Found my effects system for my guitar. Picked up one of these last night, a Zoom G3
All I was looking for was something that had chorus, delay, reverb, and some distortions as well as a headphone jack. This puppy has like 100 different ‘pedals’ plus amp simulations plus looping plus a built in tuner plus a simple drum machine for a metronome. Much more than I was looking for, but it seems technology has infiltrated the music industry the same way it has practically every other facet of our lives.
This thing plugs into your computer via USB (no more MIDI cables!). The software for it then kicks open, showing you exactly what’s on the screens. You can adjust everything via the PC or the unit in real time, watching the changes take effect on the other. Need to update the firmware? Just click Next > Next > OK > Finish.
Everything inside is code. Unlike my old stompboxes, if they find a better algorithm for doing chorus or realize they should add in a specific effect, it can be downloaded and upgraded.
Only ran me $180 too. If I may indulge in a tangent, the price tag was $199. I opened my wallet, pulled out 4 $50 bills and said “I have exactly $200” to which was replied “Well, I can do a 10% discount!”. Cash has that effect on sales people, more than a debit card can do.
I’m amazed at how awesome technology can bring down prices while delivering more product. For those not wanting a hardware solution, apps are available for your smart phones that do most of the same thing (although stomping on your phone probably isn’t the best idea).
When I hit the big time, I’ll remember you people. I promise.
At a thousand plus feet per second
It’s not just resources that are limited, in the WWF’s view: human potential itself is up against a hard limit beyond which the race cannot ever advance. Even progress thus far, as seen in the wealthy nations, has been achieved only by an unfair and wasteful over-use of precious resources: we rich Westerners are already beyond the practical limits that humans should ever aspire to achieve in terms of health, wealth – and even of education.
My religion offers salvation, theirs offers starvation. And they know this. And they want this. Not for themselves, mind you – they’ll be rationalizing away on how they require a better standard of living so as to ensure you do not. They would prefer (other) humans die off en masse so that… uh… metal can stay in the ground?
Pure, natural economics will provide this ‘hard limit’ they talk about. If we actually somehow managed to dig up all the metal in the Earth and jettison it toward the sun (that’s the only way we could run out, ladies and gents), then humans would find it harder and harder to survive, eventually becoming self limiting.
They want to accelerate that prematurely. My answer is to accelerate some copper and lead toward them.
The guitar lessons are coming along fine. I’m in the chords section and most of those I already know from the old days. The fingerings shown for some of them are different than I’m used to, so I’m using those instead of the ones I know mostly so that I don’t fall into familiar habits. I’m pretty good on all first position notes and my time from seeing the note to playing it continues to decrease. I’m not quite able to read forward, but I’m getting there.
However (and this is where you, my dear readers come into play), I’m practicing on my unplugged electric. My amp doesn’t have a headphone jack and I don’t want to punish the neighborhood with me trying to play Minuet in Key Of H. What I’m wanting is a decent, foot pedal based effects system with the primary concern of having a headphone jack (1/4” is fine). Of course, I’d want Chorus, flange, multiple distortions, delay, etc.
What do you guys or gals use? I miss my Digitech GSP2101, but I don’t really want to go rack mount yet. Doesn’t have to be top of the line, but I don’t want crap either, something that can last me a few years until I am ready to move into the spotlight.
So, I’m burning through my RSS feed, trying to catch up while I’m waiting on a build and I see this quote at Shall Not Be Questioned
I’m dying to see how that law is worded. How is “walking” defined? Two consecutive steps? More than two? “X or more steps in X amount of time”? Does it have to be in a forward direction, or is this like ‘traveling’ in the NBA? Can you sidestep and text at the same time? “Not guilty, your honor. My client was texting while Riverdancing, which is clearly not prohibited by the ordinance.”
I’m dying to see how that law is worded. How is “walking” defined? Two consecutive steps? More than two? “X or more steps in X amount of time”? Does it have to be in a forward direction, or is this like ‘traveling’ in the NBA? Can you sidestep and text at the same time?
“Not guilty, your honor. My client was texting while Riverdancing, which is clearly not prohibited by the ordinance.”
Didn’t even have to click on the link to see who wrote that. I’d know Tam’s work anywhere.
When I blog, I consider a post successful when it generates a conversation. Hits are nice, but if I’m not saying something that gets people thinking, it’s a lot of empty calories.
Oddly, there seems to be an inverse relationship between comments and hits. The higher hit days (usually a link from Say Uncle or Tam) tend to result in less being said where as the lower hit days have the tendency to generate more discussion.
Odd.
I am now the proud owner of a Crimson Trace CMR-201 Rail Master™. I am an unabashed fan of Crimson Trace products and have several of their lasers on my pistols. I’ve always preferred them over other companies’ lasers because of their philosophy of ‘positive grip = laser on’.
Generally, this means molding their lasers to fit on the frames of the more popular pistols or replacing their handgrips altogether. However, there are times when the infinite configurations of every pistol & rifle known to man prevents this from being a universally achievable goal. Hence the CMR-201, Crimson Trace’s first universal laser.
This thing is tiny. As in “oops, I dropped it. Where is it?” kind of small. This is why you mount it to your firearm right away – you don’t want to lose it. And it’s easy to mount to anything with a Picatinny or Weaver rail. The laser comes with 4 inserts for various configurations (insert #1 is for Picatinny). Installation is a snap with nothing more than a small screwdriver.
Pro tip – the 1/3N battery’s positive side is the flat side. Oddly, the unit does not work when you get that backwards.
Installation on the KRISS was quick, and it took just a few turns with the included Allen wrench to line up the brilliant red dot with my irons. Activation of the laser can be done by pressing either switch, left or right, which on the KRISS is easily done with my left thumb. Because this is a universal fit, the normal grip switch doesn’t apply, but Crimson Trace did a fine job on the ergonomics of the buttons.
Not only will the laser be useful for home defense, videoing it while I shoot should illustrate the low recoil of the Vector. Can’t wait to hit the range and give it a whirl.
FTC Disclaimer – You know what else the laser is good for? For pointing out the exact spot on my rump you can smooch!
Ambulance Driver posts about a gentleman who threatened to commit suicide on his watch. As is his duty, he hauls Mr. Gonnaenditall to the hospital for evaluation. This apparently makes him a jackbooted thug of the Nazi socialist state.
Seems some Libertarians who don’t quite understand that the zipper in the back means it’s just a suit and not their real fur got said fur in a knot because AD did his job. And by fur-in-knots, I mean shit this from the infamous TJIC
How does this differ from "OK, Jew, I understand that you want to leave this prison camp, and that would be OK by me, EXCEPT for the fact that I'd get written up and get three demerits if I let you, therefore I won't let you – your actions have consequences for other people, and you have to realize this!"
Reread that. If it helps you comprehend it, try reading it with no sense of scale or proportion. You see, observing someone clearly indicate they will kill themselves and taking them (yes, by force) to a hospital so they can be evaluated is the exact same as gassing a couple of Jews, give or take a 100 million or so. It’s also the same as full on socialism. Attempting to preserve life = state control of all economic activity from the Big Giant Libertarians.
The problem with Libertarianism is the same problem with Communism. Not everyone buys into your fantasy.
It’s the kind of shit AD is being subjected to why Libertarians are powerless. Instead of trying to actually do something, they spend more time circle jerking in their purity tests than picking up their bowcasters and going door to door trying to explain their positions and heaven forbid - compromising where they can to move forward. It’s like a child who wants to go to Toys-R-Us but since they’re not RIGHT THERE RIGHT NOW, they just sit down and refuse to move.
A cop who arrests someone because there appears to be a crime is not a police state. An EMS who takes someone in for evaluation isn’t the same as opening up a can of Zyklon-B. Get some perspective. If you want people to believe in the superiority of your views, it might be a bit helpful if you didn’t come across as a condescending jack ass. And yes, your utopia is a fairy tale and the sooner you realize that it is just as flawed as pure communism is, the faster you can come to grips with the fact you’re going to have to both compromise and exist in a society where not everyone buys into your views.
Now, queue the nastygrams that I am just as guilty at pushing America toward socialism as Obama. Because, well perspective is hard and all.
This. This is funny.
It’s definitely my favorite Tim Conway clip. The fact that it was off the cuff makes it even better. But the icing on the cake is when the professional comedians can’t even keep their composure.
I need that *snorf* sound as a ringtone.
Geoff is one of those people who likes to cram himself and 100 of his friends into a tiny cylinder and then see how far underwater he can go. And he likes guns. So, let’s all give him a warm welcome (when he comes up for air) at http://bubbleheadgunnut.wordpress.com/
Are the goalposts being moved once again
The day after he killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman showed up at a doctor’s office with a broken nose, two black eyes and two small cuts on the back of his head, ABC News reported Tuesday. According to medical records obtained by the network, he also had a minor back injury.
The day after he killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman showed up at a doctor’s office with a broken nose, two black eyes and two small cuts on the back of his head, ABC News reported Tuesday.
According to medical records obtained by the network, he also had a minor back injury.
(emphasis mine)
Oh, and the Choir Boy? Damaged knuckles. Almost like things played out exactly as Zimmerman said they did. But those are facts, and facts are not things people with an agenda care about. There are still people on Twitter and Facebook trying to deflect this information and pin Zimmerman as some sort of KKK Grand Beagle who hunted down innocent black children. They can’t let go because they’ve invested their very souls in some stranger, requiring him to be a perfect angel stalked and brutally murdered by a crazed racist. When that story fell apart (and the wheels came off that bus a looooong time ago) they couldn’t accept it and refused to move on.
Add into the fact that they’re being spurred on by a media who’s bread and butter comes from fomenting hatred and discontent and their ‘leaders’ are nothing more than race-hustlers, and you’ve got a mass of ignorance that threatens to collapse under its own gravitational pull.