Dusty Chalk

Well, I've sent him two messages, and he kind of sucks at responding, so I'm thinking I'll get the two or three disks I want (and can't find elsewhere) and be done with it, taking a chance that he'll charge me individual shipping on all the items.

Home-Theater-Dave has one of those Capelands -- there's something totally lust-worthy about that raw carbon fiber.

(a) Pfff -- I doubt it's black enough. ( ... See (a).

Shipping crates? Just curious why shipping crates over ...say, boxes or plastic tubs? Since I have the same problem, albeit worse.

A couple iPod protective skins, including this one:

We'll see when it rains. It really doesn't handle all that differently on dry pavement. Didn't check the tread, but I did check and make sure they changed the correct tires. They did. I now have four of the same Kumho Solus kh16 tires. EDIT: I'll see what I can do about pics of the Surrounder this weekend.

Boomana?

Me? Calypso "Teamonade" mangerine tea and lemonade Wait, so: Teamonade |........\ Lemonade Mangerine Tea ..........|............\ ..........Mangerine.....Black Tea ..........|.........\ ..........Tangerine..Mandarin Orange ...really? You couldn't think of any more ingredients to mix together? To its due -- it is fairly complex.

Samples from the Linn website from Kuniko plays Reich, including an arrangement for percussions of "Electric Counterpoint", which I am well familiar with (the Pat Metheny version). It's wonderful. I'm going to have to get this.

Yeah, I think I'm going to just keep reminding myself that's the best part, rather than let it be something that bothers me. Sometimes I just want to whine, though. That was yesterday, today is different -- no whining today. PS Got my new tires today. Huzzah. EDIT: I got the Surrounder today. OMG. It's enormous.

Had a second taste of that Catena and Alamos -- bah, must have been my allergies, it tasted fine last night. The Alamos was still better.

According to an email I got, the Halou Wiser show is almost sold out.

Yeah, but it changes the spread, and I wouldn't feel as bad about that, since the spread on a new one was more like $70.

Just discovered Left Hand is making (non-barrel-aged) Wake Up Dead a perrenial. Huzz-fucking-ah!

It bothers me because I could have paid a couple bucks more ($30, today; less during a sale), gotten a refurb, an extra charger, an extra cable...and have been able to keep the fat-case iPod, for playing with later, if I so desired. I mean, yeah, the hard drive was toast, but the electronic smarts and the LCD screen were still fine.

I know it's Transformer Mickey, but Mecha-Mickey is more fun to say.

'cause it came in a bare box, as a replacement part. I mean, it's the only reason they're going to have refurbs on hand, and if it was new, wouldn't they keep it in a new box for the more likely sale? It was packed differently. I guess my point is, the lie was there -- I was guaranteed it'd be new, and on paper, there's no such guarantee.

Yeah, then what? That's basically the same as "seller's other items".

I have a TX81Z, does that count? (Trick question: the answer is no. The TX81Z was an abortion -- they combined FM synthesis with wave table lookup. So you could frequency modulate square waves with other square waves and whatnot. Yeah, that made things...uh...better. :\ ) Eno was the grand master in FM programming. It definitely had some strengths, but being intuitive to program was not one of them. Even if you happened to know how to program them, you still didn't think, "oh, I love programming this thing". It was more like, "oh. what happens if we do this...?" and just perchanced on serendipity. (Is that a double negative? Is it not?)

I went and exchanged my iPod. I probably shouldn't have, because I'm pretty sure I got a refurb, and I explicitly asked, and was told that I would get a new one. Looking through the paperwork, it explicitly says that the replacement part (yes, a whole new iPod) could be new used or reconditioned. I should have gone with my gut instinct. Bah.

Gosh, I hope they don't sell out of Moving Pictures before I have a chance to order it this time. Srsly: thanks for that. Will use it this time.

It's a bit like a great big spirograph.

So this guy on eBay has a disc that I want, and since he's in Germany, and there are other things in Germany that I want, I want to be able to browse what he has, but he sucks and doesn't put them in categories or anything. Does anyone have any advice on how to go through his catalog without looking up every single thing he has somewhere else? It's this guy, tucu9. I got SACD's, and there's even one I want (After Forever, though no Epica), but beyond that I'm stumped. I like his electro/ebm/industrial selection (which includes the disc I want), but am insufficently familiar with compilations to know which are good ones and which are not so good (I am avidly not into the whole aggro noise/power electronics thing...er...any more...not so much). And, of course, there's very little point in getting something from over there that I can get over here, unless it's significantly cheaper. I'm tempted to write a script that goes through his selections one at a time and look them up for me.

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.