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Another product line that might be of interest: THERM-A-GAP 600 Series Gap Fillers I have some tubes of this at work (T644; not sure where they came from and what we used this for, and they are expired).

Apparently the Crystal chips (discontinued) were much better sounding than the PGA23xx series, partially (or mainly) because the PGA series has a built in opamp which is essentially an OPA2132/4. I had a Coda preamp with a PCA2310 (IIRC) in it, and I thought a TKD pot was more transparent.

Hmmm. I have 271S at work amped with a Gilmore Dynalo. While not bad amped, something better would be nice as long as it wasn't too pricey. The ATH ESW9 sounds interesting, so I did a google on it and ran across this: Audio Technica ATH ESW9 wood headphones earphones At that price, that has to be a scam I would think? Or are these guys legit? Paypal only (so not alot of buyer protection).

Yeah that is normal behavior... for a pot that has DC on it. Not good.

Happy Birthday Ari!

These look kind of interesting... enough so that I ordered the sampler kit. CD Storage & DVD Storage: Furniture Media Solutions by Flipworks

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Oh oh...

Gawd, no shit. Happy Birthday!

A guilty pleasure; something I've always liked but never bought anything from:

My sincerest condolences Ken. Sounds like your dad lived a very full and fullfilling life. I know what you are saying regarding cheating death. My father-in-law was in the Army during WWII in the Phillipines and was slated to invade Japan. He always said if that had happened he knew he wouldn't be coming back... it sure gave him a different outlook on the rest of his life.

Sure. What's your address? Ohh, wait.... I don't see any Proctor and Gamble toothpaste labeled RF15

Fastener Express? Or MacMaster-Carr? I've never ordered anything from McMaster. I don't recall Fastener Express being that bad on shipping or was it Bolt Depot that I've used? Or both? I forget

Yeah. Unfortunately the Ace Hardware stores around here only carry standard 4-40 machine screws in slotted head, which I refuse to buy. If I want to splurge, they do carry some hex head. Like you say, more than a small few, then Fastener Express or something else. Never used McMaster-Carr yet. Those taps someone showed from awhile back were interesting though...

You mean as in they actually carry some 4-40 stuff? And know that there is stuff smaller than that? And may actually have some? Hehe. Home Depot used to have a decent fastener supplier (plastic parts blister packs) compared to their current supplier who absolutely sucks.

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Hehe. Very nice of you to host this Marc, and nice of all to share.

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Yes.

I'll have to see if Comcast supports imap. Might not be an issue since I am getting very tired of their pricing and it appears I can get uverse with lower pricing now, though I dislike them even more... :basement: for both of them Maybe do Dish for TV, and keep comcast for internet.

true dat

Just a follow-up. Got the Datarescue II / Drive Genius package the other day. I had already done a scan of the drive and saved it (to another drive). I checked by doing a new scan to see if anything changed; it didn't. So I went ahead and started recovery of what it could find. The results were all loose files without the correct filenames and directory structure. A shitload (~10,000 files) of jpegs consisting of both pictures (iPhoto) and what must be browser cache data. An equal shitload of email messages. All of which must be gone thru by hand. Since many of these were already present from the 2/2008 backup, I'm only doing these as needed. I also bought a copy of iLife '08; hopefully the newer version of iPhoto will deal with duplicates better than the version (v4?) I have now. My computer (dual G5 1.8GHz, OSX Tiger) won't run iLife '09, so this is the best I can do. And a huge amount of iTunes files (23Gb), all of which isn't needed (at least according to my sons who also use the computer). Things it didn't recover (that I know of): Firefox bookmarks Pain in the ass, and of course a self-inflicted wound Another package I looked at that could be better than Data Rescue II is FileSalvage by subrosasoft. This may have a better knowledge of filetypes than Data Rescue does, and has a built-in preview app that seems to work pretty well. Since I already bought Data Rescue, I'm sticking with it and hopefully won't do something stupid like this again.

Played golf for the first time in a year and a half. Was nice, had a great time.

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great one.

Happy Birthday Kevin!