JSmith
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What is this thread even about anymore?
JSmith
JSmith
I think ASR was slow for a couple of days and this thread became a meeting place for whatever goes...What is this thread even about anymore?
JSmith
I see... why not.I think ASR was slow for a couple of days and this thread became a meeting place for whatever goes...
Perhaps about the time it got to Monty Python? (although that was quite good)
My USA address has changed 3 times & the house has not moved. Originally the lot (in 1964 before we built the house in 1965 [and for many decades after]) was 1328 Relyea Ave.I am at a fixed address for the next decade(s)+ for sure... In Canada and no tropical excursions.
Change address every 5 years like the modern day employee, problem solved.My USA address has changed 3 times & the house has not moved. Originally the lot (in 1964 before we built the house in 1965 [and for many decades after]) was 1328 Relyea Ave.
Then, in the 1990's, the government changed it to South Relyea & North Relyea (because it is an incomplete loop on a peninsula that has one road from the entrance of the peninsula that runs into the middle of the loop and the emergency services people couldn't figure out that higher numbers where on the left side of the loop & lower numbers where on the right side of the loop (because you are starting in the middle of the loop instead of at the beginning of the loop).
Then, in the 2000's, someone built a house on North Relyea that had the same numerical address (1328) as our house on South Relyea
This again, confused the emergency services people.
So they changed the name of the loop back to Relyea Ave & renumbered it so that now our house is 1508.
We have many relatives and friends all over Europe & Asia & this has really screwed them up with both mail and when they come to visit, as GPS still has varying addresses for us or says that our addresses don't exist.
Naturally, the government says that they did no screw anything up, that they just corrected a mistake (and then again, the mistake that they made the second time).
In Northern Spain people don't say "Adios" anymore. Now it's "hasta luego" - "until later (then)..."That's why where I live almost everyone throws in a "si Dios quiere" after any claim about the future. The more secular may use Ojalá instead. Rural philosophers all.
I have to admit that now when I hear North Americans or Europeans saying, "See you next year!" or the like it seems like they're asking for trouble .
We live on a street that, for reasons unclear even to our local Postmaster, the USPS does not deliver to. As a result, the dozen or so houses on the street have USPS PO Boxes as our official addresses. It gets worse, though, because our addresses are PO Boxes in a Post Office of a village in our town, but our street is not technically in that village.My USA address has changed 3 times & the house has not moved. Originally the lot (in 1964 before we built the house in 1965 [and for many decades after]) was 1328 Relyea Ave.
Then, in the 1990's, the government changed it to South Relyea & North Relyea (because it is an incomplete loop on a peninsula that has one road from the entrance of the peninsula that runs into the middle of the loop and the emergency services people couldn't figure out that higher numbers where on the left side of the loop & lower numbers where on the right side of the loop (because you are starting in the middle of the loop instead of at the beginning of the loop).
Then, in the 2000's, someone built a house on North Relyea that had the same numerical address (1328) as our house on South Relyea
This again, confused the emergency services people.
So they changed the name of the loop back to Relyea Ave & renumbered it so that now our house is 1508.
We have many relatives and friends all over Europe & Asia & this has really screwed them up with both mail and when they come to visit, as GPS still has varying addresses for us or says that our addresses don't exist.
Naturally, the government says that they did no screw anything up, that they just corrected a mistake (and then again, the mistake that they made the second time).
I found it OK...We live on a street that, for reasons unclear even to our local Postmaster, the USPS does not deliver to. As a result, the dozen or so houses on the street have USPS PO Boxes as our official addresses. It gets worse, though, because our addresses are PO Boxes in a Post Office of a village in our town, but our street is not technically in that village.
We all have street addresses (since even our weird little New England state has statewide emergency 911 phone service, as required by law) -- but our street addresses are in a different town and a different zip code than our legal addresses (which, again, are PO Box numbers).
This causes no amount of fun when something is being shipped to us via UPS or FedEx.
On the other hand -- if the Black Helicopters ever come looking for us, I am pretty confident that they'll thunder right on past.
Corollary PS: If you plan a visit here, do not use GPS to find us. The one place you are pretty much guaranteed not to end up is here. Worse yet, local authorities probably won't find your remains until after mud season next spring.
touche.I found it OK...
I think that they feel it's honorable because it's a nod to HiFi (the second syllable of Chi-.I could imagine a (near) future where the "slur" usage is greatly outweighed by the "badge of honor" usage, around the web. After all, they are putting out most of the best performance per dollar gear, for years now.
I've visited some Chinese audio factories, the people working in that industry are no-nonsense and know what they're doing, even if they're not pushing the hi-fi envelope. Those visits made it clear to me that if "chi-fi" had a bad reputation in the west, it was 100% because westerners (the sourcing people) were intentionally asking for garbage. It seems to me they can hit any performance target you ask for, and on a reasonable budget.
DC: they had 107 different beers that I tried & great Vietnamese restaurants (which is where my Jewish girlfriend taught me how to use chopsticks).Wow, that was one of the few areas that still had a decent residential base. So much of the City was dead after work hours back then. Completely different these days.