Dusty Chalk

Headphones?[/inebriated response]

It's not that, it's that most of us have settled on our systems, so there's very little upgrade-itits, and therefore very little to talk about. And most of us are way too lazy/happy/dumb/inebriated to recommend anything to anyone. EDIT: Er...-itis. (Freudian slip?) ...and antiestablishmentarianistic.

Hit it, and forgive it, or quit it.[/clinton] (Translation: Buy it and try it.)

I have 202's -- you're welcome to look for yourself the next time you're over. I am immune to the etch.

My mom was the sort of person not to want to know. Let's put it this way -- she's so old-fashioned that she dressed modestly even when not going out, just because God could always see her. I'll ask, but she won't know. I'll report back only if she surprises me. No no no! That's just what I meant by patience -- if you can get past the point of "looking like pubes", it'll look cool. And for the record -- Fu Manchu == very cool. Oh, and me: helped my cousin move. Ate some sushi in the dark, accidentally ate the entire dollop of Wasabi -- I'm going to be paying for that later, when it hits that spot somewhere around that spot between my upper and lower intestines where I wake up in a sweat and doubled-over in pain. EDIT: Also reported a problem on google maps, here is the entire text of the problem: I kill me. Oh, look, there's a Burger King. And Ourisman Honda. And a Kohl's. And a Bob Evans. Yeah, I'm sure all those businesses appreciate having their names associated with 'murk'.

It's one of my favorites. Mostly because it has no spastic free jazz track, which most other pre-1980 King Crimson albums have. But also because it has not a duff track on it. Including a cover of 4'33'. Me: earlier today -- Pain of Salvation, Road Salt One/Linoleum and Ambeon.

OMG, drop everything, watch Kick-Ass first (unless of course you've seen it already).

Benny Hinn is comedy gold. The only downside is that there are people out there that take him seriously.

I have a feeling I'll be getting tomorrow's as well.

Maybe he had it set to DC. Every time you guys write 'DC', I think 'wow, yet another Dusty Chalk reference...no, wait, they mean District of Columbia'.

It must have just come out, be patient. And who are you to talk, oh Mr. I've-tried-Dark-Lord? I haven't even had 3F anything yet. Oh yes you will. Which nights are class nights for you again?

Dude. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I can't grow a beard, because it basically looks like pubic hair. I honestly believe I have some Mongolian blood in me. On my dad's side -- he was from Eastern Europe/Western Russia, but farther back in the lineage, I don't see it as completely unfeasible for there to be some East-Asian blood somewhere in there. I have two pieces of advice: #1 -- patience -- give it as much fucking time as you can. #2 -- tease the shit out of it. ("Teasing" has a very specific meaning with hair.)

QFA. Not so odd, really.

Isn't that a Residents side project? Which is funny, because the rumor was, the Residents is a side project of...uh...(I'll put it in quotes, so that you know I'm quoting the rumor)...a side project of "serious" musicians (and by "serious", I mean the Beatles, which I believe everyone by now knows is not the case, but...someone like the Beatles).

He had another one with zero negative feedback which was nothing but opamps feeding into each other (yes, the circuit diagram was basically a pyramid). I think it was an exercise in silliness, but still...

moar beer: Moylan's Kiltlifter, yeti imperial stout, and Voodoo Vator Forgot: also spotted: Dogfish Head Namaste...in a bottle. And it was only a couple dollars more than the glass I had, so a bargain. Also: I now have over a case and a half of Tiny -- I should start drinking that shit on a regular fucking basis, otherwise the sudden drop in sales is going to send the wrong message to Weyerbacher.

Battlestar Galactica complete series on blu-ray, $133 @ amazon

Those are rather two disparate watches (I'm assuming whichever Invicta you're looking at is not a skeleton). If you are interested in skeletons, might I recommend leaning towards Android. I'm very fond of my few Androids, and they have some very cool skeleton designs (e.g. the Prism, the Mystique, etc.). And tend to be cheaper than either Invicta, Renato, and Stuhrling. But you should also watch out for the upcoming Invicta (I forget its name...Divemaster?) -- instead of the rotator being visible on the back (as they usually are on skeletons, or any automatics with exhibition backs), there's a submarine propellor.

...or a hurricane and 24 inches of snow.

orange chicken from Ricky's Rice Bowl

That's a lot of courses. And rather mixed up, culturally. (Not meant as a criticism, just...noting.) Shit, I forgot to eat dinner again. I'm going to go grab a yogurt.

Really, processors aren't getting that much faster -- the bottlenecks are becoming the hard drive (and associated -- e.g., sata controller, etc.) and the memory. They're evolving both sideways (I.E. quad cores and hex cores), and with the whole rearchitecturing thing (i3, i5, i7, etc. vs. previous pentium-based architectures). In other words -- any of those should be fine, even the i3. For things like email, web, desktop production (especially what I would call "consumer level" desktop production -- graphic artists are a whole different thing), your problem won't be the machine, it'll be other things (I add "network" to my above list of examples -- especially for web-browsing). The only time you need a more powerful machine if you're doing something moar hardcoar -- gaming, number crunching, video processing, image processing (which would mostly be memory), music processing...and someone like me, who really doesn't do anything, but just craves power. Don't feel obliged to do what I do. If you do a lot of multi-tasking, then I would concentrate on boosting memory (including making sure she gets a 64-bit operating system), and getting moar coars. Sorry, mah cat is helping me tahp.

moar Tiny moar Consecrator moar Fordham doppelbock moar BrewDog RipTide and one Pike KiltLifter...coming soon, Battle Of The Scotch Ales