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Very cool. Drag it to the darkest parts of the picture and you still get tons of lights. Now, bear in mind that some of those blobs of light aren't stars but ENTIRE GALAXIES with millions of stars in them, and ones mind could readily be blown.
Cool picture.
I should be on a Skype jam. It seems more than half of them have had us suffering heavy rains and lightning. No lightning tonight. That must be why there's no jam.
I've got three spruce top guitars. I'd go with cedar or mahogany for a new one.
Thanks for the tip.
We'll miss you Dirty Ed, and you too Beamer. Sorry that you had so many things go bad all at once.
Will the circle be unbroken man I was so proud had to sing the words so my wife knew what it was
You have learned the secret of 'accompaniment'. It's an ancient word that means 'can't flatpick melodies'. I play a lot of accompaniment.
Guitarpix wrote:I imagine you sitting by the beach with a cool glass picking a tune...... Margarator
That's it. Pix wins.
I second the motion.
Bluestone is one of my Dirty Ed favorites! I'm surprised to learn it was one of your first songs. Well done sir!
Tenement Funster sounds like he knows what he's talking about.
That said, I've played the Taylor 314 with the nylon strings and OH BOY it is a niiiiiiiiiiiiiice guitar. (that may not have enough i's in it)
- Zurf
Zurf wrote:Generous, gracious, encouraging - any of those would work. Since I know you're frequently on a hair trigger for a good cussing streak, how about "the barely contained moderator". I do like "boring old moderator". Given your proximity to the beach, "the barefoot moderator" could work. Hmmm. Yes. I like that one. The barefoot moderator.
I think it's funny that I called myself the "other bald moderator" after Baldguitarguy named himself the "bald moderator", but now he's changed his title and I'm still the "other" bald moderator. Guitarpix wins the overall prize with Underwater Firefighter, though. I'm not sure that can be beat.
I'm not the guy, man. I'I'm the Dude, so that's what you call me. Or maybe His Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
My never-ending apologies for my mis-use of slang.
Thanks for the welcome, Topdown;
The favorite will always be Jethro Tull, and their tune that I'd like to depart from this earth to would be "Life's a Long Song".
Good choice. I might enjoy the irony of "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day", but yours is likely the better choice.
"Halfastmoderator"
you could add El To it ............
"El Halfastmoderator"
The screen name I use on fishing and paddling sites is Halffastpaddler.
Since you live by the ocean now, and used to live by a lake, you could also go with 'the moist moderator' or 'the all wet moderator.'
Generous, gracious, encouraging - any of those would work. Since I know you're frequently on a hair trigger for a good cussing streak, how about "the barely contained moderator". I do like "boring old moderator". Given your proximity to the beach, "the barefoot moderator" could work. Hmmm. Yes. I like that one. The barefoot moderator.
I think it's funny that I called myself the "other bald moderator" after Baldguitarguy named himself the "bald moderator", but now he's changed his title and I'm still the "other" bald moderator. Guitarpix wins the overall prize with Underwater Firefighter, though. I'm not sure that can be beat.
If, after putting up a public message, you cannot be bothered see if there is a reply, I cannot be bothered to e-mail you privately.
I can. Message sent.
Zurf wrote:sal meo wrote:still cant get on.
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If you can't get on, I'm confused as to how you left a message.
LOL! I'm assuming that was a joke. If so, he(?) gotcha!
It would be a very dry wit to make that his first post, but if it was a joke then I am indeed 'got' and laughing at myself.
still cant get on.
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If you can't get on, I'm confused as to how you left a message. Nevertheless, if you get the SQL database error message once, most browsers will put that screen in your cache. The next time you log on to Chordie, even if the problem is fixed your computer will pull up the result of its previous visit to that site from your cache and display that. This is sold as a feature giving you faster response from your browser. To over-ride your browser, you can either click on the reload button (which is different depending on which browser version you use, but each browser has one), or you can erase all the information from your browser's cache and come in.
- Zurf
How terrible! I hope no one was hurt. I think I speak for everyone that we will certainly accept that as a reasonable excuse for why you haven't tried our suggestions. Wow.
They have what I consider to be one of the most amazing WWII planes there, the Corsair F4U. It's positioned beautifully on wires in a flight position. I'll see if I can dig up some photos of it. They don't have a Zero there. They do have a Black Widow, which seems like it is all engine with just enough fuselage to hold it together. There are some Vietnam era helicopters as well, which I think are amazingly versatile machines. What's cool is my wife's father worked on those as an engineer.
There's a few WWI planes there, but the really, really early French ones and not the English or American ones. I'd like to see some of those. I used to build a replica (actually a reproduction) of the Waco YMF-5 that wasn't too dissimilar from the Hawker and Stearman models used by the Army Air Force late in the war.
I think what I liked about WWII is that they went into the war flying open cockpit, skin on frame biplanes and went out flying jets - in six years time (counting the China campaign). Oh sure, there were some metal skin monoplanes, but biplanes were common for scouting and training.
There's also a lot of commercial craft. Here's two pictures with my Dad. In one he's by a Cub. He was the structures engineer for its restoration and he sat in its cockpit. The second is him by an Apache, which for a time was the world's most successful twin engine light craft. Dad was on the design team for that plane. A lot of guys were, but as far as I'm concerned that's one of Dad's planes. The particular plane in the photo has over 100,000 hours, and it was flown by the owner to Dulles airport when he donated it to the museum. Dad laughed when he read it and said, "I bet those aren't the original engines!" The pictures aren't too good, but I like bragging on my Dad.
I visited the Smithsonian Air & Space Udvar Hazy center over Christmas. If you're not familiar with it, the Udvar-Hazy was the Smithsonian's repair and salvage center at Dulles Airport in Dulles, Virginia. The B-29 in the background is the Enola Gay!
This same museum has the Discovery space shuttle and the last operating SR-71. The plaque said that it took the pilot less than an hour to fly the SR-71 from California to Virginia - 3,000 miles!
Well I hope they don't bust up my Breedlove when I head to Chordiestock. I don't earn anything with it but smiles or sometimes getting people to clap hands over their ears and run away, but I'd be awfully put out. I'll have it in a hard case and hope that they'll let me gate check it instead of baggage check it.
Good hints. I have a small humidifier in my office where I keep all my instruments and a humidifier on the air output from my furnace. So far the furnace one has been doing the job in our house, keeping it about 45. When it gets real cold out, I cut on the room humidifier. It's noisy, so I don't always like running it.
When you can't get into the main page but can get in through a back door, try clearing your cache. Your computer may be pulling up the instance of the failure from cache.
- Zurf
I'm always impressed with his technical proficiency.
Like Topdown's, my guitars don't seem to work above the seventh fret either.
No worries. I got the message and thought there was no way in heck you got a free iPad and all you did was send a link.
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