I like this time at night on HBT

[passedpawn]

Been kinda quiet in the Late Nite thread.

Here's a very cool chicklet to liven things up. For your late nite soundtrack, Grace Potter.

 

[Dan]

Hi!

Bunch of stuff to talk to you all about. Guess we're all kind of busy the last few days. I'm not writing much tonight cause I'm dog tired like many of us.

Goodnight good people.

Will leave you with a song, helps me sleep and imagine good stuff.

 

[Dan]

Oops. Not asleep yet. I'm at work about ready to leave but needed to use the head before I clock out in a few minutes. To get to the head I have to walk outside. A jet was taking off, pretty late for this place. There is nothing like the body shaking, deep thunderous rumble of a jet engine or the sight of the afterburners glowing in the sky. Here's a cheers to the amazing men and women who fly them and to the more amazing men and women who design and build them.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Howdy later's. Who's up? Its only late here because I'm old.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

It's been slow here lately... Must be the cold weather
I happened to catch this on TV last night. I'd have recorded it myself, but my phone is low on space.

 

[HefeHood]

Good Saturday Morning Brew Friends. Today is brew day at Casa de Hood. Wife asked for a Vanilla Porter, so here goes. Grains are steeping. This will be my first flavored beer, but after lots of research on HBT I am confident I can pull this off. Will spend the day outside, brewing, Zeppelin and Pink Floyd on Pandora and the Air Force A-10's practicing overhead. Aaaahhhhh...sounds of freedom. Thank you to all our service members, past and present.

 

[Dan]

Doug, sounds like a great day planned! Your brew day sound like a lot of fun, have a blast! A-10's are awesome airplanes. I love watching those things down low. To see one up close you would wonder how they are so agile in the air. They're like seals, lying around on top of the ice they look sluggish and fat; underwater they are sleek and perform water ballet. I second your thank you to all our service members, past and present.

We're getting a little bit little bit of rain finally in this drought plagued valley, state. I think this year is one of the worst droughts on record for California. The farmers around here are hurting, no rain, the water supply in the north is being kept in the north, Southern CA gets tons of water from the Colorado river but locally we're hurting. A town close by, the cantaloupe capital of the world is said to have a 45% unemployment rate because the majority of the community is involved in farming one way or another but there is no water. "Crops grow where water flows". A few weeks ago there was a rain prayer vigil held by catholic clergy and I think even the Native American nations around here have held a rain dance or two.

 

[HefeHood]

Brew finished, all cleaned up. Brew is fermenting in the new fermenting bag (christmas present). See how week that works in leu of a fermentation chamber.

Been a dry winter here in southern AZ as well. Basically zero rain in the last few months and warmer than normal. By end of next week we are forecasted for mid 80's! Fear water rationing as we get a majority of our water from the Colorado via CAP canal.

Hope all have a great weekend. Warm thoughts for those in the mid west and east where its a bit chilly.

 

[Dan]

Sounds like a great brew day. Fermenting bag? I've never heard of one?

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Sounds like a great brew day. Fermenting bag? I've never heard of one?

Maybe this?

 

[Dan]

Probably so LRB

How you doing?

 

[Dan]

Whoosh. It is quite around here.

Maybe a good place to write my life story cause nobody is listening.

Instead, something soothing. Cheers my friends.

DD

 

[passedpawn]

Whoosh. It is quite around here.

Maybe a good place to write my life story cause nobody is listening.

Instead something soothing. Cheers my friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc

Always loved that Dan. That is one very old piece of music. Predates most of the classical favorites.

 

[Dan]

Always loved that Dan. That is one very old piece of music. Predates most of the classical favorites.

I've liked this music for a many number of years. Bank of Hawaii made part of it their theme song for awhile. You couldn't watch TV without hearing a variant of this in their commercials. Luckily didn't ruin it for me.

Very beautiful piece of music, and as Stauffbier might say -Indeed!

 

[passedpawn]

You couldn't watch TV without hearing a variant of this in their commercials. Luckily didn't ruin it for me.

This song (Palladio) has been on lots of commercials. DeBeers (diamonds) used it for a long time. I like it a lot. I was certain it was Vivaldi, maybe part of Four Seasons, until I really looked into it.

 

[Dan]

If in the mood for it listen to Beethoven's Symphony numer 9. Most know his fifth - Dun Dun da Dum...but number nine is truly amazing indeed. If you don't have it on hand. YouTube does. Pretty long though. I'd find the one a fellow in Germany dedicates to the fall of the Berlin wall. Warning, it's about an hour or so.

 

[Dan]

Pappy, or anybody - ever gone to a symphony concert? I haven't. I'm not ashamed to admit I wouldn't mind getting dressed up in a Tux (it would be rented) and my wife dressed up in a beautiful evening gown. A carriage ride to a sypmhony concer hall. What symphony? Not really sure, probably Vivaldi, or Beethoven maybe. Pachelbels' Canon in D would be bliss.

 

[passedpawn]

If in the mood for it listen to Beethoven's Symphony numer 9. Most know his fifth - Dun Dun da Dum...but number nine is truly amazing indeed. If you don't have it on hand. YouTube does. Pretty long though. I'd find the one a fellow in Germany dedicates to the fall of the Berlin wall. Warning, it's about an hour or so.

I think I have all of beethoven. All of it. I can play the 9th (the common part, anyway) on piano. Harmonica too (just did it, as I was playing around with the harmonica just now).

Here's a great piece of classical music in a movie I liked very much. Don't bother renting it, no one I've ever met liked it. The artistry and music in the movie was excellent I thought. Very interesting opening sequence. The movie is about a planet that crashes into earth and ends life here. Very uplifting!

 

[Dan]

I think I have all of beethoven. All of it. I can play the 9th (the common part, anyway) on piano. Harmonica too (just did it, as I was playing around with the harmonica just now).

Here's a great piece of classical music in a movie I liked very much. Don't bother renting it, no one I've ever met liked it. The artistry and music in the movie was excellent I thought. Very interesting opening sequence. The movie is about a planet that crashes into earth and ends life here. Very uplifting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty80gJfKDlE

Whew! Music can certainly set the stage!

I took a music appreciation class once. Think I got an "A' in it. Set me off music for a few years. I had always enjoyed what I called classical music. After the class I found out my discription was incorrect, i didn't understand the layout or whatever it's called.. Three years later I started enjoying it again.

 

[passedpawn]

My favorite classical concerto. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto 2.

There are 3 movements to this concerto, with the second being my favorite. Eric Carmen wrote the popular All By Myself in the 70's, based on the theme from this concerto. If you listen to the concerto all the way through (9:00 and beyond), and you're familiar with the Carmen song, you'll definitely hear the similarity.

 

[Dan]

Ok, give me a few minutes. Was just on the phone with my wife.

 

[Dan]

Thanks Pappy. I started at 9:00. Definitely understand what you are talking about. Going to start from the beginning now. I'll still have HBT open.

 

[Dan]

Just started. The one I'm seeing looks like a train coming into Home Brew Town in the winter.

 

[Dan]

You tube must have changed songs and I missed it. Didn't sound much like the first one.

 

[HefeHood]

Maybe this?

LBR, exactly just like that. Used to keep the carboy wrapped in a wet towel in an attempt to control ferment temps. Decided I needed something better. Hope this helps me make better beer.

Never could get into classical music. Give me a good band,wish I had seen Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd, and Id be happy. Seen Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, great shows all of them.

Hope all have a great evening.

 

[Dan]

Sounds like a good brew day in Hefe Hood castle!

How bout some of this, not live but a cool song.

 

[Melana]

Pappy, or anybody - ever gone to a symphony concert? I haven't. I'm not ashamed to admit I wouldn't mind getting dressed up in a Tux (it would be rented) and my wife dressed up in a beautiful evening gown. A carriage ride to a sypmhony concer hall. What symphony? Not really sure, probably Vivaldi, or Beethoven maybe. Pachelbels' Canon in D would be bliss.

I have and it's wonderful.

 

[mhurst111]

My favorite classical concerto. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto 2.

There are 3 movements to this concerto, with the second being my favorite. Eric Carmen wrote the popular All By Myself in the 70's, based on the theme from this concerto. If you listen to the concerto all the way through (9:00 and beyond), and you're familiar with the Carmen song, you'll definitely hear the similarity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21z-K5ChWbE

PP and Dan, thanks for sharing some classical music. I enjoy it in small doses and know next to nothing about it.

My limited exposure to it growing up is all cartoon related - Fantasia, Peter and the Wolf, bugs bunny 'kill the rabbit'...I still have no idea of composers and think 'which cartoon did this music go to?' when I hear familiar classical music.

 

[Leadgolem]

PP and Dan, thanks for sharing some classical music. I enjoy it in small doses and know next to nothing about it.

My limited exposure to it growing up is all cartoon related - Fantasia, Peter and the Wolf, bugs bunny 'kill the rabbit'...I still have no idea of composers and think 'which cartoon did this music go to?' when I hear familiar classical music.

I received the rest of the parts last Wednesday night.


5.25" drive bay drawer. I tend to lose the small parts that go to my computer, thumb drives, bluetooth modules, etc... This way they are all together.


A bay adapter so I can mount the 2.5" SSD in the 3.5" bay. Unfortunately, the connectors for the drives built into the case did are to thick to connect to a 2.5" drive.


Front mounted multi-card reader. It also has two USB3 connectors in it.


This box was damaged when received. Fortunately, the cooler was intact.


On the right is the heatsink that comes with the 4770k processor. On the left is the one I'm using. IMO, if you are going to build your own system your usage of it is liable to be more then what the stock heatsink was designed to handle.


I removed a 1.5TB magnetic HDD from my old system and installed it in the new one. I had stopped using it as it's reporting a fair amount of errors and could fail at any time. That isn't really an issue with the new system as it is being used for redundant data storage only. Nothing operational is on it, and everything has copies on my network drive.

I took the wireless card out of my old system and am using it in the lone pci expansion slot available in the new one. It's an ABGN card, so not awesome. Not bad for my network though.

I also removed a 120mm fan from the old system and am using it in the new one. It was a relatively new addition to that system, and I didn't like the LED's that were in the old one. In addition, the old fan was the only thing in the whole system still using a 4 pin power connector. I needed to remove the connector for the 4 pin rail and replace it with the optional SATA power connector that came with the power supply. I wasn't going to be able to reach the 1.5TB drive I salvaged from the old system with the last SATA connector available on the other rail. I will also need to be able to attach the optional SATA power connector on the motherboard once I get an actual video card for the system. A fringe benefit is that I'm using a thermally controlled power connector on the main board for the front mounted fan now.

A nice feature of the new system is that I have a plug on the motherboard for USB 3 ports that remain hot when the system is turned off. So I have two front mounted USB 3 ports that I can use to charge things with the computer turned off.


After setting the system up the first time I was removing applications installed by default from the Fedora KDE spin I had installed and accidentally removed something I needed to get the session to load. That was especially annoying as no error was displayed, I simply wasn't able to log into the system after a reboot.

I'm not familiar with KDE, so it took me some time to realize what happened. I'm switching from Gnome to KDE as I'm tired of the Gnome 3 UI. I have found Gnome 3 to be very shiny, and absurdly inflexible.

I ended up just reinstalling the system. I didn't really lose anything thing though, as I had already backed everything up to the network drive when I was preparing for the switch to the new computer.


Another issue I had was an apparent glitch in the audio on the new system. I spent several hours trying to locate and correct whatever software issue was causing my audio to pop on a regular basis, only to discover that my headphones are damaged and that was the source of the problem. Yeah, now I feel stupid.

 

[Leadgolem]

Here are most of the parts installed. Taken before I salvaged anything from the old system. The drawer only has one set of mounting holes, so the locks I used for the optical and card reader won't work with it.

Mounting the HDD up higher allowed me to use one sata power rail to run both the optical and the HDD.


Here is the system fully assembled. I put black electrical tape over the HDD and power LED's. I really don't like unnecessary lights on my computer.