what if it's poltergeist maggot ghosts?

that's certainly how professional displays are done. kinda hard to find rocketry supplies these days for the average joe though. over an hours drive to the nearest hobby shop that carries estes products where i live. then when you get there you find that all they have are 3 or 4 rockets that have premade plastic fin modules tubes that need no sealing or dope and the only engines that are available are wimpy anemic ones that will barely push your craft past 350 feet. when i was a teenager we could order kits and engines from Competition Model Rocketry. they had E and F grades of engines, some had initial thrusts of over 60 lbs and a 7 second burn! some models could break the sound barrier and reach altitudes of a mile or more. those were the days...*wipes little tear from eye

electrostatic headphones tend to not be that heavy, but nobody is going to confuse a pair of crappy beats with a pair of STAX.

speakers of high quality tend to weigh more due to the design of a housing that doesn't resonate and color the sound (damping materials, thicker and denser housing, internal bracing) also a decent magnet to push the drivers adds considerable weight. this is why the speakers from a cheap wall mart shelf system weigh just 2-5 lbs (thin cheap plastic shell, no damping tiny crappy magnet) while high end bookshelf speakers weigh 25-80 lbs a piece. some of the ultra high end floor speakers in the 100,000$+ a pair price range weigh as much as 5oo lbs a piece. the same principle applies to headphones on a smaller scale.

he also apparently can't afford an irony detector....

you know that if you type the word joke into your google search bar it'll pull up a definition for you, right?

sounds nice. i went to a small private art school (MICA) and working 30 hrs a week made virtually no dent in my expenses even with extensive scholarships pell grants and hefty family help. can't exactly say i regret it but i feel like someone somewhere could have made the implications of attending a school that was 32,000$ a year for tuition alone with up to 8000$/year in supplies (then feeding and housing in Baltimore in the late 80's) just a bit clearer. especially considering what the job prospects for a recent grad with a painting or sculpture degree are.

i'm not sure what just happened here, but it made me laugh out loud (IRL) so i don't care.