Hopstretch

Well, that's not great.

Making room for a turntable, eh?

How are they?

Tell it to Steve Jobs.

Just rum. Yum.

The full teardown is here. Good news is that, as long as you're willing to swallow hard and pull that glass front off, swapping out the hard drive looks trivial compared to the current generation.

Heat sinks on the new iMacs.

Heh. The old "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" ads have been tired for a while, but they've come up with just the right one-two combo for the Windows 7 launch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiU1Gu14xG0

Bow chicka wow wow.

Happy Birthday!

A little tidbit from the good folks at MacMiniColo that may make some of you happy.

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I bet either the dealer or JP set up yours. Admit it!

If the car wasn't worth much and the PoPo weren't involved, it might be best not to mention this unpleasantness to the insurance company at all?

Well that sucks. So what actually happened?

Pics or (more) ban.

25 miles is a lot further down here in the civilized world, Grizzly.

I had both running off a GS-1, and I approve this message. You could stop there and be happy forever. I marginally favored the 600s, but it's a personal preference.

Bon Iver -- For Emma, Forever Ago Vinyl.

The Pogues -- Rum, Sodomy & The Lash Vinyl.

Wow I wish we had a Costco. BJ's suck, no pun intended.

Yeah, so, turntables are definitely best set up stone cold sober. Got the cart aligned much better today and the surface noise is now even across the record (and substantially diminished overall).

Red team, epic win!

Thanks Ari. I set up somewhat hastily with the Rega template from the box and probably need to do a little more tweaking.

Any particular reason why LPs might relatively consistently have more surface noise on the first few tracks of each album side versus the last few? Poor cartridge setup? Sorry, still figuring this out as I go along.