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This will sound damn cheesy, but I love this country. Those of you who know my story of why/how I came to the States will understand my sentiments a bit better. My life would have been much different had I not come here. Happy 4th, everyone!

y2s all round! Happy Birthday!

What happened to Kirosia, someone at HF banned him.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREG, HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!!!

Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything kitty-related. There are several of us here who love cats, and those that don't can just ignore this whole thread. I just told my sister to send me another cat.

Happy birthday, crappyjones! Hope your head is healing fine, and that you have some fun today. See you at Mike's in a couple weeks.

Hello, I just realized I am lending my Aero DAC to Mike.. ... and he has a gun. Help please. Edit: I will also accept any cans of maze.

Birthday's seem to run in batches around here, but this one is yours! Happy birthday to you. Have a great day.

I got this back in 2007 and have it set up as a 3-caliber kit -- with .22LR barrel/slide threaded for suppressor (not in photo), 9mm threaded for suppressor, and 40 caliber (no .40 suppressor yet). With 2 mags for each caliber, an LED light and Crimson Trace laser grips, and night sights. My 9mm suppressor is the AAC EVO-9, and for the .22 I have the Gemtec Outback II and an LCW Predator. When I took the photo I had both .22 suppressors in another case with my Walther P22 and Beretta .22 Bobcat, but I had a baggie of .22 ammo in the slot for the .22 suppressor. I do plan to pick up an M&P one of these days, and will have to look for a threaded barrel a…

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Happy birthday!!!

Happy 26th birthday! Keep the innovative products coming. I'm definitely in for a Pico Slim.

Okay Kansas seems to have a pretty diverse collection of bugs. I almost feeling like I am living in the south with the high temps and humidity. Well today I saw this bug while pumping gas and I don't think I will ever be able to sleep the same. It would have been okay if it was an average size bug but this monster was about five inches long. No idea what it is but I hope I never see one again. Sleep tight.

Just seen THIS. Very sad.

Have a good one Julian. Are you still thinking about making it up north for the August 8 meet? If so, I'll buy you a beer. Cheers!

I love them for what they are, my commuter iem. =T The other day after a brisk jog, the left side now has intermittent sound. I don't know where the problem originates from, so I was hoping someone here might be able to take a look at them. Well, either that or if someone is selling a pair, I'd love to take them off your hands. I called Altec Lansing last night and they told me the im716's have been discontinued for 3 years already and that since I was out of warranty for 1 month, they couldn't help me. =[ Any help would be appreciated.

Heads up to anyone interested, Best Buy has Sienfeld Complete Series for 99.95 today only. I lucked out and got the last one at my local store, but the deal is good online also.

By Eliot Van Buskirk Published on June 17, 2009 at 8:30am Carting a crate of used CDs to your local record store so you can make rent is a rite of passage as ancient as it can be tearful. But what about those MP3s and iTunes songs you're ready to unload? Is there a way to sell those off, too, when you get tired of them or just need some extra scratch? A new crop of consumer-facing music stores is focused on helping fans resell "used" digital music the way they do CDs. But the big conundrum with digital music is that there's no way to prove sellers legally own the songs on their computers. There's also nothing to stop them from keeping the songs they're hawking. Unl…

I need to build a new set of steps from the attached garage to the house. I always like the ones a friend of mine has, and went out and bought the materials for them. These are what I would call box steps, but I haven't had any luck on finding plans for something like this online. I was planning on doing these with 2x8 framing on 12" centers and 3/4" plywood. Bottom section would be 5' x 31" and top 36" x 18".I attached a pic of the ones at my friend's house. I'm not sure how the overhang is done on these. Is it just the plywood, or something else? Any suggestions welcome.

Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday, dear David Happy birthday to you (please imagine pleasant singing voice)

So I picked up a Pre last Friday and I've been using it pretty heavily since then. The screen is very nice, on par with the iPhone's I'd say (the iphones being a glass touchscreen does get the edge in scratch resistance). The interface is really intuitive and done very well. The little "gesture" area below the screen fits in with the overall interface quite well and it works flawlessly. It's also hard to overstate how nice it is to finally have true multi-tasking on a smartphone. I often find myself having the Pandora app streaming in the background while texting or sending e-mails. Of course there is also the keyboard to talk about, I'm one of those people that r…

They are more in the link below. They look pretty cool. Silhouettes made from Vinyl Records | Toxel.com

Bob Bogle, guitarist of the Ventures, has passed away. CNN story here. Damn.

Gizmodo - Beautiful Women and Headphones: Oil Paintings by Jonathan Viner (NSFW) - Jonathan viner NOTE! link may be NSFW!

This is something I've been reflecting on of late, although not in a terribly somber way as the title of this thread may suggest. I guess living overseas (especially in a small place like Cayman) and being an audiophile don't really go hand in hand. The youngish ex-pats are on the beach, scuba diving, and hitting the bars. They don't have houses, they're not "settled" and don't ever expect to make Cayman their home, and they're definitely not thinking about going off-Island to some geeky headphone meet! On the other hand, the more "settled" population in Grand Cayman is, well... settled. Settled in their ways, settled with their work lives, settled with their c…