All that is good about tea..............https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

Not much could tempt me into a cinema. I prefer comfort, DVDs and being well behind the times...   Robocop. Nose. Clothespeg. Guaranteed to make you go and get the original to flush your brain out with non-antiseptic violence. Seriously, for modern TV and films, where are all these kung-fu...

Christina Vidal. (But to be honest it's mostly for Lady Haden-Guest's solo... Exactly the right amount of shred without overdoing it.)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMg5v-qWOtI

(Crossover from Guitar- / Ukulele-Fi)   Hester Goodman. Even dropping down to a whisper, rules the Albert Hall.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8ZDwdyHJQ&list=RDFw8ZDwdyHJQ#t=22    This is a genuinely beautiful rendition...

Peers, eh? Always a problem until you staple their eylids open and make them watch every other YT of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Harsh, I know, but they will be better people afterwards.   It sems like you may not be able to get a Korala Explore in America. However, I saw...

Uke-Fi.  Followng a work team building ukulele lesson evening, I got (after nerding out on the research) a black plastic Korala Explore Concert.   Astounding example of cheapness done well. Injection moulded fingerboard and frets trumps wires hammered in haphazardly. Action and intonation is...

My wife still gives me grief about us passing on the premiere of "Love Actually" here, because I can't stand Hugh "Action! floppy fringe, hesitancy, Cut! That's a wrap" Grant.   Still can't, but I do have to admit that he was great that time in an actually great film.   (Apart from the...

Ah, lens flares... They were the business (in Babylon 5). Bit overused since, though.   I prefer Duane Dibbley's sideways-ironed flares...

Could be they went off to do something more rewarding?   Anyway, all audiophiles take care of their hearing. Banging one's head against a brick wall has long been a thoroughly proven contraindication.

My claims are entirely hollow too, and I certainly can't be bothered unrolling loads of charts.   However, I like listening to stuff on my Clip. I can get tons of detail and volume out of it, and it sounds good to me, which is all that is important. I am sort of attached to it, and would...

Just to resurrect the "size" issue.   The big handle stuff seems to just be a foible of modern life. What used to be mid-size or compact cars now seem a lot bloatier in later versions of the same model. And I doubt many people can park in garages built before the early 1970s.   Same*...

Quote: Wuss. :)   Since I got bored with HALO skydiving, I like to start my day (early, while it's still dark) with a straight razor wet shave in the co-driver's seat of an (it's decidedly not a Geo) Metro 6R4 in the Kielder Forest. .   ...and telling lies...

Just rewatched "Get Carter"   1970s England. Another world... Being fair-minded, I have looked at a bit of the remake just to make sure I didn't think it was terrible on reflex... Nope. It was definitely out of condition and Michael Caine did that for a living.   Lead me to Harry Brown...

Iron Sky - from the cheapo pile in the supermarket.   While "Nazis On The Moon" is a great pitchline, you sort of know it will not be quite as good as you hope.   Surprisingly good, though. The cinematographer really knows his stuff, and it had a great Valvepunk look. And there was more...

Every year or so, I'll put Eileen Rose's name up again.   I heard her doing backing vocals on the epic "Wade Into the Water" by Alabama 5 (A3 to anyone left of the Atlantic - or them off the Sopranos Theme Tune for everyone else and went and got as much of her own stuff as possible.  ...

If going for old stuff, I can highly recommend a Gillette Superspeed 1947-ish onward.   Brilliantly well made, the mechanism is likely to be almost as good as new.  Twist the handle, and the top opens up like a hatch. (Come to think of it, it's worth getting it for that... And doing the...

Quote:   Mighty generous of you, pilgrim.   However, like my weird preference for wooden, rather than plastic, clarinets, I was actually able to tell the difference, and it was appreciable enough for me to go to the hassle of reinstalling the upgrade, and commit myself to print (sic)...

I can't say if bottlenecking is actually an issue here. The difference between SQ on the Xonar DS swappable op amps is in their tonal characteristics. This may or may not be related to data throughput and benchmarking type results. Give me ears over stats any day.   While I was very happy...

I swapped the op amp in my Xonar DS.to an LM4562NA. It sounds very nice indeed.   Result of domino effect add-ons. New GPU, a GTX560Ti, was pretty fat, and overhung the previously occupied (Soundblaster X-Fi, I think) PCI-E* (short 'un) slot, so I had to find a PCI* slotted card. Hence the...

Crystal Gayle.   And on any bit of the "One From The Heart" soundtrack, so great and pure, when duetting with Tom Waits' gravel.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g19HMLwWeDU

Agree with opinion on Carter.   Bit of a shame that it was done in the present brainless, plotless, proper actorless, but never mind we can stick some 3-D in and they'll lap it up, era. . Everyone will think of it as a very bad copy of Avatar (which I found to be a bit of a preachy...

Sorry. Not been on the board for a while.   Mouthpieces. Normal Otto Links are pretty good, but safe and a bit bland and boring. They call them Tone Edge. I've not noticed a lot of either :)   You really want to take yourself off to a music shop and try out everything they have (if it is...

As well as "The Twilight Zone", there was "The Outer Limits"   Standouts for me were "Demon with a Glass Hand" and another one which I've forgotten with Don Gordon and the Sci -Fi Motif #1, symbiotic alien (Ahem...) back huggers. Ah yes. The Invisibles. Very creepy....   But Demon with a...