Similar to my answer when asked how I am. "I feel more like I do now than I did before".
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Necessary expense report deduction.
My own expense report deduction was the beeper, not the combat phone. They make us sign the contract for the beeper, put it on a company-issued credit card in my name (for which I hold full responsibility), and bill the company. In return, I pay off the monthly bill on the card when all my expenses are reimbursed. Some of those bills can get pretty steep, what factoring in hotels, meals, rental cars. Meal allowances depend on where we are and who we're with. It is possible to expense dinner at Smith and Wollensky.
Yeah. We'd go out for dinner after a gig. Someone would ask "We have any new bookings?" Business dinner.Necessary expense report deduction.
My own expense report deduction was the beeper, not the combat phone. They make us sign the contract for the beeper, put it on a company-issued credit card in my name (for which I hold full responsibility), and bill the company. In return, I pay off the monthly bill on the card when all my expenses are reimbursed. Some of those bills can get pretty steep, what factoring in hotels, meals, rental cars. Meal allowances depend on where we are and who we're with. It is possible to expense dinner at Smith and Wollensky.
Necessary expense report deduction.
My own expense report deduction was the beeper, not the combat phone. They make us sign the contract for the beeper, put it on a company-issued credit card in my name (for which I hold full responsibility), and bill the company. In return, I pay off the monthly bill on the card when all my expenses are reimbursed. Some of those bills can get pretty steep, what factoring in hotels, meals, rental cars. Meal allowances depend on where we are and who we're with. It is possible to expense dinner at Smith and Wollensky.
The cost of the plane ticket can add the bill as well...
A lot of companies make you apply for the credit card, even though their name is on it. They are good at paying in a timely way but it’s still your credit rating at risk.
It was common in the past for people to cheat on their expense accounts. When I was a kid I worked at a gas station. Some people would come in and buy $5 in gas and ask for a receipt for $50. They’d swear at you mighily if you didn’t comply.
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Yeah. We'd go out for dinner after a gig. Someone would ask "We have any new bookings?" Business dinner.
Picking up band expenses can be risky business if you want to get your money back.
Life here in my present doesn't feel quite as nostalgic as I thought it would, watching a very early 21st century then-state-of-the-art flat display Trinitron CRT TV while the 55" LCD HDTV is in the shop for repair.
Mrs. Dog joined me for but 15 minutes reminiscing about our childhoods with black & white TVs, then she was done! "We really need to upgrade this guest room TV, ... NOW!", she says. "But, honey, then everybody will always want to stay over! Don't you prefer when they just leave, instead?", says I. "Not when it's the grandkids!!", she glares. I managed to negotiate a 24-hour deadline only because she has quilting to do. Gotta wake up a grandkid tomorrow morning to help carry. 
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Some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you. Some days it's Smith and Wollensky in Midtown and some days it's Denny's in North Dakota.
Some offices want absolutely every single receipt and vending machines don't give receipts. Reckon if folks see management is giving them a fair deal they'll make a fair deal in exchange. (Of course that's not to dismiss the sort who just don't give a Hooters.) Alert management is keen to the signs of road burn. Good management does something about it before road burn becomes road kill.
Seldom do the moon and the stars align to yield a perfect moment in time.
http://gifgifs.comLook for "Words" on the home page about 3/4 way down.
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Thanks. Digging deeper, I found by googling “site://gifgifs.com guitar”, there is a musical instruments category under other.
http://www.gifgifs.com/other-animations/musical-instruments/
I am almost, but not quite, afraid to ask: how did you find this? Serendipity is a powerful thing it seems.
Being an old by biology and a semi-Luddite by inclination, I don't know the answer to this question: can gifs ever be used as a viral vector?
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I have his itunes records and listen to his youtube stuff. He's seems to do all his covers well.
I prefer to deliver viral vectors the old fashioned way. Some day trippers may use gifs to get them half the way there.
Not to beat(le) this Trojan horse to death, but, just to be clear, I was not using viral in the meme sense, but the actual, factual kill-a-person's-computer sense.
ETA: P.S. Is there a place where I can get a picture of a cross-section of a vacuum tube (e.g., a 6L6GC)? I want to get a feel for its dimensions and relate that back to electron beam optics. I'm trying bit by bit to understand these things from the ground up. Thanks. (A cursory search for this yielded me nothing.)
ETA (further): PPS. Are all tubes in this day and age driven by indirectly heated cathodes? Is it always the case that schematics ignore the filament circuits? More thanks.
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That's unfortunate. I welcomed his perspective.
In spite of TalkBass being well moderated, it's still an internet blog with (some of) its attendant drawbacks.
O, I thought you were talking about delivering DNA inside cells, that viral vector.
A gif is a series of images. Can malware code be imbedded inside images? Yes. There would have to be a trojan horse that could unpack and assemble the virus from code in the images. There are far easier ways to accomplish this.
Virus scanning software on your computer is a good investment. It looks for identified code segment markers that indicate the presence of something undesirable.
I use this product: Malwarebytes Cybersecurity for Windows, Mac, Android & iOS
Since a gif is a loop, it does present a small load to the Computer, slowing it down but not in a meaningful way.
hey, https://www.talkbass.com/members/stereoplayer.175358/ , thanks for the response (
)--- i'm glad to know --- better to leave that way than a some of the others! 
I never knew he owned a Honda.
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