Dusty Chalk

uh... ...nope! Your game is fine.

Not at all -- I only heard her for the first time last week -- sort of -- due to First Listening putting up Puberty 2... EDIT: AND she's going to be in town tomorrow (Saturday)...hmm... EDIT: Alas, it is sold out.

I read that as 'kvetchy' at first.

After seeing a 2 second snippet here:

Stayed home to receive a guitar that never arrived. Fuck you, DHL. (makes a mental note to visit Uniquely Thursday...oh, and Jeff and the rest of the Chicago head-casers)

And I got this from Scott Landes, Tash Cox, Sasha Travis, and company, aka Mankind is Obsolete, but currently doing an old timey gypsy swing jazz side project to their side project (Alice) called Alice Underground: http://imgur.com/a/uD2FH Very cool -- it keeps going -- there's more rose petals, lyric snippets, a signed card, a sticker, the CD itself of course... Not really safe for work -- she bends over a lot. It's very much in line with the pinup girl image she conveys in that one video she does, but part way through she gets really self-conscious and starts covering it up. I kinda wish she'd just "lean into it" and tease guys mercilessly, but I also understand why she wouldn't or shouldn't. Oh, well, it's up for now, I'll watch it again, because I'm interested in what pedals she's using. Yeah, that's the ticket. https://www.facebook.com/TinaGuoMusic/videos/vb.61209576131/10154180733421132/?type=2&theater&notif_t=live_video&notif_id=1466642050346020

'Dokr', if on the side of a Starbucks cup.

I loved Reamde, but two people I know couldn't finish it. Me, I couldn't put it down once I got to the final act ...and that's like half the book.

MSI have great graphics, so just look at their 15" offerings and don't get one with two drive bays like I did. In fact, if one drive bay is still too heavy, maybe look at SSD based offerings.

I think it's even more maliciously pathetic than that -- the hype train basically tries to make some falsehood true through repetition, and these people aren't even in the engineering compartment! It's as if being an early adopter is in itself something to be admired, but what they really are is a cog in a propaganda perpetuation machine. I'd much rather be in the perpetual skepticism machine, myself. Truth will out.

Panang curry salmon at Pilin

New The Gathering, sort of (and yes, that's Anneke on vocals)

My MSI gaming computer has killer graphics, but is also quite heavy at 17".

What are you doing in Florida, laying over?

That's way too young.

House of Prog's Prog Rock Deep Cuts radio show.

"It could be made out of petrified pig shit and spark plug connectors if you wanted it bad enough..." See? Now it's obvious that I'm being derisive about that course of action. The way you phrased it, in the context of the conversation, it wasn't. Well, I didn't get that anyway, but what do I know.

Fuck yeah. Will have to get around to that after the Chick Corea/Gary Burton, Peter Frampton, and Chelsea Wolfe Tiny Desk Concerts. http://www.npr.org/2016/03/17/470807870/peter-frampton-tiny-desk-concert http://www.npr.org/2016/02/10/466286135/chelsea-wolfe-tiny-desk-concert

Yeah. A couple of tricks -- put it (the output of the Pod Mini) through a Moogerfooger or some sort of similar analog drive pedal, compensates for the digititis a little bit. Or a tube headphone amp. In the digital world, I happen to really like the artifacting that paulstretching puts on everything, I am trying to figure out a way to separate that out as a separate digital effect. Unrelated -- one of my last two guitars that I ordered last year got shipped --yay! The fanned-fret Ormsby Violent Crumble HypeGTR 7-string. (Yes, another purple guitar, my first fanned fret.) There is a problem with the pink one however -- they can't find it. They don't think it was shipped. They have run across one or two mislabeled boxes, but as of now, they don't think it's in there. So he called me -- yup, long distance from Australia and everything. He offered me to either upgrade or paint something else pink, but it wouldn't be standard scale. I kind of don't want two of the same guitar. I told him I'd think about it -- I'm actually glad he sent the first one, because that means I can try a fanned fret before I decide. I'm a little worried that because he had so few standard scales ordered, that he's trying to bait-and-switch me into a fanned fret and give my standard scale either to someone closer or less on the fence, or to a store to sell. A little, not much, like 5% maybe. Here is what I wrote them (his wife Shivvy/Siobhan does the email side): Any thoughts? The double-cutouts are the HypeGTRs, and the singlecuts are the Tx (his tele-style, he also has an Sx, a strat style, which is very close to the Hype).

God's aim is true (if you believe in that sort of thing).

I thought we already went over this in ...February? April?