you’d think i’d have learned by now that staying up till all hours at night watching movies wouldn’t exactly make it easier to wake up in the morning.

<p>alas, i did it again. up till 2 last night watching <a href="http://www.donniedarko.com/">donnie darko</a>, which was excellent.</p>

<p>i only had the TV on because i was testing out a homemade coax to optical <a href="http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html"><span class="caps">SPDIF</span></a> converter (you can do it with just a red <span class="caps">LED</span> and a 120 Ohm resistor). </p>

<p>on a related note, does anyone have any suggestions for a good linux compatible sound card with <span class="caps">SPDIF</span> (preferably optical) output? my old soundblaster 16 isn&#8217;t really cutting it anymore.</p>