Pretty cool hack by one of my buddies. He was able to create a standing desk for $22. Learn how you can do it yourself here with some Ikea parts. Hat tip: Adam
Yearly Archives: 2013
How Avengers Should Have Ended
Pretty hilarious. I’ll be posting some more of these soon.
02 Amp/ODAC with Sennheiser 650
I recently purchased a used pair of Sennheiser 650s from E-bay. I blogged about them recently, so check it out. I originally powered them through a little mixer and it actually did really well.
I’m now powering the headphones from a designated amp/DAC from 02. It makes a nice compact desktop setup. Overall, they’re a little better than my mixer, but only by a tiny bit. They sound even better when you turn up the volume, but since I’m at work with open headphones, I have to go easy.
I would say, if you have a mixer like mine, you may not need to power it much more unless you listen to your music really loud. The 02 is a nice design, however, my only complaint is that the power input is in the front. I think this is a really poor design decision.
Other than that, it’s a nice setup. Next thing up, a headphone stand. Right now looking at a couple options. Anyone have any recommendations?
Time Lapse of Fog: Adrift
Probably one of the nicest time lapse videos I’ve seen in a while. Hat tip: Foo
Cars and Coffee
It looked like it was going to rain this past weekend, but it turn out to be nice weather in the morning for Cars and Coffee.
I saw a bunch of really nice rides, but the coolest one was the Noble M400.
I talked to the owner and he pretty much described the Noble as a “track car that’s drivable on the road”. The vehicle weighs around 2500lbs, which is really light. Just to give you an idea, a Porsche 911 typically weighs about 3000lbs or more. It’s got a significant amount of turbo boost that pushes out around 424hps. That’s quite a lot of power, and it can do 0-60 around 3.2 seconds.
The owner said that he picked his up for around $50k, and it had all the necessary updates/maintenance to keep it running strong. Anyway, it’s definitely a car I’d like to add to the stable in the future. The only thing I’d do differently is remove the front license plate. In fact, I think I’m going to remove mine from my car. Sadly, it makes this amazing super car look like a joke.
Next up, the typical Porshe owners hang out together. Pretty small turn out, but it was nice to see such a wide variety, from old to new.
The white Porsche on the left is a 911 GT3 (997 model). The red one on the right is a slant nose turbo, with a giant whale tail.
A bunch of muscle cars and hot rods made it out as well. My favorite was the Chevrolet Mako.
Old Corvette in a lovely blue.
This is my favorite angle. look at those lines!
Pretty class interior too.
A lovely GTO. One menacing looking muscle car.
Chrysler Prowler. Really sharp color.
Mercedes Benz SLS with the famous gull wings.
It’s not my favorite super car, but it does have a unique air about it. It’s definitely an “old man’s” car.
And some random photos. The tesla sedan interior.
And a big ass truck.
Final Fantasy XIV Trailer
Another Final Fantasy is coming out soon called XIV: A realm Reborn, a New Beginning. Hopefully it won’t suck the last couple. I’d like them to go back to the sprite design… like FFIII (US version). I’d like them to actually focus on a good story The trailer looks cool though. Hat tip: Jim