A clean colonoscopy gruntles me.Haha!.....just picture the poor schmoe that has been saving for his Bird for awhile and is eager to join this club to log on and see us talking about colonoscopies...
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Some banks still use COBOL. If I were to get laid off, I'd likely brush up and go do that, despite loathing it. Should be good money at this point.
I miss FORTRAN. I designed and helped write a TON of cool stuff in its variants, including a portable windowing system (easy to add any graphics device[1]) before anyone else had one. If anyone saw the Italian Job remake a few years back, remember the LA traffic control room, with all the cool stuff to monitor traffic and flow on the wall of monitors? While that's more monitors than we originally put in, the company I worked for at the time (JHK & Associates) developed that. The graphical stuff and various other parts were my babies!
The whole rest of the team went out to install and oversee it for the 1984 Olympics. I, on the other hand, had switched to another project because our first baby was due smack dab during the Olympics. I'm not complaining, but I do wish she had let us know she was going to be three weeks late. (So does my wife, for reasons more in line with just knowing what she was in for.)
[1] Literally anything you could buy. In fact, we ported it to work with various low and high-end raster and vector displays, dot matrix printers, and at least two brands of drum and flatbed plotters. (The letters PCL still make me twitch now and then.) Obviously the printer and plotter outputs had nothing to do with realtime...
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Obviously Cologuard feels the risk is worth taking in a litigious world. Similar advances are being made in all cancer research, you can't stop progress.
Maybe your risk is 25-1, mine isn't.
Gotta love the internet....TL022s....BOO!!1. I know electronics, so I'm not worried. Just mildly irritated. I had messaged the seller 2-3 days before the auction ended specifically asking about the controls (since the ad failed to mention them specifically). I never heard back. I knew I was taking a chance, and I took it, and nothing here is major. I was already considering just ripping out the electronics so I wouldn't have to think about a battery, but I do plan to get it working as is to at least see what I think.
2,3. I haven't had time to do much; I was hoping that things would be labeled under that plate. But with today's work and supper behind me, tackling this is near the top of the list.
4. If I can get more bass out of this bass, I will be happy with the electronics.
5. COBOL is as painful in its own way as assembly can be- especially Intel's (I've done both, plus many more languages). I don't recall what it took to get apostrophes working; I just know that COBOL programs set the standard that names could not have apostrophes in them. Clearly part of an anti-Irish conspiracy!
The seller didn't make any false claims as far as I can tell. They made it sound as good as they could without doing so, and again- I new I was taking a chance. I think the neck and wood are fine. It's not a problem; I just needed to vent. I was more frustrated with the mfr web site and lack of useful information than anything else. There's really no excuse for that.
History: In 79 or 80, a teenager I knew had saved his money all year and bought a guitar with active electronics. I'm almost sure it was an RD Artist. I spent hours working on shielding, grounding, reflowing solder, etc. I couldn't afford a scope at the time so we never tracked down the noise; I suspected an op amp, although it could have just been bad gain structure. Other owners had the same problem, which is likely one of the reasons they never took off.
Never used those, myself. Noisy buggars, apparently.
According to Exact Sciences (the maker of Cologuard)
"Any positive should be followed by a diagnostic colonoscopy. Following a negative result, patients should continue participating in a screening program at an interval and with a method appropriate for the individual patient. Cologuard performance when used for repeat testing has not been evaluated or established."
Again, very simply -> A DNA based stool test is better than the FOBT. Colonoscopy is the gold standard test and is much better than any of the stool based tests.
I suspect that I know a great deal more about advances in cancer research than most here.
Disease prevalence and disease risk are NOT the same thing.
Yeah 50nV/Hz...yuk...good thing the industry went to CMOS processes..
Well, I think that’s kind of the club’s rep out in the GP anyway. But when there’s a bird related question, it always gets answered with a thoughtful response.Haha!.....just picture the poor schmoe that has been saving for his Bird for awhile and is eager to join this club to log on and see us talking about colonoscopies...
Do tell about our "rep"...eager to know...
The club's rep in Gen Pop is healthy bowels!?
Aerosmith was on the Tonight Show last night! More miracles of modern medical tech!
My aunt used to write code for Bank of America, they used COBOL.
Is it still the Tonight Show if it was last night?
There's someone that became really strange after he sobered up! Watch Joe Rogan Experience with Steven Tyler... he's whacked
Makes sense.
Harbor Freight also sells a couple of dolly's that might work.
Same here at my last one.
I am on the 3 year plan as well. My father and aunt (dads sister) had it and so have 3 uncles on my mom's side. As much as i hate having the procedure I will continue to have it done. Life aint perfect but I'm in no hurry to leave it behind.
Gaolee
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I have more than one of those risk factors. Sure, some of them are self-inflicted, but there you are. I like red meat and I like beer and whiskey more than I should. I suppose it averages two or less, but there's always those random days. Then my grandfather had colon cancer. He was sure vegetables were what food ate and his idea of fiber was a salt crust. Even so, there it is. So, when they told me I should get scoped every five years, I'm not going to argue. They found several small benign polyps last time around, too. Bets to snip them before they learn bad habits.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Darn philosophy majors...
OK. Not the best pics. but they'll have to do for now.
2009, Chinese factory. A few dings and dents but nothing horrible. Pretty bass!
Pros:
2009, Chinese factory. A few dings and dents but nothing horrible. Pretty bass!
Pros:
- While I don't get along great with wide necks, this one is comfortable and playable, although it really stretches my poor, short fingers even more than the long scale by itself does on TBirds.
- After a cleanup and some minor work, with a fresher battery, we have bass, and all controls work!
- And lots less noise.
- Seller threw in a pair of strap screws/buttons. (See questions.) The original, stupidly placed button is still there near the neck.
- Crappy strings (OK, fine, replace them.)
- The bridge is up off the body on the tail end B string side, and I'm a bit concerned about that. Pic to follow.
- The neck pickup screws are somewhat butchered.
- The string placement has the B string farther from the p/u center than the G. Hopefully when I fix the p/u height the B volume comes up. It's likely that part of the B volume problem is the practice amp ( a 30W Kalamazoo bass amp from the 60s with 2 10s).
- Previous owner had no clue on setup, or they played uber-soft. Even half way digging in hits frets up to around the 5th.
- When I change strings, I'll look at the bridge, adjust the pickups, and adjust the truss rod.
- Still not sure what I think of the tone, but once it's playable. I'll try it at church and see how it sounds there.
- The control cavity cover plate is the usual modern junk, but had foil inside. There was nothing grounding the foil. A short bit of wire soldered to the output jack ground lug and laid around a screw hole fixed that.
- The rest of the control cavity is unshielded. Then again, I've shielded the control cavity on almost every guitar I've owned, or even kept at my house for someone.
- All four control nuts and the jack nut were loose. Jack nut had some rust. All happy now.
- Each pickup wire has ground, white, and red wires. The red wires are unstripped and unconnected. Are these coil taps?
- Has anyone seen "strap locks" (seller's phrase for these) like this for a guitar? They are nylon quick release. but there was no strap (as noted on the ebay listing).
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TBird Pro V problems
Control cavity with and without shield wire. Bridge issue. Pickup silliness. That appears to be some sort of fabric coming out of the pickup screw hole.
Control cavity with and without shield wire. Bridge issue. Pickup silliness. That appears to be some sort of fabric coming out of the pickup screw hole.
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Likewise on the 3 year. Much as I dislike the prep(who doesn't), I'll put up with it to not die of it like our previous lead singer did. He had no insurance. He'd feel lousy and go to the clinic. They'd diagnose indigestion and tell him to lay off the Italian food(he was Italian, BTW). It got so bad that one night his GF took him to the ER. They did the colonoscopy and the doctor who did it flipped. Unfortunately it was too late. He died about 6 weeks later. I'll put up with a coupla days every 3 years.
