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Yep, I'm bored at work So how about some pretzels Churros suck like Bose Tasty, doughy treat Warm and soft with salt and beer Kind of like your mom

...suck. Discuss.

edited just slightly to remove some names. I received the following memo from the Office of Research Safety. Please note that hazardous materials regulations have been strengthened in recent years (particularly since 9/11) and there are SERIOUS consequences for ignoring them. Fines for transporting unlabeled hazardous materials start at $15,000 and there are provisions in the regulations for criminal penalties. Date: 4/3/2006 To: Department of Chemistry From: Office for Research Safety RE: Hazardous materials on public transportation A recent report has caused some distress in our office. A student was observed on the Purple Line with a four …

Head-Fi DIY Exodus ex?o?dus (ĕk'sə-dəs) n. a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment (July 2005) Readers of Head-Fi DIY may have noticed that some of the regular members have been quiet for the past few months, and some have disappeared altogether. A growing conflict of interest between some members and management at Head-Fi centers around the following issues: Head-Fi management is largely unaware of what goes on in the Head-Fi DIY forum Head-Fi is driven by commercial interests, site traffic, and the need for sponsor contributions, not the well being of DIY forum members some community service volunteers are labeled "Member of the Trade",…

... I just have to say youre, I mean MY Balanced Ref is a fantastic amp... too bad you can't be enjoying it right now

Sweet -- I just nonintrusively started linux on my machine (bootable from CD Knoppix 4.0.2). Huzzah.

... you may find the article The Bjork-Barney Enigma Machine [NYTimes] interesting.

Hello All! I finally got fed up with the thought police over at Head-Fi, so I posted a farewell message saying goodbye and a little on why I was leaving. Nothing defamatory, just saying that I could not tolerate the moderators arbitrary enforcement of the rules and their deleting things just because they could. I then logged off. I went back to read any responses to my farewell (as a guest), and the f----ers deleted my farewell message. Oh?well. So here I am. I?ll see how things go here. Only time will tell whether the members here can tolerate me or not. Does this mean that I can?t go to the National? \

Article in the Tuttle Times, and a transcript of the email exchange. Having worked a help line before, I can only sympathize for poor Johnny.

Root beer flavoured Bottlecaps candy ... yes, I know you can get these, but it's just not the same ...

If you want to see more of her, go here, configure a car, and click on "watch your joyride". For extra fun, make sure you select the upgrade climate control, sunroof, satellite radio, and leather seats options. And try both manual and automatic transmissions. Here is an example. Now, that said -- is she the nurse from Sin City? That scene where Hartigan is being beaten up? I think not, but still...

Any users? Thoughts? Discussion? -Mag

I dropped by the bookstore today on my way home from work and leafed through a copy of the Stereophile "Recommended Components" issue. It was depressing, and quite unbelievable. For one thing, there's an average of 10-15 components in the "Class A" list in every single category of gear. This is close to and in some cases exceeds the number of components listed in "Class B", and in all cases it exceeds the number of "Class C" components. That ain't right. Am I supposed to believe that there's more "best of the best" gear than solid decent bang for the buck stuff? That for every piece of "above average" gear there's 5 pieces of "best of the best gear"? I also noted th…

Everyone loves audio pr0n!

OMG, it's real: link with trailer.

Well? Judging by the way people talk around here, it's not surprising, but at the same time, why is there no girl-fi?

I'd like to invite her here , but I don't know where I put her number last time I called her ..

because i said so.

Yeah that's right, I'm raffling it off! If you're wondering, here's Jahn's original description: The Raffle: So here's how it will work, each ticket will cost 25 dollars, with a maximum of 5 tickets per person. Every dollar above 700 (which almost covers my total costs of the amp), will be donated to The Darfur Advocacy Fund to help stop the horrible genocide happening in Darfur. Send me a pm with your paypal address, how many tickets you are buying, and the total cost (don't bother with the Paypal fee), and when I reply, send your payment to the.monies AT gmail.com (replace the "AT" with @, duh) with your head-case name, and number of tickets purchased. …

what's up, guys -- mjg gave me an invite to this place, because i need a break from head-fi... i am ready to speak my mind and to show you guys what the real deal is. i don't really know what that means, but i wanted to say it! scott

Hey, I loggedd into the pictorial galleries and had the intention of uploading a couple of shots of an old school RS1 that I had promised a while back. Well dummy me, could not figure out how to upload them. I couldn't find any type of "upload pics" option. Did I just missed or it is not a general option to upload pics? Thanks

Since Head-Case has of late begun its own DIY cable gallery, I'd like to discuss what I think is appropriate for such a gallery. Given that the Head-Fi DIY cable gallery has been used for commercial promotion by certain members (see the Ruh Roh thread), it would be nice if we could avoid that fate here. For example, posting glamour shots of cables for the purposes of attracting offers to buy is in my opinion not right. The DIY forum exists to help people build components which they could otherwise buy and promote the hobby of doing the same. At the same time, people should be encouraged to go into business if they're interested, since doing so fosters competition and ther…

Allright guys, we have an issue. Morph has kind of been messing with our channel politics, yelling at us for banning spammers, linking whatever, and acting how we want. He's a good guy, but it's gone way too far. I don't know if you've noticed or not, but some people's auto-ops have been taken away... So we might end up having to pull a Reks and move it somewhere else. I have a pretty capable (but kind of empty) network going on, so we could easily move it there for the time being. I'd like everybody to speak up (especially null cause he's the chan owner) as to what they think, but please don't make a decision until you've heard the story from people getting messed wit…

I've seen this in some sigs, wtf is it? Is it like pretzels and the fuzz?

so what is it !?!?? pretzels live on.