Things That Amuse You

[spanky]

I still have hundreds (and hundreds) of bootleg tapes from 30 years of collecting and no tape deck. The boxes just sit there patiently waiting for some company.

Unless they’re your own personal recordings, most of these shows (I’m assuming GD) are already digitized and online. Identify the ones you can’t find online and send them out for digital conversion.

[whipski]

I order CD's to support the artist. transfer to my phone and put them on the shelf. Surprised how much new music is only available on vinyl. I figure when the zombie apocalypse finally comes I'll have music.

[jm2e]

thanks
I'm too lazy though. Iim 10 feet from a hundred CD's almost all of which I still like but it's easier to isten to Pandora on the laptop while I share my insights with the world,

Similarly, I’ve been buying albums and songs off iTunes for stuff I have on CD down on the basement. At this stage in life, it’s easier to pay $10 to get an old Dylan album on my phone seamlessly than to fuck around with a disc.
Meanwhile, you’ve piqued my interest with this 2x4 challenge thing. Is there a TGR tread about it? Any OG creations to share?


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[gravitylover]

There's so much more than just the GD stuff. Miles Davis, Jorma/Hot Tuna, Zappa and a myriad of others. Next time I'm down at my dad's house I need to remember to grab one of my old decks and bring it home to get it working again. There's so much good stuff in those boxes.

[old goat]

I still have hundreds (and hundreds) of bootleg tapes from 30 years of collecting and no tape deck. The boxes just sit there patiently waiting for some company.

You should have burned those tapes on a sacred funeral pyre the night Jerry died.

[gravitylover]

Why, did the music die or did a troubled artist who did great work die? The music will continue to amuse me, as per the thread title.

[old goat]

Similarly, I’ve been buying albums and songs off iTunes for stuff I have on CD down on the basement. At this stage in life, it’s easier to pay $10 to get an old Dylan album on my phone seamlessly than to fuck around with a disc.
Meanwhile, you’ve piqued my interest with this 2x4 challenge thing. Is there a TGR tread about it? Any OG creations to share?


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2 x 4 challenge is a common activity of woodworking clubs--to see who can build the best whatever out of a 2 x 4 x8. I've never participated myself. I've never seen a thread about it here. Here's a video--I hadn't heard of a timed challenge before.

Why, did the music die or did a troubled artist who did great work die? The music will continue to amuse me, as per the thread title.

Just kidding. I like all the stuff you mentioned, still listen to it all. No GD cover bands for me though.

[Core Shot]

There's so much more than just the GD stuff. Miles Davis, Jorma/Hot Tuna, Zappa and a myriad of others. Next time I'm down at my dad's house I need to remember to grab one of my old decks and bring it home to get it working again. There's so much good stuff in those boxes.

That is cool.

Start by seeing which shows are available.

Then digitize what’s left.

But even so. Soundboard tapes were so much better. Always hated the handheld sound man cassette with all the crowd noise.

[ötzi]

Nice name:https://smile.amazon.com/AhfuLife-Do...%2C134&sr=8-10

[evdog]

Cameras link direct to the FBI database, no doubt

[Supermoon]

People get mad about the dumbest things. You have to laugh about it.

[~mikey b]

sorry but you’re very wrong

I’m all about clean energy and all, but a gas stove is not just about how it cooks, it’s also about self sufficiency

some of us live in places where the power goes out for days on end - we’d like to cook

[Ted Striker]

My wife, who's left of Bernie, feels the same way.

[~mikey b]

I’m left of Bernie

and I think it’s bullshit

maybe it’s ok for you city beaters but not for me

one winter we were w/o power for 11 days, 8 days, and 17 days

lotta fkn good an electric stove does then

gotta be able to cook with gas, as well as heat and cook with wood

[Ted Striker]

Nice name:https://smile.amazon.com/AhfuLife-Do...%2C134&sr=8-10

"Visit the AhfuLife Store"

Not as depressing as I expected

[Supermoon]

sorry but you’re very wrong

I’m all about clean energy and all, but a gas stove is not just about how it cooks, it’s also about self sufficiency

some of us live in places where the power goes out for days on end - we’d like to cook

See the thing that’s amusing is everyone freaking out about something without understanding it. It’s just a tax credit to trade in gas stoves for induction.

Sure some municipalities are making new construction all electric, but nobody is coming to your house to rip your stove out. You don’t want an electric stove, great. Don’t buy one. But spare us the theatrics.

[~mikey b]

but I want to be outraged damn it

[Ted Striker]

I get all that. The comment was that Jackson is playing political theater. He could've said, "we need gas appliances in Texas because my own party fucked up so bad that we don't have electricity for extended periods" but Biden and the lefties are coming for your stove!

[Ted Striker]

but I want to be outraged damn it

Ha, ha. Carry on

[Supermoon]

but I want to be outraged damn it

If you sign up for my newsletter I will fundraise off of next week’s outrage which is all about a small town who wants to board up a dangerous old mine shaft even though one old guy says he played down there as a kid every day, and this is just woke snowflakes who don’t know how to stitch up their own wounds anymore.

[jono]

But spare us the theatrics.

Hey man, you can't just go posting a scary headline in a totally legit font with all the right colors and not expect people to take it serially. I mean, it says NEWSMAX on the left. That is maximum news!!!

[BCMtnHound]

I’m left of Bernie

and I think it’s bullshit

maybe it’s ok for you city beaters but not for me

one winter we were w/o power for 11 days, 8 days, and 17 days

lotta fkn good an electric stove does then

gotta be able to cook with gas, as well as heat and cook with wood

What’s up with your grid that makes it so unreliable? I live in a small town on a single one-way 138kV line in mountainous terrain. No gas. Our hydro power since the 2003 fires has never gone out for more than a day. We use the camp stove for cooking when that happens. We have an electric furnace (maybe a third in the area are on propane), so an outage in winter does concern me especially when the mercury dips below -30C, but we have gennies and space heaters for a short term plan.

I wish the community would ban the solid wood stoves in the denser subdivisions - the shitty dense smoke pouring out of their chimneys sucks for air quality as the valley inversions holds the smoke in the winter. Had a guy recently moved here from the city come into the office asking where to get birch for his boiler furnace this winter. Mentioned that any birch cut in the fall is useless this winter - all the energy in the wood would go to boiling off the water in the log if he could even get it to light, and his chimney would get plugged fast. He couldn’t seem to grasp the concept. Feel sorry for his neighbours.

[Ted Striker]

What’s up with your grid that makes it so unreliable?

American exceptionalism

[plugboots]

Propane kills you. I WANT PROPANE!!!

[bagtagley]

No NG option here and I’m happy to never have to deal with whole-house propane again. Between the camp stove, grills, and wood burning stove, cooking during outages has never been an issue.