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Tyll, that's hilarious. I got good news today - Apple called to say my son's 2006 Macbook Pro is fixed, and while the estimate was for $185 it's gonna cost only $87 in real dollars. Pretty happy about that. No more need for external keyboard if we want to type an A, D, X, C, or V.

That's good you caught it early - sometimes you don't know they have an ear infection until their ears are draining.

So far the combination of Avelox and Zyvox are starting to knock out the infection. The plan is to drop by Duke if it starts to worsen again before we return. We got to spend some time at Myrtle Beach and the pool today and got plenty of rest, with two more days of rest before we return to Duke for a day. I think this trip is starting to turn around for the better.

Been coughing up loads of blood since Friday. Decided to not cancel the trip to duke university and Myrtle Beach. Lived through the plane ride thanks to a portable oxygen concentrator. The worst part was hiding the problem as we were taking off and having to cough and swallow about 4-5 OZ of blood so I wouldnt spew all over everyone. Life sucks sometimes. At least myrtle beach is pretty, daughter loves Duke.

Happy birthday!

Comcast felt a bit faster tonight. I suppose during the day we're sharing bandwidth and it sometimes slows down to half of this. This is still 10x faster than we ever got with Qwest DSL.

Happy birthday

Took our old 2006 15" Macbook Pro to the Apple Store with a flakey keyboard. I couldn't fix it by doing a PRAM reset using a USB keyboard, or by booting from the installer disk. Apple thinks we're looking at $185 to fix it, since the Apple Care ran out a year and 83 days ago. It's fine as long as we don't need to use the A, D, X, C, V, and left CMD keys. One option was to just make the kids keep using it with an external keyboard plugged in, or using the onscreen software keyboard, but I was out voted.

I love the "H2O too" one.

What I like about the lens cap on my Leica D-Lux 5 is that I can grab the cap in my left hand, and wrap the tethering cord around my fingers in order to get a more steady hold on the camera. I also like that it will protect the lens better if I drop the camera. I once dented a lens on my Mamiya 35mm when it fell a short distance onto a table, but landed on the outer edge of the lens awkwardly.

I have a Rolex that was handed down to me when my grandfather passed away (which fortunately didn't spend any time hidden in anyone's anus). I keep it locked up in a safe to pass on to my son someday I believe it's the same as this model I'm pretty happy just sticking with my 6th gen Nano as a watch, or wearing my Casio or Invicta if I need waterproof. I worry too much about an expensive watch getting damaged or lost, or people trying to take advantage of me because I have a nice watch and they think I'm made of money.

Ari, I like the 3rd one the most.

I like that article. I have an Ernst Haas photo on my wall, with a light beam coming through the clouds and hitting the ocean with a gull flying over it, so the following quote caught my eye, "Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE." I have to say that I'm quite impressed with the photos that member here have taken and posted in the photography thread. Some of them are amazing, and almost every one of them is really good. I'm often forgetting to look at my surroundings with a "seeing" eye where I think to catch a photo of something cool, or I'm looking for something cool to shoot but can't find it. When I find it I grab the first thing I can reach to take the shot with. If it's an iPhone then so be it.

I dunno about that, but it was a school art show and it looked pretty good as an 8x10 print. I think the lighting and the framing was nice the way it caught the sunbeam, and among all the photos submitted in the district his was pretty good. I recall my first 2Mp Minolta digital camera ages ago was good enough for an 8x10, and it didn't seem to give me photos much better than a 3Mp iPhone. Thanks all other for the birthday wishes.

Socks turned 1 year old today.

Thanks. I edited my last post with a copy of my son's winning photo. I think his came out better than mine, as he didn't get too much foreground in the shot and he caught a ray of sunlight coming in through the clouds. Some people might complain he caught too much sky instead. We're proud of both of them. My younger daughter won an award last year in art too. I'm gonna try to take a photo of the sculpture and of the other one's computer art and post it sometime.

Thanks. My daughter did a wood sculpture of a lion, and my son did a photograph. We both took a photo of a snowscape with our iPhones, after we pulled over to the side of the road, but his came out better than mine. This is the photo he won the ribbon with, which I posted a while back in the photography thread (click to enlarge): Here is the one I took, and I missed the ray of sunlight coming in through the clouds:

Got the stitches removed in my mouth from surgery last week. Turned 49. Went to an art show where my daughter won a national silver key and my son won an Instructor's Choice ribbon. Had a nice quiet dinner. Ate birthday cake.

Did you order a WES? I thought my old GES was excellent with my SR-Lambda, SR-Lambda Pro and SR-Lambda Signature, as well as ESP-950; but it seemed to need more power with HE-60 and O2 Mk1/2. So the GES might be a cheaper alternative for the 507. I know my WES sounds very good with LNS, giving a nice warm euphonic tone and big soundstage, and it drives my HE-60 and O2 Mk1 better than my old GES; but the WES's power, micro-detail, and air was not as good as the BHSE at RMAF. So I'd worry the WES might be overkill in price just for the 507. The biggest improvement to me is the WES soundstage width and depth is certainly bigger than my old GES which was more narrow and closed in sounding, although the GES soundstage wasn't what I'd call small. And the WES seems to give me that extra 3-4dB in headroom that I was always wishing for in my GES. All my brothers-in-law who compared the O2 Mk1/WES to my re-cabled HD800/ZDT over last thanksgiving liked the WES rig more (same PWD DAC/Bridge source). They all preferred the O2 Mk1 over the HE-60 as well, citing better warmth/bass and a richer more natural sound.

I think I may have said something more like the sound of the Behringer UCA202 was "mediocre at best and it hissed like a snake with my Livewires", and that i sold it and was happy to even ship it over seas. The only thing I've heard that sounded worse than the Behringer was a Fiio E3 and a Radioshack branded boosteroo 3-jack amp. So it might have sounded like ass (whatever that sounds like). Maybe my problem with the Berhinger was because I only used it with my low impedance IEM, and NwAvGuy says it has a 50 ohm output impedance and will sound worse with low impedance phones. On the other hand, I haven't noticed the 6 ohm output impedance of the uDAC-2 to cause issues changing sound among a variety of headphones and IEM, nor has the 10 ohm output impedance of the DACport and DACmini been a problem. I should note that the 1st prototype Nuforce HDP that I had in my hands "to give feedback before production" did have a very high output impedance (possibly over 100 ohm), which I only found out about after I commented to them about bass and power problems with low impedance IEM like Westone 2. They fixed the issue right away and put it into the production version of the HDP, resulting in a noticeable improvement in performance with low impedance IEM and phones. So, I agree that a higher output impedance can sometimes make a difference in the sound but not always, and as long as it's low enough I suppose it's not very noticeable. Interestingly, Nuforce got significantly more power output from the changes, but I never saw them update their specs to reflect the improvements.

The whole thing with Japan is terrifying. I saw videos of the tsunami waves overtaking fleeing cars, and later a photo of two parents looking at their deceased daughter in a driving school car that was caught by the waves. Very sad.

He looks like the main character in the movie "The Illusionist". Nice disappearing act.

I haven't been so time in a long drunk! Happy birthday.

It was an interesting day. Fuck it it's not worth it anymore.

X2, you never know when someone will beat the odds. In 1999 my doctors gave me 5 years to live because my lung disease was advancing so fast and there is no cure. So keep praying for the best!