Beefy

Holy shit, that really puts it in perspective......

Thus my answer will also be very open ended, with some ideas/examples of my experience thrown in...... People hear what they want to hear. No amount of scientific testing is going to tell them otherwise. This is both a very good thing, and a very bad thing, depending on your perspective. You might as well try nailing jelly to a tree.

Happy birthday, Renato!

Fucking snow indeed! I went for a walk to take some photos and grab a decent coffee. The snow didn't let up for a single photo. It got so bad I decided to catch the bus home. I was waiting in freezing rain for an hour waiting for a bus that didn't come; it got stuck in a snow drift. Next time, I'm going to bloody well stay home.

We had a lot of really pleasant dry powder yesterday, and nice -5C temperatures. Went for a nice long walk, throwing snowballs at my lady. Today is warming up, and the snow is going to turn to rain. Blech!

When you count to 10, do you say 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9?

That's the rub - there was never a zero year in any currently used calendar system

You can start where you like, but you would be wrong The first year was the first year. The 2010th year is the 2010th year. We haven't finished 2010 years until the end of 2010.

I would guess that is a bad idea, assuming the SR-34 box has a low input impedance - but I can't find this info in a quick Google. I used an M3 for a short while to drive a Stax box, and it works well enough, but pushes a LOT of current into the low impedance. The big heatsinks on the M3 get rather warm.

Nuh-uh!

I agree. So I added a nifty fifty for low light and playing with DOF and still keeping the whole kit nice and light.

If there's one wine we do well, its Shiraz

Happy New Year! I'm so tired, I'll be lucky to make it to midnight......

Today's is pretty damn funny. Make sure you check the alt-text...... xkcd 682

Happy birthday!

Anything airborne that you are exposed to gets breathed into the lungs. If it gets stuck in the airways, its gets infected. If it gets infected, it gets nasty....... real nasty. You often can't see even huge infectious pustules unless you dissect out the whole lung - but into the cooking pot it would go. I'm fine with the whole eating organs thing because generally they can be made quite sanitary, but with the filthy environment that pigs are raised in, you DO NOT want to eat the lungs.

If you had seen the things I have seen come out of pig lung, you wouldn't eat it. EVER.

Unfortunately, iTunes on the PC is just fucking awful. I use it for updating my iPod and nothing else.

For ripping your music accurately and efficiently on a PC, you can't beat dbpoweramp. I liked it so much I bought it versus the free EAC. MAC versus PC gives you no inherent benefit to sound quality...... it all depends on what software you want to use. iTunes on a MAC is easy, but there are a lot of tweaker options on the PC. I use foobar2000, which is extremely efficient and robust once you have it set up how you like it.

All this talk of eating Beef is making me nervous.....

Have a good one!

Good plan. Personally, I find that the smaller bodies are difficult to hold stable at longer focal lengths (I use the 18-200) but if you never go longer than the 18-105 then you will probably be OK.

IMHO, the D90 is well worth it for the bigger, brighter viewfinder alone. The other stuff is just gravy. * I spent a few completely pointless hours at work, came home to sleep off a headache, and worked on my Buffalo DAC. Its so very, very close now...... but I'm so very, very tired......

Kangaroo meat is fucking awesome. Requires a very steady hand to cook though, because it is extremely lean and does not like overcooking at all. When I used to do kangaroo fillet I would soak it in good olive oil for at least an hour at room temperature, sear it in a VERY hot pan, then chuck it in the oven until medium-rare.

Thanks for the suggestion I do need to get hold of some longer M4 socket cap screws to attach the rear panel, so a McMaster Carr order might be on the cards...... [EDIT] Aww nuts, the black ones only come in 6-32 and larger [EDIT 2] But I can get black ones in alloy rather than stainless. YAY!