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Have a great birthday!

Okay, this thread is only half serious as the topic is stupid, but I'm also curious what others think. jp11801 and I were talking last night about my recent gear purging, and I told him I was going Team Minimal. In my opinion, having one main dynamic headphone, one main electostatic headphone, and one main portable headphone with accompanying rigs qualifies me. He claims that's too many, and my choices in each category eliminate me entirely. He also suggested we open up our disagreement to the peanut gallery (I guess that's you), so here it is.

Happy Birthday Matt! O0

I need a little Head Case advice and attitude. I received a pm yesterday from the other site regarding the EC/SS I put up for sale a month ago. The buyer is new and has three posts and no feedback to his credit. The prospective buyer has offered to pick up postage and PayPal costs and wants me to ship the EC/SS to Israel. I live in Southern California and the thought of shipping something outside of North America has me a little concerned about the amp ever arriving even if insured or the buyer claiming the amp never arrived. I see substantial risk of the buyer claiming he never received the package and requesting a refund. Over the years and after reading so many hor…

I hope you have a great day!

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1497989 Pretty good, but really needs a pricing lesson from JENA Labs...

Happy Birthday

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/4051057-post1.html OK, who is it? Gotta read the profile fast before it is gone...

Does anyone with some codding skill want to try and write something to remove that annoying sidebar they put on the left hand side, using greasemonkey? http://www.greasespot.net/ I saw this but don't know where to put the code I want to get rid of http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/patterns/remove-element.html

So. 5am. And the people in the flat next door are playing music loud enough for me to host a disco of my own. I live a street of old houses, by my guess the wall is 1ft thick at the thin section, 2ft over the rest. Sandstone most likely. Anyway. 5am is beyond reasonable acceptable party noise hours. Whats the best way to kill these fuckers and get away with it? I've got sleep to be getting so I can be well rested for a day of procrastination tomo.

Sorry to miss yours yesterday hungrych. Are you really only 17? Hope you had some fun. recstar24 is 26! Happy birthday Ryan, hope you have a good one!

Whats the longest time that you chaps have run for without any shut eye? I'm up to 45 hours now, which is I think, the longest I've gone. I'm now just doing it out of some sort of strange morbid masochist curiousity, my companions are two seasons of charmed I've not yet watched and a 12 pack of Tennants lager, 7 to go. I've no class tomo. No deadlines coming (original stay up was for last recent one). Should I collapse into bed, its there. Like, 2 feet away. All snug and warm. OR Should I just keep going. In the name of science. Or whatever passes for science these days? I'm aware (from reading and such) of what symptoms I might expect (increasing chance…

So the other day, on Thomas Jefferson's birthday, some policy nerds went down to the jefferson memorial with their ipods to dance and celebrate Jefferson's birthday. Quietly. What follows is an interesting bit of irony: http://freethejefferson1.com

Not a political endorsement or argument by me in any manner, just pointing out something interesting. I've just read through an great essay by my favorite author, David Foster Wallace. He's a post-modern type who's written lots of short stories, non-fiction, and one totally over the top novel called Infinite Jest. His main skill is bogging his literature down with meaningless details only to hit you with simple but seemingly revalatory facts (probably only revalatory based on the general mediocrity of what came before.) Despite that, I still love reading anything he writes. Guess I like the pain . So in 2000, Rolling Stone contacted him to join a media tour for a ca…

Hope things are going well with the new company and all, Sir Yikes. Have a great one! Cheers!

Hey all, I am flying this afternoon and am planning on bringing my portable headphone amp in my carry on bag. I won't have any full size cans, just my IEMs with me (which might make explaining what it is even harder). Has anyone had problems getting through security with one? It does look rather odd if you don't know what it is, especially when tethered to my ipod and there is a LOD between them.

My new kitten arrived Friday night, welcome Kara to the head-case family

This topic has been moved to music. http://www.head-case.org/music/the_glow_pt_2_rerelease-t3609.0.html

So last week my vintage Mc2100 amp was shipped back from a recap, and when I hook it up the left channel doesn't play anything but some low-level hum noise. Subbing the Eico or Heathkit amps into the EXACT SAME setup works perfectly, so it must be the 2100, right? Wrong! Not 1 hour after dropping off the amp at the highly recommended local McAmp guy (that I found out about after the recap), I come to the striking realization: wait, didn't I have a bizarre channel-out problem with some interconnects and the AT-HA2002 a few years back? The center pin on the old-style HGA silver lace RCA Lok connectors was a bit too skinny, and for some reason wouldn't make internal conta…

So looks like I will be working in DC next year, and now I have to start thinking about where to live. I prefer to be in DC, where there is easy access to the metro because I won't have a car, and my work places is near the Hill. Basically I am wondering if any of the DC/MD area folks can give me some advice, like where NOT to live if I don't want to be shot and so forth. Thanks.

One of my close friend's companies was nominated for a "Green Log Award". You can go to go greenlogawards.com/nominees-2008/cabinetry/ (to vote) And check out Young's Furniture. They're a really great group of people. I've known him for ten years and him and his dad have put a lot of work into the company. He's a pretty selfless guy, and they've done countless things to give back to the community. Just as an example- one of their older employees was diagnosed with throat cancer and the founder of the company (my friend's dad) is continuing to provide for him and his family and has promised to help out financially long after this gentleman has passed on. This sort of ge…

25 and 21 are good birthdays. You had better fucking enjoy them! Cheers!

Have a good one Mike!

Hope you have a wonderful birthday!