South African by birth, American by legal immigration, Texan by choice. LARP farmer. Drives a Kubota. Accurate with an AR.
Owns a small zoo & two cockatooz.
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Apr 12 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ My parents-in-law, God bless them, are amazingly active for 81-year olds.
They flew Tampa->Houston and picked up my son to see the eclipse, while I was moving my daughter to the farm.
TLDR; we get along, despite their being uber-libtards. They're decent people in other ways.
2/ A GREAT experience--the Scottish immigrant who owns the ranch, a family acquaintance, is a serious amateur astronomer.
They had a moon-tracking telescope, another aimed at the sun, and full camera setup with wifi so everyone could see.
And the Scot is REDPILLED.
Loves my son.
Apr 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
AI is going to hit its first wall hard, soon.
1/ They're voracious data eaters; the more they process in training, the better they are.
At the same time, the very content they scrape from the web will exponentially increase--with output from previous AI.
2/ Agreed:
Quite possible the Uniparty thinks exactly what Hillary did in 2015--she encouraged MSM to push him because she thought he was the most easily beatable.
He's flawed. Pig-headed, terrible at hiring, pro-Holy-Jab.
🎵 I see a rainbow and I want it painted black
🎵 No colors anymore I want them to turn black
🎵 I see the trans walk by dressed in wrong gender clothes
🎵 I have to turn my head until my nausea goes
Jun 7, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
25/ Pro audio as mentioned is almost all horn-loaded above around 500Hz.
Some great systems use midrange horns, about 24"x24", to reproduce down to around 200Hz
There was another club in Houston that had a MEGA-expensive sound system with mid-horns...
Remember Club 6400?
26/ 6400 must've had at least $500k in audio, probably a million.
6 4-way horns around the dance floor, driven by the finest audiophile-quality QSC amps.
No expenses spared!
It was fantastic sound; I bet that place was laundering a shit-ton of mob drug money.
Jun 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
19/ Horns can be curved or folded--straight is best but unrealistic in most applications.
Paul Klipsch built his huge company in Hope, Arkansas (yeah, Clinton's home town) on his very famous Klipschorn speakers, fully horn-loaded.
Bass was a very cleverly folded design that...
20/ ...used the corner of the room as the final stage of the bass horn's expansion.
My second bass horn was a curved design, physically equivalent to modern concert venues' "scoop-bin" designs.
Looks like a Nautilus shell from the top.
Here're my engineering drawings for it:
Jun 7, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
1/ This reminds me of all my favorite music & DJ oddities.
It's GREAT!
If y'all haven't, you should check out...
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It's all penguin-cutesy "Look At Me I'm so FRIENDLY and USABLE"
But I'm trying to backup my wife's iPhone vid/pic to my PC drive, and it's miserable.
Of course Appleites will say "just back up to iCloud!"
I. DON'T. WANT. TO.
2/ I've spent hours, on and off, trying various combinations of Microsoft's Photo app vs using iCloud app (which when it "syncs", creates local cloud links)
etc etc
Quickest way turns out to be:
Go to her ICloud, select a couple hundred at a time, and download the ZIP file....
May 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
SO MUCH THIS!
Whenever we worry about "landed gentry" and feckless billionaire's drug-addled whore heirs owning 1,000's of prime acres...
Giving the State the power to take that land...for the "Greater Good", of course!...is a terrible, terrible idea.
If you do any kind of shop work--woodwork, metal, etc--GET ONE!
There are add-ons to an existing shop-vac. Dirt collects in a bucket under the cyclone, leaving the shop-vac filter almost completely clean. I haven't replaced mine in almost a year.
2/ Mine's fairly cheap, but works well on stale horse feed, sawdust, metal grindings from welding projects and more.
It even separates fine agricultural lime dust.
No idea how energy efficient it is; I have the usual 'FIVE PEAK HP!!1!" Rigid shop-vac
@AetherCzar 2/
A million+ volts and about 50,000 amps of current.
Very briefly, a few milliseconds, it's making as much power as 20 nuclear generators!
I'd read that the "bremstralling" (when charged particles slam to a stop and emit and emit radiation) makes x-rays from lightning...
