Biff Mayhem

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

I’m kicking myself a little bit for not paying more attention to Aurora Borealis (“At this time of year …”). I was in Menominee that night, which means it probably would have been even more spectacular watching it up there, but I just wasn’t aware of it because my wife and I were on a driving vacation, so we were missing a lot of daily news coverage.

 

It’s spectacular. If I had a dollar for every “wow” I said over the course of an hour, I could probably pay for lunch at Five Guys. 

Or maybe they should lecture Hamas about the humanitarian crisis since it is Hamas who initiated it and perpetuates it by hiding behind citizens and confiscating the provided aid. 
 

But no let’s keep blaming those pesky Jews for retaliating against an enemy attack and ensuring that their citizens are safer going forward. 

The northern lights from my backyard. 

On 10/3/2024 at 1:16 PM, Biff Mayhem said:

Listening to the Tigers radio broadcast the last two days, there have been ads for Superior Asphalt which are apparently voiced by the owners daughter. You’d think she’d take the time fully anúnciate the word “Superior” but just rushed it down to “Super Asphalt”. 

Sue. Peer. E. Or. Say it. SAY IT!!!!!

Funny thing about CAGED: the concept always confused me but when I finally learned it, I found out that knew it all along but didn’t know there was a name for it. It was just a thing I knew but didn’t see the bigger picture. It really opened up understanding triads which is the door that got kicked down this year. Triads are monsters! Delay, reverb, a little dirt and triads? Gold!

12 minutes ago, pfife said:

This is the single most important thing I've ever learned on guitar.   I'd guestimate that 80% of sick guitar solos leverage this:

And if it’s a major scale, move down three frets and it works there. 
 

Am? Start that pentatonic on the 5th and 17thfret. A major? 2nd and 14th fret. 

26 minutes ago, romad1 said:

My hausfrau won't allow us to get anything beyond entry level for this first model.  I told her as we surveyed the various guitars on display that having that next cool thing in mind would be the reason she gets a job and works her ass off in life.  Just as it was for her older brother who saved all sorts of cash to buy himself a newish Camaro.   Basically I told her: life is short buy the shoes but you have to work for that money to buy them. 

Now, she's been umpiring for cash but since she can't drive she won't have a job for a while.  But maybe we plant the seeds with this. 

Specific models she seems to want are a Fender Squire in a certain color she loves.  

There are two levels of squires. Avoid Affinity if you can. Also scour Facebook marketplace and Craigslist for people who had big ideas and then gave up for any number of reasons. No need to buy new but also do your homework. 

On 9/29/2024 at 3:47 PM, chasfh said:

This is not a pet peeve, which is why it’s not in that thread, but I’ve noticed more lately that some people simply can’t say the word “ultimate” as uhl-teh-mitt, but instead as ohl-teh-mitt, or even oh-teh-mitt. It grates on the ear some, but again, I assume it’s because people can’t manage to say it as uhl-teh-mitt.

Listening to the Tigers radio broadcast the last two days, there have been ads for Superior Asphalt which are apparently voiced by the owners daughter. You’d think she’d take the time fully anúnciate the word “Superior” but just rushed it down to “Super Asphalt”. 

3 hours ago, oblong said:

I think Amos fought for his character to die rather than just leave because he didnt want to perpetuate the stereotype of a black man leaving his family.

I love that. 
 

I thought he really died when his character died on good times. Then there he was a fast food restaurant owner hiring that sweet kid Akeem. 

Did you decide on a guitar? I’m happy to help in any way if you have questions. 
 

Everyone who mentioned lessons is right. I did lessons at first and then when I came to a certain point I started being self taught. This was good and bad as I didn’t learn a lot of the “why’s” until much much later. In fact this last year, after playing for 45 years, a pursuit of some “why’s” really kicked down a door for me. 
 

Guitar learning never stops; even for us geezers. 

7 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

If any other country raided and shutdown a media entity like this US Diplomats and government officials would publicly freaking out and potentially responding with harsh action. But somehow, Jewish Trump will be able to get away with opposing and oppressing free press. This is an outrageous and dangerous step towards fascism on Jewish Trump's part. Just as we here in the United States are concerned about America's step towards fascism if Donald Trump gets elected again, Jewish Trump is already doing what we fear in Isreal. 

 

Would you change your mind if it was shown that they were providing communication capabilities for the country’s enemy?

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Semantics alert: Some political scientists may argue that states cannot be said to be engaging in terrorism against residents within their own borders, since they define terrorism as the unlawful use of violence to achieve political ends, and established states get to set their own laws. As such, they hold that only non-stare actors can engage in actual terrorism. They would argue that North Korea is not a terrorist state, despite the extreme violence or the threat of it otherwise against their own people, because the state is operating legally as defined within their own laws.

You must be fun at parties boss. 

*bzzzzzt*. Ahhhhh! Durka! Durka! Durka!

Yay!!!!! Congratulations to both of you. 

And FTR, I’ve been called boss several times by random people in various walks of life and never took it any other way than a substitute for “dude” or “bro” etc. It’s really a big nothing burger IMO. 

A guy I know who runs a couple barbershop hates to be called “Chief”. I let all of his employees know this. They now use it all the time. 

Saw Deadpool and Wolverine. I’m a big fan of the first two Deadpool movies. I like the live action and animated Spider-man movies but don’t care for the whole Marvel universe movie thing so I was very disappointed that this was a Marvel Universe movie instead of a Deadpool movie. Granted there were some funny parts but I don’t ever need to see this one again. 

We had to put one of our cats down a few months ago and my wife, who has generally complained about the cats, wanted to get another cat. I was torn. I did but I didn’t. I finally relented. So we brought home a black cat with Batman ears. My wife, in a surprise move, wanted her brother as well. So now else have two 3-month-old panthers in addition to our less-than-pleased calico. 

Ran across this on Prime last night and loved it. It made me appreciate Platoon even more. Tom Berenger as Sgt Barnes was magnificent. 
 

The work they put into making this movie was amazing. Say what you will about Oliver Stone, he created a masterpiece with this film. 
 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6111980/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Slash released a blues/r&b album and collaborated with some big names. Top to bottom it’s phenomenal. This is from someone who can take or leave Slash. 

Killing Floor is the biggest surprise. 
 

On 7/5/2024 at 10:35 PM, oblong said:

Axel F is fun.  If you liked one and two then I think you would like this one too. It knows what it is supposed to be. 
 

I enjoyed the Easter eggs but overall it wasn’t good. At all.  The woman who played Jane his daughter is a terrible actress. Atrocious. 
 

it was definitely a throw back to the 80s and they did well playing homage to the first two but I gave this a thumbs down on Netflix. 
 

I was most disappointed that Axl didn’t put a banana in the tailpipe before he jumped in the car. 

9 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

that's the company operating out of the old Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, right?

Correctamundo. 

I serve with a bunch of older millennials and they have a lot to say about Gen Z. I think every generation does it.