TryingSomethingNew

Nerd of many hats.

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Cake day: August 11th, 2025

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  • Yup! Didn’t care for the music - but that’s because I don’t care for pop in general. But I was as entertained as any other Super Bowl, though I do wish they had included subtitles on the lyrics. There were several honestly touching bits, including him giving up the Grammy, the march where he named all the countries in the Americas, and absolutely that part at the end with the football.






  • Wicking everything. 32 cool makes wicking underwear, there’s a wicking sweatband with a silicone band to keep it out of your eyes (and something called a gutter that is JUST the silicone band that routes it down the side.

    Form fitting wicking undershirts - The more body contact, the better, since you wanted to grab every bit of moisture and wicked away from your skin. But in my case, the sweat drips from my head to the sweat band, goes from the sweat band down to the back of the sweat band, which winds up touching the back of my wicking shirt, which winds up soaking it up, and then the wicking shirt absorbs a bunch of moisture off of me, and then the underwear also soaks up a bunch of the moisture

    Now, the problem you’re going to run into is everything is going to try and drip down that clothing to your shoes, and that I don’t have an answer for - but I know the stationary bikes have a fan and I wonder how much air that moves. But maybe you tuck a towel in near the shorts level and that soaks it up, and immediately afterwards it gets washed?









  • Looks more like bad design unless there’s a ton of other cables or if some of your cords/cables are in loops. I just checked my amp/preamp, and surprisingly they’re not using grounded plugs either, and it’s fairly high-end gear.

    Only other thoughts:

    • plugging directly into the wall if you’re plugged into a surge protector, or plugging into a Surge protector if you are plugged into the wall.
    • I would also try moving the volume up and down a little bit because I’ve seen gear where that caused hum issues (god knows why).
    • try plugging in a source in case they’re somehow using the connectivity to other gear to provide the grounding (grasping at straws here).

    Unfortunately, it’s been long enough since I’ve dealt with ground hum issues that the I’ve forgotten all the tricks. :( You might need to find an audiophile group. Because even cheap-ass gear shouldn’t do that.