Dusty Chalk

Agreed, but stupid people have a place on this earth, too. And besides, "for our amusement" is a pretty good reason.

I wouldn't mind it a little longer. Why not just change it to zero only for whiney crybabies? This thread should be under "suggestions", not "general announcements".

Is it possible he was stealing it? What does anyone need that much stuff for home use for? Super-cooling a computer?

Achy Breaky Heart was the first song that popped into my head when I saw the title of this thread. But we've had some real crap: all yacht rock (probably should be called yacht pop, since "rock" it is not), Christopher Cross, Air Supply, Barry Manilow (not everything though -- I like "Mandy" and "I am Music, I write the songs" -- but "Copa Cobana"...? Please make it stop.), the Richie Family, Stars on 45, etc.

Cats

Cryonic treatment of cables, tubes, etc.?

Article in the Tuttle Times, and a transcript of the email exchange. Having worked a help line before, I can only sympathize for poor Johnny.

I don't remember -- Hirsch sent me the link, it's some local guy (to us). Hirsch, do you remember that local company that did mods on some Sony's and some Pioneers (only the higher end models)?

Who's Ed?

How about a modded Pioneer universal? It should do everything you mentioned except HDCD.

Real video link, skip ahead to 5:20. They look like Sennheisers, but...I don't know...

I'm just saying, that itch you're feeling in your wallet -- it's not healthy. You should just put some salve on it.

Dude, that's the Enigma Device. THE enigma device. EDIT: What he said. Tres cool. Rocks.

Hey, Davey -- how come you haven't made me get anything by Bardo Pond. Good place to start? AMG list Amanita, Lapsed, and Dilate as their three best, with Dilate being extra special 4.5 stars good. Yes?

Yeah, there's a way to save/install the disk to the hard drive...if I had the room to make a partition, which I don't -- but I have a couple hard drives, so I'm thinking, screw MS, just go linux -- it's not like I'm using my machine to do anything but: - email - forums - browse -- I need to try and remember if youtube's flash thing works - watch DVD's - rip and burn CD's I was going to use it to do music, but (a) that's temporarily on the backburner (I'll have another computer by the time I get to it); ( I don't expect to need to do anything complex...yet...

You should not buy them. "Samey headphone syndrome" is an indication that you're not listening to music enough, or perhaps not listening to interesting enough music -- you should spend the dosh on music, instead.

There's supposed to be a picture there.

Oh, I get it now...Ash Ra Temple...Hash Jar Tempo... I'm going to have to get that -- are both of their albums as good as each other, more or less? (The other being Under Glass.)

Steve Hackett, Voyage of the Acolyte After The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway..., Peter Gabriel left Genesis. Unhappy with his role in the band, Steve decided to release a solo album. Two years later, after his last two albums with the band, he left permanently and did the very excellent but different follow-up, Please Don't Touch. His relationship with other members of the band wasn't dismal, as Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford both helped out on his first solo album, so this is in many ways a Genesis "side-project". It's not Genesis -- let's just get that out of the way. Much of the album is instrumental, and the two or so songs ("The Hermit" and the opening strains of "Shadow of the Hierophant") are sung by a classically trained operatic female soprano, in a folky/classical style. But the instrumental aspect of this album slays. There's mellotron all over this thing, moogy bass, guitars, keys, drums -- it all just comes together. It opens with "Ace of Wands" -- a fast-tempo prog rocker with fusion/jazzy underpinnings. "A Tower Struck Down" is a riff-based monster, with a nice little "found sound breakdown" towards the end -- my second favourite track of the album. My favourite is "Shadow of the Hierophant" which starts out all bombast and majesty, then quickly dies down to a trickle of notes -- this is the kind of dynamic range which people miss in contemporary recordings. If you ever hear me do a song where the bass comes in a beat or two early, it's because of what is done in this song -- I love that point at the end of the final verse where the bass comes in early. It gives me chills. It then goes off on an interlude before starting a very simple little repeated riff that repeats and grows with added instruments -- a la Bolero, or Mike Oldfield -- for the rest of the song. When listening on vinyl, the whole track is recorded quieter, so that when the climax is reached, it really is one of the loudest most powerful sounds I've heard in rock and roll. Recently remastered with bonus tracks, do not get the original CD release -- it's horrible. Steve has been fighting to get the rights to his first couple of albums for a while, and he finally did, and I've heard they're excellent. I am originally familiar with the vinyl. All four of his first albums (the two mentioned + Defector and Spectral Mornings) are must-haves for any classic prog fan.

Well, that's an easy one for me to answer -- to rock! "Not to rock" just isn't an alternative.

That rock. This rocks: :rimshot:

Weird -- when I showed the video to a friend, it didn't do the neon headlights line, it replaced it with a "is it hot, or is it just me?" line. There must be some sort of randomization factor -- there are at least three different courses -- one with a race, one with a slalom, one to do zero-to-sixty. Perhaps it's because I changed the tire size.

I will, thanks for the suggestion. Downside to booting from CD -- no cookies. I have to remember every password I use. Also, haven't figured out how to play .wmv files yet. And when I tried it on my work computer, network didn't work. I believe my next step will be a bootable partition. Home computer: 1.5G CPU, 256M mem, only upgradeable to 512M -- time to upgrade, neh? I was hoping to postpone that for a few months.

Linux

Sweet -- I just nonintrusively started linux on my machine (bootable from CD Knoppix 4.0.2). Huzzah.