Dusty Chalk

Tried to listen to Storm Corrosion in the car...it's not a car album. Nope. Not at all. Advanced Electronics Vols. 1 & 2 (yup, got my iPods working in the car). The Clarion OEM upgrade stereo in the Suzuki was better than the Bose OEM upgrade stereo in the Mazda3.

Everything better be stapled, nailed, screwed down or otherwise grommeted, otherwise it will be like one of those old vibrating magnetic/weighted football games.

Unwoman, Circling -- only $1 pre-order for digital download version (including FLAC), and it might be her best yet, methinks.

Parkers -- used Fly Deluxe in the $1000-1500 range, or new PDF in the $500-$1000 range? I have a chance at the former, but would still like to hear opinions.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

No worries, I just thought it was funny that if you weren't paying attention to the year, it was a perfectly normal head-case conversation.

Wow, it feels like just yesterday I asked that. ;-p

New avatar!

Sorry, didn't notice the Python question -- I totally dig IntelliJ PyCharm, and they came out with a community edition several months ago.

Dude, you need to be more careful.

Schweet.

Happy birthday, Scott! (party favour noise)

I had some delicious Pad Thai from Pa Nuang Thai restaurant near me -- despite having no decent Chinese places near me, I have a plethora of really good Thai places -- pretty much every single one.

Happy birthday, Justin! (party favour noise)

Yeah, they make the best videos.

We're talking market, not personal experience. The only question is whether they will evolve to have been the early adopters, or stagnate as a niche market.

"not enough of them"? Dude, there are whole magazines like maximum PC whose entire existence is based on guys like that. There's also what I'll call the Bose set -- people who want something better just because they can afford it, without doing the research. It's the same thing that makes HDTracks successful selling 24-bit, 44.1 kHz "high res" files.

I definitely think there's a market for gamers. Those guys are nuts.

Just finished season two. That was fab.

Rhythm of the Saints was the sequel, so my vote goes to Graceland, but not by much, since he's such a strong songwriter and music maker. I'm glad I live in a world where one doesn't have to choose. Sent from mah phone-blet via Tapatalk

You're supposed to drink it before then.

Just got to episode 10 (second appearance of Laura Prepon) -- fuck. This is such a great show.

Bunch of First Listen stuff. Sucks that I don't remember to this every week, they had Boris on recently. I've been liking most everything (I skipped the Phish one, though, although I should probably give even that one a chance) to various degrees: Strand of Oaks, Heal -- probably my favourite of the bunch -- straightforward indie poprock, heavy on the synthesizers and the grunge, a very nice combo Circulatory System, Mosaics within Mosaics -- weird for the sake of weird in many parts, but I like it more than, say, Flaming Lips Rolê, New Sounds of Brazil -- pretty much exactly what it sounds like it should sound like Phox, Phox -- what I expect most of you would like the most -- note quite London Grammar good, but of the same ilk