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[Joey Millison]

FINALLY, I'm all set up at my new desk, and I finally feel like management now, seeing as how my cube's size/look/furniture is exactly like the TOP DOG's, someone that controls all of Northern Colorado ;) So I must be a big boy now!
Sorry I had to run so quick yesterday, I had some homework to do before English class, and no time to do it in.
I'll get an email out ASAP pertaining to the 80's collection, and the final verdict, like I've been promising to do for two days now ;)

Kevin,
Someone diriving the same kind of car with the same plates? Scary, I wonder if he looks like you...which brings us to an important question...are you the GOOD Kevin or the BAD Kevin? ;)

Andrew,
The "kid at Christmas syndrome" seems to be striking a lot of us lately, which is always a good thing! ;) Upgrading is the best part of HT ;)

Thanks for all of the encouragement for school! It's actually getting a little better now. I've found someone my age or older in both of my classes, someone who's there to learn not to screw off, and so hopefully this will be an easy semester.
I get to stay in my advanced English class, which is good. The professor handed out a writing assignment to determine who will be staying in the class, and I passed it :) I'm going to try to call her today to get some more feedback, but so far so good.
And Math with be pretty easy, its just a matter of resurrecting all of these old dormant brain cells to get back into the game. This is all stuff I've learned before, I've just got to refresh my memory.

Damn, gotta jet for now, everyone have a great Friday...

[Andrew Pratt]

So whats everyone doing for the long weekend?




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J6P said:
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Kevin,
Someone driving the same kind of car with the same plates? Scary, I wonder if he looks like you...which brings us to an important question...are you the GOOD Kevin or the BAD Kevin?
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I was telling the PEO, it must be my evil twin! :) I'm definitely the good Kevin... I don't park on the wrong side of the road, get a ticket, and not pay the fine! :D

Congrats on the executive cubicle Joey!! One thing I've noticed since we've moved is that, the bigger an office one has, the less time they spend in it! Low-lifes like me are in our tiny, totally non-private cubes all day, and those who have offices with doors are there about 5 hours a week. Go figure. :)

Someone wanted me to post the stories about the knockout in my accounting class. I'm working on that.. there's not much to tell, just a major infatuation that permanently burned out entire clusters of brain cells in late 1986, and has had an effect on me ever since... I think part of my love for 80s music dates back to my two biggest infatuations in the 80s. Otherwise, there isn't much to tell, I never had the nerve to speak to her. Maybe she married my evil twin who lives in Massachusetts and drives a silver Saturn with the same plate number as mine... hmm... :)

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[Paul Wu]

Yes we do have a long weekend up here in Canada. It's called Labour Day. :)

My plans for the long weekend are pretty minor. Lots of rest. Have to get better for a killer September. We are planning a quick day trip down to Bellingham, so I might pickup T2 while we are there. Otherwise, I'm also taking the Tuesday off so as to avoid the insane back to school traffic out at UBC.

Andrew: That has got to be tough, drivers in, new speakers on there way...did I mention those maggies look really cool....I also mistaken a set of these as accoustical treatment/cubical dividers at one high-end store.:)

Kevin: Glad to hear that tickets been straightened out. That was me asking about the babe in accounting. :) Love to hear about women and accounting.

Joey: Good to hear that you're still in the advance Eng class. Although I kind of agree with Kevin, as it seems the bigger the office you get, the less time you spend in it. And you know what, I think teachers/profs like you to take an interest in the subject matter. I seemed to do better in classes when I did talk to the prof than when I didn't.

Some misc ramblings...What state has the license plate moto "Live Free or Die?" I saw it this morning on a minivan visiting from New Hampshire. Looks like I'm going to be picking up a Playstation this weekend. Should be fun. I'd love to wait for the PS2, but it just costs too much. Plus there's this dancing game that I have and I need a Playstation to use it with, can't bring myself to rent one. I was browsing through some dvds at a store yesterday and guess what I found. Platton, the first version with the Oliver Stone and Dale Dye commentaries. I don't know how rare this is, but I was disapointed when the re-release of Platton came out and it didn't have these commentaries.




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[Kevin P]

"Live Free Or Die" is NH's state motto. I think it should be changed to "Live FREEZE & Die" considering the winters (and summers) around here ... heck, it's hotter outside today than it was in all of July!! I'll be jumping in the pool when I get home.

I'll post more on the accounting babe if I can think of anything relevant to say about her. Oh yeah, her name was Dina... for once I had a crush on someone who wasn't named Heather. ;) I might chronicle the day when I "discovered" that I had a crush on her, but that probably won't be today. :) There would be more to say if I actually had spoken to her. This was 14 years ago...now it's just the strange feeling I get when I listen to music from that time period. ;)

Just to make my Incoherent Rambling(tm) more incoherent... I'm going to help a friend from work wire up his friend's house for Home Theater and whole house audio. It's new construction and the sheetrock isn't up yet, I'll be spending the day running a million feet of speaker wire. It'll be fun, and I'll get a few bucks out of it, to go toward the subwoofer fund... :)

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[Paul Wu]

How hard is it to buy a Playstation??? This all started early this week when we saw a Playstation bundle at Costco, 2 games a hat and the unit for $185. Well I don't need a hat and one of the games sucked. So I decided to find out how much the main unit sold on its own. Well it goes for $140. The other game was Gran Tourisomo, which sells for $25. So I figure I'll just buy the unit and that one game and get a memory card. Well I saw a bunch last night in Burnaby, decided to wait for today when I had more time. Well, I went to Toys R Us, Futureshop, the Sony store and the Bay. All sold out. Looks like I'm heading back to Burnaby tonight to get my console. I was hoping I'd get an afternoon of gaming in, but looks like I got an afternoon of driving. :(

That's my rant for today. Oh wait, I have another one, seems like nobody ever checks our vacation schedule. As people have left me messages for meetings on Tuesday. Umm, I'm not here on Tuesday. Man I just wanted to yell! How frigging stupid can you be? Check the schedule! I don't know why we even bother with it. Okay, I think I'm done now. Off to pickup my wife.




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[Greg Stone]

Paul - I know exactly what you are talking about when people don't check the schedule to see if you are going to be around or not when they want a meeting. Last time I went on vacation, I left a message like this on my voice mail:
Hello, you've reached Greg Stone in Finance, and I will be on vacation from June 2 through June 10. If an emergency, press zero for the receptionist, or you can leave me a message and I'll call you back when I return from vacation on June 11. Thanks and have a great week.

One of the managers in the SAME building as me leaves this as a message:
Greg, we are having a department supervisor meeting Tuesday June 3 at 11:00. We will be discussing blah, blah, blah, so get back to me by 5 pm on Monday if this is not a good time for you. Talk to you later!

By the way, no, there is not an option on my voice mail to skip the message and go straight to leaving a message, this brain surgeon had to listen through my message and still left this!

Just proves there are almost as many grains of sand in the desert as there are idiots walking amongst us!




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[Trevor Schell]

TGIF

Boy am I glad the week is over. Hope everyone has a real good weekend. Long weekend at that,,Finally a holiday that is the same in both Canada and the U.S...To you guys in the U.S.,,Is there anything special that is done to celebrate this particular holiday?? Nothing special up here like fireworks or parades and such.

I plan on spending the weekend in the house rearranging my set-up and furniture to take advantage of the entire room and not just the half in which everything is now loacated. This will be a big job and will get extrememly brutal when I have to disconnect all of the equipment and reconnect..I don't know how I got everything together in the first place so this will be a challenge. The final results will provide a wider spread of the front speakers to widen the sound stage and also will give me the opportunity to corner load the Servo's..I can't wait until it is done. I hope the results will be an improvement over the current layout.

Joey,,looking forward to the 80's collection..A little care package is on route to Fort Collins.




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Nothin' special going on here:(
The wife has to work on Sun. and Mon. so can't really make any big plans.

I might be going out 4-wheeling with a friend of mine. He and a bunch other guys take their 4x4 trucks out on some farmers back woods and tear around. I went with him one other time and it was a pretty good time.




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[Jehan]

Well howdy all.. exciting day today. 4 new discs to get through somehow.. MIB, Edward Scissorhands, Romeo Must Die and Any Given Sunday. Btw watched Braveheart last night and it was breathtaking .. a little grainy with some specs of dirt on it at times but I was too busy with the movie most of the time :)

Long weekend hmm might head off to Palm Springs with some friends as well as a trip up to Santa Barbara.. nice time for the beach :). Aside from that and squeezing in a few movies - not too much.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

[Paul Wu]

Not sure if we are still going with an 80's theme, but here's something to prepare us for the J6P collection. From Kenneth of the HTF.

"You Are A Child Of The 80s If..."
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* You know what a "burnout" is.

* You know what "Sike" means.

* You know the profound meaning of "Wax on,
Wax off."

* You know that another name for a keyboard
is a "Synthesizer."

* You can name at least half of the members
of the elite "Brat Pack."

* You wanted to be a Goonie.

* You know who Max Headroom is.

* You wore flourescent, neon clothing.

* You could breakdance, or wish you could.

* You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween.

* You Believed that "By the power of Greyskull,
you HAD the power!"

* Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.

* You thought that Transformers were more
than meets the eye.

* You wanted to be on StarSearch.

* You can remember what Michael Jackson
looked like before his nose fell off.

* You wore a banana clip at some point
during your youth, or knew someone who did.

* You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed
on its butt.

* You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout."

* You HAD to have your MTV!

* You hold a special place in your heart for
"Back to the Future."

* You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was
a REALLY good movie.

* You have heard of Garbage Pail Kids.

* You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly
called "Prince."

* You know where to go if you "wanna go
where everybody knows your name."

* You actually saw Ted Danson as the
MacDaddy when he played "Sam."

* You remember when ATARI was a state of
the art video game system.

* You own any cassettes.

* You were led to believe that in the year 2000
we'd all be living on the moon.

* You remember and/or own any of the CareBear
Glass collection from Pizza Hut or any other
stupid collection they came out with.

* Poltergeist freaked you out.

* You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins
or an ET lunchbox.

* You know what a Doozer is.

* You thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool.

* You have ever pondered why Smurfette was
the ONLY female smurf.

* You wore bike shorts underneath a short
skirt and felt stylish, or knew someone who did.

* You ever had a Swatch Watch.

* You had a crush on one of the Coreys (Haim
or Feldman), or knew someone who did.

* You remember when Saturday Night Live
was funny.

* You had WonderWoman or Superman
underoos.

* You know what a "Whammee" is.

* If you can identify with at least half of this list
then you, my friend, are a "Child of the 80s."

Enjoy,

Kenneth




Paul

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[Greg Stone]

Wow Paul, I think there are only 2 on that list I couldn't relate to or didn't remember! I truly am a child of the 80's, there will probably never be a time again like that. Made me remember back to 3rd or 4th grade, when our teacher asked if we could figure out how old we would be in the year 2000, and when I came up with 33, I thought I would never live that long! And now time just increases its speed each year it seems.

Trevor - nothing special here in the states either happens this weekend, ie no parades or fireworks, etc. Just a nice break from work!

Just finished watching Mallrats for the first time, and really liked it. Laughed hard several times and even my wife seemed to enjoy it. Now its off to bed. Everyone have a great weekend and be safe.




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Trevor,
Uh oh, not another hat! ;)
(jk)

[Trevor Schell]

Good Morning Canada and America.

Its going to be a cold one today at 48 F and extremely windy. Thank goodness for HomeTheater,,our season is really upon us now,in Saskatchewan anyways.:)

Did lots of moving last night,,the rear speakers are set and the main seating area is in place. The next step is moving the Entertainment unit,TV and equipment over. This will be the tough part. I will be starting this soon and the goal is to be done before this evening so we can watch some movies tonight.

Joey,,I can give you a hint..You are going to receive something which is of Canadain flavor. Something that can actually be used. Except since you are an American citizen,,you can not use it unless you lived in Canada.

Any suggestions on what movies to rent this weekend,,newer releases!

Have a good Weekend everybody.




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Trevor - you are in an exact opposite weather situation than me and my family. We are breaking the record high temps here daily, and are now on the 63 or 64th day with no rain. Todays high expected to be 109 or 110 F. Yesterday was 109F with an overnight low of 84. It is miserable right now. The air conditioner never shuts off it seems. Good thing is that it is now September, so it will have to start cooling off soon, maybe in a couple of weeks. BTW, have fun moving everything around!

J6P - Why did you drop out of SETI at HTF? Are you stopping completely, or thinking about starting a HTG TTP SETI group??




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[Joey Millison]

Something that can actually be used. Except since you are an American citizen,,you can not use it unless you lived in Canada

Whoo hoo! A Canadian credit card? ;) Hmmmm, I really have no clue what it could be...do I get another hint or do I have to wait? :)

Greg,
It may be trivial, but man it was hard to keep up on all of these machines I had going at work. Someone would grab a machine and need to use it, and when I got it back I had to set it all up again, and check to make sure they were all still running. I got into the top 10, heck I even made it to number 8, that's good enough for me :) I kept telling Mandi, "All I wanna do is get into the top 10, then I'm happy!" Now I'll probably jet down the list at a rapid rate, but that's cool with me :) I hope I helped you guys out though :)

[Jehan]

Morning from sunny south california :)

Trev: some nice popcorn movies to check out (if you haven't already) - Any Given Sunday (if you are a football fan this would be good, Oliver Stone does a decent job), Romeo Must Die (martial arts .. popcorn movie) Both have outstanding video and audio.

Other worthy new releases - Braveheart, Edward Scissorhands, Sound of Music, Leon (uncut) and of course the T2: Ultimate.

That is all I can think of so far...

[Pat]

WHOO HOO!!
I received my 80's collection in the mail today:)

Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.




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[Bing Fung]

What a day outside, nothing but rain, I don't mind the rain, but we got a BB-Q to go to tonight.

Does anybody know of a source to buy nylon mesh sheathing? Like those used on ultra expensive cables.

Trev: Looks like you picked a good day to re-arrange your equipment.




Bing

[Joey Millison]

Anyone else in the US get their 80's collection yet? :)
PS Pl@, your second delivery is going to be shipped ASAP, I ran out of money and couldn't ship them, but I can early this next week :) I hope that's okay, sorry it's taking so long :)

Jehan,
When did Edward Scissorhands come out? And how on earth did that slip past me? ;) If it's out now I will go get it here in a few minutes, definitely.

Went and saw The Cell last night, and I really liked it. The plot was so-so, but the visualizations in that movie were absolutely great! Everything just worked so well, and there were some pretty freaky parts of that movie.
Mandi and I were the absolute ONLY people in the theater though, and it was a HUGE theater (it was a very late showing). So it made the movie a little freakier sitting in this gigantic empty theater, it helped to make the whole thing surreal...
Trying to decide whether or not I want to do my homework tonight or Monday...I wanna get it done tonight so it's out of the way, but part of me thinks that if I do it Monday it will still be fresh in my head when I return to class on Tuesday. I'll probably just wind up doing it tonight and reviewing on Monday or something.
Well, I'm going to go back to relaxing :)

Hasta!

Have fun at your BBQ Bing, hopefully the weather will clear up for you!

[Greg Stone]

After I saw Pat's post about receiving the '80s collection, I go with high hopes to the mail box and check. Only bills. Dang. Maybe Tuesday!




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[Patrick Sun]

J6P, I can wait until you get my letter in the mail Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, you'll have plenty of moola when you get my letter, I promise you (of course, you have to toss in that 3rd speaker if you still have it). :D

I saw The Cell a couple of weekends ago, visually - very cool stuff. Story-wise, it needed one more re-write to tighten the ending up (plus the characterization was spotty at best). Worth a rental if you like cool visuals.

So Pat, how do the '80's sound? How's the mix?

Has anyone else been through their T2:UE DVD? Sheesh! I have seen the extended cut, and made sure I fast forward through the changes in the SPECIAL extended cut, and got through an hour of the commentary before I fell asleep last night. There's SO MUCH stuff on this DVD! I think I prefer the dts soundtrack (though I think the LFE from the DD side is pretty beefy).

I have begun creating my endcaps for Sunosub II this afternoon. I'm still hacking up sawdust as I type. I need to buy a terminal cup (2 sets of inputs) next Tuesday when my local audio store opens back up. But I've got the top endcap done (besides sanding and painting), and the bottom encaps just needs the terminal cup hole cut in, and the leg mounts attached.

And yes, I'm taking more photos again because while it's like the other project, it's a bit different (it's winding up looking like Andrew's due to me not have enough sonotube width for my initial bottom endcap design). I'm also including stuff like creating your own circular jig extension on the fly (I needed something that would allow me to make circles over 24" wide with my existing jig). The heavier PVC ports require a different bit of wood-working so that I need to create an edge that acts as a seat for the PVC tubes. And I'm also adding a slight edge on the endcaps to mate with the sonotube. It's more work, but it's just a little more time and effort, but I think it's worth it for the experience.

I'll be updating my DIY Sunosub II thread with pix soon, maybe later tonight or tomorrow.




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[Gregg Loewen]

Hi guys!!

I hope everybody is having a great long weekend. I just got my J6P 80s collection today. Wow the memories!! Ive listened to the first 2 CDs so far and they are great!! My wife remembers more of the songs then I do. Anyway, 2 thumbs up for Joey. Thanks man.

Take care,

Gregg

[Joey Millison]

Groovy! Glad you got it Gregg! Although I don't get why yours got to Maine before Greg's got to Texas and Pl@'s got to Georgia, heh, that's wierd!

I'm almost more excited to hear that you guys got it than you are to actually get it. I can't wait to hear people's reviews after they've heard it all, though after calculating it I think the total amount of music comes out to something like 16 hours of music. At least I know what people are going to be doing Monday now... ;)

[Trevor Schell]

Done,,Finally got everything together. What a nightmare everything became as it took me all day to complete this move. It actually became a little costly too as I had to go out and buy a new rack to put the gear into as there was no way I was going to get it all back into the entertainment center. Plus I needed to pick up 100 feet of 12g speaker wire to run the rears to the back wall.

Anyways the end result is I really need more power to run these speakers as everything seems quiet even at reference level. The rear surrounds are lost in the room against the back wall,,I don't hear them from the seating area and the rear level on the receiver is now set at +12. Tomorrow I will move them to sit directly behind the couch to see if this helps.

The worst part was connecting all of the components back together which I knew was going to be challenging. First I connected all the cables then powered up the gear to see if they worked properly..Well the first thing I tried was the Satellite,,No picture..after a while I figured out what was wrong. Next up was the DVD which I could not get any sound..The cause after an hour of frustration was the DTS decoder was connected wrong as a pass through..The Laser disc had no picture,,when this was corrected I then had no sound..So you can see what fun it was..It did take a while but I know have everything in order and working the way it should. I will never take on a project like this again,,well maybe until next year.

I did get a couple of movies which we are about to watch next,,,Any Given Sunday and The Next Best Thing. Thanks Jehen for the recommendations.

Bing,,do you think the rain will stop this weekend?? It has rained all day,,although I did not mind since I was working on a project..Maybe we wil get some snow:),,pretty cold out.

Greg,,hopefully you guys get some rain or cooler weather..Thats unreal the amount of days in a row with that extremely hot weather. Maybe your 80's collection has melted on its way to Texas,,the reason you did not get it yet.:)

Gregg L..About time you found the TTP:)..hopefully you can bump up those 3 posts to higher numbers.

Joey,,I won't tell you what I sent you but its mainly a souvenier for you.

Patman,,You making another sub? For me!!Thanks man.:D

Have a Good Night everybody.
(I think I will probably fall asleep while watching DVD's tonight)




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Note Magnolia Spoiler Alert
Just finished Magnolia, couldn't finish it last night as it was losing me fast. What the hell is that show about and what's with the f_ gs??

Trev, I now know what you were saying, there's a couple of hours I'll never get back :W Beautiful box and art, some good acting as well, too bad it's not my type of movie




Bing

[Patrick Sun]

Trev, sure, just come on by and pick it up next month! We'll dub it the SunoSchellShocker!

Bing, re: Magnolia: it was about lost opportunities and how holding on to the past can destroy a person's present and hinder their future, it was about redemption, making peace with your inner circle: mainly family, it's about inappropriate behavior among parent/child can destroy both of them in the process, it's about healing, and oh yeah, it's about "Shit happens!" with the frogs.

The main problem with this film is that it's got a good beginning, but the resolution of the interweaving storylines is just terrible and never truly weaves together (unless you count all the characters in that sing-along towards the end, which was a bold choice, but it didn't work). PT Anderson is too in love with his material and doesn't know when to edit out the superfluous, and how to finish a strong premise. I saw this at the movie theaters, and I, for the life of me, don't know why I pre-ordered this DVD, unless it was for more Frank T.J Mackey out-take material. :D




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[Joey Millison]

Hey Kids,
I fixed both Trevor's site and mine, when it comes to clicking on thumbnails. Now when you click a thumbnail the picture comes up in a window that's fitted to the picture's size. It looks a lot better than it did previously :) Check it out!

Plus, I have some new captions to some of the stuff on my page, mainly for the SonoSub finishing and the DIY mains :) I'm slowly structuring my page a little better, and adding new small features here and there :)

[Trevor Schell]

Bing,,I felt the same about the movie,,there was enough there to make you not turn it off, but at the end you are left wondering WTF. I didn't want to mention the frog scene as it could be a spoiler,,but that was outright weird.

Was watching the DVD 'Any Given Sunday'..just awesome!!,,Just go out and buy this one. I am not done yet and not even a football fan but this movie is excellent. The audio is blowing me away and I love how the music soundtracks are worked into it. My new set-up may have a role in this movie sounding the way it does. The Couch vibrates on every hit or tackle and I am sitting about 16 feet away from the subs and TV. You can no longer tell where the bass is coming from as you could before since we were seated right beside the subs. The room is filled with bass, this is awesome.

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More Magnolia Spoilers

Thanks Pat, certainly it displayed all those qualitys that you mention about opportunity, healing and how shit happens. Deep down I knew all of the above was most likely the main message, and it took you pointing it out to me to confirm that.

There were some funny parts that had me chuckling at the concepts. Technically, I though the image transfer was great, and I certainly liked the sound track. Probally the main thing I disliked about show was it pissed me off constantly, with it's portrayal of these characters in their worse light, and the use of the score that was unrelentless in some scenes that I wish I could have shut that off, why does he continue on like that? I liked the opening "One is the Loneliest Number" untill it just kept dragging on and on and on... Rant off :W

It's not a bad film, I have seen worse. Tom Cruise actually surprised me with a session of plausable acting.




Bing

[Joey Millison]

Looks like the new applet for the popup images is broken, give me a few to repair it...

[Gregg Loewen]

I hope everybody is having a great Sunday. Its overcast here and was raining until around noon. Im still trying to get up some gutters and get the house ready for tomorrow's lobster party. My wife wants me to do some painting but that is about my least favorite thing to do period so Im trying to make up some excuses but Im running out. I still have not gotten past the 2 nd CD of J6P's 80's set. It is very neat especially with the CD text stuff. Ive never understood why more stuff doesnt come with CD text encoding.

If worse comes to worse I'll have to stay inside and paint but then I'll have the stereo to listen to and will give CDs 3,4, and 5 a listen to. Actually I think I'm starting to enjoy painting now.:)

Trevor, what kind of wire are you using for the reinstall? I just rewired mine with Home depot 12 gauge and I think I really can tell a little difference. I was using rat shack 14 gauge prior. If somebody else was telling this to me I'd say your FOS, anyway maybe I am (FOS).

Gotta go, does anybody else have big plans for the weekend?

Gregg

[Greg Stone]

Finally, the NFL season is here!! Now if it would just cool off some, it would be my favorite time of the year, the transition from summer to fall.

Trevor - now you planted a bad image in my head about my '80s collection sitting in a hot metal mailbox slowly melting like the T1000 melting in T2. ;)

Haven't seen Magnolia yet, and may not with the reviews you guys are giving! Maybe I'll win the Braveheart DVD giveaway... OK, back to football!!




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[Gregg Loewen]

Thought Id do post five by asking if HTG can post pics to your HT setup? If not is it okay to link to my pics over at HTF? Still not quite sure why we moved. Anyway, take care everybody.

Gregg

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[Trevor Schell]

Hey Guys,,Its starting to clear up here,,actually seeing some sunshine.

I am really enjoying my new set-up of the living room. Feels like we are in a new home..the room does have a more cozy feel to it and just seems so big now to in comparision to how it was before. Then after watching 'Any Given Sunday' which sounded better than anything else I had ever played so far has gotten me pretty excited about watching more DVD's..All I had to do was move the rears closer to the couch to finish it to my liking.

Gregg,,I bought my wire at Future Shop. Two rolls of 50 foot long Acoustic Research 12 guage wire to match what I had used prior for the fronts.

I think there are a few people who were disappointed with the movie 'Magnolia'..I say this because a few days after it came out there was quite a few for sale at the HTF Software for sale area.

More movie watching coming tonight,,not sure yet what I will pick-up though.

Later.




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Bing, here's the other problem with Magnolia: PT Anderson is in love with the music of Aimee Mann, and basically wrote his film around many of her new songs. I just don't think the synthesis of music and film in this instance blended well, as you pointed out. :D




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Picked up a few movies..'Cider House Rules' (rented once before but did not watch,hate when that happens) ,,and 'I Dreamed Of Africa',,for the kids we picked up 'Muppets in Space'...Also bought 'Edward Scissorhands'.

Bing,,I remembered you rented 'American Physco'..was it worth the rent??

Good night everyone.




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[Bing Fung]

Hey gang, just got back from the Saskatoon Symphony under the Stars. This was an outdoor performance in the Hotel Bessborugh Gardens. It was fantastic to hear all the live detail and deep bass kettle drums. Apperantly the mussket club could not show up for the 1812 overture, so they handed out paper bags to the cround to pop during the performance. It was surprizing how loud one paper bag was, much less 1500 or so.

Trev: American Pysco was at times funny for how serious, but silly the main character was. It was good to see, I wouldn't say it's a buyer, It's kinda violent in a sick but funny way? I don't think Tracy would appreciate it, Christine hated it.

Good choice in Cider House Rules, I found it enjoyable.




Bing

[Joey Millison]

Just got done on a "double date" with Mandi, and my sister and and brother in law. The plan was we were going to eat dinner and go out for a movie. But when my brother in law saw that I had new speakers, and my sister saw I had the Sound of Music on DVD, it soon turned into a dinner and going back to J6P's house for a movie, heh.
Because we saved money on the movie we spent that much more for dinner, so we went to Hibachi Steak House, which is a city block away from me. It's GREAT food, where they prepare it from front of you, and do all of those crazy tracks with their cooking utinsels. I had the New York Steak (medium rare, more on the rare side) and scallops. I also had some Unagi, some California Rolls, and some Boston Rolls. They have amazing food there!
Then we came back and threw in the Sound of Music. The THX thing came on and my brother in law turns to me and says jokingly, "I gotta go change my shorts!!! That was awesome!!!" heh heh. That was pretty flattering, especially from someone who plays with home audio and car audio alot. So they approved of my setup, which was cool.
But my brother in law kept falling asleep during the Sound of Music, and was snoring and everything, so we put something else in for a while. My sister chose a movie that both of us love, Return to Oz. We watched that almost until the end, but it was getting late and they had to get home to let the babysitter go home :)
Anyhow, it was a good night.
I wish I could have more HTF friends over for a demo, maybe you guys should all consider moving to Colorado ;)

[Joey Millison]

Cool! I'm a full member now :)

[Greg Stone]

J6P - Colorado?? Hmmm, I turned down a job offer in the Denver area back at the start of this year. How far away are you from there?




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And this post should make me a full member... :)




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[Patrick Sun]

Bing, I saw American Psycho at the theaters, and thought it was good at capturing the absurdity of it all in the 1980's, but the 3rd act just got away from the director, so it ends like a Miller beer commercial: taste great, less filling. I would order it if I could get it for cheap.

Damn, still 9 away from being an erect pecker, I mean, full member. :D




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[Trevor Schell]

Heh!!,,I am a full member also..glad I was never a half member!!:)...I think...So whats next..

Back to watching some DVD's.




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Hmm I have a way to go for full member.. gonna have to start getting a bit more chatty ala old TTP days :)

Joey: Edward Scissorhands isn't out officially till 09/05, I was lucky to snag it :). So you still have time to get it at the preorder price - might I suggest Buy.com and couple it with one of the 10 off 30 coupons floating around (+ another title to get to 30).

Trev: I'm glad you enjoyed Any Given Sunday.. with your type of setup I thought you might :).

[Jehan]

Oh dang.. back to widescreen TTP I guess :)

See you guys later... gotta remember to turn off the alarm for tommorrow :)

[Bing Fung]

That's excellent Joey! It's nice when you have a system that people would rather watch than go to a movie house.

Say what's this I hear that the THX sign on is to be used for setting reference levels? Is this true?

What are Boston Rolls?

Congrat's to all that have a full member...err I mean all that are full members :W

Pat: That's it! I couldn't describe what it was but you certainly hit the mark.




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[Greg Stone]

Ok, anyone on TTP have a DreamCast? I think J6P does, if so, please help me on this. I can get a complete system, 2 Sega controllers, 3 memory cards, light gun, rumble pack (don't know what the heck that is) and 9 games for $400. The guy lives about 3 hours away, so we could meet and eliminate shipping costs. Is this a good deal or should I wait and get a PS2 when they come out next month? Remember, I have two boys under 6 years old, so most of the daytime playing will have to be kid oriented. Does the Dreamcast have kid titles available as well as stuff like Seaman? Help me out please, don't want to get screwed on a good/bad deal.

Bing - the THX on sign on T2 does go into a speaker level calibration screen, much like the one on the Denon 3300. You can adjust your surrounds, LFE, etc right from that screen. There is so much stuff on this one disc you will not believe, I tried finding some of the hidden stuff last night. It is a great disc!

Thanks guys for any advice on the dreamcast and happy labor/labour day!




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[Pat]

I went 4-wheeling yesterday with some friends and had a fun day. This is the second time I got to tag-along (I don't have a 4x4 truck). I slapped together a page of some the pictures I took the first time I went. They are here (http://members.home.com/pmcgeough/4x4.htm) if anyone is interested.




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[Joey Millison]

Greg,
I love the Dreamcast, it's a great system that has some beautiful graphics!
The only negative thing is there aren't many great games for it yet. There's your average sports games (NFL2K, NHL2K, NBA2K, Baseball, etc...), and some good fantasy games.
There's supposed to be some cool games coming out for it though as well. What you might want to do is check http://www.dreamcast.com to see a list of games. On the main page there you'll see Ecco the Dolphin, and that is definitely something you'll want to get, especially for kids. It's a fun game for someone like you or I to play, but kids can even play it for HOURS on end just because of how fun it is to swim around with Ecco, and jump out of the water and everything. I'm still trying to get past the first level though, so that tells you how complex the game CAN be. And yet, my nephew loves to play it as well :)
Shoot, gotta run...sorry, will be back later...

[Bing Fung]

Damn.. I got's to get me that T2 Ultimate Edition. Good picture Pat, they look good and stuck, any problems getting out?

Just finished "Any Given Sunday" Good call on that one Trev, I can only imagine what that would have been like with 2 Servo 15's :E It sounded good on my e:xL12, though at times it did cough up a lung or two.

So, I'm starting to gravatate towards a box sub design that is the same volume of my concept Sono, 130Liters. This would yeild a box that is 24"w x20" h x 20.3" d. Using 3/4 MDF. It will be like and end table. Suggestions, Ideas, give my head a shake?

Joey: What are Boston Rolls?




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[Trevor Schell]

Bing,,Glad you liked the DVD 'Any Given Sunday' ,I am definately going to buy this one and watch it again. I am sure glad they didn't have raining frogs at the end of the movie,,I will never get over that one!:)

Pat,,You were definately stuck..Nice pics,,which guy was you?? Or did you take the pics?

Greg,,I will probably pick up the Playstation 2 when it comes out,,have to get my girls into video gaming early.:D There will probably be a ton of software available upon its introduction,,I just think you couldn't go wrong with it and the support will be as great and longterm as it was with the original Playstation.

Happy Labour Day guys!!




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Bing,
If I remember correctly they had I think raw tuna, a little bit of I think cream cheese, a small shred of lettuce, wrapped in rice and seaweed. I *think* that's what they had, I don't eat them very often because they're a little wierd as far as sushi goes ;)
Unagi is my personal favorite, I can eat it by the boat load! California rolls are good to fnish up with, nice mellow crab taste :)

[Joey Millison]

PS Greg:

J6P - Colorado?? Hmmm, I turned down a job offer in the Denver area back at the start of this year. How far away are you from there?

A little under an hour's drive, depending on traffic :)

[Greg Stone]

Joey - what's weird is if I had of moved, then I probably would not be into home theater now as I didn't get the bug until I saw the set up a guy at work had and decided I needed to check into DVD and 5.1, etc...

Now with this heat wave I wish I had taken it though, as we had a high of 111 F and the 65th day with no rain today! Not much outside activity that's for sure.




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[Andrew Pratt]

hey guys congrat's to all the full members...I always thought it would be funny to have the newbie's as bobbit's and then once you get past 40 you become full members:) Well my new speakers are on route as we speak, they haven't left Iowa yet but hopefully they'll be here late this week. Can't wait for the 80's collection to arrive I've heard a lot of the songs on the discs but it will be really cool to toss them in the mega changer and let it play randomly all night long. We were away since Friday night at a camp a couple of hours easy of Kenora (just north of Vermillion Bay) which was a blast. There were 20 adults and 10 kids..though two of the kids were in need so some serious parenting...man they were unruly and the parents just didn't seem to know how to deal with them. Frustrating to see really b/c you know its only going to get worse as they grow up (currently 2 yrs old). Other then that got in some fishing, canoeing, a little beer, reading and just plain relaxing...though the 4 hour drive back with all the weekend traffic wasn't that much fun:(




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Yea, they were stuck good.
That is why we/they go out in groups so all you have to do is hook up a tow strap and yank you out. Then you just keep going until someone gets stuck again. Some of the guys will take the most difficult route just to see if they can make it. That is a lot of the fun...to see what you can and can't do.

Trev, I'm the one behind the camera:)

If you are still interested I will post more as soon as I finish the roll I started this weekend.




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[Bing Fung]

Joey: Sounds interesting. My friend owned a Sushi house here in Saskatoon a few years back. I remember him making (preparing?) Yellow Tail for my friends and I. It was a bit fishy raw, but soaked in masabi it was not bad. If he wasn't my friend and if I wasn't brought up to eat anything presented to you (Chinese Upbringing I guess) I would decline next time.

California rollS...Yum, I like those!

Andrew, Good to hear you had a good camping experiance. You seem like me when it comes to others Kids. Scares you from wanting to have huh? Next thing you know they will be pinning pictures to those beautiful Maggies :) just kidding, children are wonderful.

Pat, def post more pictures!

I have updated my Webpage a bit... click on my signature file and have a look at my Pronto CCF screen shots. Those are just a few of the many pages. It sure works slick and Christine is liking it. If my Pronto home page looks like Andrews, that's because I stoled it from him..heheheh.




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[Joey Millison]

let it play randomly all night long

Don't you mean all WEEK long Andrew? ;) There's a whole lotta 80's going on these things, you could probably listen for a million years and not hear the same song twice. ;) Welcome back btw, glad you had fun (minus the unruly kids).
I'm trying to get some good software going to where we can talk over the internet for free as a group since I call a few of you here and there. Kind of a party line. I tried some out tonight, much to Greg Stone's dismay, heh heh (I called him but he couldn't hear me, all I heard was "Hello? Hello? Heeeeeellooooo?") ;) but nothing worked. Has anyone here used Roger Wilco before? We might try that. Any input?

Pat,
Man, I saw that truck and had to laugh. By looking at the picture, you'd think that truck wasn't going ANYWHERE! Looks like an absolute blast though! You should definitely post more pics when you get the chance! :)

Bing,
I can't help it, I LOVE Japanese food, raw or cooked. I'll definitely try anything once! You should definitely try Unagi if you never have, it's even cooked, but man it's got an amazing taste AND after taste...kind of sweet...mmmmmmm... I love calamari, but I don't care for squid in sushi. For some reason it doesn't appeal to me uncooked. But you get me in an Italian restaurant and I'll eat calamari until I burst!

Ok, so our first run for "Movie Recommendations" was kind of weak since I thought more people would be able to get Quidam by Cirque Du Soleil, but who's still interested if we can get more people to pick, and choose movies that are readily available? I think it's still a good idea, and have some great stuff to share :) Should we start next Monday with a pick, and then a different person each monday making a pick for that following weekend? :)

I didn't get ANYTHING done on my paper tonight, heh heh. It's a good thing I have nice classes, eh? I'll get it done tomorrow at work :)

Night guys!

J6P

Trevor - no sign of this mysterious package yet...maybe tomorrow...is it going to be a ticking package? ;)

[Paul Wu]

Good evening. Catching up on some reading, looks like some people had a great weekend. I had a pretty decent weekend. I finally bought my Playstation on Friday night. So I played a bit of GT and tryied the dancing game. Well it appears that the dancing game that I have needs a chipped PS, rats. Saturday, went to check out a couple of game stores in a couple of chinese malls. Well first thing we ran across was a video store, and they were selling some LDs. Browsed through their selection and found the Japanese movie, Shall We Dance, it's a favourite of mine so I had to have it, and at $20, it was cheap. Was hoping I might stumble across a Star Wars or TPM, but no luck at this store. Found the first game shop and they will chip my PS but for $60 and it'll take 3-4 weeks. So I said I'll think about it.

Went to the next mall, and again, a video store was selling off their LDs. :) They had a better selection than the other store. Well to make a long story a litte shorter, I bought Space Jam, and a couple of Chinese KungFu movies. I wanted Space Jam before, but it was Pan and Scan on the dvd, and after watching it off the LD, I don't think I could stand the P&S version. Plus the sound was GREAT, and I don't even have an AC3 capable LD player. Now I'm thinking about what I need to make mine AC3 ready. :) The other Kung Fu movies were pretty good too. I paid $15 for one, $18 for another and $12 for Space Jam. Didn't see anything else worth buying, well MIB, but that's out on Tuesday.

Finaly made our way to the next game shop. They do the chipping and its only $50 and they only take half a day, hmmm now where will I get this done? Well I dropped it off today and it should be ready tomorrow. The guy that does it is on vactaion.




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning from the North coast!! (sort of). The lobster party was a blast, we all ate, ate, ate!! Lots of extra clams so we'll get to make some chower this week too. And I get to have lobster again tonight.

We listened to about 4 hours worth of J6P's 80's and everyone talked of the memories. It was cool and everybody wanted a set!

Earlier in the day I was listening to one of the tracks, an old Phil Collins tune and my son came running downstairs yelling "Tarzan, yey!!". It was quite funny that he could recognize Phil Collin's voice especially considering he is only 3.5 years old.

Gotta go, have a great day everybody.

PS whats going on at HTF I cant seem to log on?

Gregg

[Kevin P]

I can't get into HTF either, it must be down. Yesterday afternoon (from home) I couldn't even get a DNS resolution to it... the ISP must be having problems again. At least we yanked the TTP off there and put it here so we're still in business! :)

So, what should I incoherently ramble(tm) about this morning?? Well, my friend and I got his friend's house in Amherst wired for sound on Saturday, took about 6 hours or so. It's so much easier when the insulation and sheetrock aren't up yet. We ended up going through 2 500' spools of wire and ran out before we were done (we got everything except the DD EX rear center run). It didn't help that we don't know where the component rack is going to be, so we had to have a LOT of slack at the component end of the wires so we could bring them up on either end of the room. In addition to the HT wires, they're also getting speakers in 3 additional rooms with volume controls, so the entire house is wired for sound. Once he picks out his gear, my next job will be programming his RC5000 (Marantz Pronto clone). What fun. ;)

After we finished wiring the house, we came back to my house and I pulled my extra center channel speaker out of the attic and put it behind the couch, and wired it up so I could try out the 6.1 surround mode on the Outlaw 1050. We put on T2:UE and it sounded great. That evening, my sister came over and we watched the whole thing, but we didn't use the rear center since we decided to watch it in DTS. What a movie--I haven't seen it in years.

It looks like The Haunting DTS is on its way--better late than never--now I'm really gonna need that sub!! :)

Yesterday my wife and I saw What Lies Beneath at the Lowell cinema (we go there because they have Dolby Digital sound instead of the crappy analog audio that every theater near us has). The movie was a lot more intense than I expected it to be, and my wife didn't care for it. I had picked it because I like a ghost story (I thought it would be like Sixth Sense) and because of the cast and director (Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Zemeckis)? So I can't spell their names, but they make good movies. ;)

KJP

P.S. Edited to correct spelling of Pfeiffer & Zemeckis--had to look it up on imdb.com :)




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Kevin,

1000 feet of wire?? wow!! the offer is still open to come over and build some sonotubes. I'm still waiting for the drivers I ordered from Avitar. Also I have not heard yet from the guy with the other amp I am wanting.

Gregg

[Patrick Sun]

Man, I am so tired this morning! These 3 day weekends ruin me for the whole week. I got used to going to bed around 3 a.m.

I had a great meal at my cousin's place last night: bbq ribs and chicken! MMmm..mmmm!

I didn't really care for What Lies Beneath because it was too predictable (I just knew every little early tidbit would show up in the resolution of the film, and I was right). I was actually hoping it would be about what the trailer was leading the audience to think it was going to be about, that would have been a little more interesting. It's just not a movie I'd see again on my own volition.

Still making a little bit of progress on the Sunosub II, but it's a good thing I've got plenty of time before the Tempest driver actually shows up. Wait until you see the new legs I bought for it, they are stout! :D

Hope everyone one had a good weekend!




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Morning guys, grey and cloudy day today...oh well time to get back to work and get something done this week:)




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[Joey Millison]

Hey Greg,
I hate to say it, but I got email from both the guys in England this morning stating they received their 80's collections ;) Man, that's bad when I can ship something to ENGLAND faster than it will get it a neighboring state! I should have walked it down there instead, heh...
You should get it today with any luck :)

[Andrew Pratt]

Joey it all depends on the timing when mailing things over sea's. My parents live just north of Toronto and they can send things faster to my relatives then me! If she mails things on a tuesday they seem to hit the right flights etc and they get to England extremely quickly. The two packages I've got in the mail with UPS seem to be flying very quickly so I should get me new speakers this week. Hopefully the 80's collection will arrive as well though it would suck if the collection arrived before my speakers since I'm using my rear bipoles as mains at the moments and while it works for ambient sound they aren't ment for use as mains.




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[Bing Fung]

Dreary and gloomy here as well. TTP is just chugging along, Good to See!

So the Brit's got the TTP 80's before us Canucks?
It is like Andrew states, I bought something from Scotland once that came in a week, while most things from the States are always 2 weeks at best.

Pl@, Mmmmm...Bar Bee Que! Ours was rained out on Saturday :(

Well I sold my old Energy 22, Pros to a co-worker and he stated that they worked well in 5 ch music matrix mode, but when he played "The Lost World" on VHS he did not have any sound coming from the surrounds (that's where the Energy's went), though he did hear hissing of his amp though the surrounds(Sony 1015. I'll have to go trouble shoot for him tonight.




Bing

[Daniel Brecher]

*sings* "Ya just another part of me..HEE HEE. Awwww, ooooh!"

I'm on disc...god, I dunno what disc I am on. So many! LOL, great work Joey, and damn it, you cant stop me giving you something in return! Mwuahaah

How is everyone? Been busy finishing my screenplay these past few days, but hey, done and printed now. Time to get an agent and sell this mother! :) Also been reviewing MIB DTS and Haunting DTS for a website, those reviews should be online tomorrow.

Have a good day all,

Dan (UK)

*slaps on disc 6*

[Andrew Pratt]

Dan I sent you an email.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Maggie Tracker

Okay here is the tracking info for me new speakers. I'll post updates as I get them so you can all follow along. Note the line for Winnipeg is auto generated, its put there by the tracking software since it will pass through customs at that location.

Sep 5, 2000 11:14 A.M. SAINT PAUL, MN, US ARRIVAL SCAN
6:38 A.M. DES MOINES, IA, US DEPARTURE SCAN
6:27 A.M. WINNIPEG GROUND, MB, CA BROKERAGE HOLD (BEYOND UPS' CONTROL)
Sep 4, 2000 2:52 A.M. DES MOINES, IA, US LOCATION SCAN
Sep 3, 2000 10:51 P.M. DES MOINES, IA, US UNLOAD SCAN
9:06 P.M. DES MOINES, IA, US ARRIVAL SCAN
Sep 1, 2000 11:23 P.M. US PICKUP MANIFEST RECEIVED
8:26 P.M. CORALVILLE, IA, US ORIGIN SCAN




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Sep 5, 2000 11:35 A.M. FORT COLLINS, CO, US ARRIVAL SCAN

hey cool! Thanks Andrew! ;)

[Joey Millison]

Damnit, my paper is due in 6.5 hours. it should only take me 2 hours to write, but I can't think of what to use. The topic is "Remembering an Event", but I can't think of jack sh*t to write about. *sigh*
And as much as I'd like to see what kind of a reaction I would get with, "And this one time, at band camp..." I don't think it would help my grade any, heh.
Dang dang dang...gotta think of something, as this is %20 of my grade...

[Daniel Brecher]

Andrew, I am on my other ISP right now, and don't have the option to view my email which is credited to my other ISP, but I will hop over later and get back to your e-mail once I've read it.

On disc 8 right now. Track 4.... :-D Lord knows how old I was when Max first appeared, but I can remember being fascinated by it. Joey, this collection is really a masterpiece, it's bringing bag a lot of memories for me, seriously. Thank you!

Dan

[Kevin P]

Gregg--I'm not much of a woodworker, and I'm too busy on the weekends to drive 3 hours each way and find time to build a sonotube in between (which most likely won't fit in my car anyway). But keep me posted on the amp.

Pl@: You're building another Sunosub? What are you going to do with the old one? I'd be glad to take it off your hands for you! :)

Joey--best of luck on the paper. I don't know what event you'd pick, maybe the time you knocked over your speaker... oh, they weren't looking for that kind of event?? :)

On to other Incoherent Rambling(TM)... I tried out the CD burner in my new PC at home over the weekend... the Adaptec 4.02 software is nice, I need to get a copy here at work... I copied a couple of my CDs and added CD Text to them (and that cddb.com thing is cool, didn't have to type in the titles)! I then tossed them into my car CD changer (the only player I currently own that supports CD Text) and the titles display on the head unit! What's even cooler is I can press a button on the head unit and it'll display the titles of all the CDs in the changer (well, those with CD Text anyway). Way cool! Now I need to make CD Text copies of all my CDs! :)

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[Joey Millison]

Cool! Glad you like it Dan :) So far no negative reviews :)

My professor said this stupid paper can be fiction if we wanted to, so I was thinking of going for shock value to see what kind of a reaction I can get from the class and the professor, but making the paper a damn good one in the process.

Here are some ideas:
"You've never really lived until you kill someone in cold blood..."
or:
"My life was changed when I got the operation that made me a man..."
or basing it off a movie even:
"I was born a poor black child..." (from "The Jerk")

Obviously I won't do any of these, but I'd LOVE to do something increbibly outlandish just to see what kind of facial expressions I could put on the faces of the class ;)

[Lexman]

Kevin, regarding the incoherant rambling, you could just throw all your CDs in a bon fire, and go back to using 8 track. It's truly the only car medium ever made! If you don't like what's on the track currently playing, just jiggle it around, and you get an entirely different track! lol.

Ahhh sonic blips, I mean bliss. :)

Lex

(Post #300) Wow, that's a lot of meaningless dribble. Eat your heart out Andrew. :)





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Well it seems lex is both old (knows what 8 tracks are) and has no life (see post count!) My wife has a great aunt that lives near us that still listens to 8 tracks on a machine her late husband bought eons ago. Well the damn thing occassionally stops working for some unknown reason and guess who has to go over and fix it:) I've "fixed" it twice now but to be honest I have no idea what I did other then just unplug it, twiddle with the knobs and keep trying new tapes...eventually it just seems to come back to life. Other then that machine thats the only 8 track machine I've "played" with




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[Joey Millison]

What if I talk about getting into Home Theater and its impact on my movie viewing? Would that make me too much of a geek? ;)
That allows me to meet some of the guidelines:

Must tell an entertaining story (if me knocking over speakers with my ass and forgetting to turn them on isn't entertaining then I don't know what is, heh)
Must have a lot of description, gotta be vivid (hell, that one is cake! I can easily describe the sound coming from all directions, to put it point-blankly)
Must be purposeful in my life (Yeah right, like I need to explain that one to you guys...) ;)
Must include self-presentation but not unwanted self-disclosures (I can tell them I knocked over the speaker with my butt, but I don't need to tell them what kind of boxers I was wearing while doing so)
Must build to a point (I can go on about fumbling around with the gear and building up to the first time I turned the power on)
Must lead "readers" to think of things in a new way (I'll make sure they get frustrated when they go home and watch a VHS, listening to the sound through the TV speakers, and then Soundtrack/Circuit City/Best Buy can give me a kick-back when the entire class goes to buy HT gear!)

What do you think, lame or good? She said to write what you know, and I know my own personal HT :) And it can be part fiction, so I can explain the HT as I have it now, but as though it were my first setup a year or so ago, I don't need to explain that I have a TV, a VCR, a DD receiver, and some cheap KHL satelites...

[Daniel Brecher]

Hey, I'm 18 and I know what 8-tracks are! Maybe I'm just educated...in the wrong fields. :)

Joey, do you have track listings for this collection? Would not mind e-mailing them to my brother.

Hoping Edward Scissorhands will arrive tomorrow, had hoped it'd be here today, but I just got the CDs and Haunting DTS from Express. Hmpphh, only High Fidelity left for me this month..oh and I get the Jurassic DTS disc screeners in two weeks or so, there's always that. Mwuahaha....

Dan (UK)

[Mats]

I have to say that "I was born a poor black child..." is an excellent choice and would gain top score if I was the teacher :)
Can't be wrong working out from the base elements in life, Earth, Fire, Water & Steve Martin :roll:




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[Bing Fung]

Do I get an award for owning a Panasonic 8 track recorder? seriouly, I do have one that my father gave me. I even still have some 8 track blanks.

I remember having the coolest compilation 8 tracks that were the envy of all LOL.

And how can those that remember, forget the folded match pack cover used to align the critcal head to tape azumith? Mostly to add traction to the drive wheel and tape to cure a warbally sounding tape (because it was wound too tight) :B

Ahh, the good old days.

Hey if anyone is interested, I could make a copy of the TTP 80's on 8 tracks (provided I can find 8 track blanks).... Please respond to me as a group number for I don't want my e-mail flooded with request, OK? :W




Bing

[Lexman]

Well um, yup on both counts Andrew:) Your not going to catch me now, so give it up! After all, you have a life:)

Good one Bing! I remember the matchbook fix well:) Oh, a recorder, you were the cat's meow, lol.

Lex





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[Patrick Sun]

You know, once I got Braveheart in the mail last week, I had no more pre-orders at all! It's been eons since I was pre-order-less!

Well, with 3 buy.com $10 off $30 coupons, I rectified the situation with 5 orders (with different emails and credits card, the sky's the limit) of 2 DVD's (well, there was that one which was a Toy Stoy 3-pack). I had a great American combo pre-order: American Beauty/American Psycho. :D

KevinP, you and Trev will have to come up with a Survivor Immunity challege my for my extra sub (who knows how much shipping would be for one of these beasts?)

J6P, I like the "And this time at band camp..." approach. :D

My dad still has his 8-track player and plenty of 8-tracks to go with it.

Bing, I hope your email account can handle the flood of requests! Woo hoo!




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[Kevin P]

Hey, count me in for those 80s tunes on 8-track! Then all I would need is an 8-track player! But I have CD and MiniDisc in my car... so I could take the 8-tracks and record them to MD!

Hmmm.. those tunes started out as MP3s, then converted to CD, then recorded to 8-track, then recorded to MD... I wonder what the sound kwalitie would be like--probably like the tapes I recorded off of FM when I was in high school, onto those Radio Shack Concertapes (the 3-packs that always jammed), most of which were recorded on a $20 mono tape recorder connected via the AUX jack to the earphone jack of a clock radio! Now how's that for low tech! By my senior year I had upgraded to a $40 boombox that could record in stereo directly from the tuner--yowsa! :)

Any chances of getting the 80s tunes on Edison wax cylinders while we're at it? ;)

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[Joey Millison]

Andrew,
How cool is this...my first paper of the year, and it includes the word SonoSub...we will definitely inject future college english classes with your terminology ;)

[Andrew Pratt]

Cool Joey if your teacher asks just tell her its the Canadian spelling:)




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[Joey Millison]

Wouldn't that be SoonooSoob? ;)

[Jehan]

Joey: How is that paper coming? Hope it is going well...I was just talking to Dan about his 80s collection.. wow that must have been a lot of work ;)

Pat: Tell me about the weekends, actually these days 3am has become the norm for me .. bad for work habits.

ok back to work

[Bing Fung]

I hope your email account can handle the flood of requests! Woo hoo!

I recorded off of FM when I was in high school, onto those Radio Shack Concertapes (the 3-packs that always jammed), most of which were recorded on a $20 mono tape recorder connected via the AUX jack to the earphone jack of a clock radio!

Any chances of getting the 80s tunes on Edison wax cylinders while we're at it?

Okay guys, I gotta take a breath here, I have just split a gut so bad my co-workers all popped their heads over my wall to see what I was laughing so hard about...

Too Funny...Really LOL




Bing

[Bing Fung]

Hey, what happened to page 10?




Bing

[Mats]

Oops, seems to be an "un-documented feature" in the QUOTE tag if you're using it twice in a post.
Will try to fix that




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[Joey Millison]

Great, Bing broke the HTG! ;)

[Patrick Sun]

Wouldn't that be SoonooSoob?

I think it'd be "SoonooSoob, eh?"




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Bing's in trouuuuuuuuuuuuuuble!!! :)

[Andrew Pratt]

Bing you aren't going to be a problem member are you? LOL




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Ooooo...Bing's gonna get it.
Wait 'til Lex finds out he broke the HTG:B




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[Patrick Sun]

Bing Bong! The HTG is dead!

Where the hell the good Professor Chris White? I've seen him posting on the HTF, but I can't believe he hasn't made it over here yet!




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[Bing Fung]

Oh, Man you guys make me laugh!!!

My co-workers are starting to wonder about me, not that they didn't before, but today they have proof positive that I'm strange. Laughing in my cube all to myself at a page that is relatively innocuous looking.

Way cool, Now I can say I have brought down web servers with a few key commands...heheh




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

I sent an email off to Chris to see were he's at. I assume he's really busy these days with the students coming back etc.




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[Bing Fung]

I sent an e-mail of to Chris too, It was returned as Spam mail from me. He must not like me and has instructed his mailer to X-nay any e-mails from me :B

Joey: I like the the idea of the paper on HT and you. The thinking in a new way is definitely the Pan and Scan Vs Wide Screen.




Bing

[Greg Stone]

Man, you guys had me laughing so hard about the 8 tracks and recording off FM and then Bing breaks the HTG!! Funny funny stuff, which is a good thing since I get home from work today and still NO FREAKING 80'S COLLECTION YET!!!!!!!!!!!!

Colorado to England is faster than Colorado to Texas?

Colorado to Maine is faster than Colorado to Texas??

NO FREAKING WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M ABOUT TO GO POSTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




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[Joey Millison]

Greg,
Are you serious??? Pl@, have you received yours yet? If you don't get it by tomorrow let me know and I'll make another copy of the set and overnight it to you...damn that sucks, sorry about that Greg...

[Greg Stone]

Joey, yeah, I'm serious about it not getting here today, but you are not going to burn another set and overnight it. You have too much into this already! Mine will get here eventually, I'm really not about to go POSTAL!!!
;) ;)

I bet my mailman is home right now enjoyin' some good tunes!!




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Trevor - When are we starting a new chapter? BTW, what chapter are we on? :)




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[Trevor Schell]

This has really accelerated over the last day,,had to read two pages to catch up. Good to see everybody enjoyed their long weekend. To bad we don't have two of these every month and it would also be a good idea to shut things down on Wednesday at noon like they used to many years ago.

I arrived late,,so I don't know what Bing broke as everything seems to be normal right now,,anyway,,way to go Bing!! breaking things that don't belong to you.:D ,,Bad!

Greg,,I would think this is Chapter 7 and since it is still running fast why don't we continue on to 1000 posts like we did with the original one,,Any thoughts on this?

Edward Scissorhands is recorded in 4.0 dolby ,,so no use of the sono's..I bought it anyways.

Anybody successfully locate Chris?

Joey,,I sent the care package by express,so you can expect it in a week or two.:),,actually the post office would have shut down for the 3 day weekend so I am sure things would be delayed..Do let me know when you get it though.

Later Guys!




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Wow, 1000 posts sounds like a good number to me! This one does still load nice and fast. Guess we need to thanks Lex, Mats and Andrew for the good speed we see here! Thanks guys!




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[Joey Millison]

Greg,
It BETTER be there tomorrow...otherwise I'll throw a royal fit! :D

Trevor,
You can bet I'll let you know when it gets here...I still worried as to what it may be ;)

I turned in my rough draft today, and stayed late to speak with my teacher about my first initial paper I wrote last week, to see if I could stay in the class or not. I'm not sure if she was just blowing sunshine up my ass (I love that term, always cracks me up) or what, but she said mine was among the top three in the class. But then again, after looking around today I'm in class with a bunch of yokels! Seriously, this paper is worth %20 of our grade, and the bonehead next to me didn't even do it. He was typing in up all through the hour we were there. Can you believe it? Other people turned in a half a page. She said specifically 2-3 pages (mine was 3 almost exactly). It's too bad she's not grading on a scale.
The top three huh? Looks like I have two people to compete with. I know who one of the girls is, and she's REALLY creative, so it's going to be hard...
If I can keep this up in both of my classes I should be able to get an A in both :) That would be cool, my first semester back in college and I get 2 A's...here's to hoping!
Mandi got me Edward Scissorhands and MIB DTS tonight, so I was pretty stoked about that! You're right Pl@ (I think you were the one who stated that previously, don't wanna scroll back though that mess to find out, heh), Edward Scissorhands has a BEAUTIFUL transfer! Looks amazing! MIB ain't half bad either!

[Patrick Sun]

J6P, I did receive my care package from you today, and have gotten through half of the 1st CD, I keep going, "Holy shit! Omigod! Where did he come up with these songs!" Brought back many memories from the '80's. Thanks for taking on such a task that will be enjoyed for some time to come.




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Hey Bing,,Looks like its raining Frogs on our buddy Mike: Check this out!

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/uub/Forum15/HTML/017360.html

I hate when people jump in and get all wild on someones post. I thought this was completely unnecessary.

If I ever watched this movie again, I would wear a blind fold and ear plugs. Thats just my opinion.




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That's outta control... When someone get's lambasted for something as innocent as that. What has OAR done to us? Your right, it just "Chaps my Ass" when this type of stuff happens. I had to post something to our brother's defence.


Way to go with the paper Joey!

Hey any of you buying MIB, which version are you getting, DD, DTS, or the extra special, super duper DD version (sorry can't remember the real name)?

I have been working on my Box sub design all evening on AutoCad, man using double laminate 3/4 is sure going to double the amount of work and I may as well forget about moving it. Ahh well, I have a 250 lbs TV, no reason I shouldn't have a sub that weighs the same :)


Oh I went to my friend's place that bought my Energy 22's, (he wasn't getting surround) The problem was he was passing the VCR signal through his TV first before sending it to his Sony 1015 Prologic receiver. I connected it up to properly and he was very impressed with it, as was I for a VCR, Prologic system. Funny how a TV can strip out the surround channels. He has the PSB Stratus Silvers as mains, man those sure are nice speakers.

G'night all!




Bing

[Mats]

Bing,
I think you can quote'along again without breaking the forum. Atleast not by using the QUOTE tag :) Can't garantee the rest :D




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[Kevin P]

Sounds like you're doing well in your class there Joey. Now you'll get to meet some REAL Joe6Ps :) and educate them on all the merits of watching movies with black bars ;) and maybe teach them a little basic English and math while you're at it :)

Sounds like that 80s collection is cool. I didn't order one since I figure I have most of the songs already on CD, but if you could do me a favor Joey and email me (click the email link above) with the list of songs, I might have you send me some of the MP3s of ones I don't have.

My Haunting DTS arrived yesterday, now all I need is a sub! Unfortunately I only get paid once a month, 2 more weeks to go before I have money again after buying the PC...

Gregg, do you have any idea when you'll get your new amp? I'm shooting for end of September/early October to get my SVS. Of course, in a pinch I can always use my old Rat Shack 100wpc receiver that I amp my keyboards with temporarily if I end up with an ampless sub.

Of course, the Pioneer DV-37 is announced, and I'm looking for a decent progressive scan player, so I'll have to save up for that too! So many toys, so little money... hey, can any of you guys with some wealth offer any tips?? :)

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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!!

Kevin, not sure when I'll get the amp, I should have gotten it already. Maybe I have to make phone call or two.

Where is Chris?? Im kind of missing "Goodmorning from the right coast..."

Joey, way to go on your paper!!

Later,

Gregg

[Bing Fung]

And Morning to you Gregg, and everyone else from the Great White North. Don't forget Chris's most famous
"Let me welcome you to page x of the TTP"

Classes have probally got him for a while, he'll most likely drop in when he has no class :B I love that line!

Mats, Thanks for fixing the TTP after I overloaded it with quotes.




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

Morning guys...man yesterday we got to see a fantastic lightning show and again this morning we're getting another. On of the benefits of working out here at the marsh is there aren't really any trees for a good 10 mile radius and with all the windows I can see for miles from my office window so I've got a great view of the storm coming in:)




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have all you guys entered into the DVD contest?




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[Daniel Brecher]

Good day fellow HT chums...... Edward Scissorhands came this morning, lovely disc, very pleased with it.

Dan (UK)

[Patrick Sun]

Andrew, just entered contest #2. That's a tough question to answer!

My officemates and I are having a blast listening to the J6P TTP 80's CDs. We like "Aw man, I remember that one!" or "What the hell was that?" :D I brought in the 1st 7 of them (didn't think I'd get through any more than that today).




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I figure there's 16 hour's worth of music there so yeah I doubt you'd get though that much in one work day...at least I hope not.




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[Joey Millison]

Kevin (and all),
There will be a list of everything contained on the J6P's 80's Collection on a web site coming very soon. It's just trying to find time for everything ;) I'll get it up ASAP though, and then if you want you can pick and choose Kevin and I'll shoot you out an MP3 discs, or Audio if you prefer :)

Me smart, me like english lots!

J6P - still looking for a witty sig...

[Joey Millison]

PS, disc 3 is one of my favs in the whole collection :) Has some classic "shtuff" on it!

[Joey Millison]

"Darkness falls across the land...the midnight hour is close at hand...creatures crawl in search of blood...to terrorize your neighborhood..."
etc...etc...etc...
"For no mere mortal can resist...the evil of THE THRILLER!!! HAHAHAHA BWAHAHAHA MUHAHAHAHA"

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[Andrew Pratt]

guess the Molson "I am Canadain" adds were a big hit...http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyNews/sept6_beerads.html




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[Kevin P]

Just some more Incoherent Rambling(tm) to increase my post count (do you think I'll ever reach 1000 here like I did on HTF??) :)

Joey, let me know when you get the list of 80s toonz online!

Hmmm...Thriller... I'll have to get my hands on that one. MJ has never licensed his songs for use on compilations, so I'll probably just have to get a copy of Thriller and add it to my own. :)

It reminds me that I have got, just GOT to get started on my Halloween sounds. I don't know when I'll find the time to do it. This will probably be the last year I do it, if I do it at all, since I use my keyboards so infrequently that I should just sell them and get them out of the house. I should be able to get a few DVDs for them--or maybe that progressive scan DVD player I've had my eyes on. :)

Joey: I'd love to read that paper you wrote for class, especially since you managed to work Home Theater and sonosubs into it. :) Would you care to post a synopsis, or put the original version on Joey6p.com? :)

Not much else to say right now... we need to start a fascinating topic to get this thread going again, like ghost stories (Joey--I know you have a few!), or more dating stories from our pasts, or how about this one: what memories have Joey's 80s tunes brought back for you? Or how about this one. I'll mention an 80s song, and you can tell what memories that song brings back for you.

Here's the first song: "Send Me An Angel" by Real Life. Let's hear those memories. :) I'll post mine later today.

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[Daniel Brecher]

Am I dreaming? No.
Where am I? IN BED? Well what am I doing?
T-t-t-t-t talking to myself...
Look, I must have a star on my door!
...or better still, a door, a d-d-d door
Swing doors, huh? O-o-ok doors....SWING!

:-D

Dan (UK)

[Joey Millison]

Dan, you freaked me out big time! I'm going through writing down ALL of the tracks in order and came across that song. I was coming on here to tell everyone to listen to it without saying what the actual song was (Disc 8, Track 4, not like you don't know what it is now, heh), and there were the lyrics to what I was listening to, right in front of me ;)
How's the music Pl@? Everyone still listening to it? :) If so what are they, and YOU, saying about it now? :) I'm curious as hell to hear what everyone's reactions are as they listen to the whole thing :)

[Joey Millison]

Track 6 on disc 8 is a real winner too :)

[Daniel Brecher]

Hah, that's funny! Well, I'm just glad Axel F is on here. lol Not noticed any Queen though, any on the disc, Joey? Not found Ghosbusters either, or didn't you get to slap that on in the end?

Always room for a bonus 14th disc one day...

Dan (UK)

[Kevin P]

Joey--I found a copy of TTP V I had archived on my PC and I was perusing it and found a track list from the planning stages of your 80s collection. The list has 207 tracks on 13 discs. Is this the same as the final list, or were there revisions? The list was posted July 30, and the last song listed was "Life in a Northern Town" by the Dream Academy. If this list is accurate you don't have to send me a new list. :)

What are you guys listening to right now? What memories are they bringing back? Did the random song I mentioned "Send Me an Angel" stir anything? Hmmm.. Joey's list from 7/30 doesn't have this song. Maybe I'll have to make Kevin's Incoherent 80s Tunes Collection, with all the songs I have that Joey missed. Put the two collections together and they'd be really complete! :)

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J6P, mostly, it's still just laughter, and "omigod, I haven't heard that in ages" and "Is that Janet Jackson? Holy Shit!" And then Wham gets played, and some rolling of eyes occurs. But these are all good signs. I'm on the "Gloria" disc (#4?) now. I got a chuckle with "Jump" started playing. 2 thumbs up, J6P!




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Dan,
I seem to have missed Queen ;) But Ghostbusters is definitely on the collection (Disc 6, Track 4) :)
Kevin,
There were a few revisions from that song list in order and content. I'm nearly done with the new list though, it will be contained on a web site so it will be easy to see :)
I definitely have a memory, in fact I wanted to post it earlier, and then when you asked about memories it just encouraged me to definitely post it :) Gotta finish the list, then I'll spout off at the mouth :)

[Daniel Brecher]

What ever did happen to the other one out of Wham, eh? EH? Track 4 disc 3 I am on right now, brings back memories of my brother and sisters unhealthy obsession with the band, my sister especially. Still, I dug it when I was about six years old, and still do!

Dan (UK)

[Joey Millison]

Pl@,
Lemme know what the reaction is when song 12 plays on the disc you're on ;)

[Daniel Brecher]

Oh THERE'S Ghosbusters, right cool. Hate the video to this tune, really do. Saw it a short while back on VH1, just laughed. Wish it made it onto the DVD...

Whats the title of the track 7 on disc 6 guys? I remember this as from the film Big, with Tom Hanks in. They're bouncing around on a trampoline to it in the movie... It's also funny since the Men In Black song runs to the EXACT same beat and in fact has an indentical underscore, and I got MIB DTS DVD on Monday. Hah!

Dan (again)

[Joey Millison]

Dan,
Is it “Forget Me Nots” by Patrice Rushen?

[Joey Millison]

Dan,
Disc 10, song 2...it's all you ;)

[Daniel Brecher]

80s fun fact: Nick Park, animator and creator of the Wallace & Gromit short films, and this summers Chicken Run animated the two bumper cars smashing into Peter Gabriel's head as well as the dancing plucked and headless chicken in the Sledgehammer music video (disc 6, track 14).

Dan (UK)

PS: I dunno Joey, is it? I'm asking! hehe

[Daniel Brecher]

I'll fight Balboa in the ring! I pitty da foo! Check the rings on ma fingers, I'll knock the bitch down in the first round, cuz I'm a bad mofo!

Mr D

[Patrick Sun]

What's been fun is seeing how fast we can recall the title and artist of the song after hearing just the 1st riffs of each song.

"Well Alex, I can name that song in 3 notes!"




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[Andrew Pratt]

okay as a moderator I feel I that I've got to step in hear and put and end to this 80's collection banter...its just not fair to those of us that haven't gotten out collection yet LOL You guys are making me green with envy (no its not b/c I made my own lunch today)




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[Andrew Pratt]

Joey what not a single Queen song on the collection:( Damn I'm going to have to add one or two of my own "greatest hits" CD's in the 80's grouping just to get them to come up when I hit random on the 80's group LOL...man I really like the power my new changer is giving me.




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[Daniel Brecher]

Brothers and sisters!
PUMP UP DA VOLUME
We gonna git ya!

Brothers and sisters
PUMP UP DA VOLUME
We gonna git yaaa!

Dan (UK)

[Joey Millison]

Andrew,
Want me to call you and put the phone up to my headphones? ;)

PS, Andrew and Pl@...the goods are in the mail :)

[Joey Millison]

I can't listen to P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) by Michael Jackson anymore without getting wierded out. It just sounds so dirty now after all that has happened. Ok, I won't talk about it anymore :)
We'll make another set of 80'2 discs, but for my own sake I'm putting a 5 discs limit on them. But these will specifically be open for requests :) I'll bring it up formally later, but start making notes :)

[Daniel Brecher]

How about a 14th disc, Joey? Room for one more.....mwuahahah

Dan (UK)

[Andrew Pratt]

joey are you a sucker for punishment or what LOL lets enjoy the first set of 80's disc before we even think about asking for more LOL

I just called UPS and my speakers are schedualted to be delivered tomorrow b/t 8am and 8pm...I think i feel a cold coming on cough cough think I'll have to stay home tomorrow cough cough..




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[Greg Stone]

Can you say everything is good in the world again, brothers and sisters??!!?? Yes, that's right, the wife just called, and the 80's collection is in the house!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I just have to think of a real good reason to go home early!!!!!!

Joey, Joey, he's our man....

Can't wait to get home!! :)




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[Joey Millison]

Let's not tell Greg that a practical joke was played on him...let's see what happens he opens his package and doesn't see the 80's collection, but instead finds a complete discography of the music of Kathy Lee Gifford! Muhahahaha!

Seriously though, glad it got there Greg :) Can't wait to hear what you think of it :)

[Daniel Brecher]

Gone mellow and have the Green Mile score spinning right now. I shall switch back to some 80s power pop around 1am when I head over to the HTF for the Paramount chat!

Dan (UK)

[Joey Millison]

test

[Pat]

I took the 80's collection to work too...
Everybody keep poking their head in to see what is playing. I have made it through 1-12, only one left. The best part is when the girls stop by and hear a song they like...then they have to do those little sexy dances, like they think they are in a dance club or something...I will have to bring the 80's collection everyday now:B

Joey, that was too funny about calling Andrew and putting the headphones by the telephone:)




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[Patrick Sun]

J6P, are you talking about Disc 4, Track 12? "Who's Johnny" from Short Circuit? :D




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The one and only! ;)

PS, I'm waiting for Mail Boxes Etc to call me with a tracking number...they always say they will, but they never do...bastards! Heh heh

[Daniel Brecher]

The best part is when the girls stop by and hear a song they like...then they have to do those little sexy dances, like they think they are in a dance club or something...I will have to bring the 80's collection everyday now

Really? I gotta get me a job! :D

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[Greg Stone]

I have opened up the so called 80's collection and have listened to the first disc. Here is the track list from MY disc one:

Disc One - Born for You by Kathy Lee Gifford:

Tracks:
1. Born For You / Circle Game, The
2. It Goes Like It Goes / Sweet Dreams
3. Help Is On The Way
4. Moondance
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Before The Parade Passes By / Don't Rain On My Parade
7. First Time / Not Exactly Paris
8. I Got Lost In His Arms
9. Only My Pillow Knows
10. Child In Me Again
11. On My Way To You
12. Sunrise Sunset / Try To Remember
13. Journey, The
14. Born For You

Joey, this is not funny!! How could you?? Disc two cannot be more Kathy Lee Gifford!! HELP!!




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Greg,,I would think this is Chapter 7 and since it is still running fast why don't we continue on to 1000 posts like we did with the original one,,Any thoughts on this?
1000 is a nice round number...but at 35 posts per page...we will be on page 29 when we hit 1000




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Shamless post padding.




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[Paul Wu]

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[Paul Wu]

22 I can't believe I can actually do this. :F :E :W




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[Paul Wu]

23 :)




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[Paul Wu]

Blatant rip off add. Imatation is the best form of flatery.
Fosters beer ad: Sound and look familiar?

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[Paul Wu]

Still trying to get some work done. Not being to successful. Looking for a document that I can visualize in my head, but can't remember where it is, like it's not in it's proper home. :M

Tomorrow everybody at work is going out for a big staff function. We're going on a tag and release some sturgen. Never done this before so this will be something totally new.




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[Trevor Schell]

Looks like they deleted the thread..I wonder if anybody had there account deleted too??

I think there are 4 members on the HTF that are from Toon-town..

Can't wait to get the 80's collection..sounds like it will be awesome!

Have fun fishing Paul,,never caught a Sturgeon before although they say there are some in the Saskatchewan River,,they can get up to 55 pounds.

This TTP is moving along at a super fast pace..Won't take long to get to Chapter VIII.

Hope Chris comes back!
Later guys.




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So what's it going to be for MIB?

DD
DTS
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[Trevor Schell]

The mind of a six year old is wonderful !! First
> > > >> > Grade..... true story
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > One day the first grade teacher was reading
> > > >> > the story of the Three
> > > >> > > > Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part
> > > >> > of the story where the
> > > >> > > >first
> > > >> > > > pig was trying to accumulate the building
> > > >> > materials for his home.
> > > >> > > > She read, "...And so the pig went up to the
> > > >> > man with the wheelbarrow
> > > >> > > > full of straw and said, "Pardon me sir, but may
> > > >> > I have some of that
> > > >> > straw
> > > >> > > >to
> > > >> > > > build my house?'"
> > > >> > > > The teacher paused then asked the class,
> > > >> > "And what do you think that
> > > >> > > > man said?"
> > > >> > > > One little boy raised his hand and said, "I
> > > >> > think he said "'Holy
> > > >> > > > Shit! A talking pig!'"
> > > >> > > > The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10
> > > >> > minutes.




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Is MIB out yet?? I would get the DTS version.
Whats the DD special all about??




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I am a full member!! What is the next stage of advancement??




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Trevor I doubt there is another level (well other then Moderator) since the UBB software only allows for two levels unless Mat the magician has changed that?




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[Joey Millison]

Disc One - Born for You by Kathy Lee Gifford:

Tracks:
1. Born For You / Circle Game, The
2. It Goes Like It Goes / Sweet Dreams
3. Help Is On The Way
4. Moondance
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Before The Parade Passes By / Don't Rain On My Parade
7. First Time / Not Exactly Paris
8. I Got Lost In His Arms
9. Only My Pillow Knows
10. Child In Me Again
11. On My Way To You
12. Sunrise Sunset / Try To Remember
13. Journey, The
14. Born For You

Joey, this is not funny!! How could you?? Disc two cannot be more Kathy Lee Gifford!! HELP!!


I'm not sure which is scarier, the the fact that you'd humor me in a sick game to try to trick people, or that you KNOW what's on a Kathy Lee Gifford CD ;)
For Christmas one year my mom wanted a Kathy Lee Gifford CD, and nothing but. She begged me for it (there are FOUR kids in the family, how the hell did I wind up with this lucky pick???), so I agreed. But I couldn't go into the CD store and ask for it. It wouldn't have been right. I just couldn't do it. So I paid my brother 20 bucks to go in the store for me and get it ;) He agreed, and I saved face. The length we go to sometimes...
I'm worried that she's going to want a DVD player this year and ask for the Special Edition box set of Ishtaar ;)

[Greg Stone]

Disc Two - Sentimental by Kathy Lee Gifford

1. When I Fall In Love
2. I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
3. Over The Rainbow
4. Very Thought Of You, The
5. There I've Said It Again
6. For Sentimental Reasons, (I Love You)
7. That Sunday, That Summer
8. It Had To Be You
9. Hey There
10. That's All

Joey - the horror!!




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[Patrick Sun]

Hey, I'm erect! Err, I mean, I'm a full member now! Yippee!

J6P, thanks for the tracking number.

Andrew, share with me your technique to caulking your top endcap while also attaching the batting material to the inside of the sonotube! I haven't figured out a good way to do this yet.

I was thinking of caulking the top endcap and making it drum tight, but then I am not sure what to do about attaching the batting material from the bottom side easily. Maybe I'll try using velcro strips to attach the batting to the sides.




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[Trevor Schell]

I didn't really know who Cathy Lee Gifford was until I started watching South Park.:D

Joey,,I was taking a look at your Website and was really impressed with you layout and the Speaker graphics incorperated into the pages..Looks really good. I noticed the Golden Speaker Award was not updated for August..I don't remember seeing who won or did you not post the Award process for August yet??




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Trevor,
If you were referring to me in that Magnolia thread, I don't blame you. That thing got way too silly way too fast. But it was fun getting all the private messages saying "what are you quoting?" after quoting lines from the movie they were supposed to be discussing. Well, maybe it was a little silly, but whatever.

Oh, and HI everybody. Sorry it took me so long to meander this way.

[Mats]

we do have custom levels, Might put in a new category. TTP Terrorists :)




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[Pat]

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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning from the North Coast!! (still missing Dr Chris...)

I watched MIB in DTS last night, not really that impressed and I thought the LD in DD was just as good. Anyway, I was somewhat distracted because my kids were watching too and I didnt have the volume cranked either.

Kevin, Im going to call the guy about the other amp today, then let you know.

I hope everybody has a great day!!

Gregg

[Kevin P]

Morning everyone, I woke up at 4 this morning all stuffed up and chilly, I really have to start thinking seriously about moving to Florida. :D And of course, I couldn't get back to sleep and I got a song going in my head, one I heard yesterday driving home from work, and yessiree, it was a classic 80s song!! Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) by A Flock Of Seagulls. Hey Joey, do you have that one in your 80s collection? :)

I first heard (and taped) that song after the 82-83 school year ended (my sophomore year in HS, I was "sweet 16"), the year I had the crush on the first Heather, and this song was perfect for that, wishing I had a photograph of her. Brings back some memories... :)

Thanks Gregg... after I get paid on the 20th I'll be ordering my SVS. Then my home theater will be "complete". Well, complete in the sense that there won't be anything missing, but there will always be room for upgrades (progressive scan DVD player anyone?) :)

If the kids were distracting you while watching MIB, then you weren't playing it loud enough! :)

D*mn! I still have that danged tune going through my head! I'll have to pull the CD out of the car changer and spin it while I work... :)

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[Bing Fung]

Morning All from the Great White North!

Kevin... "Let me see your thoonngggong, baby, that thong th,th,th, thong..." Will that fix it?

Gregg, let me know how that DTS MIB is, once you get a chance to let the big dog bark?




Bing

[Daniel Brecher]

Spun discs 9, 10 and 11, and started up on 12 before, during and a little after the HTF Paramount chat which er, left a lot to be desired... I was up 'til 4am.


Gregg,

I was happy with MIB DTS, although I never did get the LD (WHY was it CAV for a 98 min film? arghh). Nicely done disc...

I am hoping to finally grab an SPL Meter today so I can calibrate my HT. Will update on how that pans out later..

One, two, three, sleep...

Dan (UK)

[Andrew Pratt]

Morning guys I managed to spend some time last night working on the new web site. Can you guys preview it and give me some feed back. I will be moving it to my AT&T server as soon as I find out the ftp address which will help get rid of that annoying add bar. There are couple of things to change but I'm looking for general thoughts etc...oh and you might be interested in near field SPL results (http://www.geocities.com/sonosub/Nearfield.htm)




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[Patrick Sun]

J6P, I'm really digging Disc 9 so far.

Good morning folks! I got to speak to the man, Mike Knapp! :D




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[Joey Millison]

Morning kids!
Guess who got an "A" (or %100 if you will) on their first math exam...the person who sits next to me in math!!!
Just kidding, I did :) She gave some problems and we had to solve them (generally how a math exam works, heh heh), and I did my first one by hand, which was a big part of the exam. Then I did it on my calculator (PS, anyone have one of these left over for school for sale? Can't afford a new one so I borrow Mandi's..it's the TI-83) and it came up with a different answer. So I double checked my work, and I KNEW I had to be right, but the calculator STILL came up with a different answer. But I put my faith in my work and turned it in as it was. After class I asked the professor if we could go over it, and sure enough, I got it right when I did it by hand! So I gotta learn how to use this darn calculator someday!

Re: 80's collection: Here you go, the FINAL disc list (try saying that 10 times fast) for J6P's 80's collection. I put it up in a hurry before work this morning but didn't get all of the files in place, so there are some missing images you'll see on the page, like it's "broken" or whatever, but I'll fix that tonight. Here is the complete list though:
HERE!

Gotta run for now...I'll be back in a bit though, whether you like it or not ;)

[Andrew Pratt]

thanks for the list joey...can't wait for them to arrive.




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[Patrick Sun]

Andrew, how did you attach the batting material on the inside of your sonosub, and the top endcap?




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[Andrew Pratt]

Sorry Pat i ment to answer that in the other thread. The bottom endcap was glued in and has nails every few inch's to ensure a solid seal. The top end cap was put in last which in hind site is opposite to what I should have done since its a long way to crawl in the tube to fix issues then you have to crawl in from the top. Anyway since the bottom was already in place I slid the sock over the top and down to the bottom. The bottom of the sock already had a finished edge to it so I just used my hot glue gun to fasten it in place. For the top I applied a thin layer of glue to the top of the tube and glued the sock over the lip. I then used a sharp knife to trim the fabric back so there wasn't any fabric inside the tube. A good helpping to silicon was then applied to both the inside edge of the tube and the lip of the top end cap and it just dropped right in. I used clear silicon which I though was the right idea...again next time (why do I think there will be more Sonosubs in the future?) I will use black silicon since a little will ooze out and you can see the clear stuff (very minor and likely only I see it but its there)




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[Andrew Pratt]

Speaker update...UPS tried to deliver it today at lunch time while I was at work:( I've put a hold on it so it should be held for me to pick it up tomorrow night. Crap I knew I should have called in sick. Oh well I've got my new IXOS speaker cables to play with tonight and we've got company coming anyway so I wouldn't have been able to play anyway...still sob sob I want my new toys..




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[Patrick Sun]

Andrew, I want to know how you attached the batting on the inside the tube, not the sock on the outside of the tube. :D

I'm guessing you used your hot glue gun for the batting on the inside of the tube? I wish I had a hot glue gun... What to do, what to do. I may just forget about the batting afterall...or just use it on my bed. Heh.

I think you should call in sick tomorrow and have another 3 day weekend.




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[Joey Millison]

I hate to say it, but this page is loading a hell of a lot faster than it would if it were this size on the HTF :) I'm enjoying replying to a thread and not having to leave for lunch while I wait for it to post ;)

Trevor,
I'm going to move the award from the HTF to the HTG, as the only people who asked about the award were members of the TTP, who are all HERE anyway, so we'll use it over here instead :)

I'll post my paper once it hits the "final draft stage", which I'm getting close to. We're supposed to turn in a new draft tonight, so we'll see what she says :) I hope to get an A on this as well, I've worked hard on it. It was slow to start, but once I started writing it it became very easy.

[Andrew Pratt]

Sorry pat guess I failed readun class eh:) Actually you're partly right I actually used a stapple gun with very short stapples and the glue gun. A hot glue gun is the cats meow and given that you can get a decent one with a trigger for $10 at wall mart just go and pick one up.




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[Daniel Brecher]

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle! Calibration really does help don't it? lol So finally, after what seemed an eternity of forgetting to do so, I got an SPL meter (analogue radioshack one) and have calibrated my HT and what a difference it made to the overal presentation! Everything just seems correct, now and I'm loving it even more!


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PS: Yes...it is faster then the HTF. :)

[Patrick Sun]

Andrew, heh, call in sick for tomorrow. I may go looking for the glue gun after all.

BTW, folks, I finally bought an amp, and it's en route as I type too. So not only does Andrew have stuff coming his way, I have stuff coming my way too. :) Plus J6P is sending me more stuff and I wind up being a sponsor the the inaugural J6P's 80's Collection. :D

I wound up getting the Peavey CS800X which is the newer version of the CS800, and it's supposed to be stable down to 2 ohm loads. Anyhow, it's got 400W/ch/4 ohms load. I wonder if it'll get here tomorrow (shipped on Tuesday just one state over).




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[Andrew Pratt]

Nice amp Pat..guess you were jealous of all the stuff coming my way LOL. I doubt I'll call in sick tomorrow since I've been given a new project that needs to get done but I may leave early:)




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[Greg Stone]

Joey - got through the first disc today at work, man it sounds great, even on my computer speakers! Cannot wait to get home and have some time to play on the real system. Just wanted to let you know disc one sounds awesome! Cannot believe I have so many more discs just waiting for me! Thanks Joey!! :)




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[Patrick Sun]

Andrew, well, Christmas is coming early!

J6P, Disc 13 is very nice! Omigod, is that Peter Gun's theme on Disc 13? Groovy! I'm luvin' it!




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[Joey Millison]

I'm getting something as wellm, from Trevor, but unlike you two receiving your packages, I'm actually scared of what arrive after seeing the hat ;) I fear it will be something like a pair of inflatable McKenzie Brothers or something ;) Hopefully it will be here today...

[Joey Millison]

Thanks for the compliment Pl@. Believe it or not I put a lot of work into Disc 13 especially. I wanted to end the entire set off with a specific mood, and hope that I achieved that. I wanted to close up with a *BANG* so to speak...some real mellow stuff and some great "hyper" cheese :) And I definitely had to add Peter Gunn by the Artof Noise ;) It was a must! And I really wanted to end the entire set off with Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy. Does that mean you've listen to the entire set now?

[Joey Millison]

Ok Kevin, an 80's memory for you, inspired by a song...I gotta make this quick though we're leaving in a few minutes, but I have English class tonight so I figured it'd be good to get the creative juices flowing anyhow...

Song: Live to Tell, by Madonna

Unlike the rest of Madonna's song this one doesn't speak about rolling around on the floor and all of that. This one is actually a great song.

I used to go to Camp every so often at Camp Cedar Glenn. That was the time of my life. I was part of a big circle of friends, and not your typical "band camp" type of people, these were really awesome people!
I went every year, and every year it tore me apart to have to leave. Everything was just so great up there, people welcomed you, there was so much to do, and there was magic in the air (I'm probably going to get razzed for typing all of this, heh).
Anyhow, in the camp's off season people would volunteer to go clean the place up, which I would do with my parents. It was so bitter sweet to see the place though. I mean, it was still Camp Cedar Glenn, but a critical piece was missing...my friends that were always there. I guess you could say it was like viewing a dead person...it looks like what you know, but it's just a shell...
Anyhow, I'd hike up to the cross on the top of this mountain by myself and look down into the valley while listening to my walkman. And one day I had a tape on me that had my favorite songs, and that song was on there. I must have hit "rewind" half a dozen times, as the mood of that song captured my mood to a 'T' to see Camp Cedar Glenn as it was then. The lyrics have nothing to do with it, just the mood of the music itself.
May be really cheesey, but it's an important memory to me, and I thought I'd share it. Sorry I can't go into more detail, gotta run, paper's due tonight I think...
Hasta!

J6P

[Pat]

Welcome to page 14 :B

Patman, I used spray adhesive to attach the batting to the inside of my sub.
If you decide to go that route...make sure you spray it on thick.




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[Bing Fung]

Okay we'll have no more talk about TTP 80's until us Canucks get ours as well :W

Congrat's Joey on the "A"!

Pl@, How much did the Pevey cost you?

Andrew, No fair, you got your IXOs already :(

Sold My e:Xl 12s Sub today. It's sink or swim now...




Bing

[Gregg Loewen]

Patman: way to go!! You will love this unit. Stable at 2 ohms?? Cool.

Kevin: I heard back from the guy selling me the 1.3 today and he still has it but having a problem finding a good shipping box. Anyway, let me now about my CS800, I think it is perfect for driving a sub.

Gregg

[Patrick Sun]

Pat, it must be true, we "Pat's" think alike. I haven't checked into the HTG since work, and now I'm checking in. In the interim, I went to Home Depot, looking for a hot glue gun, and while I was there I strolled by the glue section, and I spotted Elmer's Adhesive Spray. I tested it on some plastic on a pallet, and I was sold. I picked up 2 cans of the stuff! :D I plan on laying it on thick!

J6P, yeah, I really liked the mix on Disc 13. I'm working my way backwards listening at home. Disc 12 was also good (except for that last song). Now I'm on Disc 11 (Relax!) I can't listen to all the songs at work since I have to leave my office periodically and stroll around and look busy. :D

Bing, sent you email.

Gregg, is the amp guy Joel Ashcraft (Vince Maskeeper's contact)? I got a couple of subs sold out from under me when I tried going through him, so I just gave up on that avenue.

Did a little more work on the Sunosub II tonight.




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Patman, watch out for the overspray!!!
I glued all the hairs on my arms down:B
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[Paul Wu]

Evening guys. Just got back from the staff fishing trip. Our boat tagged and released the most Sturgen today, so we all got caps. We tagged a total of 7, ranging in size from 61cm to 164cm, or 24-65 inches. The biggest one was about 100lbs. My largest was about 40lbs. But my arms are about to fall off as I helped the guide bring in the fish to do the tagging.

Can't wait for the 80's collection.




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[Trevor Schell]

Wow Paul,,those are some awesome sized fish,,100 lbs..must have taken a while to bring that one in.

Joey,,Good work on your test. Now you can relax for the rest of the year. Should have more time to eat pizza and take a few naps.:)

Here's a Blonde Joke for some humour:

A blonde decides one day that she is sick and tired of all these blonde
jokes and how all blondes are perceived as stupid, so she decides to show
her husband that blondes
really are smart.

While her husband is off at work, she decides that she is going to paint a
couple of rooms in the house. The next day, right after her husband leaves
for work, she gets down to the task at hand.

Her husband arrives home at 5:30 and smells the distinctive smell of paint.
He walks into the living room and finds his wife lying on the floor in a
pool of sweat. He notices that she is wearing a ski jacket and a fur coat
at the same time.

He goes over and asks her if she is OK.
She replies yes.
He asks what she is doing.

She replies that she wanted to prove to him that not all blonde women are
dumb and she wanted to do it by painting the house.

He then asks her why she has a ski jacket over her fur coat.

She replies that she was reading the directions on the paint can and they
said:
"For best results, put on two coats."

Have a Good Night everybody!!




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning from the North Coast (when will Chris return??).

Pat, yes it is through Joel. I just had 2 emails from him yesterday so I figure all is well???

Paul, sounds like some awesome fishing.

Joey, I got your email, I will be in and out of my office all day and my ICQ will be on.

Just an FYI, I am enjoying the J6P 80s Collection so much that Joey offered to send it to me in MP3 too so I can load it on my laptop and desk top computers. I think it will take me a long while to get tired of all these tunes. As a special thank you I sent him some $$$ to take Mandi out on the town as she deserves it for putting up with him.:)

I bought another receiver last night. The Yammaha 995 or is it 955? Anyway, my brother has been wanting one so Im pushing him into it. The price seemed right even though I really thought he should go with the Denon 3300. Anyway, what can I say besides he has Bose all around, and on his deck, and in his pool room, (well you get the idea).

Have a great day everybody!!

Gregg

[Kevin P]

Morning everyone, time for some more of my Incoherent Rambling(tm).

Gregg--let me know about the amp when you're ready to sell it. I'll be ordering my SVS in a couple of weeks and I'll be needing one. How much are you asking for it?

I downloaded a couple of MP3s last night, for the first time ever. I was looking for a song but wasn't sure who the artist was, so I didn't want to just order a CD on blind faith, so I found a MP3 to verify that it was the song I wanted (It's Inevitable by Charlie). I don't know what all the hubbub is about, I found the sound quality, at least on the ones I downloaded (a 256kbps one and a 160kbps one), weren't any better than when I was taping songs from FM in high school. Through headphones they sounded ok, but on the stereo or in the car they sounded tinny and compressed, much like a tape made from an FM broadcast. I'll have to A/B the MP3 against the tape I made 17 years ago and see how they compare. Perhaps it's just the ones I downloaded, but they don't quite reach CD quality in my experience. For those who want to cry "piracy!", I'll be buying the CD now that I know what CD to get. :)

Joey-- I have some memories associated with that Madonna song too. That song was popular during the peak of my accounting class infatuation in college (Dina, I've mentioned her before in the TTP ;)), and is one of many songs that have become permanently associated with that somewhat unstable period in my life.

It's funny, I was looking at the song list from the 80s collection, and I was thinking, I have a ton of songs that aren't in there. It makes me realize how many great songs came out back then. A complete collection of the great 80s music would probably fill 80 discs! :)

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[Patrick Sun]

Ooo! Ooo! I want the J6P 80's collection on MP3 too! That shouldn't take more than 2 CDs, right?

J6P, can you also send me the MP3 version? Please, pretty please with sprinkles on top?




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[Andrew Pratt]

Morning guys, new speaker wire arrvied yesterday so I got that cut up and the banana's installed. I should have the new Maggies tonight as my wife is going to pick them up from UPS after her work...guess what I'm doing up tonight:)




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[Patrick Sun]

Kevin, I've seen a list of over 1000 songs from the 80's, and over 90% of them, I knew and thought they were decent. I like the songs from the 80s, much more than the songs from the 90's, and from the 70's too.




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[Kevin P]

I agree with you Pl@... there were a lot of good songs in the 70s, even a few disco tunes were decent, but there was a lot of disco garbage as well. The 80s stuff is the best, after the disco garbage ended and before the crap rappers and no-talent boy bands of the 90s came along. I think sampling and looping technology has had an effect too--how many crap rap songs actually use original music? Almost every one is a looped sample of a song from the 70s or 80s. Total musical and artistic talent required: zero. Just a computer with a soundcard, a microphone, and a tape recorder, and something to say.

I wonder if the decline of quality music in the 90s has to do with school budgets in the 70s and 80s being cut and music education getting the brunt of it. There are fewer kids getting out of school with any musical talent anymore.

I'm glad I was in high school in the 80s... during the time when I really got into listening to the radio, buying tapes/CDs, was when the best stuff was coming out. I'd hate to be in high school now with all the garbage they listen to now.

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[Bing Fung]

Morning all from the GW North!

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had a terrible passion for baked beans. He loved them, but they always had an embarrassing and somewhat lively reaction on him.

One day he met a girl and fell in love. When it was apparent that they would marry, he thought to himself, 'She'll never go through with the marriage with me carrying on like this,'
so he made the supreme sacrifice and gave up beans.

A few months after they were married, the man was on the way home from work and his car broke down. He called his wife and told her that he would be late because he had to walk.

On his way home, he passed a small cafe and the wonderful aroma of baked beans overwhelmed him. Since he still had several miles to walk, he figured he could walk off any ill affects before he got home. So he went in and ordered, and
before leaving had three extra large helpings of baked beans.

All the way home he putt-putted. He putt-putted down one hill and putt-putted up the next. By the time he arrived home he felt reasonably safe. His wife met him at the door and seemed somewhat excited. She exclaimed, "Darling, I have the
most wonderful surprise for you for dinner tonight!" She put a blindfold on him, and led him to his chair at the head of the table. Just as his wife was about to remove the blindfold, the telephone rang. She again made him promise not to peek until she returned, and she went to answer the phone.

While she was gone, he seized the opportunity to rid himself of a fart that had been building up pressure. He shifted his weight to one leg and let go. It was not only loud, but ripe as a rotten egg. He had a hard time breathing, so he felt
for his napkin and fanned the air about him. He had just started to feel better, when another urge came on. He raised his leg and BBBRRORRPPP!!. It sounded like a diesel engine revving, and smelled worse. To keep from gagging, he tried fanning his arms a while, hoping the smell would dissipate.
Things had just about returned to normal when he felt another urge coming. He shifted his weight to his other leg and let go. This was a real blue ribbon winner; the windows shook, (SonoSubs hide)
the dishes on the table rattled, and a minute later the flowers on the table were dead. He kept an ear tuned in on the conversation in the hallway, and, still blindfolded, he carried on like this for the next ten minutes, farting and
then fanning each time with his napkin.

Hearing the phone farewells, he neatly laid his napkin on his lap and folded his hands on top of it. Smiling contentedly, he was the picture of innocence when his wife walked in. She apologizing for taking so long, and asked if he had peeked at the dinner table. After assuring her he had not peeked.

She removed the blindfold and, "Surprise!"

To his shock and horror, there were twelve dinner guests seated around the table for his surprise birthday party.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Great story bing.




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[Gregg Loewen]

Bing, good story but I figured something like that was coming.

Kevin, how does $275 sound and I'll pay for shipping? I paid $335 (with shipping) when I got it in April-May.

Gregg

[Paul Wu]

"This was a real blue ribbon winner; the windows shook, (SonoSubs hide)"

As I was reading this, I was wondering, hmm will the word SonoSub come up? :) Great story.




Paul

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[Joey Millison]

I'm making MP3 versions for Gregg and Pl@ this weekend, anyone else want the MP3 versions of the 80's collection? :)

[Gregg Loewen]

go Joey Go!!

Hey Im up to 14 posts!!

[Andrew Pratt]

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[Paul Wu]

Not sure if anybody saw or got any of the Amazon deals yesterday, I wish I coulda got Brazil CC. Anyway here's a little cartoon about the Amazon employee who made the mistake.

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Paul

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

[Patrick Sun]

Andrew, I entered that contest. I didn't much of Rounders when I saw it in the theaters, but since I play poker once or twice a month with some of my buds, Rounders gets plenty of referencing, so I've taking a liking to this movie (plus Famke Janssen is in it).

J6P, thanks dude! I can't imagine the MP3 version takes up more than 2 CD-Rs (unless they are 256K versions).

I even went home during lunch to do more work on Sunosub II. I did some sanding and re-applied some more wood filler for some spotty crevices and hope it is dry when I get home so I could sand some more. :D




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[Joey Millison]

Pl@,
It fits on 3 CD-Rs, since some of these tunes are sampled at 320...others I just used the best I could find. I'll try to get them out by Monday :)

How's this for funny...I've been to Mail Boxes Etc. so much lately that they GAVE me a stack of Customs slips so I can fill them out before I get there if I'm shipping more stuff to Canada. Heh, that's pretty cool. I now have all of the paperwork here that I need to fill out to send something out of the U.S. All I would need to do at mail Boxes Etc is have it weighed and pay for it ;)

[Paul Wu]

You mean they didn't give you some kind of discount card? :) I can just picture you walking in to MB etc. The counter person is like, "Oh No, not him again!" :) Or they should pay you to train all the newbies.




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[Kevin P]

Kevin, how does $275 sound and I'll pay for shipping?I just jumped onto the Daddy's Junky Music website (a local chain that sells lots of used stuff) and they were selling used CS800s for $400 and up, so $275 sounds good to me!! Email me and we'll swap addresses, make payment arrangements, etc.

Joey--I would be interested in the MP3s, but I was thinking that I don't need the songs I already have (about half of them I figure), so sometime next week I'll go through your list and pick the ones I want, is that OK? Maybe we can whittle it down to one CD-R.

There's a pizza party in the kitchen here at work, so I'm signing off for the day. Have a great weekend everyone!!!

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[Andrew Pratt]

getting close to going home to listen to my new speakers and cables...and with a lot of luck the 80's collection:)




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[Andrew Pratt]

hey that was post 300:) I'll catch up to HTF's tally in no time LOL. Joey doens't your local Mail Box's etc. give you a discount? I thought I saw poster saying that the 5th package was $5 off. Maybe thats just available up here so something? Dunno but the amount of stuff you send out you'd save a bundle.




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[Jehan]

Wow, didn't wander this way for a couple of days and 3 and a half pages pass me by :). Thanks to the quick loading of the page I got up to speed in no time.

Joey: Late I know but congrats on the 'A', told ya all would be fine :)

Andrew: 300? You nerd. :)

Looks like everyone is enjoying that 80's collection, just checked the list.. that is a lot of music :). Got MIB: LE yesterday as well as Omen... No original signature for me on the LE :( but still a great disc. I agree with you Joey, Edward Scissorhands was really great to see again, and boy what a nice transfer. I had a few people have a nice chuckle that I had that disc in my collection when I had a screening of Omen last night but I stood strong :).

Was watching the tennis today, since my water heater blew up yesterday and the plumber was here all day fixing it... great game of tennis the Hingis/Williams match was. Read the transcript from the Paramount chat hmm sounded rather dissapointing though they were making an effort I guess.

Ok long post, I need to check here more often...

Good weekend to all.

[Jehan]

Shameless post padding (TM Paul)

only way to go!

[Jehan]

Hmm I remember these days :)

[Jehan]

"oops I did it again?"

[Jehan]

Ok one for the road :)

[Bing Fung]

Well I got my T2 ulitimate Edition today. I have not watched it yet to see how it compares to the original one, but I'm a bit dissapointed in the Aluminum sleeve. You see i though it was going to be an Aluminum Box, you know with the hinges and snap closure? It seems more of a pain to have this sleeve in place.

So what's a person suppose to do with this sleeve?
Jehan, my fellow T2 mentor, what are you doing with yours, displaying it? Storing it, not opening it?

Paul, that Amazon was funny, what did I miss? What did they do at Amazon? Don't tell me they were selling Criterion Brazil for like $20.....




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[Trevor Schell]

TGIF,,Hope everybody has a great Weekend!!

Tomorrow night its just me and the kids as Mom has to attend a function in the evening.

Activities planned..
A trip to the toy store.
A trip to the candy store.
Most likely watch the Tigger Movie for the 9th time.
Stay -up all night...Well maybe,anyways Tori says she will.
Looking forward to the evening..

So,,was anyone in the upper North able to pick up the new T2 DVD??,,Today was supposed to be the release date for Canada..I didn't get a chance to track one down,,may look tomorrow while were out.

Have a good evening everybody!
P.S. Joey,,did you get your package?




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OH,,I see you were able to get one Bing. Where did you buy it?? Is this the DTS version?




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Trev, the T2:UE has both dts and DD on the same DVD. This DVD kicks major butt!




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[Andrew Pratt]

apparently it was out at Futile Shop yesterday for $30 Cdn Trevor. I got my maggies tonight so I've been listening to my favorite demo material all night long. My initital impressions are that I got the sound I was looking for which is a much more open and lively sound...they image a lot better then the old Energy's did which is a nice bonus as well...all this and I haven't really played around with tow in etc yet.




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J6P, I was going through the J6P 80's collection list, and I can count 13 songs out of the collection that I had never heard of, that's pretty darn good! Awesome job!

Andrew, new toys are fun, aren't they?




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[Paul Wu]

Bing: What did you miss? Criterion Brazil for $20! And I had a gift certificate ready. It only lasted for about an hour.

Went to A&B today to pickup T2. They had about 25 when I got there so I was able to pick out a nice cover. I too wish it was a box, or at least had a bottom. By the time I left, there was only 6 copies left. I also picked up Tarzan SE, or I should say my wife picked it up, she compared the price to the regular version, and it was only $0.50 more.




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[Trevor Schell]

Glad you finally received your new speakers Andrew. The sound quality may even improve once you get them broken in. You mentioned you may know somebody who may be interested in the H/K..Who would that be? Let me know..Thanks.

Thanks Patman,,I don't visit the Software section often enough so I am totally out of date on whats new in DVD's and the features that go with them. Time to increase my awareness of these new titles and also increase my collection.




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Looks like I am going to catch both Greg and Kevin in SETI@Home...150 units and closing in quickly.:)




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Trev, FutureShop, $30.99.. Funny thing, I was on my way back for Harry Bailey Pool and decided to stop in at A&B sound. I proceeded up to the DVD section looking for T2/UE and was told it was further delayed. I said but I seen Future shop had it in the today's flyer. He went on to say, they wouldn't have it either and that those flyers were most likely printed before it was announced that it would be further delayed until the 18th or something like that. I though, OK, he seemed like he was honest enough about it, so I proceeded to wander around the hardware sections(Picked up more IXOS Andrew.... :B ) When I was there I decided to give FutureShop a call, well they said they had plenty in stock... :? What was this guy at A&B telling me? I didn't go back to that guy rather, I just made tracks to FutureShop.

They had about 15 or so more on the shelfs, so you should be alright if you go there tommorrow.

Just finished watching a few scenes, the DTS sounds pretty good, I don't know if I like all the new scenes in the SE version, but some are very welcome.


Andrew, glad to hear you got those Maggies, Now more importantly, You didn't get those TTP 80's perchance, and are just procratinating on sending them out because you got new speakers to play with....hummmm? :W




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[Andrew Pratt]

Sorry Bing I've actually had the 80's collection for months and just forgot to tell ya LOL Unfortunatly they didn't arrive yesterday which would have made it a perfect week oh well I'll have to settle for new speakers and speaker cable:) I'm off fishing with the "boys" today in search of those trophy 20lbs Catfish at lockport. I'll post some pics if we're lucky enough to snag one or two. wish me luck




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[Paul Wu]

Bing: When I was at a&b yesterday, I overheard a comment from a sales clerk to a customer. The customer wondered why the shelves weren't as stocked as usual, and the answer was something like if you don't pay you distributors you don't get any discs. This surprised me a bit as a&b is a pretty big store around here. I have noticed that prices for HT gear have gone up.

For Canadians looking for the odd dvd deals you should check out this site:

http://www.goldfishlegs.com/DEALS/deals.htm

They list various chapter deals and coupons.

Joey: Great track list, the wait is going to kill us for this collection.

I listened to the DD trailer and the new THX trailer on T2 last night. WOW! I just love that THX trailer. It's going to see a lot of use. :B




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[Bing Fung]

Good luck fissin Andrew, how you going to get those maggies in the boat :B ?

Paul, that sucks that I missed the deal on Amazon... :( I hope A&B aren't in financial poop. I like the store, regardless of the ill informed DVD sales person.

Hey, have you notice when you log on HTG now you are given a personality based on time of day? So far I have been "Night Owl" and "On Your Lunch Break" I like it made me chuckle last night at 1:30 am.




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