CarlSeibert

Renewed my car registration, and in the process, my organ donor card.

530+22=552, as of Saturday before last. (552.0356164383561644, not allowing for leap years)

Haj- The car might be cursed or it might be blessed, given that it managed to protect your wife, which is what counts. Dusty - The MRI gizmo I was was in didn't have any visible moving parts except the table. It was a tube about three or four feet long by the diameter of a small trash can. Moving parts would have made it more interesting and less claustrophobic. A movie projected on the top of the tube wouldn't have hurt, either. (Assuming it wasn't an awful movie.)

I had a brain MRI once and it was the same way --- kind of creepy. I remember thinking the very same thing. Yes, I could crawl out if I had to. I guess I held my head still enough. The pictures weren't fuzzy when the doctor pinned them up on the light box. And why the heck do they do THAT? The machine makes an electronic image and yet they print it out on old school-looking film.

Dusty Chalk' timestamp='1349469440' post='538814']Really? 'cause: "pennies". True confessions time. Did you paint the pennies black? ............ah, ahem, yes, I will confess. I did paint mine. They're under a power amp, too, so they're kind of bowled.

If there was such a thing as "good" in the spectrum of nervous breakdowns that one would be absolute top drawer.... Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

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Background allergen exposure is a big factor. Trees in bloom, plus working on something dusty like the air conditioner, equals don't even think about beer for me.

Hmm. Fortune cookie tonight at the Lotus: If you promise someone something, keep it.

Vacuumed out the condensate drain of my AC and the darned thing is still dribbling on the "tympanic warning system" (an aluminum turkey pan) after each run Grrrr. On a happier note: went to Radio Active and bought a couple records, then we went across the street to Urban Brew and had very nice lattes while we read a second hand Wall Street Journal. Edit> Originally wrote "sucked out the condensate drain". Then we watched a Sasha Baron Cohen movie. Then the stupid dripping reminded me of the air conditioner..........and......the....image.....yuck city!

Way to go Raffy!

I have no idea how we obtained it, but we have a bottle of Skin-so-Soft and it does work pretty well. Citronella candles help a lot. Something lemon-eucalyptus based sounds like a good idea. I've always been a little leery of DEET. Dolphins at Houston - the first Sunday Dolphins game of the year was today. That means Sundays way full of work. Our (brilliant) photographer sent the seminal picture of what it means to be a Dolphin. It's young Ryan Tannehill writhing on the ground after a sack, holding his crotch. Yes, after all the rest of the indignities, he got kicked in the nuts. Priceless. Am now running SMART surface tests on one of my hard drives. Just before work, I got a pop-up that said: "Hard drive failing.." That's a little upsetting. I copied my home directory to the data drive double plus quick. The drive didn't throw any errors in th short test. The long one is running now. Hopefully was just a false alert.

Went to a very nice high-end shop in West Palm (that I have never been to) with Alan to hear the M-51. Very accomodating guy shot the breeze with us for almost two hours and played the DAC in two different systems, neither of which was enough "my cup of tea" that I can actually tell you with any certainy what the M-51 sounds like. It does seem promising, though. I bought a QRP pressing of a Dead record. Then we went back to Alan's and listened to what that same music is supposed to sound like - or at least what both of us think it's supposed to sound like - on Alan's big system. Then I installed my two new Squeezebox Touches. All in all a really good day.

The garage is a place for a record cleaning machine that looks like mine. Your new one is definite living room material.

Congrats Shelly. Al - That is one extremely cool looking record cleaning machine.

I just ordered two from Amazon @ $239. It said "in stock 9-4-12", but I got an email today that said they had been shipped. Now stockpiling software for the survivalist winter. I'm sure there will be (or maybe the Sonos is) and "audiophile" device to get t he same job done for only a few times the price, but for as long as this hardware (and my existing SB-3s) lasts, why go there?

<rant> It's the crumbling of our society. Time was when you built a company to make things, make a profit and you did so until you retired and willed the thing to your feckless offspring, who who either run in into the ground or sold the brand name to your competitors. It was a pretty good system. There were real brands and real progress. People were employed. Companies and brands endured for decades, some for centuries. Now you're biggest hope is to sell your SMB company to some would-be monopolist for way more than it's worth, take the money and run. The monopolist doesn't care. He's too big to fail. Customers are an externality to him. The ideas vanish. The capital vanishes. It's all very sad. </<rant> Good news for Jerry Harvey though. The Ultimate Ears brand is next up for trashing. And I'm not knocking Jerry Harvey or Sean Adams. They're just playing by the rules that exist and winning - Harvey particularly. He'll inherit his all old business after his old brand goes down in a thud. Good for him.

Holy crap. That story must be 80 inches long. Two photographers and a correspondent who can actually report. Somebody in this business isn't bankrupt.

This just in - convention coverage geared especially for certain Head-Casers: Exotic dancers Jill and Monica from the most notorious of Tampa's all-nude clubs Mons Venus get ready to perform less than six miles from where the Republicans gather for the 2012 Republican National Convention in Florida August 28, 2012. Tampa, the city that is home to the originator of the lap dance and has been called the strip club capital of the country, is geared up for an influx of randy Republicans. Extra strippers have been hired and delegate discounts have been offered. (Douliery-Hahn/Abaca Press/MCT) ORG XMIT: 1127998

Tropical storm duty. We had both Cuban coffee and pizza in the office. Not sure what we did after that.

That's the Head-Case spirit!

I've never trusted those automatic faucets. Now we know they're a satanic plot of some sort.

Happy Birthday Matt!

Words to live by..........

This. Exactly.