cryptique

Wait. So you yourself don't seem to have any opinion on this ... you're just trusting what you read on the internet? These articles, essays, whatever -- are hardly definitive on the subject you've chosen to tackle. Now, let me be clear: I'm a big fan of analog. However, making a broad, sweeping statement such as "analogue=best. digital = crap. always. it will never reach the natural sounding-ness of analogue" is just plain foolish. Technology advances, in case you haven't noticed, and it has already reached a point where I would defy you to tell the difference between a pristine analog

It won't be. Jeff's just starting to have fun.

Yup.

Good to know there's a Tom out there who isn't a shiftless layabout. Nicely done!

Point taken ... I was thinking of it more in terms of the huge recall and the general panic, even if it's about our furry friends and not ourselves, so perhaps it's not on that scale. Of course, given that I like animals far more than people...

When you're in fear of being fired for excessive internet use at work, and about 95% of your web time is spent here. Not that I would know, or anything.

I just hope they find the person responsible. What a despicable act.

Joan Armatrading - Never Is Too Late The Temptations - Love Can Be Anything (Can't Nothing Be Love But Love) Johnny Cash - The Ballad of Ira Hayes Pixies - Holiday Song (live in Detroit 2004-11-18) Richard Thompson - Why Must I Plead Whiskeytown - Turn Around The Beatles - I Call Your Name The Zombies - Beechwood Park Son Volt - Afterglow 61 R.L. Burnside - I Believe Spirit - Animal Zoo Van Halen - Little Guitars The Shazam - Gettin' Higher Calexico - Slag Centro-matic - Triggers and Trashheaps (live) The Clash - Spanish Bombs Elvis Costello - Baby Plays Around Orange Juice - Texas Feve

clicky Rat poison found in pet food, official says ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Rat poison has been found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Agriculture and Markets said Friday. Spokeswoman Jessica Chittenden would not identify the chemical or its source beyond saying it was a rodent poison. The Food and Drug Administration has said the investigation was focusing on wheat gluten in the food. Wheat gluten itself would not cause kidney failure, but the common ingredient could have been contaminated by heavy metals or mo

I lost my first Final Four team last night. Serves me right for picking against teams I hate. I can't bring myself to pick UCLA or Kansas past the early rounds, because I don't want to see them get any farther than that. Picking against Duke (for similar reasons) actually paid off this year, though.

Though I believe it to be a genuine CD rip, I'd say it's not a very good one -- pretty high bitrate, but I'm hearing some probable compression issues off in the corners. It's good enough to listen to, probably better than the webstream rip, but I won't be happy until I'm listening to my own CD or vinyl copy.

clicky ...though admittedly, that was Jeff solo...

Rip of the 24K gold DCC pressing ... sounds noticeably better than my crappy CD copy.

"Tigermilk" worked for me.

I grew up on After the Gold Rush, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and Harvest (my dad's a fan), so I'm strongly biased toward these three. That said, I'm not sure he ever topped those albums -- though Tonight's The Night and On The Beach are certainly in their league -- as good if not better.

Both albums are worthwhile.

My favorite dumb kids' joke: Q: How do you shoot a blue elephant? A: With a blue elephant gun. Q: How do you shoot a pink elephant? A: Hold his trunk until he turns blue, then shoot him with a blue elephant gun.

Don't bother knockin'?

As benjamin_kenobi noted in the Oink invite thread, SBS is now oinkable. VBR (~224) MP3.

Yep.

He has no respect for others' personal space, or so I hear.

Netflix carries that one too.

Why would this be a problem, anyway? Artists revisit their old songs all the time, musically, lyrically, thematically, or all three. They're two different songs that happen to have similar tempos and instrumentation ... is that some kind of sin? I mean, jesus, are we just looking for reasons to nitpick now?