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Blow blow shovel shovel blow blow shovel shovel lunch shovel shovel Pats game beer beer.

Hubba hubba!

I like ostrich. Kudu steaks are the business, too, but a bit hard to come by outside the local area. Town plow just went by and sealed up our driveway with a nice big berm of snow. Won't be going anywhere for a while.

Still coming down hard here. Looks like we'll get a foot or so, easy. We're right on the edge of the Worcester snow band and usually get a couple inches more than the average for the region.

Wow, we can has snow! So much for the glancing blow.

Bits of her.

You have a shovel in your hand. Take action!

Had some outstanding human interactions at the Post Office (last day to get your cards in the mail) and at the grocery store (last few hours to stock up ahead of the big Nor'Easter). Then I went to the liquor store, where they were having a whisky tasting and everyone was pretty mellow.

Sparklehorse -- Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

Of course we had a nice evening in the city planned for tonight. Not looking promising right now. Depends on what time the snow starts coming down...

I am inexplicably drawn to them!

Priority Mail's six days to Scotland estimate is looking a bit optimistic after two weeks. I wonder if HM Customs are in the mix?

Shane MacGowan and the Popes -- The Snake

Rilo Kiley -- The Execution Of All Things

Hate to lift straight from Gizmodo, but this is truly, truly epic. And, when we get to part two, we find out that our critic dude basically is Reks.

I think it's personal preference more than anything. I use only flats on my HF1s, could go either way with the HP1s and absolutely hate them on the HF2s. I find the HP1s still have enough bass with bowls and appreciate the slightly more expansive stage and better detail retrieval that I perceive with the driver slightly further from the ear. Dusty, one reason I asked was digging up an old Hirsch post where he stated very categorically that the polarity switches caused the HP1s to roll off far more quickly than the HP2s at both ends of the frequency spectrum. Now, I don't hear anything particularly out of the ordinary with my pair, but then I don't rate either my accumulated headphone experience or my ears particularly highly.

Yay! As an aside, Jim, I think I marginally prefer bowls on them. Flats muddy things up just a touch too much, although they're not nearly as bad as on the HF2s.

I know this was probably endlessly hashed out on HF back in the day, but I'm late to the HP1000 party and most of what I have been able to unearth over there is just the usual clueless blithering. So I ask you fine gents: Is there generally held to be a significant difference in sound quality between the HP1s and HP2s? I really, really dig the HP1s I got from Jim and I'm thinking thoughts. You know the ones.

Congrats and, erm, don't plug them into that!

Happy Birthday!

Could you ... um ... you know? After what I like to refer to as the "Great toe Awakening", I'm suddenly paying closer attention to strong sammich recs.

Doubly sorry Dinny, for obvious reasons.

Fresh pasta, two pints of ridiculously good ragu and a really spendy Super Tuscan from my local pusher of La Dolce Vita. It's fucking freezing outside and the Mrs. got absolutely killed at work today -- I think she deserves to come home to a fragrant kitchen and some tasty wine.

Beck -- Mutations