Thad E Ginathom

"Ridden on a horse?"
"Yes."
"You're using coconuts"
"What?"

Aaargh! My sound effects are clipping!

(and clopping)

Anyway, to-do list: back to Youtube (or whatever) and revisit Melanie. She sang other songs. I wonder how many I will remember.

In the mean time, lovely bunch of coconuts? I'll get some limes.

@Woland --- as I have commented, I have from-vinyl rips that, noise and all, I would rather listen to than newer, clean, digital versions. But I don't think it is the technology that screws up the music, but what the mastering guys do with their knobs.

But you AT LEAST need ECC RAM to make sure no bits get flipped! (Sarcasm).

I *love* the sound that bits make as they flip!

Anyone heard from our resident Floridaman @YMO?

Hopefully, the air trapped in his chest hair will keep him afloat!

But seriously, though... ???

I am fine, @shotgunshane was the one to worry due to his location.

Always check wind direction before using.

I'm getting old. Some days, the pressure just doesn't happen :/

Looking on the bright side: I don't have to clean my own floors :)

The comment must meet some algorithmic conclusion that only a psycho would like such a comment.

That makes it even more worrying that it let me like your comment.

Indeed

@Thad E Ginathom I simply can't imagine what those problems might be. Pray tell.

@YMO I enjoy my boomerism, thank you very much.

"a job as @YMO's straightman"

I will continue as before, on an occasional, voluntary basis.

Pity about the flights. But I guess that's how the world is. Free business-class flights would probably tend to involve somebody's arse. Metaphorical or otherwise.

Record collecting is fun if you don't let it get out of hand. Out of hand, for me anyway, is dropping more than $50 on an LP on the regular. Never mind $125 +

Of course, good used bin scores are harder and harder to find in these tulip-craze-like times. Which is why spending, say, $40 on a good re-issue starts to seem a sensible idea. You never see old Blue Note in the wild now, for example, and buying on Discogs, even when supposedly VG+, is often disappointing. So the re-issues are great.

I've got a couple Mo-Fi Miles, b/c Miles is in such heavy demand it's hard to get good used copies. They're DSD-sourced, solid, not amazing, IMO, and I thought that before Mo-Fi gate. But you get a quiet copy for your cash.

Sure. And also, it can't be perfect. And shouldn't be expected to be.

We're... just people.

You know where this place originated right? The old place was quite eventful...

...and brought about its own demise.

I had a Beosound Level loudspeaker for a few weeks when I started dipping my toes into a little more expensive hi-fi. I remember it as being an impressive little thing, sound-wise. Of course, you can get much better sound by very far for the same price, but if a battery powered portable WiFi/BT speaker is what you want, I doubt there is a better offer on the market.

(Take that with a grain of salt, though, I didn’t have much to compare to at the time.)

Here you go: https://vancouver.craigslist.org/van/ele/d/vancouver-bo-cd-5500-beogram-3000/7521750281.html

worst dream ever! I don't even know how to turn a windows computer on.

Clippy: "It looks like you are trying to turn me on. Would you like some help with that?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFb3HSXgEY4

This happened up and down the Americas as well, it’s a function of colonial settler states and eradication of indigenous cultures is an ongoing process in those states.

If not colonial, then colonial legacy, yes.

Back in the 1950s the Brits (I am one) shipped out children from their own orphanages, nominally for adoption, but many of them became cheap labour on farms, etc.

Unmarried mothers risked spending their lives committed to a mental-health "hospital." (Asylum was the term then).

I was born in 1952 to an unmarried mother. I was not privileged to be born into a good, middle class family: I was damned lucky to be adopted by one.

I lived in Kentucky for 8 years. Don't worry, there just in there boats fishing parts of the river they have not been on before... ;)

Well, it does seem pretty serious.

I did see one of the youtubers posting again: he's dry.

But some awful tragedy reports in the media.

The other youtuber looks dry too.

Still feeling for the folk who are not. Flood is pretty awful

A German would never immediately think “alpine peasant hoarse” when he sees the word Sennheiser, though, as the er in the end has the first connotation of sb doing sth, like in English, too (maker, player etc.).

horse or hoarse?

Hoarse. Yes, it doesn’t add up to something that really makes sense, but still, it’s funny.

By the least-modest crooner ever—and *that's* saying something: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEaRyjbBkM

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Rudy may be pretty, and Kitty may be dumb.

But Harry's the man with the tools tools tools

So... How far is Kansas from Austin?

Well, in American terms, probably not that far. But here to Austin is just not possible anyway :/

Only "start" afaik

Thanks. As I thought: I cannot "quote" the first few seconds of a video.

Bugger Google.

You can use the clip feature. As such: https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxq3HobDUTAoMlaWfh1U7WKvG3W7KArRSb

Thanks for the support, folks, it is very much appreciated :)

And, yep, recovering fast now.

Wishing you a very speedy recovery and hopefully free of long Covid. BA.2 is knocking at our door. My middle son has it now.

Wishing your son well, Bob. Yes, One week is drawing to an end now, and I am pretty-much recovered.

OK, "First Time Ever I saw Your Face," is easy to extract.

But the song I actually wanted to get at was "Long Time Girl I never See You; Come let me hold your hand..."

Sweet little song.

A sad little song, from 1972, that I heard for the first time recently.

I like a song that tells a story, a ballad. And apparently, this one is true.

History of reverb...

https://www.wikiaudio.org/emt-140-plate-reverb/

Wow. So that's how they did it. Extraordinary!

Yeah big metal actual plates. Very popular in the 80’s and even gated for that Phil Collins drum sound. Spring reverb is similar, but longer reverb times - very popular in guitar amps.