- Oct 22, 2015
- 21,167
- 257,029
- Disclosures
- I am an affiliate for Ari Cap.
Seems to me a vintage British ragtop might be best described as water resistant.
Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
- Thread starter B-string
- Start date
- Status
"And the El train tumbled across the trestles
And it sounded like the ghost of Gene Krupa
With an overhead cam and glasspacks"
- Tom Waits, Nighthawks Postcards
I'd call it semi-permeable. Funny thing is that the worst leaks are when it's moving. When the water is really coming down, we try to pull under some shelter and wait.
And if not, well, we can dry out eventually.
If your post was directed at me, then I dearly hope you're one of the few people who are understanding when they're stuck behind a semi in the left lane, who's driver was contentedly cruising in the right lane until he rolled up on the bumper of a truck loafing at 55, and moved left to pass, only to have the loafer see him, or end his phone call, or just rejoin reality, and speed up, instead of allowing the pass to be completed.
I hope you're understanding when cars, merging onto an interstate, don't bother once to check their mirrors, or look left at the semi that's right there next to them, as if ignoring it will make it go away, but the trucker has his eyeballs glued to the car looking for signs of speeding up to fit in, or recognition of the situation, before braking to avoid collision, which pisses off the people behind him. I know you'd never be one of these people.
Or one of the people who pass a truck and then immediately cut over in front of it to....oh, I don't know......catch an exit they could have safely reached by staying behind the rig. They never seem to realize that, if they blew a tire, or their car stalled or stuttered, or they had to brake for an object or animal in the road at that moment, all I could do is consider them my new front bumper. If I see a car seat/children in said vehicle I'll take the shoulder or ditch, but if your alone you'll have to pay for your stupidity.
I know you understand that even a minor mishap with no injuries can be a career ender for a trucker, and juries are predisposed to believe it's always the big trucks fault, so we get a little testy when people act so cavalier about running us off the road while endangering their own lives, and our livelihood.
Of course, if your post wasn't directed at me, please disregard the previous diatribe. We are, after all, co-inhabitants of a sanctuary for grumpy old farts!
I couldn't begin to count the number of times some _______ came around me, dove down the exit ramp, and I look in my mirror to see no one for about a 1/2 mile. Meanwhile, I'm trying to get my heart rate back down. I hung up the CDL in 2007. Even doing most of my road time at night in far less traffic, I'd had enuff.If your post was directed at me, then I dearly hope you're one of the few people who are understanding when they're stuck behind a semi in the left lane, who's driver was contentedly cruising in the right lane until he rolled up on the bumper of a truck loafing at 55, and moved left to pass, only to have the loafer see him, or end his phone call, or just rejoin reality, and speed up, instead of allowing the pass to be completed.
I hope you're understanding when cars, merging onto an interstate, don't bother once to check their mirrors, or look left at the semi that's right there next to them, as if ignoring it will make it go away, but the trucker has his eyeballs glued to the car looking for signs of speeding up to fit in, or recognition of the situation, before braking to avoid collision, which pisses off the people behind him. I know you'd never be one of these people.
Or one of the people who pass a truck and then immediately cut over in front of it to....oh, I don't know......catch an exit they could have safely reached by staying behind the rig. They never seem to realize that, if they blew a tire, or their car stalled or stuttered, or they had to brake for an object or animal in the road at that moment, all I could do is consider them my new front bumper. If I see a car seat/children in said vehicle I'll take the shoulder or ditch, but if your alone you'll have to pay for your stupidity.
I know you understand that even a minor mishap with no injuries can be a career ender for a trucker, and juries are predisposed to believe it's always the big trucks fault, so we get a little testy when people act so cavalier about running us off the road while endangering their own lives, and our livelihood.
Of course, if your post wasn't directed at me, please disregard the previous diatribe. We are, after all, co-inhabitants of a sanctuary for grumpy old farts!
I did use the cell phone driving. It hung on the dash with a wired earplug in my ear. Only out on "the big road" late at night(2AM-ish)talking with another driver, keeping each other awake.
La Contessa, got your microphone, yet? This group is auditioning singers and I told them all about you. 
I told them your specialty is the low end. They were ecstatic to be able to add a lower voice to the group.
I told them your specialty is the low end. They were ecstatic to be able to add a lower voice to the group.
- Oct 22, 2015
- 21,167
- 257,029
- Disclosures
- I am an affiliate for Ari Cap.
La Contessa, got your microphone, yet? This group is auditioning singers and I told them all about you.
I told them your specialty is the low end. They were ecstatic to be able to add a lower voice to the group.
My singing is like the call of a wounded mastodon stuck in the tar pits.
I've no idea what I'm going to do with the microphone ... 
yeh it shipped
My singing is like the call of a wounded mastodon stuck in the tar pits.
Try mic'ing your amp rather than plugging into the interface directly. You play better when you can monitor with some air between your ears and the speaker. It wouldn't work for your course because I assume you need headphones to hear the others.
Two of my driving pet peeves as a GOF are:
1. Drivers merging onto the interstate who think THEY have the right of way. No you do not. You need to adjust your speed and safely merge in between existing interstate traffic. If I am on the interstate and in the right lane when it is really busy or bumper to bumper, I will slow down to let you in....but only in those cases.
2. Driver in front of you passes the car in front of them. As they are passing the first car, they go .000000001 MPH faster than the first car. After 20 miles, they finally move back over into the right lane and then speed up about 10-15 MPH faster.
Last edited:
If your post was directed at me, then I dearly hope you're one of the few people who are understanding when they're stuck behind a semi in the left lane, who's driver was contentedly cruising in the right lane until he rolled up on the bumper of a truck loafing at 55, and moved left to pass, only to have the loafer see him, or end his phone call, or just rejoin reality, and speed up, instead of allowing the pass to be completed.
I hope you're understanding when cars, merging onto an interstate, don't bother once to check their mirrors, or look left at the semi that's right there next to them, as if ignoring it will make it go away, but the trucker has his eyeballs glued to the car looking for signs of speeding up to fit in, or recognition of the situation, before braking to avoid collision, which pisses off the people behind him. I know you'd never be one of these people.
Or one of the people who pass a truck and then immediately cut over in front of it to....oh, I don't know......catch an exit they could have safely reached by staying behind the rig. They never seem to realize that, if they blew a tire, or their car stalled or stuttered, or they had to brake for an object or animal in the road at that moment, all I could do is consider them my new front bumper. If I see a car seat/children in said vehicle I'll take the shoulder or ditch, but if your alone you'll have to pay for your stupidity.
I know you understand that even a minor mishap with no injuries can be a career ender for a trucker, and juries are predisposed to believe it's always the big trucks fault, so we get a little testy when people act so cavalier about running us off the road while endangering their own lives, and our livelihood.
Of course, if your post wasn't directed at me, please disregard the previous diatribe. We are, after all, co-inhabitants of a sanctuary for grumpy old farts!
Of course there are good professional drivers that work for companies that don't push crazy schedules. There are a lot of cowboys out there though. My comment was directed towards yahoos that drive cars and SUVs. When walking, its common to smell dope from cars. It happened again yesterday. Even worse, a father passed me yesterday on the sidewalk, they were smoking dope while on the way to the toboggan hill up the street with their two young daughters. I don't know what goes through peoples heads.
Interesting to note, in Japan drivers clock in and have to take a breathalyzer test, then again at the end of the day. The records are kept for a year. Don't know how drug tests are done. Safety is stressed.
Two of my driving pet peeves as a GOF are:
1. Drivers merging onto the interstate who think THEY have the right of way. No you do not. You need to adjust your speed and safely merge in between existing interstate traffic. If I am on the interstate and in the right lane when it is really busy or bumper to bumper, I will slow down to let you in....but only in those cases.
2. Driver in front of you passes the car in front of them. As they are passing the first car, they go .000000001 MPH faster than the first car. After 20 miles, they finally move back over into the right lane and then speed up about 10-15 MPH faster.
People that pass you and immediately cut you off to take an exit. Turning signals seem to be optional, you wouldn't want to give the person behind you an unfair advantage over you.
Or passes you on a city street only to meet you at the next traffic signal.
It's called 'hurry up and wait'.
- Oct 22, 2015
- 21,167
- 257,029
- Disclosures
- I am an affiliate for Ari Cap.
The exciting journey to "recording myself" is part of the Music Theory &c... cohort. Far from thrilled at seeing myself "perform", I'd agreed to keep an open mind. A smrtphn on the music stand and off we go .... Probably my agonizing over a DAW are recorded on this thread somewhere. What I actually found with the smrtphn it's not really made to record bass. Which in turn means the recorded video is going to sound a bit lacking.
The flaw with the headset I use to talk (and listen to music) is it cuts background noise. TL;DR I can't use the headset to talk and play at the same time.
The smrtphn recording makes it harder to watch my own videos subjectively because if my bass sounds like pewp to me I'm not going to be inclined to spend time learning from it. Now my setup goes from a DI to the DAW, and I use the headphone out on the DAW to monitor myself. That leaves one open input for ... a mike. Or a metronome.
The way I've set it up means I can monitor a background track or a metronome app from my computer without it being recorded.
What I kind of think would be fun is to record the next video through the DAW and make it appear I'm recording from a mic'd practice amp
I expect the reality of the mic is a lot closer to me needing to both talk and play at the same time. For some reason.
Driving pet peeve — if you overtake me, you better mean it.
Exhibit 4: In CO on the scooter and it's raining a little. I come up on road construction where the pavement has been removed to hard packed dirt. I slow down to about 25. Two cars pull out and pass me in an S-curve section. About 10 mins later I get to Kremmling, CO and these yahoos are two cars in front of me at a stop light. YEAH! We got there first! Here's your sign...
I must say....good practical sense does not always prevail when driving, walking, or talking.
People's worlds move at different paces at different times. A fast song may be more what you want to hear rather than a ballad even though they may be the same length time-wise. It depends on your mood.
When driving, the urge to womp on the pedal outweighed the the fact that you may not time the upcoming light perfectly and the guy that you passed lucked out and did. THAT is why you buy a Ferrari.
People's worlds move at different paces at different times. A fast song may be more what you want to hear rather than a ballad even though they may be the same length time-wise. It depends on your mood.
When driving, the urge to womp on the pedal outweighed the the fact that you may not time the upcoming light perfectly and the guy that you passed lucked out and did. THAT is why you buy a Ferrari.
- Oct 22, 2015
- 21,167
- 257,029
- Disclosures
- I am an affiliate for Ari Cap.
Passing someone on a rope at altitude is far more serious than passing a big rig on the interstate. There's no real call for examples. You know how it turns out.
Not sure to what you are referring... is it mountain climbing?
- Status
