Posts by W6KME@mastodon.radio
(DIR) Post #AvUZHuDOSndHfBJjhg by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-06-25T14:28:48Z
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@jeffjarvis Funny how EVERY news outlet called this one a shoo-in for Cuomo, even PBS. Thank the gods people are learning that those news outlets aren't their friends.
(DIR) Post #Avzyr5P8rRxH1NnX84 by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-07-10T17:27:56Z
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@libreleah@mas.toThere is a nearly unlimited supply of TVs at e-waste sites. I am using a 42" Samsung curved monitor that was thrown out because the base was cracked. My other computer monitor is a 1080p 50" TV; works great. It also came out of an e-waste bin. The saddest day of my life was pulling a 70" 4K TV out of the bin, find that it was perfectly functioning, then dropping and breaking it while installing it. It was a great day for about two hours.
(DIR) Post #Aw42FgFWbKoMjqYgHg by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-07-12T17:28:26Z
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@futurebird I haven't seen one in person since I was 5 years old, a long long time ago. And it's one of the very few childhood memories that is still as vivid now as something that happened a week ago. You don't forget.
(DIR) Post #AwNav5UB2b8RGJfkq8 by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-07-21T22:24:00Z
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@ai6yr You do know that your current bike tinkering trajectory will eventually leading to building a new wheel with a modern hub that has real parts available, right?I've got a stand and tools when you are ready.
(DIR) Post #AwNav7vXxoDUpmUdmK by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-07-21T22:27:28Z
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@ai6yr There will obviously be many other considerations, but be aware that they're lousy brakes.
(DIR) Post #AxaLdAJ1eDEcXhGWf2 by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-08-26T17:31:50Z
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@MsMerope @ai6yr As a longtime bagpiper, I can't say how relieved I am to see someone willing to shine some light on this aspect of piping. It's real, folks.
(DIR) Post #AyJsKo5XhBrvFwrY6i by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-17T23:20:50Z
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@paul_ipv6 @AlexanderVI @ai6yr As a former Fender and Gibson dealer, I can assure you their low point did not end in the 70s. Not once...not even once...did either company send me a guitar that I could put on the floor without paying my tech to rework it. MAJOR repairs were normal. Returning defective crap? Forget it. The more money it cost, the more likely it was to be complete shit too. Know why Gibson loves dark sunburst spray paint? It hides the wood filler and shit construction.
(DIR) Post #AyJsKrybEwgxJZe3qC by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-17T23:49:15Z
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@paul_ipv6 @AlexanderVI @ai6yr We are blessed with acoustics in this era...from the 90s on really. So many excellent guitars, especially compared to all the 60s Gibsons and Martins our heroes were playing. But I'm an unashamed Jean Larrivée fanboi.
(DIR) Post #AyJsKtIqJATjQe7k24 by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-18T00:07:13Z
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@AlexanderVI @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr He's a neighbor now-and just lovely person. Probably half the guitars built in Canada owe something to him, and many more here too.
(DIR) Post #AyJsKvpAvvWvFVGahs by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-18T00:23:34Z
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@paul_ipv6 @AlexanderVI @ai6yr Here's an odd thing...i'm sorta rotund, with very short arms, and have always hated dreadnaughts. But in recent years I've been tuning lower and lower, (DADGAD dropped to C) and somehow the dreadnaughts I own have started sounding cleaner and crisper. They shouldn't, but they do. So I found ways to hold them that fit my body, much more vertical like a classical player. I need to shut up about guitars; it could go on forever.
(DIR) Post #AyJsKxXsXCsmaRBo1Y by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-18T00:29:31Z
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@paul_ipv6 @AlexanderVI @ai6yr Ooh, that sound interesting...I've got a Washburn Prairie State jumbo (early 2000s, one of the last US made washburns, it's the NAMM show display) and it's actually a touch floppy, the top would sag at standard tuning with 11s. It's currently stored because the bridge has started separating-again. A bridge doctor is probably the next step, and it might really sing with the really low tuning. I'm getting excited over ANOTHER guitar now...is that good?
(DIR) Post #AyJsL4y0wQwpbWTHEW by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-17T23:22:54Z
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@paul_ipv6 @AlexanderVI @ai6yr And yes, Paul...blind loyalty is what enables them to peddle such crap. Mind-boggling.
(DIR) Post #AyJsk4XhekstWm59Ps by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-18T04:41:40Z
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@tomjennings @ai6yr @paul_ipv6 @AlexanderVI Pretty close...Portuguese immigrants brought a small guitar-like instrement with them called a braguinha, which essentially IS a uke in every way but name. It was widely adopted throughout Hawai'i in the 19th century. "Ukulele" means, as you probably know, jumping flea in Hawai'ian.
(DIR) Post #AyU1gClJzomZ1wHXeK by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-23T00:17:17Z
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I like bragging on my kids. Here's my daughter. However, she needs to be more aggressive about forcing her boss to let her bring her parents to work. For free flights. With hoists. Right, @ai6yr?#BringYourParentsToWork #helicopter #flightmedic
(DIR) Post #Aybq9nFCbCj7nruKzw by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-09-26T17:34:57Z
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@ai6yr Was talking about that recently...getting a page and driving around looking for a working payphone. And we thought THAT was "connected".
(DIR) Post #Aze65PNpV8RT9hSnWC by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-10-23T23:09:58Z
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1/2 I had to go to Best Buy today (I am THAT willing to avoid amazon). I need a serial cable. Pretty common item. They said they had them. Couldn't find them in the store, so I asked, and the cumputer guy first corrected me and said they're not called serial cables; it's RS-232. Whatever, may I have one please?He takes me to the aisle I had already scoured, and hands me an RS-232 to USB adapter. I say I need a cable, not an adapter. He doesn't understand. I point out that one ind is USB.
(DIR) Post #Aze65Qckt7yX0HSEQC by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-10-23T23:12:26Z
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2/2 He says yes, that's what makes it a "cable". So I ask if he has one with RS-232 on both ends.He looks at me like I'm a poor stupid old man and says there is no such thing, that's not how RS-232 works. Really. Before I can say a word, he turns his back and walks off. Little shit. I fucking hate that we don't have any remaining computer stores here.So I bought it on amazon because you simply can't buy a goddam serial cable in a store any more.
(DIR) Post #Aze65hEv700iXHQw88 by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-10-23T23:13:49Z
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I need a t-shirt that says "That's now how RS-232 works." I can wear it whenever I'm stuck dealing with ignorant condescending assholes.
(DIR) Post #Aze7FczBsjTyC2NLoe by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-10-27T20:38:53Z
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@teajaygrey Good to know about those guys; I visit my daughter in SC often and it turns out it's walking distance. Nice!
(DIR) Post #AzpAEI42cUktcKG1oW by W6KME@mastodon.radio
2025-11-02T04:45:38Z
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@futurebird I'm ready!