Dusty Chalk

Perhaps, it, too, has something to do with the Appalachians? Drug runners are too lazy to climb mountains? West Virginians can't afford drugs?

Thanks for the (largely emotional) support. That is pretty much in line with what the doctor told me -- that she can survive for years (has in fact, probably, already survived for years) with beginning of kidney failure, it's largely where my morbid mind goes when it has to think about it on a daily basis that gets to me. I have been "pretty good" about not letting her run out of water for more than 12 hours, now I need to be extra special good. Car, on the other hand, was fixed today -- no more overheating. The air conditioner still kicks out (stops cooling) at stoplights and in stop-and-go traffic -- a friend of mine has the theory that it's because the idle is too low -- any other theories? I'm going to take it to the shop tomorrow. Think I need to take some time off.

Shouldn't they not be made out leather? Palm leaves, perhaps? Hemp? J/K...

Understood. And repeated. Just wanted to clarify on what I meant by "learning" linux.

Took my car in for standard service (oil, ATF, radiator fluid), they got some air in and ended up taking several hours. They still haven't fixed it, so going back tomorrow. Found out my senior citizen cat is beginning to show signs of kidney failure. Really not looking forward to her leaving me just yet. On the bright side, I assumed it was already the case (she drinks and pees a lot), and assumed there was nothing that I could do about it, but he gave me a couple of prescription diets that are easier on the kidneys, so...there ya go. Should be able to keep her around for a couple more years. Stumbled on a really nice brick oven pizza with beer taps (23 of them! All very geeky) for dinner. They had Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro! I haven't even seen that in bottle form yet! Nice end to a really crappy day.

It's not so much that they are all equal, as that everyone reacts differently to different drugs. I know people who swear by Zyrtec, and yet I would never want to give up my Allegra D. And yeah, totally forgot about that -- that working "in a haze" feeling is probably from the Benadryl. Highly recommend getting professionally treated and getting some prescription strength drugs.

Sorry, should have been clearer -- my friend is extremely tech savvy -- writes drivers, kernel mods, etc. But all experience is in Windows, wants to learn other OSsesses. Doesn't need to learn system administration, wants everything out of the way as much as possible, he knows how to dive under the hood. So it's not so much handheld that he wants as requires very little maintenance.

Distortion? It's one of my pet projects to create a better digital distortion simulation, the starting point of which is a mathematical "best guess". Sorry, kind of off topic, but I think this one has more or less run its course, so thought I'd drop the question here. Uh...like it's hot.

iGrado I probably should have answered this in 2007, as I think I was already aware of them at that point. I miss JBLoudG20.

If so, I missed it. And yes, they look closed.

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Well sure, it helped you to win hands in poker, but the real question is whether or not he is man enough not to hold it against you in the future. Good luck with that. Also: remind me never to play poker with you. I've already made it a rule never to play poker with my (now ex-) boss -- he's kept a poker face with me IRL too many times. Not that I'd ever play poker, anyways, I just enjoy saying that.

The most likely culprit is a certain kind of growth in the ductwork -- I forget whether it's a bacteria or a mold. Those things hardly ever get cleaned out enough. But that's just a first thought of things to check that didn't seem to be on your list. In my case, because I am over-the-top, 4+, allergic to mold, that would kill* me, so YMMV. *No, not literally.

Yeah, I've been in that seat before. I knew I slouched before, but had no idea just how bad I was until that flight. I swear I had to skooch up about once an hour. Suxors.

Unholy carp! Someone made the entire Garbage v2.0 album in 8-bit:

I think you can see me in this pic. Might be my friend that I went with, hard to tell with the distortion (he's blonde, I'm shaved of head) : Bottom right, 2nd row (we were in the 3rd row, IIRC, but someone could have been sitting down). Porcupine Tree, Radio City Music Hall, October 14 2010.

Chaos Divine

Oh, I was just making a note to ask you the next time I came up.

Thanks. Didn't realize he did all of those. Was looking to see if that one was intended to be a Baba Yaga's Hut, or just vaguely resembled it. I would love to see Baba Yaga's Hut done full-on in his style.

(makes a note of it)

Seriously. You wouldn't know it from listening to my music, but he was an enormous influence on my early playing. Tracks like "Child in Time", "Lazy" where he went crazy on the drawbars, and "April" is one of my favourite rock-meets-classical pieces ever. Gonna go play "Before I Forget" in memorium.

Dan -- that's a fairly concise synopsis if my initial response. Yeah, but then he's not going to learn anything about linux. I'll recommend Kubuntu to him.

So I have a friend who wants to get into linux -- he's extremely technically savvy, but wants a Windows look-&-feel -- any recommendations?

Jerry's Pizza -- boy will Jerry be pissed when he finds out. (badumchik)