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He advertised it on Head-Fi, too (I think), so it may not be anyone here. (Don't ask me, I don't know; all I know is, he sold a bunch of shit yesterday. Enough maybe to buy a pen or two.) Me: a bunch of books: DSP Filters, audio engineering, almost all of the Fables graphic novel trades that are out, Alan Moore's Lost Girls -- almost bought "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill -- any recommendations, yay or nay, on the subject? Jay -- "forewarned is forearmed" -- they're telling you because they care enough to want you to be careful.

I don't remember you ever sharing this piece of information with me. How does it compare to Bombay Curry Company, or did you ever try that one? That's my favorite (although it's in Virginia).

On a serious note, do you still take orders for the 'Blue Hawaii'?

I disagree, I like his logo. That said, it would be cool if you could shape heat sinks or vents in your logo, like the Pathos Logos: or the MSB DAC: Or perhaps Bugs Bunny. Zen question: if KG ever designed an ultimate amp, shouldn't it be called the Carl Stalling?

Didn't someone recently post a teaser of something -- the next movie, perhaps?

Amy Acker Amy Acker Amy Acker. Me want Amy Acker.

You sure are easily annoyed. It's just three fucking letters, jeez. Oh, and to add cleverness, it's WTF, backwards, so instead of getting annoyed, mentally translate it in your head as 'Fuck The What!!!', and you will laugh. Oh, and switch to decaf.

Sounds like a Blue Hawaii (non-SE) to me.

Well the problem is, I don't know. I just know that sometimes you can't EQ into place things like separation and focus. Jitter? Sounds far-fetched, I know, but that's all I got.

I've done that. I've done baby-yodeling, too (with a friend's baby -- I think he [the baby] is in college now).

Oh, yeah, I've been going there since shortly after it opened, about 15 years. I used to work across the street. I remember when they were a deli, and they sold gyros, I ate there...once. It was okay, but nothing like a College Park gyro. (For some reason, all the places in College Park, even the Pizza Boli's, make a decent Gyro.) Then my bud came back from lunch once, and asked if I had eaten there since then, and I said no, and he said, you have to, they've changed to a Thai place, it's really good now, and I went, and it was. There were weeks when I ate there up to 10 times a week (lunch and dinner). Several of them know me by name, and when I go to the other one in Falls Church, they call me "Mr. Peter". Will definitely let you know, when I was in town, it was always on business, so don't remember having much nice -- I think we went to Mai Tai bars a lot...karaoke seems to be a vague, unpleasant memory. The stripper I befriended there took me to some nice places for dinner. There was a really good tex mex place with awkward parking that was particularly memorable. So yeah, if when I'm ever back, I'll definitely look you up, and we can go eat at some nice places. Yeah, warm sticky rice, cold icing...I don't remember if the custard is warm or cold, I'll have to go have some to remind myself. I know most people prefer the mangos with sticky rice, but for some reason, I have a particular fondness for the custard. I do like the mangos with sticky rice, too, it's just that I have desert so rarely (in general, not just at this restaurant), that the few times I am in the mood for desert, I have the custard.

It's probably not EQ, it's probably something else.

TMI!!!1!

I used to know a stripper in Honolulu...never ate her, though. I miss Honolulu -- my favorite place on earth that I've ever been to (and admittedly, that statistically sampling is error-prone-ly small). I wasn't into sushi back then, I have a feeling I missed out. (shakes himself) Okay, back on topic. Okay, me: Pilin Thai, in Tysons Corner -- I love Thai food, and I love practically everything on the menu. My recommendations for that place are: look at the menu, look at the ingredients, and if it sounds tempting, try it, because they do everything well. I tend to stay away from ginger, but their three-flavor chicken is a favorite of one of my friends; their Pad Thai and Panang Curry chicken are two personal favorites (their Panang is not peanutty at all -- they save their peanuts for the Massaman curry). I also love their thai custard and sticky rice desert, and their spring rolls and satay appetizers (two different ones).

I forget whether or not this has been posted already, because I'm a troglodyte homunculus -- the Engineer's Guide to Cats:

I thought you were done with sources?

That's incorrect. I have the M-Audio Sonica, the Transit's predecessor, and it (a) is a USB 1.1 device, and ( goes up to 24/96 stereo. The only difference between USB 1.1 and 2.0 is what else will be on the line, if it's dedicated, then there should theoretically be no difference. But if your computer only has 1.1, then there might be other performance issues related to the computer.

Incorrect. Contributes to the population problem. Have lots and lots of wild protected sex.

Jesus Christ, those are amps?!?!? I saw your post in the "What's the last thing you bought?" thread first, and from the other pic in that post, I thought it was a sub or something.

^2, I.E.: :kitty: :kitty: :kitty:

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There's nothing new or sudden about it. There are people (myself included, but there are others in my family who are even worse), who forbid people from discussing a movie that they haven't seen yet. This doesn't happen on the intarwebz, it happens in real life, verbally. As far as I know, it's always been around. I mean, think back to the movie Halloween: "Due to the shocking nature of the movie, no-one will be allowed in to the film during the last two minutes!!!1!" or something to that effect. That was freakin' 1978, 30 years ago. I have no problem with most movies having big reveals, I've long since come to terms with that, as that's been the case for most of my movie-watching lifetime. I've seen experiments by the likes of Brian Eno with "static" films that are more like sculpture -- you don't necessarily have to watch the whole thing to get it, but you leave, you come back, and you get a different perspective on it, or you don't come back, and you take away what you got. Bleah. I'd rather have a good old typical Hollywood movie where something happens, something else happens (to complicate things), and then a third thing happens (to resolve things). I still find enjoyable stuff to watch in those movies, which is why my favourite movies are the movies in which it is obvious that the film-makers (be they the writers, the actors, the director, or whomever) are having fun making the movie. Take From Dusk Til Dawn, for example -- one of the best things about that movie is the fun they were having with the special effects. And yet it's still so strong, and comes across so clearly, that it's still contagious, no matter how much critique you can lob at the rest of the film. But you still have to respect those who are only going to watch the movie the once (and I think statistically it's safe to predict that most people watch most movies only once). And it's not fair to judge the "damage" you do yourself -- the "damage" is perceived. That's like saying, "oh, I didn't hit you that hard". Sounds like the talk of a bully to me.

I stand corrected.

Warning: objects in mirror are closer than they appear.

That would be entirely implementation dependent; there shouldn't be anything inherent in the technology for that to be the case, in and of itself. It's basically a lossless digital-to-digital conversion in both cases. Unless I'm overlooking something. Well, there's the impossibility of ground loops in an optical connection, but other than that, there shouldn't be anything...