Damn, that looks pretty sexy. Never even heard of the existence of such pens, and I"m somewhat intrigued.

That's a lot of stuff to always carry around. I just have my Swiss army knife.

RIP But I was talking about the no age statement Nikka's though.

That reminds me. In my dorm in Japan we weren't allowed to drink in the common room, or be in the common room after 9. Yet I've been drinking in that common room until very late at night several times. They don't really care about their own rules. Actually Japanese whisky without age...

Yeah, whenever my friends go to a club I usually go with them for like 30min and come to the conclusion that I'm bored as hell, and then proceed to ditch my friends and go home. The loudness is alright though, I went to a Melt-Banana concert about two months ago and had tinnitus for a full week...

Yeah, it's really close to me. And there is hardly any border control. Only on like the highways is there any border control, and they only stop very suspicious people or people that have been reported by the police of the other country or something like that. You can easily cross the border...

Well the Swiss frank is a bit overvalued right now -- everything here is more expensive than it should be if you convert prices to other currencies. Other whiskies seem to be more expensive than in surrounding countries by like 30-40%, which I suppose is not too crazy. In any case I rarely buy...

I've seen the Harmony in a few shops here in Switzerland, cheapest I've seen it for is 139 franks, which is way, way beyond my budget.

I think the most I've ever spent on drinks in one night was when I went to some bar in Asakusa for new year 2014-2015 with B-Dawk, and that was still less than half of that bill.

I rather like Caol Ila 12. I bought it in Luxembourg for less than 30 euros, and I think it's the best value whisky I ever bought. I also agree on the Japanese whiskies. Even in Japan they were more expensive that Scottish whiskies of similar quality, and outside of Japan you really need to get...

Just came back from skiing. It was only -10C at night, but I went skiing on some glacier 3km up where it was -20C and windy in the middle of the day.

By drinking it. I acquired a taste for beer by disliking it for a while until one day I had a beer and I actually really enjoyed it. I only acquired a taste for wine last summer when at some conference dinner there was free wine served and drank more than a few glasses.

It's more that when you tap a fret with some force, this tapping will itself make the string vibrate. It's less loud than when you strum it usually, but it's still loud enough to sound good. I can only do this with my left hand, but some techniques require just tapping the frets with two hands...

Just set yourself a reasonable budget. I set myself a limit of about 40 euros per month on whisky, which is more than enough. I usually buy about 40 euro bottles, a bottle a month is more than I drink anyway so my collection is continually expanding. In fact I won't be buying anything now unless...

Whisky can be somewhat of an acquired taste. The more you drink, the more you start to appreciate the different and subtle flavors present. But it's like that for anything.

No, no, no, when in doubt -- drink. Maybe the delicate repairs become easier after a good glass of whisky.

Hmmm, I really like Taketsuru. Good value. Saw a bottle of it in Lyon for 35 euros, and while that's more than you'd pay in Japan, I still didn't hesitate to buy it.

To put it very bluntly: smaller 'wires' => higher resistance. Especially when there's also suddenly more of those smaller ;wires'. The efficiency of transistors goes up with decreasing size, but again, since there are more of them, on the whole it can produce more heat as well. I'm not sure...

I hear this too. However, after much experimentation I discovered that you can make really good tea in a french press -- and it's much more convenient that other methods too. Easy to drain the tea out of the pot, and easy to clean afterwards. Great taste too. No real reason? What about money...

With current technology? No. We can't even make a working SSTO. Maybe with the SABRE engine we can. But they can make huge mech suits. Why shouldn't their rocketry be a little bit more advanced? With some good engine gimbals you've got pitch and yaw covered, add some RCS and you can probably...

Have a great 2017, may you survive it to see 2018. May the Falcon Heavy finally launch.

I'm more impressed by the rockets apparently being single-stage-to-orbit than that there are Gundams strapped to it. Are they launching from a small planet? Do those rockets just have ridiculously high Isp? Googling tells me the average Gundam is some 20m high. That makes those rockets about...

Why does the windmill generate a nether typhoon? Why doesn't he just distribute a vapor of narcotics to get his opponents high? Or distract his opponents by throwing prostitutes at them? Or trap them by building a dike around them? So many questions.

Why? I think it's pretty good.

They sound pretty decent actually, better than what I expected for the price. For example my HD 25-1 II's cost 1.5x as much, but I think these Shure's sound a bit better. More clarity, OK soundstage. Treble is not so great, and bass doesn't reach that low, otherwise nothing wrong.. A lot of...