Kunlun

Pork XLB was quite decent. The ordinary pork buns were good enough and the veg buns had too much chives to better tasting veg. Overall: Pass.

^ The real mystery to me right there. That and Taiwanese restaurant w/o pork

Yea weird, they have been in LA for a few years now.

Wait wut? The DTF in Dubai don't use pork? OK, they don't even exist for me then.

With tons of pee!

Transition is quite difficult, I like the headspace it puts me in

@Thad E Ginathom Sure, that’s why the Diskstation creates encrypted cloud backups of itself (also using borg) twice a day, as I wrote above. ;)

@zotel: You also said that Diskstation is your cloud, as you don't trust cloud providers. So I got confused.

I don't trust "the cloud" either. But I would like to have a full backup on it. As well as my physical stuff.

@Thad E Ginathom Should you ever start using borg, I can recommend https://www.borgbase.com/ . Very cheap backup space, only to usable with borg, though. And as borg can create encrypted backups, you don’t need to trust them.

Everything is hairy

Hey buddy, experience yourself somewhere else. This is a family forum.

This is not a f'ing family forum: heck, we don't even *** out the f'ing cunt stuff! ;) This is a forum where people do real grown-up stuff with their ears.

I'm all for this adult point of view. Although a limited banned-word list might become necessary. Ch*st H**r?

Kung hei fat choi to you as well, regional dialects be damned. Not sure if this is just a local thing but may your tikoy/nian gao be chewy.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/16/1073219153/israel-dresner-rabbi-freedom-riders-martin-luther-king-dies

I just wonder if you shed two times a year or constantly.

Key is to not wash more than once or twice a year. You'd shed skin along with fur like reptile.

Remember: only *organic* fertilisers and pesticides.

https://i.imgur.com/jQYQqje.jpeg

The book dates back to 1965. I'm not an SF freak, but I read it a few years after that. Dads /should/ have heard of it!

I passed the book on to a lecturer at college, pointing out certain passages that accorded with some of his weird theories. As a result, he struck up a correspondence with Frank Herbert!

I heard a guy talk about it on the radio this morning...he read a quick synopsis and was like, "Sounds kind of like Star Wars."

@YMO Judging by measurements on a HF review it's a little less bright than the FD5 FWIW. The price is right too for a pure BE driver...

Periodic Be mods well or so I've been told

Fiio FD7 looks promising.

I use Ety plugs as well! I even take them to movies and plays too, as amplified sound levels are all over the place nowadays.

IMO due to how venues + engineers conspire, I found it easier to enjoy the music with them in at shows.

@purr1n $1300

https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ie-900?syz_chnl=001&gclid=CjwKCAjwnPOEBhA0EiwA609ReSCo1Xd8p9H3P6OCJpimkmY5lGNFLUQmYA5_kcONdj2ZKIiEVJDUvBoCAKYQAvD_BwE

Actually, that graph that shows how what each helmholtz resonator does to the FR is interesting. The page is surprisingly sprinkled with info amidst the ad-hype.

Also Wombats and Platypuses.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-26/glow-in-the-dark-marsupials-surprise-scientists-biofluorescence/12910820
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-australian-platypus-is-the-latest-mammal-discovered-with-fluorescent-fur

Yo they need to isolate the gene that encodes this protein ASAP.

You won't hear about this on mainstream media:
https://twitter.com/michaelkeyes/status/1060701578473152512

And…a new AC/DC album!

New hearing-aid tech is always welcome. Always hoping

And: Happy National Butterscotch Pudding Day!

I did a quick bit of research on top of what I already knew, and if I'm reading the reports in the right way, there isn't a JetPack that is publicly known about that would fit this description. There is a JetPack type bike helicopter, but that doesn't fit the description. This is incredibly strange.

There is one JetPack that would *maybe* fit the descriptions, but it hasn't been used at the altitude reported, at least not publicly.

My best guess would be either
A)Sky Diver with some sort of propulsion assist?

B)Something out of the black world, or perhaps a DARPA project.

Its certainly the right area for it to be a black project, but that would be an incredibly unusual time and area to carry out the test.

Or its f'ing Iron Man

Where's the surface phonon resonator for the high frequency quantum acoustics? :)