That was one of them. Jerry was so late my friend (and ride) actually got a refund(!!!) and left the show. Jerry walked right by me with his infamous briefcase on his way backstage. After all that, it didn't strike me as a scintillating performance. I had to be creative getting back to the...

My system is out of commission during significant home rennovations, and somehow I fell 400+ messages behind on this thread! But I perservered and caught up. Lots of topics to ponder while I wait to set up a couple systems with new arrangements in the coming months. The above statement by...

I wasn't kidding...

Ah, c'mon, get with the program. Our local Costco has had Christmas decorations for sale for almost 2 weeks!

One I thought was especially creative: Gorrel my spyt kak.

*puzzling* not puzzing... Though perhaps I unintentionally created a new word? I'm very disappointed in my proofreading failure.

Kudos to @Charente for FRAZE, a brilliant idea, well executed. I'm reminded of the many non-native speakers I worked with over the years. I particularly enjoyed sharing idoms with them. It was fun watching some QA engineers from India puzzling out "knuckle head". Many of them spoke English...

Often a reverse correlation.

Or...

My beer-snob credentials predate micro brews, but one of my favorite beer memories is one of those lighter varieties: My buddy and I arrived at our car after a sunny, sweaty, dusty Grateful Dead concert in Ventura in 1985. I pulled a bottle of Budweiser out of the slushy icewater in our cooler...

Just to be clear, the HiFiCon meet is the 29th, which is SATURDAY! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hificon-july-2023-tickets-661317908667 I apoologize for the error.

"In CA at the moment..." Are you here for HiFiCon in San Jose this Sunday? I'm surprised I've seen no mention in the schiit-happened thread. https://www.head-fi.org/threads/bay-area-meet-july-29-2023.968631/

Pictures?

Reminds me of a quote by Hawkeye Pierce: Never let it be said I didn't do the least I could do.

I'm appreciating all the Urd impressions, but this observation in particular was relevant to me. I have many, many CD-Rs of CD rips and live shows, and some don't play on my Marantz changer. I was never clear what determined the failure. Could be the type of material in the CD? Could be the...