Dusty Chalk

Just a seven-string acoustic player playing an instrumental arrangement of Royals (Facebook link): https://www.facebook.com/taylorandkatherine.roberts.3/videos/1666896613526468/

"......the prince of Wales over his convalescence." Whut?

No worries! I suspect I am alone on a lot of things, and I am alright with that. Did you ever listen to In the Nursery's Hindle Wakes -- that one just puzzles me. I have no idea what is that appeals to me so much about that album, but it just stands out in a multiple decades long career of two brothers as far and away their best album.

I still have fucking Leprous stuck on infinite repeat. Triumphant better be the next single, I have it in my playlist twice.

Former After the Burial guitarist Justin Lowe found under bridge, apparently having jumped from it. If you're familiar with his departure from the band, you'll understand how tragic this is, whether or not you even care who AtB are. No-one deserves to go out feeling like that. Fuck mental illness.

Aw, man, even Kevin...er...Dr. Gilmore pipes up to tell me to buy separately? Man... No, seriously, thanks for the info on IPv6...

(whistles all mock innocently and nonchalantly)

Is it because you haven't vested yet?

It's purple! Unrelated: me want:

Katie Cassidy and Emily Bret Richards on Periscope.

Animals as Leaders/Weightless/The Joy of Motion

'kay, when I'm ready, I'll look there. Thanks!

Massdrop has these for $780. Worth it? I still want the Fostexes, they're prettier.

They didn't sell it in black, so I got the combo unit (SBG6580). The salesman confirmed what you said -- that I should get separates, but then he said I could try it and return it if I didn't like it, so I went ahead and I will play with it until the weekend of August 8 or 9, at which point I will return it for separates. Here's to being eternally optimistic that they eventually ironed out the kinks.

Sweet, sold (if Microcenter or Best Buy sell it, will stop by on the way home). Thanks for the links. ...and confirmation. ...everybody.

Ah. Yes, I was thinking of getting a combined modem/router, maybe not. Is this the consensus, that they all (combined modem/router units) suck donkey balls? That's too bad, it would've been nice to get an all-in-one solution.

I'm tired of paying rent on my cable modem, want to get my own. What should be my criteria? Also, my router seems to be on its last legs anyway. Also I'd like something somewhat slightly secure-ish. (Read: as secure as is possible without writing my own OS.) Right now I'm on cable, but FIOS is an option. Does that make a difference? I.E. if I switch, is there a router that I can get that I will still be able to use? The lady on the phone said "Arris". Yes/no/disagree/agree-but-with-qualifications? She actually said the one she would recommend isn't even on the list yet, it has a dual-band router, which tells me they can make it work. Yes/no/disagree/agree...? Here is the list of choices. DOCSIS 3.0, yes?

Good luck, Jacob, but you don't need it, you'll be fine! Your daughter is lucky to have you! But friends are nice, too.

They've added videos. Watching Daft Punk's Electroma now -- going to have to defer the rest, it's over an hour.

I didn't like Bilateral anywhere near as much as The Congregation or even Coal. EDIT: That sequence of Rewind/The Flood/Triumphant just rocks mah soxorz. NO SLEEP 'TIL CAVITY!

No no, the videos I posted are at the correct speed. I tried speeding up the videos I found ("(full album)" type stuff -- was around 1.5 hours, IIRC), but it sounded disjointed with itself, if that makes any sense. I'd rather not revisit -- it is the stuff of musician nightmares -- but you're welcome to do what you will. As always. I have a feeling it's a little too saccharin cloying for many repeated listenings (~100 or so), but for now (~12 or so), it is appealing to my sweet tooth.

When it leaked, before it was released, I was all hot and bothered about it, but all the leaks on Youtube were 1.5 speed for some reason -- it was annoying. Don't go there.

...or a hybrid. You might notice a small performance boost, due to starting with a new image, but that will be negated by the bloatware, so the first thing I'd do is uninstall all the bloatware.

Yeah, somehow I still have a hard-on for that copper one. I can't imagine wood would dissipate heat as well. I'd be curious what it looked like after a couple years.

If that's the case, there was a small discussion that Ed, Peter, and I had regarding Chrome being such a memory hog, and there's a plugin you can install that disables tabs that aren't active. Don't remember the name of the utility, perhaps ask Ed (edwood) and/or Peter (iron_dreamer). The discussion was on Facebook, and I'm vehemently Facebook-tarded regarding searching older threads. Once you do that, you'll definitely be fine with just about anything, if all you do is browse and email and whatnot. Also, a trick I do before I learned of the utility (or rather, still do, because I haven't installed the utility yet) is copy my profile (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default) to another directory (backup disk) (while Chrome is down), and then I can close all the tabs. If I want to come back to them later, I just swap this backup back in (it's all guitar porn and funny pictures and pics of cats and the occasional sexy picture of Oh Land and Kylie, anyway). And that way I don't lose any of my logged in sessions anywhere.