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Yip Yip The Cowboy -- "Yeah Here We Go Crazy Apeshit Banana"

Will buy.

Today was National Braai (BBQ) Day. Seriously. Grilled some sausages and chicken kebabs for lunch. Now drinking beer.

Happy Birthday Jim!

Also kinda cool. iPhone Awareness! app selectively filters outside noises into your headphones, saves hipster lives -- Engadget

That's awful.

Hey all. I'm having weird difficulties establishing a secure connection to certain Web sites. Some work fine (gmail, online banking, amazon, itunes etc.) but some (paypal, me.com, random ecommerce sites) will not load on my iMac in any browser -- have tried Safari, Firefox and Chrome. The pages will start to render and then hang forever with no further network activity. This only occurs when connected to our home wireless setup -- cellular data connections via iPhone or iPad are OK. I've checked the router settings and nothing is being blocked there. No difference with OS X firewall off, or with Little Snitch disabled. Even switched ISPs to see if it was something at that end of the toobs, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas at all? This is doing my head in!

Mogwai -- Young Team

Happy Birthday Deepak. Long may your records remain clean!

I bet the gay team won that too. By a head.

This kinda reminded me of your average Head-Fi FOTM thread.

Om nom nom nohhh Jesus God save my bod. http://www.constantia-uitsig.com/media/download_gallery/Gourmand%20Menu%20June%202010.pdf

I like my wine and my music around 62 degrees please.

Ping is a lame name for a music network. Not to mention that it's already taken. New iPod touch looks great though. As Steve (almost) brought himself to note, it's now basically a fully-featured iPhone without any carrier bullshit.

Actually, it gets even better. Turns out to be an evangelical Christian book store. Their corporate email is [email protected], I shit you not.

Walked by this perfectly ordinary bookstore in the Canal Walk mall today. Did massive double take. Guess it's lucky they weren't having a Yellow Dot sale!

Stop checking out my ass.

2 Amys > Pizzeria Paradiso. They used to have La Chouffe on tap before the Mid Atlantic distributor went tits up. Spent so many afternoons in there. Perfect pizza, perfect beer, perfect happiness. Anyway, the pizza's still good.

:sadcat:

So, so wicked. We yearnsssss, doesn't we Smeagol?

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse -- Dark Night Of The Soul

Thanks guys. I certainly intend to get a bigger piece of iron when I can find a source down here. You don't really want to be shipping this weight class of item via FedEx!

I'm currently setting up my desktop system in South Africa and will need to run my Ayre DAC off a step-down transformer, since it couldn't be converted to 240V. On the back it says 120V, 50/60Hz, 20 W max. I have a modest 60 W compact/travel step down to hand. To those of you who actually understand this stuff, am I likely to be OK powering the DAC off that? Many thanks.