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Michael Jordan's head-case, ca. 1983.

Dragged all the lighting equipment out of my car and back into the basement. Did the dishes. Packed my gym bag. Got the 8x10" prints, mats and frames together that make up Josh & Gina's wedding present. Loaded the previous two items in the car. Returned a crappy LED nightlight to local hardware store. Was treated with astounding rudeness by the manager. It was so bad, it was comical. Went to the local Hunt's Photo/Video store, where they were having a "sale" of sorts. Bought nothing (hmph). Went to the gym. Squeezed in a 40 minute workout before the closed. Went to mum's house, had a bit to eat. Went over operation of the TV and DVD/VCR combo I installed yesterday. Came home. Now I have to change the plug on the charger for the IR flash I bought (it's a UK plug and, duh, I need a US one) get it working and then borrow a hotshoe-to-PC-cord adapter from Eddy. There's also about 500 household chores I should be doing, but sod it, it's Saturday night.

...but you're a MOT, right? You work for JenaLabs?

Head-Fi has a new interface?

Shit you can't make up: Lord Jesus Christ suffers minor injuries in downtown Northampton crosswalk mishap | MasNoNoNoNoNoNosetts Local News - MassLive.com LJC is from my town. 0_o

Just set up an appointment for the Subaru to get a brake job next week. Next I'm going to move a (flat screen CRT) television for mum, then I'm off to buy some CFL floods. After that I'm going to the gym. Tonight I'm doing lights for the "Amhesrt" College senior dinner (that should be cringeworthy in the extreme.) Finally, I'm doing the last "official" broadcast of my radio show tonight. WAMH officially goes off the air on Saturday. Technically, the FCC allows us to broadcast through the month of May, so I usually do a few "bonus" shows at the end of the month.

One of my favorite photos ever. Picasso: Drawing With Light - Photo Gallery - LIFE

1991 was arguably the peak year for the UK rave scene. The point being I listen to a lot of electronic music recorded on substandard equipment. There are no SACD re-issues of Mescalinum United.

I am still unsure exactly what "euphonic" means, but what I like about my 12L Actives comes down to this: They're very forgiving of bad or mediocre material. I play a lot of old vinyl rips that where done on frightful equipment, not to mention music that was recorded straight to 2-track in someone's basement in 1991. I never feel like I'm wading through mud listening to the Quads. Conversely, when I play FLACs of properly recorded ambient music done by a studio wizard like Geir Jenssen, it sounds glorious. I sit too near them, and they sound fine. If I lean back in my chair, the imaging gets much better and they sound great. I have no doubt that the 12L Actives would be well trounced by similarly sized Harbeths driven by a properly matched amp. I don't know of any speakers that sound as good and are as flexible as the Quads in the same price range. Listening to them reminds me of hearing B&W 302s about a decade ago. All of that said, I have a tin ear and you should disregard this entire post.

^^ I love that track. The Avalanches are originally from Australia. I paid a small fortune to get the original EP on vinyl, so I could play "Frontier Psychiatry" out at a local club. Shipping from .au is cheaper than it is from the .uk, but I digress...

I heard that in Precious Roy's voice.

I will say that in skilled hands, the Noctilux can produce some amazing images. Of course, that's true for almost any lens. Flickr user Tommy Oshima has done wonderful things with it. Tommy has one of the older F/1.0 non-aspheric Nocts, which are optically inferior to the newer ASPH model. Like many great photographers, he uses the lens's faults to his own artistic advantage. This is a quick example: The old non-asph Noct has funky nisen bokeh, huge light falloff and substantial coma. In the picture above, the effects of those those faults look pretty fricken cool.