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Totally agree. First of all, 36 is just a horrific age to die. So much left to do and see and experience. Sad. But if he had to choose just one project to do first, I can't imagine he could have chosen a better one. Fantastic story, awesome music, and amazingly well constructed documentary. RIP. Wow.

Kaner!!!!

$1,249 now. Dammit, Ric!!! Thanks, but no thanks, but thanks, but... urgh!

That must be why I liked them, because I've always been a big fan of left-wing politics.

Happy birthday, Ari. Hope to see you out on the circuit again sometime soon. Haven't made an NY meeting in a LONG time, but should do so again.

Cool. Sometimes I step on toes without meaning to. Probably what annoyed you more than anything was the product itself. When I first read it, the idea seemed good, although not terribly novel. But I also found it annoying that they didn't provide much substance (like what kind of drivers, and maybe some specs) and instead relied on the "goody goody" recycling angle and then filled the entire webpage with the typical fluff (as others have pointed out here). I'm actually glad that others here pretty think they will be crap, because I was a bit tempted by the Grado-like simplicity of the design.

Geez... had no idea there was such a thread, or thusly that I violated protocol. Had to do an advanced search (just now) on the word Kickstarter in thread titles only to even find it. If it annoys you that much, just merge this thread into that thread. Assume that's within your moderator powers, no?

But eventually you do break down and buy some fricking ice cream! What the heck else are you going to do when you have to wait for so long?

Kind of interesting. No sense of what they will sound like, but the project is a go at this point. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plpl/rock-hard-canadian-maple-headphones?ref=thanks

Happy birthday!

You might be right, but I'd imagine he's doing quite well. It's just that he no other plans. It's like he just wants to get away from it all, which sort of suggests that he's financially comfortable and now just wants to do a little more of "nothing" for a while.

I can never understand these kinds of things from a business perspective. You're making money hand over fist. Just have other people run the place for you, for fuck's sake. It's not that hard.

Best line was "wake your ass up early, put the fucking dumplings down..." This man knows Jamaicans! http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhX0W3wT7D1vDosH3b

Glad you didn't fall asleep at the wheel. I would have felt guilty, even though I kept telling you last night to get some sleep. Then boom, another message from Brent...

For Tyll. Some of these made me chuckle a little. http://www.backcountry.com/explore/the-top-10-reasons-not-to-visit-montana-ever?cmp_id=sm_fcbkexp37

^ I mean, sure... if you're not into scotch, eh Mikey? But bacon, oh ya that works!

Me too, Al. Really hits home. You've got to make it count every frickin' day, man.

Really sorry to hear that, Mikey. My condolences to you and all of his friends and family. Will lift a glass to his honor. Sucks.

I'm not a big hockey guy, but I do enjoy watching. Just noticed that Montreal was the only Canadian team to make the playoffs. Not much representation there. 1/7th of the contingent, when 16/30 teams overall make the playoffs. Toronto and Vancouver were both essentially .500 teams and the rest of them were basement dwellers. Has this been the norm in recent years? If so, what is driving it? Small market teams (Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Ottawa) having a hard time competing financially for the top players in the league? Have player salaries escalated out of control like in baseball, basketball and football with free agency or the like? Just curious what the back story is, or if it was just a down year for the Canadian teams.

I watch a ton of sports on my laptop at: http://gofirstrow.eu/ It's a great free cite, once you get over the fact that it can be kind of fickle at times... oh, and the fact that you have to close all sorts of pop up screens. Actually, the only thing I pay for anymore is the MLB.com package, which gives unlimited live and archived access to every MLB game.

Meh... http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/23/306171641/psst-wearable-devices-could-make-big-tech-leaps-into-your-ear?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140428

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