I spoke with my father today. Circumstances forced me to give him my current home address. I don't think this will be a problem, but I've kept my home secret from him for the last five years for very good reason. The last time he knew where I lived, he showed up on my doorstep — drunk, beaten, and looking for a place to stay. It was winter. I couldn't. I should say: I didn't. I didn't turn him away, though perhaps I should have. This was when I was living in Bloomfield and just beginning my career at Stereophile; I arrived home from work one evening…
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Walking tours featuring the gargoyles, green men, griffins, and hippogryphs of New York. When I first moved here, my wife told me that looking up all the time marked me as a tourist, which seemed like a terrible thing to be. Then I discovered that by not looking up, I missed all of this stuff, which seemed much worse.
The BBC's Adam Livingstone says that he knows it's not—even if the Beeb did use the "t-word" in a story last week.
it seems they got letters.
Dear "poker casino 875,"
I hate you.
I hate you.
I wish you would leave our forums alone. We don't want you. Audiophiles enjoy spending vast amounts of money, energy, and time on creating the illusion of live music played back in our dusty and cluttered listening rooms. We don't like casinos. They're noisy. The soundstage sucks. The imaging is total crap. The overall sonic signature is all high-end bells and whistles. Where's that magical midrange, that glorious deep bass? Unless you are providing them as some sort of absurd and mystical tweak — something that can, perhaps, be placed…
Nanopaint that blocks cell phones? Yowsah!
And then I wondered, couldn't it also block RF from my hi-fi?
Here's more.
Chapter one: vasopressin and oxytocin did it.
The Birmingham News recently uncovered a cache of unpublished photographs from the early years of the Civil Rights struggle. Thank goodness these images weren't lost.
Meet the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Example: Being stung by a Bullhorn acacia ant is "a rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek."
I don't know that I completely buy this premise, but the concept that the earth and humanity create a complex interaction feels right. I think that more examples will be necessary to completely convince me (and others). Now that the idea has been broached, I'm sure scientists will be looking for that data.