Re: I'm Fine

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10-4.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10- 4-11 10:51 PM
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I have a great LP that is only songs about truckers/CB radios, with liner notes about how CB radios are going to transform the world because crowdsourcing. the songs all suck in an incredibly charming way and involve arcane numerical exchanges during the choruses apparently intended to be hilarious.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 4-11 10:59 PM
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Awesome. When is it from?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10- 4-11 11:06 PM
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2023


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 10- 4-11 11:16 PM
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I missed something, but I'm really glad you're fine!


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 10- 4-11 11:53 PM
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1976 or so. it's on its way here in a container from texas, having finally been emptied from its storage unit in savannah ga. I can't decide if I want to have all my records and my badass stereo here in narnia or take them to my vacation home in lombok and not have a tv there. then I won't even own a tv. in lombok. in wisconsin.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 1:07 AM
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I'd be able to crank the shit out of it in lombok. my stereo used to be loud. I guess I'll have to hook it up (without blowing it up with the 220 wattage) and see if it still works. old marantz receivers are solid state and kind of indestructible, I thought. 70s boston acoustics speakers about 3 ft high. sub-woofer somewhere, I think. hopefully it all survived. be sad to have someone jack it out my house first thing after all that. that's why I have to pay the guards a bonus for every month stuff doesn't get stolen.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 1:14 AM
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5: I might have deleted lots of my posts in a way that suggested something fucked up happened. which, -ish, mumble surveillance mutter. but I'm fine, hence the reassurance.

my sister got cleared to become a DC cop despite her pitiful health?! string pulling by her cop stalkers I guess. she said she'd do it "if I wanted to skip down the black brick road toward the black diamond city of insanity." I'll just come out and say she shouldn't be a cop. she's really intelligent, and a former criminal, and those both seem like promising skills. she's an incredible shot, really, both sniper-style and closer in with a handgun. she's stared death in the face multiple times and not blinked: dude straight up pointing a gun at the back of her head as she knelt facing the wall and she wouldn't hand over her jewelry out of pure stubbornness and pride. it's just, I think she'd shoot someone. naw, I'm sure she'd shoot someone. maybe the wrong person. maybe several people. she just would fire that gun sometime. sorry sis, gotta play it straight on this one.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 1:33 AM
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The Marantz might need recapped as the old capacitors might have gone bad. Old receivers can sound great but they often sound bass heavy and muffled. They needn't; they weren't designed to. But people think that is how they sound, when a couple of cheap component replacements can make them sound like new. Ditto old speakers which often need refoamed.

Sometimea 'awesome' 70s hifi kit is loud but sounds like arse. Sometimes, with a service, actually awesome.

Just say no to subwoofers.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 2:23 AM
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there's a special sound equipment mall in narnia, maybe I should take everything down there and get it looked at?


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 2:42 AM
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I'd guess so. I don't know re Narnia. In the UK ( and I'd assune the US) you can usually either get old gear serviced by the manufacturer (esp. higher end stuff) or by small local repairers. I'd guess Narnia had lots of hifi buffs who own/collect old gear that needs servicing. Of course, depending on the gear it might be cheaper to buy new(er). Some old stuff well worth servicing, some not.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 2:49 AM
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I was always somewhat prejudiced against subwoofers because my stepdad liked them, so I'm glad to hear I have a reason. sounds like I should get shit serviced by the pro nerds at adelphi mall. randomly the other amazing store there sells baking equipment, and I mean everything: bundt cake molds shaped like gothic cathedrals; meringue powder; gel icing dye; fondant; boba-fett-shaped cake pans; every icing tip imaginable. truly, the mind reels. it's this tiny place with one of everything the wilton icing people have ever produced in the history of humankind. I'm sort of puzzled by their business model since no one else in Narnia has ever heard of them, but it's expensive, and I go, so...? but malls in singapore tend to specialize, and this is the sound equipment mall, only. there might be a piano store in the 4th floor.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 3:30 AM
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I expect there's lots of good subwoofers, and good reasons to use them,* but every single setup with subwoofers I've ever heard has been used to do one (or both) of two things: make up for really shitty main speakers, or produce stupid levels of idiotic music-ruining bass out of all proportion to what the recording demands. So I tend to dislike them.

Also, I'm probably not a big bass-head anyway. My own speakers [pretty solid floor-standers, it has to be said, rather than teeny bookshelf jobs] produce all the bass I need/want.


* e.g. people using them with electrostatics.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 3:45 AM
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I really enjoy Guess I'm Doing Fine and the rest of Sea Change. I think of it whenever someone says that they are fine.


Posted by: Will | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 3:54 AM
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a lot of newcomers in AA are "fine" also. um.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 4:04 AM
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Mumble.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 4:46 AM
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Something something.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 4:55 AM
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Cough mutter cough.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 5:00 AM
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WTF are youse talking about?


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 5:01 AM
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Does the CB LP have that song about the disabled kid with the dead trucker father who talks to truckers using the handle "Teddy Bear"? That got a lot of airplay in Samoa in the early 90s.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 5:02 AM
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YouTube does, anyway.

Go to work, or listen to more CB songs? How many ephemeral memories of things like this song are lurking under the surface of my consciousness waiting to be re-activated via random comments on the 'net?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 5:29 AM
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21: Maybe you're the Reggie Jackson of the internet and we should all be afraid.


Posted by: Annelid Gustator | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 5:38 AM
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It's always October on the Internet? Literary or movie allusion I should be getting? Manchurian Candidate? No. Must    try     to     think. Wait. Something, something, google, something, google. Ah yes, but apparently yours was not the right trigger comment.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 5:53 AM
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WTbollockingF


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:01 AM
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I Must ...Kill the Queen.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:03 AM
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"Hey Look! It's Enrico Pallazzo!"


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:04 AM
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There were some funny things in those threads. Oh well!


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:09 AM
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I read some of those threads, totally thinking 'she'd better '


Posted by: Nakku | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:22 AM
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Even the relevant part of my comment was redacted. Which makes it all the more true.


Posted by: Nakku | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:23 AM
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my sister got cleared to become a DC cop despite her pitiful health?! string pulling by her cop stalkers I guess.

A good chance it happened without string pull. Physical stuff is usually pass/fail and doesn't affect placement on the list. DC's doing a lot of hiring, I imagine she scores well on written tests, and typically there's not a lot of female applicants.

Everyone first thinks of the shooting stuff but really she should be considering some strength training. This kind of thing is much more common than gunplay.

http://blutube.policeone.com/police-use-of-force-videos/935643657001-toronto-cops-fight-with-man-on-street/


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:25 AM
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Canada needs stronger cops.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:32 AM
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20: totally!
yes, sorry about the threads. it seemed the thing to do. joking about surveillance a lot, that's all. ha. stupid servers formerly available only to the ns/a. and humans. teams of them. he always used to joke about surveilling me even when I first met him, but it didn't seem like the type of thing anyone would really do. what, to jerk off to? so pointless. unless you're a fucking psycho.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:38 AM
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what, to jerk off to? so pointless.

Prostate health is important, alameida.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:51 AM
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good point, apo. guys should jerk off more. luckily, the internet exists.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 6:56 AM
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"Why Grandma, what a big internet you have!"

"The better to surveil you with, my dear."


Posted by: Little Red Apo Hood | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:04 AM
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I hope I don't have a signature mumble, by the way. But I probably do.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:10 AM
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stupid servers formerly available only to the ns/a. and humans. teams of them

On the one hand, I'm not really sure googleproofing is an apt response to whatever you're talking about, but on the other hand, I'm not really sure what you're talking about, so that's fine.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:10 AM
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Having missed whatever went on during the hours of UK darkness, I have no bloody idea.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:12 AM
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Per the latest missing thread, if anyone had anything useful to tell me about how to be a good mom and also get some sleep and also also not lose my mind completely, feel free to find me here or elsewhere since I went to sleep.

Sucky parent moment last night was when I asked Lee whether a sound was a kid crying or her congested breathing and she assured me it was the latter. Then the kid cried more and got another kid involved and I was out of bed feeling absolutely awful. Other than that, I was pretty good at yesterday. Today I'm having a nervous breakdown about hating the boy's daycare but not knowing how to make the transition to get him into Mara's program without upsetting everyone too much. We'll give it a few weeks, I guess.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:20 AM
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Most of us have a signature and we don't know it, or are dimly aware of it. When I figure out that someone I know does good imitations of people, I ask for mine. Painful but funny. (I've done this twice. The more recent time the imitation was something so utterly characteristic that when I tell this story and do the imitation-of-me, people usually laugh.)


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:23 AM
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Sucky parent moment

I hope you're using sucky to modify moment and not parent. Because, yes, it sucks to have to get out of bed and deal with crying children, but every parent here has more iterations of that story than they can count. Kids wake up in the night and cry, and it takes a while for sleepy adults to get the cobwebs cleared enough to respond. Bog standard little kid parenting experience.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:30 AM
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You signed Flippanter's unmentionables?


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:50 AM
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flippanter is prone to write "mumble mumble [topic of conversation] mumble. so he only mumbles in writing. he's a perfectly clear speaker IRL.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 7:59 AM
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Also, isn't there a word in 12 that should be changed to refer to a fictional kingdom? Or maybe I'm not clear on what the rules are.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 8:01 AM
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41: Yeah, the day counts as great and that was my only big failure. I'm just frustrated because I knew I should check and didn't because I really didn't want to get out of bed after the long, long day. It sucks more when the kid who's crying is in foster care and has only been in this house four nights. But hey, I dealt with it and both of them said they slept well, so it counts as sufficiently okay.

I will probably have some kind of daycare bleg later on. Hey, maybe I can Ask the Mineshaft! Woohoo, etc.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 8:02 AM
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When I figure out that someone I know does good imitations of people, I ask for mine. Painful but funny.

I have not yet quite recovered from seeing my students in Samoa imitate me. I'm cringing and wincing thinking about it, and knowing that I still do sound like that.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 8:04 AM
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43: It's "mumble [allusion that may or may not be on point] mumble"!


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 8:25 AM
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ttaM - a certain thread wherein a front page poster was discussing a friend who became a client has been deleted, and comments elsewhere redacted. Just in case this person who might have connections with a left-pondian "cleverness" apparatus managed to come across the thread, perhaps due to searchable words & phrases. But you probably figured that out already.
I missed some of it but was able to read the thread on rss for a while.


Posted by: emir | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 2:11 PM
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48 makes sense. Thanks!


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 3:56 PM
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I'm just glad that for once I managed to read the mysterious thread of controversy and even comment in it before it was deleted. Usually I'm totally at sea in these situations and jealous of those more informed, but now I feel comfortably smug.


Posted by: PGD | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 9:39 PM
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Since LB has already mentioned Samoa twice in this thread, I guess it's the best place to note my recent discovery that Anchorage has a substantial Samoan community. The reasons for this remain obscure to both me and the (few) local people I've talked to about it so far.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 10:07 PM
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Or maybe I'm not clear on what the rules are.

THE FIRST RULE OF JAM CLUB IS JAM TOMORROW
THE SECOND RULE OF JAM CLUB IS JAM YESTERDAY
THE THIRD RULE OF JAM CLUB IS NEVER JAM TODAY


Posted by: OPINIONATED QUEEN | Link to this comment | 10- 5-11 10:08 PM
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This is a good time to sigh knowingly about *that* thread. You know the one. God, that was awesome.


Posted by: k-sky | Link to this comment | 10- 6-11 12:49 AM
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32: I am really not sure that the Puzzle Palace would be fooled by googleproofing, but maybe they can be, and as a result there are lots of websites called things like "AL QA/EDA T/ERROR ATTACK PLANNING FORUM" and going completely undetected...

51: wait, LB was in Samoa?


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10- 6-11 1:24 AM
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does seem like the kind of thing they should get around, huh.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 10- 6-11 3:26 AM
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re: 54.last

Yeah, during her rugby-playing career,


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10- 6-11 3:32 AM
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