Travis In Austin

Was that a twisted memory? I knew someone whose grandmother owned a great house on the crooked part of Lombard. Some of us spent a few days on the top story. We could look down through the uncovered windows of the very rich. We saw servants standing against the wall, at the ready, as the family ate dinner. It was a rather Hitchcockian glimpse of the 1% .... or was it the 2% ... we were not good at discerning fine distinctions in that rarefied air. Nowadays the servants will be brandishing AK47's. JJK I think more like P90s.

Very sad, loved watching him, he and Curly Neal were my two favorites.

We started going in about 65 or 66, it was about 15 minutes away from where we lived then. I can only remember rails, but I sure remember Lombard St on San Francisco.

During the set up I saw stuff about "face recognition for log in, I am guessing this is only if you have bought camera option?

No. It has a separate camera, similar to the Kinect, that you can purchase and pair. It does not have anything built in though. Ok, that is great to know. I keep reading stuff about cameras, and things related, like a couple being banned from PS something for undressing on camera. I was wondering about that. What is Kinect, and what is the camera for in connection with multiplayer gaming? To see the distress on your opponent's face as you are beating the pants off him?

Maybe I just read too much onto stuff like this (from Forbes magazine): Paul Tassi Following Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris which killed at least 127 people and left more than 300 injured, authorities are discovering just how the massacre was planned. And it may involve the most popular gaming console in the world, Sony’s PlayStation 4. The hunt for those responsible (eight terrorists were killed Saturday night, but accomplices may still be at large) led to a number of raids in nearby Brussels. Belgian federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon has said outright that the PS4 is used by ISIS agents to communicate, and was selected due to the fact that it’s notoriously hard to monitor. “PlayStation 4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp,” he said. When the new generation of consoles launched, there were concerns that they would be too light on privacy, with peripherals like Microsoft’s Kinect and PlayStation’s Camera possibly having the ability to spy on users if say, the government wanted a window into your living room." So the PS4 has a built in camera?

You are obviously not Catholic, you can only educate against what dangers are known, and I know that I know nothing about what danger is lurking out there on PS4-financial, fraud or otherwise. I am just not aware of what all the scams are on PS4 players. I like the one hour limit. Dave or USNRet mentioned a system of reading for minutes, which has worked very well.

Here ya go

Ok it sounds like the age restriction thing isn't that big a deal, so should I put any restrictions on? It will allow or block chatting for example. Can they communicate by voice? I was working at 12, but it was a way different world back then.

Allways loved seeing them during Fleet Week in the Bay Area.

Have a new PS 4, and a 14 year old boy. He wants PS4 Plus, which looks like multiplayer mode with complete strangers over the internet. It asks about a monthly spending limit, he has his own pS4 giftcards he received. The parental controls for main account let you block chatting which I did, block who can see and look people up. We found out we were already bamboozled, I set age restriction for 16 and it wouldn't let him play Tom Clancy game because it was M. Set it to setting that would allow M, and that was 17 and up. Turns out all the cool games with violence and guns are M. Need some help and guidance here.

Did anyone else see Circarama movie at Disneyland, America the Beautiful? 360 screen, 360 sound, it could literally make you car sick or dizzy watching it.

Mine are miniscule by comparison. Drove from Austin to Denton to pick up a KSP 300 system, went to my cousins, spent the night, and drove back. Drove from Austin to Pineville Arkansas to pick up 2 pairs of La Scallas Drove 15 minutes to pick up a pair of Khorns in Austin Drove from Austin to, Arlington I believe it was, and picked up a pair of Cornwalls from Bill Hendrix. My biggest ADVENTURE was on less than 12 hours notice about their location and availability, flying plane from Austin out to deep East Texas to a long shut-down movie theater to get a pair of never used TSCM speakers, fitting them in airplane, tying them down, getting their published weights, and flying them back to Austin. My most satisfyingy adventure was two road trips to Hope, meeting Chief Engineer in Hope, and becoming good friends, outside of Audio and Klipsch. Ended up buying a new, custom, one-off set of Jubilees. Met what turned out to be some very close friends in that process. The longest acquisition I have personally been involved with is when TimKid flew to Austin to pick up a piece of Mac tube gear from me. He sent me in return, among other things, a set of rare Heineken Branded speakers. He is quite the man. Travis

Heading out to get Starbucks for Susie and I, decaf latte with coconut milk and a simple cafe americano, black for me. Then off to one of the 2 giant box home improvement stores to price one of those Phantom screens that slides from left to right outside the door and rolls back up inside a pocket. Then I have to work on getting my computer set up as a music server this week.

We left Ft. Worth early today to avoid all of that. It missed my parents. Last year Cleburne got it and Rio Vista.

Great article, thanks for posting that.

In 1959, a program that was sold ($1) in the lobbies of roadshow theaters showing Ben-Hur in 70mm, claimed that Camera 65 used "rare earth lenses." I don't know whether that was just studio fluff, but the big close-ups of faces were the sharpest I've ever seen in a movie before or since. Camera 65 was the MGM imprint of Ultra (not "Super") Panavision 70, with an aspect ratio of about 2.76:1. The camera film was 65 mm, as it is with all "70mm" processes, and the prints were 70mm. Oddly, one of the articles about The Hateful Eight mentioned that they used "soft lenses." I discounted that. Now I'll add that the lenses used in Ben-Hur were anything but soft. It, and most movies in 70mm, used very sharp lenses, producing an almost "etched" quality. I think they really were rare earth, and most of their lenses are still rare earth. I wonder if the actual lens is "soft" or just the filters or effects they put in front of it, like cheese cloth? You do here tales of certain actresses having in their contracts particular lens and lighting requirements, resulting in a softer effect. I don't know if that is true or not. From the Panavision people on H8: "Some new lenses had to be manufactured, however, while the mechanics on some of the older ones had to be modified. That’s where Dan Sasaki, Panavision’s VP of optical engineering, and his team came in. “Originally we thought this was going to be a slam dunk,” Sasaki says. “But (during) a five-hour meeting, the whole show just unraveled. We didn’t know if the infrastructure was going to exist. Is it going to look good? Will the lab be able to handle it? Will we be able (to have) the projection lenses?” "The look achieved by the old lenses duplicates what we see with the natural eye better than any other format, Sasaki says, with the camera’s prism elements evoking all of our natural depth cues.

The writing was excellent. I was disappointed with his last outing, but he is right back at the top of his game with this one. I tend to like movies with superb writing and/or ensemble casts, so this one was right up my ally.

That is the Bill I know. Nice to see you Lars.

Wishing all of my family and friends in the UK, Canada and former British Colonies Happy Boxing Day.

Was in Fredericksburg last month with Luther and our gals, picked up sone of their once a year Christmas wine.

Great tie

Great taste, Cheers.

He did. He said it in an interview several months before it hit the media in the US.

Merry Christmas! Alvin Lee is awesome. He helped his pal George out a time or two by joining in. The Beatles are right up there with the Beach Boys, Barbara, Michael Jackson, Whitney, Beyonce and every other giant POP act. You can have 'em. Give me the Stones, Ten Years After, Buddy Guy, and a 1,000 other bands if it is nuances you are really looking for. "I wanna hold your hand"