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R.E.M. -- And I Feel Fine: The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987

For most of the day today I thought I'd managed to lose my iPhone. Also thought I was going to cry. Scary to think how much of my life is in this thing.

"What's in the box? What's in the fucking boooooooox?"

Prefer deliberate douchebaggery to unconscious douchebaggery.

Talk Talk -- The Colour Of Spring

Maybe this should be in Tyll's baloon animal thread?

Open it up!

Veering a bit off-topic here, but it looks like the Mini is about to be updated by Apple and the word (such as it is) is that the new version will probably not have FireWire any more.

Does it have a discrete "Meatball" setting?

Little neighborhood tradition, on New Years Day the guys on our street go down to The Chicken Bone en masse and treat hangovers with buckets of nuclear hot wings, pitchers of Newkie Brown and many, many games of darts. Was a good time, though I think my stomach will not be thanking me.

Queen -- The Game

Heppy Naw Yaer, fickwuts!

We've had a good bit already. Still coming down. I got a snowthrower for Christmas, so I don't give a shit-diddly-dit anymore, do I? Of course, just for that, now it probably won't start...

Started with no headphone gear at all. Ended up with what's in my sig -- which I'd incidentally like to submit for consideration in the FOTM-iest/HC-iest awards category (non-electrostatic division). Next year is the year to get the rig better organized and beat the cable clutter. I definitely see a nice new desk and some bits and pieces of quality custom Texas woodworking in my future. Other than that, I might have a listen to some Stax. What harm could possibly come of that?

Happy Birthday! Treat yourself to a shovel sharpening.

The looks on the wives' faces when the subject of total sunk cost comes up!

What they do in private is their business, Peggy.

I had a demo Decco (try and say that fast) for a bit and it was decent. This was before headphones for me, so I can't comment on that section. With a better DAC and bigger amp, the Nova looks very nice. Apropos of nothing, I also liked the Era monitors a lot despite all the "style-of-life" ad crap on their Web site. They sound like Aerials, which is a good thing in my book.

Happy Birthday!

A new Lexus for the Mrs. at $8,500 off sticker. Someone might as well profit from Autogeddon.

Sophistone 3. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBQAuw4NYLA]YouTube - Hugh Laurie-The Sophisticated Song[/ame]

Bruce Springsteen -- The Ghost Of Tom Joad

I would also suggest having a good read around the "Dedicated Theater Design & Construction" area over at AVS Forum -- where there are many, many chronicles of garage-to-HT conversion projects that should help you ID and avoid some of the more common pitfalls of the design phase.

He's a very interesting-looking felloALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOCAT!