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This guy certainly seems pretty special. Larry Pardey, Mariner Who Sailed the World Engineless, Dies at 80 With his wife, Lin, he circumnavigated the world twice on wooden boats he had built. And they always took their time. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/obituaries/larry-pardey-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare

https://www.autoweek.com/racing/more-racing/a33843258/homebuilt-contraptions-beat-the-fancy-pants-porsches-at-pikes-peak/ "In this corner, one thousand of the best German engineers ever assembled, with computers bigger than your garage using computational fluid dynamics and finite-element analysis to create the greatest and most powerful customer race car in the world - the 911 GT2 RS Cluuuuuubsport! And in this corner, a guy from five miles away who went down the street to his dad’s garage and built a car with him. Are you ready to rummmmmbbbbbblllleeeeeee?????"

Staycation dockside Fish & Chips

Wife tried to get sympathy from the kids by saying "daddy made me go to the gym with him, isn't he mean to mommy" Girl #1 response "but mommy can I tell you something? You need to get stronger" In the parenting competition with the wife I'm pulling a big lead..

Thanks, Dusty. My teacher plays mostly jazz so most of his theory lessons are focused on the understanding of harmony, so you have a strong grip to know always where you are and where are you heading, which is very helpful (once you can think fast enough) to improvise melody and also chord melody and comping. He has the conception of a tonality being actually comprised of 5 tonalities that are somewhat siblings, and every tonality and its modes can be arranged in "chainings" (I don't know how that would translate into English) that are based on a specific scale: diatonic, harmonic, major melodic, minor melodic, etc. His system is not much different from classic harmony and music theory that they teach at Berklee or what Beato explains in his book, but it gives you a more comprehensive view so you actually need less memorization and using all those chords and voice movements end up being easier and more usable. Then there's the part of training the ear and the part of learning the fretboard, and the part of having a capable hand, the part of keeping rhythm...

That was the original point of this thread, so I’ll more than allow it, I’ll encourage it. I only just discovered this channel, myself, so feel free to share any others. I found it by way of this video from Paul Davids: My crazy talented vocalist friend, Tash, introduced me to a book written by her choir director, Brinegar. In it (I’m told, haven’t read it yet), that notes can have multiple meanings, depending on context and how you got there. I would assume the same is true for chord voicing. https://www.pitchperfectmusictheory.com/ I would love to hear more of your guitar instructor’s thoughts, especially after being introduced to the above concept. It was that context that made certain portions of the above video so interesting to me. I had only recently discovered the concept of not playing the root in the bass because of a completely different song: ... and am definitely going to let that inform my arrangement of an original I’m working on. Lollers, yeah, I need to review it about 10 times, I think.

This channel, Beato's, Jens Larsen's and Tomo Fujita's are my favourites for music/guitar improvement. I've tried to use some "hide" or "nsfw" tags to hide a music theory comment, but I didn't get it to work so don't bother to read that follows if you're not into that stuff. My teacher says that Sus2 chords don't exist because they're inversions of another Sus4 chord (Csus2 is Gsus4) but once you add the 7th to the triad the plot thickens, the Sus2 becomes a major chord which if used in inversion provides nice textures. It's a lot of fun looking at music at this structural level.

Staycation Ribs & Fried Chicken #notdissapoint

Does say something about residual value though, doesn't it?

Bianchi Oltre XR4: I have broken my piggy bank...

Fun story. Any racing post pandemic has been such a treat. I did not appreciate how much I needed it until the first pass... HD

@luvdunhill - I think there are certain autodesk products that you can get an education (free) license for that would be useful for you. I'm spoiled and have access thru work so it's never really been a thing that I paid a whole lot of attention to. That said, I got your sketch and if time permits I'll try to turn it into a dxf tomorrow at work and see how the laser reacts to it. The challenge (for me) will be figuring out how to program the combined cutting/etching operations into a single program so that it does it all at once and there's no (or at least less) chance that centers get misaligned.

The Egging of Frank Sinatra https://medium.com/@JPRobinson/the-egging-of-frank-sinatra-1ee5365ad54b

#listentomaths

I need to play that at 1/10 speed.

I watched the new Bill and Ted movie and of course it's utterly ridiculous twaddle but it did give me a little warm flush of nostalgia.

I would agree that laser is the way to go with cutting paper. Marking, just thinking out loud here, you would need pretty fine control over the laser power level to ensure you didn't also burn through the paper. You could also probably rig up a fine pen to do the lines too. I think a hobby-grade machine could achieve the precision you need. Below is my experiments with a diamond drag bit on brass and that emblem is less than 1.5" tall. There's definitely some artifacts from inaccurate steps but this is straight out of the box, no tuning.

1. Eat bacon each day. 2. Increase the amount of bacon you eat each day. #problemsolved

Finally! a TICE worthy speaker!

Here's some porn from me. Just got the new tops for my subs. Each has a FaitalPro HF1440 + 18sound XR1464C horn and four ScanSpeak 15WU midwoofers. Amplification and filtering done by a Hypex FA253 plate amp. Sounds absolutely killer. Sadly, the amp for the big subs seems to be dying, so I'm listening to the tops only. Luckily, they go down to lower thirties. The resulting area of the four midwoofers exceeds a single 10" woofer, so it can go pretty loud as well with that +/-9mm Xlin. Here's a better look of the thing.

I guess Kharma is indeed a bitch!

Made it out to a private track rental last night at Houston Raceway Park. The outfit always does a nice job. Only thing I missed was the catering...no no given the current situation. My son shot a vid of my first pass. I'm in the Jeep Trackhawk running against a Redeye. It was hot and humid...density altitude started at north of 2900ft, but I had a blast all the same. HS

Welcome @Cattler! Welcome to head-case. Hope everything is chill with you. Do you meditate regularly? I think its pretty cool to do so. I look forward to it now. For a fun and easy tex-mex meal, cut up some chicken breast into cubes and saute in the pan with salt and pepper. They'll cook quick. Then cut up an avocado or two, add salsa and tortilla chips of your choice and VOILA, you have a tasty and reasonably healthy dinner. Works great for leftovers except for avocados which turn into a goddamn horror show 20 minutes after you cut them open. What is the deal with that? @Cattler lets get to work on an avocado that stays good for longer. Thanks for your time.

That is awful. I have two friends in their 50s that are living through this. One has been through hell and back and is still here. The other went into remission for it to come back to the extent he has to wear a bag permanently. If ever there was a case for extending screening to those younger than 60, all these horrible examples would stand a much better fighting chance.

One of the best professors I ever had, who went on to become president of Cornell, died from colon cancer at 52, literally weeks after being diagnosed.

It is full price for us NA folk. Enjoy the perks of living in eastern europe!