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Speaker stand things.

So right now I am running my Revels on the outside on Atacama 40cm stands. On the inside I am running a couple of Sonus Fabers on Fisual Dynami 20cm stands.



It works well. Mostly because the Sonus are angled up toward the seated position. Problem is I want to put those at the rear and use my new JBL up front with the Revel. And the stands don't have any spikes at all as they are meant for desktop use. So I got these first.



I will probably ignore the sticky pads and attach them with JB weld. I then got these.



So I can angle them slightly. Again will probably attach those with JB weld also.

 

Oh and a birthday present from mum !

 

Acer Nitro 5 15.6" i5 16GB 512GB RTX 3060 Laptop

Need to scratch that star citizen itch again…

 

What. Wait. What? You mean it can't ward away lightning?!?

Must say that is a cracking and unusual piece of gorse. Can't say I've ever seen any that would suggest they could produce such a piece.

 

Not much you can do to prevent a strike (thankfully from my work point of view...). There used to be a type of protection system that was quite popular in the large area protection scene called charge dissipation arrays that aimed to dissipate the charge in the air immediately before a strike thus preventing the arc from forming. These systems were used for things like oil and gas facilities but have largely been rubbished by more recent research and ways of thinking. The international lightning protection standard now relies mainly on the passive nature of a Faraday Cage system and the experience of system designers along with surge protection devices.

 

Apparently, some French researchers have discovered how to attract lightning to a lightning rod by using a terawatt-class laser to burn a low resistance path through the air.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-fire-lasers-at-the-sky-to-control-lightning/

 

VPC Constellation ALPHA Prime x2



TR8 PRO FLIGHT SIMULATOR


Got an urge to recreate that insane scene in Star Trek where they warp into that ambush and it’s just chaos

figured I can use my home theatre system around this perfectly, the svs shakes the house anyway so once complete this should be rather good.

 

Soundtrack, man.
Wicked.
In fact, I'm going to put it on right now. Took the little 'un to the Hella Mega Tour last year (which the Bad Year blimp lends some irony to since I think it was supposed to be happening in 2020 originally).

 

Logitech Craft for a bargain £72 to use for work.


Another one of these to extend my wifi mesh and hopefully fix some holes.

 

New build incoming, I haven't done a self build for about 2 years so it'll be nice to mess around!

MSI PRO B650-P WIFI ATX Motherboard


WD BLACK SN770 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E GEN4 SOLID STATE DRIVE


Kingston FURY Beast RGB 32GB (2x 16GB) 5200MHz


AMD Ryzen 9 7900X AM5 Processor


Cooler Master MWE 850 Gold V2 Fully Modular PSU


Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black, Dual-Tower CPU cooler (140mm, Black)

 

I won't lie Warning is my fave album of theirs. Probably for no more reason than I had moved to the USA when it came out, and it was on the radio everywhere I went. Killer memories. That said, Minority is probably my fave song ever of theirs, and I love Castaway too. Really do get me pumped up those two ! sadly Warning on vinyl as an album doesn't exist, and you can expect to pay about 300 notes for it. And given I have all of their albums on CD yeah, madness.

I think as far as Dookie goes? I probably buck the trend when I say that "When I come around" is the best song on there. God I friggin LOVE that.

 

One of these, with the Ergo Stand, for under £1000.


Before anyone asks, yes I paid on my credit card in case it's a scam. No I've no idea where to put it, compared to the 24HD it's replacing it's comically yuuuge.

 

I'm feeling the same, been watchinmg some streamers play it and it seems like glitchy fun!

 

I don't need a new flight setup, I don't need a new flight setup...

 

Update: They are as rubbish as the others I bought before. They do a reasonable job of keeping my feet warm but, the soles are coming off, they are falling apart after only 6 weeks...

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07GLMJ1RY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I bought those as well. The other ones I bought are like, rubbery or something. They stunk within a month. Meaning they need washing constantly, and take forever to dry. Those? ^ are the best by far. They don't stink anywhere near as bad either as they can breathe.

 

I've gone back to wool lined leather moccasin slippers, a brand I've bought before that are a reasonable price and last well. Given-up on trying to find extra warm ones, that are actually more durable than wet newspaper.

 

I just wear a pair of “house trainers” and socks. I’ve a lot of tiled and wooden flooring downstairs and it’s colder than a witches tit till the heating warms it.

 

Are you working on old English or new American?