Ahhh, the holidays have been good to me. My uncle got me a Pioneer VSX-516-K reciever and I’m stunned that I don’t have to go under my desk and jiggle the RCA connectors for it to work. Luckily, the soundcard in the not-so-old computer that my neighbors gave me has S/PDIF out, that only requires a 3.5mm stereo jack to stereo RCA to provide me with two (count them, two) S/PDIF outs which means I run the reciever fully digital, using mpd and ncmpc. If anyone else uses mpd and could recommend a good mpd client with a good ncurses interface, I’d appreciate that, in the comments. Well, as Santa is all-knowing, he knew perfectly to get a pair of high-quality Bowers and Wilkins DM600 S3 monitors (speakers, for those not on the audiophile vocab level) which look really awesome. Mine are black (without the stand) and have Kevlar speaker cones! So, any of you out there that want to murder me (don’t the whole world show up at my door, now; in moderation, please), I can block your attempts with my speakers! So don’t even try! From my parents, I got a Sansa m240 1GB MP3 player which I am going to try and start a Rockbox port on. (thread here, for those that feel they can contribute) So, those were my holidays! Aaaand, that’s about all, folks. Oh, one last thing that is probably boring for everyone but me! I had a Spanish homework packet, which described Spanish Christmas traditions. Inside, it described how, for Christmas dinner, a common dish is bacalao, or salted codfish. Well, who knew, but my aunt prepared a bacalao for Christmas Eve dinner! (I didn’t have any; I hate fish to begin with) Well, anyways.. Merry New Year!

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