Dusty Chalk

Well, except that it's no longer his latest DIY project...

I have a stupid question about Damascus steel -- real Damascus steel is the way it is because it's folded and refolded during the curing process -- which means that unlike most black knives, the portions that are black are actually black, rather than painted black. So here's the (extremely hypothetical) question -- could there be a way to get black metal? Truly black metal?

6 Katatonia B-sides from iTunes

How about hollowing out an extremely dense and sturdy material until it's the right weight (the barn-parsec joke comes to mind)? Then you can do all sorts of funky things like put a wheel in it to give it gyroscopic effect, or an extremely off-center center-of-mass to give it a hopping effect, or an off-center butterfly weight, to give it a wobble, etc. Modular!

I fucking hated the fake science. I mean, if , how come she didn't know ? And the altered states stuff was just too much. I did like what they did with the location titles, although I was having flashbacks to Superbowls. I do heart Anna Torv, also, and John Noble was amazing -- he didn't "play" loose cannon, he just played his character, which happened to be a loose cannon. So -- wish I could like it more, but the pseudo-science was a big turn-off.

The comics were great -- Ben Templesmith really outdid himself. I love what he did with color.

FYI -- I've been getting good results using a one-two combination of Mac-the-Ripper for getting it off the DVD, and DVD Audio Extractor for getting the audio out of the .VOB files. I've been having some problems, and the one guy has been very responsive. And yes, it's from DVD's I own -- the bonus DVD's from the Depeche Mode sets, which is nice, because it's coming from a higher quality source material (48kHz and...uh, 24 bits, I think). But more importantly, all those bonus tracks I now have access to on my iPod. Converts to .wav, mp3, ogg and FLAC, amongst other options. DVD Audio Extractor also works directly with DVD's, although I haven't used it that way myself, yet.

I lowered my triglycerides from 206 to 99. Yay me.

Enabler.

Pfff.

I am by no means back, just passing through.

Alti, Baro, Compass, digital? Nice! Suunto? Supposed to be good, IIRC.

They're actually not that bright in real life.

iPod Classic 160 refurb, black -- right around the time of the new 120 (I was pissed off at Apple for making it smaller). I've been spending most of my spare time (that time that I've not been spending here) ripping CDs. Jesus. That's a lot of fucking CDs.

Notwist/Dosh -- Dosh surprised me with how good they were, since I had never heard of them before, and Notwist were as good as the last time I had seen them, which was 'very'.

True Blood -- rocks. Very true to the books, which rock. Sarah Connor Chronicles -- very much enjoying this. Especially enjoying the incorporation of the mythology tangentially, such as having the doctor tell the story behind T2 from his perspective, things like that. Also like the taglines that the robots use, such as "Thank You for your cooperation", "we don't sleep" and "come with me if you want to live".

Today I spent much less time being my kitty's personal Lazy Boy. Ate, drank, watched movies, and did a few load of laundries around all that.

Re: 28 weeks later -- yeah, if you didn't like the first one, I don't see as how you'd like that one. ... but it didn't ruin the movie for me, I still managed to ultimately enjoy it, myself. But I loved the first one.

Unless he's your friend and you're trying to fight another monster.

Also, it looks like a hammer. Pointed at her. In this case, 'hammer' being a euphemism for a word that starts with the letter 'p' and rhymes with 'penis'.

Also consider the Apogee Mini-DAC w/USB option

No, some neighborhoods have covenants with which you must abide. Chances are, if that's the only one you break, your neighbors and whatnot will turn a blind eye (especially on the backside of the house), but if you break enough of them, they tend to itemize everything you've ever done wrong. (I actually know someone on the receiving end of a law suit right now.)

Lounged Communed with kitteh watched movies at a friend's Pretty much like a prophecy fulfilled.

I'm thinking yes.