Dusty Chalk

I'm already on Spotify premium -- it's worth every penny.

My ex used to work for a company that had a similar variant to the use-or-lose vacation plan -- namely, because they were a cafeteria style plan, they would automatically convert the vacation you'd lose to cash. She was smart enough to realize that they charge you for the time at your pre-raise rate, but pay you back at the end of the year at your post-raise rate, so she always bought (under the cafeteria plan) the max vacation allowable -- it was like automatically getting raise% return on your investment. Is that the case with you, Vicki?

Congrats on the raise. Yay for raises.

Disagree -- it depends on the amplification. They do scale -- and that means both ways -- if they sound better with better amplification, then they don't sound as good with not as good amplification I really wish the article had mentioned how he amped them. That said, I heard them amped really well recently, and I had forgotten how good they can sound.

Unholy carp, congrats, the future Dr. Crappy Jones!

Damn, Jeffy, that actually looks really good, plus...four food groups, represent! \mmmm/ four-fisted devil horns...requires assistance

You're working on Sin City, A Dame to Die Kill for? Either that, or the new Miyazaki project

Great, now I have that stuck in my head, too. It's a medley now. I guess I was lucky -- when a project I was working on was under a retired 2-star (and if he didn't have a Ph.D. in everything, he sure fooled me -- one of the smartest guys I ever knew -- I still have fond memories of him), he visited us all the time and got to know us on a first name basis, and insisted we call him by his first name as well. I even ran into him once at the Kennedy Center with my mom, and he was the perfect gentlemen and refused to discuss work. I do recognize he was -- how shall I say it? -- not your typical retired 2-star. It was my understanding that they had their sense of humor surgically removed long before then, and then surgically reintroduced later on up the chain. Well, from the stories I heard, he never lost his.

For that matter, it doesn't matter what color it is, as long as you can close your eyes and enjoy the sweet delicious music.

"Jenny", Walk the Moon: "Jenny's got a body just like an hourglass... But I'm taking my time, I'm taking my time... I wanna be the sand inside that hourglass... Take it slow, oh, oh, gonna make it last" (emphasis mine, as that's the part I like so much -- also, kickass song)

You gotta admit, that's pretty weird. Snarky response #2: SNAFU.

Happy Birthday! (party favour noise)

Really, it's just me? Ah, there we go. Nevermind, Todd, it was the clear one's cache and cookies thing.

I can't do those dragon volcano things -- they're too rich. But that still looks good. I do like 'em.

I still can't post from Infinite Dark.

Image from associated video -- Sylvester's Catnip Overdose (TKC 7.5): ...or maybe it's because I watch the TKC videos a lot. I mean, a lot. An unhealthy amount.

Hush Delirium Taster LP -- I thought this was a musical group, but it's a collective of like-minded artists. Dig, all the same, adds for a bit of variety. Mostly shoegaze-ish.

It's very yellow. Try doing an image search on red oxx saffron.

Thanks, now that's stuck in mah head.

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Happy birthday, Tom! (party favour noise)

He died of a heart attack... :sadcat: ...on his way to a heart appointment. :sadcat: It would have been his 92nd birthday tomorrow. :sadcat: :sadcat: I, unfortunately, never saw him play live. :sadcat: :sadcat:

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