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I was pretty much rendered speechless by the thought of boobs on my ears. I might have to purchase those phones now.

And blood. That's pretty much what I was expecting -- tears and blood and maybe some screaming. And possibly something coming from the cat.

Thank ye. I do my cats.

helped my sister with some Mac stuff got treated to lunch at DuClaw Bathed my senior citizen cat -- this was surprisingly non-eventful -- no muss no fuss, no hissing no spitting no clawing -- in fact, her least favourite part was being removed. I blame the advancing kidney failure -- I think she really enjoyed the warmth and being surrounded by water -- she couldn't stop drinking it, even when I was holding one of her legs up to try to get to the foot. I let her, but I tried to keep her towards the clean side of the bath, and tried to keep it as short as possible.

No idea/experience, but I'd be worried about the same thing.

Tribeca Bubinga: Maple:

I had a co-worker who used to judge a floating point calculator by how it handled financial calculations -- I.E. 98 cents would get incorrected to .97999993 or whatnot. I said, "that's because they're doing it wrong -- money is just integer math with the decimal point moved over two places. The right way to do it would be to move the decimal point, do the math with integers, then move it back." At that point there was an awkward pause, not the likes of which has been seen since, "...but this one goes to eleven."

Whoa, nice ceiling mount, du... ...uh, never mind.

I want her and Tom Hiddleston to have children, so that they can do that evil smile and creep adults out.

Yeah, I, for one, understand the appeal of using 'stone' as an enclosure material -- should be relative inert, resonance-free, etc.

Try it before you give up on it -- it's not like audiophilia, the consumer public expects the volume on the optical to follow the volume control, so I'd say about half of them will. Depends on the TV, ackshully.

So that's like the opposite of Schrodinger's cat -- it's alive until it is taken out from under the bowl, at which point, it may be killed or it may get away.

...for using the word, 'sallow'.

If you're tight on space, I'd stick with powered monitors. Especially since you'll be needing a DAC as well. Either that, or at least get a DAC/Amp (stereo receiver?). Except you might not have the space for that either. Where are you going to situate the speakers, again? If you go the powered monitor route, make sure they're not hermetically sealed in, they should have a bit of breathing space. This actually might be a good reason to get a separate amp -- you can always situate it higher (over the TV and to one side, or something). And I agree with the class D comment -- also one that doesn't need as much cooling as a "regular" amp.

Healthier.

You mean, this one?

Applied differential equations, course. Or they might call it "practical differential equations" now. Did anyone else call them "diff-e-q's" in college?

Luther -- 's'awesome. I especially like the bizarre Alice Morgan relationship. Doesn't hurt that she's hot-ish.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Martha's Madman", opening foray: "Martha has a madman Standing hidden in the shadows He's got a long curved Turkish dagger With a bejewelled handle He's tellin' her the world is full of freaks and geeks and simples and he's Hiding like a leprechaun under stones and in the ripples In the pool of time she thought she knew it - but someone threw a stone into it Which breaks up the surface and it's making her nervous..." Despite being sung without question marks, this actually raises more questions than it answers -- how does one 'hide like a leprechaun'? What is a Turkish dagger? I mean, obviously I can picture it, but I wouldn't have called it a dagger...and why does this song show up in 4 out of 5 of their live sets on the bootlegs archives, and how on earth does it rock so hard? And what on earth is up with that video: Also, lollers at "simples".

That's easy -- because most people are going to want to plug it into their receiver for surround, so it's a space-saving issue. In these cases, everything plugs into the TV, and the TV is the switching center, rather than the receiver.

Sibelius, Walton Violin Concertos Akiko Suwanai Yes, because she just showed up in my Inbox via HD Tracks, but I am not listening to her in HD as just yet, just bog standard Spotify.

Congrats, Jacob!

Yeah, they exist, but don't know about optical. Probably your best bet is just to get a cheap DAC and powered monitors that will take an analog input, or converter (from optical to USB or coax/RCA) and powered monitors that will take USB or digital, respectively.