Dusty Chalk

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I think the point about buying the Pico DAC from the dealer is that you're not going to find that good a deal used, hence buy it from the merchant. So I'd do it the other way around -- buy the DAC, then watch the used market for the amp while you save up a little. Or, if you're happy with the price of one of the used ones that others have pointed out, then go ahead and buy that one, and then save up for the DAC, and you can see for yourself if it comes up on the used market while you're saving up by monitoring the used FS pages. That's up to the seller.

Ah, brings back memories. Me: Excuse me. Chick: Yes? Me: I couldn't help over-hearing -- you have a very nice voice. Chick: Thank you. Me: I actually like to take recordings, do you mind if I record your voice? Chick: Um... Me: Please? Chick: I wouldn't know what to say. Me: Oh, I'm a minimalist, I'd be perfectly happy with just one word, repeated. Perhaps the word, 'yes'? ... So...how about some Scottish chicks? Or, in lieu of that, how about the shore?

Actually, that's not what I meant. That picture you posted is in your email, so we can't see it. Feel free to add it as an attachment.

Is that like "will it blend", except instead of blending it into useless oblivion, you end up sharing it with your friends?

Dag. Nab. It. [dusty whining]Where is US$3K when I need it?!?!?[/dusty whining] I should sell my Dynaudios, but I really don't want to.

Um...yeah, we don't really have access to your email.

I disagree -- I thought that was a fine bit of writing. He did a shitasmagorific an admirable job of capturing and conveying a mentality that I believe exists in large numbers. I think you just may have shitasmagoriphobia.

The only question is how well it models those things. I concur, a trial is in order. I'll check whether or not I win the lottery tonight. Or maybe I'll just write something myself...

Thank you, sensei.

Want -- will have to read more in-depth later, but...WANT. NAO. Maybe I'll get one of those instead of the Behringer EQ. The hard thing to model is compression and distortion -- once they start modelling well non-linearities in circuits, then I think you'll start seeing the more forward-thinking tone whores board the train (I would think Steven Wilson would be the first to experiment with this) But like you said -- purists will never be fully on board. I have digital synthesizers that think they're analog AND they stay in tune, why do I still have my ARP 2600 and Prophet 5? Because the emulations aren't perfect -- I can't get 0% PWM on my pulse wave on my Nord Modular (the closest thing to the ARP 2600), and the Prophet 5 emulation that I tried several years ago just wasn't working for me (mostly due to setup and quality of the output -- I'll have to revisit it with today's technology and spend more time setting it up right). I believe they also have one for mics, and I believe they're also available as plug-ins.

If one prefers masturbating to pretty much anything else, but would prefer to get laid than to masturbate; and... If masturbating too much leads to not getting laid; Where does one draw the line?

And WRT the technical problems, it is MHO that Steve should ditch the guitar changes, and just stick with one (-ish -- tuning notwithstanding) guitar and run it through a VG8 or equivalent. I have a musician friend who is an absolute master of that thing, and that's what he does. He can make any guitar sound like anything, including making it sound like a bass. He says the only thing that takes some getting used to is that the tactile feedback (feeling the guitar strings vibrate through the guitar and to your fingers) isn't right -- especially when you're using it to shift pitches by non-even-multiple increments (I.E. not octaves, but something bizarre, like pitch-shifting an out-of-tune guitar to a correct tuning, which it can do). His response to that is to just practice more -- if your fingers know what they are doing, then it matters less. Yes, he's that good.

Jim Henson is a god, nothing to be ashamed of.

Apparently, it is 1080p.

I completely disagree -- it's like voting, one vote may not make a difference in the overall scheme of things, but you still have to do it and make your little contribution.

Yup, they played that again, as well as pretty much everything else I would've wanted to hear. (A contemporary version of Radioactive Toy notwithstanding -- I think that's dreaming.) The Philly show actually went on sale first, so we already had those tickets when the Baltimore show went on sale. We also got gypped a few songs -- they didn't play more than the two extra songs that they did play, so I'm especially glad I went both nights. Music-choice wise, Baltimore was the better night; sound-wise, Philly was the better night; set order wise, I preferred Philly for no reason I can pinpoint, other than they played the songs I most wanted to hear earlier; performance wise, it's a toss-up, other than the first section. Oh, and Re: and, "good".

She reminds me of a girl I used to be hot for, took me three years to get over, and was the best kisser I ever met.

Dude, that's not crazy. When Tower had its last annual sale (before they announced that they were closing forever), I know a guy who spent over US$3K. Let me spell that out for you: three THOUSAND merkin dollars.

"One of the wonders of the world is going down... One of the blunders of the world is no-one cares..."

I'm a hearty believer in neutering and spaying. And he's being a real trooper about it. He hates being medicated, but I think that has more to do with the way I manhandle him to get him to open his mouth than anything else. Hope all goes well with your run today -- "Rooh! Rooh! Rooh!" (that's me cheering you on from the sidelines). Yesterday: got up relatively early for me, caffeinated, went to breakfast (Ba Le caramel lemongrass chili chicken -- yum!), drove up to Philadelphia, hung out at Eastern State Penitentiary (pics will be forthcoming) -- got some comments and one hug from a girl who loved my 3 Keyboard-Cat Moon T-shirt (I was practically a celebrity amongst the geek set, but no, did not get laid...yet) -- ate, went to Porcupine Tree/get rained on, drove home. Medicated cat twice amongst that.

I don't think he meant AA...