Keeping that in mind makes one a bit more sober about what they post.

Speak for yourself, buddy!

Cletus Luxlunae. He’d specialize in spirits. And he’d hate TERFs because they ain’t minding their own fucking business.

And a lot of recruiting companies are afraid you’ll bypass them and go apply directly, thus cutting out the middle man and they’re not allowed to send out goons to break your kneecaps.

That’s no fucking joke. I started with a passion for learning about computers. I love what I do now because I’m a one man company and answer only to myself and my contracts, but I didn’t turn on a computer outside of work for fucking years because of the burnout.

I salute you. I love the fact that everyone takes off the day before or after a holiday and the entire time between Christmas and New Year. No one is around so I get to sign in, turn on my script to keep my computer from sleeping, and walk away.

I did check the backups this morning. I’m sure some jackass wants to deploy tonight since it’s a 3 day weekend. Not my problem and backups are good as of 10am. If they call me out over a holiday weekend my contract is very specific about the on call fee, holiday pay, and minimum hours. So today I’m just hanging out and prepping for Saturday’s cook out.

I used to be the kind of person who hated anything popular. And in Texas country music has always been popular. So I mercilessly mocked anyone who enjoyed it. “So is your cousin any good in bed?” “What has 103 fingers and 32 teeth? The front row at a Garth Brooks concert.” I have dozens of jokes about being stupid, inbred, toothless, smoking cigarettes, going to Walmart, and other stereotypical things associated with being a country music fan.

I’m still not a fan but sometime in the last 10-12 years or so I stopped giving a shit what anyone else liked. If it’s not for me but it’s not hurting anyone I just don’t care if someone likes country or pop, movies with popular actors, wants to dress in a way I see as weird, likes food that I don’t enjoy, or whatever.

I wish I could go back and change it because I know I made some people feel bad for enjoying what they like.

Edit: fixed a word.

If motorcycles are an indicator of a mid life crisis I’ve been having one since I was old enough to drive.

Honestly, I think you’ve made a good point whether you realize it or not. A midlife crisis isn’t really about getting or doing things in an effort to appear younger. Not generally at least. It’s things a lot of people have already been interested in but didn’t have the money to get until they were mid career. But now a lot of people mid career still don’t have that disposable income.

I’m not a sports car guy and never have been, but I love working on motorcycles so I buy busted up ones and fix them from time to time. I was divorced years and years ago so I don’t need a new wife. I decided years ago if I ever started losing my hair I’d just shave my head. I’ve always engaged in risky behavior as long as I’m the only person I’m putting at risk. I buy nicer clothes but that’s just because I can afford them.

I still remember every phone number from the day I learned to memorize phone numbers until I got my first cell phone. I remember my pager number. I remember my high school best friend’s parents’ number. I still know the number to the Mongolian BBQ joint that I ordered from when I was stationed in South Carolina. None of these are useful to me.

Also of no use is my icq number from the 90s that I remember.

However, the only useful numbers I remember are my main phone number, my parents land line (but that’s a holdover from before my first cell), and one friend who lives out of state. I don’t know anyone’s number who lives within 4 hours of me.

I don’t know what’s wrong with my brain.

I have a great therapist these days who has helped me a lot. I still hate therapy. I did finally figure out why, though. Because, with the exception of therapy and a couple of really great people, everyone I’ve ever been vulnerable in front of has weaponized it against me. So even though I know my therapist wouldn’t actually do that I’m still waiting on it to come back and bite me.

🎶If it takes forever I will wait for you

For a thousand summers I will wait for you🎵

What movie? Never heard of it.

That thing would be a blast until you had to turn.

Case in point: the downvotes are from people who don’t know or care about the difference.

Depends on what you’re calling AI. LLMs (and generative AI in general) are garbage for all those things, and most things in general (all things if you take their cost into account). Machine Learning and expert systems can do at least some of that.

I absolutely hate that generative AI is being marketed as though it’s deep learning instead of a fancy Markov chain. But I think I’ve lost the battle over that nomenclature.

But can they sing? Do fathers on land reprimand their daughters?

Not just an 80s country singer. One that was mocked mercilessly as a big tit bimbo for years. She came out of that kind hearted and when Unknown Hinson came after her for preaching kindness there was such a backlash that he couldn’t play shows for a while and Adult Swim fired him from Squidbillies.

And the biggest drunk! Wait…

This is pretty neat, got some really usable tones. Brighter than the actual Les Paul in the head to head, but pretty damn close. Darker than the tele, but also pretty close and nothing a touch of EQ wouldn’t level out. It’s really cool tech. To me it looks like a deeper version of the variax, which I also always thought was cool. You could drop this in any S shaped guitar with a decent neck and have yourself an arsenal which is where it beats all the old modeling guitars. Also, I like that he said it’s an analog signal path (I’d want to take a look at that, but I believe him). I think the coolest thing right now is the marriage of analog signal paths controlled by digital boards. You get all the cool shit that goes with digital equipment (cost, no scratchy pots) with none of the down sides (latency, digital artifacts). So if I were at a guitar show I would enthusiastically try this out.

But! I have to charge it. That’s an automatic no from me personally. Today if my pedalboard died I still have an amp I can plug in and a guitar I can play through and I’ll still get through my gig. Not so if I have to remember to charge things. Second, I get enough option paralysis with a regular guitar. It’s too much for me. I’m at the point in my life where I want a guitar with a single coil and a humbucker and I want to plug it into an EQ then into an amp I enjoy. Finally, and this is very similar to my no battery reasoning, all the electronics inside are a single point of failure. If you moved them into a stomp box so that you’d still have a guitar if something failed on the board.

That said, I really think there’s a market for this. It’s not my thing except as a cool toy, but one person’s cool toy is someone else’s tonal juggernaut. Imagine a three piece psychobilly band where you get that cool hollow body rhythm but can throw in a twangy ass tele lead while you’re playing your sixth song about Dracula in a row or whatever. I think that would be amazing.

If you’re a big fat man, I’m a titty fan. And I’d love to see yours, too.

Some kids are born with a Visa in hand

Lord, they swipe like they don’t give a damn

But when that new skin drops in the store

Dad’s card maxed out again, for sure, yeah!

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It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no billionaire’s son

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t got no golden gun, no