Dusty Chalk

I believe I have that disk, Justin, I'll pull it out the next time we get together, you can hear it for yourself.

I prefer January as well, just because there's either fewer crowds (in person) or less traffic (in person and online).

My Heisenberg fortune cookie says...maybe.

I can think of worse places to be than Hawaii in November. That's, like, my favorite place on earth that I've ever been. I used to travel to Hawaii (for work) a lot -- I never had a problem going there -- just went to bed when I felt like it (8pm) the first night, and I was good to go. Of course, I was a lot younger then. The hard part is coming back. Zombie for a day, pretty much. I started taking the red-eye back, just because it wasn't worth it not to. So: last day of work == Friday, red-eye == Friday night/Saturday morning; stay up all day Saturday (maybe take a nap), then go to bed early Saturday night. YMMV, etc. I forget where it is, but there's a killer Italian-type place in the center of town...they have this thing like garlic bread, except it's knots. I forget what they're called, and where they are, but I want to say it was near a mall. (does a little bit of googling) Yeah, that looks right. It looks like nothing more than an Olive Garden, but I remember liking it. Worth trying, if you can get to it.

Placebo? That's all I got.

It certainly does so far, and I haven't even finished the first chapter.

Finished Frostbitten, read Men Of The Otherworld (which I thought was a short story collection, but was largely the backstory of one of the primary men in the series. Also read Definitely Dead and All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris -- she's my second favorite of the genre. Started Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

You're using tube amplification on the headphones and solid state on the speakers?

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!1!

I think this was the part I was missing...these were the parts...So thanks, both to you and the others.

I thought I understood Orthos, but I guess I'm wrong if I understand this statement correctly. I thought it was similar to a dynamic headphone, only instead of a voice coil, the diaphragm was between two layers of magnets (I.E. orthogonally from the traditional dynamic driver). For example.

Even better.

Donkey? If 6 was 9? QQ/KK/KQ?

Colin, don't dew et. Then you will (eventually) have more speakers than me.

Isn't there some sort of "reindexing" that you need to do?

I'm glad for him. So he's sleeping with one eye open?

I had Chinese last night. My fortune cookie fortune read, "There is a true and sincere friendship between you both." I was alone.

Happy Birthday, Dinny!

Really? I thought it did, especially the anti-gravity aspect of it. Looks just like a battery that had leaked and dried or something, though I realize this wasn't supposed to have batteries.

Holy shit, Pink Martini did a Christmas album? I'm driving my sister's car, which doesn't have iPod, but does have CD, so I stuck in one that I wouldn't mind on infinite repeat: Swallow the Sun, Plague of Butterflies.

& a good old sympathetic

Agreed, the dark chocolatey goodness is indeed almost more than a mere mortal can bear...bare...uh...take.

About to embark on Big Bang Theory, Season 3.

2004, but thanks for that. 195/55R15 is correct.

...and DVD's (my primary visual sources, I will admit). I don't have a whole lot of experience with 720p, I actually have more experience with 720p upscaled to 1080p (or higher -- but actually, didn't like the higher, which just means that I prefer the upscaler built into the Oppo than I did the one built into my Dell 30" 1600p screen. Which of course makes sense. That said, my statement was about 720p, not 720p upscaled to 1080p. I haven't liked any 720p large screen tv I've seen in any store, even correcting for difference. Heck, I can tell that they change the scale between the time-filler material they project on the screen in theaters digitally, and when they switch to the trailers. I'll be honest -- I sit pretty close to my screen at home -- maybe 4 feet. 30", but I have it set so that it doesn't upscale, so 1080p only takes up 1080/1600 of it (vertically, and whatever the corresponding equivalent horizontally). At Hirsch's, I sit maybe 10-15 feet away from his...52"? 1080p Panny Plasma. At Dave's, I sit maybe 20-25 feet away from his screen which is...I don't know, huge (4'? ~half the wall high), 1080p, upscaled by...uh...I don't know, now that I think about it...projected by a JVC D-ILA something projector. But I'll agree with that last statement about future-proofing and niggling-doubt -- If you can, get it for the psychology of getting it. If you really don't think you can tell the difference, then by all means, stop looking, and brainwash yourself into not seeing it, and get the 720p set. You'll only convince yourself you can see the difference, given enough time. Whether or not you can really tell the difference.