Dusty Chalk

No, it's pretty much after the fact -- I can feel the build-up of wax, and can predict that when I finally use a Q-tip, it will be "productive". And I hardly use IEM's, so I doubt it's that, either. I'll try to monitor myself more closely, see if there's something else going on -- maybe when my allergies are exacerbated, my ears itch, and I itch them, or something like that. Or perhaps it's the dusty environment.

Sweet. My next car is going to be an A1.

You bought an Audi?

Okay, that was awesome. Thanks, man.

Sonic Screwdriver

Licking isn't oil and contains digestive enzymes -- you sure that's a good idea? From what little I could glean from google, I'm not sure if it's "drying out" and becoming brittle, or impurities in the foam are rusting. Wouldn't mind knowing the science behind it, seriously. Thanks to all the crap addicts for providing zero to no useful information.

I didn't do nuthin'.

We need horn-based headphones.

No, I think it's still wax, but the ear discharge seems to increase when I'm particularly suffering from allergies, I.E. nasal discharge. In other words, the two seem to go hand in hand, when one increases, so does the other, etc. Does that make sense, medically? PS I just cleaned my ears with a q-tip.

(whimper) I'm having some leftover Chinese.

When I have a sinus infection, it'll get that dirty in less than a day. Although I'm not sure what you mean by "that dirty" -- it has more to do with consistency than anything else.

So fondling it and depositing my juices on it actually is the answer? Yeezh.

Hi-Fi Fiedler, RCA Living Stereo SACD

"not"? or "hot"?

Killing people doesn't do much for his bottom line.

That only helps the Grado drivers, though, not the screens nor the impact foam used in carrying cases. Unless you regularly fondle the foam in your carrying cases. Which I don't.

Old wives' tales.

Yeah, I'm hoping not the melty kind.

Dammit! But it's the 20th, that's good enough for me.

Nice -- throw a double-sided spanner into the works. Or maybe the better analogy would be to throw two consecutive spanners...

I have no idea, honestly, the Behringer is "tight". Also, (a) it's not necessarily one piece of gear -- other things they've done are blatant rip-offs of particular gear -- their mixers, for example -- but they might have reduced it down to what it is today, and truth be told, it might be an evolution from something else (their feedback killer comes to mind). ( That other piece of gear might not even be around any more -- you kind of had to be on top of things at the time to know for sure, and I wasn't. It's been around forever, so it'd have to be a long time ago.

Happy Birthday! (It's no longer early.)

Nosound, Lightdark -- this is actually a pretty brilliant album. It's Burning Shed, and reminiscent of early Porcupine Tree at their most ambient, with progressive touches. Italian, I believe.

I posted a couple days ago that I was going to see how long it would take me to go through everything that I had, but I changed it to listening to something else roughly every other disk or so (while at work -- elsewhere it's anything goes). 61387 Saint Saens / Symphony No. 3 61388 Ravel / Daphnis Et Chloe 61389 Strauss / Also Sprach Zarathustra 61390 Bartok / Concerto For Orchestra 61391 Beethoven & Mendelssohn / Concertos 61392 Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov / Piano Concertos 61394 Mussorgsky / Pictures At An Exhibition x 61395 Verdi & Puccini / Arias 61396 Chopin / Ballades & Scherzos o 61397 Tchaikovsky / Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" o 66370 Gershwin / Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, American in Paris o 66371 Sousa / Brass & Percussion 66372 Sibelius & Prokofiev / Violin Concertos 66373 Berlioz / Requiem 66374 Ravel / Bolero 66375 Dvorak & Walton / Cello Concertos 66376 Dvorak / New World Symphony 66377 Rimsky-Korsakov / Scheherazade o 66378 Brahms / Piano Concerto No. 1 o 66379 Offenbach: Ga

One is "allowed" to clean one's ears with a Q-tip, if one knows what they're doing. It coagulates, so once you get some, you kind of have to pull it out, "reel it in" as it were. Think cotton candy. No. Not until I hear them for myself, anyway. (I.E. the universals.) Watching the great zombie migration never did anything for me (cf. Grados, Sennheiser HD650's, Qualias, R10's, etc.). I mean, yes, if I win the lottery or something, but I just don't have that kind of disposable income right now. Heck, I'm probably going to have to cancel my HF-2 order.