Dusty Chalk

Again, sending emails out as you doesn't require hacking into neither your computer, nor your email account, it just requires knowledge of the exact spelling of your email address. Spoofing From: addresses is kiddie stuff. Okay, this is possibly an indication that you were indeed hacked. Are you sure it was your contact list, and not someone else's with whom you share a lot of contacts? Because like I said before -- most spambots don't actually leave a trail by using the email they hacked as their from: address, they pick one from the contact list of the person hacked. It's only one indirection, but it's a good one. Especially since you didn't find anything. Oh, and now that you are on the list, they can keep producing spam emails over and over again, they don't need to hack any more. There's no way to get rid of that, that I am aware of, other than to change email addresses, and abandon this one. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but forewarned is forearmed and all that.

Recently tried the Alamos malbec -- outstanding for $7-9, much better than the funky llama, this one can be judge without taking into account its price, nicely balanced -- and the Catena malbec -- meh, either bottle was off, or it's not very good, something nasty about it. Also revisited the Norton Reserva -- my suspicions were right, it's still one of the better ones, but that first bottle was the best. This last bottle wasn't superior to the rest of the herd by a goodly margin, like the first one was. I suspect my goddamn allergies are making my tastebuds more fickle than usual.

I want to say, also reminiscent of Sorayama. Don't remember title, but "Hanging Ukiyoe" looks similar. I want to say there was an even earlier one that was more iconic of him. Possibly a book cover. Warning: NSFW. In fact, it's pretty hardcore.

Rob Dougan's "Pause" -- shares more in spirit with Batt's piece -- I.E. as "punctuation" -- than with Cage's.

I just bought one on eBay. Of course, I haven't received it yet, so...maybe not.

I used to work with this one lady, and since I was the designated computer person, and she knew me well enough, she told me her password. It got to the point where I had to enter it again, and I turned to her and asked her to repeat it. She did. This continued. She must have told me -- and I typed -- her password a dozen times, and I could never remember it. As far as I'm concerned, that's the perfect password. She even told me the trick -- it was something like her daughter's second letter of her middle name, followed by the second digit each of her birth month, day, and (2-digit) year, followed by the second letter of her maiden name...etc. Bunch of things that meant nothing to me, so a individualized mnemonic.

What about under-ear?

Why? I mean, I know, but just want to make sure you've fully thought this through. I know some of the older Macbooks have firewire, why not just go external for that sort of thing? Also, there are hybrid drives -- another alternative.

Yeah, really liked that. Zoe's performance at the 32 minute mark is amazingly beautiful -- it only takes her about 30 seconds to set up something that stops being "looped layers of melody lines" and turns into music, proper. And yeah, the guys were interesting, too. They tread pretty closely to that line of pretentiousness without crossing it, I thought. And still very entertaining.

Thai cajun? Sounds intriguing -- two great tastes, but I've not tried them together. Me: Jalapeño Jack SunChips® -- quite possibly my second favorite flavor yet, the Peppercorn Ranch has yet to be ousted. And of course, I never see either one around here regularly.

ohraao.

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Jacob -- remember, this is the guy who has a terrafarm behind the router. Crappy -- I know you're smart enough to know this, but just to be sure -- just because emails were sent from your accounts, doesn't mean that your accounts were actually compromised. In fact, a lot of times, someone who has you in their contacts is the one compromised, not you. What other evidence do you have that your emails -- or even your computers -- were the ones actually compromised? If you're sure, my primary response would be the guessing of passwords as has already been suggested.

At 6 or 7 feet away, you may not see the difference, you'll be alright. For 30 days or so.

Happy Birthday!

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Dew et!

I have to say, I have mixed feelings. If they're allowed to run like a wholly owned subsidiary, and they don't do anything evil, I'll probably continue to buy them. Why? Is it a caps thing? Is it red? Srsly, how is it? (The drunk glass, not the worn glass.)

Continued high hopes for Ollie!

Yes, certainly just moving the whole stereo would suffice. But then don't use the shitty TV speakers.

You read that wrong -- he doesn't have the robots, he's looking for them. If he had to build them, that would be a bit redundant.

Well it would be nice if it supported contemporary audio standards like DTS-HD and whatnot, for eventual surround (yes?). Also, does the TV have analog outs? If not, then you may need a pre/pro -- essentially a DAC at this point.

There are, but I'm not sufficiently familiar with the market to make a recommendation. The last time I looked, several manufacturers had pre/pros in and out. Yamaha, Onkyo, Denon, Marantz, all had one, but I don't know about anything <US$500. The two big contenders for me were Emotiva UMC-1 and the Outlaw. The main problem with the NAD is that you'll want to add a sub eventually, but there are products specifically for that sort of thing (ICBM-1, etc.).

If you're going to use actives, then a pre/pro is the best way. You can always use your receiver as a pre/pro if it has pre outs, but that's just a waste of amperage. Oh, and a BDP-80 was effectively designed as a transport, but it's not that much less.