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Welcome. May your skin be thick.

May your enemies tremble at your feet today, Deepak.

If it's another HF2 but cheaper on the second-hand market, I expect I'll be buying one at some point.

As far as I know I'm the only Manitoban posting on HC, but in case anyone is going to be in the area, we have a small Winnipeg group from the other forum who meet up semi-regularly for food and gear. The next one is Sept. 27. If you're interested, either post here or in the Winnipeg meet thread on HF, or PM me or whatever.

A cockatiel. He's a bit shook up right now, but seems to be slowly getting used to his new home.

Good luck and stay safe out there.

Have you checked any of these out? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software I see there are several collaborative calendar programs in there.

It's obviously a matter of perspective. Some of us don't want megabuck headphone amps (I fall into this category, though I grant you this may change if my wallet ever fattens), and are perfectly happy listening to music on systems that others would describe as barely adequate. For people who aspire to higher pricepoints, $500 buys a starter amp. Thanks for the review offer, Todd.

I'm halfway though For the Win by Cory Doctorow. It's an interesting look inside the world of gaming and gold farming in MMORPGs. While it's a work of fiction, and a very entertaining one at that, it's also quite educational for me, as someone who is completely outside that world. Highly recommended.

^Neat. I wonder how the graph would change if violent behaviour due to drunkenness were added as a category.

New Tom Waits album out Oct. 25.

Ya, I've noticed some current metal releases are sounding much better than they did four years ago. Even Blind Guardian's most recent one, while not the last word on dynamic range, at least does not seem to clip (amazing, considering their horrible history in this regard). That probably sums up my recent experience with most new metal albums: they don't clip anymore, but they're still compressed as hell.

Happy birthday dude.

I like. A lot. It looks badass and it suddenly made me realize that the white background feels harsh on my eyes at night. Now I'm not going to want to surf away from here - adjusting back to bright websites will hurt.

Happy birthday Tyll! Thanks for all your work advancing our hobby.

Me too, especially when it involves taking something apart.

Yeah, I looked into that, and I'd definitely do it if I had cell phone signal at my house. Since I don't, I'd have to choose between either checking email at home and authenticating via my landline, or checking email elsewhere and authenticating via my cell phone - wouldn't be able to do both. Having spent a good part of today making sure I don't have a keylogger installed on my computer, I'm going to go with beefy's suggestion and LastPass everything. As far as lessons learned go, this was an inconvenient one, but so far not disastrous, thankfully.

Having spoken to the anti-fraud centre, I guess revenge won't be mine. If I told him I sent the money he'd be able to pick it up at any western union in the UK - they don't make you specify where it will be picked up at any smaller scale than country. LastPass it is.

No idea, but revenge will be mine! The hacker sent the "please send money" email to my old hotmail account, so I changed my hotmail username and responded to him. He gave me the address of the Western Union in the UK where he'd like the money sent. I'm hoping I can line up a plainclothes law enforcement professional to rendez-vous with him there. I've got to call the Canadian anti-fraud centre tomorrow to report it, but I hope I'm not being naive in assuming that's how it can go down.

Spent the morning doing damage control when I realized that a) my gmail was hacked, b ) all my contacts were sent the standard "help I'm stranded somewhere; please wire me money!" scam email, c) my entire inbox was stolen and deleted. Shit on a bike, I'm going to start using lastpass for everything, and switch back to downloading emails to thunderbird. It's the first time ever my kids have spent the entire morning watching cartoons. I now see why the 24-h cartoon channel is sometimes useful.

This thread may be useful to you if you're uneasy about delving into diy 650 repair: http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/390615/project-frankensixfifties-tm-w-pics He used 580 cups, which may or may not be significantly different - I have no idea. Good luck though.

Congrats, Reks! Don't let planning the wedding stress you out. It doesn't have to be perfect - it just has to be a party.

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