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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.
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."
Prevailing wisdom held that either the Sun was just like the planets in terms of oxygen composition or that it was rich in the isotope oxygen-16. Now research on Lunar dust indicates both theories are wrong.
Okay, I love it when we find out we don't know everything after all, but obviously some folks are perturbed by this: "'This was a completely unexpected result for us,' Dr Ireland said. 'Our Sun is not the Sun that we thought it was.'"
Bagheera edition. Thanks for playing.
Welcome to visitors from The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.
Huckleberry edition. Thanks for playing.
Welcome to visitors from The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.