skullguise

Ouch, ugly shit. No "lights on" alarm or auto-shut-off I'm guessing?

Not just today, but over the last couple days..... Had a chat with my mom who said a long-lost cousin was trying to get in touch with me through Facebook. Hardly get on anymore, but did, and sent a reply. The woman's name was familiar to me, and I found out she and I worked at the same company for ~4 months in the mid-90's. Her grandmother and my grandmother were sisters. So several email exchanges, a family tree on Ancestry.com, and a dropbox download of a recording made in 1977 during the Shiva visit for her grandmother. In that recording MY grandparents and the only other sibling I regularly saw (and her husband) were talking a lot about stories of the "old days" and the family. What a treat! My grandparents both died over 20 years ago, and the other aunt and uncle even before that.... Now we are working on plans to meet up with these long-lost cousins, and enjoying a romp through our family history! I love this stuff.....

^^^ Very cool, Steve! At 16, I had a Fisher all-in-one.....

Cocktail Audio X12? You add the hard drive, up to 4TB. Volume controlled pre-out (RCA's still), can do more if/when you want it to, like if you connect to a good network.....

Craig, don't try Tofu-Bacon then..... I work with a woman who is a Pescetarian (sp? Someone vegetarian plus eats fish). her coolness factor increased multi-fold when she said, "...except for bacon....I have that several times a month...."

Heh heh....looks like your work vinyl setup WILL come to fruition Nate (?)

I had that one at my college suite my senior year, would play it on an Onkyo receiver driving (forgot) speakers and a Phase Tech subwoofer. The cannons would literally cause the sub to dance a bit, but it played it pretty damn well. One of my suitemates was a transfer from Norwich University and said it reminded him of "home."

Wow, that's crazy Haj. North Andover is looking pretty good, though some side roads are pretty ugly here too. I don't think we'll get another day cancelled though.

The Z1ES won't do volume control, so unless you want to always adjust at the speaker side you'll need that. I'm using my Airmotiv 4's with a Benchmark DAC-2D (the version without analog in), it is a very nice pairing! I just go USB from laptop, or coax from disc player. Does your Dell not do USB out well? EDIT: in thinking more, do the cheaper Sony, it's $1K and still should sound pretty darn good.

A nice cheap possible option: http://uturnaudio.com/ This was a kickstarter turntable project, likely close to the cheaper Pro-Ject or Music Hall MMF series. Only downside is a 6 week wait.....

I'm in agreement with the "yeah, not really" opinion. Used to own the SA5K's as well, best I heard them driven was with a good DIY Dynahi. It DID take some of the leanness/edge off, but I still would say they weren't so close to the HD-800's.

Yup.... We'll be giving our local specialty store more business. Have to figure out Halloween though..... My wife spent a semester in England though, acquired quite the taste; and just knowing there won't be British Kit Kat's is setting her off like she has the DT's.....

This is an "after" picture of the drift on our deck, my wife took it this afternoon. Andrew and I did some shoveling today, luckily fluffy shit because there was a lot (and we have a plow service too, but he can't get certain areas).

Shit like that just annoys the hell out of me. First time I ever signed an online petition..... We don't do a lot of candy anyway, but certainly won't buy Hershey's brand anymore if we can help it. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/protest-hersheys-lawsuit?source=s.tw&r_by=12343362 And what does Hershey make: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_manufactured_by_The_Hershey_Company

Maybe a little over a foot right now, still coming down steady here too. It's all about the drifts though.....

Congrat, Chris! And CJ, that's....crappy..... Us: just got notice office is closed tomorrow, and son's school is officially cancelled. Will work from home, but will have some fun too outside of shoveling.

Welcome home, Tom!

Ah-yup.....I'm in the same weather "band" as Nate.... My son is quite happy for a snow day Tuesday...apparently it's when the Destiny servers reset something....

Crap, sorry to hear Peter. Can you use insurance to at least replace the hardware?

Didn't know a ton about him, but from all I read, this.....RIP

My favorite ever home-warming present (to my brother and sister-in-law when they bought a new condo and told us not to bring anything) was a can of spam and a can of silly string. It set a nice tone for a very fun weekend. And Stretch: that's just a bit creepy.....

Music first for me, had two older brothers that got me into lots of music. First 45 at 7 years old was the Who "Love Reign On Me" and first LP at 9 was J Geils "Live Full House" Somewhat in parallel to the growing music love, my best friend's dad had an Apple II computer that we used to play/work on in the late 70's. Press the Play button on the portable cassette player, "Loading...." 8-bit madness ensued!

Oy, Happy belated to you both!!

Happy Birthday!!

NH: Live Free Or Die And Play For Bacon. Scratch and Sniff FTW.....