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BBP
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I'm still happy I turned Dogpile. OK, I can't search by date, but at least my searches aren't tracked.
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Huck_Phlem
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Quote: Originally posted by punknaynowned  | today on google front page in honor of les paul's birthday there are strings that can be plucked with your mouse. Plus a button to record what you do
and then it will play it back.
Insta fretless guitar, sorta.
Still fun and cute
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Oh that is what that is! I'll give it a try.
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BBP
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Made an extensive post series in the General Board, with translations of a number of Zappa-Hitweek articles from '67 to '68.
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Today we attended the wedding of my brother's daughter Tricia. She married a Naval officer, so they were able to have the wedding at the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey.
It's a beautiful location; on the grounds of the old Del Monte Hotel, which was once one of the classiest hotels in the United States. And even though
it's now run by the Navy, they still run part of it as a hotel. It still has the ornate woodwork, the rose gardens and the wandering peacocks. It
looks like something out of a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
At the reception I had lunch with one of my brother's dear friends, Rock Scully. For twenty years he was the manager of The Grateful Dead. My brother
was a huge Deadhead, and by coincidence he and Rock went through rehab together. They developed a tight friendship. My brother died last year, and
Scully was actually the last person to see him alive.
This was the first time I had seen him since then. We talked for about two hours. Fortunately it wasn't all about my brother: fortunately, he peppered
it liberally with anecdotes about the Grateful Dead and San Francisco in the sixties.
All in all, it was a good day...
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Sounds great MTF! Congratulations!
(Got any Grateful Gossip to share?)
Yesterday I gave my father a footbath and sanded off his calluses. Yes that's a very ugly picture.
Well, he's lost a lot of weight now.
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Wow, Bonny, that's dedicated. That's certainly something I'd never expect my daughter to do for me.
Congratulations and condolences, MTF. Was he a younger or older brother? I have a younger brother, but he hasn't been too frugal with his health and
worries me sometimes (well, most of the time). If you didn't know us you might think he looked like an older brother.
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polydigm
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I tried that Les Paul Google thing.
Something I wrote: Ode To Les Paul
Frank Zappa: Eat That Question
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BBP
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That ETQ is uncanny!!
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I know it's difficult advice to follow but somebody told me: "Never take anything personally!"
hats off to mtf for old friends
hats off to poly for a new composition and I like that ETQ too. dunno how you did it but I like it
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BBP
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Use your keyboard... 
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I couldn't have done it without the keyboard, I tried and got nowhere fast.
The top row of number keys:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
G A B C D E F G A B
The other rows do the same, but I found the numbers easier to work with.
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polydigm
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Yee ha!! The place where I'm doing my current 1 term contract has just offered me a contract for all of the second semester.
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oh good! another semester of econ security for ya. Good news!
and that's great with the numbers on the virtual les paul thing
every year they have a get together called netroots nation.
I can't go - no funds - but it's being held in Minneapolis and gosh I love that town.
people are headed up that way and the buzz in the circles I follow now is electric.
We'll see what they come up with.
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Hey Poly that's great news!
I've started on re-polishing my math skills. We divide math in two types, A and B. A is considered the easier one, dealing with probability, matrixes
and stuff, and the other one deals with formulas, parabolas and trigonometry. I was forced to drop the hard math because my class had been at war with
our math teacher, he wouldn't teach us anymore and he was replaced by some dipfish (once I asked him to help me with something I just messed up with
even though I knew how it was done, he messed up himself all the time and I spent fifteen minutes after class waiting for him to figure it out. The
day after he was asked in class how to do it; and he messed up again). Making it worse I couldn't pull up my grade in the probability exam
because I forgot my calculator.
Anyway I had to drop hard math, and without the sinus science physics becomes near impossible so I had to give that a miss. I hated biology for the
drawing though I was good at the other elements of it, and without those subjects there's little use for chemistry either. So I ended up with a lot of
considered "loser" subjects, or a "fun package" with Dutch, English, French, German, macro-economy, history and math A. It wasn't a fun package,
getting the literature straight is very hard, the oral exams were planned on and around my birthday (that's fun, I had to get up extra early to fail
French literature on my birthday and spent my big 18 studying for German) , the listening exams were horrid, there was the English letter writing when
we suddenly had to do a formal letter while we only had practiced informal letters, one complete class had not been taught what a two-line verse was
called in Dutch and missed that question on the poetry exam (for which we had to examine a sonnet my Dutch teacher had written)...
Anyway it always stung me I couldn't do that type of math while I was good at it. So I've found some math B books in a second hand shop at a snip and
I'm now digging my way through those, drawing parabolas.
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cool news, Poly!
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Yesterday I went on a lengthy trip to Woerden. After one and a half hour by train, I had to walk half an hour to reach my destination; a home of which
the owner had two Primus-tickets on sale.
And I made a lot of photos!
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Cheers, mate.
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What is that?
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Cheers, Aqua, I hope you're settling well into your new place.
Hey, Bonny, I guess that means implicitly that you now have some Primus tickets?
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Here's a picture from last Sunday's wedding reception:
Rock Scully's on the right; my lovely wife Kathy (a.k.a. Mrs. Flycoon) is on the left; and I have no clue who that moron in the middle is...
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Nice pic MTF!
Well Poly: I'm not crying victory until I find myself in the Effenaar foyer, perhaps thanking Larry LaLonde for turning me onto Zappa. But I did buy
tickets for me and my sis!
And I'm sore all over from yesterday's car shoving. I hope it'll be better tomorrow.
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