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[Andrew Pratt]

Oh almost forgot happy birthday LB:) You old coot:)




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Greg,,I have used my Avia disc many times to calibrate the audio levels..everytime you move your speakers you need to do this and I have done this often in the past. Since you are calibrating your levels to reference for DVD playback,,the Avia DVD will give you more accurate calibration signals since you are using the same source equipment(The DVD Player) that you use to playback your DVD's. Using the test tones from the receiver will not give you the same results.

The Avia disc and Sound meter are two important peices to a HT set-up.




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Congrats on 700 posts Andrew!!




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Andrew,,The HK is still for sale for $300 U.S.,,I just had an offer..someone wanted to trade a camcorder for it?? Prior to this somebody wanted to trade some DVD's for it??..Do I look kinda dumb or what??:)




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Greg,
I have used my Avia disc numerous times...more than I can remember.
If you really don't want to buy the disc then you could always use the THX Optimode that is on some of the newer DVD's. The ones that come to mind are Fight Club, Toy Story and Toy Story 2...I'm sure there are others too. If you decide to go that route then I think you will just need a dB meter and the blue filter. I remember reading somewhere that you can get blue filter glasses from the THX web site...I don't have time to check right now.
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[Chris White]

Good morning from the right coast. 10 pages this weekend? You guys are out of control! :)

This weekend's movie:
Rules Of Engagement (Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones) -- great audio and video but the plot is so full of holes it leaks like the SS Minnow -- still, definitely worth a rent.

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[RickS]

Good Morning!

LB,
Nice flip!

I flush mounted a Middle Altantic Slim 5 rack in that wall to hold the equipment. The room is a furnace room.

Trevor,

The XV-Z1 projector has a native resolution of 640 x 480. If you drive it from a video scaler it will give you 480P. My brother owns that projector and I don't think you would be happy with it or would I recommend it to you. There are many better projectors out there for less money, and will give you at least 800x600 resolution. I'd look at some of the DLP unit's in that price range.

Also, if you want the best out of a FPTV you should think about driving it with a HTPC or through a video scaler for the best results. I drive my FPTV at the max res. of the panel 600P from a video processor for best results. If you want to resolve the full resolution of a normal DVD 480/540 your FPTV panel if the normal (4x3) would have to be a min 1024x768 projector. This would give you 1024x568 in 16x9 mode. If your looking at a FPTV I would recommend looking over here (http://www.avsforum.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi) there is some good info there. Oh yeah....I'm an old fart over there. :)


Greg,

Avia.......couldn't imagine not having it for setup. You will be surprised at the results after you use this tool for tweaking. :)

Andrew,

How do those new Maggies sound?




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Joey,

I thought you might like this link. (http://www.sony.ca/about/aibo.html) :)




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!!

Hope all is well on the TTP. I received my Pronto on Thursday and I tried to get Pronto Edit working but it wont run. Ill try an older version when I get the time.

I received the speakers and a "free" printer for my computer but still no CPU/monitor yet. It will be nice to be able to check emails at home again.

Hope everybody has a great day !! TGIM

Gregg

[Greg Stone]

Good Morning all - thanks for the Avia advice, looks like I will be making a purchase shortly from Amazon. WIll advise after I use it what I think.

Hope everyone has a great Monday! :)




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[Bing Fung]

Morning all! Hope you all had a good weekend. I'm on course for the week, SPC, and CPK control charts.

Chris...So full of holes it leaked like the SS Minnow? LOL, good analogy!

Have a gread day!




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[Andrew Pratt]

morning guys

Maggie 1.4's are indeed better then the MMGs. Everything the MMG's do well the 1.4's do a bit better. The sound stage is a lot wider due to the larger panel and its a taller image as well ie the singer is standing up tall in front of you not bent over. If you put the MMG's on stands I'm sure that they too would have a taller soundstage as well. The 1.4's with the longer and wider panel handels lower bass better too. its not just deeper but its less bloated. all in all they do sound better. BUT now here's the kicker the 1.4's current replacement is the 1.6's which cost $1400 US the MMGs go for $500 US I'm not sure I could justify 3 times the price if I were buying new providing that you built new stands for the MMG's so that they were taller.




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hey guys check out the new "club" we just added for all you videophiles




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[Patrick Sun]

Hello folks. It's been balls to the walls this morning. Finally got a chance to peep in on the TTP.

I saw Bedazzled (okay, rental fare) and Legend of Drunken Master (really cool martial arts) this weekend.

Had a totally boring Sunday (but nice and relaxing).

Hope everyone is doing well today. And happy belated b-day to LB.




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[Jehan]

Ahh Drunken Master, I wanted to check that out.. must go this week.

Pretty quiet here lately after that breakneck speed you guys were setting before....

Back to work I go.

[Paul Wu]

Howdy, must be a real busy Monday for everybody.

Weekend turned out pretty well. Saturday was erand day, did lots, including picking up The Ultimate Toy Box. On Sunday, I watched the VCD of Phatom Menance, sound was pretty good, I wasn't expecting too much, picture was poor. There were a number of skips in dialoge and pixelation problems. But since this was a gift, I can't complain. It was pretty cool just to watch. Oh yeah, it's in Pan and Scan. :P They were showing Tomorrow Never Dies on TV last night, so I played around with synching up the dvd with the show.

LB, I saw the T-Birds once back in the late 80's. and a http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net7/birthday.gif

Pl@ and Jehan, wanted to go see Drunken Master, but didn't make it, but I was watching the review on Ebert last night, and you know what, I've see this movie before when it first came out! I can't wait to go see this again.




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[Paul Wu]

21 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE HAD TOO MUCH OF THE 00'S

1. You try to enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards for years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail your buddy who works at the desk next to you to ask: "Do you wanna go get a Coke?"; and he replies: "Yeah, give me five mins"

5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South America, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbour yet this year.

6. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they are not online.

7. Your idea of being organised is multiple coloured post-it notes.

8. You hear most of your jokes via email rather than in person.

9. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business like manner.

10. When you make phone calls from home, you automatically dial a "9" to get an outside line.

11. Your resume' is on a diskette in your pocket.

12. You really get excited about a 1.7% pay increase.

13. You know exactly how many days you've got left until you retire.

14. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.

15. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in the hospital.

16. You're already late on the assignment you just received.

17. Your relatives and friends describe your job as "works with computers".

18. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.

.......AND THE CLINCHERS ARE..........................

19. You read this entire list and you keep nodding and smiling.

20. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your E-MAIL BUDDIES.

21. It crosses your mind that your "jokes group" may have already seen this list but you don't have time to check so you forward it anyway.




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[Kevin P]

I can relate to most of those Paul.. :)

I wasn't feeling well today so I called in sick and spent most of the day in bed. Hence my recent lack of posts.

Saturday my HT-nut-coworker-friend and I went to a friend of his to help them calibrate their HT. I did the ole' Avia thing and got it sounding great, and then I discovered how to get into service mode on their 5-year-old Hitachi Ultravision RPTV, and then I had a field day. I spent at least an hour, maybe two, getting the geometry and the convergence perfect-o. The image was sharp as a tack when I was finished, I think they were just as surprised as I was. I also did some basic Pronto setup for them--they didn't have Prontoedit handy.

We watched Rules of Engagement last night--a good movie with a great soundtrack. I had the 6.1 mode on the Outlaw switched on and there was loads of surround activity, including the center surround. And loads of bass, which is something a new SVS owner always appreciates! :)

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[Andrew Pratt]

was anyone else scared by how many items on pauls list were a definite match to your life? I loved it, thanks paul.

PS why's no one else posting in the Sanyo club? Thomas and I are having a blast in there:)




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[Trevor Schell]

New Proud owner of the prestigious and rare Titanic DTS Laserdisc.

Thanks Rick for the link...I will use that forum to increase my knowledge of FPTV's..Are you a Moderator there..Noticed a Rick as one of the Moderators.

Good night All




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Good morning from the right coast.

Andrew: Club Sanyo ???? That seems awfully limited to me. Are there really that many Sanyo owners out there? If you want to attract videophiles, why not just have Club Video?




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody.

Paul, loved the list!!

I received my CPU yesterday. Now I have the printer, speakers, and CPU. Still no monitor.

I spent about an hour or so starting to program my Pronto. I liked Bing's idea of putting in all the codes as a "secret" screen then just aliasing them on the other menus.

Joey, how are those MP3's coming along??

Have a great day everybody!!

Gregg

[RickS]

Good Morning!

Andrew,

Glad to hear you like the new speakers! If I get a chance to get away from work in the next couple of weeks I'll go audition them.

Paul,

Boy........when I looked at your list, I laughed like hell. :B

Kevin,

Hope your feeling better soon!


Trevor,

No........I've taken a lot of time to learn about FPTV's. If I were going to lay out some cash today, I'd probably go with a JVC DIL-A projector.


Movies to pick up today:

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[Kevin P]

New Proud owner of the prestigious and rare Titanic DTS LaserdiscI hear the soundtrack on this disc is top notch--too bad there is no DTS DVD of this flick--yet. It probably would have to be on two discs or a DVD-18 flipper though.

Being the Titanic freak that I am, the only reason I didn't snap up a DTS Titanic LD is because my LD player doesn't have the requisite digital output. I do have the DD LD, and the DVD (oh how I wish it were anamorphic!) And of course, the soundtrack CD is one of the best sounding CDs I own, and I always torture test new components, speakers, and subwoofers with this CD.

It's funny, the last time I watched Titanic was when the DVD came out, before I had new speakers, before I had a RPTV, before I had a sub... I think it's getting to be time to spin this disc again. Once we set the clocks back and it's getting dark at 5 there'll be time to watch 3+ hour movies again.

(Can you tell I'm feeling better today??) :)

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Well I just couldn't resist :)




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MEGA FLIP :) and good afternoon folks :)
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Greg LLL,

How do you find the pronto software? I've been playing with the Marantz RC5000 setup for a few days. One thing that I've noticed is that it's going to take a hellava lot of time to get it where I want it. :)

Kevin,

I have quite a few movies that have not been re-run since the addition of the 20-39's. It should be interesting. :)




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[Andrew Pratt]

ricks you've got my number:)

Chris the Sanyo club is a joke mats and I played on Lex. We've being having a blast in there you guys ought to check it out.

Finally getting chance to listen to the new Jesse Cook CD that came out last week. So far I like it but I'll know more at the end of day...got to love head phones:)




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Andrew,

I've got the hang of the software but, it's the busy season here at work. I have been going 16/7 lately. The only time I've had to work on it is late evening nodding off at my computer at home.

But, if you'd like to take the codes for my equipment off my profile, I'd trade a couple of DVD's of your choice for a custom ccf file. :)




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[Gregg Loewen]

Rick, I am finding the software much easier to use than PE 1.04.

? - Say you make 10 buttons on a screen and want to change the font on all of them. Is there an easy way to do that or do you have to do each button individually?

DEAL OF THE DAY:

http://www.us.buy.com/retail/DealOfTheDay.asp?sku=70001555&loc=273

This is one hell of a deal on a 12.6x22" printer. The price is 109.99 and it retails for $580. On top of this if you get the purchase up to $150 you can use a $30 off coupon. They are also offering free shipping.

I also got some CDRWs. I paid $44 for a 100 pack of TDKs that are 74 minutes each. Not sure if that is a great price?? - but I needed to add to my cart to get over the $150 mark.

Gregg

[Andrew Pratt]

Rick we can probably work something out if you're serious.

Gregg to my knowledge there isn't a quick way of doing that. You can quickly copy buttons from one to another without loosing the IR codes but I don't think that works for the fonts...let me check




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[Andrew Pratt]

Gregg yes and no. Using the Alt key you can copy icons and retain the original IR codes on the target button. If you use the Ctrl key you can clone buttons which will keep the fonts from the source. If all the buttons are the same the Ctrl function may be the best route.




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[Gregg Loewen]

Andrew, thanks I will do some more playing this evening.

PS: Did you like my link (using code)? :)

[Andrew Pratt]

Gregg yes thanks for making it clickable...we'll work on making it look like this (http://www.us.buy.com/retail/DealOfTheDay.asp?sku=70001555&loc=273) next :)




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[Andrew Pratt]

Guys I was sitting listening to music last night and the 80's TTP CD's came on. Anyway that got me to thinking about what else I have that you might like to hear. Would anyone be interested in us starting a trading circle of CDR's with selections from our collection that we think others might like? I know I could put together a CD with a bunch of songs that you may or may not have heard before etc that I quite like. If you're interested we could each make one and send each other a copy and vise versa. We'd end up with a couple of new CD's with others favorite tunes on it and it might open us up to some new bands genera etc that we might other wise have missed....anyone interested? I guess we could each pick an MP3 of a few songs if we didn't want to go all out with the CDR's...anywho just tossing out idea's




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[Paul Wu]

Where is everybody? I guess we're all resting from that post-a-thon from last week? Are people camping out for a PS2?

Nice flip Mats. You know I let you have that one, I just saw it sitting there and thought, well someone more deserving than I should do the flip. ;)

I'm heading out to a Basketball game tonight. Got some floor seats, so should be lots of fun.

Lex, WAKEUP! waching a game, havin a club.




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[Paul Wu]

Top 22 Signs You've Had Too Much of the 90's:

22. Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.

21. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.

20. Keeping up with sports entails adding ESPN's homepage to your bookmarks.

19. You have a "to do list" that includes entries for lunch and bathroom breaks and they are usually the ones that never get crossed off.

18. You have actually faxed your Christmas list to your parents.

17. Pick-up lines now include a reference to liquid assets and capital gains.

16. You consider 2nd day air delivery painfully slow.

15. You assume the question to valet park or not is rhetorical.

14. You refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet.

13. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored post-it notes.

12. Your grocery list has been on your refrigerator so long some of the products don't even exist any more.

11. You lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their profits.

10. You get all excited when it's Saturday and you can wear sweats to work.

9. You refer to the tomatoes grown in your garden as deliverables.

8. You find you really need PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living.

7. You normally eat out of vending machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week.

6. You think that "progressing an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are acceptable English phrases.

5. You know the people at the airport hotels better than you know your next door neighbors.

4. You ask your friends to "think out of the box" when making Friday night plans.

3. You think Einstein would have been more effective had he put his ideas into a matrix.

2. You think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o'clock.

And the number 1 sign you've had too much of the 90's:

1. You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.




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[Patrick Sun]

Sorry to bring this thread to a screaming halt, but one of my good friends has a mother in the hospital, and they fear this is the final time, chances are extremely low that she'll leave there alive due to complications with cancer (lung/back). She's in a lot of pain when they took her back into the hospital this past Sunday. We knew this was coming, but when the moment is really nearly here, many important things come to the forefront, and alot of superfluous stuff recede to the background in a split second. I will try to do what I can for him and his family (never sure what's a good thing to do). He's also got an ailing father who's basically been in congestive heart failure for the past year, and his condition is not getting better either. I glad he's got his sister to lean on. I really don't know what would happen when my parents' time is up on this planet. I'm an only child, and ugghh, I really don't know what I'll do. Sorry to be a downer tonight, it's been a trying day.

Earlier today, my boss outlined a plan for 16 hour/day 7 days/week (from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.) coverage of all our servers (mainly the email system being the most important), and the upshot is that we'd get cable modem/DSL access paid for by the company ($40-$60/month). Each of the 4 guys in my department would be on call 1 week out of the month. But seeing how he wants 72 hours of additional coverage per week when it's someone's week to be on call, I stated my displeasure with this new turn of events and even had the gall to email him a link that has many different takes on this on-call support issue and compensation. Here's the link (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/17/1844229&mode=thread) that I sent him and copied my department. There's some funny stuff in that discussion. I just hate the idea of being tethered to our network on the weekend when I'm on call. It's not like I make a lot doing this in the first place, so why should I volunteer more of my time to this place? You can also make more money, but time is something you just can't buy back.

Before I found out the news of my friend's mother's condition, I was fuming over this "lack of substantial compensation" for on-call support at these levels, but now, it's not really that important to me. If this bothers me, it's up to me to find another line of work somewhere else. But at least I spoke up, and while I have the support of my peers, I have my suspicions they'll let me take the heat on this issue. So be it. It's not a life and death matter, so I will take a different view on work-related matters. This will probably be the last straw for me at this place. I think I will be actively searching for a new job in the coming months. Currently, I can't view a job as my life. And I refuse to have a job that impinges on my after-hours as much as this job is becoming to do so with this new development.

Now I know how Trevor was feeling waiting on news on whether his brother would pull through after his accident.

Never take it for granted to say "I love you" to your loved ones. You just never know if you get a final chance to do so with them.

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Deeply sorry to hear about your friends parents Pat. I know its often difficult to know what you should say or do but I'm sure just your presence is helpping a lot.




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Pl@ - I'll send up some good thoughts for your friend and his parents tonight. I hope everything works out. Just let your friend know you are there for him, sometimes people just need to talk in situations like these, and they need to know a good friend is only a call away.

Also, sorry to hear about the work problems. I respect you for standing up and stating your opinions though. It is always easier to assume more work for no or little additional compensation than it is to say what you did. Good luck on this front as well.

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[Trevor Schell]

Patrick,,very sorry to hear about your close freinds Mom. Cancer is such a horrible disease and very tough to fight.Hopefully she can be strong and fight through it. My Dad was fortunate to survive this disease 5 years ago so there can always be hope. As the others said , sometimes there isn't too much that you can say ,,but being there for your freind is the best support that you can give.

My prayers go out to your freind and his Mom.




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[Bing Fung]

Sorry to hear the sad news Pat.

It's times like these that make you realize your health is the one thing you should wish for, for you, your family and friends. If your wishing for anything else, a person is asking for too much...

Take care my friend :)




Bing

[Bing Fung]

Morning all! Today is packing day. We get that (consulted) new office furniture. I hope things have not changed since I last saw the plan.

Veneered my cabinent last night, it turned out pretty good I think, now if only I could find a satisfactory black stain. I may have to go with another type of finish :(

Later, have a good day all!




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

post some pics Bing I'd love to see yhe veneer job you've done. Looks like the weather is turning cool again after we were the canadian hot spot yesterday at 20.5C:) It was 14C this morning but raining and the forecast doesn't look much better.




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[RickS]

Pat,

Sorry to hear about your friends mom! Hopefully she can fight it and pull through. In the past few months I've lost my father and grandmother. I feel your pain.

Make the best of your time with your family and friends because as you mentioned above, you never really know when we will be called.

My prayer's go out to your friends Mom.




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!!

Pat, sorry to hear about your friend's mother. Illness is never a good thing and CA is always the worst. Just be there for them is the best advice I can give you. Dealing with death/dieing is by far the hardest part of my profession. It is never easy no matter how well you think you (or others) are prepared.

Bing: lets see some pictures!!

Im having a few people over on Friday night. The ISF calibrater is coming for 7 pm. Then we are cutting some sono tube caps on Saturday. Between this, and the LA meet in 12 days, Im pumped!

Have a great day everybody!(even you Pat, you'll just have to try a little harder :) )

Gregg

[Paul Wu]

Pl@, sorry to hear about your friends mother. I think just being a friend and being availiable is about all that you can do at the moment. Don't worry about downing out the thread, I think this is a good a place as any to post whatever's troubling you.

Andrew, I see that sunny Vancouver weather has made it out to you. :)

Recap of the B-ball game last night, Vancouver Grizzlies vs the Phoenix Suns. Final score Griz 75, Suns 88. I don't follow the game that much, but have seen a few games and I've seen games where our team can play much better. One glaring stat was shooting from the perimiter, that really sucked, was around 25% for most of the game. Air balls, bad rebounds, turnovers. Well on the bright side, court side seats, I was front row corner at the home basket, opposite of the players bench. Also had a closeup view of the Griz Extreame Dance team. :B Probably the funnest part was watching the half time game. It was a bunch of little tykes, I'd say ages 8-10. They were playing full court and the white jersey team won, 6 to 2. There was lots of chearing going on for these guys. Saw some fast breaks and steals and some good shooting. I think the Grizz could learn a thing or two.

I see another slow day on the thread.

Joey, you still out there? FYI, I just got another amazon GC from Echo, so they are coming just very slowly. Have you got any of yours yet?

Looks like our place has just been volunteered to be the jumping off point for some festivities on Sat. So that means I have to clean house. :p: I'm sure we'll have to watch a movie before we head out so I'm looking forward to demoing my system again.




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[Bing Fung]

Hey Guys, as requested, here are some photos. It does need a sanding as the veneer is au-natural.
I wanted a total black finish that would match my B&W's but I may settle for this semi black finish like the sample photo, tell me what you think. My favorite grain is in the lower horizontial trim piece. I would have liked to had it fiinshed for the weekend, but i'm preparing for my daughters halloween party

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[Patrick Sun]

Guys, thanks for all the kind words. It means alot. This whole day was a blur, though I wasn't able to contact my friend today. Ever just have a day that seemed like you were going in slow motion, and the rest of the world was whizzing by? Anyhow, gonna try to make my days count for something.

Bing, nice job on the veneering.

I'm going to turn in early. Take care.




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[Jehan]

A little late today, but for what it is worth best wishes to your friends mother P|@, hope she pulls through.

Bing: that is a sexy lookin thing! good job :)

I might hit the hay early tonight also, nite.

[Bing Fung]

Morning All, I took today off seeing as they are assembling my cube and everything is in boxes. Just as well for I'm going to look around for a new stain finish. It may not be black now....
Thanks, PL@ and Jehan!

Where the heck is everyone?

Okay here are some bland real life photos (http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/byfung?d&.flabel=fld6&.intl=us&.src=bc&start=1) of yesterday

Have a good day all!




Bing

[RickS]

Good Morning!

Bing,

That sub looks great!!!! http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net7/biggthumpup.gif

It has been one of the busiest weeks here at work in many years! Going to try and watch U-571 this weekend and maybe give the RC5000i setup a shot.

Have a good day everyone!




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[Patrick Sun]

My friend's mother is now in a better place. She passed away a couple of hours ago. She actually got better yesterday, and they brought her home, but then today, it finally happened, and she's now at peace. Thanks for all your well wishes. It's better this way, as she was in a lot of pain and the prognosis for recovery was never good to begin with.

What I remember about her was her vibrancy when she was with us. Always greeted us (our circle of friends) with a big smile, and cared for all of us. I will miss her, and am kicking myself for not going by there last night.

Satchiko, rest in peace.




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[Bing Fung]

As long as you remember her just as you described Pl@, She will always live in your heart.

Condolences and celebration my friend...




Bing

[Greg Stone]

Pl@ - sorry to hear that. I second what Bing said.

[Paul Wu]

Pl@, sorry to hear about the sad news. Just remember the good times and she'll always be there.




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There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Paul Wu]

This was sent to me from my wife. It's actually in a htm format, but I don't know how to post it up here, so I'm just including the plain text.

----

RESIGNATION
I am hereby officially tendering
my resignation as an adult. I have
decided I would like to accept the
responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

I want to go to McDonald's and think
that it's a four star restaurant.

I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud
puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.

I want to think M&Ms are better than
money because you can eat them.

I want to lie under a big oak tree and
run a lemonade stand with my friends on
a hot summer's day.

I want to return to a time when life was
simple; When all you knew were colors,
multiplication tables, and nursery
rhymes, but that didn't bother you,
because you didn't know what you
didn't know and you didn't care.

All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of
all the things that should make you
worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair.
That everyone is honest and good.

I want to believe that anything is
possible. I want to be oblivious
to the complexities of life and be
overly excited by the little things
again.

I want to live simple again. I
don't want my day to consist of
computer crashes, mountains of paperwork,
depressing news, how to survive more days
in the month than there is money in the
bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness,
and loss of loved ones.

I want to believe in the power of
smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth,
justice, peace, dreams, the imagination,
mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So . . . here's my checkbook
and my car-keys, my credit card bills
and my RRSP statements. I am officially
resigning from adulthood.

And if you want to discuss this
further, you'll have to catch me
first, cause........
......"Tag! You're it."

Pass this to someone and brighten
their day by helping them remember
the Simple things in Life.
((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

Hope Ya'll join me !




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Paul Wu]

Hello....




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Paul Wu]

Hello....




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Paul Wu]

Is there an echo in here?...here?....here?.....here?




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Paul Wu]

Nope, just time for a flip. New page new posts.




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Andrew Pratt]

Hi guys I was at a conference all day so just checking in with the real world again:)




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[Patrick Sun]

Some of my friends and I visited my pal whose mother passed away, and we brought his family some food and flowers. He and his family were all putting up a good front, but I did detect some blubbering (he was his mother's number one son) but they seemed happy to see my other friend's little 2 year old daughter.

There's something about little children that makes us forget about our present troubles and predicament and reminds us of our hopes and dreams for the future. I think it did them a world of good to see their daughter.

It was weird, driving away and seeing my friend standing at the doorway waving back at us. If we could take away or share some of his and his family's pain, we'd gladly do so.




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[Little Bruce]

Howdy yall,

Anybody miss me? I am lucky really to be here...
My puter puked its self to pieces... hard drive crashed, cdrom wont read anything now, the damn floppy drive is acting up and a particular error message keeps coming up "HDC missing, cannot read" :M

Hey Patrick, almost can hear the grief and sorrow in your words....... condolences to the family.

Hopefully within the next couple of weeks will put some form of puter together with spare parts that will at least give me access to internet....
(I have been having TTP withdraws...:B)

Needless to say after two days of massive diagnostics, the final verdict...... motherboard dead :M

( I am on a spare puter.... modem doessnt work to good either)...:(

Until then........... "I'll be back !" :B

Bruce




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[Lexman]

Guys, I have had limited availability this week, and though it's improving, it's been a struggle!

See post in "Tower of Power" for the agonizing details. Yes, it's even uglier than I say it is, lol.

Also, go prospecting for a new forum off the main forum page, if your looking for adventure, and gaming is your style.

Rock on,

Lex

[Jehan]

P|@: Sorry doesn't really do justice to the situation but I hope all concerned will get through this. Chin up, like you said she is in a better place now.

On a little brighter note, my copy of Frequency popped up today I'll try and take a look at the disc and give some thoughts later so you guys who are on the fence can either rent or pick this one up on the weekend.

[Lexman]

Patrick, so sorry to hear of your friend's loss. Be strong and there for him as he needs good friends like you now more than ever.

Lex

[Jehan]

Ok I promised a review so here is an attempt at one :). Lex I am a little lost here, this probably doesn't fit here (but it is the TTP afterall so let's overlook that :)) but the Reviews section you have up seems more like a hardware section and the DVD Director section doesn't look like a place for reviews of discs either so feel free to move this.

---

Frequency: New Line Platinum Edition

--

I won't bother with a synopsis, I'll just get down to the disc which is what most of you will be interested in.

Misc. Impressions: Well from the packaging to the menus, they are all very stylish and certainly fit the theme of the movie. I love the simple circuit diagram based menus as well as the packaging and disc cover art (well snapper dislikes aside ). Very professional is how I would describe it.

Video: I think we should all add a new category for grading video - just put down New Line Platinum. That would suffice for describing A+ transfers the way these folks keep putting up gorgeous transfer after transfer. Reference or near quality, the 2.35:1 framed transfer is excellent, no grain to speak of - a very sharp and detailed picture. The one thing that stuck out while I was watching this was the black level, one of the best in recent memory.

4/4

Audio: Since the movie was primarily dialog based I didn't expect much from this track. The DD 5.1 track is quite surprisingly aggressive. In particular the opening sequence in space is excellent, the radio tunes mixed with the other ambient sounds were so good I listened to that chapter a couple of times. Add to this the opening action scene (those who have seen this movie will know what I am talking about) and you have fairly good HT demo. Very impressive bass (surprising to some extent) and decent use of surrounds. I will conceed that the whole movie isn't riddled with action sequences like U-571 but the audio is really very good here.

3.5/4

Extras: I have not gone through all of these so I will just touch on what I went through. Firstly, let me say hats off to New Line for taking such care with their supplements. The deleted scenes are enhanced for WS sets, which is very pleasing to see (also saves me the trouble of switching to interlaced and changing modes on my Elite 510 ). I found the 2nd commentary track (Emmerich brothers) a little dull (may revisit it later) but the first (Director Hoblit) is quite informative (conceptually) and I hope to listen to it completely sometime. In addition is the isolated score in 5.1 , can't stress how nice it is to have this on the disc. There is also a whole bunch of stuff focusing on the scientific side of the movie which folks may find interesting.

3.5/4

I know this was met with some mixed reviews at the box office, but I found the movie reasonably enjoyable and heck when New Line keeps on giving this kind of treatment to its premium movies who can resist?.

Seven anyone?

[Greg Stone]

Excellent review Jehan! I am now going to pick this one up.

Lex and LB - sounds like computer problems are tearing you two up. Think new, think Dell. :)

TGIF everyone!!




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[Joey Millison]

Hey guys,
Been sick as all hell lately, this is my first day back to work. Man, I hope I never have to go through THAT again! Had a killer flu, and it really wrecked me. Yesterday was my first day out of the house even. I just had to get out. Though I attended class here and there to make sure my grades stay up. But on a whole I spent a lot of time trying to get to sleep, which was no easy task.
Shoot, gotta run...sorry to have disappeared for a while.

Pl@, I hope that you and your friends are doing well, I will definitely keep you guys in my thoughts :)

[Andrew Pratt]

hey joey welcome back to the land of the living. Sorry to hear you've been under the weather lately. Hows that new amp?




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[RickS]

Pat,

One day at a time! The comfort you can give to your friend at this time is invaluable for you, and his family. My thought's are with you.

Jehan,

Thanks for the review! I'll have to pick this one up. :)

Lex,

Sounds like a horror story. :E

LB,

I agree with Greg. Since switching to Dell computers for business, the problems have become almost non existent.

Joey,

Glad to hear your feeling better! Good enough for another TTP rocket launch? :B

Andrew,

I'll bet your very busy at this time of the year?

I've been going 16/7 here at work and will try to watch U-571 this weekend. Is "Pitch Black" out yet and is it worth buying?

Have a good weekend!

Rick




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[Andrew Pratt]

rick "we" are busy but personnaly my work doesn't change so much so you'll usually find me at my desk in front of either the PC or the light table working on some maps....often looking outside at the marsh. There's 10's of thousands of geese flying around now.




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confusious say man standing on toilet is high on pot




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[Paul Wu]

Howdy, don't you just hate it when you work your ass off to finish something and then you find that the deadline was not really the deadline. Oh and I really love it when I say I might be finished in the afternoon so as any last minute changes can be done and then somebody takes off in the afternoon without so much as a call saying they are going. Man that really burns me. Okay enough griping.

With the toy box set, I got these 6 Disney points, I don't think I'll ever use them. So these are up for grabs. I think you need to collect like 24 points and send them in to get a free Disney dvd. Just post here and if more than one person replies, I'll figure something out.




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There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Andrew Pratt]

confusious also say man running behind car gets exhausted, man running in front of car gets tired




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[Andrew Pratt]

paul I'll take the points if you don't want them.




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[Patrick Sun]

Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts.

BTW, Jehan, I found Frequency rather affecting. It's a chick flick for guys. :D And I'm really becoming a fan of Elizabeth Mitchell too (the mother).




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[Greg Stone]

Welcome back J6P - hope you kick it for good and get feeling all the way better soon.

Guys, I am ready for a weekend...




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[Paul Wu]

Greg, I'm ready to retire. :) Except for that pesky need for money to pay off bills and such.

Andrew, if nobody else chimes in, I'll send you those points. I'll give it a random amount of time before I close it off.

Weekend countdown. 2 hours and counting. On tap tonight, laundry, gotta be done. :) Now if they can install an internet client into the washer, then I'll be doing laundry more often. :)

Hey don't forget to fall back this weekend.




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Bing Fung]

Survived the move today, but forgot to post new pictures, will do so on monday. I had no PC today as there was no power except for this PAC pole that was right in the middle of my desk, needless to say that got tiring by the end of the day.

Rented U-571 and Practical Magic.

Have My Brother-inlaw's b'day surprize party tonight and then Katherine's Halloween party tomorrow. I'm dressing as Frankenstein...Scaaryy!

Thanks for the offer on the points Paul, I'll pass :)

Have a good week end all!




Bing

[Greg Stone]

Watched U-571 tonight in DTS. Very nice! I can't give reviews like Jehan, but I would say a definite rental or nice addition to anyone here that likes war / suspense movies.

Excellent sound, nice transfer and a good story. Good movie!




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[Bing Fung]

Moring all!Watched U-571 last night as well, good disk overall, good story and plot, though I thought it had a couple of minor weak points, still, it was excellent!

So what's happening around here, am I missing something? :? Has everyone decided to go hang out somewhere else or is there a secret lurking pac that I didn't get the memo on :W




Bing

[RickS]

Good Morning!

I also had a chance to watch U-571 last night! There is a hellava lot of bass in this movie! I found it too be very good movie. But, anything away from work these days is a good thing. :)

I'm posting from work today. :(

Yup..........since the flip-athon ended things have slowed down here quite a bit. :?




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[Pat]

Patman...my condolences to you and your friends family.

Working too much here too...but not as bad as some others (16/7...yuk) :)

I stopped at my favorite HT store and they let me take an Anthem MCA2 home for the weekend...to see if I want to get the MCA3(none in stock). I have to say that the MCA2 knocks the socks off of my 12yr old amp that I currently have. I didn't change anything except the amps and there was a difference in the size of the soundstage, more detail, it is easier to pick out the different intruments. It even seems like the mids and highs actually have a stronger presence/impact. I think I am going to get the MCA3 to power the front 3 channels.




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[Bing Fung]

That MCA3 is super sexy... Doit! :W




Bing

[Gregg Loewen]

Hi Guys!!

I had a small HTF party last night. It was the WORST party ever!! The ISF tech was a kid and didnt know anything about my TV set. He didnt have a color analyzer either and told us his gray scale "comparator" was just as good. ARGH!!!

Anyway, my wife's grandmother died yesterday. She has been sick for a while and in a nursing home with Alzeimhers (sp?). Heather has not even seen her for years as my mother in law wanted the grand kids to remember Grammie the way she was and not the way she is now (did that make since?). I dont think anybody is really crying over her death but there are a lot of confused feelings and Heather is not good with feeling identification etc.

Short story is Heather is staying up in New Brunswick for another week or so for the funeral stuff then has her second dentist appointment. I wont be seeing her or the kids until I get back from LA. I miss hugging the kids (and doing something else with the wife :) )

Remember her dentist appointment stuff and the $1880 estimate? So we booked her care in Canada at her mother's dentist where he quoted $900 USD for the same work. At the first appointment he says she only needs the root canal (for $550 CDN) and nothing else. Heather and my wallet were very happy!

Bing, your sub looks awesome. Im still waiting on the drivers then Ill start building my new one.

Have a great weekend everybody!!

Gregg

[Greg Stone]

Gregg LLL - sorry to hear about your wife's grandmother. Good news on the dental side though.

All - went to see "Alaska - Call of the Wild" at the Fort Worth IMAX theater today. Very cool! Dang, that is truly a big screen!




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[Andrew Pratt]

Went to see the Dunkun Master last night...very cool movie easily Jacki's best so far. The fighting scenes were simply amazing.




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[Patrick Sun]

GreggL, sorry to hear about the loss of your wife's grandmother. Looks like lots of condolences and positive thoughts are being pased around the HTG. Too bad you didn't get a good ISF tech to the party. That's pretty frustrating.

Andrew, didn't I say Legend of Drunken Master kicked some serious butt? I've heard that the finale took over 2 months to film. It's truly a martial arts tour de force.

BTW, anyone looking towards Frequency can buy it at Circuit City for $15 (I'm sure you can get it price-matched at other places if you show them the newspaper circular ad). I think I'll pick that one up (one of my very few retail DVD purchases - though I feel I'll be spending more dollars locally with the demise of easy online DVD bargains - I refuse to waste me time pointing/clicking/etc or jumping through hoops to get a deal on a DVD, my time's more valuable than that).

My goodness, the Georgia Tech/Clemson football game was a nail-biter to the very end with GT pulling out a win with a 16 yard TD with 7 seconds left from Godsey to Watkins. It was an 80 yard TD drive with under 2 minutes to play and Clemson went up by 4 points, so GT needed the TD for the win. The final score was 30-27 in GT's favor. Clemson falls from the ranks of the unbeaten and sure to fall a bit from its 7th place ranking in the polls.

Excellent college football game!

I spent today cleaning up the house. I vacuumed, and wiped down lots of surfaces, and cleaned up and organized and threw out tons of stuff littering the house. I moved stuff off the floor and found them a new home on bookshelves. I just filed all my utilities receipts away, and my credit card statements (whoa, how did I manage to order all those DVDs on company time? Heh). I still have some other stuff to tidy up - like my garage which need to be truly cleaned out. But it feels great to have a tidy house again!

I think tomorrow will be an exterior day - last lawn cut of the year (I hope) and some trimming of the bushes.

And the best part about cleaning up all my receipt: I found my receipt (for a crown earlier in the year) that I can use to get back $260 from my flex spending account. Woo Hoo!




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[Lexman]

Greg, sorry to hear about your Wife's Grandmother. Loss is difficult no matter if expected or not. Take good care of your wife.

I hope everyone else's weekend is going along swimmingly. It seems I haven't gotten much done today except running around. Ok, I did treat myself, when I really shouldn't have. I saw a gold chain that I liked and bought it, lol. I used to wear a chain all the time and just got tired of it because it wasn't exactly what I wanted. So, today, I got what I wanted. :)

Working on my computer installation a little, and ground up some leaves with the Deere. She ate em up too! It was like hmmm, where did they go to anyway! Still coming down like crazy though. The gutters are full, and it was a virtual leave storm while I was grinding them up. Futal battle!

Take care folks,

Lex
Powered by 900 mghz and a spiffy new cable modem. :)

[Andrew Pratt]

just finished watching U571...good movie with reference level LFE. I highly recomend it for those with a Sonosub:)




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[Andrew Pratt]

oh what the hell its close enough




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[Andrew Pratt]

oh what the hell its close enough




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[Andrew Pratt]

and one more




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[Andrew Pratt]

Flip:)




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[Jehan]

Oh damn, didn't think you would go for that one Andrew :).

Good weekend, I am in the middle of watching 'Titus', great presentation by Fox but it does require concentration, after being used to the great popcorn movies of recent times I am actually enjoying this one.

I was just looking at my dvdtracker preorder list and oh my, November is going to kick my butt :(. So many titles out, so little money :).

Have a good Sunday folks.

[Bing Fung]

Thanks Gregg,

Sorry to hear about Heather's grandmother. I know Christine took it pretty hard when her granmother passed.
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Bummer about the calibration party Gregg, but I did get a mental image and it was exactly like the trailer to Monster Inc. on the Toy Story 2 disk. The calibrator would have been the cyclops (Billy Crystal) and you and your buds would be that dog grrring in the back, after he said he did not bring a colorimeter, LOL & heheheh

Jehan, I have picked up the Titus a couple of times only to put it backdown, maybe.......

After watching U-571 twice, I decided to purchase it, actually I saw it 3 times because I went up to Audio Express, hung around, loaded my new copy of it and watched it on the Pioneer SD-641 (http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/home/SD-641-HD5.htm) and a B&W/Rotel system. it was fun, Even with out a Sono sub :W

Also had to pick up Gold Finger, love how all that stuff is so old looking yet razor sharp :B




Bing

[Lexman]

Yes Pratt, that hurt, that really hurt. I saw the flip within reach when I posted, but decided 6 was to big a number. In retrospect, I wouldn't have posted had I known you were waiting to pounce in the 6 post flip, GRRR!

That really hurt. (snicker)

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

live and learn doug:)




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[Kevin P]

Howdy everyone from Cold Hampshire. What a day... it's been cold and SNOWING most of the day, it even accumulated a tiny bit... it's WAY too early for this! It isn't even Halloween yet, let alone Christmas, when I wouldn't mind a little snow. Time to move to Florida! :)

Gregg--sorry to hear about your wife's grandmother. My wife lost her grandmother (father's side) to cancer back in January so we know what you're going through. Your wife's name is Heather too!? Interesting. There's something special about Heathers I guess. :B

My friend Bob and I went to a HTF meet in Mass. and met Andy Garabedian and saw his new basement HT. What a picture his projector put out... puts my HD-ready RPTV to shame. :) Something to shoot for in the long term.

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[Little Bruce]

Howdy yall....

Online temporarily.....dont know how long puter will work..... :(

How 'bout those Cowboys....:B
Just scored touchdown.....

I hear also Dell is making a quality computer now but I think my dad (Big Bruce) when he gets back from Glen Rose TX. we will assembly some form of new puter....

Yall have a nice evening...

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[Little Bruce]

Howdy yall....

Online temporarily.....dont know how long puter will work..... :(

How 'bout those Cowboys....:B
Just scored touchdown.....

I hear also Dell is making a quality computer now but I think my dad (Big Bruce) when he gets back from Glen Rose TX. we will assembly some form of new puter....

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[Gregg Loewen]

Hi Kevin!! Yes Ive noticed for some time that your wife's name is Heather too. :) How is your sub doing??

Anyway, Im ignoring my Heather and have decided to get a new TV before she gets back to town. So Ive been surfing all day. I think I have it narrowed down to the Tosh TW65H80 but now trying to find the best price...

Then I guess I need a PS DVD player. Looks like the Tosh 6200, here we go again...

It never stops, ARGH!!!

[Patrick Sun]

You guys do know that there's a movie titled "Heathers" right? :D

I am so disappointed in the moderators here with their blatant disregard for the flip-padding that goes on around here! Shame! Shame! Shame!

BTW, Here's a scary pre-halloween story that's true:

Last year near Halloween, I have related the account of 2 grandparents that were visiting their daughter (who live in the cul de sac behind my house) were shot by "trick-or-treaters" wearing Star Wars masks (the Darth Maul mask was recovering on the side yard of my house.

Well, I didn't realize this until today, but on Monday of this past week, I saw 4 cop cars, and 2 ambulances at the house just 4 houses down from me. There were a lot of cops milling around, didn't seem like much was going on, so I didn't give it much thought (thinking maybe an intruder was caught at the house, I dunno).

Well, it turns out that it was a murder-suicide. A married couple with 2 girls lived in the house. The mother was on her second marriage. The stepfather killed the mother, and then killed himself with gunfire. I feel really bad for the 2 girls who lost their mother. But I also found out that the girls have been returned to their biological father, so that's a relief.

October is just not a good month in my neighborhood.




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BTW, I did cut my yard, and trimmed the bushes, and boy, do I feel so much better! A tidy home is a happy home. :D




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[Bing Fung]

Wow Pat, that is too real life to have happen...

Gregg, way to go! Going to get the same ISF calibrator? snick, snick , snick




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

well pat thats one perk of being a moderator:) Remind me never to come visit you esp in October...scary stuff.




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[Joey Millison]

For the TTPers who didn't get my email (I sent it to everyone who received a copy of the 80's collection already):

Here's what I made!

[Jehan]

Joey: cool :)

that algebra book next to it would help scaring folks away :D

[Andrew Pratt]

Very cool joey I agree that algebra book is very scary stuff:)




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[Kevin P]

Hi Kevin!! Yes Ive noticed for some time that your wife's name is Heather too. X How is your sub doing??The sub is great!! One time my friend Bob came over and we sampled a scene from The Haunting (chapter 10, "Coming Mother") and we were both blown away by the bass. He recently sold his Yamaha sub and now he's itching to get a SVS. The CS 800's working great too. It just fits in one of the nooks in the Mitsubishi stand under my RPTV. I also have a Behringer Feedback Destroyer in the loop to tame a nasty peak at 50hz, it makes a big difference in the sound.

Anyway, Im ignoring my Heather and have decided to get a new TV before she gets back to town. So Ive been surfing all day. I think I have it narrowed down to the Tosh TW65H80 but now trying to find the best price...Oh, Heather's going to kill you when she gets back! heh heh ;) But the TW65H80? That's the 1999 model... did you mean the TW65X81 (2000 model) or the 65H80 (2001 model)? Toshiba really made their model numbers confusing with the 2001 line.

See ya... KJP




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[Gregg Loewen]

Kevin, The new 65H80. Do you live anywhere near Statestreet Electronics? I may be making a road trip.

[Paul Wu]

Gregg, sorry to hear the ISF tech was wet behind the ears. Ohhh, you're going to get into so much trouble. So do you think you'll be able to get your set before Heather comes back?

Bing, wow you got to sit and watch a whole movie? They must like you there. :)

Joey, that's a scary algebra book. Don't put that outside or nobody's going to ring the bell. :) Hell I even screamed when I saw it. ;)

Kevin, I agree with you, Toshiba really screwed up on the model numbers. Isn't it a rule somewhere that you can never use the same model numer twice? Or use it within 2 years? Like isn't that basic product model numbering 101?

Watched the Lost World on Friday night. Now that was some great sound action. I enjoyed the movie, first time watching it through completely.

Had some friends over on Sat night and watched American Beauty. This was the first time for all of us. My initial impressions were, what a weird movie. I guess after all the awards, I was expecting something else. I'm going to watch this again. We also watched the last bit of Toy Story. Wow, I can't believe how great this movie looks. Plus I think I need new glasses, since I was sitting much closer than usual, I notice so much more detail. :) Also watched Shanghai Noon on Sunday. Now I'm really itching to go see Drunken Master. I've got a 3 day seminar starting Friday so my time's going to be tight this week.




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[Kevin P]

Gregg,

I'm about an hour from Portsmouth (where State Street Discount is). You'll probably be taking I-95 to get to Portsmouth. You'd have to make a 1-hour detour (onto Route 101) each way to get to/from Manchester.

We'll meet someday. Who knows when. :) Maybe Bob and I will do the next HTF meet at our houses, and you can drop by. Then you can experience my SVS first hand. In fact, after your Heather kicks you out of the house for buying that new TV, you're perfectly welcome to stay at our house for a while, just bring that 65H80 with you. :B

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[Patrick Sun]

Paul Wu: Regarding American Beauty: Look Closer. :D




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[Paul Wu]

Pl@: Wow, first time being addressed with my full name, I feel like I've done something wrong. ;) For sure this will get repeated viewings. Also, I guess I was hoping somebody would pick something more action orientated for Sat night. So I wasn't quite in the mood so to speak.

And looking back at my use of 'weird' as a descriptor, I don't think I meant 'weird' it just that I've been using 'interesting' far too long and find, to me, 'interesting' no longer has meaning. 'Interesting' as in I hate it, but I'm too nice to say that, or 'Interesting' as in this movie works on so many differnt levels, or 'Interesting' this is way to much brain work for me at the moment.




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There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Patrick Sun]

PaulW, it could just be that AB was just not your cup of tea, but if it were, and you took the trouble to peel back the onion layers, there's some real meaty ideas in this movie.

Then again, I'm probably just talking out of my butt!




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[Jehan]

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[Joey Millison]

According to news reports in July and August, Mack W. Metcalf, 42, of Florence, Ky., has led a dismal life that included frequent drinking binges, some DUI and other traffic charges, drug selling, eviction for failure to pay rent, and a debt of $31,000 in back child support. However, in July, he won a $34 million lump-sum jackpot in the Kentucky Lottery. (His haplessness continues: Shortly after he was paid, he handed a woman $500,000 as a gift, but later realized he was drunk and has now sued to get the money back.)

[Jehan]

See my last post for a reaction to that :).

[Pat]

Well, I went and placed my order for an Anthem MCA3 today:)
They said it could be in as soon as Friday!
I get to hang on to the MCA2 that I took for a home trial until my 3 comes in:B

Joey, nice carving there bud...looks like Jack to me.




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[Bing Fung]

Atta Boy Pat, Love those amps!

Paul, It was towards the end of the day, and I think they were just as eager to watch it as well.
It was satisfiying to note that I think my sub compared favorabily to the B&W 15" AS3000 (http://www1.bwspeakers.com/products/gallery/product_details.cfm?object_id=419DBF2D-EF4D-11D3-B01E0000E20E7DA6) in performance, and was not as boomy to boot. Actually, I think my sub gives a better lower subsonic shake in comparision, It was as you all have said here, "something you get use to after listening to over boosted, boomy bass". DIY is the way to go for total performance at a minimal to moderate cost. Mind you, when I add my expenses up, it get's up there PDQ :E

AB was weird Paul, don't apologize for it, Still I like it and thought Kevin Spacey was excellent in his role.

Joey, the hell is he wanting the 500K back when he's got 34 mill? That's like asking for the 5'ver you spotted someone, sure there is the principle involved, but hey, it's only 5 bucks.

Got an additional deck for my rack today so I will be installing that tonight.




Bing

[Paul Wu]

He wants his money back? Now that is one screwed up guy. Kinda make me want to do this http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net8/smileydies.gif

So what would you do with $34 million dollars?

Bing, so that explains it, eager afterwork viewing. I am so looking forward to one day building my own sub. I used to think that booming noise from cars was good bass.




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[Greg Stone]

Joey - nice punkin carving! ;) I can't get my three year old to say pumpkin, he likes punkin better! We carved three last night, it was a hoot.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow almost as much as my sons are. Halloween is a favorite at our house, as I don the Grim Reaper costume and mask to hand out the candy! Some of the reactions on the little kids faces as I open the door are priceless! BOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!




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[Gregg Loewen]

ARGH!! Just got a call from my Heather. She is coming home for halloween. The bitch! Now I cant sneek my TV in. ARGH!!

This may be a good thing. I will have some time in LA to do some demoing.

It will be nice to see the kids, its been 10 days now. We can all go halloweening and if I play my cards right I may even get myself some!!

IN ALL HONESTY: it will be great to see Heather too. Its amazing how close you get to your spouse. I dont know what Id do if we were not together. -- GUYS -- go give your gal a hug! (make it a chick flick nite)

Gregg

[Andrew Pratt]

I tottally agree gregg.




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[Paul Wu]

Greg, Sounds like you're gonna have a great time scaring the bejebes out of those trick or treaters. Have a great time! :)

Gregg, I bet she had this feeling something was cooking. ;) I agree about the closeness part. Tonight we're spinning 'Keeping the Faith.'

That flip is oh so close.




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Joey Millison]

Greg,
You gotta get a picture posted of you in your reaper outfit! That would be awesome to see! Wish I could see the look of horror on their faces ;) Just don't make them cry ;) Last thing you wanna see on Halloween is a little kid dressed up as a clown whose makeup is smeared by the tears caused by the scary Reaper guy ;) Heh heh heh. Then again, if a kid is dressed up as a Pokemon or a Power Ranger they deserve to have the bejeezus scared outta them :B
My nephew is going to be Batman. I'll try to have my sister grab a picture, since I can't be there to see it :( I am going to be a "college kid" for Halloween, and will not be able to do much besides attend class tomorrow night :( Hope you all have fun though! Share all of your Halloween stories afterwards, I wanna hear them :)

Night kids, rough night in math class, gotta sleep to get some of my brain power back ;)

PS: my page is under construction kindda, so please excuse the mess. Has anyone seen my NEW DVD list though? :)

[Joey Millison]

Holy crap, that was a smiley-infested post just then!

[Paul Wu]

Flip.

Joey, you were so close. :)




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Gregg Loewen]

Paul, way to go.

Greg, take time to snap a picture.

Joey, how are the MP3 versions of the J6P Eighties Collection coming?

Has anybody ordered anything through ChrisA's group purchase? I called for pricing on the Tosh 65H80 and they beat Onecall's "best price" by $750 including delivery. This TV is going to be almost "free". (so I'll tell Heather). ;)

Hope everybody has a great Tuesday.

[Bing Fung]

Morning all!

Paul, good flip, back in the high life again :)

Thats good news Gregg. And what a savings!

What other group purchases does Chris have going?

Have a great Day and Happy Halloween all!


Say where's Trev been? Ploting upgrades I bet :W




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

I havne't heard of any complaints from people ordering through the GP gregg...sometimes the wait was a little longer then normal but from all accounts it was worth it due to the savings.

Happy Halloween folks




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[Kevin P]

Hi guys!

Gregg: good luck with the new TV and your Heather. Buying her a nice piece of jewelry to go along with the new toy will go a long way! It'll be nice to see her again, won't it? ;)

Joey6P: I was just on the Seti@Home website--how have you managed to get all the way up to #17 on the HTF stats? How many computers do you have?? :) I'm plodding along at #69 and I have two Pentium IIIs (one 500, one 800) grinding away (though the 800 isn't on all the time).

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[Joey Millison]

Kevin,
I almost forgot about that. I stopped running seti a few months ago, as my goal was to get into the top ten and then stop running it. I pretty much utilized 20+ machines at times, like if there was a long weekend coming I'd get all of the machines in my lab running it so they could work undisturbed for a few days. Slowly but surely I got up to #8 at one point, and then got beat back down ;) Now I don't have any machines running it though, haven't for a few months, and I'll eventually drop from the list I suppose :)

Gregg,
Sorry, it was on the backburner for a while, I'll get yours and Pl@'s extra sets sent out this weekend. I have to download them all from my network at home, burn them to disc, and then send them back to the network, so it'll take a little while. I'll make sure to get it done though, sorry about that.

[Joey Millison]

Bing,
Check the HT Discounts section of my page to see most of ChrisA's group purchases :) I need to ask him for an update :)

[Joey Millison]

This made my day a little better...

[RickS]

Joey,


:B.............looks like some of the stocks that I've invested in over the last year. lol

Have a good day!




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[Andrew Pratt]

thanks for the laugh joey...I loved the aries one:)




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http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net8/YYicon57.gif Happy Halloween eveybody. http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net8/pumpkin.gif




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[Patrick Sun]

Most addictive website (http://www.amihotornot.com) I've come across in quite awhile. :D




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Happy Halloween! (http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/byfung?e&.intl=us&.flabel=fld6&.from=d&.pindex=4&start=1&.src=ph&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/byfung%3fd%26.flabel=fld6%26.intl=us%26.src=ph)




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[Andrew Pratt]

great pumpkin Bing:)




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[Joey Millison]

Pl@,
Heh, what a weird site! ;) I kept scrolling through to see if it was a joke or not. It's almost makes me wanna submit my picture just to see, but then again, I wouldn't wanna be crushed by a bunch of 1.5 ratings or something, heh. Man, that could damage a person's self esteem, heh. I feel bad for some of those ladies, I wonder if they do it as a joke or if they're serious.

[Pat]

Great pumpkin Bing...reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes:B




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!

Bing, that was great!!

Story of the day (actually yesterday).

Yesterday, Heather was driving back from St John NB where she went to her grandmother's funeral which was Monday. She and the kids stopped at MacDonalds in Calais Maine (the middle of nowhere, 2 hours from St John and 4.5 hours from me). After lunch all shared the handicap stall and the kids were fighting over who would flush the toilet. Heather reached over to stop the fight and her car keys fell into the toilet just as Sarah flushed it!

I get this histerical phone call about the situation. In the mean time Macdonalds calls a plumber who dismantles the john and states the keys went through the trap and are lost. Anyway, the nearest Honda dealer was 120 miles away. I made about 20 phone calls and finally found a wrecker that said he would either hot wire the car or tow it home. He was able to hot wire it and Heather went on her way.

The funny part about this is the whole thing is MY FAULT because I wanted to see the kids for Halloween. Dont figure (it never does).

So the family gets home around 6 PM and I open the car door to sarah telling me: "mommy put the keys in the toilet and I flushed them". I started to laugh and then got sworn at...

I had roses waiting for Heather so that softened her a little. Anyway...I might get some next month (December).

Have a great day!!

Gregg

[Joey Millison]

Oh man, what a story Gregg! That sounds like a J6P day! I hope the rest of your holiday season goes a little more smoothly ;) Glad you got to see your kids for halloween still though :)

[Paul Wu]

Gregg, Oh how I feel for you. You just can't win, now if you had just left things alone, you'd have a nice new TV and still wouldn't be getting any till December. ;)

Bing, that's a great looking pumking, and I agree with Pat, shades of Calvin and Hobbes. I like the strip where Calvin builds snowmen around the car looking at another snowman that was run over.

Pl@, yes pretty addictive, like what's coming up next. How many are on this site, jesh. Spent too much time there already.

Joey, funny etrade ad.

A problem I'm sure alot of people would like to have is having too much vacation time. I've got a ton, well 15.67 days to use before the end of December, but I can never seem to find a good time to take off. If I don't there's a fair chance that I will lose them. :( So looks like the a week in December and a bunch of single days between now and the end of the year.

Welcome to November eveybody, seems like Oct went by so fast.




Paul

There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.

[Joey Millison]

http://www.geocities.com/joey6p/Pumpkin2.jpg

Gotta gum up the works...

[Bing Fung]

Great story Gregg, funny as hell, but certainly I felt for Heather as well, that would be a shitty (pun intended) thing to have happen.

Nice Cheeks a flex'in Joey.




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

too funny joey.




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[Jehan]

Joey :)

[RickS]

Joey,

http://xinon.com/images/laughing.gif


Gregg,

Just remember you are alway's wrong! But, when your right your still wrong. :( That's probably your fault also. That seem's to be the way things work for me. But, X-mas isn't that far away. :)




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Gregg, man, that was tragedically (for you) funny (for us).

PaulW, dunno, I usually quit after about 20 of them and move on to something else. But I do like some of the ones rated at 9.9!

Hope everybody's doing well today. It's been very busy day for me.




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Just to type something out, here's the problem I'm working on at this moment for Math, it's easy:

Solve:

A patient's medication is to be increased in consecutive even-integer dosages in three administrations, for a total of 24 grains of medication. How many grains of medication will be administered each time?

So x equals the first even integer.
That means, since they're all consecutive even integers the second even integer has to be x + 2. By default, the last one (since there are three total) is x + 4. So here's what we have to work with:

x + (x + 2) + (x + 4) = 24

When we combine like terms we wind up with:

3x + 6 = 24
- 6 - 6

3x = 18
/3 /3

x = 6

So the first dose is 6, and then they increase by 2 consecutively. So the answer is

( 6 , 8 , 10 )

[Pat]

Gregg...funny story (sorry)

Joey...luv the pumpkin moon :B too funny.
I'm not touching that math problem...




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[Greg Stone]

So Joey, it's not scary enough around here with the "pumpkin moon" picture, you had to go and throw a math problem in for good measure?? You are a sadist... ;)

Thanks for the laughs Gregg, I know it wasn't real funny when it was happening. Reminds me of the time my wedding ring dropped into the toilet. Reaching in to get it I knocked it down further, and then I couldn't see it. There is a small opening right in the front of the drain area that water shoots out of when flushed, and my ring had somehow gotten into that area. Knowing I hadn't flushed, and that the ring was still in there, I took the whole toilet down and outside in the garage, turned it every which way I could, and could not get the ring to come out. I could hear it hitting against the walls of the toilet though.

So I get the trusty 10 pound sledge, and it was HAMMER time!! :) Didn't know toilets could bust into so many pieces...




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[Paul Wu]

Joey, the problem with these problems is that they don't relate to anyting that matters. Who cares about this patient and grain business. And man what kind of HMO is giving perscriptions in grains? So how about rewording it to something more relevant?

There's a dvd deal available at figureitoutanditsyours.com. You'll get a total of 24 free dvds! Yes 24, they will be sent to you in 3 different shipments and because of this great deal you have to order them in consecutive even-integer numbers. (can't seem to get around that even-integer phrase) So how many will be in each shipment?




Paul

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[Gregg Loewen]

Go Paul Go!! (I did like Joey's picture though).

So who is going to do the flip?

Gregg

[Paul Wu]

I'm not gonna flip it, are you?

So what's the deal with the views going up but nobody's posting?

Edit:

So Rick you going for the flip?

Somebody's viewing and still not posting. So close to the flip. Whatcha waiting for?




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[RickS]

Paul,

I thought I'd check in! Just in time. ;)




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Flip button ready to go!!! :) Just a little more work here and then off home.




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Would it help if I got the ball rolling?




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[RickS]

I think that would help! :)




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Sniper alert - flip!




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[RickS]

Joey,

Won't touch that!!!! ;)


Well, the kids had a lot of fun last night and got more candy than they needed. The weather here is very warm for this time of year. Sure hope we get snow soon!

I think I'll even get home from work before 10:00 p.m tonight. :)

Have a good evening everyone!

Rick




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[Paul Wu]

Next person that posts gets the flip.

http://smilecwm.tripod.com/cwm3d/3dbiggrin3.gif

I guess that would be Greg. Gotta go now. bye.




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[RickS]

Greg,

Nice flip! :)




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Greg,

Well, it won't be to long before you and I are inducted into the old farts club. :B




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[Greg Stone]

Slowly but surely we are almost senior Rick! Then we'll both look back onto the fine middle age years, and remember them fondly... ;)

Congrats I see need to go out to Joey - Mr. Moderator now! See what some edukashun did four you?!? ;)




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[Patrick Sun]

Mmmm...does math and moderating mix for Mr. Millison? Maybe... :D




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We were waiting to see how long it took before someone noticed ;) Greg, you get one point in my game for noticing. So Pl@ has one point, and so do you ;) I'm going to TRY to get some screenshots up this weekend. School is kicking my butt but I'm desperately trying to get through it!
I'm not a *real* "HT" moderator, I'm just moderating the gaming section of the HTG, and only co-moderating at that! Had it been anything but that section I would have turned it down, as everyone knows I have the name J6P for a reason ;) But since I play a lot of console games and what-not I figured I'd give it a crack and see :) It's more my speed (that speed being SLOW) ;) Thanks for the congratz :)

[RickS]

Joey,

Congrats on the new position! What the hell are you going to do with all the new found wealth, that comes along with the move up the ladder? :B

I hear that Lex provides new RPTV's for the position. Just ask Andrew!!!! :)




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[RickS]

I have an hour tonight to program the new RC5000i remote then back to work for 5:00 am. :(

Another day! Another couple of dollars in the tax man's pocket.

Rick




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[Jehan]

Page 70? man I am getting bad at judging the pace of this thing...

On another note, Trev I saw you online down on the other forum ;), you night owl you.

Well off to bed.

[Greg Stone]

Joey - Thanks for the point! Watch out Pl@, you are no longer in the lead alone! ;)

Jehan - speaking of night owls... :)

Hope everyone has a great Thursday!




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!!

Way to go Joey!!

Gregg

[Pat]

Congrats on the new "title" Joey:B




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[Kevin P]

Hmmm... Joey6P, Moderator... I don't know whether to be happy or scared! heh heh :B Congrats Joey!!

Well, I'm going to be Pronto-less for a few days. I have one of the Prontos with the annoying tendency to reboot itself while it was being used, and since the firmware upgrade didn't fix it, the place I bought it from is willing to exchange it for me. So I'll be shipping it off to them today and they'll send me another one. In the meantime I'll have to remember how to run my HT with the original remotes! :E

My HT nut co-worker and I went to Tweeter at lunch yesterday to look at the toys. I find myself inexplicably drawn to the small group of RPTVs in one corner of the stores running the in-store HDTV feed. What a picture... it's a shame that when everything switches to HDTV in the future that there won't be any quality programming to take advantage of the higher resolution, if the quality of programming in recent years is any indication. Thank goodness for DVDs! :)

Oh well, that's enough Incoherent Rambling(tm) for one post. Heck, I haven't used the term Incoherent Rambling(tm) in a while. I guess I should do more Incoherent Rambling(tm) in the future.

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[Andrew Pratt]

Joey 6 Pack a moderator...what is this world coming too:e Welcome to the club joey I knew we'd find a way to get you in somehow:)




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[Andrew Pratt]

Pat, Greg and rick get posting you're almost there:)




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[Joey Millison]

Here's something my father sent me, pretty funny stuff, heh ;) I've highlighted my favorites!

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables: 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third.

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

The Web-site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.

With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your life.
The network is down.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Thanks for all of the congratz on the moderatorship :)

[RickS]

Good Morning!

Well, the RC 5000i is coming along! I like your image on your home page, Andrew! I think I may have to use that. :) It's nice to be able to download the files just to get some idea's on what other people are doing with their remotes.

Have a good day! Back to work. :(




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[Paul Wu]

Morning, funny, I thought I had posted something last night, I guess not. Anyway,

Rick, truer words have not been said.
Another day,
half my pay,
out the door,
who knows what for,
but I'm told,
when I'm old,
I'll be paying,
whatever I'm making,
just to make
what I made
twenty years before

Eh, never really a poem writer. comments and critisism can be emailed to Paul@atleastiryhmed.com

Joey, those are pretty good. I think we'll have to test how good a moderator you are. :)

Now wouldn't it be cool if an Aibo could do stuff like this (http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/pictures/amee_clip.mov)? On second thought, maybe not. Warning, it's a 5.4 meg QT download, and the video quality is not that great.




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[Joey Millison]

Paul,
As long as the test is in Algebraic form I'm up for it ;)

That is the coolest robot in the world, where can I get one?! ;) Will they be selling them at the theater? :B

[Patrick Sun]

I'm ill after reading this story (http://usatoday.com/news/ndsthu03.htm). What's really disturbing is that it happen in my town. What is this world coming to?




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When I heard about that story Pat I was sickend...With this and the other stuff that's been going on around you are you considering moving?




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Man that's disgusting! Seems like a lot of bad things are happening around you, I hope your neigbourhood really isn't that bad. Is it one of those 'if it bleeds it leads' news situations.




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[Joey Millison]

Holy Crap that's disturbing! I hope those boys get an extremely severe sentence! Maybe then they'll go to prison and see what it's like to have something like that done to you. Man, how horrid!

[Patrick Sun]

This story took place on the other side of town. I like on the northeast side of Atlanta, this story took place on the northwest side of town, about 20-25 miles away.

The hoodlums that showed up in court for their arraignment showed no remorse, were laughing and cutting up, and one of them was mugging for the TV cameras. There are some seriously messed up people out there.

As for moving? I dunno. There's bad stuff everywhere, but it seems October is a bad month for me locally.




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I feel so sorry for the victims and families of senseless crimes like this! I have three children and couldn't imagine that kind of BS.
They should hang the bastard's by the ball's in a public square!!!! :M




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[Gregg Loewen]

ditto to what Rick said!!

Well I did it. I just couldnt resist the urge to buy the tv. The pricing was awesome and he even offered to refund my current credit card and bill my new card when it comes through. The new card has a 0% interest until August 2001. YEAH!!

If anybody is buying ANY gear I highly recommend the group purchase. Please remember that pricing varied greatly amongst the discount retailers. Call around!!

Hope everybody had a great day.

Later,

Gregg

[Joey Millison]

Rick,
Well stated!

Gregg,
Uh oh, the "little kid at Christmas" syndrome strikes again! Congratz on your new set! Sounds like a killer deal. Remember to post a ton of pictures and a review ;)
I'm getting your guys' MP3s recorded as we speak. My machine has been working on them since I got here today. Near being done though. You guys should get them soon.
I'm going to do my damndest to get it to you Monday morning in time for your trip :) I let you know on ICQ earlier, so you should have a message waiting :)

[Greg Stone]

What a sickening story Pl@. I pray to God that nevers happens to my family or any of yours. I agree with you Rick, string them up and be done with it. But since that won't happen, I would have to seriously think about getting to them myself and settling things up. Disgusting.




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[Trevor Schell]

Hi Everybody!

I hope those guys get locked up for good. Unreal!!

Congratz Joey on the new 'Moderator' title. Does this mean you now have access to Andrew's Corvette??:)..

Gregg,,Did you get the Elite Widescreen?

Take Care!




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Pl@, very disturbing story...RickS has the right idea for them.

Gregg...glad you are getting a good deal...I know you are going to be very happy when it finally arrives.

Trev, I think Gregg is getting a 65" Toshiba (16:9 of course) :B




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[Pat]

I think a friend and I are going to make a road trip on Sat.
Going to see if we can listen to some Maggies and possibly some Bohlender Graebener speakers :B
I have to make some calls to see what the Sat. hours are and if we can make it to all the shops before they close.




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Too close.




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[Pat]

Can't resist...




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[Pat]

FLIP! :B




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[RickS]

Pat,

Nice flip!

Gregg,

Congrats on the new toy! I'm sure your going to really enjoy it. :)




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Pat, that is "flipping with flair". :)

lex

[Bing Fung]

Atta Boy Gregg!




Bing

[Joey Millison]

Night Kids! :)

[RickS]

Is anyone ever happy with their Pronto/Marantz setup, or is it a never ending tweak? :)

Good night!




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[Jehan]

Good night to all.

Just a side note, I got through watching Titan:AE tonight.. the film itself (I hadn't seen it before) was quite exciting, but folks this is as close to Audio and Video nirvana as you will get I think :). The DTS mix + the gorgeous anamorphic transfer are to die for.. I was in awe for most of the movie. Highly recommended.

[Paul Wu]

Pat, nice running flip.

Gregg, sounds like a nice new toy is coming your way, did you go for the matching prog player as well?

Bing, haven't done much riding in the past 7 yrs or so. I used to heavily into road riding, had 2 road bikes, then moved into moutain biking, only had one of those. Got out of biking as I was focusing on other pursuits, which took up my time and where a bike accident wouldn't go over too well.

Jehan, thanks for the quick review, I just ordered Titan AE, will be looking forward to when it arrives.

Night all, I'm off to a seminar for the next 3 days, so no going crazy with the flips. :)




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[Kevin P]

Gregg, congrats on the new toy!! You'll be blown away by how great DVDs (especially anamorphic ones) will look on this set! Imagine not seeing scan lines anymore. :B

Now you'll need a progressive player--a Tosh 6200 would be a perfect match for your set. Or a Pioneer Elite DV-37.

Last night was my first night trying to run my system without a Pronto. Fortunately, when I got my RPTV, the delivery guys programmed its remote to control most of my components. But since then I've upgraded my receiver, so the Mits remote won't control that (it's not a learning remote, and I doubt it has Outlaw 1050 codes in it). But I'm limping by for the time being. Hopefully my replacement Pronto will arrive early next week.

Not much else to say right now... not much Incoherent Rambling(tm) coming from me today. Oh well, I'll think of something. :)

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[Bing Fung]

Morning All!

Paul, Sounds much the same as me, I got a 1989 Carbon Fiber moncoque Trek, with DuraAce, that looks brand new (really, not a generalization), I recently sold a Klein Quantum Pro DuraAce, and not to mention 3 MTB's(2 are mine) hanging from raffters as well! :B Getting old, need more seditary hobbies :B I pulled my hockey equipment down from the rafters... we got game tonight. Ouch, this is going to hurt!

Rick, I tweaked my pronto for about a week or so, but I'm pretty satisfied with it for now. I have made the odd change, like a button assignment. But that's about it.

Well I'm going to take the digital cable box plunge to grab the special Shaw is offering now. I know it's not as good as Sat, but we are a 3 TV household and we will all be able to watch different programing with the cable box. Not that I watch much cable tv, but I hope I get a better image. This XBR is great for anamorphic DVD, but can really look bad for cable at times.

Have a good day all!




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[Andrew Pratt]

morning guys...pat you're going to love listening to the maggies providing they are set up properly (pulled out from the wall 2-3 feet)

Has anyone else got the new Corrs CD (In Blue) its fabulous




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[Gregg Loewen]

Busting day!

Joey, has been ICQing me through finding a portable CD player that will also do CDR CDRW and MP3s. thanks. I settled on the Philips player as it also has an AM/FM radio.

I ordered the DVD player with the TV the Tosh 6200 so I guess Ill be all set. (all with 1 year to pay:))

Gotta go

TGIF!!

Gregg

[Jehan]

Greg congrats on the purchase.. welcome to the family :) I am sure you'll love that set.

[Andrew Pratt]

Is HTF down for you guys as well? ...its going down more often then an intern at the whitehouse these days




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Well.......for the first time in weeks I'm going to get home from work before 10:00 p.m. :) I'm going to spend a little more time on the RC 5000i and watch The Patriot.

Is there anywhere in Canada to buy Hi Def music DVD's 96/24, like Sara K or David Johansen?

Have a good evening! Getting very close to the seniors club. :)




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Rick you've only got two posts left in your youth enjoy them while it lasts:) I haven't come across any place that sell the 96/24 DVD's that you're looking for locally. I think for that sort of stuff if A&B Sound doesn't have it you're going to have to go mail order I'm affraid.




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Andrew,

I was at A&B today! They do have the CD version's but, not on DVD. I have not listened to any of the 96/24 recording's yet, but many have said that it is very clean sound. Just want to try it out. :)

The Canadian dollar is sure sliding as of late! It's at 1.535 today. :E




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Andrew, I am looking forward to hearing some Maggies...
I am glad I called the places I want to visit ahead of time...the store that is the only Bohlender Graebener dealer in the state doesn't carry them in stock! They only order when they need to and they are not open on Sat!
I don't know too many people that are willing to spend $2500+ on a pair of speakers that they can't listen to before buying:( Like I was going to buy them anyway:B




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[Greg Stone]

Got a new PC at work today, and love the Windows 2000 Professional version, based on NT technology. Office 2000 is nice, as I am so used to Windows 98 and Office 97.

It was hard to get any work done though as all I wanted to do was play with the new features!

Congrats Gregg on the new tv and dvd! Reviews and pics must follow!

Ok, I did take some pictures of me in the Grim Reaper costume, now need to find a scanner...

Any big plans for the weekend?




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Greg,
Definitely gotta scan those pics! :)

You're extremely close to being a Senior member as well! :)

[Lexman]

Say, Pat, did you get the email I sent you? JC.

Yes, Greg, that's why I was willing to put up with lots of configuration issues to retain W2K. Great OS, very very stable, and robust!

Thanks,

Lex

[Trevor Schell]

Hi!,

Hope everybody has a great weekend.

Any movie suggestions for the weekend.I will look for Titan E.A. ..Anything else??

Moderator Alert....My user name and password is no longer saved when I make a post..Anyway to fix this??
Thanks,

PS..We have SNOW in the forcast for Sunday. Should be exciting.




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Just checking in, day one down, two more to go, have some homework to finish off.

Have a great weekend people.




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[Mats]

Trevor,
Just edit your profile and uncheck the "Save Username and PW on this computer" Update your record. Go in again and check the same checkbox and save again and you should be fine... (I hope)




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[Andrew Pratt]

damn mats a real moderating quesiton and you beat me too it:) So whats everyone up to today?

Trevor you can keep your snow, Winnipeg missed that storm that hit you guys...which is fine by me:)




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[Greg Stone]

Trevor - what's snow? Our forecast for tomorrow is high 68, low 58 with a chance of storms, rain that is. My boys would go nuts as one is almost 6 and has yet to see any snow! I know I gripe about the 40 plus days of over 100 degrees in the summer, but the winters are very mild. Hardly ever have to even grab a jacket unless it is January/early Feb. :)

Watched Rules of Engagement last night, great sound, so so plot and storyline. Loved the surround detail though in the Vietnam scenes. :)

Getting family pictures taken at 11:45, then am thinking about watching North by Northwest today as it is raining, and doesn't look like it will clear. Great movie watching weather!




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[RickS]

Well........I feel old today! :)

Andrew,

Typical day. Work! :(

Trevor,

Were have you been? Checking out new amps? ;)
I tried to find Titan AE but,was told it would not be here till Nov/7th.

Greg,

We have SNOW coming today with 60 Kph/35Mph winds. I love the snow since, I'm in the snowmobile parts business. :) Snow West Distributing Inc. (http://www.snowwest.ca)

Trevor/Andrew! You know that we will send the snow your way!! ;)

Have a good day everyone!




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[Bing Fung]

Well, I'm pretty stiff and sore today from playing hockey... You forget about all these parts that can ache and hurt

Think I'm just going to lay on the couch and watch movies all weekend long.




Bing

[RickS]

Bing,

I used to play a lot of hockey but, couldn't imagine going full tilt at a game these day's. :E

The movies sound good to me! Enjoy the snow coming from the west! :)




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[Andrew Pratt]

Rick its not you sending the snow its Joey;)




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[Greg Stone]

Wow Rick, cool site! Almost makes me want to move to the GWN and try out some of those snow machines, like the Arctic Cat 700 Powder Special :E

How much would one of those run me?

By the way, congrats on your senior citizenship!!




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[Joey Millison]

Hey don't look at me, we're not expecting snow until tomorrow ;) Though we had some LIGHT snow a few days ago. Man, I wish it would hurry and come down! I "RUV" snow!

[Gregg Loewen]

Greg, you really have to make a trip to get your kids exposed to snow. They will absolutely love it!!

I hope everybody is having a great weekend. Heather and I have been invited to some kind of formal dance (Lawrence Welk stuff). Anyway, Im told the ETOH (that is for you Joey) will be cheap. Heather goes back to Canada tomorrow for her last dental visit and will stay up there while I am in LA. (I even get to meet Jehan next Saturday). She has even made an extra set of car keys :)

Hope everybody has a great weekend!

Gregg

PS who is going to get the flip?

[Gregg Loewen]

Going for the flip...

[Gregg Loewen]

Going for the flip...

[Gregg Loewen]

FLIP!! ???

[Gregg Loewen]

YES!!!

[Lexman]

Classic standard flip there Greg. I came in here to go right over the top of somebody, but guess it wasn't meant to be. You guys are just mean to me, never give me the flip, haha.

Hope everyone is doing well. Got clean gutters here and rain today. Working on the PC a little, and going out to eat tonight for a fairly quick meal out.

Have a good evening,

Lex

[RickS]

Gregg,

Nice "running" flip!
Just came back(in the snow :)) from trying to listen to a pair of Maggies. The salesman said they were much too busy on a Sat to let me hear them. :( I didn't walk in in my suit like most of the other people roaming around. Oh.....well!

Joey,

Thanks for the snow! :) It doesn't snow in Colorado? :B ;)


Greg,

Most of the snowmobiles run in the 8-12K range these days. It won't be long before you join us at the old age home! ;)

Have a good evening everyone!




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[Trevor Schell]

Hi Everybody!!

Thanks for the help Mats.,,When I went into my profile, the save password option was unchecked for some reason so all I had to do was check it off and everything seems to be working fine now.

Think I'm just going to lay on the couch and watch movies all weekend long.

Bing,,thats just being plain lazy,but a very good idea.:)

You guys that are going to the HTF meet, have a really good time and send me a souvenier of some sort hey!!..Really wish I could go.

Rick,,Nice webpage,,I can see your business getting busy now with the snow(kind of obvious)..My parents just bought a Polaris Trial rider snowmobile last year..sure is a nice machine. I hope to buy them a second one in the next couple of years.

Bring on the snow!!,,I love winter and it also helps my business..
Bring it on!!!!Bring it on!!!

With my luck it will probably just snow in Bing's backyard or something like that.:)




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Trev, if it's snowing in my yard, I'll just trade you. I like snow and all, but I certainly like this spell of weather we have had :)

Would you be able to come by my place sometime soon and tell me what my system/sub needs?

Rick, nice page, love the machines!

Watched The Patriot last night, good show, nice low rumble throughout the show, not like U-571, but still a solid sound and score me thinks.

Tonight I rented Snow day for the fam, and Skulls for the late night feature.


Chow!




Bing

[Greg Stone]

Bing - we seem to be watching quite a few of the same movies lately. Just finished The Patriot myself, with the wife and my mom seeing it too. Everyone really seemed to enjoy it. I also thought the sound was nice and the rumbles from the cannon shots and when the horses rode by was nice. Didn't seem like it was a 2 hour 40 minute movie.

Good night all!




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[Jehan]

Hello folks.. looking forward to seeing you (and the rest of the HTFers) next weekend Gregg (nice flip action too).

Going to give Wall Street a run tonight, have Mi:2 handy also but I am not really feeling like that right now..:)

[Trevor Schell]

Bing,,I would be glad to come and check out your gear.

Also looking into the possibility of picking up some Bryston amps which are for sale locally.
Two Bryston 3B's at 400 watts each bridged for the mains.
Three Bryston 2B's at 200 watts each bridged for the rears and centers..

If the price is right and they would make a good combination with the Studio's ,,I may seriuosly consider these..You can check out my post at the HTF.

Now to watch 'Rules of Engagement'.

Later.




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Going for the flip!

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just kidding.

[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning!

I just sent Heather on her way. Ill miss them but they will be back next Monday. In the meantime...2 days until LA, then when I return my new TV should be waiting. :)

Gregg

[Bing Fung]

Morning all Trev got his wish, snow and winter conditions in Toon town today....major bummer!

Have a good trip Gregg, it's sounds exciting, travel around looking at things HT related and then coiming home to a new TV! Most excellent.

Trev, How can you go wrong with that many Brystons, humm? They are priced right and it sounds like a good deal to me. If I hadn't of purchased all these Monoblocks, I would crtainly move on those Brystons. One thing though, is the Bryston 3B really 400 watts bridged? My friend had 2 3B's bridged and he stated it was 200 to 250 watts bridged, for the 3B is ~100W/ch, Stll Those Bryston's must me underated power @ 100W/ch




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[Trevor Schell]

Good Morning Everybody!!

Winter has arrived,,That 'Snow Dance' that Bing performed really worked..Lots of snow today.

I haven't called on the Brystons yet, There is an ad in the local paper so I will call on the pricing..I got my info from the website. They are advertised as 2B's and 3B's,,but the webpage indicates them as 3B-ST and 2B-LP,,so maybe they are not the same..I will find out.

Rules of Engagement was 'OUTSTANDING'..The rear surrounds carried lots of deep tones and imaged perfectly with the fronts..The panning of sound effects from front to back was perfect.

Still not sure what TV Gregg is getting?
Have a good day everybody.




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[Gregg Loewen]

Tosh 65h80 and the Tosh 6200 player both for $4350 delivered :)

PS I still have not told Heather.

[Andrew Pratt]

Gloomy and misty today but NO SNOW:) you guys in toon town can keep it IMO. Watched Mission to Mars this morning. I went in with very low expectations and there were so pretty big holes in its story with respect to its portrayal of how Evolution works but still it was better then I thought it would be. Good use of surrounds too. Got the Patriot cued up but The X-Files season primere will likely be whats up for tonight.




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