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Shelly did you end up picking something up? Are having problems with the earlier mentioned daughter's mattress (and unfortunately also its mem foam replacement), so back at shop again this weekend. While there for the heck of it tried some Klufts (and loved their lower line, Aireloom, even more). That was before I saw their price tags (the store only carried the up to $20K mattresses ). http://youtu.be/cz0Eo2aDs_A The Airelooms though are back to semi-Earth-bound McRoskey/Tempur-Pedic prices. They're a hybrid of ten/dozen layers of traditional and contemporary materials and were pretty fantastic. When GF & I are ready to replace our mattress I'm sure a base Aireloom will be in the running. The salesman, a pretty nice guy whose been great dealing with our issues, also confessed his opinion that sex isn't quite the same on memory foam. Or as he put it looking at me "you have to do all the work and the older I get the less I want to do all the work."

Not that interesting yet, but... Beyoncé and Jay Z: Bang Bang, Part One

A fun Atwood short Stone Mattress.

Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington. Direct-to-CD Recording baby! Hyman's solo performances, encoded on the Bösendorfer computer reproducing piano, were played back live for our microphones. For the Direct-to-CD (DCD) editions, the digitized signal was transmitted via microwave to the CD glass master as the music was happening. No recording tape of any kind was used, nor was the digital bitstream corrupted at any stage by copying or editing. The very digits generated at the recording session are engraved on the finished DCD.

Haven't, but planning to and everyone I respect says it's wonderful (and a shame it ended so soon).

Cook only directly mentions use of watches music, but it sounds like Apple is expecting people to run, etc. without their phones with them. http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/13/part-one-of-charlie-roses-full-interview-with-tim-cook-now-available-online/

We Break Strings, the Alternative Classical Scene in London https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/909891721/we-break-strings-the-alternative-classical-scene-i

http://youtu.be/Tj-GZJhfBmI

^ Jealous. Know I'm late to the game on this one, but was at the company "tech stop" on a computer issue today and tried a Note 3 to see how large a 5.5"-ish screen was in the hand. Fuck it's huge.

An A. O. Scott NYTs piece titled The Death of Adulthood in American Culture http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/the-death-of-adulthood-in-american-culture.html?referrer=&_r=1 So good. "What happens to the boy rebels when the dream of perpetual childhood fades and the traditional prerogatives of manhood are unavailable? There are two options: They become irrelevant or they turn into Louis C. K." "The dominant voices in pop music now, with the possible exception of rock, which is dad music anyway, belong to women."

A smart ring instead? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mota-smartring-connectivity-at-your-fingertips (will be fun to watch their timeline)

Burger King Japan is expanding your cheese options...

http://www.erzetich-audio.com/deimos_prestige_headphone_amplifier http://www.monoandstereo.com/2014/09/erzetich-deimos-prestige-headphone.html?spref=tw&m=1 "We wanted to go beyond and make something that really stands out from the point of electronics, sound, design and prestige. This project has been developed under the name POS."

"The dials are meant to recall the Copernican Revolution, to which Swatch compares this revolution in watchmaking." Apple-hype suddenly doesn't seem so bad.

In weird tribute... http://youtu.be/D7uzxanhGeA

Steve Jobs ghost would kill anyone at T-mobile if they added bloatware. No provider is allowed.

Strangely showing purchased on my iTunes account, but not in artist, album or can download in iTunes or iOS Music.

In case left-handers were curious about orientation... http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/10/fear-not-lefties-apple-watch-is-reversible-for-left-and-right-handed-use/

Android is still a much sloppier user experience. And the OS infrastructure carries over to the third-party apps. It's less than it was, but it's also now more entrenched. Like lack of features, I'm not sure most focus on UI or app store (parts obviously of user experience) issues once something passes "good enough," which Android probably did for most awhile ago, but as someone on both platforms (and believe me I'd love to use Android more - much of it would be free) it drives me crazy when equality is mentioned here. Hell Windows Phone may have already passed Android on this point. As always different tools for different needs & folks, but that doesn't mean all are equal by all measures. That said does this matter for most - probably not. Look at Windows past.

Basically more than resistant enough if you're a model splashing water on your face while standing on an oil rig.