Thad E Ginathom

Haha, my brain cells are still good for something. Sometimes.

Thank you very much for the details

Well, thanks to @PTS and youtube, I am reunited. It is a lot longer, a lot grimmer, and a lot nastier than I remember.

Well, I did ask! So I can't complain.

I wonder... Should I go on to listen to the rest of the forgotten album!

OK, so I had a listen. Not to the whole thing (except The Gift). I guess maybe it might have been my kind of music way back then, else why would I remember that Gift thing. But it isn't now.

Hey ho, I usually enjoy long-lost, rediscovered music. Can't win 'em all.

Woke up with aches, pains, fever and no voice. Back home for a day, maybe two... But not giving up. Should be back in the concert halls tomorrow, or next day at worse.

And the local bugs. I don't want to think about how many quarts of blood I've likely lost to mosquitoes. Aaaaaah.

Hope you and yours stay hale and hearty! Good time as any for citrus, teas, or both :))

Give Blood! Open your door to mosquitoes. And even if you don't, they will get in and eat us anyway.

Chennai (India) (Mostly Carnatic) Music Season is already on. And I've already failed to get up for several morning concerts. Errm... before 4pm that is.

Time to get serious. Some people take in as many as five concerts in a day: I aim for a comfortable three or so.

Internet time will be considerably reduced. If I don't see y'all again before January: Happy New Year! :)

Same to you Thad....enjoy the music!!

@SoupRKnowva Thanks! I seem to be into fractals this week :)

Are they your father(s)?

Use the flyswatter Luke...

I did destroy one. It just became infinitely more powerful!

There is no such thing as "too many tools."

Or too much Tool (if you ask @Deep Funk )

"I know the pieces fit" is more than a line in a song called "Schism"...

I came across a couple of sachets of special audiophile wipes for CDs and cables. Yes! use them to make your cables sound better!

Can I believe that I once paid for those? Of course I can believe it. Surely most of us have, at some time, been just a bit audiophoolish.

At least I never bought any... crystals!

Or anything from Synergnostic Recycle

I think they may have been ReVeel, by Russ Andrews in UK. Still available.

To be fair to them, they don't, if they ever did, make any claims about cables, but I don't think I dreamt it up. And if I did, then all the more audiophool me!

Whether they made any difference to CDs I can't really say. Probably about as much as the green pen.

All in all, I end up thinking not to get taken in by the obvious and expensive nonsense, but the cheap and simple even if a bit daft? Heck, give it a try.

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Sometimes one should read the small print!

I love xkcd. Except for those occasions when I have no idea at all what it means.

Always read the small print.

Apart from pets and cameras, and checking notifications... Mark All read, and start over.

Back home still, watching the asylum from afar. What idiot put the loonies in charge?

Actually, in a few hours I'll be sitting at the airport, and I hope that plane /will/ fly!

Off to the frozen north. The land of barking-mad Boris and co. See y'all in a couple of weeks

Safe travels Thad!

He and Jerry are writing together again somewhere

When I was just a little young boy,
Papa said "Son, you'll never get far,
I'll tell you the reason if you want to know,
'Cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go"

Laughing Cat! Thank you :)

Of course, he's really yawning, but once I saw it as a laugh, I couldn't unsee it.

Gosh, that must be painful. Glad that you don’t need to do the fingering stuff every 3 months.

I will not have my finger pricked, but I don't mind them taking a syringe-full from my arm. And I have easy-to-find veins: usually I don't feel a thing. I just scream for the sake of it.

Isn't phlebotomist a lovely word!

Oh wait, you mean /that/ fingering stuff!

I feel sorry for the doctors. But, as one replied when I said so, "it all pays the mortgage."

Thankfully I have not had that one for a few years. I forgot.

As in... Just need to give food the wrong colour to fool our sense of taste?

It's a custom paint shop. They can build a mint color (or strawberry) HD800S for you :)

But what does it taste like?

Yes, other women.

Sounds like something the new female 007 would be subjected to by her nemesis....

Quite. And at least Americans can rest easy because, it seems, the FDA Does Not Approve.

...milkman?

…"Say Fred, did you ever notice that your kittens look kinda like the Ginathom cat?"

There's so much inbreeding in the local population that many of them have similar looks.

@Bloom, yes we have a milkman and a newspaperman. Our milkman delivers pasteurised milk, there is also a local milkman for from-the-cow milk, which we do not buy.

They should add some wasabi. Makes them cry for being so gullible...

I emptied a packet of wasabi into a jar, and inhaled some of the powder that floated in the air. The only thing that hurt more was being stupid enough to want to know what concentrated nitric acid (with those amazing brown fumes) smells like.

One might think that vagina steaming is unbeatable.

Nope.

In my newspaper this weekend, an advert for *Laser Vaginal Rejuvination*

Whaaaaaaat? Oh, and "no downtime."

In USA, it seems that your FDA is protecting the public from this. No such safeguard here in India.

Yes! The frog he would a wooing go; Davy Crocket; Tumbling Weed... and many others.

I'm blown away by his singing The Times They are A'Changing. I suspect it might have been thought cheeze and horrible at the time, especially when compared to Dylan's own version, but hearing it now... it's like dicovering my grandfather sang it!

I don't know about how it was perceived, but I am pretty sure Burl Ives was a folk singer long before Mr. Zimmerman became Mr. Dylan.

Very true, @Senorx12562. In fact, probably before Mr Z was even born!

But part of my multi-dimensional mindbend in listening to this was seeing how Dylan's music really was folk music.