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Picking up the S4 tomorrow. Looks like shitty weather all week of course. Anybody here have a recommendation for a great car cover to use while I travel and leave the car out?

Mmmm, guac I counter with tonkatsu

Pixies -- Doolittle

So let me get this straight, roomie is balking at paying rent as she walks on the deal and has the balls to drink your booze without asking?

Hear hear! No, seriously, it doesn't really bother me that much, as long as I'm outside myself, I can laugh. Even when I get bad advice, I laugh, because I know it's bad advice (for example, when the salesperson starts telling me something that's wrong). The only time I stop laughing is when I stop getting good advice. But I persist, and I try to show that I am capable of admitting my mistakes, learning, and continue to seek truth/good information/&c. Me: Brought my teal Carvin w/floyd rose ish (licensed) trem to a guitar-playing friend of mine. "I hate floyd roses. You know how many guitars I have with a Floyd Rose? Well, one, but I never play it..." Lollers. I'll probably have to figure it out mostly on my own, but he got me started and more importantly, he showed me at least one thing I was doing wrong that could have screwed up the guitar permanently. I'm glad I stopped when I realized I didn't know what I was doing. He also gave me a nice little mini-lecture on woods and tone. Then spent the rest of the day with my sister -- we went to lunch, she gave me a haircut, we went to.a movie, interspersed with much talking. I haven't seen her in several months, so that was great.

Mini-marathon of season two of Inside Amy Schumer.

Back to rewatching the IT Crowd. Just watched Calendar Geeks. That was a good one.

Decided that this week needed to start out on the right note. Coconut Chocolate Chip Scones

Not quite cooking but just made, then devoured some homemade guac. A little too much onion, but still quite good.

That ought to be fun Jeff! Sorry that the shit weather means your first drives will be wet and may hold you back. My daughter arrived in DC to pouring rain and no umbrella. Hopefully she can get one today so she won't be doused when she goes to the sustainability conference at the White House tomorrow.

I probably have a spare nut. I can check tonight.

I love you guys. (((drunken group hug)))

Love the Superocean (thanks Jeff!). Nicest rubber band on a watch I have ever had. For the price of a replacement it better be.

I think it is a great thing when people become drooling buffoons when they enter a store of their passion. I'm that way about computer stores, and recently plant nurseries. My main lust is traveling, but I digress. Everyone needs to be passionate about something, otherwise why go on? Life is short: as long as the bills are paid, there is retirement constantly put away, and you have good friends and health, drool away. As for myself, master bathroom remodels are a fucking pain in the ass. Who knew having a closet for your clothes (part of the bathroom - fuck me) would be so important for sanity with five little ones running around?

Reminds me as a prop for the joke. Married man brings glass of water and 2 aspirin to wife. Wife: "What's this for, I don't have a headache...?" MM: "Well then..." (starts undoing his belt) I think it's from the 60s that joke, when the running gag was "not tonight, I have a headache".

Ordering link please.

I am a firm believer that moments like these /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ are what keep us young and alive. It is great to have something that excites a silly childish passion once in a while, something that shows we are alive. The alternative is to be a crusty old fart and they are not fun to be around.

Faith No More – Angel Dust

No headache, eh. Do you take it yourself or give it to her? Sincerely, A. Marriedguy, esq.

Blackstone Benedict with millionaires bacon and hash browns

Yeah I seem to have gotten a bump in my download too. Or maybe its just too damb early.

I used to be like this, especially in High School. But there are times where it still comes out. It just shows how much you/we like music. In high school, I used to actually dream of finding records. I was a big Syd Barret/Pink Floyd fan then, and had a dream once that I was perusing the albums at a local used store, and came across this Syd bootleg. It was a plain white cover with a small black & white photo in the middle, maybe 6" x 6" for the photo. About a week later, my friend Bob and I were there, and I come across a Syd Barrett bootleg with a black and white photo on a plain white cover! Now, the photo was pretty much the whole cover; but I had told Bob about my dream and we were both pretty amazed. I think that happened a couple times, but that was the one I remember the most. I think I had made a fool of myself when i found it, don't even remember what stupid noises I must have made.....

Well wishes Marc! Me: I went to Island Music in La Plata. Worth it just for the lass behind the counter, had that whole indie geek girl/sex bomb thing down. But anyway: I discovered something about myself: I kind of turn into a bit of a spaz in music stores. What's up with that? I mean, part of it is the whole "shopaholic" thing, but why does it transform into being a teenager again?

Best wishes and good luck, Marc. Those surgeons are lousy people, take care

Yep son, didn't read his Welcome PM. Oh well.

I get mine on Friday

ATH W5000X 1

Thanks, Monkey. Mine are super-clean; I think the (bookmatched) veneer is rosewood. Looks like new. They don't have the hoods over them or the posts for the hoods, but that's fine with me. The mid-bass drivers are not ported so no spiders in mine, I hope. (I recently bought some JBL 4311s for $25 on Craigslist and spent about $400 restoring them for my garage stereo; they had a dead mouse and a lot of mouse turds inside, and a Happy Meal toy.) I guess what I want to know is: Which version of the Series 80 do I have?Do they need new batteries or even have batteries?Do they have a matrix enclosure?What the heck does "Series 80" even mean? My surfing on Audiogon, eBay, here and elsewhere just gave me more questions than I had already. I've seen what appear to be my speakers, but with controls on the heads. I've seen them with ports and without. I've seen them with cloth tweeters and metal ones. I've seen them with single pairs of terminals and dual pairs. I've seen them referred to as Series 80s, IIs and IIIs. I've seen people say they have APOC or don't, and they have batteries or don't. My best guess is that the portless ones with controls were first (802 Series 80 v1?), then mine (portless without controls) (802 Series 80 v2?), then ported with soft domes and no controls (Matrix Series II?), then ported with metal domes and no controls (Matrix Series III?). But that's just my guess at this point. Phew. Too much caffeine I guess.

Saw this B&W answer in one of the FAQs at the support site: We usually find that customers who alter crossover components are not fully satisfied with the results. They find that some aspects are improved, but others made worse. A classic case of this is when a polypropylene or other very low-loss type substitutes an electrolytic capacitor. We all know that polypropylene capacitors can sound inherently better, but the change in internal losses changes the response of the filter, which is designed assuming the losses of the electrolytic component. What usually happens when the low loss component is fitted is that the corners of the roll-off are sharpened, giving a peak in the combined response that can make the sound unpleasant in various ways depending on the crossover frequency. One way of getting round this is to wire a small resistor in series with the capacitor to approximate the original losses. I say approximate because the loss factor is a frequency dependent resistance. The actual value you need depends on the original capacitor loss factor and its capacitance value. The larger the value, the lower the resistance for a given loss factor. The formula for the equivalent resistance is: R = d / 2