After an hour and half meeting with John Wolcott on the Zoom on the phone while using my phone also as a hotspot with a relatively low battery, my phone is just warm from working so hard

After an hour and half meeting with John Wolcott on the Zoom on the phone while using my phone also as a hotspot with a relatively low battery, my phone is just warm from working so hard. But it worked fine.

Another Day Trapped in the Clouds

I guess you really can't complain that much but it doesn't seem fair that they have much nicer weather along the coast and downstate.

Look Inside This Pioneer Tube Receiver!

I have a bit of a fascination with vacuum tube technology these days, because they did some pretty amazing things with those tubes that glowed and threw off a lot of heat, such as this mid-1960s hi-fidelity amplifier. Wouldn't be long after this came out that they went to solid-state components -- these old beasts took a lot of maintance and adjustments to work properly as they got older.