So I think it's safe to say that almost everyone here has interests and hobbies other than Head-Fi. I've seen posts galore, and threads, on a myriad of different hobbies that people here have gotten into - watches, knives, pets, shoes, cars, motorcycles, R/C, video equipment, etc. I myself...

So I just had a blast with some excellent White Water rafting last week and thought I'd post the highlight for any other potential Head-Fi White Water fans!   Location: 6 Mile Creek, Just outside of Hope, Alaska on the Seward Peninsula (about 1.5 hours out from Anchorage Alaska).   6...

Totally stoked by today's games! My favorite AFC and favorite NFC teams both prepping to duke it out two weeks from now. Personally hoping for a Steeler's 7th Superbowl Victory on the 6th, but, seeing how their offense is still having a bit of trouble, and Rodgers is playing in fine caliber on...

In honor of May 25th, officially declared to be Towel Day, all universal hitchhikers must ask themselves:   'Do you know where your towel is?"   Happy Towel Day, you zarkin' froods!

2 years of working as a full time field engineer, and going back to school/homework/tests on my days off, and the pay-off is within reach! I just defended my thesis yesterday for my Masters, and my committee signed off! Woo Hoo! 3 weeks, 2 projects and 1 final to go and I'll have my Masters...

‘People's History’ author Howard Zinn dies at 87 - TODAY: Book news I don't know if anyone else ever read 'A People's History of the United States' but back in High School, my US History teacher pulled about 6-8 people out of his US History classes (including me) that year and gave us...

So one of my previous professors managed to convince me to switch up to a interdisciplinary engineering PhD instead of doing the masters in Engineering & Science Management that I have been working on for the last year. I've been working on getting paperwork squared away but my application...

Was browsing around the internets earlier today and came across this: Collectible speaker figures – Headphonies — The Gadgeteer Come on now: you know they probably don't sound great, but I bet you can't resist the urge to chuckle at the awesome might of Headphonies Man!

The Ventures founder Bob Bogle dies at 75 - Music- msnbc.com Quite sad indeed. I had grabbed a whole bunch of older The Ventures LPs that my uncle still had in working condition nearly a year ago and I enjoyed their sound very much...

Does anyone here use/own a pico projector that they would recommend? I am looking for a projector that will interface with both an iPod Touch and any computer, but at the very least, just needs to interface with a computer. It's primary purpose would be for demo-ing power point presentations...

While I was at work, a colleague asked if I would loan him my portable hard drive. It seems he wanted to borrow the case so that he could take the physical drive out of the enclosure and replace it with one he salvaged from an older laptop of his. When he finished what he was doing, he told me I...

So my parents and I finally took a good look at our cars and realized that both are putting on age and we decided that we'd get two new cars. They are looking into an SUV of sorts for themselves. Now, we live in the hills outside of the city limit so its a bit isolated and we kind of have to...

So with 10 days left, Watchmen is slated to hit the UK and USA on March 6th (03-06-09). And with that, comes the question: Who's planning on watching Watchmen? Anyone have thoughts, either good or bad about the upcoming film based on what we know about it already? I for one am bummed...

Watching a few episodes of TV from different shows (Friends, MASH, Seinfeld, Frasier) reminded me of the entertainment derived from people's nicknames at work and occasionally the circumstances through which they are derived which led me to consider opening this thread: Do you have a nickname...

Anytime I try to play a media file in VLC Media Player, I create a list of the files that will follow it and since I am usually watching anime, all the files in the playlist are the same format and usually from the same source. In many cases, with dual audio files, I will set the first file I am...

By far one of my favorite modern authors, Michael Crichton, died yesterday at the age of 66 after a battle with cancer. Author Michael Crichton dies at 66 - TODAY: Book news May he rest in peace....

I decided a few months back to come back to school in my off-time and complete my masters and I decided to do it in Engineering Science And Management. One of the core classes required for the degree is Accounting for Managers (And Engineers). When I bought the book, I didn't think too much...

I figured this was the best place to put this thread as it was discussing cables but the cables in question are video cables and not audio cables. Basically, I was wiring up a cheap 5.1 surround system in the exercise room to a TV in the same room for my mom to watch movies on while she...

Since I've been helping my parents pack their stuff to move, I came across my Axim X50 and decided to resurrect it as my primary portable player. I want to buy a new SD card for it and I want it to be the highest capacity SD card that is capable of working with it. While I'm at it, if it can...

For those who know about the Insignia Pilot or have used one personally, after seeing a co-worker's model, I'm seriously considering getting one (the 8 GB model in particular) and had a question for anyone who can answer it: I noticed that the players support SDHC flash cards and I was...

I was heading out to run some errands early in the morning (8:30 AM) when I stepped out of the garage and was surprised by what looked like two dead birds lying on our walkway. I bent down to get a closer look and was surprised to see that one was in fact alive and looking right at me. It didn't...

I've got a harddrive that we just salvaged from one of our old computers. We wanted to grab some pictures and stuff that was on the harddrive, so we popped it into an enclosure to use it as an external harddrive. The only thing we didn't anticipate is that several of the users had passwords on...

My parents have a laptop lying around and all they told me a couple of days ago was that 'it's not working' and they asked me to 'fix it'. I just took it out to take a look at it and it turns out that it boots up to the Windows XP log-on screen just fine, but when it gets there, it seems like...

This year, seeing as I don't know my own schedule coming up to my sister's graduation early in May, I've started thinking about what to buy her for her college graduation (B.S. in Biology) right now, and I'm kind of stuck. She bought me a handful of books like the Spy Vs. Spy anthology and a...

The first MP3 player celebrates its 10th birthday - Engadget The world's first MP3 player, the Saehan's MPMan F10 just turned 10 today!