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Thanks guys. I took them all out to dinner last night. We were eating and one of their sons was saying "all is ok, our stuff was on the 2nd floor..." As we were leaving, the restauraunt had a tv on the wall with the news on. They were showing the devestation. NONE of us had seen any pictures yet and we all just stood there for about 15 minutes, totally dumbfounded as to what we were seeing. They're going to be staying at my other brother in laws here locally (the fathers brother). My wife is going out today to buy them some furniture so they can get this little apartment set up. Interestingly, the biggest thing I heard them lament the loss of last night was some kind of "slide board" (??) Little Maggie (daughter in wheelchair) has this slide board. Evidently, it's like 3' long, 12" wide (only a guess) but it's used to help her slide from her wheelchair to the tub, or to the bed or what ever she might need to get to. Seems it's sold ONLY by prescription which I find to be incredulous. NOW they need to go to a doctor to get a prescription, to get another slideboard... hmm... methinks I'm off to ebay & see if I can see one listed. I'm considering having an 'auction' (for lack of better word) here. I'll take any ideas you may have as to the merits of it. What I was thinking was, having a minimum price on two of my Academies (one might be sold already) and let those that want to bid on it, have at it. The proceeds would then go to my brother in law & family, as opposed to a Klipsch fix. That might assuage someone's angst about paying "X" dollars instead of "X-35% since it's sold on the forum" . I could attempt my Jolida amp, two (and perhaps 3) Academies right off the bat. Heck, if someone had an interest, I could even look into selling my EV's even though that would be like selling my own children (I've only had them for about 27 years) Truthfully speaking, I could also offer wifes Rolex & another fancy dancy watch (both which she's been wanting me to list on ebay for her) Any thoughts?

I've used a 21" crt at work for last 5 years. Ran it at over 2,000 resolution (don't recall the number) I loved it. New office, new look..wife says big screen has GOTTA go, it hogs all my desk space. Just put in last week an Apple (for pc) 23" flatscreen. Needed new dvi card to go with it. It's a wide screen. I don't have it at as high of resolution but it seems I can have two pages open side by side. it runs at 1920x1200 resolution and I wish it'd go higher. That said, I DO think it's a VERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY nice monitor. Very simple, very elegant. Go thin monitor & get as big as your wallet allows.

Why is it with me calling her Mrs. Fife, I can somehow hear Fini making some kind of comment about the bullets in her shirt pockets? [:$]

I suppose you won't mind us calling you Mrs. Fife? [] We'll let him explain

This sucks (and it does) Have preliminary reports back on my wifes brothers (and family) house. This is the bro in law/sis in law who have a daughter with spinal bifida and is who confined to a wheelchair. They've spent 16 years (her age) getting the house conditioned for her access and her special situation. They live near New Orleans. They live about an hour south of New Orleans in a small area called Buras. I've read in some places that Buras (and that parish) is where the hurricane came in first. My brother in laws boss took a boat ride and went by their house. Says the house is 100% gone. He can see no signs of it although the area is still underwater so he's not positive on what's below the surface. To add insult to injury, the BIL was up here the last week, precluding him from doing anything at home to prepare. His son was in town from college when they evacuated. He (dad) told the son to pack all his tools into his work van and drive the work van away from there. The son, having been through these "false alarm" hurricanes before, CHOSE to instead drive out with Mom & sister and left everything there against dads wishes. This poor family seems cursed. The reason the bro in law is even HERE in town was to buy at an auction, some kind of specialized step van with a man lift attached. He bought it, found out reverse gear didn't work. Spent the next few days trying to get it fixed. One shop called him in the morning & said "if you can get it here TODAY, we can get it fixed". He dropped everything he was doing & got it to them. They didn't even get a chance to LOOK at it that day Had he not been here to buy the van, had reverse WORKED, had the repair shop not failed him, he would have / could have been at home and been able to help save more of their stuff. He works out of these vans as he does some kind of industrial a/c work or something like that. Oh, and to add icing to the insult that was added to the injury, before he left Buras, he had a large repair contract. He ordered (at his expense) all the stuff needed to fix this specific job. Seems he spent a couple thousand dollars. Then this happened. So not only is he out the $$ to buy the parts needed to fix the job, the JOB ITSELF is probably gone so he's out the income he'd had if he could have finished it. Evidently he came up here during the time frame it was taking to receive the parts when the van transmission went bad. I guess I know where my batwing mower money is going to go now.

I've got a Jolida 502B that you can have for $850 (+ shipping). Retail From their website (www.jolida.com) Model JD 502B Construction Details and Features: Fully Integrated Stereo Amplifier: Input 600mV driving 60 watts, maximum 85 watts output. Multiple Inputs: Front mounted selector switch-CD, Tape Recorder, Tuner and Aux (for TV, DVD Player, VCR or Computer). Right and Left Stereo Balance Control: + 50dB at both right and left front panel control. Custom Wound Audio Transformers with a core of German grain oriented silicon steel. 15th generation proprietary design. Secondary can be configured for a 4 ohm or 8 ohm load. Top panel bias testing terminal with bias adjustment controls. State of the Art Components: ALPS audio potentiometer, gold plated RCA input jacks. Low Feedback Design: Only 5 dB. The reasons I'm looking to sell it are several. 1. I've got a Peach and I'd now rather have a power amp than an integrated 2. I've since acquired a pair of Wright 2A3's and Transcendent SE-OTL's (and now the Jolida is just sitting there) 3. Since I'll probably keep the SE-OTL for my low power amp, I might get a brute solid state amp for the punchy one (but still don't want it integrated) There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Jolida, it's a fine amp and sounds very nice. There IS a touch of noise when you rotate the volume knob. Not much, but compared to the dead silent Peach, was enough to annoy me.

Just saw a commercial about them. Is that for real or is that just a marketing gimmick? The couple samples they played on the commercial sounded interesting (I'm not into opera though). Made me suspect that this isn't a band that's creating on it's own for the sake of singing... moreso that it's probably similar to a boy band, that is put together for a marketing plan?? (& gimmickey songs...)??

---------------- On 8/24/2005 9:12:25 PM scott0527 wrote: 1981 I was in Dodds Hall in South Quad. My RA had these humongous Boston Acoustic speakers in one of those little rooms. I was a Freshman in 1981, looks like you would have been a couple years ahead of me. I spent more time "uptown" drinking buckets of beer(3.2) than listening to music back then. ---------------- This was over on Western Campus. (forget name of dorm lol, clawson hall?) We all sort of felt like outcasts there but after being there for the year, don't know if any of us would have changed our situation.

Note the cassette tape in the mouth. As for being short...well... if guilty is as guilty does... I've made some changes (additions) to it this year (within 10 months) 1. Added Khorns 2. Added Wrights 2A3's 3. Added Peach 4. Added dbx 5bx 5. Added dbx 10/14 RTA/EQ 6. Added dbx 120 sub harmonic synth (sitting in box) 7. Added dbx 400 route selector (also sitting in box) 6. Added Jolida 502-B 7. Added some SE-OTL's 8. Added SACD player 9. Added Al's ES networks to the Khorns All currently paid for except for the crappy SE-OTL's which will be paid off in about 30 days after I get my bill. (I'm starting a rumor that the dude that sold them to me was kind of suspicious looking, but like Connie Chung said... "That's just between the two of us")

Oh, and for those who care, Otis has a long story: Cutting it REAL short, we had 2 dogs killed on Christmas day 1 1/2 years ago. Shot by a hunter Devestated the wife. About 6 months later she says "Richard...I had a dream... I dreamed that we had a puppy and his name was Otis" Well, the journey to find Otis began. She missed a week of work because of a vacation. She was sick for most of it too so at the end of it she went to the local shelter. She found Otis on Wednesday. Took him to the vet on Thursday for his puppy shots. Friday she called me, Otis is not acting right. I told her to relax, he's in new home, new food...just saw the vet...what could be wrong? She refused to listen to me and she took him BACK to the vet. Seems Otis had parvo virus. Something I'd heard about but until the lesson I was about to receive, had ZERO clue as to just how nasty this disease is. Bottom line, Otis was in isolation for a week in the most pathetic condition I've ever seen a dog in as he teetered on the brink of death. We visited him twice a day as we went to work and came home from work (we live 18 miles from the vet). He pulled through the parvo and all was fine until the following Christmas (last Christmas) when he contracted Blasto Mycosis. Evidently, this is also a highly leathal disease however unlike Parvo, this one is in fact treatable. Kind of humerous (from my perspective), we spent near $1,200 for his week in isolation. When the vet came out telling me he had blasto he said it was treatable however, he'd have to take one pill per day for two months...and the pills cost $5.00 each ($300). I looked at him just wondering where the issue was and why he seemed to be breaking me that news gingerly. I laughed and said if I was willing to pay $1,200 for a week stay to get Otis through parvo, I certainly was NOT going to mind paying $300 for two months of treatment. On a dollars per day basis, I was getting a real bargain! Today, Otis is over his parvo, blasto... but now he seems to have an impotent tail

Oscar, this picture is a year old to sort of show the 'before' shot. I don't have any of him over the last two days but I might do that when I get home.

---------------- On 8/24/2005 9:14:49 AM Amy Unger wrote: I can't believe you had all that packed into those tiny dorm rooms!! Both my parents and my brother went there, and I've visited the dorms many a time Lovely town, by the way. Especially in the fall... ---------------- Where there's a will...there's a way. Simple as that You are right, Oxford is a very nice town. I tended to like it more in the spring/summer when the shorts/skirts came out rather than the big coats

Welp, I just hung up with my vets office. I spoke to one of his helpers and she curried my questions back/forth to him whilst he was doing something. She said she herself has had a couple dogs with broken tails and she always lets them heal by themselves. She also admitted that the tail might have a crook in it by doing it that way. The vet told me (through her) that they CAN put a splint on it if in fact it's broken and we want to do that... but that a broken tail didn't seem to concern him too much. Perhaps I should say fractured verses broken. Otis WILL use his tail but it's just not flying as high like it ALWAYS has from his puppy days to just a couple days ago when I noticed this. If in fact it's fractured, it's very near the base of the tail as opposed to middle or above. I'd guess that a splint would be difficult at the base? I told the vet I'd give Otis a couple more days & see how he acts. This is a picture of Otis about a year ago. You can see his tail. If this picture were taken today, the tail would be dropped almost straight down. You can see why we called it a periscope. Just as an aside, one day I was talking to the wife on phone. She was making a comment about how cute it was seeing the little periscope walking back & forth around the bed. She just knew that Otis was pacing back & forth. She watched him for 10/15 minutes. Later, to her horror, she found out that he was being very mischevious as he was getting into some of her fabrics and dragging them from one side of the room to the other lol. She just layed there & watched him do it all but all she could see was his periscope going around the bed.

This is a pic inside my dorm room in college. You realize how large dorm rooms are. We had a bunk bed, 2 dressers, 2 desks and the other wall was this. I always had a kick out of "Animal", so someone got this for me. My room mate & hall mates went on to make fun of me suggesting that this is what I always looked like instead of studying. Not so bad for a dorm room eh? You can't see my other speakers in there (my EV's) This would have been taken about 1981 I guess.

Perhaps a dumb question but it has me wondering. We have a dog (Otis) who we make jokes about because his tail is always sticking straight up. As we are in bed you can always know where he is because his "periscope" as we call it, is always visible. I've even mentioned to the wife that I can always tell when he's outside and has to do "his business" because his tail is even MORE stiff and points straight up. For the last two days his tail has been consitently pointing down. This is VERY unlike him. I grabbed the tail to see if he'd ouch with pain. He DID seem to get excited (in a bad way) about me moving the tail around. So, can a dog break his tail? If they can and do, will it heal on it's own or is it worth a trip to the vet? I can't say I've ever seen a dogs tail in a sling lol. Oh, just as further evidence that SOMETHING is amis... now when he has to do his business outside, the tail will straighten out, but it's more horizontal rather than vertical...sort of like it either will not go vertical or it's just too painful for him to raise. He's making ZERO wimpering sounds if he's in pain (does a broken tail hurt?). So other than his periscope hanging limp, he's giving ZERO indications that he's in any pain or that anything is wrong. Yet I KNOW something isn't right with the way he's currently carrying it. (He's a retriver mix if that helps illustrate the vertical tail) ???

Speaking of, he also has "La Sagrade Familia" and Colter might appreciate this (and he might not ) I was once in Barcelona Spain AT the LaSagrade Famila or what ever the 'church' is called. I was up in one of the spires walking down. As I was in there, I thought...hmm...that might make an interesting picture looking straight down the spiral. So, I took the shot and it came out pretty much like I thought it would. A number of years later, this album came out. Just WHAT is the album cover pic but the SAME frigging shot looking down one of the spires!!! I felt way cool and ahead of my time when I saw that. They took their pic in the other spire however, because mine wound clockwise and theirs was counter clockwise (or vice versa) Anyways, I always felt a mild connection with that album because we (the photographer and I) "saw" the same shot yet HIS was published lol.

Dont know if youve fixed your issues yet but heres my first thoughts on your questions. If it sees it as master/slave then the jumpers must be on CS or cable select. The location of the drive on the cable determines if its the master or slave. This is good. Now, go into your start button, see my computer? Well, RIGHT click on it and click on MANAGE. When Computer Management opens up, DOUBLE CLICK on Disk Management under the Storage section. On the right side of the box you SHOULD now see your hard drives. If you can see them and all seems to be working fine then Im at a loss for you (unless you can go into a dos window and manually copy your data over) If you do NOT see your D drive, you can assign letters and rescan for disks. I dont know if this will help you because Im not exactly sure what all you can do from this window. I just know that I once had an issue of not seeing a drive and this is where I ended up having to go to kick it into gear. Good luck

I've just added a new toy to my desktop. We recently moved the office and everyone says my 21" monitor (running at 2048x1536 resolution) has gotta go Being one that loves some elbow room I was debating on what to get. Most of the thin monitors will be a net downsize from this. So, I finally settled on the 23" from Apple http://www.apple.com/displays/ I think it will look very elegant in my office along with the decorating we did. The step down in resolution from what I'm accustomed to using probably won't be noticable, expecially in lieu of how much more shallow this new one will be. I needed to get new video card & extensions for the cables too. Net price somewhere a couple pennies north of $1,800 delivered. Since my partner was cranking about me getting a thin monitor, I'm going to let him pay for this.

Speaking as someone who had a pair of LaScalas in the dorm at college... If you DO get the Khorns and you do go off to school... you WILL be the KING of your dorm! That said, moving the LaScalas WAS a royal pain in the hiney. Certainly do-able and I don't regret having done any of it. Going off to school was the secondary reason I got the LaScalas instead of the Khorns, with the difference in $$ being the primary reason. Combined, I could not justify the purchase. Sadly, it took me over 20 years to come to my senses and finally get a pair. I wish I hadn't waited as long and I'd suggest you not wait that long if you can afford the ticket price. Beyond that, it would behoove you to try to forsee where you will be in several years and decide if you want to marry yourself to the fact of moving them around as may be required.

---------------- On 8/20/2005 6:27:51 PM DrWho wrote: sounds like a problem with the dvd if it only happens to this disc ---------------- Tis what I was beginning to think. I just couldn't imagine that they'd make a disk (defective?) today that might do something like that. Oh well. Frankly, I can't say it's too good anyway (just bought it). I guess I just had my hopes a bit to high.

Since you asked for a business school... be kinda hard for me to not mention my Alma Mater, Miami University, Oxford Ohio. When I was there, it was a pretty decent school, I presume it still is. I think it's population (then) was something like 15,000 but that might include the entire university (off site campuses) rather than just the Oxford location.

It was off a fresh boot but I'll try it again. I DO have two dvd players, 1 burner & 1 reader. It lags in BOTH of them I don't have any other dvd's that exhibit the same deal.

but I only have one dvd with the issue, woudn't that affect others??

there is a staggering delay between video & audio on this Emerson/Lake/Palmer "Beyond the Beginning" dvd I bought. Any ideas as to why the lag? Using XP, Media player and no other dvd does that as far as I'm aware ?? VERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY annoying

He died the other day as I'd imagine you know. I was driving home and they were remembering him. While they did it (NPR) they also played some music that was either his, or that he played on. I don't expect anyone to know what it was but I liked it. (I'm jazz ignorant) I'd like to find out more about him and intend later today, to go get something he's done. Any recommendations ?