Dusty Chalk

What are you going to use it for? Just browsing and email, or are you going to do actual math on it? Unrelated: my sister wants to know about anit-malware on a mac -- any recommendations? She specifically asked about ClamXav -- does anyone know about that one, or better? She's certainly literate, but not a power user. Thanks in advance for any recommendations besides, "quit downloading porn" -- she doesn't.

It's every other album. This is a pop album, the next one (and previous one, if you missed it) will be (was) an art album.

Banh Mi

Damn, he was rapid fire.

Nice!

Only if the buyer buys it for that. Me, I'd go for 13, 666, or 42, myself, 'cause that's just how I roll. 31416, in a pinch (just slightly trolly). 1618, also. 271828, perhaps...

Earlier today, pho with double-meat:

Finished it (I did binge an extra episode or two, but for the most part, couldn't handle more than two per night, which is my usual rule). Damn powerful stuff. Really hard to watch. I need something a bit lighter, so watching this now:

Such a great album, I played it backwards and forwards. (No, seriously, I resequenced the CD in reverse order, and burned it that way to play in my car.) Not a duff track on it. Right up there with Garbage's first album. I think I'll have to pull it out tonight.

Too soon.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

For science?

Paul O'Neill (Trans-Siberian Orchestra founder), at 61

I had to take a break from that, because it's so devastating. Remember every time the Larsens came on screen in The Killing? Yeah, it's worse than that. Because I guarantee you, there will be at least one character that you will be able to relate to. So...Louis C.K. 2017. That was hilarious. That might be funnier than my beloved Iliza.

Now you're really learning to fit in.

Didn't Nils Dåmønd write "Halfway to Trolltunga"?

I thought you were criticizing that I was using the oooh cat from Puss in Boots too much. That that pussy was everywhere.

FTFY

Well, he said no-brainer, so that's a match.

Yeah, I saw that, but I went back to the Stax thread, and: This is true. He suggested a DAC (Holo something) and spritzer said, "yeah, that or (something else)". So yeah. JRU -- we have a troll that comes in here regularly under various monikers, and that particular accusation -- that we can't take it like we dish it -- is exactly the sort of shit that this other guy says all the time, and yet he doesn't realize that what he's doing is wrong. He's just so full of entitlement bullshit that it makes our heads explode. It's like a drunk driver getting pulled over by a cop and saying, "well you drink, don't you?" not realize that that has nothing to do with the law he was breaking. So, try not to sound like him. Fuck that guy.

I don't like looking like an ad for some sneaker company -- I mean how many people are going to figure out that's the Audi logo?

Yeah, saw that. So influential to us musicians on such a large scale.

Soen, Lykaia -- yes, again. Totally addicted to this, will be in my Top xx of 2017. That sequence from Lucidity to Sister is just sublime. Here, listen to "Opal":