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This Is How a Record Made of Ice Sounds - Ice records - Gizmodo Pretty cool.

Happy birthday to you. Hope your day was good.

Happy birthday. Hope it's a nice one!

Folks, just wanted to create this thread. If such thread already exists, please lock this. Anyway, today I saw a guy stating that his Cowon D2+$200 headamp+k1000 sounds much better to ayre cdp+grace m902+gs1000:palm::palm::palm: I wont mention where I found it just to keep it civil. And if possible, just post the statement and no discussion. So, lets roll........

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Do you know how much paper it takes to gift-wrap a turntable? Yeesh.

Happy Birthday Mark! Hope you have a great day!

With Abi here, there really isn't much we wanted.... except this: It started out as an April Fool's Day joke on ThinkGeek. So many people wanted it to be real that they went ahead with the project. It arrived today. A bit pricey for a novelty, but Abi will be the coolest and geekiest kid at the slumber party in her Tauntaun sleeping bag. And no, they don't smell bad on the inside

Happy Birthday, Gene! Have a great day.

Have a good one, or several!

So I really like the look of slow motion (and am thinking that with Bobby, it's going to be necessary). What's the best bang-for-the-buck camera that I want? Most of the ones that do 60fps seem to be just less than what I want to do, and 120fps seems to be enough, although I could probably be convinced one way or the other -- my research kind of sucks in this realm. Any additional thoughts would be welcome. Is it just fps that I'm worried about, or are there other parameters? I have to admit to beeing full newb on this.

It's hard for me to pick but I think this one takes the cake.

i am in the process of filing for us citizenship. am stuck on 4 questions. have called the us and indian consulate and the immigration office but only get an automated machine. i have an appointment with someone from the immigration dept but its scheduled for dec 17th. the problem is they are changing all the forms on dec 1st this year and i dont want to have to fill out all the forms again. i received a ticket for going the wrong way in my university's parking lot about 2 months ago. wasnt arrested or anything. i went the wrong way. the police pulled me over. i was given a ticket. the cop drove away. then i drove away. nothing more happened. attached is a form i …

this was on the news today BBC News - CD player production ends at Linn

I came across this on another forum, and some of the results were hilarious The game is simple: Unspecified figure A is stuck on Cliff 1, but needs to get to Cliff 2. He needs your help in drawing a means of crossing over the chasm so that he may move from Cliff 1 to Cliff 2. How will he get there? It's up to you and your imagination.

Happy Birthday John!

Happy birthday, Billy. Enjoy!

Does anybody use Earthlinks DSL-based local phone service?Impressions? QOS? Is it great? Does it suck? It just came available in my neighborhood. I would so enjoy saying goodbye to ATT. I currently use Earthlink for DSL. It's fine. Nothing extreme to report good or bad.

Saturday was one of those days. Listened to music on different systems from 10:00 til 7:00. Started out at the Zu Audio demo here ATL. Got to Here the new essence, definition and a prototype they are putting out shortly. The Defenition was a very good speaker, (they all were really) Listened to them with Pass XA30.5 and pass new preamp. Also with a 2.5 watt tube monos, and the Peachtree Nove. (also used as DAC w/laptop). Other source was an Esoteric, I think he said XA-10?? I prefered the Nova as source. Two things that really impressed were the package deals Zu is offering. They are offereng The Essence, Peachtree Nova, and all cables (he said around $1K worth of ther…

On my way back from Alabama I made a little detour in Kentucky to stop at the Buffalo Trace distillery. They are the makers of some local favorites such as Sazerac, George T. Stagg, and the Van Winkle line. Figured I would share some pictures from my tour. Entrance to the distillary Water tower Entrance to gift shop Grain storage silos Mash cooker Cooked mash cooling in cooker Fermenter Small batch still Distiller testing station. The beer is distilled twice through two different stills. The stream from each still can be seen inside the barrels. Tasty 140 proof moonshine. First still is about 40ft tall. …

Yep!!! I sent an item to Scottland using Canada Post. The last info on their incredible precise tracking service said that the package left the country (Montreal by air) on the 23 october. Seems that the plane has not touch the ground since... I was wondering since a lot of you guys are so good with numbers and related science stuff....what is, by now, your evaluation of the package location in our solar system.... Amicalement

Happy birthday! I hope today was a good one for you.

1 Million XBox users banned. Snow Leopard update bricks Hackintosh netbooks (I almost did the hackintosh on my Dell Mini 9, went w/ W7 instead). Apple going after Jailbroken iPhones. & Worm targets Jailbreak iPhones. In other news Demonoid still down........ sigh.

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For some reason I've been asking myself this question over the past couple of weeks and have enjoyed thinking about it. I'll preface this by acknowledging that it's an impossible question to answer and I don't expect anything resembling a conclusion to be made. I only intend to spark debate--hopefully. I whittled down my list to Chekhov, Beckett, Borges, Cervantes and Kafka. I finally settled on Chekhov for his ability to shape his stories on simply how we think in contrast to how we behave and ultimately how we feel about it. He distilled the human condition into it's most basic and most recognizable state seemingly without artifice. I haven't learned more about peop…