What's everyone up to right now?

[ignoramus]

Going to work in the dark and coming home with the lights on...
Winter is coming!

I have so many clothes on in this cold factory I can barely work!

You work??

I wish. Sadly my body is wearing out. Too many years of 7 day weeks of hard yakka.
Looking forward to enjoying my last few years NOT working for a change...

[The Valkyrie]

Right now I'm reading a news article regarding conservative Christians in NZ showing their persecution complex about how the country came together in support of the Muslim community in NZ after the Christchurch terrorist attack.

One is concerned about the radical element in the greater Muslim community and the danger they pose. Meanwhile, let's ignore the dangerous radical ekement within the Christian community.

These people are professional victims.

They're pathetic.

[Rev. Rye]

MENSCHENSCHNITZEL.

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It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable.
___William Seabrook.

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Idea for a restaurant: a place that specializes in veal, calls it menschenschnitzel, and, just to add to the gimmick, gives the option for customers to name their cut of meat after someone they despise so they can cathartically fake-cannibalize an enemy. Maybe have a half-pound veal burger named after Trump. I’d love to see if protesters would be so horrified about the fake cannibalism gimmick that they’d forget about the fact that it’s actually a different, but much more legal, pretty ethically contentious type of meat. I know that restaurants are an extremely competitive business, but maybe such a horrifying gimmick would be enough to put it above the rest.

[Fireball]

MENSCHENSCHNITZEL.

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It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable.
___William Seabrook.

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Idea for a restaurant: a place that specializes in veal, calls it menschenschnitzel, and, just to add to the gimmick, gives the option for customers to name their cut of meat after someone they despise so they can cathartically fake-cannibalize an enemy. Maybe have a half-pound veal burger named after Trump. I’d love to see if protesters would be so horrified about the fake cannibalism gimmick that they’d forget about the fact that it’s actually a different, but much more legal, pretty ethically contentious type of meat.  I know that restaurants are an extremely competitive business, but maybe such a horrifying gimmick would be enough to put it above the rest.

The chump ain't a mensch. And if I had to eat some of that, I'd be a vegetarian so fast you would hear the thunderclap. 

[Rev. Rye]

Okay, name the dishes after famous cannibals, like Armin Meiwes, Richard Chase, Albert Fish, Hannibal Lecter, or Alferd Packer. Maybe even replace the Trump burger with the Big Lurch Burger. And a room for large groups called the Donner Party Room. Would that be better?

[Jackalope]

Home after a long travel day.

[Little lunch]

Just bought a leather jacket and it's perfect. I'm stoked.

[Angrboda]

Having a spot of tea.

[Rev. Rye]

Well, here’s what the Vaux amp looks like now. 



And on the inside:



Shit that will have to be changed:

• The speaker: it turns out the amp’s speaker output is 8 ohms and the speaker is 4 ohms, which, if I actually played through it, would have led to a short circuit. Fortunately, Jensen has the Mod 6-15, which is available in an 8 ohm version, and can be found for [url=https://www.amplifiedparts.com/products/...od6-15-15w]pretty damn cheap.[/url]
  
• The front panel was covered with a lucite sheet. This was too thick and rendered it impossible to get the knobs onto the potentiometer shafts. It will thus be replaced with a sheet of aluminium. The top half will be painted black, except for the parts around the control knobs, which will be done in burgundy, like the control panel of the AC-30 I’m trying to replicate. 
  
• Secure the AC-Tone. As it stands, it’s currently secured to the front with a block of foam and we have to take extra precautions to make sure it doesn’t fall out if we so much as look at it funny. In addition, we will move it further to the right to facilitate the next thing. 
  
• Cutaways in the side and an extra jack in the middle. Minstrel could not integrate the AC-Tone into the circuitry, so we decided to do another different, if a bit more convoluted method. The right side of the pedal has inputs for a 9V power supply and the instrument. If moved further to the right, we can cut a hole to allow easy access to the pedal’s input jacks. Fortunately, before they gave up on it, they included a little cable that’s one side patching cable and one side output jack. It can be seen in the interior photo. Hook that up to the pedal’s output, and add another output jack, and if you have another patching cable, hook that into the amp’s input. And maybe add a splitter so you can plug the kalimba into the same amp.  Why yes, that is really convoluted. If you know how to actually integrate the AC-Tone into the amp circuitry, like I wanted to do in the first place, I’d really love to know how.
  
• Retrieve the power supply from John, since we brought it with him when we asked him to build the amp for us and it’s currently AWOL.
  
• Put the knobs on, and literally everything else after that is just cosmetic. 
  

[Sal]

Watching da YouTube.