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For those of you now on the Buy.com mailing list one of the current specials is a 750GB WD "My Book" external drive for $159 w/ free shipping. That's about as cheap as I've seen that much storage.

I think you mean FEMA. I have no idea what FIMA would have to do with the Superdome.

It is an honor and a privilege to share my birthday with Token.

So far it's pretty good and a definite upgrade over the stock Comcast software. It's still not as good as the real thing but I think now that they've gotten over the initial hurdle of getting the software to work with the Comcast box I have hope that they'll be able to refine it to work even better.

What source were you using with the CKKIII?

I'm surprised to hear that, the CKKIII isn't exactly a slouch when it comes to power. That's not in any way meant to contradict your listening experience but I'd be surprised if the NAD has anything all that special attached to its headphone jack.

Yeah, I figured if nothing else it'll be the ultimate CanJam flying companion.

They have some "decent" deals on 16GB refurbs right now at the apple store. I would have gone that route if I hadn't been able to score another 10% off that price. Without knowing how it'll work for me I just couldn't pull a Jacob and go bleeding edge with the 32GB version, yet.

16GB Ipod Touch - figured I'd give it a whirl w/ a less expensive used one and if the concept works for me I'll probably upgrade to the 32GB version in a couple months. HBTM.

Thanks everyone. Had the family down to the house yesterday for a little party and it was good fun. Now, time to figure out what I'm going to buy myself for my birthday.

Yes, it's all a semantic argument really.

10 years ago maybe, today no way. I used to rock climb a bit, cliff dive a bit and generally behave like I had nothing to worry about. Those days are now long behind me.

Seems like a good price for a meter that can do the normal stuff plus capacitance and temp, I'd like to have a meter that had both of those functions as well.

I'd guess that it was the result of a rare form of guestitis he was clearly infected with.

Probably a nice meter but you could also probably live with a lot less. If you're one of those people (like me) who generally buys good tools because you know you'll use them for a long time, buy it. Otherwise for a third of that budget you can get something that will handle most of what you would need for DIY and everything you'd need unless you get really hardcore.

There's a simple solution to that, Priority Mail.

Why do I suspect that I am ecstatic to have missed this entire thread?

That was a very wise decision. The smoking resistor would be the least of your problems had it happened.

You might want to pose the question on head-fi about the variable offset you're getting with the different pot settings. Personally I don't like the sound of that. 45mV is certainly fine and not likely to do anything bad to your cans but the behavior seems strange.

Nice Kevin, a paid shooting gig would be cool. What are you going to do with the old body, backup?

Are you getting any DC offset? Measure DC volts for the following w/ no phones or source connected - OL to IG, OR to IG and OG to IG.

Oh sweet jebus Kevin, you have some nice toys.

I think it'd be safe to continue the discussion of mark's mods in the thread that already exists. I'm sure there will be more iterations of the mods and each one doesn't need its own thread.

I would have loved to give FiOS a try but they don't offer it out in the country so it's Comcast or a dish and I don't want a dish. There are also rumors circulating that FiOS doesn't have any HD receivers in stock right now and won't for over a month. I have to wonder if that isn't somewhat a result of the proposed Verizon/Fairpoint deal.

Yup. My understanding is that this all started like 3 or 4 years ago. Tivo agreed to license their software for use on Comcast's boxes. It's taken this long to figure out how to integrate Tivo's software with stuff like On Demand, etc. The install took about 45 minutes most of which was spent waiting for the software to download. But it's up and running now and so far seems a lot better than the absolutely god-awful Comcast DVR software. I've read about some possible headaches on AVS Forums but I was willing to take the risk and see how it goes.