Dusty Chalk

Can't be that big a fan...

I think he wants to know where he got the (a) parts; ( idea for the project/schematics; © who his friends are that did the other 85%.

You don't need cat stuff -- mine likes to destroy plastic bags and corrugated cardboard, so leave plenty of that around. (Be careful with the plastic bags at first -- some cats are stupid enough to suffocate themselves.) Indoor/outdoor cats -- let him out whenever he asks, unless you want to truly adopt him (I'd recommend it, of course). In which case, get some kitty litter and a pan, and place him in it at least once (so that he knows it's "his"). Get him neutered when he's old enough -- do this even if you intend to set him wild again. I was told that stateside the rule of thumb is when his balls drop. 12 hours at a time is a good rule of thumb. We've accidentally locked kitties in all sorts of rooms, and they can usually hold it until they're discovered. I wouldn't do that on purpose to an indoor/outdoor kitty, but you can train an indoor/outdoor kitty to use litter. But then he might become an indoor kitty. I've said before the big difference between dogs and cats is (1) you can't litter-train a dog, and (2) that middle of the day walk -- cats don't need one. If you're going away longer than a day, I'd find someone to watch him. Re: cleaning/dirt -- it's usually a sign that the cat isn't feeling good if it doesn't clean itself, but some outdoor cats are dirtier than indoor cats. I'd follow the advice above -- make sure it feels better, and then if it still doesn't clean itself, then don (rust-proof as well as claw-proof) armor and bathe it. If it's young enough, it can be taught to bathe. YouTube - brunello1997's Channel Take him to a vet -- will probably need deworming, rabies vaccination, and whatnot. And yes, pictures, please!

You mean, the one that says, Stolen Beauty? I believe that's called Stolen Beauty. (If you meant the unlabelled one, that's The Finest Thing which is superb beyond words. Easily my favorite by her, but it's not really fair, because it's unlike anything else she's done [i think]. Very Pink Floyd/Post Rock/patient/lots of instrumental -- more about textures than actual melodies.)

Huzzah, Brent. 29 months + is a long freakin' time to be unemployed. I say again, huzzah. I was unemployed for 12, and that seemed an eternity.

The other thing that will give you a couple more inches cost-free is inverting them, but then you have the tweeter/desk reflection problem, so I wouldn't do that until you raise them first.

He's talking about the larva. Or maybe the snickers bar.* Waits for inevitable "yeah, your penis is a snickers bar" joke.

Less disk noise due to swapping. That's all I got. Oh, and: the psychology of having a better machine than the average bear.

It expires at the exact least opportune moment.

I like that. You buy room treatments before you finish buying furniture.

I would rank a good cleaning machine very highly, amongst "tweaks", almost to the point of necessity (a cleaning "something" would be necessity -- machine just makes it easy).

Your intuition is correct. The design would normally be entirely different, going from reflex load to sealed. It's still worth trying, you won't blow anything up doing that. PS I just bought a pre. There's a good chance it'll show up on Saturday.

No, you did not. Thanks for getting me on Nate's bad side. Nate -- if I had a clue they were already spoken for by you, I never would have said anything. I'm sure I can get them from Lane Mart when I'm ready.

Once you go black, you never go back. Unless, of course, Apple forces you to.

Exactly.

Next time don't use compressed air.

Are we talking integrated, or power amp? Musical Fidelity XT100 (if you can find one)? May I be the first to say: DON'T DEW ET! And if you do, and after you compare the two, and decide to stay that way, sell me your active quads. I want to put together a surround system in the office. Say, winter/spring 2010?

What gift would you get a giant ceramic dildo, and would it know what to do with it?

Literal FOTM?

nOrh -- yeah, that's the one. PS x3 on "that stand sucks". I thought it was a prototype, or a home DIY stand, when I first saw the pic.

I wouldn't send them to Mike -- he might think he bought them, and then turn around and sell them. [/kidding]

I don't know how much I can set up by Sunday, but I'll try so that Colin can at least hear what I'm talking about in a controlled environment. Don't know whether or not we'll feel up to a DBT -- I'd rather set it up with Grawk at the controls of downsampling the files from 24/96, so I'll see what I can do in terms of getting him the files. I can do it myself, but we're limited to whatever the Masterlink does, which I suspect is simple truncation. Although the theory -- grawk's, my understanding -- should go that if the bits are below the level of human hearing, then dither shouldn't matter, but I'll save that card for later.

"Proper" -- good luck with that. Yeah, you get two things that look a lot like the original signal -- especially with a sine wave -- but music is much more complex than that. You can hear the difference much more than you can see the difference.

I was using positive numbers, so my 96db == your 0db. The first image shows the same sample rate with 2 different bit depths (differing by 1 bit). Look at the scales. The second image shows a bit depth of 1.5 bits (it's a bad example, because they're using 1 bit for sign, which is wasted when the other value is zero) vs. a bit depth of ~5 (32=2^5). It's the best I could come up with, with 5 seconds of googling. Incorrect in two ways -- it's not represented with a single value, it's represented with multiple values; and #2 if you sampled at 24 bits, you'll get different more accurate values. Look, for example, at the second image again. It's exaggerated for effect. He didn't change the sample rate, it's just that you only have one value between the time slices, so it's not changing. It looks coarse because that's what you get at lower resolutions. The first time slice where the amplitude of the signal goes down below +0.5 is when the sampled version changes to zero. I understand about the stairsteps, but I think the second image is a good example of how starting with more accurate data will produce more accurate results. At least, it does in my mind's eye.

Other choices. But yeah, stereo is good.