grawk

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There is an awful lot of music that people love that I don't really like, but it's mostly because of overexposure rather than "not getting it". I absolutely can not stand most of the beatles and bob dylan catalogs. I'm mostly bored by Dark Side of the Moon. Most prog rock doesn't speak to me, because I don't get feeling in the math. They do the math problems on their instruments really well, and I appreciate the talent. I just don't find it appealling. Then there's the modern prog, which is accompanied by the blue guy from sesame street singing about cookies. Most of the artists I find myself really liking are deeply flawed in some way. No one is ever going to say the Flaming Lips are masterful musicians, but they're a band that communicates emotion to me in a way few others ever have. They manage to write a silly song, perform it off key, and somehow manage to show how life can REALLY suck, but that it's still fun, and you have to appreciate both. Phish and the Grateful Dead were both a time and place thing. I saw each of them way too many times, and had a few experiences I wouldn't trade for the world. Sometimes Jerry would sing songs that would just rip your heart out. Right before Brent died, you could hear in his voice how the weight of the world was bringing him down. There are a few phish songs that communicate pretty well what it's like to be a rich white kid being exposed to evil for the first time. But mostly these bands were about the experience, and I made great friends and got to experience a lot of great things as a result of my time driving around the country in a 69 vw bus selling soda and going to concerts. I wouldn't expect anyone to fall in love with either band based on a recording, be it a live recording or an album. Because you can't fit what was right about those shows entirely in a recording. The recordings can help you relive the memories, but they just don't contain all the data otherwise.

I'm a college dropout. I find that's a benefit these days. I don't really want to work someplace that values college over experience anyway.

That would be a problem. I ahve no problems streaming alac to my airport express. No matter what i'm doing on my network.

I started out in retail. I built the datawarehouse and corporate back end for autozone's customer warranty and sale database, etc. Went from there. What I do now is less life and death than any number of things I've done in the past. And it's not any more exciting than real world stuff, it's just more expensive toys. I wouldn't start on the road of a sysadmin today if I had the choice, but when I did it it meant for a good lifestyle. And I've got a pretty good lifestyle. Now, I'd go in a completely different direction. Bioinformatics or something.

optical cables, trying to make the aex work with my apogee. Apogee sez there's nothign wrong with it, so it must be the cable. Or something.

I'm primary support for a "national critical infrastructure" supercomputer. Even so, if I don't think it's important, I'm not gonna skip what I'm doing to fix it if it breaks.

There's a lot of variability in the levels for the music I listen to.

I'm a sysadmin who pushes back fairly hard when it comes to after hours support. If you don't push back, the company will get used to it, and stop respecting your time. If they need intensive support 24x7, they should have 3 shifts of people working. And no, I'm not the junior admin. I was the guy that would work whenever, for whatever. I worked hard, and long hours. What'd it get me? Fewer people to help. Less time off. More work. Not significantly more pay. It almost got me divorced, and I got to hear one of my son's first words to me..."bye bye daddy".

Yah, I wish I'd gone for the remote control ladder stepper and input switcher with my m3.

It's one of those things that if you don't see the motivation, you're not the target market

Except that search is still broken.

Much more likely is that the cable will be the same, and only the connector will change.

And that's why Boomy's the disciplinarian here

I bought my car on ebay based on hype I mean, come on, it was only 16 years old, and had only 293,000 miles...

Or it's a tv show, and they don't actually use the audio from the turntable in the show, and having it make noise is a drawback...

No, mikhail is plenty fast about shipping tubes, he doesn't have to build those. He has a million of em. (Literally, I believe).

My understanding is that it'd be nearly impossible to have enough capacitance to protect from a spectacular tube failure. It's one of the joys of tube amps

Nope, not at all wankery.

No worries about you not buying from me, I don't trade in the level of goods you do, so it's not an issue.

As a buyer, I wouldn't want to be like akwok, so I'd never ask someone to underdeclare for my benefit.

I guess we all keep our own counsel. I wouldn't commit fraud for some wanker who wants to avoid taxes.

1) You certify on the customs form that you're telling the truth 2) You could tell paypal that you never received the item, and paypal would refund your money 3) Some people don't like lying.

the toasters are a great value.

Sure, but you're still asking others to commit fraud for you, and some people look askance at that.