Today, I took my old bass guitar down to Guitar Center. Traded it in, and came home with an Ibanez GSA60 and a 3-slot Rockstand, since I now own three electric guitars, one acoustic guitar, and one electric bass. The Rockstand will hold the Les Paul, the Telecaster, and the Ibanez, the acoustic will stay on the cheap stand I have it on now, and the bass has a dedicated stand already.
It looks like ThinkGeek finally put up the “Action Shot” I sent them of their stickers on my truck.
Hopefully, tomorrow will be the world’s first privately-owned-and-funded manned space flight.
From a rather interesting website I frequent. The people there are odd, and I like it.
Fire companies are not needed.
Contact a metal bucket company, order one for every person in your town, the bulk discount should make each bucket like 40 cents or something. Require everyone carry around a metal bucket filled with water and some soap. In case of a fire, everyone nearby should swarm it with their buckets. The water+soap is basically a foam extinguisher, which for our intents and purposes can do electrical, grease, and standard fires.
If there is a medical emergency, you can use the soapy water to clean the wounds, or drown the person if they’re in agony.
If people are against this threaten to make them all buy medical encyclopedias. Those things are a billion dollars each.VOTE METAL BUCKETS. A VOTE FOR METAL BUCKETS IS A VOTE FOR FREEDOM.
Other things metal buckets ™ can do:
1) Be worn as a safety helmet to deflect burning embers
2) The soapy water can be doused on people trapped in a fire so they can escape without having their clothes or hair caught on fire
3) If someone is having a heart attack, seizure, or literally any loss of consciousness, dousing them with water is the first step towards recovery
4) Once you dump the soapy water, you can fill the bucket with other things to throw on the fire/injured person (like sand, chloroform, etc)
5) Advice people to make their own special bucket as a way of coaxing the public into the bucket program. Some people can draw faces on the bucket, kids can keep fish in their bucket.
6) Advanced safety methods can be taught, like keeping leeches in the water of the bucket, to suck out toxins from snakebites on injured people.
For you Guns N’ Roses junkies who need a fix, Velvet Revolver fills the bill, with Slash on guitar. Their “Contraband” album is great.
I was finally able to pick up a copy of The C Programming Language by K&R for less than the $40 it retails for.
This is the 16th printing of the first (non-ANSI-C) edition, copyright 1978. $4.98 at Half Price Books. It will go well with my treasured copy of The UNIX Programming Environment.
Six Apart revamped the MT license AGAIN. They’ve finally changed it to what the MT3 licenses should have been in the first place – but it took them three tries to get it right. I don’t think people who have moved to other publishing platforms are going to move back – I know that I most certainly am not.
In the past month and a half, I’ve worked two weeks where I was the only IT guy at work to support 64 people. As a result, I took yesterday afternoon and today off to just decompress and de-stress and get some sleep.
