Dusty Chalk

This is probably the single worst thing about apartment living. Sorry. Watch the time. 9pm on Sundays 10 pm the rest of the week, here in Virginia. (And it's not a free-for-all during the day, it's just higher during the day by a small amount.)

This is the pasta? ...so this must be the cheesecake! I definitely see cheese...

Disney characters wearing their Halloween costumes. Moar hear (with explanations of who they are and who they are supposed to be)

Has anyone else noticed that when playing via Mixlr (either live, or showreels, as I'm doing now) that when you iconify, or if the screensave kicks in, the playing stops? I laugh every time, but I did set my timeout to two hours, as that seems to be good enough most times (I was doing kitchen stuff, so it just did it again, for the first time since I discovered this). I use IE...er, I mean, Edge to play.

My sister (who is now living in California), posted this the other day with the caption, "what a sprinkle feels like to a Californian":

I have one by work, but rarely make the sojourn....will make the sojourn.

Air & Space is one of my favourites. Me: declined whiskey. From a girl. Who was kinda hot. And kinda insistent. Really really tried not to take no for an answer. WTH is wrong with me?

Looks yummy, where you at? I need to add it to my list of places to eat.

I don't know -- I love apartment buildings where the apartments are separated by concrete -- you can't hear anything from the neighbors. I wouldn't worry about it until you actually hear something from one of theirs.

Seriously. Looks ridiculously hedonistic, I could have something like that maybe once in my entire life at this point. Me, now: nothing, not a goddamn thing, and perfectly happy with liquid ingestion.

Muse, Absolution TesseracT, Polaris ...off of HDTracks, because they were on sale, also.

"She was definitely going to break up with him after the gala. As soon as he got off his phone." Moar hear

That looks just like Hard Times.

It does kinda look like him. (Sorry, random mysterious woman, there is no way to take that as a compliment.) Me: new David Gilmour on high-res from HDTracks.

Large means you're sending the full-range signal to the speaker; small means you've high-passed the signal, and sent the low-passed signal to the sub. So yes, if you're going to eschew the sub, use "large" even if they're not large large. As to whether or not you're going to be able to do 3.0, you may not, as that is not a very common capability -- just do 2.0 and phantom the center and just set the center aside for when you rebuild a surround system. But ultimately, it's up to the receiver, and whether or not it has that option, and from a couple seconds of ^F-searching through your pdf, I don't see it.

Random factoid: they've completely lost track of the woman in that photo. It's as if she doesn't exist.

Brisket -- meh, better than Famous Dave's, but not as good as Dixie Bones.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

The question is how much more fantastic can it be, and the answer is none. None more fantastic.

No, if your information is correct, then I truly do appreciate knowing that I don't have it, it's just that I recognized the cover, so thought I had it. I probably just assumed that everything would be included. I'll double-check when I get home, and if I don't, will definitely pursue. Thanks!

Yeezh, Wayne. I just can't imagine going through life with memories like that. (involuntarily shudders)

Yeah, it's...interesting. "Interesting". I've only watched one so far, and it quickly became "background viewing", so if they threw in an Easter Egg, I missed it. It's quite disposable (other than the beginning and the end) -- it shows her sitting at a desk, and she mimes manipulating something in the air, and CG magically forms, and then takes over the screen. The rest of the album is this programmed CG stuff that kind of complements the audio, but it's also kind of like watching an oscilloscope -- you only find it interesting if you find it interesting. I kind of wasn't in the mood, got it mostly for the audio content, so switched the Oppo to "pure audio" mode. Would probably make great viewing in an "installation" at a party or something, where a lot of the people are indie hipsters and artiste types. I think Blue Man Group did it better -- they didn't have any video content except for one song, and that one was one of those communicating LED bars that they had before their shows saying stuff. And a cat, IIRC. I mean, at least it was better than Thursday Afternoon. Still life boobs with weird graphical manipulations of said still life boobs (not still life with boobs, mind you, they appeared quite still, so...not very interesting, except inasmuch as one is desperate for boobs, which I wasn't at the time (was married)). Thanks for the link. As to my favourite, that's still Karuki Samen Kuri no Hana (加爾基 精液 栗ノ花（カルキ・ザーメン・くりのはな） Chlorinated Lime Semen Chestnut Flower?), (English title Kalk Semen Chestnut Flower). But I do still kind of love it when she wails. I still need to get that Tokyo Jihen set, too.

Dull Rachmaninov is still Rachmaninov, so...win! (Translation: I like Ashkenazy, sometimes a non-personalized interpretation is best interpretation. I feel the same way about Schubert's chamber music, especially a certain very popular interpretation of his piano trios.) And thanks for that, I did manage to track down the MoRA 24/96 DVD box set, which includes that. Très wonderful. Need to figure out how to rip it, now, so that I can listen on my computer.

L'Shana Tova, to all appropriate personages.