45.213.124)
I did my tactics exam on Antietam. .......

493: Speaker Asylum, Duratone, where I worked weekends off and on, sold both the I and the II (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-07, 16:23:05 (121.45.213.124)
VERY QUAD like - if a tad coloured. .......

494: Inmate Central, there's a Macarthur museum in Brisbane, overseen by one of his worshippers. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-07, 16:13:15 (121.45.213.124)
An ex Sgt from the Australian Army Medical Corps, who I dared to correct and argue with. Over lots of his statements. Apparenetly Doug was the one who got the Militia battalions 39 and 53 into jungle- .......

495: Inmate Central, Gee, thanks!!! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-07, 16:02:33 (121.45.213.124)
been a good while! .......

496: Inmate Central, CA is a warm place! Very much so of late, sadly! (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-07, 16:01:39 (121.45.213.124)
:-) .......

497: Inmate Central, I hope you aren't one of those who are surprised that folks outside USA are fascinated by and study your Civil (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-07, 14:29:04 (124.171.218.1)
War. My understanding of this latter part of the campaign is that there was not a whole lot of big battles and that a lot of 'rapine, stealing and robbing' happened and not necessarily by Union troops .......

498: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, I once repaired an ancient black chinese 2-door cabinet that used little rectangular wooden joiners (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-07, 14:20:29 (124.171.218.1)
Quite a few of the joints were loose, and needed a lot of thought. The hinges were brass and had tongues of brass brazed into the plates from the back. Two of the four hinges had lost both tongues, o .......

499: Inmate Central, A lot of US are drinking / eating for Spring and Summer. (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-07, 13:49:59 (124.171.218.1)
Southern Hemisphere?! ;-) Yesterday I had Asparagus soup for dinner and some dry toast, as my IBS was playing with me. The asparagus were organically grown at our place. The potatoes and onions not. .......

500: Inmate Central, So, It's not a rust-prone Alfa or AlfaSud? (0.00)
Posted by Timbo in Oz on 2019-11-06, 13:52:51 (124.171.83.208)
:-) AlfaSud 1.5Ti sighhhh! .......

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