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Thunderbird Club
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Yeah, but he might not have known that.
I love mine. Feels good, sounds good, good sustain. And looks cooler than a dozen Fenders.
Hoping to get my D-bird by thursday afternoon. I am a very jaded, been there, done that guy when it comes to gear. But, I have played a few dingwalls and love the looks of a bird. I see no scenario where this bass won't rock! Im very excited and it feels good to have that spark back again.
Well, you are kinda spoiled with that harem...
Yeah. Most sharks don’t have the internet or much education. They don’t spend much time in schools.
Less than me???JJR puts his pants on just like everyone else, but not quite as often.
Grass skirt and coconut bra have been out for a long time.
I trust everyone else hears “Watermelon man” playing!
Yet another fun band I never got around to seeing live.
Isn't there a "Nessie" or "Champ" in Lake Ontario?
Vi are ve talking of zis?
Such a cute little minion.
I'm so hurt...
Ok, first; PillO, NOT PhillO! I am not a pastry!
Second; some of us used Vi andlikedtolerated it because you could do everything you needed on a minimal keyboard without taking hands away from the home row. And this from someone who was a 3 finger typist until the age of 29...
Third; real scientists don't use Mac.
Fourth; tablets are what you get at the drug store, not the computer store.
But go ahead, be like the teenagers and use a gui. And GET OFF MY LAWN!
1) Your avatar looks like a Twinkie, which is kind of a pastry.
2) I learned to type on an IBM Selectric in the 9th grade. I became quite proficient. Although I'll never forget the day we had a one minute blind (can't look at the keyboard) pop quiz. Teacher flashed a paragraph on the screen and we had one minute to type it. IIRC I completed around 80 words in the minute we were given. Unfortunately I had mistakenly not placed my fingers on the home row keys, which created 79 errors, and resulted in a final score of 1 word a minute on the quiz. Not one of my better moments.
3) My entire career was in Engineering specifically supporting the R&D scientific community. Nearly every lab bench had DOS or windows based PCs where experiment data was gathered and numbers were crunched. And nearly every scientist also had an office, with a Mac that was used to present the data, and perform most other office tasks (email, info searches, blog and scientific community boards, peer reviews...).
4) I'm retired now so a tablet meets 95% of my needs, the rest is done on a Mac desktop or laptop if needed. When I was working it was much closer to the inverse, 90% on the laptop or docking station and 10% on the iPad.
I'll never forget all the grief Mac users got from the DOS users in the late 80's up until about the mid 90's about their goofy little computers with silly pictures instead of DOS commands. Of course when Windows came out for the PC they all thought that was the bees knees.
At one point I had a Mac I was running CAD software on. The software was only compatible with windows not MacOS. So I ran the Mac in PC emulation mode and installed Windows 95 so I could run the CAD program. Basically it was a Mac emulating a PC emulating a Mac. Worked fine, just as fast as any of the PC based CAD units in the office.
Ahh, the good old days.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
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Yes I still have Cataldos Bach! Definitely a bass worth getting, mine isn't going anywhere. I have three Bachs at the moment and would definitely snap up another. You should grab it!
Dad used to take us to a lot of air shows. Always loved the Angels, Thunderbirds and the Snowbirds when they flew south. Here’s a cool list of teams:
Still around, might try and see them 08/17 at a Theater in SLO.
Got that.
On this Ibanez 5er I traded for recently, I'm discovering I'm probably going to change the pup's. After a couple different sets of strings and learning a bit about the preamp, my ears seemed to have honed in on the guts/ pup's. The pre is new-ish, and sounds like it has a pretty able eq. The bass produces a sort of "compressed" tone- as if the sound I want to hear is under something and can't get out. It sounds too controlled. Don't know if that makes any sense, but I'm guessing that it's the pup's. I want it to be a little more "open" sounding...
I'm dealing with it for now, I'm liking some things about the bass, like the close string spacing. On the one hand it doesn't feel as free for my right hand, but on the other, a lot of playability is more accessible to my left.
In the rock n roll context it's not the T'Bird, but it's doing a cool thing that I'm enjoying...
My ignorance of the former enabled my ignorance of the latter...
L Ontario is a long way from the ocean. If there were a species of shark in the N Atlantic that could survive long enough and navigate far enough, it would run into a significant obstacle in the form of the Iroquois dam (which is the real cause of the flooding in L Ontario).
Iroquois Dam - Wikipedia
To the best of my knowledge, there is no sea monster in L Ontario although some have tried to develop a story of one. Ontario does have a sea monster legend. It is said that the Mussie lives in Muskrat Lake in NE Ontario.Isn't there a "Nessie" or "Champ" in Lake Ontario?
Muskrat Lake - Wikipedia
Mussie - Wikipedia
How would I know such a piece of local lore? I was part of an expedition to locate and capture the Mussie. We left work at lunch time and spent a full afternoon searching. We found the Mussie, killed it, made burgers from it. Coincidentally, alcohol was involved.
