Dusty Chalk

This.

Thanks for bumping this thread. I found my watch, the Oris Oscar Peterson Jazz Series: Yes, those are meant to look like keyboard keys around the outer rim. Yes, that is meant to look like a record groove towards the center. So 'me', it hurts. C'mon, man, that's a skull. Skulls are the shit. Plus, the hands look like a sword and dagger. Coolest fucking watch evar.

So is that almost like an iPad dock?

No. Some veggie burgers are actually good. As long as it doesn't taste like bird seed, I can be pretty easy to satisfy. There was a time in high school that I got to craving -- yes, craving -- those soy-filler-burgers that they made in the cafeteria. I still don't know where to get such a thing. As in, on purpose.

That's true -- that's probably half the weight right there. EDIT: Oh, I remember -- because you might actually want the data. Other than that, no reason.

Don't you have a door that it could hold open or something? I mean, I can't even suggest installing linux on that thing. Also, if it's just the motherboard that's fried, you could at least take out the disk drive, and put it in an external 2.5 enclosure.

Would it? Back before I discovered forums (I believe the years still began with "In the year of our lord, nineteen-hundred and..."), I never paid a lot of attention to the ramblings of laypeople, I only cared if it appeared to be a full-on legitimate review, like Stereophile, Bound for Sound, and whatnot. Also, different things mean different things to different people -- while $1000 may be the interesting threshold to you and me, it may be a drop in the bucket for someone else, or...maybe not a drop in the bucket, but they only wanted the best/most expensivest/most exclusive headphone/speakers/etc.

If it's still in that state this weekend, I'll come over and help. (The receiver, not the laundry.)

Billy Bags -- I'm a huge fan of the industrial cross-brace esthetic. Otherwise, go flexy. (Or is it spelled, 'flexi'?)

How could I remember (I don't read head-fi)?

...which is funny, because I'm using the June issue as a bookmark into SoundOnSound (size is perfect). I guess I don't read Stereophile as much as I thought I did. Um...yeah, if anyone does have the May issue handy, I wouldn't mind if they see if JA verified that jitter figure.

Just read about this in SoundOnSound magazine -- another entry into the portable USB DAC/amp category. Of interest: extremely small USB-powered very simple (USB port on one end, headphone jack on the other, volume knob) company provides technology to the likes of Benchmark, et al targeted at professionals (and probably "prosumers") "seriously low" jitter figure via reclocking (1 picosecond) $400 It's that second-to-last one that caught my attention (no, Colin, I still haven't read that article you linked for me).

I made the following joke on another forum (crf2 -- it may interest you if you're into classic rock -- feel free to tell them I sent you), after a particular large batch of classic rockers died -- that's the danger of being a fan of classic rock. Jean-Michel Jarre?!?!? One of my concerts that I must see before I die (or he dies). Wouldn't mind Vangelis and/or Mike Oldfield, neither, myself.

Some Pho.

This thread is full of awesomeness.

An exact approximation would include deviation.

Oh, hey look, they made a movie about it: YouTube - Severed Ways - Official Trailer

I suspect that metallurgy has advanced sufficiently that any benefit Damascus steel had over its contemporaries have long since been overshadowed, but being as there is a market for it (if manufactured [the market, I mean]), I wouldn't be surprised if some old school Williamsburg type didn't try to recreate the process -- if mostly for aesthetics.

I'll let those more experienced talk specific points, but if it's real, Damascus steel is not just about looks. (I don't know if anyone does real Damascus steel though.)

I'm sorry for your (blood) loss.

Will be catching up on my hulu, shortly: last two episodes of Community, a middle episode of Human Target, anything else I missed.

Alright, I'm sold -- I'm going to try and see them June 2. Thanks for sharing.

Oh snap.

Happy Birthday, ***BRENT***!