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Yeah, I only mentioned the RP's, 'cause they could still be had for <US$100, IIRC.

Dogfish Head -- I missed that the "World Wide" was a stout, will get one. Grawk -- don't...just...don't bother mentioning stuff I can't get like Life & Limb, m'kay? semi-local -- Ah, typical useful alcoholic response -- "I don't remember what this stuff was, but it was real good." Srsly -- let me know when you remember, please. There were a couple of milk stouts that looked tempting, don't remember if I got any, though. I want to say Duck Rabbit?

I'm going to get all hippie and say, "thinking good and safe vibes in your general direction, man". Thank you for your service. Srsly.

Great Lakes Blackout Stout has been added to the list. (I'll also have to check through all my "to try" singles to see if I haven't already bought one. Sounds familiar.) What are the feelings on the new Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Ales? I got the first one -- it was good, but not outstanding. Worth it just for the corked bottle, though, so I bought a couple more. Better than most everything else I had -- most of the corked bottle varieties that I've found have been Belgian whites, which I'm not as fond of. I am definitely tending towards the "rich" side of the palette spectrum.

They do, indeed.

They're the smeggified ortho's that Colin has. And yes, if you can get him to do you a pair, they'd be hard to beat.

This should be your short list: Shure SRH840 -- just get these. Northern light and sound, $120, I think. Everything you get after that, you'll end up comparing to these. CD3000 Denons (several at a variety of price points -- the 5000's or the 7000's, depending on how refined your hearing is) I'll second the DT880, although I don't remember them isolating very well Fostex T40RP's -- you'll want an amp with some oomph, though Philips SHN9500...okay, kidding, those suck AKG K271 ? I forget which ones are the closed ones.

Will try the Heresy (dig the packaging on that one, think I even bought a single to try, will raise the priority on that one). Sam Smiths Oatmeal Stout is a favorite already, good call on those...er...good calls on that. I actually liked the Youngs Oatmeal that Jin let me try more than the double chocolate -- haven't ruled out the double chocolate, only tried it once, and there's a lot of variance with mood and other things recently olifactorily ingested that influence how much you like something, but it just wasn't as good as the one swig of the Young's Oatmeal that I remember. I'm definitely in the market for that, though I think I'm going to have to order that online -- no-one carries it. But now that I think about it, there isn't an oatmeal stout that I've tried that I don't like -- I definitely have a tendency to enjoy the oatmeal stouts more than the imperial stouts. And I have no idea what that means to an Imperial Oatmeal stout.

Cool, maybe we'll have that mini-meet before you leave.

Devin Townsend's Addicted! (with Anneke all over it) is particularly good.

Mine three. Those meter tubes caught my attention from across the room, and the cleanliness and authority of the sound was outstanding. Here's to hoping he can bring it to market for under US$1K -- I'll definitely shell out the dosh for that! And it was nice to see Colin one last time before he moved out of the area. Here's to hoping he still wanders back this way once in a while.

Maybe. Will purchase and decide. Do dig the technology behind it. I don't know if it's been posted in this thread, but it's on my wishlist, and I've even seen it in person. Again, dig the technology behind Casio's Eco-Drive watches -- solar-power reinforces a standard winding watch movement. Just haven't gotten around to purchasing it yet. I have since bought this watch. It is the blackest watch I have ever seen. Nixon has also again catered to me and made an (otherwise) all-black watch with purple numerals. I bought the first model off the machine line. I have a bit of a watch problem. I have already spent more money whimsically buying watches than I would consider spending on headphones. I have no idea what is wrong with me. The current "thing" is mother-of-pearl. And I have long since moved past all-black or largely black watches -- I have a couple of very shiny silvertone watches (one with a "salmon" face which is just outlandishly gorgeous, and several other dyed-MOP dials), and have bought almost the entire series of Invicta Lupah Revo's. Any suggestions on how to curtail said spending and/or how to obtain large sums of money by endangering my life for entertainment purposes would be greatly appreciated.

So this is pretty much an open invitation for suggestions, as well as a vehicle to talk about my recent drinking binge. I tend to like porters and stouts, and surprisingly (because I don't drink coffee) java porters. I should also mention that I would prefer one of those larger corked bottles, so I can pour off a smaller portion for myself. Usually takes me over a week to finish one of them. I've been drinking a lot lately. Not a lot as in a lot, but as in a lot for me. I'll mention some recent favorites and some recent "meh": Bashah -- this one didn't really hit me upside the head as anything special, but for some reason, I kept coming back to it (maybe it was the pricetag -- $6/bottle?!?!? I can't imagine any beer being that good...). It's not one of those that really hits as you with your first swig as "wow, that's good!" -- it's more subtle than that. Sure, there are other beers that are better in certain areas, but this one succeeds by not being particularly offensive in any one area. My ex-brewer friend Dave said that it was too hoppy for him, so apparently, somewhere along the line, I have developed a taste for hops. I suspect that with this beer, it's not its hoppiness that I like, but the refinement in the choice of hops that I like. Bell's Kalamazoo Stout -- just a really good stout. London Meantime Porter -- meh. More later.

Archer -- funniest show in ages. Basically an R-rated Get Smart. Castle -- best show on television right now.

Yup, I'm definitely going there. Thanks! Now I can sleep. In my bunk. 'cause that's where I'm going. Before 'special hell'.

Um...that's a trick question, right?

Origami is win. Almost always. Who dat? Her face looks vaguely familiar. I'm stuck on Bryce Dallas Howard, but I'm pretty sure she's not as buxom. But now I'm stuck, and can't get past her.

I wouldn't worry about it, the BH is better. Tubes, yaknow.

Wanted.

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Bill Frisell -- rarum Huzzah -- such a great album.

Yeah, but I still got one...for my computer CD's. Plus, it's black.

About 19 Blue Note SACD's (catching up on the subscription)

Incorrect. JH13's got pretty princessesses (because of the crack), T1 got 'interesting'. It's not about you, it's about your purchase, Mr. World-revolves-around-me-man. That said, the T1 purchase is more interesting the JH13 -- that's just the FOTM. ;P

I realize it's not a tube per se, but: I like the aesthetic; I like the functionality; I like the randomness;