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Happy Birthday Chris! Hope you enjoy your first as a homeowner in style, like fixing plumbing or something. Have a great one whatever you do. Cheers!

postjack's calls: Clinton wins, McCain wins. McCain gets Huckabee as his running mate to court the populist republican/evangelical vote. The Wall Street republicans grudgingly rally behind McCain even though they hate him, because they hate Hillary more. McCain stomps Hilary in the Fall, unless Clinton does end up getting Obama as a running mate. Then we have a competition on our hands, and I have to rework my predictions.

Recently, I became a member of the Board of Directors of the Communities of Belonging Organization. We strive to help marginalized individuals get the resources they need to persevere and re-enter society successfully. https://communitiesofbelonging.org/ As a part of April being 2nd Chance Month, we are holding a walk to raise awareness and funds to support our vision. We will be walking around Green Lake in Northern Seattle (for any locals in the area). If you would like to be a sponsor, I have setup a team on our Givebutter site. Please take a look. https://givebutter.com/XXcbAZ/michaelmaddock Please feel free to ping me with any questions and than…

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Happy birthday, Zoe! (My 8 year old daughter, who is buying headphones with her b-day $$$). Most of you don't know her, but I don't care. She digs headphones and listens to FLAC on her Sansa Clip +, sometimes with PX100s. Man, I feel old. **BRENT**

Have a marvelous day!

Happy birthday, Billy. Enjoy!

This year marks a return to form (hopefully) and therefore I'm prepping to ride the full century in support of the Kelly Brush Foundation. The effects of the tick bite appear to have waned since around Christmas so I've been training hard, mixing in quite a bit of mountain bike riding as well as other non-bike-related exercise and actually doing a little weight training. It appears to be paying off. For those that don't know, the Kelly Brush Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting individuals with spinal cord injuries in finding ways to get out and enjoy an active lifestyle. For me, this is a cause close to my heart. I love the outdoors a…

I hope you have a wonderful, great and happy birthday Ken

As scandal after scandal is revealed, and the current government passes law after law basically dismantling the great society, tax cuts where75% of the cuts go to the richest 1% of the population, tax cuts when the deficit is at unparalleled levels, Soldiers dying for no known reason, I can?t help but wonder where is the Fucking OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!! >

We suck but we love you and wish you a happy birthday! Hope you enjoyed that gin & tonic! Cheers!

We got you a cake but they screwed up the name! Dammit! I hope you have a great birthday anyway Chris! Cheers!

Happy Birthday to one of my original Headphone friends. If you are thinking of giving me anything for your birthday, I would settle for that Krell HP Amp. Thanks.

Happy Birthday Steve!

Have a great one! Cheers

Have a great day Posty!!!

This was news to me. Why not to accept "gifts" on paypal when selling items on paypal - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio Note that all it took to have the transaction flagged was the inclusion of an address in the comments section. I'm not surprised that they're cracking down on this, given that they don't collect fees on gifts.

Have a good one Luis!

When you think of Santa Claus (not me specifically, but just in general), how tall do you perceive him to be? Just curious, and just for fun.

Have an incredible dayTyler!

Hidden amongst the extended list of birthdays.... Happy Birthday! Haven't seen you around these parts recently.....

Wishing you a magical day! And Jazz says "Get your skinny homosexual trans ass back over here pronto!"

A very merry unbirthday to you! To me To who? To me Oh, you

So while lying on my bed, I hear a mention of "musicdirec.com" from a TV. I turn around and there it is - musicdirect.com/American Express ad. I think it was the first time I've ever heard the word "audiophile" mentioned in a TV ad. Anyone else catch this?

Stealing my thread title from Bob Dylan it seems I have had some recent bad luck purchasing audio stuff over the Internet. I detailed the broken Quad ESL63's I dealt with in the Quad thread. In addition I have had: - Broken new Welborne Labs power supply for my Duet. Sent back and waiting for new one. - Broken new VPI 16.5 record cleaner. I had to open it up and tighten a allen screw to get the platter to turn. - Broken new Seta Nano phono preamp where the left RCA channel cuts out (I use XLR). Vendor is sending me the new model in December because they are aware of a manufacturing defect. - Broken new BA where the volume control was bad. Sent back to Craig and he f…