Dusty Chalk

Bad time to read Tommyknockers, Dan. Ditters on the stay safe y'all....er...midwesterners?

Huh. So, theoretically, we could make our own DACs with a resistor and a capacitor? (And then run it through like a phono amplifier without the RIAA curve)?

Oh, well that's different.

WAT.

"And if you live by the rules of 'it's over' then I'm sure that that makes sense" Dido, "White Flag" -- I know this is supermarket drivel, but it reduces me to a tear-well-up-eyed mess every time I ear it. There's something about the clear purity of her voice and straight delivery that just adds to the sincerity and heart-felt-ness of this song. To me, anyway.

Aye, I figured it out, just thought you'd enjoy my mental image of your statement. Fish sauce on left, cabinet on right.

No, seriously, I didn't even know what umami is before now, not sure I know now. But will do further research. (puts fish sauce on shopping list for tomorrow) I do love me some fish sauce. Even someone I know who is allergic to fish likes fish sauce (specifically, that Thai beef salad that doesn't taste right without fish sauce).

What does the fish sauce do?

The "whatever she wants" option is best, if she didn't make you sleep on the couch for celebrating mother's day a week late.

Arrested Development -- I never finished it from when I started watching it way back when, then took it off Netflix before I was done, then put it back on.

It's spelled, 'copies'. Unless that's some sort of ancient Greek name.

Aw!

Sorry, forgot to mention that, but it's weird -- no My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away isn't out on Blu-Ray yet? WTF? That said, if I hadn't just got that el-cheapo box set recently, I'd get all those Blu-Rays.

I've gotten used to the midbass bloom already, I don't find it intrusive on the mids at all. Using the above sunflower analogy, it's like the camera panned back. And maybe craned up a little, to compensate for the distance, so that the ground didn't seem to take over the foreground. But, you know, still there -- 'bloom'. I've been listening to a bunch of Brubeck compilations, which means there've been the occasional vocal track (the most obvious being Louis Armstrong, I think, and ...Carmen McRae -- is that the vocalist?), but still need to hear more, and more familiar vocal material.

Looking through their catalog, it looks like the upside-down house is on all their EP's and singles as well, so it may represent both 'U' and 'The Foundation'. All India Radio, Red Shadow Landing, self-titled, and others.

Gold Fields, Black Sun -- groovy dance alternative, a la Remain in Light-era Talking Heads, !!!, etc.

Nice find, digging this. (It's weird how arbitrary I am about what I will sample...I love the cover, even though I have no idea how an upside down house represents "you", except with the chimney it kind of represents the lower case 'u'.) Prior to that I was listening to Damone -- femme-fronted power-punk-pop with some glam (read: hair metal) influences, including the look-at-me guitar solos.

Very nice backpedal.

(squints) Why does fax machine need paper if you're doing the transmitting?

Tomorrow is ride-to-work day. Just sayin'.

Well, that's the thing, she wasn't a fan before...not to say that she didn't like him, she just hadn't read anything by him before. I have since fixed that. I gave her Snowcrash and Diamond Age, and of course, she liked those. Oh, and here's a funny bit -- she still hasn't returned the Baroque cycle. I keep asking her if she wants to give up, telling her not to force herself, but she says she wants to give it another chance. I'm alright with that -- she's not the kind of person not to return something when I specify I want something back. But we always ask, because most of her books she only reads once, then gives away to someone else to read, and when I moved, I gave away a lot of my books, so don't buy books so much any more.

Amerstens -- no, pretty much if you look from far away, as well. Pretty much even if you squint and your eyelashes distort the image. In fact, I can't come up with a view that is SFW. Re: synth -- wow, the first time I looked, I just assumed it was a 2600, I guess it's not.

...or tax...

Okay, fixed. You still didn't help, so the point is moot.

I lent it to my ex just to get her back on Neal Stephenson, because she was so turned off by Quicksilver that she never finished it. She liked it, too. He's dabbled with the world before -- look at Cryptonomicon -- offshore data store plays a big part in that one. Huge Stephenson fanboy here.