Looking good!

I’ll be happy to share learnings in building this where helpful.

I’ve had my setup under a roof like this for ages. In practice there is always enough air movement to carry smoke away.

After having lost plenty to the coals previously, I’d suggest three key things to keep in mind:

1. Have min 20% fat in the meat you use.
2. Strain any fresh ingredients (e.g. pepper) you use really well. Water is your enemy.
3. You need flat skewers and you need to pay attention to how you work the meat in: even, no gaps, and not too thick.

It was one of the pro golfers who once said that golf is a game of luck. The more I practice the luckier I get. So there is that.

Good luck!

I know. Mu feeble excuse is that we had so much other stuff going that I simply forgot them.

I was roughly following this recipe https://rookiewithacookie.com/turkish-adana-kebab/

One of the best ones I ever got was an ‘engineer’ who described driving around in his van ‘fixing things’ applying for a machine learning engineer position.

There is quite a bit more than just the cooling system in the picture. Coax cables take control signals from room temperature to the quantum processor and readout signals back. The signal paths include attenuation, filtering and amplification in various stages. The processor itself is in a magnetic shield, which is the grey cylinder at the bottom.

ZZ Top on holiday

This happens easily for big successful organisations. Over decades a strong culture aligned with how they succeed forms. Once the market changes requiring a culture change, a seemingly invincible company suddenly stumbles. They simply can’t respond even if they what they should change.

Ex. Rolls Royce CEO stated this phenomenon well: culture eats strategy for breakfast.

I made couple of bass tramps tuned to the room’s main resonant frequencies, which I measured. I followed instructions from the book.

I added sound absorber panels to the walls and ceiling to kill immediate reflections from the main speakers plus a sprinkling of additional panels to kill reflections and also act as decoration. I also needed to move one radiator because it was in the worst possible location for my setup.

The room got thick curtains to improve absorption, and they also darken the room as it is dual use music listening and home cinema room. A few defraction elements went into the ceiling for a good measure. The ceiling is made of custom panels that I made myself from wood and fabric to allow sound energy through to the various acoustic elements behind them.

I also spent a fair amount of time with subwoofer placement, but in the end it became a bit of a compromise between sound and placement of furniture. Nothing a bit of signal processing can’t deal with, mind.

Master Handbook of Acoustics is your friend if you want to learn what to do to your room. Overkill for most, admittedly, but it contains everything you need to know.

One thing I would add to the great advice already given is keep your kit clean. You do not want grease accumulating and catching fire.

Spice rub on and into the fridge overnight in a vacuum bag. Then in sous vide 74C for 12 hours before going on the BBQ.

It is potato salad

The story of Nokia the company is long and meandering. Its roots go back to late 1860’s in the town of Nokia in Southern Finland, near the city of Tampere, from where they’ve gone through all sorts of businesses, including rubber boots and industrial capacitors to name just two. You might even find an old Nokia TV knocking about. The mobile handsets phase was in some sense but a blip in the story, although a spectacular one. I’m sure they’ll keep going in one way or another for a fair while still.

One of those rather useful and obviously silly products.

Is that a Meater sticking up?

Neighbouring town has a street called Pig Lane. Where the police station is. Perfection.

Road crew!