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If you can find used copies, you might look at Elizabeth Willey's neglected trio:  The Well-Favored Man,  A Sorcerer and a Gentleman, and The Price of Blood and Honor.  The titles of the second and third books are wonderful.

But it doesn't show the master contests page, only my entries.  There's no way I can find to get to the master Contests page, or to any particular contest.

Q? to check: If you have a too-short-no-points inline review and put in a long conventional review, does the long conventional review get points.  What if the types are reversed.

Sol, how do I find the contests page on the mobile site?  The menu button's link take me to my entries only.

Coffee break's over folks, back to standing on your heads!

The inspection is back on, for next Wednesday OR thursday OR Friday.

The head amp works, and doesn't.  It works on the bench.  I didn't get it working in actual use, and I have no idea why.  Nor do I have much time for it.  I wanted to take today off, and may do it, but I have so much to do ... two computers to put in proper cases, the shelves they're on to help clean up my lab ...

I have to see.  I hope that we get an inspector who realizes that my little lab is safer than frying chicken.

I refer you to G. K . Chesterton's The Curse of the Golden Cross:

To keep us suspending disbelief when we must, you have to let us work from what existing belief you can.

Don't worry about 'owing' me stuff.  I'm glad for your help, but also honored that you think so highly of my kibbitzing.

Posit that the modifications came in steps, each dependent on a breakthrough in understanding and technique.  By the time of the fifth or sixth step, they were doing things that would be fatal to unmodified humans.  For example, the ability to detoxify various natural poisons relied on new liver pathways to handle the unused detox enzymes.  Or enhanced hemoglobin-oxygen transport relies on improved detox in the liver.

And the various parts of each step are closely intertwined, too, because of the Principle of Parsimony (see which), which you can invoke yourself.

I've been making notes on Erevain, and will contine to do so.

Not dumb.  Just not attentive enough

Ignorance of vinyl isn't the issue.  The key point is in the box above.  The two sides of the voltage source that powers the thing float.  Neither is fixed with respect to ground.

This means that the left and right channels need separate power supplies.  Can this be done off the AC mains?  Sure, using transformers.  And as Leach explains, someone built and sold a version powered by photovoltaic cells illuminated inside the box by an incandescent light.

But you need two separate supplies and you have the additional problem of keeping the 60Hz hum out of the amplifier and also keeping external rf noise from creeping in.  It can be done, but it's more engineering, and mmore time.  And there's something audiophile-appealing about a circuit so exotic it -must- be powered by batteries.  Even the little regulating stuff I added will raise the noise floor a bit.

Not too much, I hope.  I'm building one channel on the final board now.  I also have more physical design work (and 30 minutes or so with a cutoff wheel, and more time with a drill and taps ...) before I can close the box up and try it for real.

I can't work this fast.

I forget now which of the great 20th century comics it was who declared so eloquently this principle: A comic is not someone who says funny things. A comic is someone who says things funny.

Those who remember the original days of Live From New York, It's SATURDAY NIGHT! may recall the continuing adventures of Mr. Bill.  I'll bet that K's favorite character was (or would be) Mr. Hands, whose transparently sacharine voice belied the mayhem he wrought upon Mr. Bill Modelling Clay.

I'm afraid I got the joke, but not the humor, not only of this but of most of SNL.  And once in the 80's I was on a company training trip whose organizers had hired, at great expense, the Second City Players for an after-dinner entertainment.  Their first three skits told the same joke, once each.  It wasn't funny the first time, it was less funny the second, and the third time I committed an unspeakable cruelty on my colleagues by walking out and leaving them to bear it without me.

Compare that to the great Jack Benny:

{Mugger} Your money or your life, mister.
{Benny}    ...
{Mugger} Well?
{Benny -- glances at the audience} ...
{Mugger} Which is it gonna be?
{Benny -- laconically}  Don't rush me!  I'm thinking about it.

You can get porn for anything.  But porn with an orthonormal basis?  Does that lie within the osculating circle?