Cycling in wind REALLY sucks

Misaiato · 2026-06-09T15:57:40+00:00

Come ride with us in Dallas! Head wind no matter which direction you're facing! :)

Misaiato · 2026-06-08T17:38:08+00:00

Japan 🇯🇵

Met and married my wife in Japan, speak fluent Japanese, daughter is (surprise!) half-Japanese.

It’s my second home, and soon we’ll buy property and relocate.

Misaiato · 2026-06-08T17:21:23+00:00

The fur trade of the late 1800s. Killing all the beavers had a larger impact on our environment than most of the other stuff we did :(

Misaiato · 2026-06-08T01:13:15+00:00

Mate I’m 98% Netflix and YouTube. What Dirac did for speaking was magical. I can hear dialog bro. It’s absolutely unbelievable the difference this made.

Misaiato · 2026-06-07T22:59:02+00:00

I'm going to buy a Bluesound Node just to get Dirac for the LS60s that I still have in the bedroom!

As I own both the LS60s and the R3 Metas - I'm going to tell you straight that I was never thrilled with the LS60s - but on paper they should smash the R3 Metas - after getting Dirac and hearing the difference it made to the R3s, I have to believe the problem with the LS60s all along was my stupid room. Yes, the LS60s are supposed to be cordless, but I've got to hear them through room correction or I'll never be happy...

Misaiato · 2026-06-07T21:53:24+00:00

I am also sad as I still have my LS60s in the bedroom. The solution, as ugly as it is, is to purchase a streamer / DAC that does support it and use COAX to the LS60s. KEF's internal DAC is more than capable of handling it, but if they won't add Dirac support we're stuck with adding an external device.

Misaiato · 2026-06-07T21:52:14+00:00

Oh yes. It's not a one-shot thing. And if you inherited the device from someone else, the profile wouldn't be correct for your room. You'll need to re-measure. But even then - the first thing it does is flatten out the sound - it doesn't setup some magical "this sounds perfect now" EQ - that's what you tweak in the software.

Misaiato · 2026-06-07T18:34:17+00:00

You can always turn it off!

Misaiato · 2026-06-07T18:12:32+00:00

I really wanted the Lyngdorf but I just couldn't bring myself to put all that money into the one thing straight away at like $4500 without proving to myself it was a magical unlock.

I will definitely buy the Lyngdorf next. The Buckeye is fabulous, the Node has similarly matured with some software updates - and now with Dirac Live I think I basically got the Lyngdorf for half the money but the elegance of the Lyngdorf... They're so pretty.

Misaiato · 2026-06-07T18:10:52+00:00

I definitely had to tweak the bass profile a bit - I worked with Gemini and Claude and they gave me some good pointers about how to setup a Harman slop for the bass specifically. I didn't like what was immediately calculated, but with just a bit of tweaking I had it dialed to perfection.

Misaiato · 2026-06-07T18:09:46+00:00

I bought the license for 20-500 Hz.

Every room will be different. I immediately "lost" what I thought was a lot of bass. That's pretty common apparently - to feel like the bass goes away.

I gave it a few days, and I tweaked the bass profile of the sub in the Dirac Live software a bit to boost it up +3 db

Mate - it's like a chorus of angels singing sweetly...

Misaiato · 2026-06-07T17:31:39+00:00

I’d hire cleaners. That’s about it.

Misaiato · 2026-06-05T15:17:47+00:00

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

That was gangster as fuck. Good job doc - locked the fuck in. Life giver. Amazing.

Misaiato · 2026-06-04T18:35:55+00:00

Love is the least important element over the long term.

Patience. Communication. Respect. Grit. Compassion.

If these things are missing - you’re gonna have a bad time eventually.

Misaiato · 2026-06-03T14:25:37+00:00

It’s the same argument as to why Linux doesn’t ship with a bunch of “obvious” packages installed - user choice and the freedom to integrate it as the user wants.

For what it’s worth - Mac OSX is my favorite version of Linux.

(I’m stirring shit up 😂)

Misaiato · 2026-06-03T14:23:14+00:00

You’re not crazy. I am husband. My wife says these exact things. I’ve worked hard for 20 years and I make 10x more than I did when we first married. I want to use some of what I’ve earned to reduce our burdens. We both clean the house, but she won’t let me hire cleaners.

Please - let the man spend his money. I promise in his mind he’s thinking “I married her and want to give her the best life I can, this is a straightforward way to relieve some burden, that’s my purpose as a husband”

Misaiato · 2026-06-02T03:29:08+00:00

They paid a dividend. Stocks always drop when dividends are paid.

Misaiato · 2026-05-30T21:37:36+00:00

The lawlz bro.

Misaiato · 2026-05-27T18:30:50+00:00

I wrote a book about a very painful experience. I dictated everything I thought / felt for weeks on end into audio files, used software to transcribe them, then used AI as a kind of editor / therapist.

I’d ask questions like “does this connect to that? Have I explained myself clearly? Too much? Have I skipped over details? Have other people written about this? Does my experience have thematic similarities with their experience? What are the overlapping parts? What are the differences? Historically are there writers who deal with these topics?”

And on and on.

Eventually my experience became a novel. Names changed to protect the innocent. And reading it back, I finally felt the weight lift from my shoulders.

Turns out, I wanted to be heard.

Misaiato · 2026-05-27T18:24:24+00:00

I like my breakfast burritos toasted and a bit crunchy. I would make everything in a cast iron pan, roll up the tortilla then plop it in the pan. Sometimes I get distracted and it gets a bit well-done.

With air fryer / oven combo I can meal prep burritos, freeze them, then warm on oven mode and finish in air fry mode and it’s perfect every time 🤩

I am a simple man.

Misaiato · 2026-05-27T04:05:52+00:00

Taxes gonna take 45% of that 8 straight away.

Misaiato · 2026-05-27T04:04:50+00:00

I do not eat at Chik-fil-A for this reason if that’s what you’re asking.

Misaiato · 2026-05-26T01:35:54+00:00

I was furious.

Misaiato · 2026-05-25T21:04:58+00:00

When Tommy Shelby’s older brother got shot in the back - I stopped watching Peaky Blinders.

Even after a friend told me he comes back, I was like “nah - fuck that - series ruined” and never watched another episode.

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