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My speakers haven't moved very far from where they first landed on the night that John DeVore visited Jersey City. The Arros, after the Gibbons, found a similar home — 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.
While I was sick, though, for all those many days, I began to feel daring and bored, and so decided to:
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Anybody can make humor out of a banana peel and a hapless schlub, but it take a genius of sorts to game theory funny.
Is the art of conversation really dead? Carlin Romano doesn't buy it, despite a few recent books that eulogize it.
Right now, the sun is shining sweetly. This time yesterday, swirls of wild snow were racing from jaundiced skies. April is a desperate housewife.
Before I stopped to write this, I was chomping away at cold and delicious pizza — like Vonnegut: the breakfast of champions — drinking bad coffee, proofreading an excellent piece by Art Dudley (I wish I could tell you what it's all about, but that would be somehow wrong), and contemplating the sunshine.
"Are we rocking yet?" JA asks.
He's wearing pink today. He comes by, scurries through a black filing cabinet, and finds…
Dolby's got a new record and is touring. So what does a self-confessed musician/geek do these days? Why start a blog, of course.
I like the poster for his SF gig.
I just bought my airline tix to HE2006, so I know I'm going to be there. I hope you will, too—because it;ll be a lot more fun if somebody else is there, too.
How about if Primedia sweetens the pot? Register at HE2006 and enter "Stereophile" as the promo code and you'll get an additional $5 off your three-day ticket.
LEMURs are coming. Great videos, especially for the Guitarbot.
Via Jon Iverson.
This video stuns me, although it does go on. I guess even perfection gets old.
"And so," the hi-fi manufacturer musically says:
"I found myself in a situation where I was A/B-ing the CD player to the CD player!"
"I found myself in a situation where I was A/B-ing the CD player to the CD player!"
We laugh.
"And," he continues:
"Everyone heard a difference."
We laugh.
"And you know what?" he goes on:
"So did I."