Dusty Chalk

Well, it's not screwing with it to go in and look without changing anything.

Vinyl can be flattened again. But it would take a couple days for it to get to that point. Basements are a good place to store to avoid that. Then it would take even longer. There are plenty of after-market dust covers, and you should get one.

Sounds from the article that Ric linked that they're following Apple's pricing model. If that constitutes "losing their marbles", well then...maybe it is.

Whoa! You're right. (wilts) Not that there's anything wrong with that. And...uh...he spends a little bit of time at the end of the first video "paying more attention" to the two on the left...and they appear to be ticklish. Or something.

Can you get into the BIOS? This page seems to think it's "Cmd"/"Opt"/"O"/"F" all four at the same time. If it's like any other Intel BIOS, it'll be an ultra-simple menu -- no mouse, just arrow keys and Escape and Enter and not much more. Look for "Hardware" or "Memory" or something, then see if the slots are activated, iActuated, or whatever the Apple term for it is. (They may or may not have written their own firmware.) I'd be happy to talk you through it if want handheld, we just need to set up a time. Oh, hey, look, when I research the topic, I get you over here.

In a word, once. Carl, thanks for the heads-up -- listening now on Spotify as well.

Yes, this video is exactly what the preview image promises it is -- a percussionist playing ladies' bottoms. He's actually very good, try to get a high frame rate.

WAG: Font problems...?

I was wondering why you went the separate amp route, I had forgotten about the Selahs. Glad it's a nice match, that's always a concern with higher end speakers like that.

Happy birthday to your mum! Very posh.

Wait, what? Why, what happened? 'Currency fluctuations'...so the Yen dropped, and your competitors will be able to buy more cheaply than you did, is that what happened? Isn't there usually a time-lag on that stuff? I.E. won't at least some of your competitors also have stock to sell first?

Bananas are yummy Marc, I'm swamped during the week, how long are you here? If you're still in town, do you want to do something on Saturday? Colin? Jeff?

Happy Birthday! (party favour noise)

So the only points I was going to add or reinforce to what has already been said: With basements, you have to be careful that you don't block air flow, because humidity tends to accumulate in the basement, and you don't want to set up a mildewy environment. Which is actually contradictory to everything else you want to do, which is make as complete a sound seal between the two floors as possible. Doors are a big deal in studios, but pretty much every hole is going to be a source of sound leakage. So you kind of have to mitigate one against the other. When I was planning on building a small home studio in the basement of my former landlord's house, I was thinking of devising a system of letting the room breathe when I wasn't using it, and sealing it up when I was. The duct work is a good point -- it's just like a car, you have to cancel both sources of noise and rattle, but it's also a conduit for sound leakage.

On an unrelated note, I got a spam from a fake FBI agent -- don't they realize that impersonating an FBI agent is crossing a line?

Quoted for truth, from "Kim" of the Scantasy and Fience Fiction book club on GoodReads.

Kauan, Kuu... Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.

I can't completely agree with Nate, as I've indirectly had some bad experiences with contractors, but if your friend finds a good one -- and there are good ones, look at studios -- you can still learn as much as you can and monitor what sort of job they're doing. That said, that's still what I'd do -- go with a contractor. I'd just probably micro-manage them to death...or at least to the point of hating me. I'll post some tidbits later. Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.

Doesn't it already have a queen or two?

Yeah, they were tonight, I don't know how long Colin's going to be here for, but Jeff lives here now, as do I, and Justin hasn't moved away yet...

'Millwad' would make a great porn name.

OMG, I'm a muppet. Woka-woka! Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.

Colin's birthday cake Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.