Richard Leonetti

@exQUIZitely @1mmer1ch Well, now that you mention it, I also remember National Geographic there, as well. 👀🤙🏻

@1mmer1ch @bmental9 Ohhh... I remember Reader's Digets, my grandpa had it too :)

I live in a small town of roughly 2,000 people. One of the initiatives here that started before I moved in is a little book booth. The idea is straightforward: instead of throwing your books away, you bring them to the booth and donate them. Anyone can stop by, browse, and take whatever they like - or drop off more. Today, I spotted a complete collection of the Encyclopædia Britannica in very good condition. In 1990, a set like this would have cost around US$2,000. Now, they're being given away or thrown out entirely. I don't want to sound overly nostalgic - I know it's just the way things go. Nobody uses a rotary phone anymore, and faxes have pretty much disappeared too. Still, I couldn't leave them there. I said thank you and took the whole set home. As a kid, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents' house, where they had a full collection. I'd often pick a random volume and start reading. It was fascinating and one of the only ways to explore the world before the internet became mainstream. Tonight, I'm going to pick a random letter and see what I discover. Did you ever do this as a kid, just grab a volume at random and dive in?

@OfficialYJM @Fender In spirit, yes!

Can you keep up? #guitar @Fender

@CaswellCharles Did you get the job?

brought my guitar to a job interview

@StrumWithMe1 Now I wanna bust out some Cow Patty, as well. Cheers!

Good morning Guitarists of X! After work......everyone try this one! It's so easy and fun. Ghost Riders in the Sky is iconic American guitar music!

@davepl1968 if you have access to port config, check the obvious duplex, rate, spanning tree, etc. to make sure everything's matched up. Then bounce them if you have to.

Does anyone know why, at all defaults, I'd get 25Gbe in one direction and 10Gbe in the other direction? Same transceiver on both ends (25Gbe fiber 10GTek)

@OEF_VET_W_CIB We even have a Viking runestone in Oklahoma.

Took a little adventure to some of the State of Oklahoma. Great Salt Plains in NW Oklahoma.

@CollingsMaccrae For at least the last couple of years, I'll say we used to call AI, software...

Listen. I’ve said it before, but here goes. Virtually all good writers use Ai as a tool. It’s in your auto editors such as Grammarly, PWA, AutoCrit. If you’re not using some tools, I’d say you’re working hard and not smart. I know some writers have blocked me for saying it: C’est la vie. You do you. However, this #ShyGirl kerfuffle is not the same. I have lots of questions. Lots.

@jgreyfriend 🫡

• be Torakusu Yamaha • the son of a low-ranking samurai astronomer in 19th-century Japan • obsessed with Western machines, you make a living repairing watches and medical equipment • 1887: a local elementary school has a broken American reed organ. Nobody in the small town knows how to fix it. • you take it apart, realize it’s just two broken springs, and easily repair it • but instead of just handing it back, you realize: "If I can fix this, I can build it." • you draw a blueprint of the inside of the organ and build the very first Japanese-made reed organ from scratch • you show it off. People tell you it sounds terrible. • most people would quit. You sling the heavy wooden organ over your shoulder on a bamboo carrying pole. • you physically carry it 160 miles (250 km) on foot, trekking over the brutal Hakone mountains just to reach the Tokyo Music Institute to get real feedback from experts • the professors play it. They tell you the mechanics are brilliant, but the tuning is completely wrong. • you don't get defensive. You stay in Tokyo for a month, sitting in on university music theory lectures, holding a single tuning fork to your ear until you completely master the mathematics of sound frequencies • you walk 160 miles back home • you build a second organ. The professors test it and declare it "as good as those from abroad." • you found Nippon Gakki Co. (which later becomes Yamaha Corporation) • you decide to make your company logo three interlocking tuning forks to remember the pain and discipline of learning music theory from scratch • decades later, your company uses its piano woodworking expertise to build wooden airplane propellers in WWII • after the war, the company uses its new metallurgical expertise from the airplane engines to build motorcycles • you accidentally create a timeline where repairing a broken elementary school organ directly leads to the creation of the Yamaha YZF-R1 superbike • absolute, relentless horizontal integration based purely on figuring out how things work The ultimate testament to reverse-engineering reality.

@lac4nothing yup!

REALLY, OKLAHOMA!!🙄 Monday 20* Winter Tuesday 64* Fall Wednesday 78* Spring Saturday 91* Summer

@exQUIZitely When you heard the intro to any Sierra game with full Roland MT 32 for MIDI and sound blaster for wave - it was the ultimate!

I'm so out of touch, I don't even know if PC gamers these days still bother with sound cards... is that still a thing? What I do remember, though, is that the Roland MT-32 was the most unachievable piece of hardware ever back in the day, at least for me.

@Codie_Sanchez @MindRevMedia More backbone less wishbone.

It kills me how many people say they'd die for a chance when in reality they won't even work late for one. it is all yours to lose and the barrier is low.

@heyaimsarah Where's Tucker Tower? 🤙🏻

Lake Murray, Ardmore Oklahoma.

@hercules_guitar Same exact thing with the boss SY-1 synthesizer pedal. I am now trained to immediately turn that off as soon as I power up the board.

電源入れるとCE-2wだけいつもオンになってるんだよね。bossでも歪みとかはオンになってないのに…なんでですかね？解決策あります？オフにすればいいだけなんですがね。

@Livaeal0 I've been happily surprised by Alder. Definitely the lightest in my electric guitars.

ギターのボディ材の特徴 あなたはどれ派？ 有識者 「アルダーはバランス型やね 「アッシュは明るく抜けるのう 「マホガニーは太くて暖かい 「メイプルは硬くてアタック強い 「ローズウッドは重くてかたい 「バスウッドは素直で扱いやすい ワイ「まあ違うんだが、よくわからん…軽いとええ

@PulpLibrarian David Chase was a writer on this series as well. He did Rockford files before that - then on to create The Sopranos.

Northern Exposure (1990-95). Quirky plotlines, pixie haircuts, folksy wisdom and a moose. This is probably one of the top 10 TV shows of the '90s and is worth a rewatch if you ever just need a break from things.

@PaulMSmithphoto Now it’s a badge of honor. Congratulations and excellent shot!

Thanks. To add to this, if people really want to dig into whether astro images are AI-generated or not, don't ask Grok, don't use AI detection software, load them into astronomy.net, and see if the stars line up with reality. AI is terrible at detecting AI.

@thehealthb0t So who's on it to fix?

Exposing the tetanus hoax - In the last decade 13 died from tetanus in the US. - It's a vaccine that can be taken at the time of injury. Yet babies are given 5 shots. - The risk is that 1 in 154 million will die from tetanus. Another Big Pharma scam!

@benheck You have to vote with your wallet! that's the quickest way to make these people turn on a dime... literally

Amazon Prime Video adding ads = fastest and worst enshittification I've experienced. Went from "a nice bonus to Prime sub" to unusable overnight. Even old stuff like Waterworld had 3 ad breaks. This feels far worse than YouTube. At least that's free!

@paranoiacs And even Jimi Hendrix said Billy Gibbons was one of his favorite players.

The miraculous result of Billy Gibbons' on-its-face- insane desire to make ZZ Top sound more like Depeche Mode, ‘Eliminator’ is forty-five minutes of ecstatic hooks and Fairlight boogie whose London-Texas groove is nothing less than a fully novel musical vernacular. A masterwork.