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I spotted this hilarious cartoon and immediately thought of you...

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I wanted to be a rock star, but all I got was these lousy TL431s. :-(

When your date asks "So what do you do?" just say "unemployed guitarist."

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bitrex

s/socialist/libertarian/ or s/socialist/anarchist/

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Tom Gardner

Better than burning out at 30, with nothing to show for it all but a couple hundred million dollars, a royalty stream, and an IV drug habit.

I might breadboard a programmable flyback switcher today. People have suggested that I should have done something better with my life, but I respond that electronics is continuously amusing.

I was unemployed when I met my wife. She let me hide documents in her apartment. Not a gold digger.

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I made decent money playing a bar or two years ago. By "decent money" I mean decent money for a 22 year old, i.e. enough for beer and occasional meals that didn't come out of a box.

You don't need to hide "past due" notifications, don't worry about it they send more.

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bitrex

I'm "American Center-Left" which means everywhere else in the world they think you're Ronald Reagan. I'm sure there are plenty of responsible folks who should be allowed to own a rifle or handgun or two. France allows 12. 12 is probably too few for America so lets call it 640. 640 guns should be enough for anyone.

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I made decent money at Uni repairing music gear for a local shop, no money for my guitar playing though. I guess I just wasn't good enough....

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What I don't personally understand is how musicians can perform the same song dozens or maybe hundreds of times without getting horribly bored. Electronic design is (if you're lucky or crazy enough) continuously changing.

They were mostly D-size schematics, and some tape-on-mylar artworks. That's another story.

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How do people just listen to the same song dozens or hundreds of times without getting bored? You'd imagine that'd be the most boring option of all but if nobody wanted to listen to the same song more than once then there wouldn't be much point to having a music industry or selling music at all.

There are folks out there who actually make their entire living playing video games for the sole purpose of other people _watching_ them play the game. Some of them learn some of those old 8 bit games from the

1980s inside-out by playing them thousands of times, to the point they're able to "speedrun" the entire game in superhuman times, sometimes completing a video game that would take an ordinary player 20 hours to get to the final level of in under 20 minutes. And people pay for the privilege of watching this feat, enough that some of the most popular can pay their mortgage and family expenses from the talent.

Maybe it's something like that. Sometimes it's fun to have challenges that constantly change, sometimes it's fun to learn one thing inside and out and get your thrills from that. Why have sex with the same person dozens or hundreds of times? I mean the details are often different if you're doing it right but more or less the same things happen in approximately the same order each time.

I don't own a lot of fiction books though, I don't read much fiction anymore and I don't usually feel like it's worth re-reading most of what I do read. Ahab and Moby Dick don't become great friends on the second read.

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bitrex

Wish there were more talented live sound engineers out there. I see bars and nightclubs in Boston with thousands of dollars of swish rack processors and more often than not the band's sound sucks anyway.

Unfortunately the long tradition of people going out and paying to see local musicians is dying a slow death, so competent live sound techs is likely out of the budget for most smaller venues.

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bitrex

Amp/cab simulation is so good now they frankly shouldn't even bother trying to mic amplified instruments if there isn't anyone around who knows how to set things up properly. Just send the sim into the house PA and route it into the monitor for the player's benefit. They can keep a lower-wattage real amp on stage for show.

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sure that isn't just because the band insist on using their own sound tech which is a guy with no particular skill other than they know him from way b ack?

here there's probably two or three concerts to choose from every friday and saturday, and it is usually full

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