Dusty Chalk

I should close this thread on account of all the enabling going on.

Ditters on the, "that's a pretty sucky day -- mine was rainbows and puppies in comparison".

It's hard, but not impossible. Especially with a twinkle-thumbs like me.

I was laughing repeatedly. So full of win. Then I clicked on the link. "Of course." "Decoy". "Single file". "Tear collector". "...or to taste". Just...winny. Winnier. Winniest.

(makes little trumpet fanfare "ta-da!" noise)

Let's put it this way -- I wouldn't put my money on the owl.

Beer. A 4-pack of Heresy and a 13-bottle variety pack*, including a couple milk stouts, including Left Hand and River Horse. And Lancaster. And a couple of Sam Adamses. *In other words, 13 singles.

You've obviously never seen an owl take on a domestic housepet. Hint: domestic housepet usually loses, and I don't mean by points.

Thanks for posting that, I really like my previous Gotan Project album, will have to pick that one up.

Do they make USB repeaters? That many?

I had some lightpipe that I thought was too bright -- so I put sunglasses on it.

I know this works on other operating systems, but can you pop the HDD into another computer to reset the password?

In my case, I like big bass because sometimes it helps to loosen the sinuses.

No argument there.

Or maybe you just don't like bright cans. I won't argue that they're bright, but I don't think they're inherently sibilant.

Saying that the iPad is different from an iPod Touch in the same way that a shovel is different from a spoon is disingenuous -- they run the exact same software -- albeit with minor branching -- they have more or less the same internals, what varies the most in its physiognomy is largely cosmetic. Yes, the larger real estate and whatnot (is there an "and whatnot" besides speakers?) leads to slightly different usage, but other than "not putting it in one's pocket", I'm pretty sure I don't "get" the difference. Actually, one thing you showed me probably illustrated the difference best -- I would never play Samurai Sudoku on an iPod Touch.

Agreed that it's 80's/glammish/power-metally -- it's still better than growling/screaming/emo/rapping. Sorry, I'm getting completely jaded about horrid metal "vocals". Consider this -- there's no analogy to what one can do on acoustic/organic instruments. It's not even "playing outside the expected range of the instrument", which has been done. This is at least melodic, which has become increasingly important to me. And not just because of metal, but because a lot of contemporary poprock is loop-based, it tends toward monotonic. Which, although technically one note can be considered "a melody", it is not. It is to melody what grey is to color. Grey is not the complete absence of color -- that's black. But it sure looks colorless. Sorry, While Heaven Wept are all over the place stylistically. Mostly goth/doom metal. It's only their most recent release that got fairly proggy, although admittedly not as proggy as Myrath. I'll see what else I can dredge up. I tend to listen to a lot of that stuff. I do listen stuff like Meshuggah and Mnemic, but not as much. I tend to drive like Grand Theft Auto when I do, and I don't always feel like restraining myself, so I just choose to listen to music that makes me laid back and happy instead. Most of the time. On a completely unrelated note, WHERE THE HELL IS Requiem - Pianissimo (Virgin Black)?!?!?

Latest episode of Castle just popped up in Hulu queue -- a good one.

Holy crap! That's fochin' awesome -- congratulations!

That girl in the middle was amazingly cute. She even had a face like a manga character, with the strawberry shape, and the small mouth and everything. Also, probably illegal.

I love Mnemic. But jesus, you prefer that "singing" to this?!?!? EDIT: Now playing, While Heaven Wept, Lovesongs of the Forsaken http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghohQb7zlUE

Or maybe that's what happened in Iceland.

Snarky comment #1: And what programmer isn't going to program a back door? Snarky comment #2: How would you test it?

I got to play with one a little bit today. I can definitely see the appeal of the increased real estate, but it's basically an iPod Touch DX. I'd be in the market for one of these things if I was in the market for an iPod Touch with more real estate.