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Happiest of birthdays to you Steve! You are still my hero for resurrecting my amp. I hope you have a great day! Cheers!

Happy birthday Michael! I hope you got lots of great presents! Cheers!

Laser-Accurate microphone proves once and for all that everything is better with lasers

Happy Birthday BA Boy!! Enjoy the day!

Have a good one Albert! And don't drink too much cheap tequila! Cheers!

Love it or hate it, the music of the Noughties was inescapable, coming from adverts, video games and that newfangled gadget, the iPod. This is the Telegraph's list of the songs that defined the decade. 100 songs that defined the Noughties - Telegraph Top 10 as videos on Muzu.tv Telegraph Music Videos on MUZU TV So this is what da Kidz have been listening to. God, I feel old. Where's Hopstretch when you need him.

I got a snip from wiki about valve (tube) amplifier that made me curious: SO...what would protect my rig from a nuclear blast? A giant lead fridge? ...seemed to work for Indiana Jones. ..yes, this is paranoia, mythbuster-addict that I am I like to throw money at oddities and potential problems

Jim Thiel of Thiel speaker fame passed away today.

As a music critic and journalist, I can get pretty jaded about listening to the new CDs that cross my desk (or, increasingly, the digital downloads or streams that are grudgingly entrusted to me by record labels through top-secret back alleys of the Interwebs). But I can

I love to read and don't mind a challenge but I started reading Proust again and I think he is the most difficult author to read. His sentences are insanely long, often times taking up a long paragraph's worth of space. He also writes with an iron fist. If you're mind wanders for even a bit you'll often times be lost. This is a striking difference between his work and let's say Ulysses where your mind can drift as often as the protagonist's and be on the same page. What author or authors give you trouble?

Happy 40th birthday to you! Hope you have a wonderful day.

Jim Carroll, poet and punk, passed away Friday at the age of 60. Probably most famous for "The Basketball Diaries", I'll remember him for the "Catholic Boy" album - a sweet taste of late 70's NYC punk. "They were all my friends, and they died." NYT Obit

Prebable: Jeff (VPI Vinlyspinner) was kind enough to invite me to indulge in a taste test of a matched pair of small, round (with a hole in the middle) glazed donuts from Britts. I was happy to oblige. Actually, he just did a head nudge towards the kitchen and said, "You better hurry or they'll all be gone." In any case, I would like to publicly slobber all over Jeff (in a strictly figurative sense) for having had the opportunity to ingest a couple of the above poorly described donuts. Heading 2: (To further set the stage - because I like being on stage - in the desperate hope of making others believe that what follows will somehow be worth reading) While I …

Happy birthday man, sorry I didnt realize in time to wish you the best in person. Hope you have a great one.

The MLB is giving away these cards at the local jewel (grocery store) this is at 20x http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/bob1.jpg notice the thing in the star... this is at 250x http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/bob6.jpg printed holograms... The second hologram is .007mm in diameter

Best... System... Evah! I have 3. Still have my launch console. It also had the best typing game ever to be created (and INCREDIBLY fun), Typing of the Dead. Happy 10th anniversary, Sega Dreamcast! | Digital City Podcast - CNET Blogs The Typing of the Dead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shenmue, Soul Caliber, Jet Grind Radio, Hydro Thunder, Star Wars:Episode 1 Racer (or something like that). VMUs! Bloody great system. **BRENT**

or does this site feel dead today? **BRENT**

Happy B-Day, man. If I run into you this weekend, I'll buy you a drink! **BRENT**

Anyone ever get this message before, when logging in to Gmail? The page sits in a state of constant refresh. I had no problems accessing stuff from work earlier today

...when used in the context of speakers of headphones? I read it a number of times but am not sure if I understand it through the context in which I read it. EDIT: I just noticed my nickname, but I'm wondering how you found out?!?!

So I'm humidor shopping. Anyone know of a good online retailer? I've been browsing around at Thompson Cigar, and I really like the looks of this one.. Seems to fit the bill: spanish cedar, good size. Hard to know the quality though without holding it in my hands, but I'd like to avoid paying full retail at the local tobacconist if possible. Having said that, I'd rather pay for quality the first time rather then struggling through a bunch of crappy humidors. Where I live its hot and humid most of the year, if that makes any difference. Thanks!

Back when I was collecting soundtracks I had quite a few of his discs. It is with sorrow that we report the passing of Erich Kunzel at the age seventy-four. He was the celebrated conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for well over thirty years, but on September 1, 2009 he was struck down by

So... For all of the super comics guys/gals here I've been eagerly anticipating the DC Comics Blackest Night Event, me being a "casual" and rather new comics reader I went to my local shop and created a "box" to subscribe to the series. It's maybe 6ish issues in now (crossovers) and I wanted to see what everyone thinks so far. To be honest yesterday I said to myself, all of these issues so far are pretty weak albiet highly rated by the comics community. Pretty much every issue I've read centers around the fact that the dead are coming to life and pwning all life... Sounds exactly to me like Marvel Zombies But in all seriousness, I'm TO'd that this is ALL that…

Joanne wanted to see Vancouver, so that's what we are going do next week. Thanks to the internet (esp. Hotwire.com: Discount airfare, hotel reservations, car rentals, vacation packages and cruises) , we've arranged transport and accommodation downtown at all the above locations 5 nights Vancouver, 2 Nights Victoria, 3 Nights Seattle, in that order (with coach / ferry Vancouver to Victoria, Victoria clipper to Seattle) We plan on mostly walking / using public/mass transit, but we might rent a car for one for one day to visit whistler, depending on the weather while we are there. As ever, Chowhound Boards - Chowhound, have come up with lots of recommendations for …

Disney Buys Marvel for $4 Billion - Acquires Portfolio of 5,000 Characters Including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor Can you imagine the potential?!