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Noah and the Whale -- Heart Of Nowhere

http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview

Portugal, The Man -- Evil Friends

Happy Birthday!

Re the new Mac Pro: Mo-ther-fuck-er!!!!!

Fine writer. Read every one of his Culture novels and about 75% of his "serious" fiction. A great loss. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/09/iain-banks-dies-59-cancer

Probably full of Albanian sperm.

Hurry up with the new improved retina Mini, please Apple. I want to buy a couple before Al sues you out of existence!

Tricky -- False Idols

No DSD, and $40,000 -- but someone on Head-Fi is going to buy one for sure. Atomic! http://antelopeaudio.com/en/products/Rubicon-Atomic-AD-DA-Preamp

Entirely depends who's doing it.

The National -- Trouble Will Find Me

Boop boop.

I still kinda want a DSD DAC to connect to my cereal bowl even though I can't justify it 1 bit. :jazzhands:

Heh.

As soon as Al posted that, I knew you'd be the rebuttal witness.

Big changes! CH is one of my audio heroes -- he does not mince words.

I have had the non-DSD QB-9 as my source for 5 or so years and have been very happy with it. Is the new one a clean sheet or a board upgrade? I'd be all over the latter.

Get the Mini. Little Monkey isn't going to care about the screen resolution or internals and it's much the better form factor for little people. We have three full size iPads and one Mini in the house and the kids ( 7 & 8 ) always fight over the Mini.

Lori McKenna -- MasNoNoNoNoNoNosetts

I dig the GSX mk2!

How does the Casemind feel about this Carrera 1887 as a light-faced watch on a brown band in a reasonable size (41mm)? A (rather more expensive) alternative would be something like a 40mm El Primero and then change out the strap.

He's most likely going to Bayern next season, so won't that cause some problems for you?

They had some lucky breaks -- Ribery and Dante could both very well have been sent off -- but you need some on big nights like that. Last year they got hosed, so I was happy to see them get it right this time. Neuer was immense in the first half and it was great for Robben to wrap it up.