Dusty Chalk

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.

There's a whole magazine of music apps for the iPhone/iPad/iOS, and a couple pages devoted to Android and MS, as well.

Well...I don't know what's wrong with people. It's obviously an oblique reference to the communist hammer-and-sickle, not the crescent moon of Islam. Yes/no?

What?!?!? The first one was epitomical contemporary prog; the second was weird by alternating synthpop tracks, and this one sort of melded the two. I mean, they still have that sound (I think mostly because of the multiple lead vocals), but they're all different.

I am pretty happy with my cheap little Ikea foam mattress -- it 'inflates', like Duggeh said his did. I don't like this memory-foam shit, but only because I would never get out of bed ever again -- way too enticing and comfortable. I also really like -- for sleeping -- a firm mattress -- the most comfortable I ever slept was one of those exercise mats over a concrete floor -- just enough cushion to prevent the contact points from getting sore, but no more. If this sounds appealing, then I can look up which one it is, but really you should just go to Ikea and try them out, they have a wide variety of mattresses there, and a nice little lookup table to immediately tell you if it's something you'll like or not.

Here here -- I, too, would like to express my appreciation for anyone who is serving or has ever served. Thanks!

Will read the thread, but...wait, what? So you can't use it as a USB-DAC, but if you just give it the files, it can play them? That might be adequate. It really might be the perfect solution for everything.

I suspect the language would deteriorate into a lot of "hrm" and "pffft".

Deep in Thought, Dreamscapes -- this is instrumental post-rock of the Tortoise/Timeout Drawer variety, with some very heavy moments, epic guitar tones, and very catchy hooks. I can tell right now that this is going to become an addiction, just like Nowonmai did.

I Am Legend (the original story by Richard Matheson, not the Will Smith movie) has a bit of that, though not as much as you'd like, I think.