Dusty Chalk

Happy almost belated birthday, Ken! (party favour noise)

Clickbait link 189 Bodies found decomposing in "Return to Nature Funeral Home", which specializes in green funerals. They didn't abide by the laws, so they just left the bodies to rot, but they SURE WERE GREEN.

I shot my new Pew Pew: Sig P320 XTEN in 1cm.

It probably went bonkers* several times over. *"goes bonkers" is a unit of time in chaos theory -- it's when the endpoint and the beginningpoint don't remotely look alike.

...and she shared it with her history of electronic music professor (which she also taught).

Is there any way you can use the heat to bake bread? You know, to commemorate the occasion...? I bet that would be a hot seller. Sorry, completely inappropriate humour.

Oh, I am so sharing that with my microtonal-obsessed friend.

My favourite episode of Relatively Certain: https://jqi.umd.edu/news/taming-chaos-physics-and-ai I love that she doesn't sound like a physics professor. And I love the unit of time, "goes bonkers".

Yeah, it's funny what people think prog is any more, either. Half the time, it's just songs that aren't based on loops.

Thinking ... I don't even know what to think...Positive, lava-stopping, earthquake-gentling thoughts in a general Icelandic direction.

Thank you so much for your input, Antonio. You have never steered any of us wrong, so I will heed and continue calling around until I can get on a waitlist. And I apologize for my cranky tone earlier, to both of you. I would prefer this thread be reserved for celebrating original music by our members, so I will see if I can move these messages to another thread, or at least split it off from this one. POS health care == medicaid + no income/savings left to spend on myself. Just arranged to sell off some stock and transfer it to myself, because I agree with you -- it needs to be taken care of ASAP, even if it needs to be at my own cost.

Yes, I know that, but the earliest appointment I could get was March and when I found that out, it just depressed me and I shut down. Monday is going to be spent calling around to every single ENT / Audiologist available to me, and take the earliest appointment I can find. Everyone (including my GP!) wants to victim blame because it happened while at the range, but I do care about my hearing and use protection all the time while shooting (and still do), and used hearing protection at EVERY SINGLE poprock CONCERT I ever went to except the first one in 1978 because I didn't know. I was using hearing protection that day, but I was the only one using my lane and I was trying to hear my instructor so I took out my (Etymotic triple flange) earplugs (which were perfectly adequate for shooting -- the 22TCM/TCM9R is a loud cartridge) for a second, and someone fired a large caliber rifle in the next lane (outdoor range -- even though it was on the other side of a barn/garage, it still carried because of the acoustics of the way things were setup). I think that's how it happened. Either that or the action of removing the earplugs did something because there was a seal and a "thwok" when I pulled it out, but I've already had my ears looked at by two different people and they said it looks a little red but that's it -- I still have an eardrum, I guess. On top of getting an appointment, I will be looking into programmable hearing aids and certain therapies and figuring it out myself, because I have to keep interviewing.

I got an email from Brian Wampler apologizing to me -- personally! -- for selling out his new Germanium Tumnus before he even had a chance to advertise it to me. Does that count? No, seriously, I damaged my hearing a couple weeks ago, and now I just want to throw everything in the river. I went to a (someone else's) gig tonight, and half the time it sounded like there was a ring modulator over the whole mix. Grating. If I could cry, I would. As it is, I mourn. This is groovy as the aging hippie chick I saw dancing earlier tonight. Great stuff.

Fun cover:

Happy birthday, Todd! (party favour noise)

But...but...but...what if the pig bacon eats lettuce?!?!? And what if the lettuce grows in mulch which contains composted bacon?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Example:

Curry is always a nice touch (I've been doing that since the 80's). Also, frying any additional spices in a little bit of oil really brings out the flavour (I should have been doing that all along as well, but only discovered how much of a difference it makes last year, and was reminded of it on Thanksgiving). Although you probably knew that.

Happy (belated?) birthday! (party favour noise)

Veggies. Doctor yelled at me last week, said I was prediabetic, so time to get back on the diet horse.

Killing Joke. I just hit play on Spotify, so whatever comes up. Currently: Love Like Blood. Egad, what a huge sound. And he tuned a whole step down! My man!

Aw, man, what a seminal sound. I still want an ES-295. That was always one of the things that turned me off about the common wisdom of hollowbody guitars -- he taught people that it wasn't just for jazz.

Hello fellow old people. Just to dogpile: It is a trick question, they are all ways to connect to a printer. In college, we used to play games with commands to make that printer scream, suffer, soil paper, jam, and eventually die.

How to make bad biscuits: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-most-of-america-is-terrible-at-making-biscuits?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Started watching the first episode of Squid Game: The Challenge (weird show) and I noticed they were playing this (just the two-note motif) during the Red Light/Green Light scene towards the end of the game, so of course now it's stuck there (in my mind, wherever it is). Would've been funnier if it was "Monkey's Gone to Heaven".