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[Paul Wu]

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[Greg Stone]

Woo hoo! Good going Paul! Finally got to 1000! :D




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[Pat]

Paul...you get to have all the fun.
You are the page flipper and the 1000th poster.
Paul, the one man posting machine:B




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[Trevor Schell]

Wow!! 1000 posts and everything still loads fast. Paul great way to bring in #1000.

Glad to hear you guys were impressed with 'The Haunting' DTS disc..how would it compare to the DD version..Anyways I did see it at Future Shop and will have to pick it up.

Gregg,,I would sell your Laserdiscs but hold on to the DTS titles as these titles would probably never make it to a DTS DVD version. Of course you would not want to give up your copy of Star Wars.

That visit to Audio Warehouse the other day sure put me in an upgrade fever mode. The DV-37 was something to behold.

Whats next on the building block,,Bing??

Hope everybody has a good evening.




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[Jehan]

Ahh Paul, I left you that flip... :)

1000 already... wow moving right along.

Trev: I did pick up the DTS-ES Haunting and I tried it out at a friends... it is definately better than the DD version which is excellent as well. My friend did not have a ES capable rig so I am looking forward to trying it out on mine, once the fabled 3801 comes in (hopefully this week). Will post results when I get it in.

I was reading a review someone posted on the HTF about the DV-37, Pioneer seems to have done a good job on this one.

[Andrew Pratt]

hey congrats guys I was just checking in to see how things were going...guess I was a bit late for the party:)




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[Trevor Schell]

Hey Andrew,,Remember you are the life of the Party.,




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[Patrick Sun]

Congrats to the TTP. Long Live the TTP!

Good night folks!




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[Bing Fung]

Major busy day at work...

Wow, looks like I'm a bit late for the party, Good Job Paul!

Ok, are you guys ready for the eco-sub? May Thomas forgive me if he sees this(Thomas, really, I have learned a lot from you, it just doesn't show yet)

Sorry for the Geocity's format, but I have no more space on my site. Here it is... eco-sub (http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/byfung?d&.flabel=fld4&.src=ph)




Bing

[Mats]

Good morning from Switzerland and Congrats to the 1K achivement :B
I'll be off to the Orbit-COMDEX fair most of this week so you guys have to concentrate on hitting 2K now and behave :) I know that last part is hard to manage but one can allways try :B
Have a great week!




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[Joey Millison]

Congratz on 1000 everyone! :) Man, this is more exciting than new years ;)

Bing,
Oh man, you're one sick, and creative puppy ;) Only you would think of a cardboard sub ;) I love it though! Thanks for rubbing in the fact that I don't own a Pronto yet, as everyone loves doing. Oh, but my day will come, oh yes, I WILL have a Pronto! And then you'll all be sorry (well, not really, but you'll be amazed at how darn cooler I'll be with a Pronto, heh, or something)! Muhahaha!!! Soon too! ;)

Oh, I got my math grade back...my parents never ask me about my grades so I'll bring it up to you guys instead :) I got a high C on my test, which is very disappointing. So my grades are as such for math so far:

Average: 84.22
Grade: B

Group Assignment 1--A
Group Assignment 2--A
Quiz 1--A
Group Assignment 3--A
Group Assignment 4--A
Quiz 2--F
Writing Assignment 1--A
Test 1--C

Ok, before anyone says anything, I got an 'F' on a quiz that only had TWO problems because I missed one of them. But I knew how to do it, I just missed a step. But at the end of the year we get to drop 2-3 quiz grades off the record completely. You can bet your butt that one's getting dropped. She gives us these progress reports to let us know what our current grade is, so I have a 'B' right now. Had I done better on my test and not missed that one problem I would have had an 'A' in the class dang it!
My final paper in Enlish is due tomorrow. I'll see if I can post it after all changes have been made. It's close to being an 'A' paper material/grammar-wise! I gotta stop using words like "gotta" ;) (just kidding, I honestly didn't use any slang in my paper at all!)

Oh, here's the beginning of my latest project.

HERE

This is the cockpit of the model bomber I've been working on. Hand painted and everything. Notice the buckles and other small painted details :)

[Greg Stone]

Bing - the eco-sub is great! Nice to get a laugh so early in the morning! :) Thing is, that is much better than I thought it would be, actually looks pretty good! ;) (love the pronto pic as well)

J6P - nothing to be ashamed with an 84 grade Joey. You're doing great, keep it up! Have fun today mailing out all those final payments!

Mats - what is the Orbit-Comdex? We need to schedule a TTP meet in Switzerland someday, know any way we can do this cheap?? :)

As Pl@t said, Long Live the TTP!




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[Pat]

Bing, nice job on the "eco-sub"...looks like you could use a little bracing :), the top looked like it was sagging a little:B...How long 'til you get the "real" enclosure done? I hope it is a bit stronger than the eco-sub:)

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[Kevin P]

Morning all! I'm back at the grindstone, er, work, and there's is a big box sitting next to me in my cubicle.. thanks Gregg! Did you get my check ok? There's 800 watts in that box, now all I need is a bigger box from SVS to arrive! :)

Hmmm... I can see the amp box and my Sony boombox out of the corner of each eye... getting strange ideas... hmmm... 800 watts of 80s music blasting through the office? :)

Heather and I watched Short Circuit last night, it arrived from Digital Eyes, I think I'll be sticking with them now that Express has gone downhill. I ordered it on Friday and got it on Monday. We enjoyed the movie, but it really needed the anamorphic treatment, lots of jaggies in this one. But it is one of my old favorites.

L8R all...

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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!!

Kevin, glad you got the amp, I received your check on Saturday.

Joey, way to go on your math grades!! Keep it up!

Have a great day!

Gregg

[Bing Fung]

Morning All from TGWN!

Hey Joey, well your grade is certainly nothing to hang your head about, be proud and happy your are doing something!

I'm glad you enjoyed the ecosub, it was actually a lot of fun playing with it. Pat's right, it did need braceing :) I hopefully will be able to start the enclosure this week. It shouldn't take long I hope.

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[Kevin P]

I just took the amp out of the box to look at it--wow, it's a beast! I hope it fits in my cabinet ok. :)

My HT buddy co-worker (who got me addicted in the first place ;)) saw it too and now he can't wait for me to get the sub so he can hear it! I guess I'm one of the "big boys" now, based on the size of my amp! :)

Now I need a bumper sticker that reads: "My amp is bigger than your amp!" :)

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[Kevin P]

Bing, just saw the Eco-Sub photos! I thought I was the king of cardboard! :) When I was living at home, I had an entire stereo system made out of cardboard! I kid you not! When my parents tossed their old stereo (actually just a stinkin' phonograph), I salvaged the amp and speakers out of it, mounted them in cardboard boxes, built a power supply for the amp and set them up in my bedroom as my stereo system. It actually worked pretty good. My cardboard speaker enclosures actually sounded better than the original crappy ones the speakers came out of! It even had a home theater application: I'd plug the amp into the earphone jack of the 12" B&W TV to get better sound.

Now that I have an amp but no sub, maybe I should build me one of them those Eco-Subs. Of course, I'd have to build a driver out of cardboard too (as a kid I dabbled with building speaker drivers out of thin cardboard, wire and magnets, but was never able to achieve more than a 10 db efficiency :))

So, is the eco-sub a sealed (I use that term loosely of course!) or a ported design? I didn't see a port, so I assume it is a "sealed" design. Well, sealed if you apply a few layers of shipping tape to the edges! :)

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[Bing Fung]

Kev, any amp that enables you to have a bumper sticker that sez, "My Amp is Bigger Than Yours" is king!

With your entire system cardboard story, I think you are still king. That's pretty inovative... to use what you had at the time.

Do you remember the needle in a cone of paper that you would run on top of your siblings Ktel records that you thought was the ultimate in cool? I never understood what my sister was in such a flap about... :)

The ecosub is as Andrew told me a Quasi-infinite baffle. It was to be a sealed design, but I was thinking about putting the port in as well, then decided against, for sealed's are more forgiving :)




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[Andrew Pratt]

Love the sub Bing. Try wrapping selophane around it to help seal it:)




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[Patrick Sun]

Bing - re: Eco-sub *shaking my head* Sigh, this is a sure sign of a sickness. What's next? Using a toaste to power it? I fear when you start inhaling sawdust later on.

BTW, you really need to post this over on the HTF (DIY section, of coursE) and the HTT (general section). :D




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[Bing Fung]

Good response Pl@!....LOL I don't want to post it in the DIY for fear of truely representing Joey's signature line. I know I'm Stoopid, I don't want the whole net community to have proof positive :) though it may be too late for that.

Andrew, why didn't I think of the cellophane?
Great idea!

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[Kevin P]

I wonder if cellophane would really seal the sub effectively. When the cone pulls into the box, increasing the pressure, the cellophane will push out, and vice versa. It might sound like crap (buzzing, farting, etc.), but it would be amusing to watch. :)

Now, cellophane covered with duct tape would probably work great! The cellophane would seal the enclosure, and the duct tape would keep the cellophane from moving around. Hey, maybe we could get into the cardboard box sub business! For those who can't afford a big commercial sub and find sonotubes and SVS subs overkill for their applications, the FP-12 cardboard box sub would be perfect. A sub for the masses! :)

The high-end FP-15 model (with a 15" driver) could be double-boxed for greater strength.

Not to mention the fact that these subs are biodegradable and recyclable (or made from recycled material). I doubt even SVS can make that claim! :)

Of course, running The Haunting DTS at reference level through an ecosub could result in the sub morphing and melting down like some of the objects in the movie. :)

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[Andrew Pratt]

sorry to break the bad news Kevin but that cardboard sub idea would be a copy right violation on Bose:)




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[Mats]

Greg, Orbit-Comdex is just a Computer/Internet fair. It's a smaller version of your Comdex in Las Vegas. Comdex Europe without a slot machine :B




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[Kevin P]

Actually, Andrew, a cheap plastic enclosure with a paper cone driver would violate Bose copyrights, especially if we charge $1500 for it. A high quality driver in a cardboard box would outperform Bose. :)

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[Andrew Pratt]

Kevin good point on the paper vs plastic




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[Kevin P]

Kevin good point on the paper vs plasticThat made me think up a dumb joke. A J6P goes into a store that carries Bose speakers, and tells the salesman, "I'd like to buy a set of those Acoustimass speakers". The salesman asks, "Paper or plastic?" :)

I have a crazy question for you guys, perhaps you could answer this one Andrew. :) I have been given the task of creating a Pronto CCF for a co-worker who is putting together a HT system that includes a CD megachanger (the Sony CDP-CX335). I have a Pronto, and I am familiar with the basic operation of most of the components they're getting, since I have the same or similar components (i.e. receiver, DVD player, RPTV, VCR) and I know how I use these pieces and how I like the buttons set up on the Pronto for these components. However, I don't have a CD megachanger, and am not very familiar with them (yes, I'm a J6P when it comes to megachangers :)). I was wondering, in your experience, how you use your megachanger and what functions on the remote you use the most. I looked at your "HTML Pronto emulator" on your web page but it mainly showed the music groups you have set up on your changer, which are obviously your preferences and not necessarily those of my co-workers. I'm just thinking for a basic megachanger setup how you'd want a Pronto set up. There's the obvious play, pause, FF/REW and track access buttons, but then there's disc access, which I'm not that familiar with on changers that hold more than 10 discs. Do you find you access by group more often or by specific CD? Do you change your CCF everytime you add a CD to the changer? Of course, I pose this question to everyone here who uses a megachanger on a semi-regular basis. I'm just curious so that I don't go into setting up a CCF completely blind for this component.

Thanks guys... KJP (J6P for megachangers) :)




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[Patrick Sun]

"Paper vs plastic"? What's this? A supermarket checkout line?




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[Paul Wu]

I'd better chime in before the page flips without me. Like that would ever happen. :)

Bing, eco-sub, that's hillarious.

Joey, That overall mark looks pretty good. I'd It's good that you get to drop a bad score. Are we supposed use our imagination on your latest project?

I totally forgot to mention that I had some real butter on popcorn on the weekend. Don't even remember what I was watching, something on TV. I just had to melt some butter to pour over some popcorn. Ok, I didn't have to, but we had some leftover butter that I wanted to use. I'm usually a microwave popcorn eater. Still am, I've been trying a box of the Rednbaker's movie popcorn. A bit on the salty side. Anyway, had a couple of packages of the 'Light' type of popcorn and used that as my base. The small bowl of buttur that I poured on just seamed so sinful. But wow, did it taste good.

Had an early morning meeting downtown today, the bus ride down took longer than the meeting itself. Plus I was finished before any of the AV stores opened.

Does this ever happen to you? You feel like watching a movie from your collection, but not too sure which one, so you look over your collection, remembering the plot and the various scenes as you read each title. But in the end you've spend about half an hour going through and aren't even close in picking one out.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Kevin start a new thread about the megachanger and the pronto and I'll walk you though it. I happen to own the Sony CX335 so it will be a snap to config the CCF if you like my buttons etc:) BTW my CCF on the web site does have links to each individual CD just hit the Guide tab in the Jbox device and you'll be greeted with buttons from A to Z click one and follow the link to that letter.




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[Gregg Loewen]

Hey guys!! Anybody want to see a list of my LDs for sale? Not sure on pricing yet or method to the sale. I posted some initial guidelines/thoughts in the FS section at HTF. What are y'alls (that was for Patrick) thoughts?

[Kevin P]

Andrew, I posted my Pronto query in a new thread here (http://www.htguide.com/CFBoards/index.cfm?fuseaction=Threads.viewthread&CFB=1&Tid=3056&DoOnePage=Yes&RequestTimeout=500).

just hit the Guide tab in the Jbox device and you'll be greeted with buttons from A to Z click one and follow the link to that letter.So that explains why there are some letters missing. I thought it was an entry keypad for labeling CDs, but it was missing some letters on your HTML CCF. :) I'll take a closer look at your CCF when I get home where I have my ProntoEdit loaded.

Gregg... I'd like to see a list of your LDs for sale.

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[Paul Wu]

Gregg, I'd like to take a look at your list. Plus those terms seem pretty resonable to me. And wasn't a certain little buddy, who's really not so little anymore, the one that got all sensitive and stuff with the word y'all?




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[Kevin P]

Hey Gregg, I got the amp into my rack. It just barely fit without taking the glass doors off. Hopefully it'll get enough air in there to not get hot. If I have to I can enlarge the opening in the back of the cabinet.

I'd take a picture but I don't have a digital camera and I haven't had much luck getting decent pictures of my gear with the regular camera. And there's the wait to use up the film, get it developed, scanned, etc.

Now all I need is that sub!!

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[Andrew Pratt]

Sure thing I wrote a brief explination on how I went about integrating the megachanger and the pronto...I'll add more tonight




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[Lexman]

Kevin, I opted to leave my door off about 2 years ago, and haven't used it since. Ventilation is much better, not to mention access. Those doors get to be a real pain sometimes. Anyway, just my opinion.

Lex

[Bing Fung]

Great suggestions and ideas guys, I never though it would be as fun as it was today. Kevin, that buzzing and farting was too good. had my co-workers laughing good today as well :)

Kevin, I use to have my Denon in the under TV stand. It was too hot in there as I drove it to thermo shut down 2 times before I decided I needed a new rack. Now it seems as I will need a new rack for all the planned upgrades, sigh...

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[Trevor Schell]

I have no intentions of putting this one to rest. Lets keep it going!!...Onto 2000 and beyond.:)

Bing you are definately genius!!!..That Eco-sub is hilarious....The whole cardboard thing brought back some memories for me when I bought my first set of golf clubs. Since I did not have a golf bag at the time ,I put my 7-peice set into a long cardboard tube. People would laugh at me on the golf course wheeling around my clubs in this tube that looked like some sort of torpedeo.My boss fely sorry for me(or was embarassed)and bought me a new bag.
BTW,,Nice Monoblock.

Joey,,way to go on the test.All that studying has definately paid off.

Gregg,,You can send me the list of Laserdiscs..I plan to keep my player for now. Especially since they are releasing the Original Trilogy in November in AC-3..Some of those Lasers just sound to good to let go.

Have a good night everybody..Going to go get The Haunting DTS,,,Later....




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good evening guys!!

Trevor, I sent you a list, but just after that Tim Flavin called me. He really wanted my entire collection and I just couldnt say no :). He only has 2-3 DTS titles and wanted a whole bunch.

Now to sell my LD players and demod...

[Trevor Schell]

Just got back from Future Shop..Now a proud owner of The Haunting DTS-ES. I almost didn't get this title. When I walked in I proceeded to the rack and went to the location were the Haunting would be..All they had was the DD version..So I looked around for a while and was standing in front a an end type rack with various feature DVD's and had picked up MIB DTS deciding to get this title instead,,then just out of the corner of my eye I spotted an area under there racking which contained back-up stock,,I never had scene this before..So I bent down a little to seethe titles stored under there and believe it or not the first title I looked at was The Haunting DTS-ES..They actually had three copies under there...An even better surprise was when I went to the till ready to fork down $29.99 for the title, it scanned at $23.99...Good to be me tonight! Heh! Heh!..

Gregg,,I didn't receive your list..So did you sell the whole works to Tim??




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[Gregg Loewen]

Hi Trevor!

Yup all 300 titles to Tim!
I just sold my Elite 99 player too!

I am real happy!! - no headaches at all and both buyers did immediate payment with Paypal :)

Im going to go shopping for an Elite Pro 710 this weekend.

Gregg :)

[Bing Fung]

Not genius at all Trev, rather Stoopidity! thanks anyway. Somehow I can't picture you with a eco-golf bag?!?

Gregg, an Elite 710? Wow, that would be my choice if I had the cash.... That or a projector.




Bing

[Greg Stone]

Congrats on selling all your LD's at once Gregg! I went over to the Pioneer Elite page to see what a 710 was, and HOLY COW, that is a nice HDTV! I envy you this weekend getting to go shopping for that. Have fun! :) Here's a link in case anyone wants to see it too:
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[Kevin P]

Gregg--an Elite Pro 710... oh la la! :) Nice set. I would have gotten an Elite, but they are too big for my room and too pricey for my budget, so I ended up with a Mitsubishi 46805. Actually, I had my eyes on the Toshiba TW40X81 early on in the year but they were backordered until the next millennium so I ended up getting the Mits. I haven't regretted my decision, it's a nice set.

So you sold all your LDs? I would have hung on to some of those DTS titles, and the Star Wars trilogy at the very least, and BTTF, at least until the DVDs come out. But then I suppose you'd get more $$ for them now.

I said last night that I fit the CS 800 into my component rack. I'm now thinking I'm going to pull it out of there and put it in the Mits TV stand. First of all, the component cavities in my TV stand are larger and are more open in the back for more ventilation, and second of all, with the amp in my rack there's no room for future expansion and I've had my eyes on a MiniDisc deck, which will need a home. Also, the heat from the amp won't affect my other components that way. So, in the next couple of nights I'll be pulling that 50 pound brick out of the rack and relocating it. Other than that it's all hooked up and ready to go as soon as the sub arrives.

I powered up the amp while checking out the system and the fan has a slight rattle to it (worn bearings?), though with the glass doors closed it's pretty quiet; in fact it makes about the same amount of noise as my DV-414 when it's playing a DVD. With a DVD playing and the sound muted, I could barely hear it from the couch. If the noise gets to be a problem I'll replace the fan.

Joey... good job on your grades! Even if you got a C, that sounds like it was one of the highest grades in the class. When most of the students fail a test, then something's wrong with either the teacher or the test.

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[Bing Fung]

Morning all from TGWN....

Trev, that Haunting DTS should be just fine in your system, subwoofer killer... HA! I laugh at your subwoofer killer ;) Please post a review.

Nothing like juggling 50 lb amps around Kevin :)

Have a great day all!




Bing

[Gregg Loewen]

Kevin, I wouldnt be too worried about having the amp overheat, I had it in my cabinet which is pretty much sealed and didnt have any problems. I never noticed any unusual fan noise either. Please let me know if you plan on replacing the fan. I will pay.

Greg, thanks for the link. I have an non elite 62" 4x3 now and couldnt tell the difference between it and the elite version at the time I made my purchase. I wonder that the differences are between the non elite and elite versions are now?

I still cant believe I found one buyer for all my LDs!! I saved a huge amount of time with shipping vs selling individual discs (if I could even sell them all). Tim will be keeping some of the stuff and will be putting the rest on half.com.

Trevor, how is the Haunting? It is on my list of DVDs to buy!

HAve a great day everybody!!

Gregg

[Patrick Sun]

Hey y'all!

If you don't have a subsonic filter, the Haunting dts DVD can kill your sub if you play it moderately loud. It goes low, too low.




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Pl@, too low as in "Too low... way coool!" or too low as in "Too low, ohmahwgod... that too much bass, I can't stand it!"? :)




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[Patrick Sun]

Too low - as in my sub is unloading!




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flip:) he he finally I get to filp one of these pages.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Well my sub survived the Haunting but it was 10 dB below ref level...still I had to straighten most of the pictures in the apartment after that demo (honest)...
New monoblock should be here mid to late next week. Thanks Bing for the heads up on the incredible deal on these bad boys...

Looks like my fishing trip is a go. I'm leaving thursday night to head down to a friends where we'll pack and head out friday morning. There are three of us going off into the wilderness for the weekend camping and fishing. Its going to be an adventure just getting in there though as we're taking two boats...one to tow the other across the main lake then we have to portage the second smaller boat 1/2 mile into the next lake. Its this second lake we're going to fish at. There are several islands in the second lake so thats were we're camping. The only thing I'm worried about is that the two other guys I'm going with haven't done much wilderness camping so its going to be a learning process for them. I'm not to worried though they're both willing to ruff it and aren't you're average slickers:) Anyway if I haven't posted anything by say the middle of next week send out the search party:)




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[Kevin P]

Where is everyone? Two hours and no posts... this is very un-TTP-like. :)

I don't feel like working today... I have a cold, I took dayquil this morning but it makes me light headed. Can I go home and play with the HT instead? :)

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[Andrew Pratt]

Kevin did that CD mega changer post help?




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[Kevin P]

I guess that's how you go "all out" doing up the Pronto for a megachanger. I'm thinking my co-workers won't be that advanced... heck, I'm not that advanced! (I don't have a megachanger). After all, even if they handed me their entire CD collection, I loaded it into their changer, and programmed all the titles into the changer and the Pronto, what are they going to do when they bring home a new CD and add it in? I figure I'll start out basic with them... just have the basic operation buttons and disc access and seek buttons (for groups, etc.). If they want to catalog their entire collection we'll do that in another pass.

Of course, if I had bought the megachanger for myself, and I loaded my CD collection into it, I would be trying out the catalog/excel spreadsheet thing.

Tonight my HT buddy co-worker (not the one I'm doing the CCF for) is coming over to my house and we're going to start doing up the CCF. I'll download yours and start from there--and see if it'll meet their needs. I'll be pulling some elements from my CCF as well (such as the codes for the Outlaw 1050). I have the megachanger and their VCR for a few days, along with the remotes for their TV and DVD player so if I need to learn codes I have them available.

Just a quick question though--do you have discrete power on and off codes in your CCF for the CFD-CX335? I'll be wanting those. If not I'll just look on remotecentral.

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I did try out 'The Haunting' for a short while to demo a couple of scenes.I did have to turn down the bass level using the x-30 by about 6 on the dial,,my walls were vibrating so badly it actually sounded terrible.This disc has measured bass down to 5 HZ..The Servo's can play down to 14HZ. I also connected the H/K amp to run the rear channels and leave the NAD to take care of the front three,,with this configuration the rears are still to quiet with all levels cranked to the max..I still have the rears set to the back wall which are about 11 feet behind the couch...I didn't calibrate the system with the H/K connected..I still have some major realigning and speaker arranging to do yet to have the system tweaked to the way it should be.The 60's will have to come up to the couch, but first I will cross the PS-1000 sub with them to see if it helps any.

Have fun with the camping trip Andrew.

Gregg,,After having a look at the 710 and its 64' of widescreen,I can understand why you unloaded your laser collection somewhat.:) Should be an awesome TV...Is this the same one Jehan owns?

Later.




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Trev, do I lie? :D The scene chapters 17 to the end of the film all have lots of LFE in them, and be gentle on the first go-around when viewing/listening to these scenes.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Trevor if that HK still doesn't give you enough juice I'd consider either moving the speakers or buying some more powerful amps. The monoblocks that Bing and I just bought might do the trick and two of those would be about the same cost as the HK amp if you sold (or traded it to me) Anyway calibrate it and see if you need more power...if you do sweet talk bing into borrowing two of his mono's before he gets his sub built and see if those help. If those don't have enough power you're going to need to move them.




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Kevin...opps forgot to add that yes all the discrete codes are located under the power panel under the macro side in my CCF. Note that there are two power panels there one is a simple dummy panel that has alias's to the real power panel. The real panel isn't pretty but its got nice long discriptive names which helps when you make macros. The pretty panel is the one people see:) As for the sony and loading all the songs etc...yes its a pain but once you've seen it working its well worth it (at least for me...I doubt I'd want to maintain someone elses though) If you want just copy my Jbox device over and start using that. You can delete what you don't need like the jumps to the Guide etc since you won't be using those but the IR codes and built in macros might come in handy. You will find that if you want to listen to a group that it locks itself into group mode. This is all fine and dandy but if you then want to access a CD thats not located in that group it won't let you since its still locked into group mode. You can press group to get out of group mode but now you're into a unknown state for programing macros. What I did was use the program button to always set it back to a known state ie not in group mode etc. Then depending on what you wished to do you could press group then the groups value (01 thorugh 08)or enter a specific slot number. The macros in the Jbox are all set up already so feel free to try those and customize the labels as needed. I'll be around tonight if you need help though so eiter ICQ, email or call me at 204 888 0832 if you get stuck.




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Sorry guys didn't meant to gum up the TTP with pronto talk:)




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[Andrew Pratt]

heloooo is awful lonely here today? I ordered 4 DVD's using that $10 deal rogers was having on Saturday. I also grabbed the world is not enough form their previously views area for an okay price...it arrived today! Thats two days delivered. If that's normal I might just have to start buying more from them...no duty and FAST service. Hopefully the cheap discs won't be far behind TWINE. Guess I have some nuke scientist to watch tonight:drool:




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[Bing Fung]

Andrew, if you want to sell the Mono, please give me first dibs on it, forget about Trev ;)

Trev, if you want to run that experiment let me know. I only have one right now but should have 3 next week.

Or we can go up to Audio Express and borrow a Rotel amp to try. Let's go to Kiley's and borrow a Bryston 4B or 2. Those guys surely would let you have one seeing as your such a good customer.

Say, would you have a X30 you would like to part with?

Andrew, I never got my DVD's today from Rogers :(
What are you powering the sub with now?




Bing

[Paul Wu]

Yes, busy day for me. No dvd from Rogers. I wonder when they will ship those sale ones out.

Back to work.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Well right now the big sub lies dormant waiting until I get the monoblock in.




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[Bing Fung]

Before I forget, have a good fishing trip Andrew!




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[Bing Fung]

I had to gumm up the works.

Thanks for these Andrew!

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[Trevor Schell]

I realize I need a new amp,but will have to wait until next year to get one,,I do have it narrowed down to three..The Rotel 1095,,200x5..The Parasound 2205,,220x5 or the Cinepro 3KII,,375x6.

I was hoping the H/K would help out but unfortunately it doesn't seem to make a difference. I wonder if I need a dedicated power outlet for the NAD as all my components are running from the same outlets..2 channel music is loud..DSS is loud..play a DVD and even at -20 it seems you can barely hear it..Something just doesn't seem right. I may try to demo a set of ADP's for the back to see if these would be less stress on the amp..now with my new room set-up I have 2 walls to hang di-poles,so this is now an option for me that did not exist when I originally bought the speakers in June.




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[Trevor Schell]

Finally picked up a copy of Total Movie magazine tonight..Didn't think it was available in Canada and stumbled onto it by accident. Bought it for $8.99 from the Lakeveiw Pharmacy. Comes with demo DVD with 133 minutes of trailers and other stuff..This magazine has been a hot discussion lately at the HTF..

Nice pic Bing..




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Hey guys... we were up late last night programming my co-worker's Pronto. I used Andrew Pratt's CCF as a starting point and have redone the receiver/tuner and jukebox panels so far. The receiver/tuner panels are set up for the Outlaw 1050, and the jukebox (Sony CDP-CX335) panels have been fine tuned--I temporarily removed the Guide for the time being until they get their CD collection established in the changer, and added a Keypad panel to make track/disc/group/program access easier. I also added a couple of buttons that the CCF was missing--shuffle and repeat, removing the number keys from the Transport panel (they are on the Keypad panel now).

Tonight I'll be tackling their VCR (a JVC S-VHS model, not sure of the # off the top of my head), their Toshiba RPTV, and their Toshiba 2109 DVD player. Then all that'll be left are the Dish Network remote and the MD player, and the CCF will be finished. It'll be cool when it's finished, and I might even get some ideas for tweaking my CCF after I'm done.

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[Bing Fung]

Morning all from TGWN!

So Trev, is that magazine worth while?

Kevin, sounds like it's time to start your own custom Hometheater group.... All your toys then become a tax writeoff :)




Bing

[Patrick Sun]

Bing, I've been on the fence with that Total Movie DVD. It does offer the Troops film short on the DVD, and that's the biggest selling point. Trailers don't do it for me. So for me, is the Troops segment worth $8 to me...hmm...

Good morning, y'all!




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[Bing Fung]

Good Point Pl@! I'll borrow Trev's :B if I need to see it.

Trev, 2 Words... BI AMP. Have you done this? It certainly make a volume level difference in my mains. Are you running longer lengths of speaker wire now in this configuration?




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[Andrew Pratt]

Glad the CCF was of some help Kevin:) Those IXOS cables looks sweet don't they Bing. Spent most of last night packing for the trip...my backpack is stuffed to the max with gear and it weights ton but its a very short hike so it won't be that bad...it doens't help I'm carrying almost all the camping gear and food and tent...just call me the mule:) (better then ass I guess)




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[Bing Fung]

Atta Boy Andrew, boy just your words, makes me wish I was going as well. :(

Have a great trip, and remember the more you eat the less you will have to carry (once processed :B ).




Bing

[Lexman]

guys, for those looking for an HTGuide banner for their home page, or maybe a better one, click on Bing's page to see the blue logo at top, customized for web page display. Looks really good I think. Of course, the fact I did the graphics didn't hurt, haha. Ok, not the main logo, but all the prep work to get it from above logo to Bing's.

Eventually, I hope to get a page together of option logos, so you can select from it.

We really apprecate you guys putting us on your home page too! :B

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

Bing speaking of processing as you put it did you ever read that book "how to shit in the woods" Its a very interesting read...funny too. The place we're camping in is deep in the whiteshell park so there won't be anyone around except the odd fisherman. We'll have any number of islands to pick from to camp on so we'll be away from the bears....can't wait heard the fish are really biting now, looks like a great weekend and only a few hours to go before I leave:)




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[Bing Fung]

Yes, I must concur, that is a very nice Banner logo for the HTG! Good job Lex.

Andrew, I have often seen that book and have flipped through it. What's funny is it come with a small hand spade to digg your own little privy in the woods as well :B LOL

Sounds like a nice place Andrew, are you canoeing in as well? wahhh... I wanna go! :(




Bing

[Patrick Sun]

Bing, I let the cat out of the bag w/r/t your Eco-Sub (but I only link one photo) on the HTF. Some guy wanted to know what to do with the same Infinity driver you had. If you mind, I'll take down the link, but so far, people are cool about it. :D




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Andrew, have a great trip this weekend. I know I'm a city slicker so roughing it would be tough on me. Hope you catch lots of fish.




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[Bing Fung]

No Problem Pl@.... It's all for fun anyways, Link away...

LOL, that's a good answer for him...heheheh, smart ass :)




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[Greg Stone]

Have fun Andrew... It has been at least 15 years or so since I went camping, the last time I think the winter of my senior year in high school. Dang cold too. Slept in a sleeping bag with all my clothes on and still froze most of the night. The second day we fished some and then went back to camp for serious beer drinking. I had WAY too much, and did not feel all that great the next morning when I woke up.

One of my friends was already up cooking breakfast, eggs with venison sausage. I was sooo hungry I couldn't wait, and figured it would help with my hangover. Just as he was taking the pan off the top of the fire and about to serve the eggs, the handle on the pan broke and all the food fell to the dirt. I nearly cried when he said that was all the food we had, and it would take over an hour to break camp and get back to town. Yep, you guessed it, we scooped it off the ground and ate it anyway! Worst breakfast I ever had, as the dirt made it way too gritty! :) Yep, call me a city slicker as well...




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[Paul Wu]

Taking a break, having a bud.

Saw a fluff piece last week sometime that there's this website that sells Canadian snack items to expats down in the states. 2 of the top ten sellers were Coffee Crisp and Ketchup chips. Now is this true, You guys down south don't have these items?

I'm currently baking and suffocating in our basement office, seems like somehow the ventalation fans have been turned off. Hope somebody fixes it soon or I might as well stay home tomorrow.

So another Star Wars dvd rumour is out, but its an old one that was debunked about a month ago. Funny we haven't seen that mentioned in any of our threads. Well I guess until now. Well they'll be released when they are released. I've got too many titles that I want to buy.

Gregg, glad to hear that all those LD's have found a good home. Could you tell me what was on the Basia LD?

Newsflash, just heard that Pierre Trudeau has passed away. He was a former Prime Minister of Canada.




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[Bing Fung]

Paul, my American co-worker has always use the term "Canadian as Coffee Crisp" and that's it's an acquired taste.

Where is everyone?




Bing

[Trevor Schell]

Looks like most decided to take the day off..so were's Gregg L, Pat, Dan, Chris, Jehan and Joey??

Have a good camping trip Andrew!!

I have 50 foot lengths of 12g wire running to my rear speakers. I tried Bi-amping the mains with the H/K but did not like the results,I get a somewhat harsh sound..I had the same results when I bi-amped my AR's with this amp..Reading in the insructions for the H/K it states..Important Notice: The PA5800 is not designed for use in bridged configuration. Do not connect the same input or speaker to more than one channel...So maybe this is why it doesn't sound quiet right when I tried to use the H/K for Bi-amping..Maybe but not 100% sure.

Good night everybody..




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Yeah, where is everybody? The page is ready to be flipped. Coffee Crisp is one of my favourite candy bars.

Spent most of the night trying to fix my aunt's computer. Well I think it's a lost cause. At first I thought it was just a bad registry file, so I was just planning to use old scanreg and pick an older registry. Well not that simple, couldn't get the hd to boot, so used a boot disc. Took a look at C: and there's no Windows and Program Files is missing as well. Plus there's a few weird character files and directories. Futzed around a bit and saved some of her docs onto a floppy. I think her whole C drive is a gonner. She's going to take it in to have the shop look at it. I'm saying the drive is toast. So at least I've prepared her for the worst. Luckily she doesn't keep anything too imporant on her HD.

Makes me think that I should be backing up my stuff now. :)




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[Trevor Schell]

flip:)




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Morning all. Yep, I'm back. Yesterday afternoon our internet connection was down so I had to do real work instead of post on the TTP. :) They said the ISP was having troubles, but I wonder if they just did it on purpose to get us to do real work. :)

I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for car speakers. A few months ago I replaced the factory headunit in my Saturn with a Sony MD unit and CD changer, but still using the factory 6 3/4" speakers (which sound terrible). There are lots of car speakers out there--Pioneer, Jensen, Polk, Sony, Infinity, Blaupunkt, JBL... I'm looking for decent sounding speakers, ones that sound natural (not overly harsh or bright), like the way we like our home speakers to sound. No subs either--save those for the home theater. :) I don't need the windows bulging out of my car.

I used to have Pioneers in my car years ago and I liked them, but I was younger and less mellow then. :) Does anyone have any suggestions?

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[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!

Had a very busy day yesterday. Packing up all my LDs. I was able to get them into 5 boxes each weighing 69 pounds. The UPS weight max is 70 so just right. Then I had to pack up the elite 99 and the old Pioneer 606 receiver I had. UPS must love me!

My wife canned the Elite 710!! (the bitch :)) She wants a nice bedroom set - which she deserves so that is #1. I quickly negotiated an ISF calibration and possibly an elcheapo hottub (if I can find one) so in the short term I will be okay.

Now I am looking for a small upgrade to my family room receiver from the 606. Please keep an eye open for me. Something like a denon 3300 (maybe to nice), Pioneer 509, or 608. I want to send 275-450??

Other strickly Canadian items:
Smarties (like M&Ms- not like little sugar pills)
Aero Bars
Shreddies Cereal

Other items???

Have a great day!
TGIF

Gregg

[Paul Wu]

Great job on the page flip Trev.

Morning Kev, can't add any info here on car speakers. But you did remind me that my car speakers suck. They're factory Honda units and although I'd love to upgrade the whole unit, I just can't really see the need. Don't drive that much and when I do, I don't have any music playing. I guess when I used to drive to work everyday it mattered more. Now I think I'd rather spend the money on my HT gear.

Up early trying to get some work done. But so far not been very productive.




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

[Paul Wu]

When you eat your smarties do you eat the red ones last? Do you suck them very slowly or crunch them very fast...dee dee dee doo doo doo da da da la la la..




Paul

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

[Chris White]

A belated good morning from the right coast. We're having a delightful cold spell at the moment. Although the shift from summer to fall weather doesn't usually happen until mid-October, recent thunderstorms have combined to drop temperatures here. Last night the temperature actually plunged into the 70s. Yeah!!

I gather from a quick scan of the recent posts that we're listing things that are uniquely Canadian. If so, allow me to add "Timely Olympics Coverage" to the list. NBC is providing what is undoubtedly the WORST Olympic coverage in history.

I need to rent some good movies for the weekend. Any new releases worth watching?




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[Bing Fung]

Morning all from TGWN

Gregg "The Bitch...." I howled at that, I know you love your lovely wife and it's is just a figure of speach. LOL! That reminds me of Beverly Hills Cop, When Gilbert Godffrey does the "Bitch" on the phone to his wife for ranking up parking tickets...LOL.

That's a lot of LD :E Good sale!

Greg, you know you are a survivor when you picked it up of the ground. Good job, you do what you have to do...

Kevin, I have a set of Infinity Kappas in my wife's Honda, they sound very nice. I would say anything that is a name brand , you can't go wrong with. Unless you have a real demanding system. It's got to be better that factory most times.

UC: Ski-Doo




Bing

[Greg Stone]

Morning everyone!

Took the day off from work, was getting burned out. Plus today is the first day of the Texas State Fair in Dallas, so we are about to set off over that way. Will let you know how that goes later.

Canadien:
Coffee Crisp? Never heard of it.
Aero's? Nope.
Shreddies? Nope.
Smarties? Nope.

American:
Worst Olympic coverage from NBC? Yep!

Chris - since I only get movies from Netflix any more, I can't recommend any good BB new releases. We did watch Cider House Rules last weekend, not really a new release, but definitely worth watching.

Kevin - Pioneer 6X9 car speakers have always sounded great to me.

TGIF!!




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[Greg Stone]

Had to get one more post to hit 100!! Woo hoo!




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[Joey Millison]

I'm back after being sick (since Tuesday). Both Mandi and I have missed three days from work this week, and in fact she's home sick again today. It's been nothing short of an extremely unpleasant week, that's for sure! Hopefully I'll feel better in time for the weekend as I have some cool plans.
Story:
I got some cool "getting out of debt" presents, giving myself two week's worth of paychecks to purchase something for myself, and I wound up getting a Pronto (freaking FINALLY!), a Mickey Mouse Statue to match my other two (4 more to go), a really nice and extremely complicated bomber model for my father (I'm painting it by hand and everything, should look good on his desk), and my latest project, an RC glider (see this site for more info, it's the Zagi 400). I hope to have it's maiden test flight on saturday at the park. I built the entire thing and am pretty excited with how it turned out. I think I have a defective speed control chip though, so I'm taking it into the shop tonight to see. But if all goes well she'll be ready to fly tomorrow :) I'm really excited about it, as I've ALWAYS wanted an RC plane! And this one was insanely inexpensive, even with the radio gear thrown in. Do you guys want me to take pictures of its first flight? :) (or rather have Mandi do it as my hands will be full, heh)
Had another math quiz, and I got a 9/10 on it...I'm definitely slipping! And now we have all of these geometric theories to nail down. I'm not sure how my grade is going to go now. I hope gravity doesn't take it down!
My fish had babies. I've got tiny little baby guppies now. It's pretty neat. These fish are freaking horny though, they're always mating. After my tank is finished cycling I think I'm going to get three fish of DIFFERENT species so they don't just sit there and swim, eat, and hump all day long.
For those of you that wanted to read it, here's the FINAL draft of my paper I did for my English class (Remembering an Event). You can grab it HERE.
Hmmm...what else...
Oh, my new project slipped...damnit...it was supposed to start on Monday (which was why I didn't feel bad being home sick this week, except I forgot if I had any vacation/sick time left, if not I'm screwed next week). One of the vendors is being weird so we gotta wait approximately a month before we see anything. But get this, I'm getting my own lab now :) It's being wired as we speak. Unfortunately I can't say what the project is, but let me tell you this: I'm getting a big comfy couch, HT setup, and then my project which ties it all together. I wish I could say more, but I can't. This is my dream project though! Oh, and passcode entry so no one but my crew can gain access to the room. It's HT related though, and that makes me happy. And I *THINK* I get to give them a list of gear to buy, on the company's budget. So I may be asking you guys for help in that department with high end gear. Can't wait, wish I could say more though...

Gotta run for now, have some homework to do...
Glad to be back :)

[Bing Fung]

Wow Greg, you have missed out on the best candy bars going... Unless you don't like candy bars.

Joey, you are just a whirlwind my friend! Cool glider. I was heavily in to RC planes in my youth. Alas, I have sold it all save some engines and tuned pipes.




Bing

[Joey Millison]

Good price on a Pronto...it's where I ordered mine from...

[Paul Wu]

Chris, So can you get CBC down there? Nothing like watching events live. We've finally got some rain so its starting to feel like fall. Sorry can't help on the movie rental suggestions. I think I'll be watching Conan.

Greg, good job on post 100.
Coffee Crisp - chocolate bar with waffers that tastes like coffee
Aero's - milk chocolate bar with little bubbles throughout the bar
Shreddies - I think these are little squares of shredded wheat(for the life of me I can't picture it right now)
Smarties - candy coated chocolate drops, like M&M's

Joey, Glad to hear that you're feeling much better. What? you get a great consolidation loan and you go blow a wad of cash on a Pronto? ;) Damn I'm jealous! I want one, but there's no way in hell I can justify one. Would love to see some photo's of the model flying. I'll have to get my but in gear to post some fishing pics I got from my fishing outing. Love to hear when you think 9/10 is a slipping mark. Can't seem to access your english paper. Wow, that sounds like an awesome project! Here I was thinking the couch was for you to sleep on cause of all the late nights you'll be spending at work. Now it sounds like you've got some serious testing to do. :) Hey, we'll be happy to help you spend the money. :) Hmm, a couple of SVS subs, come to mind. Runco DLP projector, or maybe an Elite 710. So if we were ever to head down your way, would we be able to get a tour of your lab? I'd imagine once they buy all this stuff, they'll keep it around for a bit, or maybe they'll sell it to staff at a reduced cost? Now that's one way your employer can help with your HT hobby.




Paul

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

[Daniel Brecher]

What's going on? Been a bit busy (yes, BUSY you read right, I've being DOING things) lately so have not been checking in. Ack!

Well, here's my 'top news that got Dan happy on Sept 29th, 2000' item:

Official Phantom Menace 2 CD score announcement & info (http://www.starwars.com/episode-i/news/2000/39/ultimate.html)

:D

Dan (UK)

[Paul Wu]

Hey Dan, are you submitting your screenplay to that Ben Aflic sccreen play search that's going on?

That 2 cd set looks really cool. I'll have to tell my Star Wars fanatic friend about it.




Paul

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

[Kevin P]

I went down to Best Buy during lunch (yes, I know! But it's the closest place to where I work that carries audio toys!) :) Anyhoo, I was just browsing to see if they had the new Sony MXD-D5C yet (no, but they have the MXD-D3, no thanks). I also listened to some car speakers. I can look all I want in the Crutchfield catalog, but I can't tell how they sound from that. I listened to some Pioneers, some Clarions, some Rockford Fosgate, some Cerwin Vega. I liked the sound of the Cerwin Vegas the best--they seemed crisper and the drivers seemed to blend in the best. I didn't care for the sound of the Pioneers--I could hear the woofer and tweeter separately, they didn't blend together very well. But I'll try another store or two (such as Tweeter) to make some more comparisons. Someone on HTF recommends MB Quart speakers, I looked on their web site and they seem nice but I bet they're pricey. There is a dealer pretty close by, so maybe I'll drop in one of these days and check 'em out.

Here's my Best Buy story for the day. You know how they have the car speakers set up, mounted in these panels with the buttons so you can switch from one set of speakers to another? Well, at least 2 pairs that I listened to were wired out of phase, so they sounded horrible. Another pair had only one speaker working. Clueless. :)

Joey, I'd love to have your job! :) Didn't you say that your company does the software for CD burners or something? What kind of HT stuff do they do, or would that breach your "top secret" clearance? :) Hopefully some day you can tell us what your project is. Do they make consumer products? Can I go to the software shelves at, uh, Best Buy ;) and grab a software package that has some of Joey 6P's code embedded within?

I'll second Paul Wu's suggestion of an Elite 710 and a pair of SVS subs. Or a pair of sonosubs built by our own Joey 6P! :) As for speakers, I'm kinda partial to Platinum Audio speakers (since I have 'em in my HT), too bad they folded, but some of their stuff is still available on audioadvisor.com.

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[Paul Wu]

Kevin, over the summer I was looking a auto speakers and stuff and it was pretty neat to see some of those setups. But I had to wonder that those speakers would probably sound different in my car. One thing was having those subs booming out tunes during a demo. I thought, that's terrible bass! But I guess some people like that. Plus when I figured out some prices for new head units plus speakers, I figured I'd get more use if I spent the money on my homesystem. Also, I can't believe all those fancy graphics on some of those head units! Jesh, all I want is a simple clock, track, and station, I don't need no stinking graphic equalizer showing the freq response.

Joey, I have to add Easter Egg! Everybody does it! A J6P production. or QC by J6P and crew with a shoutout to the TTP folks. :)




Paul

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[Patrick Sun]

Hi folks, I've too nauseated by lacquer to do too much surfing. Hope everyone is doing well today and hope the upcoming weekend will be a good break to everyone.

If asked to be an admin at one of these Ht-related forums, would you do it? Just curious.

It looks like my company will pay up to $60/month for DSL/cable modem access since the boss wants us to be able to do VPN to do corrective maintenance from home. Cool, huh?




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[Lexman]

The correct answer is, not unless it was htguide doing the asking Pat. I know that's selfish of me, but I don't want to loose any good members!

Of course, when we start booting people because of the "smiley ordinance", you know people like Kevin that are just so dang happy, they smile every other sentence? Membership could get a little thin!

Kevin, your skating on thin ice, due to section 1035, of the 1999 Smiley Ordinance. EXCESSIVE use of upside down frowns!

:)

Lex

[Paul Wu]

Pl@, HT-admin job? Personally I'd say no. At the moment I don't need the headache and I don't think I would do a good job. Hmmmm, DSL good.




Paul

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

[Joey Millison]

Doh! Kevin's in troooouuuble! You just can't go around pissing off Admins Kevin ;)

Kevin,
I don't code myself (yet), I do some of the testing with hardware software, reporting errors where they may be. So I work with the people that do the code, but I don't do it myself. Gimme a few years though! :)
Unfortunately I can't really give out any other info on the new project, though I'd like to. It's just HT related, and if it's cool I'll make sure to tell you guys about it as soon as they company announces it. Until then I could get into buku legal trouble for giving out any specifics.
I have worked on Adaptec 4, MusicMatch, Sonic Foundry's ACID (awesome program), a buttload of HP CD-Writer drives (depending on the size of the butt), and some other goodies (Click Radio, Sound Forge, etc...)
What the heck were you doing at Best Buy in the first place? ;) I've seen people punished brutally for less ;)

Pl@,
I don't know what I'd be qualified to adminstrate, maybe an after hours section or something. Not sure if I'd do it though.

Paul,
I wish I had the ability to throw in an Easter Egg for you guys, but I don't :( That would be super cool though! "Represent! For my homies in the TTP...yo! From the East Side, to the West Side, to the North Side, eh!" ;) Ok, that's a pretty pathetic attempt at being humorous, and I apologize to anyone who read it ;)

Lex,
We're slowly heading towards page 50 of the TTP, getting scared yet?

[Joey Millison]

Punk, it's so damn cool!

I have a bunch of bands queued up on MusicMatch and wanted to name off some of the song titles just to burn up a post. I LOVE sarcastic well-written political punk!:

A Certain Canadian Band (won't mention their name as the name may be considered offensive)
A sarcastic hardcore political punk from the early 90's/late 80's I think...
"Kill the Hosers"
"Proud to be Canadian (pass me another beer)"
"Ronald McRayGun"

NOFX
Extremely sarcastic band, gotta love 'em! They love to play with words...
"Monosyllabic Girl"
"Please Play This Song on the Radio"
"Soul Doubt" (a play on words - "Sold Out")
"Hobophobic (scared of bums)"
"Quart in Session"
"Flossing a Dead Horse"

Bad Religion (my personal favorite)
More political punk, extremely well written lyrics and messages though, you can generally tell by their song titles. The lead singer, Greg Graffin, used to be a professor of Biology at the University of CA, San Diego. He also realeased a folk album a few years ago which I actually really like. Not your average rowdy punk band. They've been labeled a "Folk Punk" band, and have really cool vocal harmonies and everything...
"Mediocrity"
"Pessimistic Lines"
"Markovian Process"
"Delerium of Disorder"
"Entropy"
"Universal Cynic"
"Leon" (which is actually the Christmas song Noel but reversed with screwy lyrics, heh)

Dead Kennedys
As political as they get! Jello Biafra (the lead singer) has a few spoken word albums AND ran for mayor of San Fransisco quite a few years back. Anti-racism band as well, which is talked about in one of their songs "Nazi Punks F*CK Off!":
"Holiday in Cambodia"
"California Uber Alles"
"I Fought the Law (and I won)"
"Saturday Night Holocaust"
"Night of the Living Rednecks"

Got Punk?

[Lexman]

Joey, I am terrified! :E

Now Kevin, we may ride you hard, but we won't put you up wet. All meant in good fun. After all, what the hell else we gonna talk about for over 1000 posts? roflmao.

Perhaps I shouldn't have asked!

I did just have a great idea for punishment of members that get into trouble here. They now must go back and read every post in the TTP thread, and then be tested on the content, lol.

Lex

[Kevin P]

If you like, I could frown every other sentence. :( And rant and rave and complain all the time :( and piss and moan and basically be a pill all the time and really make your lives miserable! :( but I'm more likely to get booted off the forum being that way than by being happy. ;)

What's interesting, is though I use the smilies, I can't see them while reading posts (from work), due to my stealth browsing proxy's bitmap stripper (that sounds almost vulgar, doesn't it?)

So, Joey, you're a QA guy then. Basically your job is to break things. :) Oops, another smiley.

A while ago our QA manager had this written on her whiteboard in her cube: "QA Mission Statement: We don't design it, we don't write it, we just break it." An addendum was added that read "Then we laugh at the person who wrote it."

Does this forum have anything besides the basic smiley :) and frowney :(? Those are the only ones listed in the FAQ.

KJP




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[Paul Wu]

Kevin, that's a good QA motto. There's a bunch more.

: ) =:) Smile
; ) =;) Wink
: D =:D Grin
: ( =:( Frown
: o =:oh: Red faced embarrassed
: ? =:? Confused ??? ontop of smiley
: B =:B Big Grin
: C =8) Cool, with shades on
: E =:E EEK, eyes bulging out
: F =:F Finger, as in the bird
: M =:M Red hot Mad
: p =:p: Tongue sticks out
: R =:roll: Roll eyes upward
: W =:W animatied winking
: Z =:Z Sleeper zz ontop

Just leave out the space between the colon.

edit: Just remembered that you've got that bitmap stripper working so you probably can't even see those smilies. I'll add the destriptions so you at least have an idea of what they are.




Paul

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

[Joey Millison]

"Say hello to me leeetle friend" :F

This forum just got more interesting :B

Kevin,
I'm the guy between the manager and the peon. I basically tell the peons what to break based on the manager's whim :)

[Mats]

Kevin, you have all the smiley codes in the CFB Code Guide from the link in the posting page. Just to the left of the entry box where you enter thoose thingys :B

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[Kevin P]

Thanks Paul. I'll see 'em when I log on from home. Hopefully they'll replace these low walls on our cubes sometime, then I can turn the stealth feature off and see the smilies in the director's intended aspect ratio.

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[Joey Millison]

So that means I can get away with doing this:

Hey Kevin, look!
:F

Heh heh heh ;)
(just kidding of course)

[Paul Wu]

Cubical? You got yourself a cubical? I'm in an open area with my computer in one corner and my assistant on the other corner. I really hate working with my back exposed. :M

The first company I worked for I gradually moved up to getting my own office. First thing I did was rearange the furniture. But that lasted about a year. I moved downtown to a nice shared office with a great view of the mountains. Although I didn't get a chance to really enjoy the view as I was staring at my computer most of the time. This lasted just under a year before I moved to my current position. I'm in the basement with no windows and no air con and have I mentioned that it's been like an oven this week? This could make a guy go postal. :M We've complained quite a bit so we'll have to see what happens on Monday. What's the worse is when you step outside it's a nice and comfortable temp and you walk into our doors and bam, heat wave. Okay enough griping.




Paul

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

[Paul Wu]

So here's the final word on the PS2 deal. As you may recall, Chapters had a little pricing error, as PS2 for $79.99. :) Well that lasted about a day. I had my order 'awaiting shipment' for about 3 whole days, but it was finally cancelled. And in so doing, Chapters has finally sent a $10 coupon to my little email address. :) At least they are trying to make ammends. Now to go shopping.




Paul

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

[Greg Stone]

Back from the State Fair, and now we are all worn out. Rode the big ferris wheel, the "Big Kahuna" and several other rides I can't remember their names. Had a blast! Actually won a couple prizes for my boys, and beat the rush hour traffic back home. 6 hours there, around $120 spent. Now we'll be sitting home the rest of the weekend!

J6P - Pronto! Man I'm jealous! Maybe for my birthday...

Anyone got any big plans this weekend?




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[Pat]

Hey Guys!
My ISP was out for almost 2 days:(

Had a lot of catching up to do...

Joey...I thought the idea was to get out of debt:?

I have been working too much...and I still have to go in on Saturday.
Oh well...I guess I'll have some extra change to buy some new stuff:)

Damn Gregg...sold your entire LD collection and still can't get your HDTV...bummer.

I have been thinking about getting rid of mine too...I can't even remember the last time I spun up a LD. My collection is not nearly as large as yours was...I only have about 60 discs, but 5 of the titles are "box sets". Of the 5, 3 are Disney box sets...they will never put all those extras on a DVD.




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[Trevor Schell]

Hey Boys!!
Good to see everybody came back.
TGIF

Hope you guys enjoy the weekend.

Gregg,,I really feel for you..That Elite 710 would have been really awesome...

Paul,,what will be the actual price on the P2 ,,should be out in 2 weeks I think.

Joey,,Glad you were able to get a Pronto..The price was a good deal..I guess we can expect to see a Disney style CCF from you.

Patman,,So who asked you to be a Moderator?? HTF??
Lex..what are you going to do when TTP reaches 10,000 posts.:D

Anybody going to buy any new DVD's this weekend.??
I am in the mood to pick up another one,just not sure as to which one though.

Just an update on my brother Trent. He is out of the hospital now and getting around on crutches. Still having some problems with his stomach,,I guess being on intravenis and morphine for a couple of weeks takes time for the stomach to start functioning normally. I am just glad he is on his feet again..

Later,,,




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Trevor - that is great news about your brother! Hopefully he will get 100% soon.

Good night all.




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[Paul Wu]

Trev, the price Chapters was quoting $450. Did you hear about the shortage? Sony says only 500,000 units will make it to NA and 100,000 units per week till after Xmas. Glad to hear your brother's doing better. Wasn't planning on buying anything this weekend but picked up Fly/Fly2 for 17.49 at Costco, that's the newer Fly. Price was too good to resist.

Flip the page. :)




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

[Patrick Sun]

Trev, I'm happy that your brother is recovering well and as you say, is back on his feet. The mod-deal is dead. C'est la vie.




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[Joey Millison]

She flies tomorrow baby!!!

Here are tonight's pictures: HERE

[Bing Fung]

Trev, good to hear Trent is doing well, man he sure is lucky to be alive, again wish him well from the TTP gang!

Pat, was wondering where you went...

Pl@ Who was wanting you to Mod... HTT, HTF? Bastards, trying to steal the talent :)
Well, which every way you wanted it to go, hope it is what it is :)

Joey, good video on the throttle, flaps and oh yeah :F back at ya baby!

Well I'm trying to decide if I should buy a wack load more of these mono blocks to complete my system, can't decide... I would like to end up with 7 of these in total, 6 for EX, or what ever and the 7th for the sub. This would complete the first phase of migration to separates. Currently I have 3, but I was thinking I would like to buy more powerful amps, say 200w/ch for the mains. The appeal of these monos is my system would be balanced, though I'm not sure how important that is as my current set-up is unbalanced in power and I think it still sounds great. The mono are rated at 120w 8ohms. While this is plenty of power and I plan to run it bi-amped with my Denon. I would like the marantz MA 700 (200w) or simular for the mains, because once I do go pre/pro, I won't have the additional power of the receiver for bi-amping, and you all know how it is... You can never have too much power!




Bing

[Lexman]

Pat, if you want, I can put you on as TTP moderator, and you can have your cake and eat it too! What do you want to moderate? Hey, we really don't want to loose you here! :)

Kevin, glad to see you took my friendly joust in the manner intended.

Regarding the office, you guys should see my place! I have 2 other people in the office. My natural line of defense is, I designed what is known as the "Bunker office". It's a real crowd pleaser for management I am sure. No one, I repeat no one can see my back without me seeing them first, haha.

It's really quite a creative arrangement with a desk turned 180 degrees, and stuff stacked around the perimeter of the desk. (walls). Small refridgerator is the main monitor block from person #2. You know paper trays, left over network component bays that act as little storage cubbies. hehe.

Now to the other wall, I have a Bush workstation of my own that I took to work because the jerks took me away from my computer desk with rolled top and such. The workstation sits right at the end of the desk, yup, you got it, 180 degrees back toward the other wall, effectively blocking out everything except about a 22" path to get out, ROFLMAO. I do have room for 1 visitor, a wood chair that sits right in the corner. They may watch me over the network, but they sure don't watch me over my back, lol.

Hey, that was a real TTP post, huh? :B

If you don't like it, I got something here for you. :F haha.

Lex

[Greg Stone]

I agree, Lex, never leave your back exposed, as you never know who will sneak up on you! I have been in my current office about 8 months now and have rearranged the furniture three different ways to try and get it the way I like. I have one wall that is nothing but floor to ceiling windows, and cannot seem to be able to position my desk so that I can look out without turning around, as you guessed it, the window is the back wall of my office. The office is also longer than it is wide, so it looks crazy to have my desk facing anyway except straight at the door, which puts the window at my BACK again.

I also get monitored via the network police at work which is why most of my posts come in the early am or evening hours.

KJP - you may have to walk me through how you surf privately at work as I popped up on the top 5 on-line users in the building, which is a no no. Damn Big Brother!! Someone told me to install a proxy server, but that doesn't mean anything to mean as I am a bean counter, not a computer guru!




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[Bing Fung]

Currently our layout is single cubes with the odd dual cube, mine being a dual cube because my neighbor and I decided to remove the wall between us.

We just finished a Office layout redesign, we are getting new furniture of the modular type where the cube walls are the supporting structure for the cabinets and hutches. In the re-design the great minds thought it best to make quad cubes with the work stations in the corners. It was said that studies have shown this arrangement is conducive to team based ideas and relations.

Well, sure, but this would put our backs to the each other and to people entering the mega cube. Short of it, we revolted and said that we can not have this and that we needed our space and privicy. The external consultant took our ideas and desires and again gave us back the same thing, what we did not want. Hellooo, what part of "We don't like that and can't work like that" do you not understand?

Well, after a meeting with our managers, staff and the "consultant" we were able to come to some sort of a agreement. My cube will still be a dual cube with the same shape and dimensions, and my work station is planned in the corner of the outer wall(which is not bad, my back is not to traffic). Looking at the new furniture, it looks as if I can have my WS exactly where it is now so I'm happy. Unfortunatly there are still some quad cubes for this is the way the furniture was designed to work, at least now there are only 3 from the originally planned 12. Another case of not asking the people that do the work, what they would like, rather, I'll tell you what you would like....

Speaking of net police...How do you guys get away with all the time on the HTG during work hours?

Must have to be part of IS to do that unnoticed.




Bing

[Lexman]

Like Nike says, I just do it, lol. Actually, as an underpaid state employee, I must have my fringe benefits. One of those is when I free my mind of programming stuff, (programmers know you must do this regularly), I use that time to surf htguide. :) I also use pop mail to stay in touch all day every day.

So, it's a stress release, not unlike that squishy ball I used to have. Some low life stole my squishy ball at work, if you can believe that!

Not one word has been said to me about my surfing via the network police. That doesn't mean they don't know. I can't say that for sure. But I do know that it hasn't impacted my work. If anything, it's made me more productive during a transitionary period of moving away from a mainframe to a client server environment. The fact is, my associates that never did any personal computing outside of work, are behind me in understanding PC client tools such as WS-FTP, PC file management, text files at the PC level, etc...

I have taken some leadership roles in terms of being the first person to accomplish certain things with SAP tools at our shop. So much so, that I really have become the table load expert, doing writeups on use of WS-FTP and such.

So in essense, the very things I have been doing on the side the past 5 years, are paying dividends for my employer now! Ain't that a hoot? :B

Now, if they would just pay me damnit! lol.

Yes, I could leave and do something else. I certainly have thought about it. But my job could be a lot worse than it is, and where else am I going to get 30 days off a year PLUS holidays?!

With sick leave and all, I figure I have to work 10 months out of the year. With a paid retirement account, that ain't a bad deal, u know? In fact, I have 325 hours of vacation time built up right now, and I just took a week off last month! Eat your heart out short timers, lol.

Lex

[Paul Wu]

Greg, that sucks being one of the top 5. I guess that's one stat you could live with being on the bottom. Well I know that net tracking software is pretty sophisticated now that they can even monitor what's on your screen and key strokes, pretty scary. Only thing I can suggest is that any surfing can be done on the lunch hour, and what you're doing before and after work. Did they tell you how many hours the top 5 have or whatever benchmark they are using? Then you'll have to cool it for a month. Oh and put in another hash mark as I'm a bean counter too. Oh yeah just remember that at certain times people can see what's on your monitor off the reflection on the window behind you. :)

Bing, yeah gotta love those outside consultants. A lot of money can be saved if people talked to other people. What part of NO do you not understand? Our net usage isn't monitored as closely as it should be.




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[Lexman]

Paul must be with the network police! Get em' guys!

No window, no problem for me. Interior office without so much as a hint of daylight. Of course, that spy-cam could be a problem, lol.

Lex

[Joey Millison]

Surfing at work...ah yes, the staple of my existence!
Now that I have a cubicle I've positioned my desk to rest just to the left of the door, meaning when I'm sitting at my desk I'm facing my door. That means my computer is facing a wall. As far as everyone at work knows I do this to "be able to keep an eye on my crew while they work", but we all know the REAL reason I'm faced that way, heh. I also have a guest chair, but by the time someone gets to it I've already switched PCs on my switchbox. You hold down the right mouse button and click the thumb button and it switches channels. This means you can sit as you normally would, without looking obvious by having to physically reach for the switchbox when someones coming. Two clicks of the mouse and I'm doing something work related (which is usually running anyhow, otherwise they wouldn't have made me a test coordinator, I'd still be a tester).
Also, I work for a company that actually recommends you surf the internet while you're not working on a project to "learn more about current technology". So everyone else has their Fantasy Football, their Chat Lines, and whatever else they can think of. But since my new peoject revolves around home theater I'm free to cruise the HTG as I wish, as they see it as research believe it or not, heh. I guess it's only research if I go somewhere other than the TTP in this forum though ;) I lucked out in that department, as I really honestly don't know what I'd do with my day if I didn't have the TTP. First thing I do when I get in in the mornings is get my breakfast, check my email accounts, cruise the TTP, and then read any work related material that has been sent to me. Fun Stuff.

Gotta run, have to prepare my airplane for flight! I'm so excited! I hope it doesn't crash...expect pictures and movies later (hopefully)!

[Kevin P]

Fortunately, where I work they don't really care what we do on the net as long as we get our work done. Plus I am friends with a couple of the IT guys, and while they keep logs, so far no managers have asked to see them. Therefore, I'm pretty safe on these forums for now. The problem I have is my cubicle. Low walls, the opening to my back makes it impossible to hide my screen from anyone who walks by. Hence the stealth browser. Basically it strips out bitmaps, fonts, and colors and makes web pages look like plain text, and the browser is just an IE window inside a VB form with no toolbar, address bar etc. so to a passerby it doesn't look like I'm on the web.

The stealth browser consists of two pieces. The proxy, which strips the IMG, font, and emphasis tags out of the HTML before the browser gets it (this is a freeware proxy called Junkbuster which I enhanced), and the stealth browser which is just a VB program that uses the IE browser control to display the browser window in an innocous window. Plus, it has an auto-hide mode: if I neglect the browser window for a minute, or press the Esc key, the window hides itself automatically. Then when the "danger" passes, I click on a tray icon and my browser comes right back where I left off. Sometimes it's great to be a programmer. :)

Joey, nice plane you got. I was into airplanes when I was a kid and always wanted a RC plane, but they were too expensive.

See ya guys... KJP




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Paul - they use "clicks" and "hits" when comparing the usage, plus the hours logged onto one site in particular. This killed me on keeping up with TTP as I would just keep it open in a small window and every once in a while click "refresh" to see if anybody posted anything new. So now I just click and check on the TTP once in the morning, once at lunch, and then maybe once mid afternoon, and obviously post as little as possible when at work. I will drop off the list quickly this way as I might be on for about 20 minutes a day now, compared to all day like I was for a while.

It's funny, as I am salaried, I can spend 8 hours or 18 hours a day there if needed to get my work done, but they still monitor my time spent on the web. I told them if I was going to playboy.com at work it would be worth monitoring me, but I'm not stupid. I do that at home! ;)




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[Paul Wu]

Lex, now your getting into the spirit, now what's this 30 days off PLUS holidays? does that mean you get 30 days vacation plus even more vacation time or does holidays just mean the usual public holidays? Can't compete with those banked vacation hours. But I start with 4 weeks vacation, and I've only been at my job for just over a year. :) Plus since I couldn't take some vacation last year, I still have 10 days in the bank.

Joey, that's a pretty sweat setup, especially the mouse click switch. Gotta love when you have to surf the HT groups as research. :) Oh and I was thinking, what will the company do with all that gear that they will be buying? I'm sure they'll keep some of it for internal use, but maybe some will have to be sold off? I see an upgrade opportunity here. Have fun with the model. Loved the engine test.

Kevin, Now that's a great stealth setup.

Greg, Ah, I see. You should easily drop down the list. I've pretty much got my browser open all the time so I would look real bad. :)




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[Gregg Loewen]

Good evening! Where is everybody??

Gregg

[Trevor Schell]

Hi Gregg,,I am here.

Sunday is audition day,,plan to do a sweep of my local audio retailers and check out all the new gear that is available..Work has been so involving recently that I just need to break away and get back to the important things in life.(HT and Family)

Also interested in picking up a natural gas fireplace for the downstairs..Anybody have any experiences with these.

Chasing Amy is the DVD of choice tonight.(Rental)

Hope everybody has a great Saturday Night.




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Congratulations to Gregg Leowen,,just noticed he is a new Admin at the HTF..




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[Lexman]

Paul, that was just regular holidays left, like 8 or something. Anyway, I Was just giving you guys a hard time. 30 days is very good, your lucky:)

Guys, I just can't keep up with the pace over here, so please don't be offended if I don't reply to anything someone says. I just have to move on, sort of a hit and run approach to posting here. This is an incredible thread though, possibly the largest on the net! lol.

If that is accurate, congrats Greg. We do hope you still visit us. :)

Lex

[Greg Stone]

Good job by the HTF! Congrats Gregg! :)




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[Daniel Brecher]

Paul, re: the affleck thing. I can't, it's open to US residents only! Bah to them, I say BAH! I am about to write a short script to enter into a competition the Sci-Fi channel is running here, backed by Mr Terry Gilliam and Ridely Scott however...

Just been watching the closing of the Olympics. Nicely done, but it got a bit silly when peeps came out dancing with cheap bits of metalic plastic followed by ballroom dancers and THEN giant babies in ballroom gowns? What the HELL was that about?

Dan (UK)

PS: All of Gregg's stern work for the LA Meet this november must have earnt him the 'admin' rank! Good stuff and much deserved, I owe the man at least ten beers...

[Gregg Loewen]

Dan, over here beers dont come in groups of 10, you have to buy a 12 pack :)

Hope everybody is having a great weekend. Im at work :(

Gregg

[Patrick Sun]

GreggL, congrats!

Lex, as far as I'm concerned, the only "moderator" for the TTP should be Trevor. :)

Good morning all! I saw High Fidelity last night. Pretty decent John Cusack flick (I tend to like his work). If you've like his previous, I recommend it as a rental.




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[Bing Fung]

Morning all!

Gregg, Congrat's, wha cha doing at work on such a fine weekend?

Watched "Moon on The Moon" last night it was ok, glad I rented it, compelling story.

Watched 1/2 of "Passion of Mind" This stars Demi Moore, the story was slow going (I was tired & stopped the movie) but what a beautifully filmed movie. I was constantly in awe of the stunning images. I certainly would buy this for reference material alone!

Well, The sawdust flys today!




Bing

[Trevor Schell]

Good Morning everybody!!

Let the sawdust fly!!,,Let us know how you make out with this.




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[Joey Millison]

Morning all!
Just woke up and watched some of Apocalypse Now, great film!
Well, I went to fly my new plane yesterday and the results were...well...not as planned...

I got to the park and found a clearing and we "set up camp" to get this bad boy in the air. I hooked up the batteries, tested the flaps, and checked the engine. All was well! The wind was a little too much, but I was determined to fly my "Blue Angel" (I'm going to decorate it like one of the Blue Angels soon).
I throttled up, and pointed her into the wind. You're supposed to throw her like a glider, which I did, but it didn't need much persuation, as it pretty much took off out of my hand without assistance.
I pulled back on the flaps and that sucker went upwards, climbing into the sky. "BBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" Man it was exciting to see it work!
Then, a gust of wind hit, BLAM, it changed direction and started coming back at me, with GREAT speed.
I tried to turn it right, and then left, but it was being carried by the wind (because of its light weight) and hauling some serious ass.
Then another gust of wind hit from the left side, sending it into a spiral, down towards the ground.
The engine buzzed in protest, trying to keep control, but to no avail.
*SMACK* Right straight into the ground at full speed.
I cut off power to the engine and ran over. Much to my surprise the whole craft was still in perfect shape, minus the fact that there was grass stuck on it. I picked it up and waited for a minute, and the wind died down. I wasn't going to be defeated this easily. I hit the throttle to full and toss it again. "BBBBZZZZZZZZ--ZZ--ZZ--zz--z-z--choke---choke---z" *CRASH*
What the hell?
I picked her up and throttled again. The propellor started to spin but stopped immedaitely. The wind was starting to pick up now anyhow, so it was a moot point to try to get it to fly again. But still, something was definitely wrong with the engine.
I take everything back home and test the battery. It's rather dead.
I took everything back to Hobby Town U.S.A. and ask them what happened. They looked at my charger (which is used for the remote controlled car) and realize I was trying to cram WAY to much juice into the battery in too short of a time. I fried my battery. Damnit!
So they're running tests on it, and until then I'm out of a battery, which means I'm unable to fly my plane. I had 30 seconds of enjoyment, and now I've got to wait over the next week. What a bummer.
Mandi took pictures but NONE of them turned out. You can see me launching it in one movie, but then she can't floow the plane, so you see it take off and then all you can do is hear it buzzing around. I'll probably post that later.
But there's my update...the plane is back in the shop...what a bummer...

[Andrew Pratt]

hey guys we survived:) Teh portage was brutal (16 foot aluminium boats are heavy esp on uneven ground up hills. the portage was 750 meters so it wasn't that long but the steep hills and large rocks made it tough going. Anyway it was worth it since the lake was fantastic. We caught a lot of walleye a few bass and the odd northern. I managed to snag a 28.25" walleye which was cool (largest one of the group!) The camp site we picked was great as well nice view of the lake with shelter from the wind and way out at the end of a peninsula. We took a good number of photos so i'll get them scanned in when I get them back and post them for you all.

Congrats on the pronto joey...I've always wanted an RC plane but I always though learning to land one could get expensive!

Gregg so you're an admin now...I wish you all the best in your new role...please don't forget about us over here...

Trevor good to hear your brother is doing okay.

Offices well I'm in a long narrow cubical now that has me facing one wall with my workstation etc along that wall...maps on the other and our continuos window looking out over the marsh on the end. We're redesigning the whole mapping area though so hopefully I'll get some new office furniture etc...I do know I'm moving closer to the other guys in my dept so thats going to be cool. As for surfing during work if our IS dept is tracking that I'm going to show up pretty high since I keep a IE window open all day and just refresh every now and then...email runs all the time as well and checks the account(s) every few minutes. I usually check in first thing, then again at lunch and again before I leave for home.

And yes i would say yes if asked to be an admin:)




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[Daniel Brecher]

12 eh, Gregg? Should have you drunk by at least, ooooooooh 11am? ;)

Got the new add on pack for top PC game 'Rollercoaster Tycoon' today. If anyone here owns this came, speak up because I am planning of building an HTF and TTP based theme park... I'm currently building a movie themed one (Matrix rollercoaster anyone?) and have found a way to make wavs and install them into the game as a specific rides music, so I have my dueling Gladiator rollercoaster playing a cue from Hans Zimmer's score over the top of it. It's the little things in life that please me really...

Dan (UK)

[Trevor Schell]

Hi guys,

Well I was going to get ready to run around town,then decided against it,,just feeling somewhat tired so decided to stay home and relax..Watched Chasing Amy DVD this morning..didn't really have any idea what this movie was about going into it, but I tell you that you don't want the kids present when this one is playing.

Joey ,,to bad about the plane,,hopefully they won't charge you for a new battery.Looking forward to seeing your plane in action.

Andrew,,Glad you had a good trip..a 28" Walleye,that must have weighed close to 6 LBS..very nice.

Dan,,They also come in a handy 15 pack,,but knowing Gregg, he may need the 24 pack case to keep him satisfied.




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[Lexman]

Welcome back Andrew. Just remember if someone asks, your already a moderator. :)

So as to the rest of you ttper's, if I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.

Lex

[Patrick Sun]

Trev, didn't the R rating on Chasing Amy clue you in? :D

Andrew, glad the fishing went well. I don't fish. I just don't enjoy sitting on my ass tossing a hook with stuff on it into the water. I'd rather sit on my ass, sipping on a lemonade, in the air conditioned room, watching a DVD. :D

Re: office/cubicle location - I have the prime corner spot, my monitor is catty-cornered toward the other side of the cubicle opening so my backside is not exposed to prying eyes. Plus, I'm in the IS department, so I am one of the "watchers". :D We don't monitor unless we have a reason to keep tabs on an employee (We have more important things to do than just check the websurfage).

I now get up to $60/month to pay for DSL/CableModel access so that the IS department employees can access our office network via VPN is emergencies can be handled remotely (usually on the weekends). Cool, huh?

J6P, sorry about your RC plane, that premature battery-itis can get embarrassing in front of your girlfriend, huh? :D




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Pat batteries and girlfriends...don't know what you're upto pat but that sounds kinky:)




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[Greg Stone]

Bing - how did the sawdust flying turn out today?

Joey - sorry it was such a short maiden voyage, better luck next time and I'm looking forward to seeing some pix of the plane in action.

Andrew - welcome back - glad you had a good time!

Dan - I have seen the Rollercoaster Tycoon several times in the stores, almost picked it up once. Is it really that much fun?

Lex - good night! :)

Pl@t - that is cool that they are paying for your ISP - $60 a month I would get the best cable modem or DSL I could find for that price, you might even check into a T1 line! :E

Watched a little football today and thinking of watching a movie in a minute. Watched Erin Brockovich last night, and liked it. Easy on the eyes. ;)




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[Trevor Schell]

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[Joey Millison]

Hey Kids,
I was FINALLY catching up on some "chores" this weekend. I updated my page (been wanting to for months) including a movie of my laser show and a NEW VRML 360 degree picture of my HT. It's not the best picture in the world, but you get the idea :) Check it out...most of the changes are located on THIS page.

While I still have the digital camera does anyone have any recommendations of anything else to take HT related for that page? Any close ups of anything in particular?
I hope to have the camera for a few more days as I will definitely want to take pictures of my Pronto ;) and my new statue, both should be here early this week!

Pl@ & Gregg,
I haven't forgotten about the MP3 versions of the 80's collection, I've just had a lot to do. I will try to get them done ASAP. I can make one copy here and then make a copy of it at work, and then I can send them as soon as I get paid on Thursday.

Please lemme know what you guys think of the laser show movie and the new VRML on my page, I wanna make my page kick ass :)

Gotta run for now...

J6P

[Joey Millison]

I just now threw up some new Pronto snapshots...so they're on that same page as mentioned in the above post :)

[Bing Fung]

Hey all!

Andrew, good to hear you had a good trip. ah portages, gotta love those. I remember during one of my canoe portages, I kept thinking about those voyageurs, you know the ones that explored Canada in those 500lb birch bark canoes? Thinking about the distances and the loads thay had to carry, made my portage seem trivial, though it didn't help much knowing that they only live to the ripe old age of 28 years :B

Joey, too bad about the plane..next time Orville!

Just got the rough cuts done today. It was a family supper get together, so time was also required for socializing :(

That 1" MDF is one ugly material to work with. It's so big and heavy, I can't belive some designs double laminate the entire box with this stuff. My front baffle is the only board that is double laminated with the 1" MDF.

One thing is for sure, this box ain't moving no where, no matter how much it shakes :B

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[Pat]

I just now threw up some new Pronto snapshots...
Joey, sorry you are not feeling well...you shouldn't eat snapshots:B

Andrew, glad you had a good time and caught some big fish.

Today is my birthday and I still have to go to work:( No cubicle and no 'net access.




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[Kevin P]

Congrats on the maiden flight, Joey. Just remember, the Wright Brother's first flight lasted only 12 seconds, and their first plane only made four flights before a gust of wind blew it over and ruined it. With a new battery and a calmer day you should have better luck with it. Funny, I just watched the IMAX DVD "The Magic of Flight" yesterday. It was pretty good.

For those concerned about big brother and keeping a browser open, note that they can't tell if you have a browser open or not, they can only detect http requests. If you bring up a page, they'll see http requests for the page and the images on the page, but you could keep that page open all day and they'll never know it, unless they are running snooping software on your PC (and a quick trip through the task manager can disable those quickly enough ;))

So, if you bring up a TTP page and then spend 30 minutes reading it, they'll only see one page request plus the bitmaps. Once it's all read it's local on your PC and they can't tell you're looking at a browser window instead of what you're "supposed" to be doing... unless someone can see your screen!

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[Daniel Brecher]

Greg,

Rollercoaster Tycoon and it's two addon on packs (Corkscrew Folies and Loopy Landscapes) for part of an immesnly detailed little game where you can pretty much control and build ANYTHING. If you're into theme parks and get a thrill from the idea of designing your own as I do then you should give the game a look see... When I do a TTP Park I will be abple to post up pics online, so it doesn't matter if anyone has the game or not, unless you want to see it running of course. :)

Dan (UK)

[Bing Fung]

Morning all!

Happy B'day Pat!

We have a strange system at work where every 1/2 hour you need to log in for net access.




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[Chris White]

Good morning from the right coast. It's a beautiful partly cloudy day in central Florida.

This weekend's movie viewing:
Drowning Mona - (**) occasionally funny, worth renting
Boiler Room - (***) better than expected, recommended rental
The Beach - (*) as bad as expected, inane plot, skip this one
Brokedown Palace (HB0) - (****) surprisingly strong acting, highly recommended
The Guilty (HBO) - (**) too predictable




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[Bing Fung]

Good job watching Chris! That's a lot of work...

Trev, one flaw in the cubicle... A person would have to remember wither he had his pants on of off before he let loose. Senario; Your sitting there working on you spread sheet and you feel the urge for number 1 # 2, well that rim seat is a familiar thing so you just let loose...uhoh, Damn pants were on!

Not you can prevent that by slidding down your pants every time you sit, see the problems ;) ;)




Bing

[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!!

TGIM???

Gregg

[Joey Millison]

Happy Birthday Pat!!! :)

Off to work for me...

[Patrick Sun]

J6P, was it just me, or does "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes sound sort of funny on one of the J6P's 80's disc?

Pat, happy B-day! (I sound psychotic, don't I? )




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[Andrew Pratt]

Happy birthday Pat.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Cool Laser show joey:)




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[Joey Millison]

Pl2,
Is the quality screwy, or are you thinking I have the Weird Al version, or is it just out of place on the 80's collection? What do you mean funny? What am I, a freaking clown here? ;)

(sorry, I couldn't remember the Joe Pesci speech...)

Pat,
I gotta watch how I word things, though throwing up a snapshot does bring a strange picture to mind, doesn't it? "*RRAAALF* Here's a picture of my family...*RRAAALF* Here's a cute picture of my dog...*RRAAALF* Oh, and here's one of me in the third grade..." Heh :B

[Joey Millison]

J6P's Pronto Watch:

Oct 2, 2000
10:42 A.M. - GRADE LANE HUB, KY, US - IN TRANSIT TO
10:41 A.M. - LOUISVILLE INTL, KY, US - ARRIVAL SCAN
8:17 A.M. - MIAMI, FL, US - DEPARTURE SCAN
Sep 29, 2000
9:25 P.M. - FT LAUDERDALE, FL, US - DEPARTURE SCAN
6:57 P.M. - FT LAUDERDALE, FL, US - ORIGIN SCAN
1:04 P.M. - US - PICKUP MANIFEST RECEIVED

[Kevin P]

Joey--I was ROTFLMAO when I read your "throwing up snapshots" bit there. I'm still chuckling as I type this. ;)

Happy anniversary of your birth Pat!

Gregg--congrats on your "promotion"! Best of luck to you there. Were you nominated or did you ask them if you could do it? I know I could never handle it...

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[Gregg Loewen]

Joey: Did you order the Euro version? Im thinking of getting one (again) too. Will JandR price match?

Kevin: I was asked to. I think it was Parker's way of thanking me for helping make the hotel arrangements for the meet in LA. Maybe it is because I was the only non moderator on the VIP tour list. ??? Anyway, Im online so much anyway...

Pat: Happy birthday!!!

Gregg

[Joey Millison]

Gregg,
I'm getting the Euro one from THIS site. I talked to Pinny, who runs the site, and is a REALLY cool guy! And for $259 you really can't complain ;) You should check it out if you're interested :)

Kevin,
I'm glad my talk of regurgitation was able to brighten your day a little ;)

[Patrick Sun]

J6P, the quality is a bit garbled on my copy.

KevinP, it's not my B-Day! :D For some reason, I'm Pl@, not Pat. Heh.




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[Joey Millison]

What an odd occurance...

Lately I've been listening to the Broadway Soundtrack for one of my favorite musicals, 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' (yes, I like some showtunes...no, I'm not gay, heh). And last night Mandi and I watched the 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' DVD. I'm beginning to think I'm graduating from J6P status (being just plain ignorant) to Charlie Brown status (being just plain clumsy).
Think about, Charlie Brown never could get his kite to fly, and I can't get my plane to fly...

Anyhow, as it turns out, I was on Snoopy.Com, the official Peanuts site, and today, of all days, is the Peanuts' 50th Anniversary! How's that for timing?

Here's the first Peanuts strip, the one that appeared 50 years ago today:



Just thought I'd bring it up...it's really too bad Charles Shulz didn't live to see this day...

[Joey Millison]

PS, ignore that copyright doo-dah about it being illegal to distribute it ;)

Pl@,
Lemme check my master copies tonight...anyone else hear that? I wanna see if it was one bad copy or the whole bunch...

[Patrick Sun]

J6P, what is all this talk about regurgitation and you?




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[Greg Stone]

Happy Birthday Pat!




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[Kevin P]

Ok, I fixed my errant post. Happy birthday Pat... I swear, it was a typo! ;)

Joey: Oh good grief! :) My personal favorite Peanuts thing is when Sally called Linus her "sweet babboo". The term "sweet babboo" has become permanently etched into the Patz family vocabulary.

Here's a little Peanuts trivia question for you: What was the name of the red-haired girl that Charlie Brown always wanted to meet? Hint #1: it's mentioned in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown. Hint #2: It's also the name of my lovely spousal unit (though she isn't red-haired). ;)

J6P, what is all this talk about regurgitation and you?It adds a new twist to the term "1 hour photo processing!" :)

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[Joey Millison]

Here's my Pronto path map, just because I have that kind of time...
The blue indicates where the Pronto has travelled, the red is how much further it has to go, and the star is its final destination (AKA My House, heh)... :B

[Patrick Sun]

Ah, sorry, I was slow on the uptake with J6P's "throwing up some photos". Heh. It's Monday for crying out loud!




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[Paul Wu]

Happy Birthday Pat. Hope you have a great day. Doesn't it just suck when you have to work on your birthday? One time I had just started a part-time job in highschool. Well it just so happened that I had to work on my birthday, no big deal I was getting paid. $$$ Well, I find out the following week the 10 hours I put in was only worth $20! That was the only day I worked that week, and when I found that out, I quit right there. Oh and get this the guy I worked for was our neighbour down the street. So I would see him now and then.

More work coming down the pipeline. Will post later.




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

[Joey Millison]

Can't wait to finish these math classes. I mean seriously, will I care what the Pythagorean Theory is 5 years down the road after I graduate and have a REAL job? :B

Pl@,
I was waiting for you to see Pat's post before I said anything in regards to vomitting ;)

[Kevin P]

Actually, Joey, the Pythagorean theorem is about the only one I've ever used in real life. You'll need it when you want to figure out the height and width of a TV screen given its diagonal size and aspect ratio. Now, the 2 gazillion other theorems that were shoved down my throat in 10th grade geometry have been of little or no use since then (except maybe calculating areas, stuff like that is useful when designing sonosubs).

Now having to write out (and memorize) these elaborate proofs was just a complete waste of time and brain capacity. In fact, 75% of what they taught me in school has been utterly useless since.

Uh-oh, my Easy CD Creator just blew up right in the middle of creating a CD. Application error... I think there's a coaster sitting in my CD drive now. And I just upgraded it too. Go figure. Or maybe not... the CD seems to play fine. It must have exploded after it finished burning the cd.

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[Bing Fung]

Just popped it to give Big Brother IS more ammo :)




Bing

[Andrew Pratt]

yup calc area's and pythagorus are about the only ones I have use for...

Man I'm beat today I need a day off to recover from the weekend:)




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BTW for those that know who Jesse Cook is (Bing and Joey for sure..the rest of you owe it to yourselves to find out) I'm going to hear him live Dec 3rd at one of the better theaters here in town (Walker Theater). We've got 10th row seats:)




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[Pat]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes:B

I think all the "Happy Birthdays" I got here add up to double what I got at work...

Going out to eat with the family tonight...gonna get me a big 'ol steak...ummm...steak.




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[Paul Wu]

Thanks for the dinner suggestion Pat. :)




Paul

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[Joey Millison]

Andrew,
I can't read one of the bookmarks you gave me, it's in French:

La Mission de Canards Illimites Canada est de conserver les terres humides et habitats qui s'y rattachent au benefice de la sauvagine nord-americaine, et de promouvoir un environnement sain pour la faune et les humains.

I think it roughly translates to:

Season duck cavity with salt and pepper. Add oysters, drained and chopped, to bread stuffing. Use oyster liquid as part of liquid to moisten. Lightly stuff duck. Place remainder in separate pan to bake with duck. Mix butter, lemon juice, paprika and thyme. Bake duck on rack in covered roaster in 325 deg. Oven for about 2 1/2 hours. Baste often with lemon mixture. Baste dressing with duck drippings. Remove cover at the last to brown duck.

PS, it says to season "duck cavity"...do they mean its butt? ;) I also see "duck drippings" in that recipe...oh man, I'm not even going to ask :B

[Joey Millison]

By the way...

[Joey Millison]

FLIP IT!!! Flip it good...

[Pat]

damn...Joey
Just edged me out.




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[Paul Wu]

Nice flip Joey. I coulda been the flipper if I wanted too, but I was busy, yeah that's the ticket. I was busy...watching, no running, no building the next breakthrough internet technology that will incorporate B2B and ASP with ISP and DSL with PIM tools. Yeah that's the ticket. It will be totaly platform independent and OS dependant run on all flavours and colours of UNIX, LINX, SENIX, and Betnicks.




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[Joey Millison]

Pronto Watch:

6:04 P.M. - DENVER, CO, US - IN TRANSIT TO

[Greg Stone]

Looks like you'll have a Pronto tomorrow Joey!




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[Andrew Pratt]

Guess Joey's going to have "cold" tomorrow and have to call in sick wink wink nudge nudge LOL

hey and thats my 500th post here on the guide:)




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[Trevor Schell]

Happy Birthday Pat,,hope you enjoy the steak dinner.

Joey,,I thought you already had your Pronto!! Hope it arrives safely to your home and doesn't go through the same abuse your plane took..Nice Disney screen,,also really like the looks of your webpage..The laser show was pretty cool to.


Andrew,,congrats on the big 500,,I am not even at 100 yet,,probably post the least on the TTP.

Bing,,I checked out the Autocad on your sub and was very impressed..The final product should look pretty awesome,,I am still a big fan of Infinity too..

Chris,,I agree on your reveiw of 'The Beach'I didn't like it. I passed up on the 'Boiler' several times, but will now have to give it a rent....Watched Edward Scissorhands last night and really enjoyed it.Those pink houses reminded me of my house before we had it repainted.:)That's frightening.

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Hey all!

Not much happening tonight, couldn't work on the sub cause my daugther came home for supper. She got 2 new job offers and needed my advise. So glad I can be there for her :)

Trev, Thanks, it's simple enough to design and draw. Getting it from paper to wood will be another.

Joey: That Pronto track is too much :B Your like me to the power of 10!

You're called J6P for other reasons... Joe throw up 6 Poloroids :B

Paul: Thats' easy for you to say Bro! Nice use of acronyms.

Chris, Trev: Actually I didn't mind The Beach, sure the story was bad, but there was something I liked about it, certainly a renter. I thought Boiler Room was good on the surface and seemed like a good show, but as it went on I thought the story was full of holes and a lot of "As If's!" still, worth a watch.

Kevin: What was the name of the red head girl?

Pat: Hope you enjoyed your B'day dinner!

Daniel: I have a copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon, have never played it though.

For all those that have a web page I have now placed a link on my page to you, hope that is okay. I was searching for a photo in a magazine that would be used to represent the TTP gang, but couldn't find it. if any of you collect Backpacking or outdoors magazines (Andrew), I'm looking for a Powerbar add that is B&W and has a bunch of goofballs on it with a caption that said "Hot Damn they Did it!" if any of you know of the ad and have a copy of it, please let me know.

Greg, Paul, Kevin, send me a photo of your self and I'll link it on the net :)

And if I have forgotten anybody's link, please let me know by sending me an e-mail.... If you have your HT hosted on a page let me know as well.

Oh, scroll down on my main page to see 2 of us enjoying what we love best...




Bing

[Greg Stone]

Bing - nice page update! I love the TTP picture. I am going to borrow the digital camera from work soon and finally get my HT page up and running, once I do, I'll shoot you the link. BTW, it is nice being asked for advice by your kids, isn't it?

Hope everyone has a great Tuesday. :)




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[Daniel Brecher]

Bing, play RCT! It's rockin!

Damn it, I am missing everything here these days, I apologise folks for being late on passing on well wishes to Trevor's Bro (glad he's getting better) and ack, Pat's birthday! Did I miss it? I'm sorry! I'm a bit out of touch these past couple of weeks...

My weight is going dow though, I've very nearly hit the two stone loss mark.

Dan (UK)

[Pat]

Thanks Guys, dinner was great!

My wife bought Men in Black LE and Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam for my B-Day:)

Bing, Nice photo representation of the TTP:B

Well off to work...




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[Lexman]

Um, is this UPS tracking? I want to know where my damn package is. they shipped it 2 years ago, and I am still waiting and it only had to come from down the street! My tracking number is

a;lksdjf;alkshdfhjasdf-329842309832094823098432098asdc;
lkadflk;j32;42309784320983490238n;
asdfkln230432890234lzksdjf;al5302740923409238;
'a;flkj023490238432.lklz;sdfkja;lksdjr02340923809423;klj3;lk32

Please inform as to it's wherabouts, oh, within the next 2 years.

Bing, nice page update. Yeah, leave out the admin that gives out the free stuff. Good move! lol. I know I am a PTTTPer. I guess I must hit 100 posts to be an ftttper. wahahaha.

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formerly lex mann, highlander, also thxguy, and yes wattweiler!!!

You guys got to admit, wattweiler is a damn good username, haha. We may have to do something with the watty image someday. :)

Lex

[Lexman]

darn, I signed that post 2 times, it's just to early! lol.

Guys, I am impressed with some of the technical expertise here. Perhaps we can find a way to use it for the greater good. :)

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[Kevin P]

Hey guys!

So, Joey, are you staring out the window waiting for that UPS truck to pull up? You sound like I was the day my RPTV was delivered! :)Kevin: What was the name of the red head girl?No one has posted a guess yet, so I'll give it a while before I post the answer. Go back a page and check my clues again. A long time TTPer should be able to figure it out from those.Guys, I am impressed with some of the technical expertise here. Perhaps we can find a way to use it for the greater good.Well, I'd say my stealth browser technology that I created to access the TTP is pretty good. :)

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[Chris White]

Good morning from the right coast. It looks the end of summer is rapidly approaching. Weather forecasts call for lows in the 60s on Saturday! Brrrrr!

Why is word-wrap not working on this page?

Trevor: I noticed your post regarding problems with un-playable discs. I can't help but wonder if you don't have something wrong with your 3108. My 3109 has never missed a beat. Anyway, I'd sure like to see a side-by-side comparison of the Pioneer DV-37 and the Toshiba 6200.




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[Bing Fung]

Morning all from TGWN

Of course, how could I forget the Inn Keeper... "No more drinks for you...You're cut off!" Sorry about that chief, Your on.

Daniel: Good job on the weightloss, I know I've forgotten any plans I had for that :) I'll have to get RCT back from my niece..

Pat: Now there will be a second person on this forum that knows what Joey is talking about with that DVD. Oh yeah, Thomas as well ;)

Greg: Now your talking, actually my dream is to someday put faces to everyone, instead of pasting in Bugs bunny characters :B

Uhoh HTG was gone widescreen anamorphic.... I think?




Bing

[Kevin P]

Uhoh HTG was gone widescreen anamorphic.... I think?It's Lexman's post with his really long "tracking number" that's causing it. Lex, can you please edit that post? Most of us only have 4:3 monitors and Microsoft didn't put a letterboxing option in IE5. As a result, we have to use pan & scan to read our posts. :)

One side effect of my stealth browser is that the TTP is always widescreen. What's funny is the HTF wraps properly but the HTG doesn't. I'll figger it out someday, but in the meantime, I just have to scroll.

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[Andrew Pratt]

Lex I fixed that post of yours so it fits our lowly 4:3 monitors:)

Dan you might want to point out that 1 stone = 14 pounds...no one outside England would know that:) Anyway congrats on the weight loss.




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[Daniel Brecher]

Why you supid Ame.....er, I mean... :D

Ok yes, 14lbs in a stone, so I've lost about 26lbs so far...

Dan (UK)

[Joey Millison]

Not sure if I'm allowed to vote, because I know the answer (not because I know her name, I just know Kevin's wife's name because he's mentioned her in the past), is it Heather? :)

The Pronto is STILL on it's way to Denver. Which means it won't be here until tomorrow. *sigh* I have batteries charged and everything!

The Hobby Shop called back yesterday and my battery ISN'T fried. This means I can buy the right cheapy charger and MAYBE be able to fly it this weekend. Watch, it will snow...mark my words... ;) So we'll see what happens...

Bing
Thanks for putting up that banner for my page on your site. I saw it on your home page the other night and was like, "Hey wait, that's my website!!! Whoooo hooo!" Heh heh. And nice vomit joke ;) Only on the TTP would there be a running vomit joke which wasn't related to vomitting at all...this place rocks :B

Congratz on the weight loss Dan! You shouldn't be eating stones in the first place though ;) I learned my lesson with snapshots!

Pat,
Nice...Quidam! Your wife has great taste in DVDs!

Trevor,
Thanks for the kudos on my web page stuff :)

Lex,
One more long post like that and we'll have to revoke your membership ;)

Paul,
We're learning about Simple, Compound, and Continuously Compunded Interest in Math class now. Did you have to learn all of the formulas for these as well?
Like I=Prt, A=P(1+r)^t and A=Pe^r^t
(where P=principal, r=rate, and t=length of time)
Actually, those are pretty easy compared to the other ones we had to learn as well...Vertical Position is kind of a pain to remember...it's:
S=-16t^2+Vot+So
(where S=position in feet above the ground, t=time in seconds, Vo=initial velocity, and So=initial height)
Though if I drop a DVD I'm not going to care about it's rate of descent, I'm just going to want to do everything possible not to scratch that bad boy. I'm not going to pick it up and determine the correct formula to calculate its diameter. Though, I was proved wrong by you guys on the other the Pythagorean Theory ;)

Gotta run...quick meeting...

[Patrick Sun]

Good morning folks!

DanB, congrats on the weight loss. Keep it up, er, down!

J6P and his toys. I think you will have this on your tombstone "He who dies with the most toys: wins!"

Bing, I think those autocad drawings are overkill. :D Who are those 2 TTP guys on the link-pic to the links page? Also, I IMPLORE YOU TO CHANGE THE COLOR SCHEME ON THE LINKS. Grey with blue lettering is really hard to read.

I thought Boiler Room as okay, a little melodramatic, but passable for entertainment I suppose.

I spent more time trying my darnedest to smooth out my table top endcap, but to no avail. sob. I guess I'll just put a cloth on it to hide its scars. Someone, play "Taps" for me.

Everyone else, have a great day. I'm going to lunch!




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Pat aren't piano finish's a royal pain in the arshe to do right? I finally got mine to look okay and just gave up...close enough:)




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[Bing Fung]

Doing my part for BB watch...

Ok, I'll change the colors when I get home, but I think you guys need new video cards or monitors that will show the subtleties of the color range. ;) I don't have a problem at work or at home, but in my quest to improve and not get pelted with sticks and stones.... LOL

Overkill? as in too much wood, or Overkill in should have scribed it on a napkin?

It was needed to design a box that was the correct volume for my intended response. You should see how many of those designs I have on my drawing work space. Many different dimensions and bracing configurations to keep it to 120 liters. Overkill in that it may still sound like crap anyway, that's why I have held on to the eco-sub enclosure. May need to use it again :B




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[Gregg Loewen]

Hi guys!

Bing I just linked to your site. Looks great. FWIW, my new sonotube will be 24 cf. :)

Hope everybody is having a great day, I just bought myself an Elite 91!. I cant stop myself - the price was too good to pass up!

Gregg

[Kevin P]

Not sure if I'm allowed to vote, because I know the answer (not because I know her name, I just know Kevin's wife's name because he's mentioned her in the past), is it Heather?Is that your FINAL answer?? tick tock tick tock... You are correct! (applause) Vanna will show you your prize (oops, switched game show metaphors...) it's a Philips Pronto! It's on its way, you should be getting it tomorrow!! :)

Hopefully you'll be able to fly again real soon now! It's a cool looking plane, a bit like a stealth bomber or something.

Gregg--an Elite 91? As in DVL-91? But you just sold all your LDs, didn't you? What would you use a combo player for? One thing to watch out for--the DVD section on this player could have the dreaded Pioneer lip sync problem. Otherwise, it's a great unit.

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[Patrick Sun]

Andrew, no kidding! I went home and did some more wet sanding and applied another coat of black lacquer. I'll sand that down after work, and put some clear lacquer on it, and then one more coat of black and then clear and just be done with it.

Bing, my eyes thank you.




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[Paul Wu]

Bing, wow 2 new job offers! That's always nice to feel wanted. Thanks I tried to incorporate as many buzzwords as I could. If I had more time I'd through in a lot more. Pictures, I'll see what I have, hmmm, I could send you anything and say that was me. ;)

Joey, yeah I remember those, but I end up using excel formula's. I remember those postion type equations. Other fun ones are present value and future value, plus present value of future cash streams. Anyone remember the quadradic formula? I thought you already had your pronto by the pics of the pronto screens. Those look pretty cool. So instead of using your gear, you'll be playing with the remote? :)

Oh the ongoing computer saga. My aunt got her computer 'fixed' yesterday and I went to hook it up and get her on the net. Turns out it wouldn't even boot. So back to the shop this morning. Turns out the cpu fell out of the slot???!! :E I have no idea how that could have happenned. So looks like I'll be over there tonight to get her up and runnig. I hope nothing else happens.




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[Kevin P]

Turns out the cpu fell out of the slot???!!This could happen, if the locking lever isn't down on a ZIF socket, or the retaining clip isn't in place on the Socket 7 or whatever type sockets.

Oh yes, the good ol' quadratic formula. Haven't used it in 15-odd years. Completely forgot about that one, and I can't remember it now. I used to know it, but I guess it is just another one of those things that everyone learns in school but 99% of us never use again.

On the other hand, I can still remember the names of every girl I ever had a crush on (provided I knew their names in the first place). Talk about useless information. Too bad the brain doesn't have a delete key--I could free up gigabytes of space. :)

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[Paul Wu]

It's one of the Celeron 400 slots. When they openned it up I took a peak inside and there were no clips to be found. Really weird. I figure when they replaced the MB last year they forgot to reinstall the clips.

Gee, isn't that a small list of girls named Heather? :B Seriously, I think I remember all those types of names as well. My memory delete is purely random. Forget things here, forget things there, Monica, huh, where that come from? Now what out of the 100 uniquely different, yet sequetially numbered password do I use with this user ID. That will be the ultimate killer app. A unified user id and password, unhackable, so i don't have to remember a bajillion different user ID's and passwords.




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[Kevin P]

Sounds like the clip got lost somewhere. You have to keep your CPU securely seated in the socket, of course, especially when the PC is bouncing around in the back seat of a car! Otherwise you get no bootie bootie! :)

There were three Heathers, actually, but only two of them were infatuations, and I actually had completely forgotten about the second one until just a few months ago (talk about "random" access memory!). The first one was a major infatuation, the kind you never ever forget (and was my first ever, too). The second one was just a momentary blip on the radar screen. The third Heather was a blind date who ended up becoming my wife. :) Not all my crushes were Heathers though--there was a Dina, a Jennifer, a Michelle... in fact, the Dina one (the biggest in my entire life--will never forget this one either) started 14 years ago this week. :)

I guess I was never infatuated with the quadratic equation, otherwise I'd still remember it. :)

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[Andrew Pratt]

try Math site (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuadraticFormula.html) for the quad forumla...it seemed slow though.




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[Kevin P]

Joey--I just looked at your site, it's looking great! Maybe someday you can help me build my own site. Once I throw up some HT pictures, that is! ;)

Time to start saving up for a digital camera.

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[Pat]

OH NO!!...Kevin is getting sick too:B




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[Greg Stone]

I agree with Kevin, J6P does have a nice web site. Love the new updated pix and the laser movie show. Very cool! Hopefully the Pronto will arrive tomorrow Joey.

Chris - we must be getting the same cool front this weekend, as today it was high of 96 but Saturday is forecast with a high of 65! 31 degree temp swings drive me crazy, why can't it slowly cool down?

Andrew - 509 posts? Unbelievable! :)

I am definitely sliding down the list of internet access users this week as I have yet to log on to anything on the internet. Very very busy after missing last Friday, may actually be getting caught up by noon tomorrow or so.

Trev - did you get Little Mermaid 2 yet for your kids? I'm thinking of getting it if I hear some good things about it.

Paul - good luck on that sick computer. I also hate having 14 million passwords and junk cluttering up my small brain. At work they just changed our access to the network password to expire every 45 days, and you cannot use the old one when you renew.




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Ah, hell, I can't stand it...

Who was my favorite comedian when I was much younger?




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"Flip" Wilson! ;)




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[Kevin P]

Ok Joey, now you've done it... :)

I was at Dairy Queen with my wife (she had a craving, heh) and as I was enjoying my chocolate shake I started cracking up. Heather was wondering what was wrong with me, what was so funny, so I had to tell her your whole "throwing up snapshots" thing! Even a day later it's making me chuckle! :W

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[Lexman]

Sorry about that tracking number guys. Man you all post over here like wildfire. Took me 30 minutes to catch up! I must have been drunk when I typed that post or something. Weird.

Anyway, haha's all around where the belong, and while were not on the subject.

Those of you that have your own website, and would like it linked up in the HTG database, please use the submit URL screen on the main page and submit your URL to be loaded to our database. We really would like more home sites of our members there. After all, you guys are what makes HTG click.

Thanks!

Lex

[Andrew Pratt]

Lex can I just send you the url to my site so you can add it to the guide? jk Guys if you want me to add your site just send me an email with the url you want listed and a brief description of your site and I'll add it...(its part of the other duites as assigned LOL)




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[Trevor Schell]

Good evening everybody!!
Very cold and windy here in Toon-Town..but ..no snow yet although a 40% chance for snow tomorrow.

Bing,,Good to hear your daughter received a job offer..Is this a part time job or fulltime?? Is she still in school??

Chris,,The 3108 works fine,,What the player needs is a firmware upgrade,,this means sending it away while the upgrade is performed by changing a chip inside. I am too lazy to bother and would sooner just get a new one since I would really like to get into progressive scan and the DV-37 looks to be awesome..I just need to buy something new..I think I am having withdrawl and a bad case of HT bugitis.

Gregg,,Did you really buy the Elite 91??,,If you did you must have held back a few discs..Titanic DTS is on the way from Todd.

Greg,(the other one)..I bougth Little Mermaid II when it came out. The kids really liked it and its one of those rare Disney titles that is actually in 5.1 surround. I just went on a huge DVD buying binge in the last couple of days including today..Picked up Jack Frost,,yes we are in the X-mas spirit,,plus James and the Giant Peach,,this title is in DTS,,Also today picked up The Nightmare Before X-mas,,This one also in DTS..A few days ago picked up MIB DTS...plus The Haunting DTS-ES. Thats probably more DVD's than what I have purchased in the last 2 or 3 months.

Have a Good Evening TTP's.
BTW,,Thanks for the Get Well Wishes for Trent.




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Kevin,
That's awesome! That gave me a chuckle to picture the site...funny stuff! Glad I was able to give you a laugh...

I'm watching some Andy Kauffman DVDs right now from his old performances...man they're hilarious! Just the reactions he's able to get from people. In my opinion he was a comic genius! Really funny stuff!

Got my battery tonight for my plane, and a make-shift charger. I gotta get it soldered tomorrow, but with any luck my Blue Angel's going to fly again this weekend, this time for longer than 15 seconds ;)

[Lexman]

Yeah, that works to Andrew, thanks! Really, my motives were two fold though. Get the guys used to using the Guide. I keep trying to tell you it's cool! But it's just a small thing, just drop by and visit sometime even if you want to send your URL directly to Andrew.

Siesta time here,

Lex

[Lexman]

What wimps, I put you boys to bed, and now I have to wake you up! lol.

gotcha you mild mannored ttp'ers.

Lex

[Bing Fung]

Mild mannered my eye.... Where's the nearest phone booth?




Bing

[Gregg Loewen]

Good morning everybody!!

Yes Trevor I got the 91, I couldnt say no for the price! I was going to purchase a DVD player anyway so the LD part of it is kind of like a bonus.

I only held back on 2 titles, ID4 DD and Jarassic Park Boxed. The player comes with some LDs including the Indiana Jones Trilogy in WS so I will be set for a little while:)

Have a great day everybody!!

Gregg

[Chris White]

Good morning from the very rainy right coast. Apparently the "cold" front I mentioned yesterday is brining a tropical depression with it. Parts of south Florida got over 9 inches of rain yesterday.

Trevor - I understand your point re. the 3108. I'd also rather buy a new player than send one off for an upgrade. I'm planning on upgrading myself to either the DV-37 or the 6200 but I'd like to see them side-by-side first.




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[Andrew Pratt]

Gregg I found this incredible deal on a..... jk I think you , jeff and jeremy are all starting to wish I'd just keep my mouth shut LOL. So whats everyone got planned for the weekend?




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[Joey Millison]

TIP for today...don't let J6P anywhere NEAR a soldering iron. Thomas is going to teach me to solder, I just haven't received that lesson yet, so I made a royal mess this morning on my battery charger for my plane. It only cost me about 10 bucks, which is the good news...the bad news is I have to solder on the connection. I pretty much trashed it, heh, so I have to go get another small connector and try again tomorrow.
I'm thinking of going home. I found out the other day that I had a lot of vacation time, so I may use some of that. I get my Pronto today anyhow, and there's NO reason for me to be at work...nothing's going on today.
Having a bad day anyhow.

J6P

[Lexman]

That was possibly a conservative estimate Andrew, lol. :P

Bing, you picked right up on that mild mannored thing ey? :)

Lex

[Kevin P]

Excerpt from "Soldering for Joey 6-Packs": First, let the iron get hot (obviously). Next, tin the tip of the iron with a small amount of solder. If the tip is dirty, clean it with a file or a sponge before tinning. Put together the items to be soldered so that they stay together by themselves (if soldering two wires, twist them together). Then heat the connection with the iron (not the solder itself). Put the solder up to the connection (not touching the solder to the iron directly) so that the heat of the connection causes the solder to melt onto the connection. Use just enough solder to cover the connection and make it secure, and keep the iron on long enough for it to "soak in" a bit. Then remove the iron and let the connection cool for a minute before touching it.

In short, the iron heats the connection, then the connection melts the solder. If you heat the solder with the iron, the solder will stick to the iron and not the connection.

Of course, it's better if someone (Thomas) can show you than for me to try to explain it here, but this gives you an idea of what to look for.

Idiot Warning: The tip of the soldering iron gets hot! Don't touch it, and don't let it touch anything while it's hot since it'll melt or burn just about anything it comes into contact with. A wire stand is useful for keeping the iron in one spot when you're letting it heat up or when you've put it down.

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[Paul Wu]

Greg, yeah we have the same thing on network passwords, but I think it's set to 90 days. Good job on the flip! I was trying to think what the hell does flipping the page have to do with a commedian?

Lex, submit more url's just so I can receive more email? :) Well, we just let you have your fun. Put us to bed and wake us up, eh, who do you think you are?

Trev, I agree I don't think I would ever bother sending out for a firmware upgrade. Having to be without a DVD player would be cruel and unusal punishment.

Joey, good luck with the next flight. So will you be buzzing other people that are hanging around? And wouldn't it be cool to mount some firepower on the wings? Yeah, go for a straffing run. :B

Kevin, that Soldering lesson brought back memmories of highschool shop. :) Did you ever make solder chips? You know where you heat up a bunch of solder to form a little molten blob and let it cool? Oh yeah that molten blob is hot so don't touch it.

I didn't make it back last night to the sick computer, will probably do it on Thursday night.




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[Joey Millison]

Oct 4, 2000 - 9:09 A.M. FT COLLINS, CO, US - DESTINATION SCAN

Or simply put...I called and it's on a truck driving around Fort Collins as we speak. I tried to beat them to it before they put it on the truck, I was going to drive to their office and pick it up, but they had already left. So now all I have to do is hit *REFRESH* every few minutes and wait for the status to go from "IN TRANSIT" to "DELIVERED", and then my butt is in the car and back up to Fort Collins. I'm going to stay at work until it's delivered I guess.

For those who want to know just how bad I want this Pronto, here's the latest Pronto update map. The red star is my house, the red line is the path it has to travel. All they have to do is go north for a block, make a left, go straight for a few miles, make another left, go south for a few miles, and then make a right on to my street. I probably won't see it until tonight though:

[Trevor Schell]

Good morning everybody.

Great movie watching session last night as we watched 'James and the Giant Peach'. A great movie for the whole family to see and the audio was spectacular and comparable to that of Bug's Life.

Next we watched 'Forest Gump' The audio on this also blew me away. The Nam War scene was identical to SPR in terms of sound quality...What an excellent movie.

Hope everybody has a great day.




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Trevor,
I literally drove ALL over town last night trying to find James and the Giant Peach. I wanted that, the Black Cauldron, and Ichabod and Mr. Toad...but the ONLY one I could find was the Black Cauldron. I thought EVERY store would have these three Disney movies...guess I was wrong :( I gotta find the other two now...

How was the picture and sound quality on it?

[Bing Fung]

Way to be there for the Pronto Joey!

Paul, He's Lex, Lex Luther, greatest criminal mind!?


Heather? would have never go it in a million...




Bing

[Paul Wu]

Joey, the future of the internet, all couriers will have a GPS system on the delivery trucks. You will be able to watch the truck drive along the route to the drop off point. Your wait reminds me of last year during Xmas, I ordered a bunch of DVD's from Canshop. They were shipped Purolator from back east by ground, so that took like forever. But I figured they would arrive on the Thursday or Friday. So Thursday am, I'm heading out to catch the bus. As I'm walking accross the street, I see a Purolator van drive past my street and stop on the next block. So I'm like running back to my apt to see if he dropped anything off. Nothing, so I decide to hang around just incase he turns around and I'm like his second drop. Well after a few minutes I pretty much figured that my package wasn't on that truck. Anyway, that was the 23 of December and the dvd's finally arrived in the afternoon of the 24!

Trev, so you were watching the LD of Forest Gump, right? I don't think it's out on DVD. I've got the VHS and can't wait to get this title on DVD.




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[Kevin P]

Joey, it's no use trying to get work done when there's a new toy being delivered to your house. Just give it up, take the rest of the day off, go home, play with the pronto emulator and your other toys until the Pronto arrives. It reminds me of the day my RPTV was delivered, the anticipation, and then having to go to work after the TV arrived.

You'll love the Pronto. It makes running the HT so much easier. I'm also programming a Pronto for a co-worker's HT, so I've been Prontoing all week. I just have to be careful not to get my Pronto and her Pronto mixed up, otherwise on Friday she might end up with the wrong Pronto. :)

Yep, it's Heather. Heck, I probably know more Heather trivia than the average guy. :) Apparently you've never seen Happy New Year, Charlie Brown, or you would have known that little tidbit. (Of course, being madly in love with one makes it easier to remember--I also have that special on LD). I'm going to have to rent the movie Heathers one of these days.




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[Joey Millison]

Having to work on a day when a HT component is being delivered to your house is a lot like waking up Christmas morning and seeing a ton of presents, then being informed that you are going to be able to open them until AFTER breakfast!

[Joey Millison]

Dang it! If I see the words "In Transit" one more time...

"Yes, hi, UPS? This is Joey Millison. Can you please ask your driver to stop the truck, and then find out his location so I can go there to pick up my Pronto? Why are you laughing at me?"

[Andrew Pratt]

ah joey just go home and wait by the door...you won't get anything done at work anyway...




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