Grahame

Happy Birthday Sir! (Something for these austere times)

Surely it it should be Franck "Dangereaux" Badass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueaHLHgskkw Does he know "Max Venturi, Lamborghini Test Driver" ?

No UPS's on critical infrastructure (Cable Modem, WiFi Router, Server ...) ? Dissapoint.

With Windows 8 due to launch (what you've missed the glee style '8' advert showing no-one actually engaged in any productive activity) you may need this handy survival guide from el-reg. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/25/reg_kb_surviving_windows/ Beware Heisenfeature's

Cue video of Justin Rollerblading, Skydiving, playing tennis and Horseback riding in all white, set to a thumping 80's rock soundtrack. Oh wait. http://www.theregist...bodyform_video/

Sperm-fi?

Sounds like you want a Spatializer. (either in hardware or software) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/oct96/spatializerhtms2510.html http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=472031357448 http://www.gersic.com/plugins/index.php?daCat=11

Attention whore?

How about ​The McIntosh McAire Yours for only ... $3000 http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/us/Products/pages/ProductDetails.aspx?CatId=LifeStyle&ProductId=McAire Oh, and don't forget the stand http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/us/Products/pages/ProductDetails.aspx?CatId=Merchandise&ProductId=McIntoshST1AccessoryStand A Bargain at only $50 (or use an aptX enable bluetooth audio receiver and some (active) speakers ...)

"And for those who are still are stuck in the past, yes, you can get an optical drive; we offer a great [$79] SuperDrive that plugs into USB." Stuck in the past, indeed – he's referring to a past in which you could easily install software from a third-party CD or DVD rather than from Apple's online Mac Store, or watch DVD-based movies rather than ones downloaded from the iTunes Store. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/23/new_imac_line/

Know any seamstresses? http://www.instructables.com/id/Dr-Horrible-Lab-Coat-and-Freeze-Ray/ http://itssewcreative.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-horrible-pattern.html http://doctorhorrible.net/costumes/ our could you contact this out to some child labor sweat shop and have the result fedex'd back to you?

There are T-shirts on e-bay for < $20 e.g. You could use the savings for the welders gogles, gauntlets + boots .. Googling around it seems other people have run in to the same problem in trying to recreate the outfit for previous halloweens. etc

Yehah!, Time we got the HC crew back together,

This post on el reg appealed to me for some reason today ,,, Re: I will laugh so much... ReBirth is sounded pretty dated now, though. There's far more convincing virtual analog synths around; although ReBirth ran nicely on a 60MHz processor and was amazing for its day. Which was 16 years ago. I would expect some future TB-303 clone to be running a SPICE simulation of the actual circuitboard* And that user interface? What were they thinking? Yes to emulating the TB-303 sound, no to emulating the TB-303 pattern editor * OK, admission time, I tried this. You have to run the simulation at 1MHz in SPICE to capture the oscillator triggers, and there are enough non-linear components that you have to use something like conjugate gradient to solve it, and that puts it out of the 1MHz sample rate even on a 3GHz machine. You could possibly run the filters at a lower sample rate and analytically create the input waveforms though - the SPICE waveforms, even with non-perfect components, are pretty much mathematically perfect. But I digress.

More birthday greetings! (would that make it a bgreet, like a congrat?)

Go Giants!

Segway? or some sort of plug-in to appeal to all the hippie chicks ?

The other Steve agrees

^ Jeremy would be disappointed in you, Colin.

BLTA Nom nom nom

^ Good luck Knucks. Rock the house or whatever.

Al, thanks for attempting to get things concrete. Back in the dim distant past when this meet was floated, accommodation in terms of availability and rates seemed do-able. Last time I checked pricing and availability was limited. Pricing "Predatory". Any outside the box thinking / House rental / large suites / RV's / houseboats / trailers that would work as alternative accommodation for our group? It would be great to meet the HC clan again. can we make this work?

And the G-Nex is now at 4.1.2

Three Shared Birthdays you say? (not saying who is who, for obvious reasons )