Duggeh
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Hippitty Burpdai Brent!
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Bought a pair of Grado RS-1 from Douglas and he was the model seller. I had them in hand before I even realized it was the next day.
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Frikkin awesome thread.
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Reminded of:
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So much relate ¬ _¬
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I use an Anglepoise type 75. I have 2, one for the desk one for the bedside table. Love them. Big things compared to a bankers lamp though.
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Hippitty Burpdai Ari!
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Hippitty Burpdai Shelly!
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Congratulations to your daughter Larry. That's great news.
Tonight I hosted my local pub quiz for the first time in years and I was a magnificent troll on the music round, "forgetting" that the songs are supposed to have all been chart hits.
This was the picture round. Anyone who can get full marks lives inside my DVD collection.
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Hippitty Burpdai Kevin!
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This is the best new meme in ages.
http://www.quickmeme.com/Inappropriate-Timing-Bill-Clinton/?upcoming
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This is an old one (for me), but you guys may not have seen it.
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If less is better I want a Stax amp with minus 1000 gains. It'll be awesome with my Metallica CDs.
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The LUCAS/DSP Pro doesn't count either then?
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That UNATCO on floppy is the best thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
And yes I'm a Deus Ex fanboi (not the sequels) and listen to the OST all the time.
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We've been through the gumut of hoovers. Nothing comes close to how good a SEBO is IMO.
Fuck Dysons. Unless you need a hand drier.
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My pre-registration forays onto head-fi convinced me I needed a Beyer DT880.
I bought a Koss ESP-9 and many many headphones later still haven't heard the Beyer.
Sennheiser have to have shifted a lot of HD600s though. Sales must be well down in the age of Beats to discontinue them.
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Hippitty Burpdai Doug!
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Thanks so much guys and gals!
It's unseasonally warm and sunny so that had me smile. Had a little lie in, then a day of tidying, cleaning, and bottling several hundred bottles of some prototype IPA. Finished just after midnight.
Birthday drinks at my local tomo evening! Got a couple of beers I've been saving too... wish I could share them with you all.
Now a little music before bed. I think Oldfield would be apt indeed.
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That one looks like Donald Duck and his 3 nephews Dewey, Huey and Looey to me.
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I could figure them all out except for the last tone.
Simpsons, TMNT
South Park, *no idea*
Asterix, Bert & Ernie
DOLAN!, *no idea*
Maybe 4th one is smurfs?
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So...
I subscribe to several BBC podcasts, most are from the output of BBC Radio 4 such as Thinking Allowed, Material World and In Our Time. I downsized the number to which I subscribed at the start of the year after I realised that I had no hope whatsoever of managing to get through an unheard backlog of over 4000 podcasts with an average running time of between 30 and 45 minutes. Some of them I'd never even listened to once and it was just the hoarder archivist in me which kept them. I now have a couple hundred unheard, but the number is decreasing steadily.
Fast forward to yesterday when I decided to expand my subscription list with something new and, it would seem at random, chose a Radio 3 podcast called Late Junction Sessions. I'd never even heard of the programme and rarely listen to Radio 3 because the bulk of it's output is elitist, obscure and usually utterly utterly dull classical and opera. It also has some jazz programming but I get my dose of Jazz from BBC Radio Scotland.
Anyhoo, I started this thing playing just through the wee speakers in my computer monitor (horror) while I was pottering about and I was not immediately but pretty quickly interested. The music initially put me in mind of Woob, although do not take too much from that comparison. If you want me to specifically nail it down, it's a gently progressive series progressions of ambient slash slight calm post-rockish electronic and acoustic musics. I really love this sort of thing. The podcast is a truncated version of the FM broadcast for licensing reasons but what is on here is an album I would buy. I may do a real time recording of the iPlayer stream to get the full 90 minute programme. The session is with two people I'd never heard of and still haven't looked into called Rory Simmons and Fyfe Dangerfield.
I ran the podcast through Audacity and chopped it into how I'd have it on a CD. I split the music into 6 tracks and cut the two mid-programme interviews out and put them on the end. Some track names are mentioned in the interviews but I didn't use them for tags. The original MP3 quality was 128kbps and thanks to the BBC employing good people (at Radio 3 and 4 anyway) was not compressed to hell. Here's what it looked like in Audacity:
I really really enjoyed what I heard here (I've now listened a couple of times and am listening again right now) and as the podcast is only available if you live in the UK I've uploaded my cut of the podcast in ALAC for anyone who might be interested in hearing it. It's in lossless despite coming from an MP3 because I didn't want to run it through an MP3 encode a second time. It's only about 150 megabytes though.
Hopefully someone will like it. If not, meh.
Happy 25th birthday jinp6301!
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Hippitty Burpdai Jin!