An Open Letter to My Audiophile Elders, by Erik Bobeda
Erik Bobeda is a full-time college student. With all sorts of debts and due dates and distractions, Erik Bobeda is also an audiophile.
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Bagheera Primps
Looking this good takes effort.
Semper Fi
Huckleberry is ever vigilant, keeping my desktop 100% rodent free. And birds—no birds here!
Ear Ear
Why is the mammal ear more complex than the reptile ear?
Forget the Big Cats
It's the small wildcats that naturalists are all excited about.
The Real Dreamgirls
<I>Smithsonian</I> on girl groups.
Fake News Is Not That New
Robert Love gives us some historical perspective on non-factual "news." My favorite bit comes from his report of a 1903 <I>Washington Post</I> article on the unreliability of news garnered by remote stringers.
Freud's First Slip?
Freud was no saint? Interesting—but how does that make <I>you</I> feel?
A Legitimate Stereophile
I'm still surprised whenever approached by some faithless audiophile — hair thinning, ears sagging, belly bulging — and asked (seriously): "Do you think there's any hope for our industry?"
Oh, Eat Some Garbanzos
I'm on deadline, so of course all I can think about is dinner. Think I'll go upstairs and start some <A HREF="http://www.accesscom.com/~jfinger/recipes/chhole-sour-checkpeas.html">c…; cooking, steam up a bunch of brown basmati rice, and mix up a <A HREF="http://www.mediterrasian.com/delicious_recipes_raita.htm">raita</A>&mda… I'll add some fresh mint, cilantro, and a chopped, drained tomato to that last 'un.