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Last week I rode a 50 mile loop around San Diego on my old 37 pound Trek Hybrid. That convinced me to get something a bit more agile. Took it for a 20 mile shakedown ride. The Fuji is relatively light, fast and comfortable too! Can't wait to log another 50 today and tomorrow, gotta lose some more poundage.

Oh my goodness! They are so beautiful! I can now see why people like tubes! My wife is in Finland with my camera. iPhone pics.

That's good about the RAM. Pain in the ass to diagnose that one sometimes. As far as the OC, temperature is not a good indicator of whether it is solid or unstable. The temp is more of a function of TIM application/effectiveness and/or voltage applied. You could easily have a cool CPU and an unstable OC just by bumping the clock speed and not the voltage if the CPU is not up for it. In all honesty, unless you are doing rendering on a time crunch, I bet you would not even notice if you took your OC and went to stock clocks, since gaming is mostly GPU bound anyway. I have a 6 core 1366 Xeon from an ebay server pull running a measily stock 2.13 GHZ, and it chews through all A/V and photo rendering quickly. Most people OC just cause, but CPUs are so fast right now that most software really does not take advantage of it. It's the SSD that has really caused the speed increase of computers for the average person. I have no idea what you do on your computer, but there are my two cents anyway.

off the vinyl me please site - made me ask for an invite. http://vinylmeplease.com/record-of-the-month/jaguerra/

I really think it's going to be OK. When they first introduced Lightning, Apple was careful to describe it as a multi-protocol digital interface. I take that to mean that on the phone end, the interface chip can be software-driven to emulate things other than USB (and that what people call a "DRM chip" in Lightning cables is more importantly a handshake chip, that tells the phone "I'm a USB cable, so use that emulation mode"). So, if the interface doesn't have to act USB-like, and if Apple still wants to bundle cheap-to-build iBuds with phones and iPods (and sell other earwear too with the best possible margins), what are they going to do? I figure they will supply at least one audio mode that is very cheap to build for. It seems to me that would be PWM, plus the chip for handshake and the control signals (play/pause, volume up/down). It seems to me that in that case a minimal adaptor could be small and cheap, either sold as an Apple accessory or provided by headphone manufacturers in the "designed for iPhone!" editions of their products. And none of this precludes higher-fidelity DACs and pro-level digital audio protocols for them. I think Apple gets a certain amount of mileage from showing people using iPads for mixdowns and performance and DJ-ing and the like, so I think they will make sure there are pro-level Lightning audio protocols as well as an audio protocol optimized for inexpensive iBuds and the like. Just my speculation.