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Her Lover
Her Friend
Her Other
We got along
Except for the one occassion
I treated you like a friend
Not the Father in Law you would become
I treated you those few weeks with little respect
I didn't realise then but I realise now
For that I'm sorry
It's a new stage
A New Story
The First Chapter
At first I was worried
Like any son would be
Then I realised, your the one for her
It's hard to believe I'll be leaving soon
I don't care
I used to worry she might feel alone
I used to worry, she'd want me home
I don't need to worry now because you'll be there
And I know, you'll always be there for her
I'm happy you two found each other
At first I thought you might just be the next in line
I'm so glad your still here today
That's why I wanted to say
Welcome to the Family, Paul
I know, you'll be a good Father in Law
And don't be afraid because after all
You know I'll always be here
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Powering with a Fiio E17, no issues there I suspect.
I do have a few mods I need to reverse to A/B again (HM5 pads, some damping material in the cups), its the trebble, something around 4k that gets me, I want to turn it up to hear the mids, but the 4k (not confirmed freq) then becomes fatiguing.
I recabled the uptowns today, bit of a pain, ended up replacing the whole cable with a spare disconnectable cable from the HM5's. There seems to be more bass extension now and no imbalance issues (even at a few days old, I kept feeling like I wanted to adjust the slider to make sure there wasn't imbalance. Couldn't get into the section where the cup pivots on the headband, so added 2 holes through the back of the cups, added small grommets, a few layers of heatshink on the cable coming through the grommets and all done. Not hard cans to work on other than having to add a new cable.
Due to the shape of the cups, the cable sticks out at 30 degrees rather than straight down. The cups don't appear to be deep enough to support making a removable cable without having the socket stand out from the cup.
Love these cans, very happy @ $60.
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The bass extension is definitely improved with the recable. I'm a mild basshead (thus why I went for the 770 80's), I found the sound of the uptowns engaging enough without them going low, but I can notice more feel to the bass where previously there was just the good bass punch.
Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz: Not head rattling, but the punch feels awesome, extension is there. Getting all the way down, just not as much bass boost below 30hz as I would put in my dream cups. Still U / V shaped. To add some context, I thought the 770's didn't have enough extension (what some call sub-bass), I'll A/B again, but these have more power down low and the punch the 770's lack.
Pod De Floor - Major Lazer: lovely. punchy and deep.
Not sure why people say you cant drive them loud enough from a portable device, 85% on an iphone 4 is about as loud as I want to listen.
I'm sure I'm just sounding like a fanboy, what suprises me is how hit-or-miss Philips are, I bought the stretch cans for $30 on sale, I pillaged the pads and sold them, comfortable but dull, but these had potential from day 1.
A/B'ing with the CAL's which I was praising a week ago, no competition. Uptowns are more comfortable, better bass extension (well, now anyway), much better bass punch, more sparkle, clearer mids and vocals. The CAL's are good cans for what I paid (again $60), but the uptowns are gems after a recable.
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[What If?] has solved my annual birthday-present and holiday-gift dilemmas for a large group of people . . . What makes Munroe's work so fantastic is a combination of two elements: his commitment to trying to answer even the weirdest question with solid science, and his undeniable sense of humour. So, here's a "What If?" from me: If everyone on the planet simultaneously bought a copy of this book, stopped what they were doing and read it cover to cover, would modern civilization and our global economy collapse? It's worth trying the experiment. (HUFFINGTON POST)
For the record, I'm loving XKCD's What If -- 'Dear Abby for mad scientists' (NEIL GAIMAN)
Munroe has hit on a wonderful form of science and engineering communication that can do so much-extolling the value of analytical thinking, examining data, and doing back-of-the-envelope calculations-while entertaining readers at the same time . . . an incredibly fun book with quirky, hand-drawn pictures (AMERICAN SCIENTIST)
Thoughtful, scientific, and highly entertaining (PARADE)
If you're the kind of person whose brain whizzes with questions, Munroe's book may calm the noise. He's done all the hard work for you (SHORTLIST)
XKCD is nerd royalty, the alpha dork, there's no geek more widely cited and loved (BEN GOLDACRE, author of BAD SCIENCE)
It's totally brilliant and everyone who matters already knows that! (TIM HARFORD, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST)
Education should aim to teach people to reason confidently about problems that they have never come across before. This book is a great deal of fun, and a masterclass in such reasoning. Like all the best lessons, you only realise you've learnt something once you've finished it (The Economist)
Dangerously absorbing . . . if you have ever been gripped by an insatiable, preposterous intellectual curiosity (regardless of actual scientific knowledge), I could not think of a better book to keep you from doing that essay for an extra hour or two (Varsity)
The reader is left constantly subject to outbursts of laughter, lingering doubts concerning the sanity of the human race, and an ever-growing fascination with the way our world and the universe works . . . Though science geeks will be the first to acknowledge Munroe's greatness, even people suffering from a chronic hatred towards anything concerned with math will find the humour and absurdity of What If? hard to resist (The Student)
Funny and fascinating: brilliant for dinner with mates (Graeme le Saux)
It will satisfy the curious and arouse curiosity in anyone who's not - and it's got great jokes (Irish Times)
An essential holiday companion (Nature)
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Science's most intriguing questions answered by the web's favourite writer, the genius behind xkcd.com.
Munroe's hilarious and compelling answers explain everything from the odds of meeting your one true soulmate to how many humans a rampaging T-Rex would need to eat a day.See all Product Description
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Munro gives detailed answers to weird questions asked from readers on his website. Questions like 'If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change colour?' and 'How much Force power can Yoda output?' There are even some questions that Munroe shakes his head and retreats from - things like 'How many houses are burned down in the US every year? What would be the easiest way to increase the number by a significant amount (say, at least 15%)?'
The answers given are light hearted, but take the challenge seriously and with some impressive back-of-an-envelope calculation and a touch of research deliver convincing answers. There is a distinguished precedent in taking absurd suggestions (admittedly self-generated) and using them to explore the realities of science in George Gamow's classic (if now rather difficult to read) Mr Tompkins books where, for instance, he explores what would happen if the speed of light reduced to a walking pace.Read more ›
Not only are the questions bizarre, so too is much of the real research which is used in trying to answer them. In some cases it's almost as much fun trying to work out why a particular fact was ever unearthed.
Great fun and occasionally educational, but one word of warning - much of the content is from Munroe's website, so if you have been a regular reader of that site over the years then the book will often be a fun nostalgia tour rather than a new entertainment.
Book starts with an anecdote from the author's youth in which he calculated how many soft and hard things are in the world which in short presents the style using which this work was written. And though in the end he admits not knowing whether there are more ones or the others, he will tell the reader many interesting (his favorite ones) stories learned along the life path.
On 320 pages divided in almost 70 chapters he will bring one "What if…" question per chapter and then provide answer which will both entertain and teach you, sometimes even amaze you.
Questions are different, those most ones are related to nature such as "What would happen if the Earth and all terrestrial objects suddenly stopped spinning, but the atmosphere retained its velocity" or environmental ones such as "What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool".
What gives the book an extra charm are at first glance casually drawn illustrations as if they were the result of the game of preschool child with which the pages are decorated which all together leads to situation you'll truly fly through the book, having constantly good time.
And mainly for this reason I recommend Randall Munroe's book 'What If?' as good example that science does not have to be boring if presented in a way everyone could understand (and have fun).
It's written in much the same what that my mind works and how I myself would have written it.
It tries to communicate complex and trick ideas, but it can't help but joke about things that simply lend themselves to it.
A lot of people think science and engineering is a boring. They think that the people that are fascinated by them are similarly afflicted. Read this book and see firstly how amazing science and engineering can be, and secondly what a crazy bunch of loons the people involved in them are.
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All the explanations are simple to grasp, even when touching advanced subjects.
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It's a team ingredient that has been talked about a lot — especially concerning the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Following the 2013 season, general manager Kevin Towers made national headlines when talking about the toughness (or lack thereof) of his own pitching staff.
Towers was frustrated that Arizona hurlers didn't have their batters' backs, and he voiced that frustration in an interview with Burns and Gambo last October on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. Specifically, it came down to an 8-1 loss in L.A. September 9, during which the Dodgers were very comfortable in demonstrating their accomplishments.
"I was sitting behind home plate that game and when it showed up on the Diamondvision of stuffing bananas down their throats, I felt like we were a punching bag," Towers said. "Literally, if I would have had a carton of baseballs I would have fired them into the dugout from where I was sitting behind home plate.
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"I've covered Tony since his Major League debut in 1983, and he's the number-one proponent of 'you're not messing with our team, there will be retribution no matter what,'" Kurkjian said. "Sometimes he takes it even too far, but in my mind, even though I don't like that whole idea, it's better to take it too far than not far enough.
"When you do that and your club becomes soft — this is a hard game played by hard men — and if you have a soft team you're simply not going to be able to compete."
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