Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

Given to understand deep fried brain sandwiches are a staple at Iowa state fairs. And know a lady who harvested Rocky Mountain oysters in Cheyenne. It takes very little urging on her part for her husband to pay attention to what she is saying.

Happily obesity isn't among my doctor's concerns for me. What I did receive in Saturday's mail is a Happy Letter from my doctor. She says all my labs are crackerjack.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Happy Soulful Sunday...

You can always count on Otis to lend soul to your life.

 

[beans-on-toast]

A vendor at the FL state fair sells deep fried bacon wrapped tater tots and very thin sliced deep fried pickles. I hit his stand at least twice on the day we go.

Then there’s breaded and deep fried candy bars. Never tried anything fancy like that. Everything in moderation though.

 

[Passinwind]

Bought my copy of the fifth edition from the very cool lady who sells ice cream in LA. Just ask around, someone will point you to her. If you have the cash, you'll have your copy and an ice cream sandwich. :: awe ::

I bought my first one across the street from Berklee, at the little copy place, or laundromat, or sumthin'. That's my story for as long as I care to stick with it. But I'm pretty sure it was in Taxachusetts.

 

[GonePlaid]

Ah yes, that's a very special book for me. Bought a copy the sixth edition and it is lame. Very first thing when I got the sixth edition home was turn the page to Green Dolphin St. Er, turn the pages to where Green Dolphin St. should be and it ain't. Night Train? Say whut? Who put Night Train in the Real Book?

Bought my copy of the fifth edition from the very cool lady who sells ice cream in LA. Just ask around, someone will point you to her. If you have the cash, you'll have your copy and an ice cream sandwich. :: awe ::

Took one bass lesson with Ray Brown and the only thing I reliably remember him saying is learn every song in the Real Book.

Would that I have folks to work through those songs, that would be teh besto.

I had the good fortune to be the son of a big band saxman so grew up listening to and 'hearing' the standards then playing much of Fake Book 1 in my piano lessons. After I started playing bass in the Navy in '67, it was a fairly simple matter of watching the piano man's hands and figuring out where the notes were(still are)on the bass. Tho my everyday hearing is marginal, I can hear changes just fine.
I think those "Music minus one" recordings are available. One of our guitarists does a nursing home single occasionally where he uses a computer program that plays a lot of tunes with a recorded rhythm section. You can have piano, bass, drums, and chording guitar behind you, and can 'drop' any instrument-like bass-from the tune to play along. We've done that as a duo eliminating the bass and rhythm guitar.

 

[GonePlaid]

Then there’s breaded and deep fried candy bars. Never tried anything fancy like that. Everything in moderation though.

Deep fried cream cheese works amazingly well-with powdered sugar, of course.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Berkeley, California is banning natural gas from all new homes and restaurants. What are you going to do if you have to? Older folks are going to have to reside and eat in establishments not affected by the new regulations.

News

Manhole covers will now be called maintenance holes.

'Manholes' are out in Berkeley

 

[GonePlaid]

Berkeley, California is banning natural gas from all new homes and restaurants. Older folks are going to have to reside and eat in establishments not affected by the new regulations.

News

Another reason to stay put in FL.

 

[Passinwind]

I think those "Music minus one" recordings are available. One of our guitarists does a nursing home single occasionally where he uses a computer program that plays a lot of tunes with a recorded rhythm section. You can have piano, bass, drums, and chording guitar behind you, and can 'drop' any instrument-like bass-from the tune to play along. We've done that as a duo eliminating the bass and rhythm guitar.

I have an older version of Band In A Box. There are hundreds of standards available in that format for free and you can enable or disable any instrument, which is pretty great for figuring out harmony lines. But probably my favorite features are the "play feel" option (they call it styles), and the random chord generator, which actually gives you pretty well structured changes to play over, oddly enough.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

How about halibut fish and chips Alaskan style? That means a light beer batter.

Sometimes for a casual night out we go to the Sitka Hotel restaurant for halibut fish and chips... here's a pic from Yelp, but you get the idea. They serve homemade tartar, hand cut fries, and if thirsty, a local microbrew..

 

[GonePlaid]

How about halibut fish and chips Alaskan style? That means a light beer batter.

Sometimes for a casual night out we go to the Sitka Hotel restaurant for halibut fish and chips... here's a pic from Yelp, but you get the idea. They serve homemade tartar, hand cut fries, and if thirsty, a local microbrew..

Waddaya mean"if"?

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Waddaya mean"if"?

 

[GonePlaid]

How about halibut fish and chips Alaskan style? That means a light beer batter.

Sometimes for a casual night out we go to the Sitka Hotel restaurant for halibut fish and chips... here's a pic from Yelp, but you get the idea. They serve homemade tartar, hand cut fries, and if thirsty, a local microbrew..

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My daughter is allergic to fish and shellfish so I've taken most seafood offa my menu. That, however, looks delish!

 

[Al Kraft]

For all who are talking computer talk, It isn't that I don't 'like' what yer saying. I don't know wuttinahell yer saying.

...and they'd likely be equally lost if you started explaining the difference between splitting gears with a Road Ranger 13 speed versus simply selecting high/low range with the 9 or 10 speed, and why you don't push the clutch all the way in to shift unless you're at a complete stop (or you just want to destroy the clutch brake).

Oh yeah, and very few people really understand the relationship between "spring brakes" and "air brakes" and the two way air valve that releases the brakes (from spring pressure) and then directs air to operate them when needed. It's amazing how we can feel totally lost in some areas and assume what we know is just common knowledge when it would be totally baffling to others.

 

[LBS-bass]

Anyone remember WordStar?

Yes, but only barely!

 

[Al Kraft]

Yes, but only barely!

I have better memories of Telstar...however, the first word processing program I think I used was Bank Street Writer and then WordPerfect.

 

[LBS-bass]

In the early 90's I remember the 8" floppies for the IBM AS/400 series mainframe. The City used monochrome terminals that were green and black. No mice there!

I hated mice and resisted using them for as long as I possibly could. Give me a command line any day, so I said.

We all know how that ultimately ended.

Back in the stone age, when I was a young thing in my 20's, I worked for an engineering company that had a large bank of those Wang word processing systems installed in the middle of the engineering support department. The rest of us were using typewriters, light tables, tape and exacto knives to revise proposals manually while the highly skilled technicians in that section were doing strange things that required advanced knowledge, and getting paid quite handsomely for it.

Nowadays you'd be hard pressed to find someone who can cleanly splice an edit into a document manually, but word processors are a dime a dozen.

 

[Al Kraft]

I hated mice and resisted using them for as long as I possibly could. Give me a command line any day, so I said.

Funny you said that because female colleague back in the 80's told me that she had read a study where men were more likely to use and like a mouse than women. Apparently (in that study) women preferred to simply navigate using function keys on the keyboard and found that approach to be more ergonomically seamless and productivity enhancing.

I may be extrapolating beyond the intended or supportable conclusions from the study, but my takeaway was that guys liked toys and women simply liked getting things done!

 

[LBS-bass]

Funny you said that because female colleague back in the 80's told me that she had read a study where men were more likely to use and like a mouse than women. Apparently (in that study) women preferred to simply navigate using function keys on the keyboard and found that approach to be more ergonomically seamless and productivity enhancing.

I may be extrapolating beyond the intended or supportable conclusions from the study, but my takeaway was that guys liked toys and women simply liked getting things done!

For me it was definitely about utility. I already knew a bunch of command level stuff when the first mouse came out and I could get a lot of things done with a few keystrokes in a fraction of a second. Moving a cursor around on screen with a mouse and clicking an object was excruciatingly slow, by comparison. But, of course, the point-and-click concept was very handy for people who didn't already know or want to learn command line stuff, and it helped make personal computing more accessible for consumer level applications.

 

[GwenOnBass]

For me it was definitely about utility. I already knew a bunch of command level stuff when the first mouse came out and I could get a lot of things done with a few keystrokes in a fraction of a second. Moving a cursor around on screen with a mouse and clicking an object was excruciatingly slow, by comparison. But, of course, the point-and-click concept was very handy for people who didn't already know or want to learn command line stuff, and it helped make personal computing more accessible for consumer level applications.

Wonder if finger skills on the bass equate to finger skills on the keyboard.