Knuckledragger

Move 2-3000 records out of my living room so that the contractors can access the south wall on Tuesday.

Did I read that correctly? Did you say place the switch panel's plug into the surge protector's outlet, or place the surge protector's outlet over and around the switch panel's plug? I'm a simple man; I do not possess an engineering degree nor am I mechanically inclined. Sorry to have taken up so much of your time. Please continue with the wonderful safety lecture technical description. (with apologies to the late, great George Carlin)

Check the top item on this page. It ain't high end audio, but it'll give you eight individually switched outlets. That plus 8 of the abovementioned extension cords will do what you're describing.

I got a bunch of 1 foot extension cords from monoprice. They turn any surge protector into a squid, as needed.

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Yes, and...? It's quite possible to insert an image from Flickr into a message: Today's test subject, Geir Jenssen. What's not working is posting a URL to the actualy Flickr page. like this: [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultravod/2803507947/]Link to photo page[/url].

My bad about the spoiler tags, but yes the movie sucks. There's not much to spoil, really.

I should point out that Greg has his personal office (which has a paltry four monitors, IIRC) and the rig I showed above is the, uh, GRID computer. He also has a pair of Senns, but I don't know which model. Certainly not 650s. As an aside, it's now difficult or impossible to link to a Flickr photo page when composing in the advanced editor. The head case software tries to embed the page like a YouTube video and generates an error. 091507_Biosphere_RML12 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!@@AMEPARAM@@http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2803507947_d99154ab0d.jpg?v=0@@AMEPARAM@@2803507947@@AMEPARAM@@d99154ab0d

Greg does GRID computing, which is something I really don't understand. There are more 30"s in that picture than one MacPro can drive. It looks like there's four or five machines lurking under the desk. I suspect the top monitors are for the benefit of other people. I know they do some small scale presentations with that setup. Durr, is a TN panel desirable or not? I know there are generally two types of LCD technology, one favored by gamers, and one favored by ...everyone else. Being a photographer, I need color accuracy and proper gamma, and have little use for bleeding fast response times.

This is my friend Greg's work setup.

"This KGBSE's Midi-Chlorian count is off the chart!" I'll get my coat.

I find the Apple 30" difficult to use. It's so big that I regularly lose icons. There are brief moments when I lose the pointer. I much prefer two smaller monitors to one huge one. It's handy to be able to break up different tasks between to spaces that are permanently separated. Two monitors really changed how I edited photos (no big shock) but also other tasks like editing ID3 tags (discogs on one display, foobar on the other). I've used dual 20" (4:3) for a while now. I'm not sure how I'd like two 16:9 monitors, but if I did, 2x24" sounds very good. $1500 is not terrible for a 30" monitor. Price out a couple Eizo panels for comparison. 30"s are good for professional video and audio editing. I think they're a bit much for home use, unless yr a well-heeled New Yorker in a tiny apt who wants one display for computing and home theater.

North Korean propaganda posters. Some of them are pretty fucked up. Especially the one where they throw the Jew baby down the well. I am hoping this will pass H-C's "stupid political shit" filter.

Kompakt is Wolfgang Voit's label. He co-founded it with Michael Mayer, forming out of the ashes of the hardcore techno label Delirium. For many years (say, 1998-2003, possibly a bit after that) it was the jewel of the electronic music scene in Cologne, and in much of Germany. For the last five or so years they've focused too much on minimal-dub-tech-micro-house-whatever, and cashed-in heartily. To be fair, that stuff bores me to tears, but most of the techno cognoscenti that I talk to (who are much more tolerant of minimal whathaveyou than I am) agree that Kompakt is not what it once was. Of course, none of this will help anyone navigate their website. Curiously, I have a very easy time getting Kompakt releases -- on Martha's Vineyard. There is an excellent record store in Edgartown that has a much better selection than the stores in the supposedly hip college community I live in. Go fig.

DGMS on the P-Word. I used to use their burning drives exclusively, going back to my first 4x SCSI CD recorder. I had two of their IDE DVD burners, both of which died just a few months past warranty (which is 1 year) and I swore them off completely. I still have a 12x IDE CD recorder of theirs that worked the last time I used it. As a bonus, it gave the most consistent results ripping CDs with EAC that I've ever seen, but I digress... I suppose you are right, the market now dictates that optical drives be disposable $20 pieces of shit. I should order two and have a spare ready when the first one inevitably kicks the bucket. Consumer culture is fucking sick.

My Lite-On DVD/CD recording drive is on its lasts legs. It still reads and writes okay, but the drawer only opens one time in 20. I suppose I should not complain much, as it was about $30, 3 years ago. Recommend to me a new DVD recorder. It must be internal, IDE, and preferably in stock at newegg. I have been perusing different models here [i am not sure this link will work for other users], and I notice with some distress that most such units cost $20 or so, which leads me to doubt their reliability. I see a couple Pioneer units that are around $40. It used to be that Pioneer made excellent DVD drives, but that was years ago, and I understand they are crap now. The last Pioneer I had died far too early (just out of warranty, what a shock). Are there any optical drives that aren't disposable pieces of crap? I hope the $300+ Blu-Ray ones aren't, but I'm also not interested in those right now. What I want is a drive that will burn data DVDs and audio CDs reliably, and last more than a year. A friend recommended Samsung to me. I like Samsung TVs, but I don't know anything about their computer hardware. What do you know, O Head-Casers?

Arthur Pewtey makes headphones now? Does that mean Eric Idle steals the drivers?