Hopstretch

Went to a corporate children's party. Several dozen whipped- and worried-looking hedge fund guys, their (generally) hot and (regrettably) snotty wives and at least a hundred tow-headed brats all cooped up in a hotel ballroom with a troupe of acrobats and the scariest clowns in the known universe. And no booze. Kill me.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE]YouTube - Wassup 2008[/ame]

Ponces. Actually the initial slam on the Little Dot was my fault. I had the dip switches set for high-impedance phones. Much better now, though it still does a better job generally with the Senns. Bass is a little floppy with the HF-1s.

Sorry to interrupt the firepower debate, but I got a pair of HF-1s in the mail today and I'm quite chuffed with them so far. Have been listening out of the Duet as the LD can't drive them for toffee. Hopefully my GS-1 will be here any day now to take care of that problem.

The swimsuit is way more offensive than the weapon!

Me likey. Native Mac version is beta this month.

Went down to the local ADESA lot to see if there was anything nice worth trying to steal at the monthly BMW lease-return auction tomorrow. There was not. Good lord people treat their cars like crap.

Eww. Kuato's less-fortunate younger brother, I presume? Happy Birthday!

Got woken up at 3 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep. Another symptom of advancing age, I'm told. My ass is seriously dragging today.

I smell a business opportunity for Platinum ArcJacks. We make them out of cocaine and orgasms, which is a time-consuming -- though not particularly meticulous -- process.

I'm going to go out on limb here and pin the blame on fucking Matt Garza.

Happy birthday!

Let's just hope Nate didn't jinx it!

I'm more of a curl-up-into-a-baller.

J.M. Coetzee -- Disgrace I took a couple of his classes in college and he was a fucking dyspeptic old bastard well before he got run off into semi-exile with nothing but a Nobel prize for his pains.

Yeah, the OS is the real story and once they get that sorted all sorts of good hardware will follow. Can't wait, if only because I hope the prospect of serious competition will keep the pressure on Apple to improve their platform as well.

Went to meet an old friend who's been having a hard time recently, ostensibly for lunch. Turned into a full-on whiskey binge and epic bitch session. Rolled home after dark to receive a deserved ass kicking. Thinking about ordering take out.

According to the LD web forum, they've found some better (18dB) fans to put in the next batch and will provide these free to current owners if you contact them.

Yeah, we won't be able to claim they squeaked by us, that's for sure. Oh well, anyone but the Phils.

It's a negotiation. If you want $350 and think it's worth $350, then all you say to anyone offering less than $350 is "Thanks, I'd like $350." This tends to make lowballers go away and reveal the people who are actually willing to pay $350.

Four new 235/65R17s. Not the most fun way to spend that kind of money, but at least it's immediately apparent they are much better than the original tires which came on the car.

Gratuitous beaver internals shot.

If you can't handle teh glossy oh noes, Amazon has the previous $2,500 Macbook Pro on sale for $1794 plus $150 mail-in rebate.