Sheepdog1969

Pretty sure that pilot's name was actually "Forest Gump", but he must have used the pseudonym "Sully" to hide his real identity, just like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar using the name "Roger Murdock", when he was a pilot.🤪 On an unrelated but similar note, Huge Ackman's "Greatest Showman", was the worst Wolverine sequel EVER! 🤔

Sadly, No "Big Red", (my favorite red cream soda, btw!), Coke products are all I saw. I did not notice the Fries or the Malt vinegar, sorry. (but that's not to say they don't still have them.). My daughter and I try to hit the park once every 3-4 years, and we always stay at The Breakers. Cedar Point is still the cleanest, safest, and best Coaster park I have ever been to, and I have been going there for over 25 years, (well before my kid was even born.)

After visiting the Gibson factory in Memphis a few years ago, I have had a longing for an ES 335. The only thing slowing me down was the price tag associated with the Gibson. However, a few days ago I read an article about the Epiphone ES 335 being a great value, and how it produces tones on par with the Gibson version. Being an old "Gibson guy", I found that hard to believe. New Epiphone ES 335's, (vintage sunburst specifically), list at $599.00 @ Sweetwater, Guitar Center, etc., and that price is very affordable. Can anyone let me know, from personal experience, if I should invest in the Epiphone ES 335? The nearest Guitar Center is just under an hour away, and I won't waste a trip to "try out" the Epiphone if it is not comparable to the Gibson. Let me know.

Just got back from Sandusky Ohio, 6/14/23, after spending 4 days and three nights at Cedar Point. Thankfully we experienced no smoke issues. 1. From my research, forest fires in Canada have actually decreased over the last few decades. 2. When/if forests are left in their natural state, allowing deadfall and underbrush to accumulate, the natural process of fires, (lightning strikes as ignition sources, not arson or careless human action), are inevitable and healthy for said forests. (despite not being similarly healthy for humans.) https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-important-relationship-between-forests-and-fire/ One cannot demand forests to be untouched without experiencing the inevitable fires associated with said.

(article originally posted on yahoo by Michael Astley-Brown) With its lightweight build, speedy neck and devilish good looks, the Gibson SG is one of the all-time great rock guitars (even if Les Paul wasn’t a fan). Yet one issue has persistently plagued SG players: the affliction commonly known as ‘neck dive’, where the guitar’s headstock drops the second you let go of the neck – especially noticeable when the model is played strapped on while standing. This occurs due to the distribution of weight across the guitar’s body: when the center of mass is positioned towards the headstock, this causes the neck to start drooping without any support. Now, the SG isn’t the only electric to be afflicted with this condition – the Explorer and Flying V are also known to dive, as are short-scale basses – but Gibson’s iconic double-horn is the most famous. Given that the issue is inherent in the guitar’s design, fixing the problem isn’t easy. Guitarists have proposed everything from adding weight to straps, reducing headstock mass by switching out tuners or moving strap buttons. But now a far more straightforward – and non-invasive – solution has been proposed by Frantone mastermind Fran Blanche, who has devised an ingenious guitar strap, which she outlines in a new video upload. Essentially, Blanche’s remedy involves affixing a clip to the strap at roughly hip height, which then clips to her belt. This distributes the weight more evenly across the guitar’s body, thus preventing neck dive – and it’s so discreet, audiences won’t even notice. As Blanche notes, the Frantone Clip Strap is a “very simple, elegant solution” – although showboating guitarists should note that it will prevent the ambitious-yet-very-cool-if-you-pull-it-off ‘throwing the guitar around the body’ move. It’s such a smart solution, you might wonder why Blanche hasn’t patented the idea. But in the video above, she outlines the obstacles to patenting products in the modern age, noting long waiting times and high costs. Not to mention the fact that the moment a patent is approved, it goes public – which means someone else could get the product manufactured before the inventor is able to do so. So for now, you’ll just have to make one for yourself by sewing or riveting a belt clip to an existing strap. Although we imagine it’s only a matter of time before some enterprising Etsy seller fabricates their own solution – just cut Blanche in on the profits, yeah? https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fed-gibson-sg-neck-dive-113516284.html

Somehow I still manage to make that thing sound like out of tune bag pipes! LOL 🤪

Just got back from Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. One of my favorite coasters there, called "Maverick", does not use a mechanical "lift" chain, but uses Electromagnets. LSM (Linear Synchronous Motor) Linear synchronous launch systems utilize a permanent magnet fin on the coaster train. The two aligned fins on the coaster track must be adjusted properly for the orientation of the permanent magnet on the train fin. LSM launches follow these generic steps: The coaster train approaches the track fins A current is generated (by a power source located near the track) that induces an attractive magnetic field in the track fins and attracts the train The train passes through each pair of fins, and the current is reversed by a computerized system, thus reversing the direction of the magnetic field and pushing the coaster train away

I dated an Asian girl with that same condition. Her name was Irene.

Just like wind farm TURBINES do not "turn" due to wind, THEY ARE POWERED FANS THAT CREATE WIND!!

This is quite interesting. A Swedish "heaving" ocean buoy with a linear electrical generator.

Anyone ever heard of a "Chordette" by Excelsior. A friend found one while cleaning out an old farm house and gave it to me. It appears to be an electric Accordion, and still works well and is in great shape. (no pumping the manual bellows.)

torque noun 1. MECHANICS a twisting force that tends to cause rotation. "the three-liter engine has lots of torque" 2. variant spelling of torc. verb apply torque or a twisting force to (an object). Torque is just a way of defining "force" when rotation is involved. Obviously, linear/reciprocating motion is not measured in terms of "torque", but can be measured in foot pound, as an example. Interestingly, I just had this conversation with a friend who is my "speaker guru". I am looking to replace a 20+ year old subwoofer, and wanted to understand the benefits/negatives of large sub speakers, (15" or larger) versus smaller sub speakers (8" or 10"). Long story short, larger sub speakers require more power and far larger coil/magnets in order to generate the Force necessary to overcome their own mass AND the resistance/friction of the "air column"/atmosphere, (as defined by said speaker's surface area), in order to "move" air accurately and efficiently. As such, the "force" linear motors are capable of is substantial.

I know that an electric motor is also a generator. When the appropriate electrical current is "run through" a motor, said charge is translated into motion. Yet, if you apply mechanical force to a motor, (rotating it in the opposite direction that it "spins" when current is being applied to it), said motor creates a charge, and becomes a generator. I also know that a speaker is also a microphone, (produces an electrical charge), when it is NOT receiving electrical current AND when mechanical force is applied to it, (such as singing into it, or simply moving it in and out.) Simply, the wrapped coil/magnet relationship is a "two way street". Applied current produces movement, and applied mechanical force produces current. I am unaware of any engineering/scientific language that specifies a "mechanical rotational output/input" for something to be called a "motor/generator". It seems a bit obtuse for someone to claim that a speaker can not be a motor, simply because they think it couldn't make a ceiling fan rotate. (obviously a speaker was not designed for said application.) Yet a larger linear "motor", (reciprocating motor), could turn a fan, just as the reciprocating linear pistons of a steam powered locomotive/vehicle engine articulate to generate rotation. Farns and Badblues, I have to agree with you.

NOPE

Wow, at least I'm not the only one who has experienced that. The men in my family tend to go "grey" in their late twenties. Me, being quite self confident, had never thought of dying my hair. That is until a woman, at least ten years my senior, turned to my daughter, (as we were in the checkout line at the grocery store), and asked her if she was having a good day with her Grandpa. I was 44 at the time, and my daughter was 10. My kid was a bit confused, and I had to fight back my desire to ask the woman, "When she was due?", (which is the same kind of assumptive rudeness.) I literally pulled my kid out of the checkout line, searched the store for the, "Just for men" hair dye, and added it to my cart. To this day, my daughter doesn't think it was my grey hair that elicited that woman's question. My kid thinks it was due to the case of Adult diapers in my cart.😄

I think I knew her brother, who had both legs amputated at the knee. His name was Neil.

oh, Got it!🤪 I tend to be a bit slow .

Unlearn both of those words. "Inconsistency" is the word, meaning not consistent and/or irregular.

FYI, Inconsistency is the word you all are looking for, which means not consistent and/or irregular.

1st, I just found the original post detailing your step by step build process for your "Hofner" McCartney lefty base, and WOW times a gillion. 2nd, I was asking, regarding this thread, how tone would be effected by the PU pole separation differential between the neck and bridge PU set up you had initially described vs. identical PU pole separation in both PU's. Additionally, I was asking how tone might be effected if the PU's with different pole separation distances were reversed, (placing the neck PU in the bridge position and the bridge PU in the neck position.) Obviously, I assume you may not know the answer to that question, since this pole separation differential thing per PU appears new to you. I was just wondering if anyone else here might know how the tone may be effected.

Are you referring to AI Marketing applications, used to "sell" investment opportunities in your AI company to potential clients/financial investors in response to their questions asked in the "chat" section of your website? Or, are you referring to predictive Stock Market valuations, for specific publicly traded stocks, that are AI generated?

Unfortunately, my daughter is still sleeping and I didn't think to bring my headphones with me on vacation. (Single room with 2 queens with me not able to sleep, and using my crappy tablet to entertain myself) Thus, I am not able to check out "Double Aught", until later. But per your "drummer" drama comment, my experience with troublesome "gig band" drummers started when I was helping a friend out by running sound for his band. During my first sound check with the band at a bar before a show, I asked their drummer if he could use his drum key to "tune" his set, because it was so "out". He looked at me and asked what a drum key was. Until that point, I had only worked with/played with percussionists who were formally educated music students, (those who had taken music classes in school since 5th grade or so). I was dumbfounded by his response, but took the opportunity to educate him. Since then, most of the "drummers" I have encountered were the least educated musicians I have ever met. Currently, my "drummer" is named Alesis SR-16, and she does EXACTLY what I tell her to do.

To clarify my statement about my "new" phonograph being "the best phonograph I ever owned", it is important to note that the three other decks I have consist of a Winnie the Pooh plastic travel deck that literally has a single 3 inch speaker (mono) and no audio out ports, a Panasonic deck with a cartridge that is integrated into the tone arm, and a Technics SL-6 that varies RPM's between 33 1/3 and 24, despite it being direct drive. LOL Thanks, though, for your vote of confidence, (or pity). I am OK with either.

I am currently posting everywhere I can that I am the most handsome, most intelligent, and most desirable human on the planet, in hopes that Chat GPT or any other AI, will believe that and find me a date.

Read an interesting article the other day by a university professor who was able to determine which students were using Chat GPT to write their assignments by looking up the "citations" listed in said assignments. He stated that Chat GPT "citations", more often than not, were FAKE, (including non existent internet addresses/links), and/or could not be independently corroborated. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/busted-professor-flushing-students-use-chatgpt AI, like Chat GPT, uses the Internet (presumably as much of the net it has access to), as it's "truth/fact" foundation. It currently has no "real world" experience that would allow it to "weed out" data which most of us would immediately understand as false, parody, comedy and/or contextually inaccurate/incomplete. (If most of us read an internet article that said that a "dropped object" falls upwards, we would understand, from personal experience/observation, that said statement was false.) Yes, AI may be able to recognize that the vast majority of internet content regarding "dropped objects" contradict said article, and thus may disregard said "outlier", but what if one were to simply post volumes of internet content (by bot or otherwise) that stated "dropped objects fall upwards"? How much false internet content, regarding any subject, does it take to effect AI's "belief system"? How much "weight" does AI/Chat GPT assign to Wikipedia? (You know, the online "dictionary" that allows anyone to define anything?) Simply based on the volume of online content posted since 2016, including content posted by 90%+ of US media about it, AI/Chat GPT would accept "Trump-Russia Collusion" as fact, despite it being proven as a lie. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence understands that, just because you saw it online, does not mean it's true. Again, if AI's like Chat GPT only have the content existing on the internet as the knowledge base which forms their definition of "fact", AI is being "educated" by people you wouldn't trust to wash your car. Critical Thinking skills are vitally important for .basic human problem solving ability and similarly, humanity's ability to differentiate fact from fiction. The lack there of, especially within our youngest generations, is of great concern to those who understand humanity's reliance upon rational, independent, and factually educated thought processes from/by each new generation who inevitably will be responsible for civilized existence. The ability of the human beings responsible for programming AI, to somehow endow it with "Critical Thinking" skills based upon the "real world" realities of human existence, the physical laws of our universe and planet, and the basic educational instruction each human is taught from the experiences of our forefathers, will determine AI's true worth to humanity.