Dusty Chalk

Happy Birthday, Ian! (party favor noise)

Exhausted is a predicate adjective, therefore fucking is an adverb. Or an interjection. In the second, 'hell' is an expletive, so it'd probably be better to think of it as an expletive phrase. I'm not sure what the difference is between an interjection and an expletive, so don't ask me. I wasn't using two different words there for any particular reason.

Congrats to Chris and Stephen on their weight loss. I need to start exercising again, I'm tired of carrying around all this extra weight. Mike, your vacation pics continue to blow my mind with how awesome they are. I really need to plan a less urban vacation for my next one. Knucks -- I agree with what Wayne said. I was thinking it when you posted it: life must go on, just like I said to Chris.

Yeezh, Knucks. Just yeezh.

Okay, go. (Keep it to ones I can watch please, just so I don't get too frustrated.)

I know how it happens, too. It's a trap. They're deliberately designed not to give you your merchandise "every once in a while", so people try to get it, and end up toppling it over on themselves.

Oh, and another one -- Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex -- though I'd have to rewatch the whole series to be sure, as I do remember some that were weaker than others, but I don't remember thinking any of them were out-and-out bad. Mediocre, yes; that one "caught in a theater vortex" one was a little out there, as was the adventures of the killer robot one, but certainly not bad. There were only two seasons, right?

Thank you, Todd.

Did I forget Spaced? Yeah, I definitely have to add Spaced. Was going to make the techno phone ring my ringtone for a while. Also: Archer.

Well, no, I took it as a fundraiser -- I mean, they will raise some money, won't they?

Condolences, dude. I'm glad you still have the others, that will help. But having it happen like that without warning is tough.

This is all kinds of wonderful, particularly her covers of "Mother's Talk" and "A Criminal Mind", but I really like everything, including the single for "The Art of War".

Yes. And seconds would be called Off Beats.

That's fantastic.

Great retardation, why would you steal Beatses?

I think you're making up rules -- no-one said the episodes had to air. So shows like Action! (with Jay Mohr) that were cancelled after only a few episodes that already had an entire season in the can, they still count. I should probably add that to my list -- that was a great show. Sure, it deteriorated late in the season (nothing could match the brilliance of the first couple episodes, though the "nude scene" episode was awesome, and the NDE episode was great and...and...and...), but it had great moments all the way up until the very end. So: no bad episodes.

That's funny, they were just in Stereophile or Absolute Sound -- are you sure it's that bad? They certainly learned their lessons from Vapour Trails on Snakes & Arrows -- although it was compressed, it wasn't brickwalled, it was just compressed. Which is appropriate for a rock & roll record, IMHO.

So you've just identified the next Google software that Apple will drop from their iOS... (They just announced that they're dropping YouTube.)

We're playing with ourselves?

Wait, you want multiple nodes to be able to play into the distribution system? I think your big problem is going to be the software -- not sure how it handles being dynamically played into "collaboratively", I.E. the resource contention problem (you only ever want one person to be able to play into it at a time, neh?). Basically, the play device isn't going to matter, so you could probably get away with iPads, iTouches, laptops, ultrabooks, netbooks, etc. Playback is entirely different and well-formed at this point -- Roku, Squeezebox, etc. all have plenty of such devices.

Unholy carp, those are real.

Seriously.

Yeah, I have to add Black Books to my list.