TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

now i'm afraid that sounded sarcastic, it wasn't.

I enjoy ILX but there are things about it that baffle me.

I probably only really enjoy things that have aspects to them that baffle me, though, tbh

i don't think anyone sane could seriously believe anyone got rich off ilx donations.

Me, yesterday:

http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/ab5734/better_tomorow_1.jpg

estela: no! Something weird must be going on. Tonight I'll just hack over yr account from here, so the same login will work. keith is still about, but doesn't post much. xps

thanks stet<3

nice side part, ned.

home form work bump!

to sum up: ppl need to stop whining about something that is
1. free (donations don't count)
2. voluntary

I dare you to post that on the thread.

Too sensible, wouldn't get noticed.

i couldn't get through the whole thing... bookmarked for later
(note: it did provide enough reading for my entire 1.5 hour train ride home today!)

i'm too scared

i'm STILL reading it. but then again, i also have a job i'm supposed to be doing right now.

I decided to make brownies instead of read it through so that my family will <3 me.

Maybe later, though, if fluids and electrolytes turn out to be unexciting.

Tuomas, in principle, is awesomes.

you are always baking good stuff. i want to come live with you. xpost

hi nick! what took you so long to get here?

tombot should make itr a private board. then we could pretend we're all really elite.

oh wait, we ARE really elite!

no-one invited me :(

tbh, i don't know how tuomas has lasted here so long. no one ever seems to actually converse with him, just zing him.

xpost i invited you AGES ago

the boy has stamina. must a be a scandanavian thing.

I like to bake stuff, it is true. If you visit, I promise to make these brownies, as they are very good and very easy. (Trust me, it's the recipe, nothing special I'm doing).

Also, if you want to come live with me, that is probably fine, but I'm warning you that the kids wake up early and are LOUD.

Uh... xpost

You are all too fast for me!

you did. but most of the itr goings on seem to go on when i am asleep. i am only burning the midnight oil now because my boss is away at the moment so i intend to go into work tomorrow when i damn well feel like it. (grumbling about the tube for the sake of authenticity)

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i love to bake, but i never get around to it.
sara, you sound like the nicest mommy!

I HAVE FINISHED MY TASK.
I HAVE RE-RIPPED EVERY CD I OWN. ALL OF THEM. EXCEPT THE KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND 2-DISC COLLECTION (lol what) AND THE STROKES (haw 2001) WHICH I THREW OUT.

SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTINGLY THE WHOLE MESS ONLY COMES OUT TO ABOUT 108 GB @ 256+KBPS

i found a job listing for a position reporting to one of my adjunct professors. i emailed him to see if we could talk about it (inside track to employment??) and now i am going to be mad nervous until he writes back!!!

congrats, tom!!

I need to do this. So much 128kbpsness.
xpost

also even though I have the new remaster discs of UF Orb and Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld I'm keeping my old copies because whoa sentimental value I've had those things for like 13 years

I am kind of a crabby mommy, tbh. I'm just trying to keep them from tossing me out with the brownies.

Tom - why did you re-rip everything?

Upt0eleven - hello!

oooh, tehresa, good luck with the prospective job!

is 256 performance qwality? i've considered doing this but an mp3's still an mp3 innit?

hello Sara! yessum pls wiv the brownies.

I've been ripping all the discs I'm selling back at 160 in AAC format, the logic being that since I'm pretty much ditching stuff I haven't heard in years I'm not about to spend too much time worrying about optimum sound quality and which I'll only want to hear one song or another from in the future anyway.

Anyone who visits gets brownies (as long as I have a bit of warning time so I can make them... and uh, the person doesn't hate brownies or something).

I boggle at imagining Ned's music collection.

i imagine Ned must manipulate apace time and have a flux-capacitor to accomodate all the listening.

I re-ripped all my discs because I started buying some things off of amazon's mp3 store, which has everything at 192-256 VBR. After noting that several of these sounded better than a lot of my 128 AACs and that AAC is a totally lame proprietary asshole format for jerks, I deleted everything and started over. I would consider 192+ VBR "performance quality" for DJing and such, I use powered monitors for home listening and I like to crank it from time to time.

I can't really tell hardly any diff between iTunes' ripping at 256 VBR and 320, either. Other rippers might give better results on that front but idk

It's odd, what happens.

AAC is a totally lame proprietary asshole format for jerks

I weep. (Really, I just treat it as useful storage. Regular listening is still done via CD on the stereo system.)

I rip everything at 192. It's my go-to.

Also Tom, every time you post now, regardless of what you've written I'm going to assume you were listening to "Shake Your Booty" at the time you wrote it.

I figure when it comes down to ripping stuff I actually will want to hear regularly (and that time will come) I'll up the rate.

if you change that to "Keep It Live" by the Dazz Band, it would actually be correct.

i think i'm convinced. but i still resent the fact that (merely out of practical necessity) 90% of my listening is from a compressed format. when i move things will be better.

Today my "play on repeat" song has been "Bamboo Banger". I made up a lawn sprinklerish dance to go with the opening bassline while I was getting ready in the bathroom.

(yes I realize how sad/awesome (delete as applicable) that is)

holy shit tom what a task.

i rip at 192, but use AAC because gold cablers told me it was better. will doubtless regret that in 10 years.

I've just been ripping at 320, but I can be a bit zany sometimes.

One thing I've found (and one reason why I'm hardly dumping all my discs at once) is that if I don't have the visual prompt of a CD spine or the like I often forget about what I have. This is obviously in part due to what I'm used to as a personal standard; someone who grew up with iTunes, say, will have a different perspective. For me even using the search tool is not an intuitive approach.

estela: that should be you now, all details the same as here. (I don't know what yr password is btw, we encrypt them)

I'm surprisingly much quicker with coverflow, especially on iPhone. Something about remembering objects rather than names. Hate the blank covers tho