Dusty Chalk

Thanks! Did this.

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The one time I've used the service (additional shelves for a home theater unity thingy), I was happy with it, but I didn't need them to do anything but be not too big not to fit, and not too small to fall off the supports. Because of the speed of the cutting, you can actually get pretty flat cuts with a band saw, methinks. Don't know how accurate, but flat, anyway.

Wait, what?

You don't need us. If you buy the wood at Lowe's or Home Depot, you can usually find someone in back to cut it down to size for free. Best thing to do is come with measurements, ask how they want the board marked, then mark it.

It's an expression.

Well...I spent most of today trying to crowbar Ubuntu into VirtualPC2007. :mikey2: :mikey2:

Well yes, that probably has a lot to do with it, and in your mind, you probably lumped that in with regenerative braking, and I probably didn't. But that's neither here nor there, my real point was that by toggling back and forth between running from the fuel engine vs. the electric motor, you still save gas. Even when you're maintaining a perfectly stead speed, some of that energy can still be stored into the battery, and then you can shut off the gas engine once in a while. It sounds complicated, but they actually did a really good job of engineering it. I am kind of surprised some of the design discoveries from the hybrid haven't trickled back into regular cars, in terms of smarter starting of engines.

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You know, I was taught -- at a very simplistic level -- that they are more or less orthogonal: diesel is better for distance, hybrid is better for stop-and-go. But really, it takes very little stop-and-go to be better than just plain gas, and I have no idea where the break-even point is between hybrid and diesel, but as was pointed out -- with diesel prices being so much higher than regular gas prices, diesel isn't a clear choice in what seems like a distance drive. A cousin of mine lives near Dulles airport in Virginia and commutes to Washington, DC 5 days a week; he has a hybrid. He does just enough stop start on his way to work to keep the mileage up -- it's not just the breaking that gets converted to energy, the very act of having the motor feed the battery and then running off the battery is inherently more efficient than running directly off the motor all the time. It's like buffering bits.

Unless the electric-diesel hybrid sees the light of day, my next car is in most likelihood either a VW Golf/Rabbit/whatever, Jetta Sportwagen, or an Audi A3. (Diesel -- I'm hoping they come in diesel.) Or maybe the Tiguan.

Yeah, a lot of the auto manufacturers are coming out with the next generation of clean diesel within the next couple of years: BMW, Honda, and of course, VW and Audi. There are others, but I forget right now. EDIT: Mercedes, I think, and Nissan, Toyota, Ford (of course), and GM (of course). Ah. (Regular gasoline cars take more fuel starting than running...for less than a minute [roughly]. More than a minute, and it becomes worth it, gas-wise, to stop the car and restart it. I presume by this that you mean, with diesels, that time limit becomes much longer, as in, long enough to fill your tank [10 minutes or so, with foam].)

Dong wrong.

Based on 20 seconds worth of sound samples, I'm guessing: Julee Cruise, Devics, maybe Lisa Germano, Lori Carson, Nicole Blackman? ...I even hear some Nancy Sinatra (circa her collaborations with Lee Hazelwood). (Thanks for the pointer, I'm definitely getting it.)

Well...you're wearing black, I guess that's formal.

How does that save cash?

And then there's the Diesel/Hybrid hybrids. VW has gone back and forth between whether or not they're going to market them in the states (they think they'll be too expensive for it to be worth their while to sell them here). I think they're wrong (especially if gas prices don't come back down).

Y'all look the same to us down here -- cold in the winter, desirably nice in the summer, pretty fall colors, spring is okay. In answer to the original question, I'd love to come up and meet you guys and hang out and listen to tunes and provide some of my own, just as I would have loved to have gone down to Florida for that meet, but life priorities and Crazy 8 Ball say, "seems unlikely".

840c? Good luck getting it for under a thousand, though. Oh, and before anyone else beats me to it: FOTMFOTMFOTMFOTMFOTM... More seriously, how about an Apogee Mini-DAC, if you don't want to go Mac?

Hamburger, dusty-style (onions & garlic on a George Foreman grill)

Thanks for the impressions, more when you feel like it, please.

You know, some guys joke that if they were given a pussy, they'd just spend the entire day stroking it all day and playing with it and petting it. I found out that it's true, as that's what I did. I llluvz mah llittol kitteh.

Yeah, but I bet your "swing from vine" score is even higher.

Yeah, I saw that. At that price, not even tempted.

Hey! That was a long time ago, and I was drunk.