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Weird-lookin' DAC.

Just try to think of it as corned beef minus the cabbage.

Two pound ribeye washed down with two bottles of claret. Take that, girlish figure!

Took the kids for a sleepover with their favorite aunt, then drove up to Vermont for a little grown-up time with the Mrs. Currently drinking a Manhattan, eating a giant cheese plate and watching Family Guy, in bed. Semi-interesting fact, the sidewalks in Manchester are made out of marble.

Leonard Cohen -- Live In London Great recording of a great concert.

Well, if cracked.com says so that's good enough for me!

Well, now we know who sells them in the US, Al!

A Flock Of Seagulls -- A Flock Of Seagulls

Sorry to hear that!

Try taking some Scotch.

Thanks all. Middle age isn't so bad so far. Dropped the kids off at school, fixed a nice high-fiber breakfast and just getting to grips with my new To Do list: -- Buy golf clubs. -- Fitting for tweed jacket. -- Become audio bore -- Call broker. Ladder CDs. -- Change party affiliation. -- Tawdry affair with young skank. (PM me if you know any. Or are one.)

Dire Straits -- Dire Straits

Which eats you in the dark.

Depeche Mode -- A Broken Frame

Everyone needs glowing balls in their ears!

If you've never had the regular flu shots before, it's two jabs one month apart. Otherwise, just one. The nurse said the swine flu vaccine will most likely be a single dose, as the most recent studies show it's effective enough that way. But it's not written in stone yet.

Yeah. We're being told to get both the regular shots now and the H1N1 when it's available in October. The swine flu is apparently much harder on the lungs and both my kids have pulmonary issues, so I see the risks of a new and obviously rush-tested vax as the lesser of two evils in this particular case.

I was thinking of getting drunk. Maybe a little crying.

Took everyone to get flu shots. Started closing up the swimming pool. Ordered heating oil.

Iron Maiden -- Killers

MA Men :dance: Warning, contains normal Boston levels of swearing and is, hence, NSFFW.

Simon & Garfunkel -- Live 1969 Hooray for insomnia.

I agree with you there, Dinny. He's all, like, "hi-rez is teh awesome, OMG my eyes are opened!" but doesn't really ever get down to a review of the sound like he would with any other "conventional" component. Most egregiously, he has the top-of-the-line Ayre disc player as his reference and can't be arsed to give us the obvious assessment of how the computer-based system compares to that. I think it comes back to the fact that most of these old-line audio guys still find this sort of stuff a bit of a mind fuck and they don't really know where to slot it into their personal frame of reference. So its OK to compare two PC playback chains but we don't want to get into whether this is a good as a real hi-fi source. Whatever, they made it an A+ recommended component, which ought to sell a few.