The diary entries of a little girl who is now 30! ~ Part 2 - Page 338

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Originally Posted by MuppetFace 

 

This came up earlier today as well. The understanding of the passage by the Orthodox Jewish community is far more nuanced: the word actually translates to "side" and not "rib." A head-fi friend of mine mentioned that Jewish midrash of the text saw the first human as both sexes---a hermaphrodite---who was split into man and woman at its own request, and that both sexes are seen as equal but with differing roles. In the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament (used by Orthodox Christians), the Greek word can technically mean "rib," but is better represented as "side" or "flank" for both contextual reasons and religious reason, considering who translated the text.

 

 

 

Sounds like a real charming fellow.

On April fools day for sure ;). lol.

I'm not sure if any of you have seen this cartoon before? I loved this cartoon as a Child. I think there's some good values to be taken from the cartoon.

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Originally Posted by DigitalFreak   To all my fellow northerners, I think I speak for us all when I say summer can't get here fast enough

 

Say hello to Winnipeg during it's coldest months.

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Originally Posted by driver 8   I think I almost got frostbite on Monday when it was like 9 degrees (F) out.  It actually got warmer here after some snow fell.  With the exception of a flash blizzard 2 years ago winters here lately have had almost no snow whatsoever but been relentlessly cold and windy.

Not trying to rub it in at all, I just found this amusing --- hopefully you guys stay warm and get a kick out of this:

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Originally Posted by drez 


This is very interesting, one thing I hate is that we somehow cant bear to revise traditions, even when they are harmful and possibly innacurate.

That's has been humans MO from the very beginning. We don't take well to "change" for the most part. It makes people uncomfortable living in the unknown. As they say "you can't teach and old dog new tricks" ;).

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Originally Posted by DigitalFreak 

To all my fellow northerners, I think I speak for us all when I say summer can't get here fast enough

I miss snow.

Right now everything's coated in a 5mm glaze of ice, thanks to a week of colder than usual temperatures capped off by a long freezing rain and a subfreezing overnight. It's about as paralyzing as snow is, without the prettiness.

Need to run errands but nobody's going to be going anywhere today before noon, when the temperature should get up to around +6 C or so and keep climbing for the coming couple days.

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Originally Posted by Sylverant 

I clean my ears with a q-tip every morning as part of my daily routine. I've heard that using a q-tip too often can often lead to pushing in ear-wax deeper, and last time I used debrox stuff did come out on the 3rd day and I got the whole"everything is clearer and more dynamic" effect.

I use a Q-tip every day as well, to dry the crevasses of my outer ear and the outer part of the ear canal after a shower.

It picks up some ear wax with it, and that's OK, but that should actually be whatever stuff had loosened up during the shower, rather than stuff I tried to scrape out with the swab.

The "everything is clearer and more dynamic" impression is the consequence of the transition from clogged ears to clean ears. The feeling goes away after a while even if your ears stay clean, because it becomes your new baseline listening situation. So don't use that as a metric for ear cleaning success.

Sorority colours? I really like that particular shade of green!

That full-name logo's pretty jarring.

I think if I get another pair of customs they'll be the freq-phased JH13's, but I don't use IEMs when it's cold out so there's no rush. 

I'm not sure how I feel about the NAD M51 yet.  There's a bit more detail than my old configuration, I think, but it doesn't feel like as big of a leap as I had hoped.  The treble weirdness I was talking about somewhere does seem to have subsided, though.  From what I've read on various sites it seems like I may have been hearing some aspect of sub-optimal Sabre use.  It's probably worth noting that I don't hear this with the Conductor, so maybe Burson was onto something with their decision not use all 8 channels.

A bit of tea tree oil with a q-tip will get wax out of your ears. It takes a few days, but it causes the wax to be forced out of the canal naturally.

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Originally Posted by MuppetFace 

I was playing around with UM's custom configurations, and I thought this looked nice for the PP6:

 

 

 

I think I like the light pink more than the more saturated pink.

What I always wonder about, with these faint translucent colors, is how much of the skin shows through. I have a lurking suspicion that some of the light greens and blues will look kind of... odd... when in the ears.

Then again, for the higher-end IEMs, maybe there's so much hardware inside that it doesn't matter much.

Something I came up with from poking around in UM's configurator. Half-wishing I could have a set of IEMs like this. Kind of biased towards greys these days. Hm.

Incidentally, I couldn't remember the address for UM's website is. Googling for "Unique Melody" only gives a pageful of results pointing to their Australian reseller's site, plus one or two for their UK reseller. I hate SEO.

So if anybody else wants to play... here's UM's IEM designer. I'm pleased how well it works; JH Audio's is fancier but balkier and requires you to set up an account first, for no good reason.

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Originally Posted by driver 8 

I'm not sure how I feel about the NAD M51 yet.  There's a bit more detail than my old configuration, I think, but it doesn't feel like as big of a leap as I had hoped.

A large part of the reason why I want to try one before I buy. I'm ready to accept that any improvements will be incremental at best, but they still have to be significant somehow. And actually be improvements.

I'll add, I like the light pink more than the saturated pink, as well.