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The Outpost Cafe / Re: I make the Pilgrimage to Frankfurt!
« on: May 02, 2018, 07:09:30 PM »
I was wondering where you were Mark. You could you resist the Uranus thread?
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Something new and old from the Eastern Front!
« on: May 02, 2018, 07:07:18 PM »
Better sound on this one.
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The Outpost Cafe / Something new and old from the Eastern Front!
« on: May 02, 2018, 07:04:32 PM »
These old birds still make my heart flutter.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: NASA wants to probe deeper into Uranus than ever before
« on: April 25, 2018, 04:03:59 PM »
Uranus jokes really
Q: Why are the U.S.S. Enterprise and toilet paper alike?
A: They both hunt for Klingons in the rings around Uranus.
Well, that’s out of the way. Sorry if the low humor discomfits, but when writing about Uranus jokes, it is the nature of the business.
People have been making fun or Uranus for a long time!
I wish I was the Colossus of Rhodes and a little man four feet eleven and a half would come up to me some day when I felt right good, and stare up at me with a grin longer than his body and ask me “If it wasn’t pretty cold up there” and I would hold him up by the neck, and I would swing my brazen leg until I got the motion and impetus of a walking beam, and then I would kick the little fellow so high that he could read the names of the streets on the street lamps in Uranus, and I would sarcastically shout after him, “No, it’s red hot!”
Q: Why are the U.S.S. Enterprise and toilet paper alike?
A: They both hunt for Klingons in the rings around Uranus.
Well, that’s out of the way. Sorry if the low humor discomfits, but when writing about Uranus jokes, it is the nature of the business.
People have been making fun or Uranus for a long time!
I wish I was the Colossus of Rhodes and a little man four feet eleven and a half would come up to me some day when I felt right good, and stare up at me with a grin longer than his body and ask me “If it wasn’t pretty cold up there” and I would hold him up by the neck, and I would swing my brazen leg until I got the motion and impetus of a walking beam, and then I would kick the little fellow so high that he could read the names of the streets on the street lamps in Uranus, and I would sarcastically shout after him, “No, it’s red hot!”
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The Outpost Cafe / What are you tooling around in now?
« on: April 25, 2018, 03:44:05 PM »
I finally got out my MR2!
Time to enjoy life!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/07AYd0UEmT83dnCV2
I forgot how archaic posting pictures on a web page are!
What do you guys drive or ride for fun.
Time to enjoy life!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/07AYd0UEmT83dnCV2
I forgot how archaic posting pictures on a web page are!
What do you guys drive or ride for fun.
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The Bass Zone / Re: wow !
« on: April 25, 2018, 03:35:53 PM »
Great playing, technique and talent, but totally forgettable and unoriginal.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Dire financial situation at Gibson?
« on: April 23, 2018, 06:34:52 PM »
I was hoping you would have gotten one.
I can’t wait to hear your report
I can’t wait to hear your report
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: NASA wants to probe deeper into Uranus than ever before
« on: April 23, 2018, 06:16:30 PM »
I just read that Uranus is surrounded by sulfur fart gas?
No shit
No shit
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Fugliest bass in the world (but I love her)
« on: April 14, 2018, 02:20:03 PM »
Man that’s truly ugly, but somehow I like the experimentation. Like grafting a second head on an Axlotl or a Kahler on a bass.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Millimetric Instruments
« on: April 14, 2018, 02:12:18 PM »
They are nice wall ornaments for an office or your modern loft?
Not the alenbic.
Not the alenbic.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Dire financial situation at Gibson?
« on: April 14, 2018, 02:06:54 PM »
Tobias did not pan out huh?
It could the whole millennial thing?
Have to blame them for all our woes?
I read about the demise of old fart toys of our generation are not endearing to new generations. Harley’s, Corvettes, all too expensive for our broke basement video game coffee serving generation.
Gibson’s are certianly pricey, but there are epiphones?
Just poor management it looks like.
It could the whole millennial thing?
Have to blame them for all our woes?
I read about the demise of old fart toys of our generation are not endearing to new generations. Harley’s, Corvettes, all too expensive for our broke basement video game coffee serving generation.
Gibson’s are certianly pricey, but there are epiphones?
Just poor management it looks like.
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The Outpost Cafe / Baby Metal Kami Band
« on: April 14, 2018, 06:01:05 AM »
A few years ago I dragged my son to Babymetal in Chicago.
More like Blue Man group as far as being more a production, not a real “band”. However it was an amazing show.
Like everything Japanese they do everything better than in the West, but never in originality for the most part, other than them not understanding western culture and doing weird things with it, but that is another subject.
My son commented that it was one of the best shows he has seen. The guitarist recently died, fell of a balcony. RIP
More like Blue Man group as far as being more a production, not a real “band”. However it was an amazing show.
Like everything Japanese they do everything better than in the West, but never in originality for the most part, other than them not understanding western culture and doing weird things with it, but that is another subject.
My son commented that it was one of the best shows he has seen. The guitarist recently died, fell of a balcony. RIP
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The Bass Zone / Re: Darrin Huff on tb.
« on: April 14, 2018, 05:51:08 AM »
It’s always the nice guys you need to look out for. He comes off as the nicest down to Earth guy, but really is a sociopath, with no remorse for anyone other than himself.
A trait more found in CEO’s and politicians.
A trait more found in CEO’s and politicians.
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Shau Sugi Ban
« on: April 13, 2018, 04:02:06 AM »
It’s a counterintuitive but ingenious idea: heating wood to render it fireproof. If you’ve ever tried to rekindle a campfire using burnt logs, you get the idea. The combustion also neutralizes the cellulose in the wood — the carbohydrates that termites, fungus and bacteria love — making it undesirable to pests and resistant to rot. The resulting charcoal layer repels water and prevents sun damage as well. By some estimates, boards that have undergone this process can last 80 years or more, but Japan’s Buddhist Horyuji Temple in Nara prefecture, whose five-story pagoda is one of the world’s oldest extant wooden structures, has been around for much longer. Initially built in A.D. 607, the pagoda caught fire and was rebuilt in 711 using shou sugi ban.
It works on other wood, but I read it works best on softer open grain woods.
It works on other wood, but I read it works best on softer open grain woods.
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Shau Sugi Ban
« on: April 12, 2018, 02:53:13 PM »
What’s interesting about the technique is cedar would last at least 80 years!
The water table is really high in our yard and most of the fence posts rotted after 12 years.
Or do your deck this way?
The thing is cedar has become really pricey now.
The water table is really high in our yard and most of the fence posts rotted after 12 years.
Or do your deck this way?
The thing is cedar has become really pricey now.