Dusty Chalk

Or you could just go straight to the high res version.

(cue Steve) Or was that one just a little too obvious?

So it'd be nice if the links automatically took out the referencing URL (see, for example, one of my most recent posts before this one), so that the targeted website didn't know from whence it came. I figure one way that would work is if it first went to a common url that would then take it to the target website, like a form post, rather than embedded in the URL.

No, if I'm going to do that, I'm going to use The Arts/Comedy and Tragedy like I do: :-Dusty :-Chalk d-_-b or: :-Dusty (halk d-_-b[/code]But actually, yeah, I may want to do that, too. I wish I could do that size=1, then I'd put an emoticon kitty next to me.

Actually, they do -- they'll do anything. You'll just have to go to your local retailer, and they'll charge full price.

Awyeah, even better. Thanks for that. EDIT: But actually, it'll probably be: Dusty Chalk d-_-b

Yeah, that was my reasoning -- for $30 more and the cost of a hard drive, I could try it, and then I would have 3 iPods. Or I could go all out and get a ridiculously huge SSD drive, since it's the older, fatter model. That would be fun -- a tricked out iPod classic. Or for $70 more I could just get a new one and have "Dusty Chalk" laser engraved on it. EDIT: I can even break it up -- buy the replacement iPod now, get the hard drive for the other one later.

I used to biwire, but I convinced myself that it was mumbo jumbo. The biggest benefit was psychological -- I didn't have to worry about which speaker terminal to attach the wires to, and which driver to receive the inferior jumpered signal -- I used them both. You can't tell electrons where to go, unless you introduce a demon (similar to Maxwell's) or a diode into the equation. That said, the whole thing about drivers (and associated circuitry, I.E. the crossover) and their associated amps "seeing" each other (impedance, back-EMF) does make a little bit more sense. But in my financial situation, I wouldn't do it unless I was doing something additional like putting an active crossover in front of the amps...and perhaps correcting for everything, like the Meridian or JH Audio systems do. I think you should biamp the electrified fence.

Anyone? Anyone replace their hard drive in their iPod classic and think $179 is a good deal, even if a refurb, and I have to trade my current old one in?

Sebastian -- still working on the ratio.

Finished the Y+B Malbec. Meh, will keep looking.

Went to the Apple store -- my older iPod is acting up -- confirmed that it was the hard drive. For $179, I can get a whole new iPod. I'm tempted to do it, because I dropped it enough times that even if I replace the hard drive, doesn't mean something else could go wrong. Opinions? EDIT: Alternatively, anyone remember that web page, was it this one that most people successfully follow (I.E. have a working iPod at the end of the day)? Also, what hard drive to order? Are any of these going to be okay? I'm alright with having to keep the iPod in a protective covering to keep it together -- I do that anyway. While I was there, I finally saw a retina display, but they didn't have any movies so that I could gauge the resolution, and the signal was too weak to get any sort of resolution on YouTube. But it did look good. Maps had Satellite/Terrain/whatever on, so I could get a sense there, but that's not really the same thing as motion. They did have some movies in the camera, but what I really wanted was some demo sequences, like scenes from Cleopatra 2525 or something.

Thanks for going there. ...so I didn't have to.

The URL of that is randomly generated, right? imMFOw looks a little too much like imMEOw.

The Brain Cell?

Weggy Cebby (Ceylon Breakfast) & My Organic Market Assam == Ceylon Breakfast/Assam bastardization == Sebastian The Ceylon Breakfast is a tad to brisk for a daily drinker, but I like it every once in a while; the Assam is just a twee too...well, twee. So I thought blending them would make the best of both worlds, but it's like they don't blend. Ah well, still drinkable, at least.

It's been so long since I started Talking Head, that I started it over. Got a little further (over half way) -- goddamn, this is excellent. Basically, it's deconstructionist movie-making at its most distilled -- in other words, it's a movie about movie-making (mostly the creative process, not so much the technical). At its worst, it's just a bunch of soliloquies.

Y+B Malbec 2009 -- also pretty good. I'm going to start rating wines by how cold I need to drink them in order to enjoy them. This one is about 65 Fahrenheit. The Hogue Gewurtztraminer that I had earlier ("...in the year", not "...in the evening") was at least 72, if not higher.

My only complaint is that it doesn't flow like a concept album -- if I didn't already know it was a concept album, I wouldn't pick up that it's a concept album. And by that, I mean the breaks between the songs, that's all. I'm sure I'll get over it, there are several songs that are already stuck in my head.

I thought it was a snake giving him a wet willy. (cue 'trouser snake' joke)

(makes a mental note to get JH-16's)

That wouldn't be the first headphone accused of having a "reverb-y" effect -- I want to say the W2002? And there was another one, but I'm not remembering...I think Juan may have been one of the people to have heard it -- Juan (if you're reading this) -- do you remember of what I speak? Me, personally, never heard it, even on the headphones in question. I guess, having spent much time with Alesis Quadraverbs and other reverbs, I tend to gloss over them, and am able to hear the underlying source music. It's an interesting exercise -- to listen to the same thing through a variety of different reverbs, and then "dry" -- it gives your mind the information it needs to perform the subtraction, as it were. Which is funny, because I think I'm much more sensitive to phase smearing. Hey, Tyll -- where is the energy being stored, in the driver?

The box can't be Steve's work -- I didn't think he was into that tongue-in-groove stuff at all. No, seriously, really nice stuff, as always!

So the Sonys kind of sucked?

I keep seeing ads for their products in the British high-fi magazines (...Choice and ...News), and for some reason thought they were exclusively a that-side-of-the-pond thing. Didn't realize I had access to them, have been intrigued, may give them a try. But I think most of us are computer based at this point, meaning we use whatever computer is available to us, so all's we needs is/are DACses. And possibly the routing things whatever they're called...Squeezebox, Transporter, etc.