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I am incredibly sad to say that the MOTDOTU passed on this Wednesday, even though I am certain it was to a better place. After fighting to stay with us for the last four months, and really the last five years, my mother died peacefully with her husband, all six children, her beloved sister and brother in law, ten grandchildren, two daughters in law, and one niece by her side. Remarkably, I had just returned from Germany, a brother had just gotten back from Hawaii, my Minnesota sister was flying in by chance that day, my globe-trotting CEO brother was a day from leaving for NYC, and my LA brother was able to fly up on short notice when our mother was taken to the ER Tuesda…

Well I'm heading to NYC (September 24-25) to hang with my favorite west coast lawyer. Any takers for a few pints at Barcade in Brooklyn

Ok so last night I was whistling along with a tune and I noticed a strange sound...like a clashing harmony. I figured I was off or something, whistled the wrong the note. Then I whistled the song again just by myself and I heard the same weird clash. So after some more whistling and so forth I determined that I was actually hearing a fixed pitch on top of what I was whistling. In short if I whistle one pitch, I hear two, the pitch I'm whistling and another fixed pitch. I can change the pitch I'm whistling and the fixed pitch remains, well fixed even when I move the whistled pitch quickly. It's pretty strong too (the fixed pitch, I can hear it very clearly.) My wife…

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/04/warner-goes-blu-ray-exclusive/ Huge news in the format war gives blu-ray about a 75-80% share of the studios.

Too much? Oh well, hope your birthday is awesome anyway! Cheers!

Have a Buggy birthday! Cheers!

I work in a residential facility of nine apartment buildings on a golf course and spend much of my day walking around annoying the patients. Many stray cats live on the golf course and come around mooching at night. They are almost all feral and impossible to tame. We know them all and the patients have names for them. Today, a cat I've never seen before starting following me around from building to building. I'd go in one for a hour or so and he'd be waiting for me outside the door of whatever apartment I'd been in and follow to the next one. I go in the office and he'd be waiting outside again and start meowing whenever I appeared. He must know a sucker when he sees one…

Looks like head-fi is back in business. I've got all my parts intact, but I went from a Headphoneus Supremus to a 100+ Member! Oh well... Doesn't look like I'm alone in that boat. In the end, this has worked out great, cause now I found another great headphone site!

Hope you've had a great day, Squire Doug, and that your evening is memorable if not remembered. Cheers!

is it that you are that vain and shallow? is it what defines who you are? or some other reason? mjb [requested edit for mjb] it was an assholefacish thing of me to do... i appologize to anyone i've offended and/or pissed off. sorry. p.s. i'd put this in the first post if i could edit... mjb

Have a great one!

So I've been thinking about getting a cat for a few months now and I've started narrowing down the breeds I'm interested in. Here's the short list so far: British Shorthair Scottish Flop Siberian Any other suggestions from fellow head-case cat owners?

I hope you have been having a wonderful birthday, Antonio! Cheers!

Happy Birthday Reksy! And Happy New Year!

Neighbor's cats pee on my balcony and furniture all the time. This time, my wife accidentally left the nice canvas and wood folding chair on the balcony and a cat snuck up and peed all over it. So, I'm thinking, leaving out hot dog bits with ExLax hidden in it... Something similar to the squirrel catapult... Any other ideas? The crueler, the better. And preferrably non-lethal and quasi-legal.

I guess there was a moment for all of us that got us interested in audio, electronics, science and so forth. To kick things off, this was got me going. In the UK during the 60's and 70's there was a series of educational books for children called the Ladybird books. It eventually ran to hundreds of topics, but were written in very clear language and with superb illustrations. It shows what an effect this had on me - I remember precisely the book - Magnets, Bulbs and Batteries. And thanks to the web, here it is www.vintage-radio.info/download.php?id=358 vintage 1962. I remember pretty much everything I built from that - and from the publication date I must have…

Very Happy Birthday Ken! Hope it's a great one!

Naaman ships out tomorrow, back to Iraq. Just want to wish him the best of luck, and a safe deployment! We're all wishing you a speedy return, and we want you home in plenty of time to be there for your new daughters birth! Keep your head down!

Anyone else think this show is just the fucking bees knees? I got into it this past fall. I downloaded the miniseries off iTunes because it was strongly recommended to me from some friends, and from there I was hooked. Watched every single episode until I caught up somewhere in the middle of season 3. I'm enjoying the new episodes (and for the record, I'm enjoying the Dresden Files which is airing before BSG on Sundays, but still not as good as the books).

So I went to Arundel Mills Mall today to meet someone who was gonna buy some hockey tickets from me. $80, which almost paid for the gas down there and dinner for my family at popeyes. I met the guy, sold the tickets, bought some crap at the mall, and then went out to my car. My wife points out that her window has been shattered, and that we're missing stuff. Turns out 5 other people in that mall parking lot ALSO had their windows smashed and stuff stolen in the 3 hrs I was at the mall. I had my xm radio, gps, and my wife's bag of knitting crap? stolen. It was caught on mall security camera video. It was a well lit parking lot. Odds of anything coming of that anyone?

Have a great one Shelly! Cheers!

Party like an animale, Dinny, and pick up some she-monkeys now that you are a bachelor for the first time in a very long time! Cheers!

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…

One of these days we'll have to have a joint Birthday party (not that kind of joint). Have an incredible day Colin! Treat yourself to a meal for a change! And maybe a new pair of zipper boots...

I need a new chair for the home office. The cheapo Office Depot one is just not giving me the back support I need (even with a lumbar support attached). It is too big. I don't want to spend more than $1000. I was looking at the Herman Miller Aeron and Steelcase Leap. I also considered the Humanscale Freedom but it is more than the other two and doesn't seem to be any better. The reason for the Aeron is because I am 5'2" and I can get the small (size A) one. Almost all other chairs are one size fits all with adjustments. I've tried the Aeron and it seems good. I cannot find a place nearby to try the Leap. Any suggestions/preferences? Anyone on the short side use…