Dusty Chalk

I'm going back for this lunch box: Hello Kitty Flips You the Bird:

Thanks all. She passed away just a couple hours ago. I'll take all the comfort that you've given me as condolences, so no need to post twice -- I kind of knew this was coming, was just a bit premature about announcing it. She saved me the grief of having to put her to sleep by passing away by herself. I spoke with my sister on Saturday, and the story goes like this: she was having dinner with a male friend at her apartment in Baltimore in 1994, when said male friend asked if she had a cat, which had appeared on her balcony. When she took her to a vet, she was estimated at a year old, but in hindsight, because she was a runt, she was probably older, so I'm going with 20 years old. Rest in peace, little one, you'll be sorely missed. Luvbug, 1993-2013

I should also mention -- I don't think she's long for this world -- days, even. What was diagnosed as early stage liver failure a couple months ago is probably quite advanced now -- she's skin and bones despite the fact that she's been eating, and at this point, she hasn't eaten properly for two days. (She's dying of old age, basically.) So if I'm a bit off for a bit, it has everything to do with that. I'm quite attached to this kitty, I've known her for her entire two decades and she's been the love of my life for the past several years. I beg you all patience with me, as it has made me quite erratic, in every way.

Season 1 Episode 6 -- Best. Psychopath. Evar. EDIT: Correction -- Season 2, Episode 1. Still: Best. Psychopath. Evar. The fact that she reminds of Allison (she of the red hair albeit lighter and the porcelain skin and similarly succulent lips and of the crush that took me three years to get over) and the fact that Allison, too, was a psychopath, does not have anything at all to do with anything.

Lollers. I was waiting for the Headphile reference, but I have to admit that one was a lot better than I was expecting. IEM's, obviously. Anything else would have to include, as part of its grade, how painful it is to the motorboatee.

Dynaudio DBM50 pair for US$765

Okay, that's just creepy -- today on my personalized Amazon offers, I get this: (shampoo for pets)

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?