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One or Two Wonderfully Musical, Etcetera

My mind is filled with audio components. I guess that's what a show does to you.

Besides all of the individual pieces of equipment that have suddenly made my wish list, I have a couple of ideas for full systems which I think might be fun. For instance, I think I'd like to "go green," as they say, starting with a pair of bamboo speakers and, taking a cue from Red Wine Audio's Vinnie Rossi, I might even leap off-the-grid with some battery-powered electronics. Wouldn't that be cool? My energy bill has been way too high, anyway. Screw you, PSE&G.

Before that, however,…

Why Aren't You Working?

As a work-at-home guy, I wonder about this all the time—especially when I visit Park Slope during the daytime. Doesn't anybody there have a job?

I guess if I was a real reporter, I would have done what Chris Colin did: Ask people and then write about it.

Decorative Electronics

"This is simply a resistor that has pretty much no resistance: in effect a bit of wire in a tiny box. It might sound like an absurd component, but they're quite common in modern circuits, because they can be used to bridge the gap between adjacent tracks on a circuit board with a standard-size component. I'd like to apologise both for knowing that and for sharing it with you."

I Did Has a Cheezburger!

Slate writes about lolcats. ("Hard-hitting fluff," as Alan in Victoria says.) Follow the link on page 7 to Anil Dash's analysis of lolcat grammar.

Michael Fremer on MSNBC

Hey ma.
Remember last week at dinner when you guys asked me, "What's new?," and I stuttered, hesitated, and tried telling you about the Home Entertainment Show?

This is what I was talking about. Michael gets dressed up in MSNBC and brings it to the people.

And, yes, the Home Entertainment Show is our show.

Now You Have A Choice

In their neverending quest to damn my life, Bose is now sending me credit cards. I walked into my beautiful apartment, the sun having already set, threw this and all the other junk mail down onto the kitchen table, and grabbed a beer.

In addition to everything else, it seems Bose can now get you that down payment on your new house, put your kids through college, or send you on safari in Africa. Amazing.

Friends, for once and for all, please know:

Bose is not hi-fi. Hi-fi is like Shakira's hips. Hi-fi don't lie.

Lovely and Talented

The lovely and talented Aperion Audio Intimus 532 loudspeakers, dressed in a cherry so fine my wood floors are jealous.

Not really. My wood floors are pretty hot, too.

Ouch!

Obviously.

Better Than Sex?

Michael Fremer wants the world to know that vinyl is back.

"Better than sex" is how one owner described his Caliburn.

Hmm, I wonder who that was.

All That Roadrunning

Alan In Victoria commented on a URL I posted about the Primedia Enthusiast sale: "I know Primedia through their two excellent car mags, Automobile and Motor Trend. Both have been recently spiffed up, especially the dramatically revitalised Motor Trend. I hope they are now in good hands..."

What the fudge?, as Stephen Mejias says. Not Stereophile? I'm shocked, shocked.

But when I went to Automobile and compulsively read the entries in "Great Drives," I discovered Erik B. Johnson's description of the six-barrel 1969.5 Plymouth Road Runner 440, a car I drove a lot between '69 and '76…