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Silver's eye seems to be completely healed (she has one day left of drops, and I will dutifully apply), but she has learned that she gets attention, so she has been blinking at me. Sometimes with the wrong eye. She is a very smart cat. She emulates Dunhill's "Come give me treats goddammnit" sound, because she noticed that it was somewhat successful. I figured it out when I told "Dunhill" to shut up, only to find that he had been sleeping behind me on the sofa the whole time. This makes sense only if you've seen my sofa. From the divot, you can see where I like to sit. The cats like to get behind me. The majority of the sofa belongs to the cats. Italian!

I think they are. Fabulous knows no time.

HEDD-ADAM ATM we are beyond thrilled to announce HEDDphone® - the first full-range headphone design based on HEDD / ADAM founder and speaker veteran Klaus Heinz’ world-known Air Motion Transformer driver!! The Air Motion Transformer (AMT) is an electrodynamic transducer that allows to move air significantly faster than common voice coil, magnetostatic (planar) or electrostatic systems. Their traditional piston-like movement is overcome by a folded diaphragm that squeezes out air four times faster: A breakthrough for capturing more details in any audio recording. In order to reproduce the complete audible frequency band (and beyond), HEDDphone® introduces VVT® technology (pat. pending), a new variable diaphragm geometry that replaces the fixed geometric structure of conventional AMT tweeters. Aiming at both, the audiophile and professional markets, the HEDDphone® brings the enormous dynamic capabilities and the superior sonic resolution of the AMT principle to the world of top-end headphones. It excels where it really matters: in accurate, untamed, and touching music reproduction. We will show the first handmade units at this week's MUNICH HIGH END SHOW, May 9–12. Meet us in Hall 4 / P03, take listen, and help us spread the word on this unique new Made in Germany headphone design. HEDDphone ONE will be available in Q3 2019. The price will be well below 2000€.

I hope this year is as good for you as last year was!

MSI recently branched into general consumer laptops I believe. I think it's hard to go wrong with Lenovo these days. They make rather durable machines and have had excellent support every time I've dealt with them. This is of course purely anecdotal, but I handle my fair share of Lenovo machines through work (mostly x2X0 series laptops). The only Yogas I've dealt with is the L380 which appears to be an excellent machine.

Friday date garb.

Now I want a pink laptop.

This series from the NYT is so good. The song is a banger too. Going through each episode is such a neat look at how pop music gets made.

RIP....as a kid I used to love Wild Kingdom....never really lost my fascination with animals.....

Thank you very much guys, I think it's going to be a pink Dell Inspiron 15 7000. It's "good enough", fits the budget and leaves a bit of room to get extended care and insurance, maybe a pink matching bag

I don't normally like blues-based rock, but these guys bring it. The whole album is good. https://birdstoneband.bandcamp.com/album/seer

Out of your 3 initial candidates, the Dell seems like the nicest to me. However, if she won't be playing games or editing video, I think the discreet graphics card is just going to add unnecessary weight and cost to the laptop. The i7s are also not worth the additional cost in my opinion. A quad-core i5 (i5-8???U) should be good enough. Other features I'd want in a laptop: SSD at least 8GB of memory FHD (1080p) screen (IPS and touch are also nice to have) good port selection (both USB-A ports and USB-C) good build quality Lenovo Yogas usually get decent reviews, so I'd consider those as well. I have a Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1, which uses a Yoga-style hinge, and it's sometimes useful for watching video, etc.

It's not pink, but you can get a 15" Thinkpad (T580) in your budget. If lightweight is your criteria, I might go with a 14" as there are many more options. The T480s and X1 Carbon are the two nice ones, but both probably push the budget. I would't wish an Ideapad on my enemy.

I went on a date with somebody who is much, much too good for me (a long list, that one). Date two is scheduled for Friday.

I really want the Tank MC that Mr. Malek wore at the Met. I think he won. My mother's day gift to my mother was an autographed edition of Jack Forster's Cartier Time Art. She has been a Cartier owner since long before I was born, and now has at least 4 (I think it might be 6). She loved the book. I will get to see it this weekend.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Shelly! Hope you're having a great one.

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday, Shelly!

Happy Birthday!

Very Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! So what birthday audio gear have you purchased?

Happy Birthday Shelly. I am sure it will be great, hopefully the weather is not too bad around there today.

Happy Birthday Shelly!

Happy Birthday, Shelly

All of this and a Happy Birthday from me as well.. Cheers and enjoy the day and year

Happy birthday Shell!

HBD SHELLY

Happy birthday Shelly!

Happy Birthday Shelly!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Professor Harvey!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Shelly!!! I wish you have a great day and a fantabulous year ahead.

Eagles

RIP Fred Hemke, classical saxophonist and former professor at Northwestern. I found out this past weekend he died on 4/17/19 at the age of 83. https://www.music.northwestern.edu/news/2019/frederick-hemke-1935-2019 This guy studied with Marcel Mule, who basically started the French school of classical saxophone. My teacher's teacher studied with Mule, and this guy was someone she looked up to for years (until he was a dick to her over the Dahl Concerto). Still, an incredibly important person in the community, and one that saddened me when I found out while I was, fittingly, in the middle of 1200+ musicians at a band festival in Canada with my daughter.