Blake Noble

I'm going to use that Challenger wallpaper. Very nice and thanks.

Thought this up, wanted somewhere to put it ... Teacher: "Now Billy can you tell me what a quarter of a century is?" Kid: "The ass end of a Buick?"

Two Mitsubitchy Starions, a '68 El Camino, and a Galaxy 500 'vert round out today's notables. Pics or it didn't happen.

What? Seriously? She fits in with the Faux crowd so well I actually never really noticed.

Don't tell Rush. This sort of thing really turns his knobs.

Most of the Madison Co. junkyards have a few 4th-gen 'Birds for parts, just in case you were wondering.

It's comprised of two retards, a rapist, something ugly, and a giant Easter bunny.

Am I the only one who thinks Fox News' line-up looks something like this: In case you were wondering, in those pics you're going to see Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Greta Van Sustren, and Nancy Grace in that order.

I'm only going for a Macbook made after 2007. Older Macbooks are cheaper, but after doing a little research, I'm not game on Mac's processors. I found one the other night for a little over $400 bucks that had an Intel processor with 2GB of RAM. The previous owner also ditched the 120GB Mac harddrive and had a SeaGate harddrive with about 500GBs installed. Bidding ended before I could get to it, sadly. It would have been a great Mac to record with due to the large amount of memory for storing instrument and sound loops.

I've done a little research and found what seems to be the Mac's one true strong suit: they're great for recording. I've used my current PC for recording, and it's ok, but I've spent the past year finding a suitable DAW without ponying up big bucks to upgrade my PC to run ProTools and then buy ProTools itself (I've made a point not to use PT anyway; I'm not a pro, I'm just a guy who wants to record some damn music; plus PT is turning out to be what's screwing up newer music). Audacity sucks as a DAW. Yeah it's free, and yeah it's good if you want to record yourself doing a VH impression only on guitar, but again it sucks ass as a DAW. It doesn't recognize MIDI files, it doesn't recognize most .dll effects and plug-ins, you can't use it as a slave program, it crashes on my PC after you have 10 different tracks in the project even though I exceed the RAM requirements ... I could bitch about Audacity all night if I wanted to. I still use it to record one or two raw tracks at a time but I avoid it if I can. Reaper is basically free and just about the only decent DAW I've found, but it's interface really can make me scream WTF at the top of my lungs sometimes. Effects are buried in folders on top of folders. Using it as a slave for a MIDI sequencer is a bitch. Fading different tracks in and out can get a bit aggravating because Reaper uses a fading tool instead of highlighting and applying an effect. On PC, it's as good as it's going to get, though. I've tried Mixcraft and it was ok, but my "free" copy somehow became a trial copy and after every project ended, the developers started bitching at me and I couldn't mix the tracks down. Since I didn't have fifty bucks to spend at the time, out it went. I never attempted to use it as a slave to host other recording programs, however, so I don't know how that could've went. I had Adobe Audition and loved it, but it's essentially everything Audacity wishes it could be. While it is great to use for recording raw single tracks, isn't a good DAW. You can't use it as a slave, for starters. I've tried Sony Acid Xpress, but I think that's best left to someone wanting to make remixes of another artist's songs. It's limited to ten tracks only anyway, so I didn't keep it around long. I've had an itch to finally record some ideas for well over a year now. I'm using Beatcraft for drum loops and I'm playing keyboards, guitar, and bass myself. I don't have a band because 3/4 of the dudes who actually play an instrument around here wear tight jeans and want to be like The Devil Wears Prada (buhhhh). That's not what I'm about so I'm just going to do everything myself. I've got the raw material here and ready, just sitting idle, I just have to polish it up and arrange it but I've had nothing but aggravation out of trying to do it on my PC. I can't arrange a single demo (or really polish recorded tracks) because the DAWs for Windows aren't as good as the DAW and recording programs you can get on a Mac. Logic Studio and Logic Pro are great DAWs with a buttload of plug-ins and effects and it doesn't have the sometimes bass-akward interface of Reaper. It seems to be pretty straight-forward. I'll also have Garageband to use until I grab a copy of Logic as well (all Macs have Garageband, which is esstentially a stripped down version of Logic) and I'll probably keep it afterward to serve the role Audacity has on my computer currently. I'm not buying one because I've bought into the urban legends about Macs and so on. Since I reformatted my PC and installed decent anti-virus software, I haven't had any hiccups. I don't care about gaming; I was never really into PC games anyway. I'm buying a one used as well; screw paying a small fortune for a new one.

Fingers crossed the dealer will cover it.

oh shi-

"Kent" - Slint don't worry about me i've got a bed i've got a christmas tree inside my head

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I'm just a few hundred short of buying a Macbook. Oh, this thread is about PCs, right? Sorry.

How long does the rusty jones warranty last again?

My colon hurts.

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Shit now wordfilters to peanutbutter.

The Rocket 350 has 360 lb. ft. of torque in '71 model year engines. It was about 320 for the '72 model year. Grand total of torque in the fleet: 680 lb. ft. I can, officially, twist a Camry in half. To color key the bumpers, I'm just going to buy new fiberglass Grand National reproduction pieces. Same for all of the exterior trim (glass trim, grille, headlight surrounds, etc); they'll be repro Grand National parts too.

I want to buy it, install a hatch in the roof and a paintball gun/potato gun turret, get a friend to drive it and terrorize the Walmart parking lot.

If I win McDonald's damn Monopoly peel and win game (I'm actually one property away in each set from winning ... something; even the million bucks), I'll probably go car shopping again. And buy the Grand Regal a paint job.

I like my Audios. I haven't found any US NBs around here.

Say it with me: 50/50 AWD manual Regal GS Coupe in black!

That wound looks pretty deep. I think I know what to do ...