Dusty Chalk

Nice! Do you want to borrow some of mine? You have to try several of my favourites. Yeah, I tuned the lower 2/3 of the fretboard slightly sharp (my app -- -- has digital "needle" style tuners) -- just going visually, since I can never get it exactly right anyway -- and the top 2 strings slightly flat, just to play the easy minor E chord, and it's pretty friggin' sweet. I'll try your way next. The WEEDed BD-2 is pretty nice. Also, what in tarnation is that round thing?

Facebook -- I have some great friends. "Duck Pipe" is particularly brilliant.

You ate a little girl next to you? Now I'm impressed.

Finished Blacklist (season 2), I see that Homeland has a new season out, need to start renting those disks. Gave up on Zoo after second episode -- just too much fake science exposition. Not sure why it annoyed me so much, but just gave up. Reminded me of reading Dean R. Koontz. Started Dark Matter -- poor man's Firefly, I'm liking it so far. Lot cheesier, but enjoyably so. And watching Zoie Palmer (whom I don't think emotes a whole lot in Lost Girl) act emotionless as an android. Also, second shortest opening sequence (after Blacklist).

Karl Hyde, Edgeland -- doesn't sound anything like Underworld. Redshift, Life to Come -- spectacular, this might be their best yet. Antimatter, The Judas Table -- this is better than Fear of a Unique Identity, but now I'm listening to Timeline -- An Introduction to Antimatter, and the old stuff is still imminently listenable. I still think Judas Table will go into regular rotation with the others.

At first, it looked like one of those enormous capacitors, but then I saw the knob...autoformer? Just guessing, feel free to yell "newb" and move on.

Lollers. I have bought exactly one cassette in the last umpteen years, and it was part of Boris Blank's multimedia box set -- CD, vinyl, etc. A British friend of mine was hired because he was an audiophile and he had a cassette deck, so he could "DJ" the release party. I do indeed have a working cassette deck, but would be hesitant to use them for anything other than transferring to digital, as I've had bad luck with magnetized heads reducing the fidelity of a certain favourite commercially recorded cassette (does anyone remember SSQ? They had two tracks on the cassette that weren't available anywhere else -- there were others, of course, that's just one of the more memorable ones -- one of the two tracks was a fantastic instrumental...but I wax nostalgic...).

All things lint when new, I can only imagine terrycloth would be a higher lint producer than usual.

All you're doing is being imperious and contradicting what I say, marketing through repetition. I'm getting annoyed, so I'll just shut the fuck up now. Whatevs.

So you're making generalizations based on one person's experience, your own? Methinks you should have failed statistical analysis.

Okay, I was kidding, but ... yeah, that's exactly what I would want, the G above the D to be slightly flat. Curious if I can pull that off by hand.

That's still a discount, which is ... something, but ... there should be a $10 (or $6) manufacturer discount and free shipping, are you seeing that? The prices before the discount are $94.49 and $56.49, seems like you're not seeing those prices, are you? Maybe they're regional. Also, are you logged in?

Foggy Nell!

Do they have a "souring" tuning? I think that'd be more to my liking.

iTunes (gift?) cards -- $100 for $85 or $60 for $50.

Okay. Yeah, mine's the same way, hence the turn-it-"inside-out" and run it a couple times approach. I've had to do the same thing at other places I've lived, so I'm kind of used to it. I don't let it run the whole cycle, just the main part (when it's full on), then rearrange it, then start the cycle anew. I used to have to only do it twice, now I"m up to three, I should probably schedule something with maintenance. But you shouldn't bother if you're not keeping it. And if you're not going to stay there through the end of the dryer cycles, I wouldn't recommend leaving it in the dryer, but I've left stuff "mostly dry" (/mildly damp) overnight, and as long as I run another cycle in the morning, it's been fine.

Yeah, that's called "outgassing". It's normal, just give it some time to air out. Clean out the lint filter? If it's not the lint filter -- get apartment maintenance to clean out the exhaust of the dryer. I usually have to turn my mattress pads "inside out" once or twice to get them fully dry because they don't "tumble" in the tumble-dry dryer. (Basically just rearrange them so that the inner parts are more outer and the outer parts are more inner.) Once you get it mostly dry, just put it on the bed to air dry with nothing on top of it. I usually try to time it so that I'm doing this at the beginning of the day, so that it has all day to air dry.

That looks like a really nice slab of meat.

I never made my trip to England in August, and regret it, so yeah, in. Especially England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, mostly because I know people there besides head-casers. Also interested in wine country -- Spain? France?

How is it cheap? They hang on the phone for an hour at a time, they have to bring in their supervisor, then have to hang out for an hour with them...and the answer is always negotiable.