I found Joe Bonomassa on Pandora, one of the best finds

It is so nice Beth has granted me a night without turning on the frigging TV. I can read the news, look up some stuff and all without the mindless drone of the idiot box. I am not a fan of tv

Oh crap! Metal and fire - 4" grinder in self destruct mode :eek:

It's an omen, telling me it's time to go play golf.

Sparkin grinders...whoo hooo, Now you makin sumthin fierce!

After my 10 speed racing bike, the really great sounding stereo was the next big thing. Got it one piece at a time starting with the tuner. It was all setup by the time I went to college, and I probably only had about 50 albums. Bought a few albums in college, but not many. Was into making my own mix tapes and taking them to play on the stereo system I put in at the restaurant I worked at.

When I got out of college I accidentally knocked the needle off the cartridge on the turntable while dusting it. Took my turntable to a really good stereo shop to get a new cartridge put on. The tech did a tune up on it. He was expecting his test results to show I needed a better turntable. But he was surprised, said I would have to speed $5000 to get one with better specs. And that was in 1981.

That was when I went surround sound. I had a component system so I replaced the pre-amp with one of the first AV pre-amps, added an other stereo amp and a couple of rear speakers, got cable and from then on the stereo was not just for music, but was the sound system for my TV and movies.

I've upgraded my system in bits and pieces over the years. Now the Turntable, CD, DVD, Cassette, and Video Tape machines are boxed up and in the attic. All my system has now is a 100watt 5.1 AV receiver hooked up as sound for my internet TV, and AppleTV. Let's me watch or listen to just about anything from anywhere. I can also stream from my computer, iPhone, and iPad. Kinda cool to shoot a video on my iphone, edit it in imovie (on the phone) then watch it on the 65" TV.

Last summer a friend told me about how great this internet feed from skynet was to watch the Formula 1 races. Was able to spoof my ip for my TV and computer to think I was in London (skynet is england only), use my computer to find the feed, then pull the URL up on my TV's web browser. The video was grainy and sucked. When I went to visit that friend a month or so later I found out why he thought it was so great, he had a 21" computer monitor for a TV and the video looked okay that small but still not as clean and clear as th HD from NBCsports.

The next step in entertainment is to setup your own internet media server. Friend has one setup that trolls the internet for videos, movies, tv shows, and music he likes, automatically downloads it to his server, and has an interface kinda like Tivo that lets him pick thru what he want's to watch. It is very hodge podged together software, but it does work and he does not subscribe to any TV, video, or movie services. The only down side is he never watches anything live.

Yeah, Riiight...golf.

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Good Mornin All Y'all, Bless yer hearts.

Morning Richard...LOL

hey fellas!

It's Fridayyyyyyyy!!!

WhooHoo! Friday!

@DCA waiting to board our flight to LAX. :)

Woohoo

Have a safe flight and a great vacation Jim!!

Thanks Wayne!

I like to pack on the light side. My wife empties the refrigerator here in DC so she can fill the refrigerator in SoCal.

TGIF!

Back when cassette tapes really sucked for sound quality and 8-Track tapes sounded way better I bought a stereo. It was the early 1970s and I had not established any credit at all. My dad had to co-sign a loan because I had no credit and was just 16. I had a $1,000 budget to buy a dream system. I read all the magazines and knew all the brands and every electronics store in town.

I could have paid cash for it but I wanted to establish credit so I did the loan. It was a Quadraphonic system. It was awesome hearing 4 discrete channels on album or 8-track. I still have a joystick controller that would let me move the center of the sound around my room. That was fun to play with and useful when I could not sit in the center of my bedroom which was most of the time.

The amp was HUGE. It is much wider than the components of today. The front and rear channels had separate equalizers from each other. 4 Advant speakers and plenty of power.

Here is a PDF of how quadraphonic worked.

http://www.quadraphonic.info/manuals/The_World_of_JVC_4-Channel_Sound.pdf

Here is the unit I bought. I still have it up in the attic.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1429878357.jpg

It would rattle the window of my old bachelor pad. :cool:

Morning.

I put a $100k presentation about something I'm less than familiar with between 7:30pm last night when it was dumpewd on me by my sales Engineer...and right now.

Headed to the customer site to make it happen...

Then I'm done for the rest of the week

TGIF

Dog & Pony time!

Good Luck!

I get to rent a mini excavator tomorrow morning so I can dig up the basement sump line that roto-rooter determined was collapsed, It runs between the house and the creek, and he said it was blocked at 97 feet from the house where we had a big pine tree that fell a few years back. At that time, we replaced the line to the creek with PVC that was then hooked to the clay tile line that went to the house.
I got new gutters over the Summer, and they routed them into this drain line, so I believe that the pine needles coming off the roof from some other trees have completely plugged this line. I have re-routed the gutters downspouts into the yard so it won't happen again.

Sounds like i'll be having some fun this weekend. On a good note, I can use this excavator for a couple other projects around the house as long as I have it back on Monday morning with no more than 8 hours run time.

morning all. Friday is looking calm so far.