Canopyflyer

My favorite band that I've actually seen live:

Duran Duran. Was a closet fan of theirs back in the late 80's and got to see them when my girlfriend at the time got tickets.

Actual favorite band and unfortunately have never seen live:

RUSH

And it's not because I think that Neil Peart is the greatest drummer of all time (that would be Buddy Rich). It's because their music actually talks to my neurodivergent brain. It is also due to that the 3 of them were a confluence of exceptional talent that just happened to come together to make something special.

It's "Revved up like a deuce."

Not "Wrapped like a dou..." well you know.

First heard that song in 1981... Learned the correct lyrics in 2020. 39 years of being wrong, but I think I'm in good company.

Also learned that the version that most people know is actually a cover done by Manfred Mann in 1976. The original artist is Bruce Springsteen and he recorded it in 1973.

Last August my family went to Maui and on our last day we toured the Maui Pineapple farm.

OMG... I didn't know that was how pineapple was supposed to taste. It is NOTHING like what we get here in Wisconsin.

Onions

Raw: arrgg can't stand them. Maybe if it is a sweet onion and very thinly sliced, but otherwise keep it away from me.

Sauteed: Mmmmm.... spread them over EVERYTHING!!!!!

Caramelized: Extremely inappropriate moaning noises...

Landscaping

My very first job at the age of 15 was working at a Nursery/ Garden Center. I also would work on the landscaping crews and even did some design work.

When my wife and I bought our house she said she always dreamed of having a big flower garden, but said she didn't know how to do it properly.

Well... I do. Even my Mother-In-Law, who is an experienced gardener, learned a few things from me. Although, I have to admit, she really does know a lot and I learned a lot from her as well.

Our flower beds are beautiful throughout the growing season with a huge variety of plants.

That's the same mother fucker I shut down on Reddit many years ago when he started popping off about how there is no reason for abortion in an AMA.

I simply replied to his idiotic statement:

Ectopic Pregnancy

1 in 40 chance

SOURCE

Sorry, I've since forgotten which article I cited in my original post. The word "SOURCE" was a link to an NIH article that I was citing. I can't find it now and the original post is lost to my deleting my Reddit account.

But it was enough to cause the jack ass to back pedal and make a public announcement that abortion was OK for ectopic pregnancies specifically.

It was also my highest rated comment on Reddit ever.

Fuck Joe Walsh. He's an asshole that should be no where near a public office of any kind.

Learning how to type.

You either had to take typing, or some other class that I can't remember during my junior year. The other class didn't appeal to me at all, obviously as I cannot even remember it now, so I took typing. By happenstance my best friend was in the same class.

The class taught me a skill that I use till this day, some 38 years later.

My family had "The Best of Bill Cosby" album when I was a kid and we listened to it a lot. Some of the funniest bits on that album and I always had warm memories sitting and listening to them.

Then it comes out that he's a complete monster. All those family memories tied to that now, it really sucks.

First Used: Tandy Model IV (Learned BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN and COBOL on one.)

First Owned: Tandy 1000SX (It carried me through my first stint in college)

I am, for the most part, self taught. I worked for Radio Shack in the late 80's to mid 90's and read through every book on electronics they had. That is how I got my start on low power circuits. I had several breadboards and components and would build circuit after circuit. I was in college at the time, so I took a couple of electronics classes. Also had a friend who was an electronics repairman and he helped me to learn high power circuits, such as power supplies for high powered amplifiers. That is how I learned to work with capacitors the size of Coke cans.

Low powered circuits you can learn on your own. Read to learn the theory, there are a lot of Youtube channels to watch now as well, which I didn't have when I was starting up. When you get to high powered electronics I would highly recommend either taking classes, or learning directly from someone. The risk is just not worth it.

The blue capacitor below is one of 2 in my wife's amplifier, which is a 240w/channel Soundcraftsman from the late 80's. That cap, charged, will kill you many times over.

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Being his father's revolver, Emma knew its bone handled grip well. All the time she and her father spent on the range with his weapon which was almost identical. Much to the chagrin of her mother, who wanted Emma to do more "feminine" things. Emma never had the patience for arbitrary definitions designed to pigeon hole her into a specific role. She made those decisions, not antiquated prejudices perpetrated by idiots like her mother or the people she was sitting with now.

Emma confidently put the revolver to her head and squeezed the trigger.

The CLICK was starkly audible.

Emma smiled at her now EX crush and spun the cylinder of the revolver with the perfect amount of force born from years of practice. She handed it to him, smiled sweetly and said...

"Your turn."

There, I added an avatar.

That's me under my Performance Designs Spectre 150, circa 1997 or 98... Can't remember as I've slept since then.