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Yes, when it comes to headphones, I give markl a whole lot more credence than Sam or anybody else at Stereophile. That shows how little credence Stereophile gets.

Without looking it up, how many headphone amp competitors do you think Sam can name? I'd guess one, Headroom. Tyll still seems to have all his hair. Edit: OK, two. I forgot about his darling MF.

I was about to start a thread asking how preparations for Ike were going for you. Good luck with them. Hopefully Ike will die down a lot before hitting land.

You mean after he gets out of the basement?

Stacy and I saw Bob Dylan at the Santa Barbara Bowl last Sunday. It was all electric and Bob did all the vocals. The music was mostly rockabilly style. Bob sang with a frenetic style in which he would belt out a line really quickly, and then wait for the music to catch up before singing the next line. As a result, it was often hard to understand the words he was singing and often very hard to determine the song. Stacy, who is younger than me, had a lot of trouble recognizing the two encore songs. They were "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Blowin' in the Wind". I'll admit that I had a bit of trouble too. I kind of liked this style, though definitely would have liked hearing some of the old songs in the old style. Still, it was interesting to hear this take on his music. The band was very good. You can find more info here. Look for the 9/7 concert near the bottom of the page. Tonight, it's Brian Wilson at the Lobero in Santa Barbara.

Only in NJ.

Don't worry, there's a DIY -=expert=- on HF that will be happy to help you if you have any problems. Or even if you don't have any problems.

If you don't like traffic, stay away from Dallas and its burbs and OC. Either would be like living in hell for me and my wife. C'mon. They pronounce Rs in the Eastern part of the state. They just have a sophisticated algorithm in which they remove all Rs from the middle of a word, and in words ending with A, remove the A and add ER to the end of the word. I just ate some cold pizzer.

I don't think that you'll have much of a problem. This definitely comes under "cruel and unusual punishment".

The birds get mad at me when I give them hot sauce.

Left over cold pepperoni and sausage pizza. Yum! Of course, the birds think so too, so I have to give them the crusts.

RGTBs are expensive! Remotely Guided Tennis Ball

Who cares about SQ for the gym? I just want some music to take my mind off of what I'm doing. So I use stock earbuds for the gym. They sound good enough and I don't care when my sweat finally destroys them. I also don't like over the ear stuff in the gym, so Nate's solution wouldn't work for me. When you care about SQ, I would recommend the PK2 over the PK3 straight from an iPod. However, Yuin has released a new line of earbuds, the OK line. I haven't heard any of them so can't make a recommendation, but you probably should check them out too.

True North 100% Natural Pistachio Crisps

Chateau Petrus and other Pomerol wines are almost 100% merlot. It would be hard to find a better bottle of wine than a Petrus. Of course, it costs $2K/btl.

Oops, my wife just informed me that Dylan isn't until Sunday evening. This getting old is just hell. At least we'll have the seat pads.

Two seat pads for the hard bleacher seats at the SB Bowl. Just in time to see Dylan tonight.

Yay, I can eat solid food again. Chinese food tonight.

Actually, I'm using it to fatten up the parrots.

Frozen parrot food, Sweet Potato Pie and Chicken Pesto Pasta.

It beats the hell out of getting colon cancer. This is my second full colonoscopy. The doctor found and removed a pre-cancerous polyp the last time. So, while I might bitch a bit about it, I'll gladly have the necessary regular checks for more.

I'm about to start. I have a HalfLytely & Bisacodyl tablets Bowel Prop Kit. Here are the instructions. I've put them in Spoiler tags so that one doesn't have to see it if it's TMI. I made the solution first, to give it a better chance to get cold. Here goes with the Bisacodyl tablets. Don't worry, there will be no more "progress" reports.

Indeed. It was pretty disappointing all around. And it's still around 22 hours before I can eat anything solid again. Between that and the crap I have to start taking (now unfortunately), today is going to be a very disappointing day.

Bingo. At least I get some a good drug dose out of it. It's almost worth it.

Gravity, of course. It runs downhill.