What are you doing?

[Mapman]

About to head for a local church and sing Messiah, an annual tradition. 

When I was in Philadelphia, we would get together with a group to sing and play through Messiah every December. We used the Proust edition, which includes clarinet parts. A couple times there was no trumpet player, so I filled in on clarinet. Sadly I am no longer in the Philadelphia area, and the organizer decided that he'd done Messiah for long enough so that event no longer happens.

Enjoy Messiah!

[drogulus]

     More on the B580 GPU and related things. The Battlemage chips announced early on were the BMG10, BMG21 and BMG31 from least to most. The BMG10 has been canceled, while the BMG21 has produced the B580 and the soon to be released B570, a cut down version. That leaves the BMG31, which I'll speculate may produce a card with 30-40% more performance than the 580, probably in the $350-400 price range. For me the B570 will suffice, I think. That will sell for $200 or a little less.

[Szykneij]

Fixing my Ford Explorer windshield washer failure. Almost six years ago, while vacationing in a somewhat isolated area of New Hampshire, my windshield washer stopped working. Without access to a whole lot of tools and parts, I was able to replace the faulty section of hose with a Dunkin' Donuts straw and electrical tape. Fast forward to the next decade, I forgot about that long ago hack until I popped open the hood today to see what was wrong. The tape had failed, but not the straw! I re-taped it and I'm looking forward to another 6 years or more of smooth squirting.

[Kalevala]

Fixing my Ford Explorer windshield washer failure. Almost six years ago, while vacationing in a somewhat isolated area of New Hampshire, my windshield washer stopped working. Without access to a whole lot of tools and parts, I was able to replace the faulty section of hose with a Dunkin' Donuts straw and electrical tape. Fast forward to the next decade, I forgot about that long ago hack until I popped open the hood today to see what was wrong. The tape had failed, but not the straw! I re-taped it and I'm looking forward to another 6 years or more of smooth squirting.

  How clever of you!

K

[Vox Maris]

Watching the Dua Lipa concert from Royal Albert Hall on tv tonight.



I waited an hour so that I could fast forward the commercials.

I wish there was a dislike button.

[DavidW]

Fixing my Ford Explorer windshield washer failure. Almost six years ago, while vacationing in a somewhat isolated area of New Hampshire, my windshield washer stopped working. Without access to a whole lot of tools and parts, I was able to replace the faulty section of hose with a Dunkin' Donuts straw and electrical tape. Fast forward to the next decade, I forgot about that long ago hack until I popped open the hood today to see what was wrong. The tape had failed, but not the straw! I re-taped it and I'm looking forward to another 6 years or more of smooth squirting.

You McGuyver'd a solution!

[Kalevala]

Just cooked a salmon and cream cheese omelette for breakfast.  Did a bit of cooking over the holiday, had a friend over for dinner and shared some stuffed manicotti with his family...and still have leftovers!  Happy camper here!

Yesterday, I did the dreaded cleaning off and moving my speakers so that I could vacuum underneath them; it was the first time in ages that the spikes on the speakers didn't come off of their "discs" [the wood floor is old and uneven--hence the dread when pushing them around].

K

[Number Six]

Late morning on Sunday. I'm drinking coffee, running a load of laundry, and listening to some 1972 Grateful Dead. 

[drogulus]

    My new PC will be built by MicroCenter high priests according to parts I choose. Since the GPU will be Intel I'm free to choose a CPU from either AMD or Intel. See, Intel cards have all the video encoding options of the Intel iGPU and more. So for Handbrake transcoding using QSV the GPU will do all the work. I can then choose a CPU on pure price/performance without considering CPU encoding at all.

    Among CPUs I could choose the 7700x or the i5-13600K. In case I want to use software encoding for superior quality either of these CPUs should be fine, and certainly better than my incumbent i7-8700.

[Number Six]

9pm

Starting Grateful Dead "Closing of Winterland" on YouTube on TV.

Can I make it 4 hours? I guess we'll see. 

[vandermolen]

I an NOT listening to/watching the 'New Year's Day Concert from Vienna' but am enjoying the BBC Radio programmes celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast for coastal waters - including an appreciation of Ronald Binge's accompanying piece of light music 'Sailing By'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_By

[Florestan]

Ronald Binge's accompanying piece of light music 'Sailing By'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_By

Thanks for the tip, Jeffrey, I'll listen to it asap.

[hopefullytrusting]

Just got done with my first pass over my pdfs (taking an eye break now), as I still have at least another day or so to get them in working order.

Currently at a little under 4000, and I'd like to cut that in half (although, I'd prefer cutting it by three-quarters even more).

[Kalevala]

Just got done with my first pass over my pdfs (taking an eye break now), as I still have at least another day or so to get them in working order.

Currently at a little under 4000, and I'd like to cut that in half (although, I'd prefer cutting it by three-quarters even more).

Are they all movies (you had mentioned some)?  Or a combo of things?

K

[hopefullytrusting]

Are they all movies (you had mentioned some)?  Or a combo of things?

K

No, related to my work. I watch the movies in while skimming through the pdfs to organize them. I have probably another day or two to go. Essentially, I have so many pdfs that it impeding my ability to work productively (think of the overwhelm that many have when they see an American grocery store, so they default to what they know, rather than what is best - I'm trying to avoid that kind of "discernment".)

[LKB]

Thinking about some music I composed for an opera years ago.

[hopefullytrusting]

I have cut my pdfs in half!

Only have 417 more to go!

Might actually get to sleep tonight!

[Kalevala]

I have cut my pdfs in half!

Only have 417 more to go!

Might actually get to sleep tonight!

Congrats!

And get some sleep; you don't need to get this done all at once.   

Here:  am contemplating taking the ornaments off of the tree.     Always a sad thing to do--particularly this year as I'm really happy with the tree that I chose and how the decorating of it came out.

K

[Spotted Horses]

I have cut my pdfs in half!

Only have 417 more to go!

Might actually get to sleep tonight!

By pdfs you mean adobe document files? Existential poems?

[ChamberNut]

Setting up a late Christmas gift that just arrived.    My wife got me a beautiful Tivoli Audio disc player for my office, which is where I spend most of my time listening to music.