Have you ever woken up so early you try to reason with your alarm clock? This morning i had to wake up at 5:30 to pick a friend up at 6:00 to take her to the airport. I of course stayed up way to late (about 2:30 or so). Shortly after I closed my eyes my alarm goes off, violently. As i fumble with the phone to turn it off i find my self mumbling at my phone; "Oh come on, FIVE THIRTY, who needs to be up that early. 10 more minutes come on man!". I finally manage to hit the snooze and then do possibly the worst thing you can do after waking up to deal with your alarm. I lay back down and try to go back to sleep.

I presume most of you internet types have done this, because when your alarm goes off those 10 minutes are precious. The only reason that you feel so tired is because you didn't get those last couple minutes of sleep. It has nothing to do with the late night bender, or extracurricular activities, or the fact that you got 2 hours of sleep. If you only had ten more minutes right? WRONG. Those ten minutes are the fine print of waking up. Sure you can go back to sleep for ten minutes, because who wants to get up when you could go back to sleep right? Well if you get up you could potentially be done with a shower, or at least in the shower, which makes things substantially better. But no, you chose to sleep more, so lay your head down for those ten minutes. But you cant just fall back to sleep right away can you? No that takes time, damn now you've wasted two minutes thinking about how you cant fall back asleep right away. so you do everything possible and think you fall asleep, then you think you overslept, and look at the clock. Nope two more minutes left, and now you try to wring all the sleep out of those two minutes you possibly can. But lets be serious, unless im being tapped on the shoulder right now.... which my future self hasn't done, meaning i most likely haven't designed a time machine, then those two minutes are still two minutes. Ya just looked, no future me, so you are now fighting with you alarm clock pleading for more time. But your alarm clock cant help you, it is just the cruel cold uncaring enforcer of the laws of time; And alas those laws say you need to drag your ass out of bed and take that shower, which you would have been done with by now had you not of taken those last 10 minutes of guilt laced panic inducing sleep.

Quick post just to vent about how excited i am about my most recent purchase.

I have recently acquired a HiFiMan EF2A DAC/Vaccum tube amp, and it is amazing. My ears are in heaven, and after digging up some lossless encoded songs (which I never got alot of because I never noticed a difference) I realized how much detail and clarity is lossed on modern MP3. It is seriously mindboggling how much more there is to some music.

Updated with Russian Voshkod 6ZH1P - EV Tubes [ 6Ж1П-ЕВ ]

Best thing my ears have ever heard [ . ] 

Ya know whats crazy?

Ya know what’s crazy? The elderly. Most of us dismiss our elders as old windbags who slow us down; when our predecessors had it right. Sure they might smell funny and be slow. But they have so much knowledge, and so many stories. I mean, I cannot fathom having lived for almost a century. To have been born at a time when Cars were newfangled devices, and live to see the day when cars were a necessity (for us Americans’ it seems anyways) and you could talk to someone face to face around the globe, or even in outer space. It boggles the mind to think of how many good stories there are rattling around in their heads. Just imagine what they have seen in done in 70, 80 or even 100 years. It’s mind-blowing to thing of all the changes they have seen, to watch the world around them evolve and grow into this vast interconnected world we live in today. Imagine a time where you didn’t text someone when you were getting ready to leave, right before you left, when you left, when you got stuck in traffic, when the traffic started moving again, when you got off the highway,. When you were almost there, when you parked, and when you were outside their door. Imagine just, meeting people, or waiting for them. What a quiet and much more relaxing pace that must have been. To take your lunch break and actually take a break; not be inundated with emails and phone calls from work since really you never left work, you just have a very mobile office.

So next time you talk to your parents or grandparents, or that nice old lady crossing the street, take the time to have a quick chat or tell them how appreciated they are or even just that their hat looks nice. 

So it’s been a little bit since I’ve posted. I know I’m a bad bad man. Sorry to those two people who have checked out the blog!

How about some art to make up for it?

 Here’s the first sketch I did as an idea for the banner. I imagined the guy on the left with a speech bubble saying something along the lines of "so.... every met a bicorn?" or "So... too hip for antlers?" Since of course unicorns are the hipsters of the Equidae family. Or anorexic Rhinos, whatever. They are freaking cool.
Anyways sorry for the delay in updates! I have a review coming of between the Nexus 4 and the S3 and some sort of holiday goodness.


Until I get the review sorted out, enjoy the horrific attempt at drawing and stay tuned (or ya know check back, don’t hit f5 constantly until there is an update, poor guy gets beat up all the time).


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Not sure whats up with the formatting on the last half. I blame word.