Dusty Chalk

This is somewhat of an ironic response, considering grawk has purchased the same record multiple times to try to get that last 5% out of it. I'm with you, Wayne. I still need a good transfer of From Dusk Til Dawn (which, admittedly, does not entirely fall under the "character-driven" moniker) to high-def.

I grew up with this stuff. Those of you who know me will find the following story amusing: I used to be an alter boy, and besides that, I also occasionally sang in the church choir. I know, right?

Woot Off @ woot.com, wine.woot, & kids.woot.

Koyaanisqatsi slowitupped 10x ...'cause, you know, the original wasn't slow and ambient enough.

Does it taste like Sweden?

First the pic, which immediately got my attention: It's a portable player AND a DAC. Discuss. (I saw it in the current [May 2011] issue of Hi-Fi Choice.)

I know that chin from somewhere. It's one of the actors from 90210 or something really horrid like that. Has three names. Help me out. (wanders off) Tiffani-Amber Thiessen?

(inserts "Deal With It" text into the blindfold pic)

(1) That's rough. (1.5) Sweet. (2) So does that fall under bestiality, masturbation, or BDSM? (3) Did you beat it, or did it beat you? (4) "...and then I went to play pin the tail on the donkey..." (5) Have you not? EDIT: (6) Zen question: do you reacharound? (7) That's an interesting way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. (8 ) Before, or after? (9) Missionary, doggy style, or other? Yes, I know, I'm putting way too much thought into this.

Buh? You're making your own wine now too?

It's obviously Denise Crosby from ST:NG.

CJ -- what's the expression? Lucky in cards, unlucky in love. :\ Tyrion -- congrats to your daughter, that's awesome!

3" drivers? I don't know, man, sounds like you'd have to listen to them really quietly to get any sort of linearity out of it. I mean, yeah, you can't know until you've heard it for yourself, but...I wouldn't have.

Postman Always Rings Twice -- "It's the best echo I ever heard."

I suspect there's something distracting on that side. Perhaps the audience.

Spent some time with my mother, sister, and cousin. Win.

Happy belated!

Happy Birthday, Shelly!

I haven't laughed that hard in a good long time.

Yeah, well, you're kind of vague on that. I honestly didn't think you did (other than the Benchmark), given your response to that question initially. I gave you an opportunity to clarify, and you really didn't put a whole lot of meat with those potatoes.

Unfortunately, I could never get your show in linux, and by the time I boot into my Windows system, I suspect it's too late. What's that DAW controller-looking thing? It looks kind of like the Livid Ohm...actually, it pretty obviously says "Ohm" at the top right, so I assume it's just a different iteration...

Well, that's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is that hearing something in context is a lot different than hearing it at all. Dither, for example, sounds completely different than, for example, road noise, or thermal noise, especially in the context of a digital recording, but at the lowest levels alone, they all sound the same to an untrained ear. If you overdrive your ADC at the recording point at very low levels, it might sound tolerable, but put it on top of a recording and it will sound awful. There's also the nature of the distortion -- that whole even-order harmonics vs. odd-order harmonics thing.

Wow. Clearly thought-out and lucidly stated.

You know, that particular shade of yellow goes with just about anything. The slight bleached-out-ness to it makes it look almost the same hue as raw carbon fiber.

There's a tequila joke in there somewhere.