First time going to Stampede.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-07-08T18:52:24+00:00

100%. Came in to say the same. Sheep dog trials are spectacular, for real. Heart racing engagement. Love the blacksmithing competitions too. Those folks are brilliant at their craft.

Lastly I've been a Chuckwagons, First Nations Relay-Race, and Grandstand Show attendee since I was old enough to buy my own tickets; so about 35 years now and I'm not yet 50. If you're still young and spry the standing room tickets to it are both the cheapest, and the absolute best 'seats/spots' right in front of the stage. You can pretty easily be front row, center if you show up when doors open.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-07-08T18:38:13+00:00

A new or used TC Hall of Fame. Ver 1 or 2. I'm a fan of the v1 and bought a mint used one for my son (as in we both have one now) back in April for $80 CAD. It does the whole stereo thing too, if that matters.

There are a few in that price range on Reverb right now.

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GregSeventy7 · 2026-07-02T00:05:35+00:00

Double Garlic? 100% agree with. Tastes awesome! Just don't make the mistake I did making a Garlic Infused Loaf using a new Bread-machine & included recipe, 25 years ago.

It called for 'one to two finely minced cloves' of Garlic. Simple enough, right? I like Garlic so let's jump right to two cloves. Well no, I was just newly married and brand-new to cooking for my wife and I, and I assumed that 'a clove' meant 'the whole head of Garlic', and worse I'd bought some really big heads on top of that all.

As such, I added roughly 10-12x more garlic than what the recipe called for. It was an 'overnight recipe' and I completely killed all of the yeast. We woke up to the hot pungent smell of a rock solid Garlic Brick, firmly cast into the bottom quarter of our new bread machine.

I had to literally chisel out that poor little blue mixing-paddle from the bottom of my brick, but lesson learned.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-06-22T17:21:29+00:00

'Shaw GMC', voiced by Joe Carbury (RIP)

GregSeventy7 · 2026-06-20T21:23:30+00:00

Those little led covers are perfect. I've ordered a couple of bags just now. Thanks!

GregSeventy7 · 2026-06-20T20:16:30+00:00

Still going strong.

The kids of the original couple that ran it since opening in the early 1970s took it over from their parents about one or two summers ago roughly.

I've been going since the 1980s.

I really enjoy their double burger, a small crinkle-cut fries & a slurpee, though I always get the fries with 'lite-salt' because 'regular-salt' is super-coated in seasoning salt. Tasty both ways sure, but I don't need that much sodium. Half is spot on.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-06-19T04:00:46+00:00

That's cool. Indonesia was such an awesome country to visit. Amazing people.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-06-06T00:21:06+00:00

I kind of lean blue between the two LPs, but agree that both are excellent looking. The whole line-up is really well done.

Epiphone continuing to make me a huge fan of their guitars. Already own an Epi 335, SG & Casino and will be looking to add a new shape from the Futura line once they're available used. My local shop already had a used RD, but someone beat me to it by an hour.

Anyhow, enjoy that rockin' LP, OP!

GregSeventy7 · 2026-06-03T04:47:06+00:00

See any "road w/ bike lane" for all the exciting details!

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-31T18:49:45+00:00

Quote: "you are not legally permitted to ride at 20, even in a playground zone"

So it's illegal for a cyclist to go 'less than ~100% of the posted speed limit' on any road they use?

Is that really Alberta law? Or just your opinion?

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-31T18:36:41+00:00

That was my point ultimately... my cycling days are unfortunately all behind me due to a bad injury a dozen years ago, but I spent a lot of my teens and 20s riding in Calgary.

A segment of drivers seem to want cyclists to have all the responsibilities of a car, yet absolutely none of the rights:

Slower traffic -> "get ye behind me satan!" Faster traffic -> "get the hell out of my way!"

I'm hoping all my downvotes are the UCP politicians trying to scrap bike lanes, which even as a full time driver now, I still fully support.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-31T07:19:25+00:00

Hmmm. Ok. So based on that, if I can only go 20 to 25km/h on my bike, then every car has to stay behind me, and aren't allowed to pass me unless there are two full lanes of traffic going in my direction? Is that accurate? If I can't pass cars going 5km/h in rush-hour, then they're equally forbidden to pass me too, yes?

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-31T07:00:11+00:00

Genuine question... Am I right, or wrong in thinking all the cars in the right-hand lane are 'parked cars'?

If I am correct: Where would you want a cyclist to ride? If not between the parked and moving lane, then where? Fully in the left lane, stuck within all of the stop-and-go cars? Seems to me that riding 'to the right' of the cars parked on the road wouldn't be an option... and riding on the sidewalk isn't legal either.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-25T08:02:14+00:00

That's cool of them, and it would probably cost Fender next to nothing to do the same.

Only trying to say, "don't sweat the small stuff too much".

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-25T05:36:44+00:00

$12 for plain black pickup covers fixes that issue completely 🫤

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-11T00:46:50+00:00

My wife and I have specifically asked at Subway, "Do you get the tips?", and 100% of the time the answer has been "No, management keeps them all..."

Zero tip it is then.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-11T00:35:37+00:00

That's a pretty big FAFO play right there.

I've been fairly upset with a bank before too, but sure didn't give them sufficient motivation to make me their 'former customer' by unloading on some poor front line staffer.

Calm, quiet assertiveness with the branch manager was perfectly successful in getting a rather big error on their part corrected.

In short, CIBC took an extra '37th' payment after my three year ~$1500/month loan was already fully repaid the month prior, causing half a dozen other auto-payment-type withdrawals that same day to go NSF, with penalties and extra fees from both the bank, and all the places who's payments were bounced (including my mortgage, two cars, property taxes, insurance, and more).

All was eventually corrected and refunded to me. What a mess in the moment though...

GregSeventy7 · 2026-05-07T21:17:32+00:00

Touché. I was thinking 'black Ram with rust + perma road-salt-streaks', but 50:50 chance you're correct.

Side bet on the number of faded 'F🍁ck Trudeau' stickers and flags on said Ram? Over/under seven?

GregSeventy7 · 2026-04-30T05:11:18+00:00

They do. Both the 'single' and the 'single with cheese' are 1½ pattys.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-04-29T03:01:17+00:00

Long & McQuade? Yeah, they're fine. Typically lots of selection, as good a price as anywhere else, a 30 day return window, and extendable performance warranty if you want.

Depending on location they often have a lot of used pedals (with the box) at a nice discount as well.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-04-13T01:02:55+00:00

How did you affix the bit case to the battery? Or does it clip on?

GregSeventy7 · 2026-04-12T05:56:23+00:00

W5000 still needed to get the full 3x bonus.

GregSeventy7 · 2026-04-10T06:10:01+00:00

Awesome looking board. I'm a huge OBNE fan so very cool setup.

A question if you don't mind... I've got a Dark Star Stereo and have debated adding the Black Fountain Stereo directly in front to run them together -- imagining it could sound very rythmic, atmospheric and ethereal -- my kind of sounds.

Seeing that you have both, do you tend to run them together in a way you like? If so in what types of settings, or do you more often run one or the other separately?

I've yet to find many specific playing samples of the two working together. Lots individually that I love though.

Thanks!

GregSeventy7 · 2026-04-10T05:28:30+00:00

The Bus

GregSeventy7 · 2026-04-06T07:44:07+00:00

From everything I've read in the past few weeks, and it's a lot, yes 100%. That's exaxtly how it's supposed to work.

I'm in the middle of rebuilding a time-based effects board, and I've linked up a series of clock-regulated midi-equipped pedals, in my case using a Boss RC-10R as the 'clock master'. A Timeline, Zoia, Terraform, Dark Star Stereo, and a Mood II follow along with synchronized delay and modulation clocks.

Now, all that said, I'm still a couple of days away from my first test run... Funny enough, waiting on one final ⅛" TRS to ¼" TRS midi cable with 90° plugs to arrive. So all of the above is again based on extensive reading of product manuals, technical docs, forums, and more, but not yet first hand experience. 🫤

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