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Indeed... Indeed!!! This summer had to deal with dry wood at the apartments, and subterranean at the house. They're all over this rock! But at least once you chase them, they'll stay away for a while, unlike the woodpeckers...

One of my favorites as well. Something about him always made me smile. He had a way of making you feel that you were "in on it" with him. Not just in Columbo, but in everything he did. Loved the way he played the calm, gentle, old man reading to his grandson in Princess Bride, stumbling for his glasses, etc. So ordinary and imperfect, yet so extraordinary and perfect.

Tom, you might want to check that box to make sure that the flat pads, once they start to disintegrate as they invariably will do, are not going to become "glued" to anything in there that you may want to use one day, like the drivers. If spare flats are kept in a sealed plastic baggie, they can last for years and years. But for some reason, they really don't like exposure to air and/or heat...

Bob Ludwig is no slough either.

If he's 16, then he's pretty much automatically a retard, like we all were. Hopefully, it won't take him 32 years to figure that out like it did for me. I just hope that when I'm 80 years old, I won't look back and see what a retard I was at 48. By then, there won't be any time left to change the game plan! Speaking of feeling like a retard, these days I'm becoming more and more active at my favorite Santa site, a place called ClausNet. It reminds me of the "good ole days" at Head-Fi when everyone seemed to know each other, and for the most part seemed to like each other. I guess that's sort of what we have going on here, except that by now (what, about 10 years later) we've all known each other for long enough to know what a bunch of dorks we are... I think there was a point. Oh ya! So back in the day, random people from Head-Fi would send me private messages saying that they would soon be coming to Cayman on a cruise, usually with Mrs. Headphone Geek in tow as well. So I'd meet them in the harbor, and we would have lunch, then I'd give them a nickel tour of the Island, and then we would become best friends forever for about 6 months. This must have happened a dozen times or so, and they were all very nice people. This week, I've met my first real bearded Santa, complete with his Mrs. Claus. Nice people in their late 50's and quite "normal" (other than his foot long white beard and matching hair). As I was sitting with them having lunch, I couldn't help but to notice how many people were staring at him, and with my 6 month Santa beard (partially grey, but still mostly brown), I must have looked like his son. Then suddenly it occurred to me that maybe I was the strange one!!! Always meeting random people from random hobbies. I mean, really, how exactly does one become a headphone enthusiast to begin with... let alone a real bearded Santa. Damn internet is to blame, with all of these "enabler" websites. But then if it wasn't for this "retard" of a life I've been living, I wouldn't be have any life at all.

It took you 4 years to arrive at Shit and Shit, and you've calling other people retards?

Hitting a little too close to home, perhaps...

Very sad news today. We'll sure miss you, Big Man...

Happy birthday!

It is wise to be fearful. So, like we said, better tubes would probably help a little, but the LD still sucks raw eggs, at least as a K1000 amp. No surprises there.

You go a good deal, man! They're going to make a comeback! Same with the Houston Astros. Just wait until after All-Star break...

Good news, Todd, and welcome.

Good one, Grahame... "not specifically too good." Long time since I've listened to that; will have to pull it out for a spin.

Ya, but some male bats suck each other off too, not that there's anything wrong with that.

First shot, hand held and without fidgeting with anything, using my 17mm tilt/shift Cannon L glass with the 5D2. Should be a fun lens to play around with.

Awesome! You'll love it, man! I've got a 65VT25 and a 50VT25. Looking forward to checking out the VT30 series, just out of morbid curiosity if nothing else.

The video scores! Tyll... what more needs to be said.

^ What he said. Spent 18 hours traveling back from Monaco to Cayman today, then got stuck in traffic for an hour trying to get back to my house to shower and change so I could immediately go teach a class tonight. Stupid cops were sitting at a busy T-junction on the main road with their blue lights swirling for no apparent reason, not directly blocking traffic but definitely creating a massive gawkers backup. Get to the College and half of my students are in the library working on a project for another class (which I also teach, but that's besides the point). Had to go drag them out of there and into class while the others waited patiently. Next time I'll just cancel. No sense in about killing myself to make it back for them if they don't give a shit. Besides, it's supposed to be an individual project so they essentially got caught cheating for one class and skipping another all at the same time. To make matters worse, they gave me attitude as if I were somehow intruding on their time. Got home and discovered termites in my garage, eating away at the wood crates for all of my MBL gear (speakers, amps, preamp, digital front end). At least the a/c works and my dentist doesn't have halitosis.

Haven't been to Denver for any significant time in several years, and have family within an hour, but October is a tough time to get away... plus it's a little late in the game for twisty mountain canyon cruising. Agreed that this won't be a CanJam as we've come to know and love them, but I've never been to a RMAF. Would kind of like to go just for the heck of it, but it's such a shame to pop in and out of Colorado and not have the time to enjoy the scenery. That, and I can never manage to make it to Acoustic Sounds "Blues at the Crossroads" event which is also in October, and that would take priority if I could get away.

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TMI, dude.

Sounds like an awesome trip, Al. I might watch European Vacation in your honor in the meantime. Berlin and Prague are definitely on my bucket list.

The Houston Astros have brought up their top pitching prospect from AAA to make his major league debut pitching against the Cubs tomorrow. Good luck to Jordan Lyles, the 20 year-old right hander better known as Colin around these parts:

Paid my 5 digit annual affair called property insurance.

Big belly shake here! Got me laughing hard! Good ole' gunt gurl...