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i mean, how does it sound different? i can't possibly imagine it being more dynamic, since it's pretty flat, volume wise. ie. i don't really understand how it would benefit from 24 bit resolution. i want to see a direct comparison/analysis to see what i'm missing out on, if anything. and since i don't have the 24 bit wavs, i can't do it myself.
i guess you didn't notice the quiet fade in on r ess?
with the 24bit WAVs you can hear it fade in at least 29.7% quicker than if you were listening to the 16bit WAvs (or the CD).
if you have the vinyl though, you can hear the fade around 40-70% quicker than any other format.
at least in the listening tests i've conducted.
yeah on the vinyl you hear the fade come in REALLY early. within 10 seconds approx. on the mp3s and the cd it's at least 20 seconds or so.
actually you're full of shit, because i'm full of shit
LOL.. gotta be shitting me
oh shitting shit it
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Wow, I didn't know so many people got these. The first time it happened I thought it was an acid flashback at first then thought that I was going blind.
I get the auras and the ophthalmic effects quite frequently (though less frequently since stopping medication) but I never get the headaches - which I count myself extremely lucky for, as the auras only last for about half an hour to an hour, but my mum gets the headaches and they can last for days.
I painted mine after one of the attacks...
They're irritating to scary (especially if they happen at work) but I do kinda find them slightly inspiring, in terms of trying to recreate the effects through visuals or music.
Ugh, that looks close enough to mine to make me anticipate the onslaught. Dragon's old flashing avatar/sig did, too. lol.
My migraine rate has been slowing down in the last few years, but around 2004-2005 I'd be hiding under the covers a few times a week. Some of that seemed to be related to a bit of serious sleep deprivation, and I've really been trying to get at least 6 hours a night as much as I can since '05.
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I was just reading this thread when a 5.9 mag earthquake started rocking my desk, and for a split second I was all "Grampy, is that you?"; also, I'm drunk.
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says Mr ouija....So no one can shed some lights on the correlation bzetween drugs and ghosts ?
Only weird thing I had happen was when I was 15, I had a blacklight poster of a wizard that hung right across my bed. Every time I came home from school, it would be on the floor. I would put a lot of adhesive on the poster, but still it always came down. Finally, after the 5th time I hung it up, I woke up in the middle of the night to a tearing sound and a flapping sound. I continued to lay down and then a few seconds later heard another tearing sound, followed by a flapping sound. I then heard it again and heard the poster fall on the floor. It sounded like someone took the poster down corner by corner until it fell. I decided to leave it down after that. Do i believe in ghosts? No, I need solid evidence for shit like this. Still weird though.
^ correlation.
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I once went to Mexico and brought back this adorable hairless dog but when I got back to the States I found out IT WAS ACTUALLY A GIANT HAIRLESS RAT ARRRRRRRRGH!
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mmmm. schoko balls
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Holy crap, that's fantastic news.
And that title has some serious Sean & Rob to it.
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Truth.
Kaini, is Interface better than the Cobweb? I have the Cobweb sitting on my shelf, it's up next.
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I'm in the middle of re-reading Foucault's Pendulum and it's fun!
i saw this post and was immediately intrigued, thinking "shit a michele foucault book i've never seen or heard of", yet it turns out to be a book about another foucault i've just never heard of! nonetheless i was left just as intrigued after reading the plot summary of pendulum as i was upon being mistaken of the works original author lolz.
EDIT: i'm not sure how i've never heard of this book now... it seems very popular, lots of info on it.
The best part is once you've read it you're legally entitled to throw a hardcover version at people's heads when they mention that they think the Da Vinci Code is either well-written or well-researched. Since that happens frequently, you get a lot of no-liability battery opportunities.
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St. Epreo and os viex 3 are especially tasty.
I never got the St. Epreo "wtf is this shit" thread, unless a few people at the time of the leak had been thinking that the ending of d-sho was the beginning of Epreo.
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Haha, yeah. . . I'm debating on just going back and reading the Baroque Cycle --> Cryptonomicon--> Anathem (narrative-chronological order, I guess)
actually, wait wait wait.
one of the four cosmi that the avout encounter is earth, more or less - the laterrans. they talk about godel and speak french and in a bit i nearly pissed myself laughing reading, raz talks about the laterran who infiltrated the convox 'talking about cheese for ten minutes'
when they get launched into space in a rather slapdash manner. so jad wouldn't be root, but rather a root from an alternate narrative, or else it reinforces his hints that root possesses the ability to move beween narratives. actually
hurr durrrlol. I'm with you.
I should have said Root is a laterran/antarct Jed analogue, if not an actual alternate. Or maybe, rather, the Societas Eruditorium is a Thousander analogue, in some stage of development. There was a moment that I thought the text highlighted/made the connection, if vaguely, but I'd need to re-read Anathem to find it; could have been some post-reading unconscious dream fill-in anyway. Because I want it to be the case so much!
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finished anathem, which was fucking great. started david mitchell's cloud atlas, which is interesting. i like the way the first part ended mid-sentence.
Man, I loved Anathem. I read it about a year ago and I'm getting the urge to re-read now.
edit: Fraa Jad is totally Enoch Root lawl.
i thought the same!
stephenson is such a fucking nerd, i love the fact that enoch is 'root'. damn, i think i wanna reread cryptonomicon. and i never finished quicksilver. you heard the cd that accompanies anathem? some of the weirdest music i've heard in a while.
Haha, yeah. . . I'm debating on just going back and reading the Baroque Cycle --> Cryptonomicon--> Anathem (narrative-chronological order, I guess), but that's a pretty extensive time commitment. I liked the Baroque Cycle quite a bit, but Quicksilver itself was a bit of a tough slog. If the whole of the Baroque Cycle is one Stephenson novel (which is basically the case), Quicksilver is really just the lengthy world-building intro, and the Confusion is where the plot starts veering off in unexpected and interesting directions (it's aptly named as a volume, I guess).
I need to check out the Anathem music; I heard a few samples when they were posted to his website, and it definitely sparked my interest.
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finished anathem, which was fucking great. started david mitchell's cloud atlas, which is interesting. i like the way the first part ended mid-sentence.
Man, I loved Anathem. I read it about a year ago and I'm getting the urge to re-read now.
edit: Fraa Jad is totally Enoch Root lawl.
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it's times like these you just pray that rdj lurks here.
Hi, Richard.
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It's based around Los Para Noias.
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I caved in to hipster pressuring and am now reading House of Leaves. Given how popular it is with people who think Lost is well-written, I'm not expecting much. At first I was "ahh, yeah, clever, sorta" and now, 150 pages in (plus corresponding appendix reading), I'm all "I get it, I get it, jesus fuck, please move on, conceit well-established."
But I'll withhold judgment until I finish.
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The CD text comes up correctly on my car's cd text readout.
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I like that the photo on the album cover is so sharp and modern compared to ICBYD's rough painted portrait.
Is it a photo, though? I always thought it was a bit of a hybrid, with Rich's smile painted in -- if you look at the lower half, it looks a bit more photorealistic than the ICBYD cover, but not as photorealistic as the nose-up portion of the RDJA face.
Edit: I mean, obviously the image has been manipulated, but the more painterly smile area seems kind of deliberately reflective of the ICBYD painting.
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It's definitely my favorite off of the RDJA.
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Here's another Asva clip. Wish there were better/more samples out there, but I fucking love Asva, and Trey's mustache.
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If you can track down any stuff by Asva (Futurists Against the Ocean, or even better, What You Don't Know is Frontier), get it. Asva includes members of Sunn O))), Burning Witch, and Secret Chiefs 3 (eg, George Stuart Dahlquist, Trey Spruance(!), etc).
It's pretty great stuff, with a diverse tonal/instrumental palette.
This clip isn't even the full track (edit: and whoever put all that work into the animation ends up just looping it for the duration of the audio), but it's a start.
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hurr durrr
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no he's never felt this way before
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