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Cheap DVDs
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I've scanned through their selection for some titles I have been lusting after and it is quite limited. Nevertheless, they seem to have quite a bit of new stuff.
Like Mad Magazine sells for... "Cheap"
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Cheap DVDs
in Lounge
I just read the FAQ about the "quality" of the products...
WTF?!!!
No jewel cases, missing menus, shipping can take up to four weeks, etc, etc.
But hey, its cheap, right?!
Looks like some kids have invested in some DVD burners to put in a basement and now they's runnin' a bid'ness.
If anyone buys from there, please leave some feedback!
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Whew!!!
Cheers...
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Yeah, when it starts to sound like a caller phoning in to an AM radio talk show... yikes.
The only problems I've had with music at 128kb/s (or higher) were actual source/recording issues.
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Interesting thread.
My Monster wire turned into just that -- a monster of icky green yecch. So I replaced it with the stuff in my signature. I think it was well under $30 for a 100' roll. Cheap to replace and sounds just fine to me. Maybe I'm just growing deaf to notice any differences.
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you wanna talk about a headache?
Try snorting your day starter off the counter for a few months..... LOL
Michael
Don't you mean the day starter, mid morning snack, brunch, pre-lunch, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, tea-time suprise, dinnner, supper, dessert, midnight snack (x20)... and then repeat the next morning.
All that and still not hungry!
Yep. That's a migrane fo sho.
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and then complaining about what "the kids are listening to these days"
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People who know me expect the unexpected with regards to my musical tastes. Most of my friends will have at least something in common with me but never everything. I can usually recommend something to a friend (who has a specific taste in music) something they have never heard before and they will almost always like it.
About 10 years ago on one of my last 'big' purchases of music I went to a local store (not the stupid big chain types) where the owner was able to find just about any CD for me and order it. Some of the artists I remember: Orbital, Incantation, Mr. Bungle, Frank Zappa, and John Coltraine. The owner remarked, "Quite a spectrum you've got here." In fact, his tastes were even wider than mine -- he not only knew all of the artists, but also had listened to all of the albums I wanted -- and then recommended some more stuff to me (kind of like in the ending of the first paragraph I wrote).
I like listening to as much different music as possible which creates two problems for me: 1)time 2)money (and some say the two go hand in hand).
I can see my self retiring in about 30 years, wiggling my toes in the sand on some beach, sippin on sum'tin, and cranking up some Slayer.And
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Now that's what I call getting into the "spirit"!!
Oh yeah!
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As a metalhead put another notch in the TSO column. Very unique.
My dad gave me "Six-String Santa" by Joe Pass after he found out I got to see him live years ago. I still love that disc.
99.9999314159265% of Xmas music makes me wanna puke though.
I got in my truck a few weeks ago... A FEW WEEKS AGO , turned on my radio and xmas music was to be had. I nearly wrecked my truck as I was screaming at the top of my lungs "aaaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh, noooooooo"
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I'm going to have my Mits calibrated next month. Hopefully that will be the last time someone other than me touches it for years to come (that sound you hear is me knocking on wood).
I don't watch it as much as I would like to, but my "style" would be severely 'cramped' if something were to happen to it.
Hope all turns out well for you.
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There is quite a large and knowledgeable populus of Mitsu owners at hometheaterspot.com
Might be worth your time if you haven't already.
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Just curious about affects of coffee. I drink too much coffee and with my high blood pressure, I should really consider cutting WAY back. So, with that I have some questions.
1) Do any of you who drink coffee get headaches when you don't get your morning coffee? If so, how do you know the headache is from not getting your coffee and not something else?
2) Does drinking too much coffee give you a headache? If so, how do you know it's from drinking too much coffee and not something else?
3) Have you stopped drinking coffee completely, if so, did you suffer headaches and if so, for how long?
To answer:
1)I've never gotten headaches from not drinking coffee (to use a double negative) although most people who do drink on a regular basis will suffer some withdrawal symptoms when they quit.
2)Yes it gave me a headache when the dosage was too high. How do I know? Because it was the only thing I was ingesting -- mass quantities of the strong stuff! My symptoms started with headaches, but over time it came to include blurry vision, peripheral numbness, heart palpitations and chest pains. All are standard symptoms of overdosage from caffeine.
3)I've quit caffeine altogether several times in the last few years. Sodas, chocolate, coffee, tea, etc.... cold turkey. While I didn't get headaches from quitting, what I do find interesting is that caffeine is not really for my benefit but for other people.[
] I'm just not very sociable in the early a.m. without it. That's just me and I'm definately not like everyone else[]In short: everything in moderation. Like you, I have hypertension so when I do drink coffee I try to limit it to one or two very small cups of black coffee first thing in the morning. Any more than that and I will either end up with a headache at night or not be able to sleep (or both).
Most of the time its water for me, but I sure do enjoy a good Coke with BarBQ.
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I have the Dish HD 942 PVR. 15+ channels of HD and Sirius Radio in addition to the other bazillion channels offered. I love it. I rarely have rain fades (less than 10 times a year) and when I do it is very brief (5-10min at most but usually a couple of minutes). The fades give me warning that we are about to get slammed with straight line winds, strong rain, and lightning directly out of the SE. While the sat is out I usually watch the PVR. My father-in-law has Direct and he has quite a bit of woods around his house; when it rains he loses signal for hours on end -- I think it has to do more with the jagoff who did the installation than anything. The last few hurricanes we had come through I never lost signal.
I had cable for decades until a few years ago and hated it. The signal quality was always horrible on most channels and deplorable on others no matter where I lived. I've lost my cable signal for days on end after a strong Tstorm. I thought cable was reliable too, until I got Dish... and changed my mind. The a la carte stuff cable offers never appealed to me.
Just my $0.02
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I got my first ball a few posts ago.
I'm not sure how many posts to get the blue balls (plural).
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I need to get a few pairs of them thar cables.
$30 bucks got me a 100' roll of 12ga at the Depot. Such a waste.
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I think I paid under $120 for my Pioneer 563a. It has served me very well, especially for the price. Some of the menus and controls have been a bit troublesome, but not too bad. I think the bass management is significantly better on the newer models. Be that as it may, I am saving my pennies to get a Denon 2900 as the picture quality is better. The Pioneer will probably make its way into the bedroom.
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I third what jheis seconds.
The deepdiscount sites have ALWAYS been cheaper than what my local MegaLoMarts have, even on sale.
Shopping earlier this year on Amazon I had the most miserable experience -- it took me three tries (with three different dealers) over three months to get a single disc. Yep. I was charged up front. Yep. I was promised the item was in stock when it was not -- it took several weeks of effort on my part to finally get 1) an answer 2) my money back
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Tweat UI was extrememly useful for me (for Win98 SE) when I was using on my computer at home. There were tons of things to do for that version to make it faster. I'm not sure how much better one can make the new versions (XP, 2000, ME, etc) as all of the computing I do now is on "work" terminals and therefore (sadly) "untweakable."
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Holy Smokes, Batman!
Someone had some time on their hands to compile this.
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Promotional Consideration Furnished By: SOTA TURNTABLES
I barely caught that as the credits were rolling.
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Megadeth - Mustaine and whoever he was paying to play at the time.
Slayer - King and Hanneman
I can't think much past the 'metal' category right now. Lunch in my stomach seems to be robbing my brain of precious oxygen.
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VanRoth was the only incantation for me.
It seemed like after "1984" the guitar licks and riffs got so... bad.
All of the albums up to that point had at least a few songs that simply SHREDDED the fretboard. The majority of the songs were merely 'awesome' and the rest were 'great'....
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Not to hijack,
BUT
Since we are on the topic of dreams....
and I find the subject fascinating (and ironically my dreams are completely boring)
I once remember hearing that it was difficult/rare (or was it impossible?) for people to read text in a dream.
I cannot ever remember doing it -- I can recall holding objects in front of me and I was doing the action of "reading" but I cannot ever recall the actual text.
Weird.
] I'm just not very sociable in the early a.m. without it. That's just me and I'm definately not like everyone else[
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Window/Curtains behind speakers and TV
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Due to the constraints of my living room (size, shape, furniture, doors, etc.) my TV and front three speakers are placed directly in front of a 100" wide window. The one good thing is that this being the only window of the room (and facing west), all of the equipment blocks the light coming into the room -- even in the middle of the day the room is dang near pitch black.
Coming to my point, though...
As of now I just have faux wood venitian blinds covering the windows. Would I gain an improvement in sound quality by hanging some curtains (fabric or otherwise)?