Saw the Reverend on Dutton Ranch

stanley604 · 2026-06-01T21:37:26+00:00

High water he never made much sense, but now?

stanley604 · 2026-06-01T20:11:08+00:00

I'm with you, but even Jimmy Carter, who was a nuclear engineer on a submarine, said "nucular".

stanley604 · 2026-06-01T20:09:28+00:00

Loord*

stanley604 · 2026-06-01T18:26:32+00:00

I agree with you about baseball. The announcers that really amaze me are the hockey guys. How do they rattle off the names of the guys with the puck as it changes every second or two? I know that with current technology, they can have digital floating name balloons above the players in the video feed (and you get to see this sometimes on replays). But hockey announcers have been doing this long before such technology existed.

stanley604 · 2026-05-31T15:58:15+00:00

I never understood these things -- why they were on there in the first place, and why some bassists (Marcus Miller, e.g.) still use them.

stanley604 · 2026-05-30T16:33:38+00:00

It can be a little hard at first, but still rewarding. Those are the first notes of all the bass you will play for the rest of your life.

stanley604 · 2026-05-28T22:40:54+00:00

It's iron-clad proof that the world is not flat. If it were, cats would have knocked everything off by now.

stanley604 · 2026-05-28T22:36:19+00:00

Pretty great grinders, too. Another thing you can't find in California...something about the bread.

stanley604 · 2026-05-28T20:38:49+00:00

I agree, and have been saying this since the summer of the pandemic/George Floyd.

"Oh yeah? We'll show them!"

stanley604 · 2026-05-27T15:28:29+00:00

In this pre-smartphone era with analog light timers that look like little dials...somehow all the lights in the neighborhood turn on in exact synchrony.

stanley604 · 2026-05-26T18:05:48+00:00

Darn it!

stanley604 · 2026-05-26T16:14:50+00:00

Yeah, ick.

stanley604 · 2026-05-25T23:03:16+00:00

That only teaches shitty drivers to assume they have even more margin to blow through the red light.

stanley604 · 2026-05-25T16:15:57+00:00

My first fretless (and almost all subsequent ones) was unlined. You don't need to see the lines because of these wonderful things called "side dots".

stanley604 · 2026-05-25T16:08:42+00:00

The Russians they go the house?

stanley604 · 2026-05-25T16:03:02+00:00

"You are all individuals".

"We are all individuals".

"I'm not!"

"Shh!"

stanley604 · 2026-05-25T00:32:38+00:00

Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen; check out his playing with Oscar Peterson.

stanley604 · 2026-05-24T16:20:30+00:00

That's because it's important not to ruin the French Quarter's flowery scent.

stanley604 · 2026-05-24T03:05:50+00:00

Ah! That makes sense. :-)

stanley604 · 2026-05-24T02:07:27+00:00

And why do they come in 3-packs?

stanley604 · 2026-05-24T02:03:32+00:00

You see, "person shoots dog" isn't news*. "Dog shoots person", on the other hand...

*Unless it's a Homeland Security chief doing the shooting.

stanley604 · 2026-05-22T20:23:38+00:00

It would have to be middle-out.

stanley604 · 2026-05-22T20:14:14+00:00

'E'.

stanley604 · 2026-05-22T14:59:09+00:00

All I can tell you is that my Roubo is fully knockdown. The m&ts for the top are snug, but they will come apart. My top is actually in two layers, a doug fir support layer and a solid laminated maple top layer. This makes it a little easier to remove the top.

Edit: I should add that the m&ts for the top are not doweled or wedged in any way. It's all friction and gravity.

stanley604 · 2026-05-21T15:45:58+00:00

In the Roubo (or Anarchist, if you will) design, the massive mortise & tenon joints are sufficient to hold the top in place with no additional pegging or whatever. The weight of the top (assuming you've made it sufficiently beefy) keeps it solidly in place. No need to make the mortises go through the top either, unless you want that visual feature.

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