A Co-op here in Vietnam has partnered with a Japanese NGO to do a similar thing.

I would disagree since getting a speaker with a “good” 10 or 12 inch driver is difficult or very expensive and impractical since those large drivers don’t do well with mids and upper mids. The Tannoy, Klipsch heritage line, and similar old school designs with large drivers all measure like crap.

Maga lying sack of crap

My Revel F208 speakers don’t really need a subwoofer for music but having a 12 inch 500 watt subwoofer to support them for movies does add to the dramatic impact. My apartment neighbors haven’t complained so I assume they are enjoying the music and movies too.

That’s a rabbit hole I managed to avoid. I lived in Shanghai in the 00’s when you could still get nice counterfeit mechanical watches there. Then I got a nice Seiko mechanical watch but no matter what I did, I just didn’t love the auto-winding function. Then came the solar watches from Seiko and Citizen which were relatively cheap. Now I’m here with a smart watch and never looking back.

Edit: also an engineer.

Some fun AM entertainment

D or G because those both can grow coffee.

Tough call though.

D is lots of different Chinese regional dishes (Shanghai style, south China styles, Xi’an Muslim styles, and all the different dumplings); all the great Japanese food, Vietnamese food, Thai food, Indian food, Aussie and New Zealand wines, Aussie steaks, New Zealand lamb, Malay, Indonesian dishes, Cebu BBQ, plus Lebanese and Persian food. That is a lot of variety.

G gets you New Orleans dishes, California wine, Cali tacos, Tex Mex, southeastern USA BBQ, Low Country Boil, Mexican food, Caribbean food, central American, chocolate, and I am guessing Hawaiian dishes.

And now I’m hungry.

Over priced coffee gear is a big No! for me.

Love DS9

Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Barney Miller.

Bullshit

Between climate change impacts and Trump, the USA is truly fucked.

I hear that decaf is getting better and that there are new processes that maintain the flavor.

Lawrence of Arabia

12 Angry Men

To Kill A Mocking Bird

The Thin Man or any of the sequels

Some Like It Hot

The Fifth Element

Grosse Pointe Blank

Life Boat

2001 Space Odyssey

Singing In The Rain

On The Town

Blazing Saddles

Dr. Stangelove

Young Frankenstein

Kubo and the Two Strings

Apocalypse Now

Opportunistic Hypocrisy

Was it this clown or Ben Shapiro that publicly made statements that would imply they never satisfied their partner? Though both likely failed.

I believe he made that brilliant statement in 2022. Something about Empathy being woke and a modern liberal creation.

Fair enough.

Sucks for his wife and kid(s) but otherwise nothing of value was lost. He made his silver spewing hate and oppression.

I did a partial switch shortly after Trump was elected and also cashed out at fairly high points and left a chunk in money market.