Thad E Ginathom

I came across a couple of sachets of special audiophile wipes for CDs and cables. Yes! use them to make your cables sound better!

Can I believe that I once paid for those? Of course I can believe it. Surely most of us have, at some time, been just a bit audiophoolish.

At least I never bought any... crystals!

Or anything from Synergnostic Recycle

I think they may have been ReVeel, by Russ Andrews in UK. Still available.

To be fair to them, they don't, if they ever did, make any claims about cables, but I don't think I dreamt it up. And if I did, then all the more audiophool me!

Whether they made any difference to CDs I can't really say. Probably about as much as the green pen.

All in all, I end up thinking not to get taken in by the obvious and expensive nonsense, but the cheap and simple even if a bit daft? Heck, give it a try.

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Sometimes one should read the small print!

I love xkcd. Except for those occasions when I have no idea at all what it means.

Always read the small print.

Apart from pets and cameras, and checking notifications... Mark All read, and start over.

Back home still, watching the asylum from afar. What idiot put the loonies in charge?

Actually, in a few hours I'll be sitting at the airport, and I hope that plane /will/ fly!

Off to the frozen north. The land of barking-mad Boris and co. See y'all in a couple of weeks

Safe travels Thad!

He and Jerry are writing together again somewhere

When I was just a little young boy,
Papa said "Son, you'll never get far,
I'll tell you the reason if you want to know,
'Cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go"

Laughing Cat! Thank you :)

Of course, he's really yawning, but once I saw it as a laugh, I couldn't unsee it.

Gosh, that must be painful. Glad that you don’t need to do the fingering stuff every 3 months.

I will not have my finger pricked, but I don't mind them taking a syringe-full from my arm. And I have easy-to-find veins: usually I don't feel a thing. I just scream for the sake of it.

Isn't phlebotomist a lovely word!

Oh wait, you mean /that/ fingering stuff!

I feel sorry for the doctors. But, as one replied when I said so, "it all pays the mortgage."

Thankfully I have not had that one for a few years. I forgot.

As in... Just need to give food the wrong colour to fool our sense of taste?

It's a custom paint shop. They can build a mint color (or strawberry) HD800S for you :)

But what does it taste like?

Yes, other women.

Sounds like something the new female 007 would be subjected to by her nemesis....

Quite. And at least Americans can rest easy because, it seems, the FDA Does Not Approve.

...milkman?

…"Say Fred, did you ever notice that your kittens look kinda like the Ginathom cat?"

There's so much inbreeding in the local population that many of them have similar looks.

@Bloom, yes we have a milkman and a newspaperman. Our milkman delivers pasteurised milk, there is also a local milkman for from-the-cow milk, which we do not buy.

They should add some wasabi. Makes them cry for being so gullible...

I emptied a packet of wasabi into a jar, and inhaled some of the powder that floated in the air. The only thing that hurt more was being stupid enough to want to know what concentrated nitric acid (with those amazing brown fumes) smells like.

One might think that vagina steaming is unbeatable.

Nope.

In my newspaper this weekend, an advert for *Laser Vaginal Rejuvination*

Whaaaaaaat? Oh, and "no downtime."

In USA, it seems that your FDA is protecting the public from this. No such safeguard here in India.

Yes! The frog he would a wooing go; Davy Crocket; Tumbling Weed... and many others.

I'm blown away by his singing The Times They are A'Changing. I suspect it might have been thought cheeze and horrible at the time, especially when compared to Dylan's own version, but hearing it now... it's like dicovering my grandfather sang it!

I don't know about how it was perceived, but I am pretty sure Burl Ives was a folk singer long before Mr. Zimmerman became Mr. Dylan.

Very true, @Senorx12562. In fact, probably before Mr Z was even born!

But part of my multi-dimensional mindbend in listening to this was seeing how Dylan's music really was folk music.

But I don't want to, and I am looking forward to the carnatic concert this evening, which I have sponsored :D

Happy birthday bro

I've had bad experience with FedEx myself; the dude literally didn't even ring the doorbell.

I think I could be partly to blame. My address on the supplier's site is slightly wrong. Surprisingly easily called the depot today. Our for delivery again: they gave me the guy's number.

Fedex The Win? Fingers crossed.

Yes! Files arrived.

They are, erm... smaller than I expected. By about 50%. More like needle files with wooden handles. But hey, I always thought that wooden handles would be a good idea for needle files. And the magic name... Vallorbe :)

So I shall give them a loving home.

idkwti. I don't know what that is. Oh, wait...

Thad of the quick wit :)))

ok, ok... TIL? idkwti either.

As I heard it, it was tltwnim TLAs.

It's nothing like it really, but... there are several mosques around here, and there is a little snippet in the Muslim Call to Prayer that my brain twists and turns into a little snippet from McGoohan's Blues!

Don't think I'm going to get far with changing Islamic tradition, so I guess I'm stuck with this one.

It's not what it was. Used to be just pure hifi, and only "separates" (2-channel stuff to my friends in America) but later came to include general electrical goods. Still a great place to buy last-year's model at a bargain price.

Back in the day... That particular day when I moved into a house by myself and didn't have anybody else's hifi to live with, Richer Sounds was still a small company with one or two shops. And they sold real treasures. Bankrupt stock as well as earlier models. At great prices.

I did some extra work, saved some pennies, and took about 400 UK pounds to their shop. Comparing reviews and measurements had really done my head in. I put it on the counter and said "What will this buy me!" And took home some nice Sony and Akai stuff.

Bought a few other things from them, over the years. Thanks Julian Richer :)

Well it seems I've been mis-pronouncing Illinois all this time. That aside, holy hell what a voice.

That was my first thought too. I had no idea she was still around. I kinda remember that she sang, didn't realize it was for Les Brown.

ZZ Top beards

Beards often make a man look older. I eschewed (bless you!) mine when I was thirty-something. Felt like I had come out of hiding!

Looking older three decades later is the last thing I want, but occasional shaving laziness shows that a beard is not really an option. It is patchy now, and uneven in colour. Horrible!

I guess I'd better ask the doc if I need extra inoculations. I could lick the cat. But I think they might be a bit too clean to help my immune system much.

At least I bite my finger nails, so there is hope.