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SVS PB12-NSD and SB12-NSD President's Day sale. They're discontinuing them? Dagnabit...can't buy them right now, I have the money, but I just bought the one frivolous thing I allowed myself with it. Dagnabit...

That's really nice of her!

Are Made of This -- a mix of contemporary artists inspired by that Eurythmics track. That's that Steve Albini.

Yes to the latter. Electrostatics with a loose connection are not something you want to fuck around with. It works now, might break it by continuing to use it while the loose connector detaches and reattaches itself.

I'm actually a big fan of Musical Fidelity from 10 years ago, and still have my A300^CR power amp to drive the Dynaudios. Considering how efficient your speakers are, I'd get one of their lower end integrateds like this one from audiogon.

Ricky Gervais:

:homer-drool:

I have no idea what that is but I already like it.

Pfff...no. I have thought it through, though.

No, you're going to get it fixed.

Did you answer, loudly, "GUILTY!", to any of the questions? Or say, "we can't stop here, this is bat country!" Or tell them your favourite television show is Dexter?

It has been learned that they are exactly the same headphones. It used to be that one was cheaper, but if you're finding them for the same price, then I guess everyone's figured out that they're the same. By the way, excellent choice. We usually treat newbies like shit, but they're usually asking about Beats vs. Bose...this is one of those, "do I want vanilla-chocolate swirl ice cream, or do I want one scoop of chocolate and one scoop of vanilla?" questions.

Sexy clothes made out of milk splashes

Yeah, weird, I tried a couple different things...

Feed. I mean, yeah, the October Daye series are her masterworks, so yeah, those first three -- Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, and An Artificial Night have everything I love about the O.D. series, but Feed was my entry point, and is still one of my favourites. And if you liked the multi-textured aspect of Ghost in the Shell -- from one perspective, it's a political intrigue thriller, from another, it's a buddy cop movie, from yet another it's a procedural/investigation movie, from yet another, it's a philosophical treatise about what constitutes "life" in a cybernetic world... -- this has all of that in spades...alright, except that last one, but it has its own "philosophical treatise" agenda.

I just want to point out that this is where I first heard of Lorde.

"pls no shovel" http://www.wimp.com/happyfox/

It's a Big Big Train kind of day.

Shia LeBouef ^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2tPkSbcvhQ

Reposted from my Facebook (also in Crock Life): Most of my recipes consist of the following: - meat - tomato sauce - other ingredients (onions, garlic, olives, beans, tomato chunks, etc.) - spices - filler Throw together, allow to cook overnight, doctor spices to taste, add filler to texture. Really, that's it. This could go in several directions -- a chilli based concoction, a spaghetti sauce based concoction, or...yeah, I don't know what to call my experiments lately. Someone asked me, "what do you got there?" "Chilli. I mean, in Facebook terms, 'it's complicated', but it started life as a chilli, and it's still in the orbit of 'chilli', so I call it, 'chilli'." So far, my favourite filler has been oatmeal -- it doesn't add starchiness to the concoction, its taste is compatible enough not to draw attention away from the intended targets, but I feel strange adding too much of it. Experimental filler #4 yesterday/today was Trader Joe's Harvest Grains blend -- Couscous, Orzo, Garbanzo beans and Quinoa. Again, turned out a little too starchy, but not unpalatable. And any pasta or pasta-like substance is not going to be "_al dente_" once it's cooked beyond its recommended cooking time. Thing is, I added so much, it's now >50% vegan...not that there's anything wrong with that. So I'm tempted to take a stab at a vegan concoction. (And the meat is 99% lean turkey, so it's pretty [waves hand] healthy, which is the point.) So the question arises -- which of these things retain their texture in a crock pot, and which become mush? Some mush is fine, as long as it's not all mush. I know eggplant skins and olives and mushrooms all retain their texture. Chestnuts? Butternut squash? Garlic. I know I don't mind running into a cut clove of garlic, but how many of you mind? I love onions and beans and...(Yes, I fully intend to get experimental.) Cauliflower? Broccoli? Bamboo shoots? Water chestnuts? Cloud ear fungus? Asparagus? Carrots? Eggplant? Peppers?