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Is the art of conversation really dead? Carlin Romano doesn't buy it, despite a few recent books that eulogize it.

Anybody can make humor out of a banana peel and a hapless schlub, but it take a genius of sorts to game theory funny.

My speakers haven't moved very far from where they first landed on the night that <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/111005may/">John DeVore visited Jersey City</a>. The Arros, after the Gibbons, found a similar home &#151; a comfortable spot, if nothing else, which works fine enough for me. It's a spot that allows me to walk into my bedroom easily, without having to brush up against a side wall or trip over any turncoat cable. A spot that appreciates symmetry and cleanliness and my apartment's obsession with order.

Of course, if you have to explain it, it must not be that good.

Now I can get a computer case that makes my computer run quiet as a tomb&mdash;and makes it look like a Krell or ML33!

Introducing random behavior stabilizes systems. In other words, the only way to establish an orderly system is to introduce something unpredictable. My role at <I>Stereophile</I> has now been justified empirically.

A not completely tongue-in-cheek explanation of the late lunch.