Dusty Chalk

Condolences Ric & fam; RIP Miko.

Uuuuuuuuh...nope.

Happy birthday, Jack! (vuvuzuela noise)

Happy belated birthday, Tom! (party favour noise)

Forester is a nice vehicle, it's really down to just how well it matches requirements. Sounds like you thought it through. I almost got one myself about 10 years ago when I got the Suzuki, and it's only gotten better since then.

Lollers @ "Puss N Boots" (speakers mentioned are ATC)

Great googly moogly, blue watch is blue (catching up on older posts). How blue can a watch get? The answer is none. None more blue.

Nice! I missed that. Didn't even realize it was an option, now that I think about it.

Yeah. On everything. EDIT: except I think you need to add one more qualifier to the second-to-last sentence, because if you read just that, it might seem like Jeff's thing, but I don't think it's Jeff's thing. I just don't know how to qualify it. Something about "feels", perhaps? There ... Me (probably old news, as I'm a bit of a slow reader): Parasite by Mira Grant in non-virtual reading; The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman on Kindle/phone-blet (I am definitely the target audience to both these).

Recreating childhood photographs:

For me -- it's not so much that it's inconvenient, as I just don't know yet until I've heard it for myself (the difference between DSD files played straight vs. converted). I should add -- I've always liked the performance of Sony headphone jacks on the MDR-7506/-V6. So I'm sure it'll sound good at least on the MDR-7506/-V6. I keep wanting to say, "...on Sony headphones", but I keep forgetting to try the CD3000s on anything, so if I get this, I'll definitely try that combination as well. But I'm sure some of it is spent on branding and style as well.

^ great album, his best, IMHO. Me: The Colourfield, Virgins and Philistines and Deception -- so great.

Yeezh. Glad to hear no major injuries yet. But yeah, I've seen some horrific pictures on Facebook of wine cellars with >50% of the bottles dumped on the ground. Me: slept 'til fucking 3pm -- haven't done that in weeks...wth? Woke up to a charley horse. Fuck, I hate those things. Off to the store to get some bananas.

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking writing that, should change it to this:

Star Trek: Axanar This looks awesome, and I'm not even a trekkie (although I will admit to being a fan). Just some fine storytelling with some fine casting. (Just in case you missed it over in Ric's Trailers thread.) And the idea to make the intro video entirely a prequel is choice.

I don't know if I'd ever attempt anything that claimed "inspired by ... LS3/5a" in anything other than the nearfield, even if it does have a port on the back (and coaxial drivers).

Wut.

link $500 street for portable DSD. Color me intrigued.

Yeezh.

Ah, the Japanese pressing. Me: Pet Shark, Le Debut -- instrumental rock

It's like the flower equivalent of a Anton Corbijn photograph.

For science, goddamnit!

Which one? >)