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For no reason other than to help a NYC bike messenger get a new bike: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/replace-bill-bilthy-s-stolen-bike-his-livelihood

The HD800? If Sennheiser had kept up with increasing the price ~7%/year to keep up with inflation the HD800 would look like an absolute deal compared to the HD600

I never *really* got the point of CO2 inflators. I guess it is about an ounce lighter than a pump, and a bit faster, but the whole "one chance to get it right" aspect freaks me out. The way the Lezyne pumps all have the flexy hose is quite cool. I get so nervous about damaging the valve with a "one piece" pump. Ooh, I'm not sure if its vaporware, and I think it is somewhat silly in any case, but this caught my attention: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1112972433/ipump-the-lightest-air-pump-ever-invented http://www.bikerumor.com/2013/12/31/kickstarter-meet-the-ipump-the-worlds-lightest-bike-pump/ I wonder how long it will take to fill even a smallish tire? I cant imagine it being easy to hold that little thing and pump. Tilt shift for product photography? Share my laughter.

You agree with my assessment of Game of thrones? I thought as much.

Winter is coming. Is it wrong to say that I know say k'nighit when describing the horses in chess? It was bound to happen sooner or later. I have pronunced the K in Knife since I was like 15. Because. That's why.

Happy Birthday Ian!

Who cares if the amp achieves a (highly) arbitrary damping factor of 8 or more. At one time the rule of thumb in your ass was 10:1. When did it change and why? The IEC standards used to say that 120ohm output impedance is right, although MFR's are free to follow or ignore that at this point. With some headphones that puts the damping factor at 2, or even less. How do you account for these? What about headphones that seem to match up with amps with greater than 220ohm output impedance, for reasons nobody understands, but are largely agreed upon? PS, you are welcome for free consulting work to improve a rough-sketch headphone/amp matching chart for your website. Which site is it?

So, while attempting to auto-upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS last night my primary computer went all "go fuck yourself and die" on me. It lets me enter my password, then displays a few error messages, and then just kind of hangs up. I'm going to do a fresh install. I think this happens every time I do an automatic upgrade from one version of Ubuntu to the next. One of these times I will learn, and just do the fresh install from day 1 instead of trying the on-the-fly upgrade, but I'm a slow learner. My laptop (which has basically nothing but internet and GIMP) upgraded without a hitch. Weird. So anyways, I have all my stuff in the downloads and other folders on my primary HDD. I live-booted 14.04 off of the USB and I found it (right where I left it) but I could not get access to my 2tb disc where I keep all the files I dont like loosing when I upgrade linux and it goes all flaky on me. The drive showed up, but computer would not access it. I figured out that if i recreated my old account it would let me access the drive. My files are safe and I will resume doing the linux reinstall. Winning. It is a small victory, but I'm pretty happy about it. See you all in a few hours when its done re-reinstalling.

Have you updated to firmware 4.0? It lets you pick between "super fast AF" and "more accurate AF" Superfast AF is pretty sweet in low light. If you can live with *just* a 28mm FOV... I'm 50/50 on flash with this camera. On the one hand, there are such cool things you can do with flash. On the other hand, the flash is relatively HUGE so bringing it out is a pretty deliberate thing. The optical viewfinder is pretty nice for insanely bright light, or clandestine photography, but not strictly necessary.

I broke my personal record coming home from work by 5 min yesterday. I have been chipping away at it slowly... http://www.strava.com/activities/177056155 1h35m I set 2 personal best segment times and stayed on the leader-board for a Strava segment. On my Brompton. I'm not sure if my Heart rate is correct as my HRM is all screwed up. Funky firmware update, I think.

Ask him if you can take it for a test ride.

Is the BB reverse threaded?

I would look at the scanner. When the scanner is in focus you will see see similar looking grain in similar light/dark areas (the roof of the cars, sidewalk, and the walls are all about the same lightness for example) with that film & scan res. I don't see it. Ooh, I should add, there is no practical limit to how long one should leave the film in fixer. A couple days is obviously too long, but leaving film in fixer for 30min to an hour while you are doing something else is not unreasonable. The most commonly cited "official" rule of thumb is "twice as long as it takes for the film to turn clear." Yea, 7 min is about the shortest amount of time I have ever fixed film. After fixing, rinse the film several times with clean water before you photoflo. Getting all the fixer off/out of the film is important to the long term stability of negatives. 4 total changes of water spread over 5 min is a minimum here. 5 changes in 7min would not really hurt anyone.

I'm going to bet on a light-leak somewhere. Can you shoot a roll of color negative film, and get it developed at a drugstore? I think I remember you posted that this was kind of impossible where you live a long time ago - do you know anyone else in the area with a darkroom so you can use their room & tanks as a process of elimination? The shot of the path wandering into the distance looks pretty cool Once you get this dialed in its going to be awesome.

Step 5 is somewhat optional. You can "just" rinse twice and save a chemical. Some people just rinse once. Alternately, pour some (like 2 tablespoons) of fixer into the developer at the end of the development time and then rinse. Temperature control is important. Everyone takes the time to get the temperature of the developer right... masters get the temperature of EVERYTHING right (which really just means get everything the same temperature as the developer) it helps with controlling grain. I assume you found this: http://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php It is a very valuable resource until you can get your own times set up. What went wrong getting the film onto the spools? Plastic spools or metal spools? Since you have a few rolls of fuxored film (it happens) you can practice loading the spools in the light. With plastic spools the key is: the spool MUST be absolutely dry. It helps to have the "front" edge of the film cut perfectly square, with ever so gently beveled corners. With metal spools the key is to get the film perfectly centered in the little clip before you start winding. Dont be afraid to spend a good 30sec or more on this if you need to. You can feel when its right. Plastic spools are easier to load (unless they are wet, in which case you are fucked) but metal spools are more reliable once you get the hang of them. What went wrong with the development in general? Describe what your film looks like, or post a picture.

Happy Birthday Todd!

I was expecting it to be a patent for "a rectangle with rounded corners"

Happy Birthday Antonio!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/57980/bestfreakiest-dictionary-promotional-video-70s-youve-ever-seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMN9zaeUtK8#t=69

I fail so hard at reading today.

Pioneer created Technics as a "high end" brand to overcome limitations of their name much like Toyota/Lexus, Nissan/Infinity, or Honda/Acura. They certainly could have made it cheaper than a knock-off, but they should also have all of the parts and knowledge to make it better than a 1200. Or exactly the same as its always been.

Apple charges $20 for the OS by its self. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard Edit: Missed Dusty's post.

I dont know if there is time, or how you would attach them, but you can get metal speaker grills. PS: congrat to Tyler for his 3000'th post.

I stole Ubuntu

Yo dawg! We heard you liked putting IEMs in your ears so we made you an ear-shaped IEM so you can put your IEMs in your ear shaped IEM while you put your ear shaped IEMs in your ears.