New keyboard (I'm still convinced it's a usb driver issue, but for now I'll live with the new keyboard... love having extra legacy keyboards around for just this reason.. ), but back. Keyboard certainly not as great, and I'll get to work on getting the better one back.
So, where were we.. oh yeah, also found out that I have a problem with the desktop computer speaker system. Great 4.4 PDS MASH Panasonic, but I've had this since 1992. UCC gift. Wow, roughly 17 year old technology. The speakers are a bit tweaky, and starting to notice the headphone jack going exclusively on right without telling me... apparently it's had enough... and I can't fix that; time for something new. Suggestions?
Anyway, back to the music in a second... taking out the garbage between reboots.
Rick Skaggs at 7!; backed by the Foggy Mountain boys (alright, more Flatt and Scruggs in a bit, but need to find out more about this Skaggs (just horrible name) dude:
btw.. Toronto's own tribute-ish band, I just found out, Foggy Hogtown Boys (other than the "Soggy 'Bottom' boys", of O Brother, Where Art Thou. umm.. not from Toronto)...
Great youtube story below (with Pete Seeger, Hedy West, and Paul Cadwell!) + Goodnight Irene. Gorgeous. Spend 6 minutes and watch it.
According to personal biography of his life John Hurt learn to love and appreciate music and guitar playing from William H Carson, a man infatuated with his teacher at the St. James School, located in Avalon, Mississippi. John Hurt stated, " I wasn't allowed to bother Mr. Carson's guitar. I would wait until he feel asleep at my house, then I would slip his guitar into my room and try to play. There I learned to play the guitar at the age of nine years old. After that, my mother bought me a second hand guitar at the price of $1.50! 1 can tell you there was no beautiful sound than my own guitar music. I was playing for country dances at the same time working very hard on a farm new Avalon Mississippi."
You got to walk that lonesome valley. Well, you got to walk it for yourself. Ain’t nobody else can walk it for you. You got to walk that valley for yourself.
My mother had to walk that lonesome valley. Well, she had to walk it for herself. Yes, nobody else could walk it for her. Yeah, she had to walk that valley for herself.
Oh yes, you got to walk that lonesome valley. Well, you got to walk it for yourself. Yes, nobody else can walk it for you. You got to walk.
My father had to walk that lonesome valley. He had to walk it for his self. Yes, nobody else can walk it for him. Now he had to walk.
Oh, Jesus had to walk that lonesome valley He had to walk it for his self. Yes, nobody else could walk it for him. He had to walk that valley for his self.
Oh yes, you got to walk that lonesome valley. Well, you got to walk it for yourself. Yes, nobody else can walk it for you. You got to walk that valley for yourself.
It gets into how the design of the bike affects its handling, stability and performance. Originally printed in 1970, 'Physics Today' reprinted it in 2006.
... that the faster a bicycle moves the easier it is to ride (because a smaller steering adjustment is necessary to create a centrifugal correction)... Nevertheless this theory can not be true, or at least can not be the whole truth.
From ibiketo.ca: Jones discovered that a bicycle that has had its front forks reversed so that the rake (curve of the fork) points inward ends up being a very stable bike that will self-correct when pushed and released riderless.
As it turns out this bike is too stable to be a good bicycle. Most modern bikes are built on the edge of instability to provide greater responsiveness.
The article is good, and if you're not that into the numbers, the theory is described on the first page or two, so definitely worth while at least reading that..
With a sharp curveball, 90 mph fastball and good changeup, Odom made the team (Tallahassee Community College) as a walk-on. He pitched well, going 9-3 in 2003-04.
Odom had another talent: He was tremendous on the guitar, playing so often he hurt his elbow and missed some games....
...Odom later committed to Oklahoma State and instead signed with the Giants, who had drafted him in the 44th round in 2003.
He had a bumpy four years in the Giants’ system, none above Class A. He went 9-8 in 38 games, missed most of one season because of a wrecked right elbow and lost another year to a dislocated left shoulder.
The Giants released Odom in spring training last year. Calgary offered a job, but because of a 1999 conviction for aggravated assault when Odom was a minor, he couldn’t get into Canada. On May 20, the team made the famous trade.
Calgary team president Peter Young and Laredo general manager Jose Melendez nearly traded him for a slugger, but it fell apart. Melendez proposed buying Odom’s contract for $1,000. Young rejected that, saying the Vipers didn’t do cash deals because they made the team look financially unstable.
Bats, though, the Vipers could use. At $665 for 10 bats—made by Prairie Sticks, double-dipped black, 34 inches long, model C243, Laredo agreed to the unusual deal.
Details of his final days are elusive. His death was obscure. There is no record on where he was living, no explanation of how his body wound up at a hospital, no police report, no public record of where he is buried. Numerous telephone messages left for his family and friends were not returned.
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