Wire: 30AWG

30 gauge wire is tiny. But when you’re doing circuit repair, it feels thick, stiff, and hard to work with. (From a Brother label printer that was savagely attacked by alkaline batteries.)

Tiny crack, big hassle. Audi engineering!

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The front 360 parking camera from an Audi A7 C8.

2008 Mitsubishi Evo photos

I’m selling my Evo. Here are more pictures.

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Hummingbirds

We appear to have been adopted by three hummingbirds now: a greenback, an orange-chest and redneck (as in, it has a red neck).  Our sparrow was not amused.

 
Hummingbird hovering next to a feeder in Kitsap, WA.
Sugar, sugar, sugar!

Moose camouflage

Moose hiding behind a bush in Denali National Park, Alaska.
Indecisive moose. Wouldn’t hold still.

We saw some moose in Alaska. They’re big, indecisive, and disinterested in bipedal tourists.

Spiderdrops

I don’t know if our spider liked the rain today, but the drops looked pretty.

Spiderweb with rain drops.
Rain on the web.

Shooting the Buck Moon

The moon moves really fast when it’s behind trees.

Buck Moon, July 2021, Kingston WA

Hotel wildlife

We just got back from vacation in Florida, where we stayed at a lakeside apartment. On the last day, we got to see some cool wildlife. (From our downstairs, screened in porch. The lake had a substantial fence, with bars that might mildly inconveniance a large alligator.)

Alligator crawling out of a lake at hotel grounds in Florida.

Our hotel wildlife.

Weird Al Yankovic sings “The Elements”

Weird Al Yankovic in concert at the Golden State Theatre, Monterey, 2018-05-17.

My wife and I got to see “Weird Al” Yankovic in concert in Monterey last Thursday night. He covered Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements”. This is interesting because….

  • Al doesn’t often do covers, but often does parodies.
  • Tom’s song was itself a parody.
  • The source material (from “The Pirates of Penzance”) was, some say, partly a response to the rampant musical piracy in the U.S. at the time.

So there’s a thing. Anyway, I really enjoyed the concert, and I wanted to test some experimental binaural microphones I’d constructed. Bada-bing! Bada-boom!

Me and Sara enjoying the calm before a concert at the Golden State Theatre, Monterey, 2018-05-17

So, please Don’t Download this Song, and if you want to help Al and Tom get their Solid Gold Humvees, then support them by doing stuff!

Oh, and Emo Philips is a great opener, very funny, and (despite rumor) still alive.

Princess Ida Sitzprobe recordings

Yes, it’s done! Relive the excitement and adventure of cramming a full cast and orchestra into a band room!

Poster for Lyric Theatre's 2017 production of Princess Ida

Usual caveats about “this was not a studio recording”, etc.
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