I have just returned from my long drive to New England to pick up a ratty pair of classic loudspeakers which I will restore. And to attend a technical presentation and demonstration of an interesting home theater technology. The demo was impressive enough that I asked what it would cost for me to get a scaled-down setup to fit my music room. “Well, you of course will get the industry accommodation price, so you will need to keep that figure confidential.”
“Of course.”
And he quoted a number somewhere north of the assessed value of my house. I’m probably not going to get this.
Speaking of not getting this, there are birthdays today including a guy allergic to bright sunny weather; a guy who really was a splitter; a guy who knew what to do with communists; a guy who showed that you could be successful just flinging shit around; the weaker half of the Muppets; one more of my fantasies as a youth (god, those lips!); a guy whom Team Red could have actually won with; one of the more horrible people in Team Blue; a decent comic actor AND a psycho murderer; and a woman clearly on the hot-crazy axis.
I am neither, so let’s do Links.
“Don’t these people know what’s good for them???”
Team Red: the party of small government.
Everything is better with monkeys.
“Hey, there’s a hornets’ nest! Let’s stick our dick in there!”
Old Guy Music is a nifty little live recording of a short-lived band that was a cult during my Santa Barbara days. They sounded a LOT like the David Grisman Quintet, and that is high praise.
The LP didn’t evolve into a clown show. It’s what it was all along. A political party of anti-political people???
The idea was to use the soapbox afforded political candidates to expose and spread libertarian ideas. The major parties are sacred of third parties so they fought back and largely took away the soapbox. And the vast majority of the public is fine with that.
Hogan is a perfect Team Red loser. OK, he won in a Blue state – and what is his signature accomplishment from his tenure?
That NBC news reporter couldn’t have been any whiter, could she?
OK caught the clip itself over at RCP and I stand corrected – she did pretty straight reporting. I’m sure she is still puzzled by it all, but she didn’t tell them how wrong they were.
Hogan’s signature accomplishment was unilaterally shifting Maryland’s CCW law from may-issue to shall-issue. I don’t give him much credit for this, but it’s not nothing.
I’d say a lot crazier than hot, but I may not be the best judge of chick hotness.
Based on my widely respected and astute introspection, you are correct.
Meh.
On the outside corner of the hot and crazy quadrant there is a photo of Ann. Poor thing.
Damn, I was guessing Coulton. Sorry the neat toys are too expensive, OMWC…. ain’t it always the way? (See the car “kits” discussion yesterday…. ) Morning all!
Wait… are you sure it isn’t Coulton’s birthday now?
Do you have to re-foam/restore the speaker cones? Scraping the old one off is always a PITA.
From our mutual audio site we actual home theater people are rare. It’s the reason pricing is crazy – a small and steadily shrinking market. Sound bars and Sonos and Sonos clones are the market.
I still keep a standard 5.1 setup on the first floor, but seldom use it. The tv we normally watch is just the tv speakers.
*shrug*
Our main living space has 5.1. I used to listen to music there a lot but then my wife rearranged the furntiure, front speakers are placed in the worst possible location. Definitely sub par. I’ve been forbidden from rearranging the furniture. I setup a 2 channel system downstairs – it’s darn near perfect. I used to like listening to 5.1 mixes on the the upstairs system before the changes were made. I’ve looked into Atmos, I have a newer AVR that supports it. Adding additional speakers to the 5.1 system would cause a battle I do not wish to have. Read lots of good things about Atmos but haven’t listened to system that has it yet.
I still have a Yamaha 5.1 setup that I picked up in 08 that’s been doing fine. Sadly the Onkyo receiver I picked up the same time has since passed away (1 HDMI input at a time). Haven’t gotten a replacement yet – waiting to see where I end up in the next couple of months. Leaning towards Onkyo again…maybe 7.2…but that might not be worth the hassle.
Always helps having a calibration dvd to set up the speakers for placement/volume/etc (and adjust TV colors).
I have 2 TVs, each set up with 5.1 sound (okay, one is 5.0, lacking a subwoofer). Surround sound is my heroin ;-\
My on-wall B&W speaker system from the old place is in the attic right now. I don’t think they make them any longer.
Yeah; everyone’s converted to color sound.
My tiny little den doesn’t have room for anything more than 5.1.
The new Dolby Atmos stuff has a crazy amount of speakers. Cleanly installing and configuring all of that seems like way too much of a PITA.
My room is small enough that I could get away with using active Genelec monitor speakers of various sizes and my receiver as just a pre-amp. Problem is the price of speakers. For example my dream three front channel 8050Bs go for a mere $1,900 each.
I’m using Event 20/20s, having been *very* happy with their 20/20bas in my emusic studio. They’ve held up well over the last 20+ years. Probably better than I have ;-\
mere $1,900 each
Sounds reasonable compared to what OMWC was quoted.
As I’ve gotten older I have upgraded my sound system to close captioning.
/Cups ear
Eh, what did you say sonny?
I was a home theater buff, but that fell by the wayside as life got in the way. During Covid, I was going to the casino more and decided to squander the winnings on upgrading the home theater. I ended up going to a 100 inch projector, Dolby Atmos receiver and Definitive Technology bipolar speakers in a 5.1.2 configuration (I have the speakers for a 7.1.2 but have to change out the furniture to accommodate the additional 2 speakers). I have no use for a movie theater anymore. Also, since everything coming out of Hollywood sucks now, I’ve been buying old movies on Blu-ray or DVD as well.
Old stuff is far and away my preference right now (although some import stuff too). The remasters coming out of the classics – even in 4K no less – are absolutely gorgeous. Slowly upgrading all my Criterion discs to blu-ray (4k pending in most cases since I don’t have a 4k tv yet). My goal is still to collect every Fritz Lang flick – although I’m not sure some of them will ever get a better release than DVD.
And that’s the number one reason I could never be a politician (or a manager for that matter) and why the human race depresses me some days. So, so many people convinced they can run other people’s lives — directly or through technocrats. I get that full anarchy can’t work (people are fallen for one thing [There’s that Catholicism again], but someone has to be able to manage conflict of rights beyond that)… but I have enough fun managing my own life. I can’t imagine the hubris to think I can tell anyone else how to live.
And thoughts and comments like this always make me miss JATNAS being around… because they feel like they verge on sermons.
So, so many people convinced they can run other people’s lives
The part about humanity that depresses me isn’t so much those people, it’s the people who want someone to tell them what to do, who don’t want to make their own decisions. Because those other folks would have zero traction if it wasn’t for people willing to be led by the nose.
Sermon? Nah, just astute observation. JI is right also.
As I have so eloquently articulated many times….herd animals.
Yes, it is depressing.
“People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.” [how can a quote from a silly movie be so damn accurate?]
Objection: The first Men in Black flick w Smith/Jones is fabulous. It nails everything a summer fun film should do, and it does it with style and purpose. It’s an incredible film. Fight me.
“been seen as”
OK then.
As if race simps can see anything else.
That is the kicker. If you have ever spent more that the time it takes to turn and flee with working class black’s and latino’s, you would hear “racist” things all day long. Most people do not care about things like “they aren’t sending their best”, ’cause it is true! Also, people know what a bullshitter is, seeing that half of the world is one (see Jimbo here) and simply roll their eyes at it. They don’t consider it lying, just… bullshitting. Spinning a tale up, playing the dozens, whatever. Certainly nothing to clutch pearls about.
Saying “you ain’t black if vote for Trump”, now, that is seen as racist.
The dems are the party of slavery. Always have been and are today. I dont get it. If the ‘all projection, all of the time’ bit applies it does so nowhere else more than regarding the democrats and race.
‘Ol Creepy Joe has always been a hard core racist and it is all on record.
I really dont get it.
Personally, once a person shows me who they really are I cant ever unknow that.
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to pick up a ratty pair of classic loudspeakers
Did you have to take out your money and Lay it Down to buy them? And now you are going Round and Round with the neighbors about playing your music too loud?
Doh! Wasn’t supposed to be a reply to Tonio. It was a question to OMWC.
Thank you Glib editors and other PTB!
Hear, hear!
Could you push back the Sunday astrology/open thred/2nd & last post to 2pm so Bangin’s doesn’t end before us lazy best coasters get up?
I strongly approve, especially welcoming Fighting Amish to the fray! SPEAKING OF: I went to Indy Qualifiers last weekend. Anyone coming to NapTown for the race/event? Doubt it (?) but never know.
Today is Strawberry Pickin’ day with the whole family. Mini-Me 3-year-old nephew will ’round and goodness knows what exuberant mood he’ll be in. Should be interesting fun.
The college kids still hate you, Joe.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-strikes-deal-where-hamas-gets-to-keep-american-hostages-in-exchange-for-fifteen-votes-in-michigan
Exactly.
We’re sucking up to them while they’re holding American hostages.
What in the everloving fuck.
Yeah, but those hostages are Jews. And what’s another dead Hebrew, more or less?
/Dems
Fuck Gaza.
I don’t want to get an STD, thank you very much.
Thinking back on the ’60s and ’70s and the hippy, peace and free love movement….listening to a lot of what is now classic rock…
Fantastic music but listening to a lot of the lyrics those people were flaming commies.
I wonder if the Jane Fonda crowd ever figured that their ‘revolution’ would come to support wholesale rape, murder of babies and genocide? I dont hear them decrying it.
And those people are running the colleges now. Reliving their sixties fantasies and training their students to repeat it.
Preparing? The wank exercise where somehow Hamas will give up power entirely, the PLO/PA will be the adults in the room, Iran will suddenly stop being involved, and every Pali will suddenly desire a two state pollution? Yet those same retards will sneer and belittle flyover denizens as ignoramuses.
Powerline sucks, but it Saturday,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/the-week-in-pictures-bantering-over-banners.php
“If Paul saw the church in America today, we’d be getting a letter….”
“Give me a ticket for an aeroplane”?
saw the church in America today
Which one?
The one that can do magic?
Fantastic
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-17-at-9.57.50%E2%80%AFPM-1.png
This dishonest cunte can go fuck himself.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/house-democrat-leader-hakeem-jeffries-threatens-maga-extremists/
“Libertarian convention crowd appears hostile to Trump ahead of Saturday speech”
Liberals are not liberal. Libertarians are not libertarian. The LP remains a joke and was never serious.
Look, if we don’t have a strict code of ethics people will be flying flags every which way.
Upside down.
Upside right.
Inside out.
Please don’t tell me you are in favor of flag anarchy.
Flag anarchy like flying flags from 18th century militia groups from New England? I’m for it.
“Black, Latino Trump supporters at Bronx rally shut down reporter asking about his ‘racist’ rhetoric”
Saying “it doesn’t matter what the hell color you are.” is clearly white-supremacy.
This new site format is making my phone even more retarded.
All retarded in the ass?
Hey, slummy! I can now see the entire “R” (“Mark All Comments Read”) in the left edge Monocle functions on my laptop even when I’m logged in and have scrolled down the page. (It was partially obscured by the page header before.) If you made a tweak that fixed that, thanks!
No further changes by me so far, so I’m guessing that’s due to the site layout possibly changing a little?
Maybe depends on the post?
“Mexican cartels taking control of tortilla industry”
It’s a wrap, folks.
Bean awhile since we’ve had Mexican food puns. Jump right in folks.
It is kind of late in the posting cycle, probably not too many replies — so you won’t get the whole enchilada.
Dammit, a taco is not a sandwich. You get the sandwich after you eat the taco.
“US preparing for ‘prominent’ role in postwar Gaza”
Because we are not already importing enough culturally incompatible people.
Stick your dick in Silicone Saturday’s hornet’s nest.
https://archive.is/xcTlL
Oh yay.. So looking forward to these all over the state because of the low energy intermittent sources “green” power is moving us to.
5 million gallons of water, so far
Good thing we had all those water storage bonds and voter initiatives, isn’t it? Lots and lots of reserve capacity! (/sarc)
Good news is CA is all in on low flow appliances!
– “Otay still ain’t okay”
Meanwhile local POS Assembly member wants the state to take over the local electric utility.
Politicized electric generation — what could go wrong?
To shut it down? That seems to be all the rage.
There isn’t enough popcorn to watch the “green” energy fraud play out.
Not to worry, there won’t be electricity to run the popper either.
“There isn’t enough popcorn to watch the “green” energy fraud play out.”
Yeah, but there isn’t any energy to actually POP the corn, now is there?
Central Hudson had among other things billing issues due to estimated readings, and the usual grandstanders went nuts the same way they do with landlords.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/25:
*24/24 words (+5 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 05/25:
*42/42 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 382
Even though I didn’t get many bonus words, I still think that puzzle knows where its towel is.
I played https://squaredle.com 05/25:
*42/42 words (+15 bonus words)
📖 In the top 2% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
It’s only the icky blacks that are going for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-rappers-bronx.html
The Dems really have a stroke of luck there – accused murderers are definitely going to be shunned by the hip-hop community
Jetpack has locked your site’s login page.
Your IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx has been flagged for potential security violations.
Huh, guess the new backend don’t like proton VPNs.
It always did that when I tried Tor.
I’ve always been on Proton from this particular location, first time occurrence for me. Might just be the particular server that was selected this session.
Downloaded monocle on my new machine finally – I see the special buttons on the posting window – but I don’t see the tab buttons for skipping between new posts. As far as I can tell from noscript, everything is enabled. Was that a different plug-in?
I am having a similar issue. Is it not optimized for Brave yet?
May be a Monocle (master branch) vs Eyepiece difference; the latter doesn’t have the new post buttons.
I haven’t actually looked at Monocle in a bit – I get some cycles (a big if) maybe we can look at merging the features of the two branches.
Master branch
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/raw/master/monocle.user.js
Eyepiece branch
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/raw/Eyepiece/monocle.user.js
Only this branch has been updated recently
As directed, I changed to Eyepiece and I get my “hide old posts” functionality back, although the ‘buttons’ have moved to the left side of the window, instead of along the bottom ala Monocle. GT’s trouble reports now make a lot more sense.
Crackpot
Founded in 1971, the Libertarian party is committed to limiting the size and scope of government, and gained 1.2% of the national vote in the 2020 presidential election. But with this year’s race looking tight, Kennedy, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and environmental advocate, and Trump, the Republican nominee, are chasing votes at its its convention in Washington.
Early in a 45-minute speech, Kennedy made light of the recent revelation that he had a brainworm more than a decade ago. Accusing past leaders of repeatedly encroaching on personal liberties, up to and including the coronavirus pandemic, he said to applause: “Maybe a brainworm ate that part of memory, but I don’t recall any part of the United States constitution where there is an exemption for pandemics.”
Addressing a few hundred delegates, Kennedy accused Trump of allowing the government to abuse individual liberty during the pandemic. He said: “I think he had the right instinct when he came into office. He was initially very reluctant to impose lockdowns, but then he got rolled by his bureaucrats. He caved in and many of our most fundamental rights disappeared practically overnight.”
Kennedy earned further applause when he asserted: “All of our constitutional rights were ploughed under. They closed all the churches but they kept open the Walmarts and the liquor stores.”
That guy’s nuts. Don’t listen to him.
Kennedy wants to plow under all those rights enshrined in 2A.
Kennedy accused Biden of “a programme of coercion and information control” during the pandemic, repeating unfounded claims that Biden colluded with the FBI to coerce social media sites to allow government agencies to carry out “an obscene orgy of federal censorship”. He said it went from “medical misinformation” to “an entire censorship industrial complex” that also suppresses critics of the war in Ukraine.
Coronavirus vaccines were deemed safe and effective by the US government and its regulatory agencies as well as the World Health Organization. The first two years of Covid vaccines saved an estimated 3m lives in the US alone, according to a study published by the Commonwealth Fund.
The man’s a dangerous lunatic. We’d all be dead if he had his way.
Ju$tice
Exactly two years after the Uvalde school massacre, families of victims Friday filed multiple state lawsuits in California and Texas against social media giant Meta, Activision — the maker of the popular video game “Call of Duty” — and Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the AR-15 which the teen gunman used in the shooting.
The wrongful death lawsuits come just two days after the same group of 19 families reached a $2 million settlement with the city of Uvalde over the May 24, 2022, Robb Elementary School massacre, which killed 19 students and two teachers.
One of the two lawsuits was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against both Activision and Meta – Instagram’s parent company. The second lawsuit, against Daniel Defense, was filed in Uvalde District Court.
The lawsuits were filed by attorney Josh Koskoff, who is also representing the same 19 families who were part of Wednesday’s $2 million settlement.
Nothing soothes the soul like a big pot of money.
I have zero sympathy for any parents involved in these lawsuits.
Friday’s lawsuits claim that Instagram, Activision and Daniel Defense have been “partnering…in a scheme that preys upon insecure, adolescent boys,” attorneys said in a news release.
Talk about your conspiracy nuts…
Talk about projection. The government preys on kids far more than anyone else.
^
Husband went to breakfast with his dudebropals, and he brought me back eggs Benedict. I <3 him so much.