Coarse Gold

Does anyone know of an adaptor that would plug into a USB port and provide a powered mic/line-in jack?

I found a great gaming headset, but the problem is it needs a powered mic jack, which the MacBook Pro eschews for an unpowered line-in. It'd work fine with my desktop, but I don't have that set up right now. As I like the sound quality and comfort, I'd love to keep this set, but I can't seem to find an adaptor through my google-fu.

Actually, there's something to the irony.

A couple of his less-taught, less-published poems.

Summa

The best ideal is the true
  And other truth is none.
All glory be ascribèd to
  The holy Three in One.

And another, without title.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;
As tumble over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked strike tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves--goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.

Í say móre: the just man justices;
Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is—
Christ—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.

"Kitchen Remodelling by Homoerotic Locals"

In all this other discussion of pornography, there is an interesting note struck regarding the difference between speech and images. (I normally have been unimpressed with Salvo's methods, but this interview is more interesting than their norm of trying to make Touchstone's pet issues "cool" to 20-somethings with a college education.)

There is something inherently different between information presented by text, and that by the image. And with the rise of--first--photography, and now videography, we are in a very different situation from the one of those who enshrined freedom of speech in our Constitution. (The argument that such a difference was intended is less believable, but it is obvious that the situation of 1860--much less 2009--was inconceivable by those in 1788.)

The comments on the sex-industrial complex--boiled down to this snarky flowchart (an example of why I do not like Salvo's approach)--are also an interesting part of this, but I'm far more interested in the discussion of what we think is an inviolable right to the production of imagery, even images that actually assault persons with false feelings of intimacy.

Verily, Jonah the Prophet was caught but not held in the belly of the whale. But being a sign of thee, O thou who didst suffer and wast delivered to burial, he came out of the whale as out of a bridal chamber, and cried unto the watchmen, "In vain do ye watch, O watchman; for ye have neglected mercy."

Thou wast killed, O Word, but was not seperated from the body which thou didst share with us; for even though thy temple was dissolved at the time of the Passion, the Person of thy Divinity and Humanity is one only; and in both thou art still a single Son, the Word of God, God and Man.

The fall of Adam resulted in the death of a man, not God; for though the substance of thine earthly body suffered, thy Divinity hath remained passionless, transforming the corrupt to incorruption. And by thy ressurrection thou hast uncovered the incorrupt fountain of life.

Verily, Hades rules the race of man, but not forever; for thou, O mighty One, when thou was placed in the grace didst demolish the locks of death with the palm of thy hand, O Element of Life, proclaiming to those sitting yonder from the ages a true salvation, having become, O Savior, the First-Born of the dead.

Verily, Jonah the Prophet was caught but not held in the belly of the whale. But being a sign of thee, O thou who didst suffer and wast delivered to burial, he came out of the whale as out of a bridal chamber, and cried unto the watchmen, "In vain do ye watch, O watchman; for ye have neglected mercy."

Lent began for us folk on the East Side, today, with Forgiveness Sunday marking the beginning of seven weeks of fasting and prayer leading to Easter.

West-Siders jjostm and prester_scott did the following on the beginning of their Lent this Wednesday, and I cannot improve on Scott's wording:

If I have somehow hurt or offended any of you, by accident, carelessness or malice, without just cause, I am sorry and I ask your forgiveness. If you need to get something off your chest, with respect to something that I did to you, or that you did to me, or that you see me doing to someone else, or anything of that sort, you may comment (all comments are screened) or email. Let us fight against our several faults and grow closer to one another in charity.

God forgives.