Stuart Herbert

* UAD Woodrow does this, but only emulates a jumpered 5e3 amp.

I’ll get one in 2026 and cover it on the #HomeToneBlog. I’ll also do an A/B comparison with the Deluxe55, and some others.

I *might* have a Lazy J 10LC by then to do an A/B comparison too.

It’s on the bucket list 🙂

Would have *loved* it if, instead of switching channels, the pedal switched between jumpered and unjumpered modes.

With bonus points for separate Normal and Bright inputs, and toggle switch to go between Inputs 1 & 2.

That would be a magical 5e3 AIAB pedal.

From the YouTube demos and the online manual, the two channels don’t seem to be interactive.

I was really hoping that this would be the first pedal to do that*

It’s kinda crazy that no AIAB pedal does the one thing that makes the 5e3 circuit special.

Looking at the just-released @thorpyfx.bsky.social The J pedal.

AFAIK, this is the only 5e3-style pedal to offer separate normal and bright channels.

Oh, and we can switch between them too.

Props for making something that gives new options to players.

#guitars #pedals #hometoneblog

A movie you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif.

Autumn colours at the #Westernbirt National Arboretum yesterday.

#Fujifilm #SOOC #JPEG #AutumnFalls #photography

The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

So we’ve got a big 6-panel comic here! Let’s dig in. The comic is titled ‘How to Tell if You Lost or Gained an Hour’ In the first drawing, we have the words “This is the Hour Hand” and below it is an anthropomorphic hour hand waving and saying ‘sup losers’ Next panel says “If the clocks go forward, it eats up that hour” and now our Hour character is chasing after an hour-sized wedge of a clock, screaming ‘Come Here!” while the hour goes, “AHH!” Next panel goes “But if clocks go back, it also eats that hour…” and now the hour hand is eating another house screaming ‘AAH HA HA’ while that hour runs away saying ‘Not again!’ Next panel points out that ‘In short, the hour hand is a real dick’ and theres a drawing of the hour hand smoking a cig, giving the finger and saying ‘Fuck You’ - Panel five continues the narration with “...and nobody knows what happened to the hour” and below this, there’s a policeman with a sniffer dog looking for a shallow grave in the woods. Our last panel begins “...But someone will try and explain it to you…” Below this we have one of those annoying people saying “So in Spring, the clocks spring…” but their words mean nothing because they’re talking to a grieving anthropomorphic clock, who’s missing that hour, shown by a missing wedge in their face and they’re saying “That will not bring my baby back!” Anyway, I’m really sorry if you were actually hoping to find out if we gained or lost an hour here.

Daylight Saving Explained:

This is a welcoming account.

YouTube video by Conhuir Metallica - And Justice For all Album (If it was FUNK)

Fellow children of the 70s might appreciate this: a funk re-imagining of Metallica's ...And Justice For All album.

"With 100% more bass" 😂

#Metallica #Funktallica #AndJusticeForAll #Saxophone

youtu.be/xtzhSJxNFQQ

Why is the W lower on the Word Icon for Mac compared to the other letters on the other apps? Is it a mistake? Have you tried to place an image in Word and have it stay in position? That's why.

Perfect reply. No notes. 😆

This photo is a square (1x1) aspect ratio. The left half of the image is taken up by an old railway passenger carriage. The lower half of the carriage is a rich green, while the top half appears to be empty window frames at first glance. There's a sign on the outside that says "third class", alongside the number "38". Most of the right half of the frame is taken up by a flexible pipe or thick cable snaking its away across to the next carriage. And then, at the very edge of the photo, there's just a hint of the next carriage. Behind, in the distance, there's a bay or river estuary, and beyond that, the hills and mountains of North Wales rise.

Railway cars waiting for their next passengers.

#photography #cymru #Wales #porthmadog #WelshMountainRailway #fujifilm #XH2 #AutumnFalls #heritage #railway

Try to download Chrome, and Microsoft Edge pops up a banner saying:

“Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft.”

You’ve just proven you can’t be trusted by snooping on my activity.

Fuck me, the Windows 11 setup experience on a new machine is just awful.

My favourite bit: you can’t create installation media unless you already have a Windows machine.

Which genius signed that off?

ANTIFA:

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get activation to work in Office for Mac?

Folks, i need a job or a contract so bad. I'm a full-stack developer, i work in several frameworks (including #laravel and #yii2), and with several CMSes (notably #craftcms and #expressionengine but i can also work in Wordpress). I've got SQL wizard skills and a deep focus on #a11y . Please hire me!

In memoriam...

A photo of a window painting of Meg and Mog. A witch on a broomstick, a cat, an owl and a moon and stars

Photos of a window painting of Meg and Mog. A witch on a broomstick, a cat, an owl and a moon

If you go down to Stromness Library today, you can see Stephanie's superbly spooktacular window painting of Meg and Mog, from the brilliant books by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pieńkowski. 🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦉🧹🌙

#LoveLibraries #Halloween

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Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

“Loving my new Klingon Bird of Prey tattoo!!!” [Image: Someone (unknown - not Dgar) pulls their shirt sleeve back to reveal the back of their shoulder. There is no tattoo.]

NickFrank40 @NickyFrank30 My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.

This is a great example of why humanizing Nazis is bad, actually.

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I, for one, don’t want a Labour UK government that is doing Reform’s work for them.

Stop being a useful idiot.

When you’re researching guitar pickups, and Google AI summary just quotes your own blog back at you 😂😭

I want to say “Not. Helpful.”, but the algorithm seems to think my blog actually is.

Probably a good moment for a periodic reminder:

Do you have experience of driving a bus or a lorry but you'd rather carry books?

Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people?

There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at:

myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...