Dusty Chalk

I wish I knew what to say. Eventual cheers to you and your family.

I used to love playing ragtime, never were my pinkies as strong as when I played ragtime. Lots of octaves.

Yeah, but they'd probably chew a hole through your tire, so then you'd have to teach some pups a lesson.

Yeah, but...my ex commutes a little more than 50 miles one way, 2ce a day (1ce each way), 5 days a week. If you told her to "simply refuel" every 250-300 miles (because 300 miles is optimal range, if you run into any traffic -- which she always does -- it goes down), she'd probably walk out of the showroom (assuming you were trying to sell her said car). I tried to talk her into a diesel fer crying out loud and she didn't want to have to hunt for diesel fuel. She basically had to refuel every other day with her previous vehicle, which only got about 275-300 miles/tank, because who drives until their tank is almost empty? Dan, for that matter, with your commute -- would you ever get a car that had a maximum of 312 mile range on one tank? EDIT: Never mind, see you already answered that question in your own very efficient way. So no, I'm not talking about an inconvenience that only affects the occasional road trip from Chicago to DC or whatnot, I'm talking daily commuter type stuff. I certainly think the target market could handle the occasional inconvenience; I would be extremely interested in what sort of person could handle that sort of daily inconvenience (and I'm allowing that they exist -- my sister is one), and what their plans are to train the rest of the target market. The DC area is not conducive to that sort of range in the long term. Everything's spread out here, because it's literally a sprawling metropolis -- there are no skyscrapers here, whatsoever (it's the law). So when "things go sideways" has a different meaning here -- it means growth here. Finally -- when I read "fuel cell" way back when (about 10-15 years ago?), my mind went "jet fuel", so I presumed since commuter cars wouldn't be driving at insane speeds, that instead that jet fuel would be used for range and lack of "filler" instead of performance and power. Yeah, I can be kind of a goofball that way sometimes, but at least I don't pretend to be some sort of MENSA material.

When I die, I want to be reincarnated as Colin's metabolism. It's just not right.

My memory must be failing me, then. I thought fuel cells were basically condensed fuel.

I thought the entirely electric cars had a small range, whereas fuel cell cars could go for days. 312 miles/502 km is pretty chintzy, I had expected more.

They also have a greater range, don't they?

It's funny they don't mention the material's name, which I had memorized -- "Vantablack" -- I want a limited edition Moog in Vantablack. You know me so well. Thanks again, everyone!

The problem is that bass energy conducts much better through the floors than treble energy. I currently use my Equator D5 as overheads, and at the volumes I usually listen at, they're already pretty bass heavy and I still have to keep it down. Really, anyone that enjoys blasting it once in a while (guilty, I) shouldn't live in an apartment or townhouse, and/or should get a large vocal booth.

Thanks -- I was expecting there to be another in-theater season debut. I know what I'm doing over the next several days. Oh, and add Man in the High Castle Fuck this, I need to cull.

Is that based on the movie? :allinnocentlike: Also, between installments of Indexing: Reflections, I'm reading Dead of Night by M.R.Forbes, the story of a terminally ill necromancer who does covert, high-paying jobs so he can afford to keep taking his "medicine" -- I'm actually quite enjoying this so far. I think I just love urban fantasy, especially when it has a dark element or a sarcastic character somewhere. There's a scene where he's talking to one of his reanimated dead about the afterlife,

I'm really liking it. I love the turn on a dime from light to somber to downright dark... Yeah, I'll add Supergirl, that's a must-see, thank you for that. And I need to start watching One Punch Man. (It's on Hulu -- hooray!)

What? I don't have the Grado statement whatevers. Not a Grado fan. I do have the PS-1, which are the heaviest, but not the biggest...unless you meant driver diameter, in which case, I don't know and if so have no defense -- didn't get it because it biggest, got it because it sounded great.

Nice -- went looking, already determined I like him. Hadn't yet uncovered that he was an Erased Tapes artist -- I've been having nothing but good luck with them.

Argh -- too many shows: Arrow, The Flash, iZombie, Castle, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Gotham, maybe The Muppets...and presumably Doctor Who is going to resume at some point, I didn't miss that, too, did I? I don't even have time to catch up on my "wait 'til the DVDs come out" shows -- Game of Thrones, Continuum, Lost Girl, etc. -- and the upcoming AKA Jessica Jones.

Ended up enjoying both Tim Powers just fine, thank you very much, but it's more just "very good action science fiction", not that classic WTF vibe that Tim Powers does so well. Red-Rose Chain was, indeed, fantastic. Almost finished Ghost Story from the Dresden files by Jim Butcher -- unholy carp, this is an awesome follow-up to Changes -- and yet completely different. I was just thinking there was no way he could match Changes, that he had peaked, but he did the smart thing and didn't try to match it or write a sequel, he just wrote something completely different.

Right, there's a whole culture -- not just those locales that purk pointed out, but there are many of us who just don't have that "bigger is better" attitude, and we don't see any reason why a small setup can't provide just as high fidelity an experience.

Dusty like. Is the rest of his stuff any good, or is this one of those artists I'm only going to end up liking the one track...?

Belated happy birthday! (in this time zone, anyway) (party favour noise)

I'm hungry. Remind me not to open this thread again. Ever.

There are many of us who don't like to leave our setups at work, and take them home every night.

You make them sound so simple.

Shure do good stuff, I am interest.