Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Bad Joke

       [19:35:23] [29/42/83] (tob): tob wants steaks. Also donuts.
        [tob]      Now the donuts are great.
        [tob]      Some kind of donut scientist.
        ...
        [thrig]    a japanese attack on donuts was heralded by cries of
                   torus! torus! torus!
    

  • Western Union Blues

    I've been playing guitar for a long time, but there are periods within that for me. I started back in 2007, when my Guitar Hero 2 save got wiped, my progress was lost, and I figured, _if I'm going to do this, why not play the actual guitar?_ A weird but ultimately very big decision in my life. I started off on electric, on a terrible Strat copy, then started to learn classical. Did both side-by-side for a while. Tried to convince my partner and some friends to start a band, but we couldn't really get it going (I suspect it was only ever my dream). So I started to play electric less, classical more. Eventually I stopped playing electric. A year became a decade, and then more. This year, I finally got back into electric again.

    Before I stopped, I was back in my hometown for Christmas, visiting family. Near where I used to live, there was a record shop on the second floor of a building that had a music shop, a Birkenstock shop, and other places I've forgotten. It was wonderful. Dark and full of CDs (and some records, too), most of them $5-10. I was getting in to blues, as so many white guys often do, and was thumbing through their tiny blues section. A lot of the usual. B.B. King, some John Lee Hooker, plus a bunch of the white British 60s guys. And then there was this CD, "My First Recordings", by Lowell Fulson. I'd never heard it, or of him.

  • 🔤SpellBinding — CEHLQUS Wordo: TAILS

  • Finally, some good news

    If you’re a Halfway to Mars completionist you’ll know that I have had more exposure to more “dye” puns than I could ever stomach normally (and I mostly had the guy spiffing up my glider), so you’re not getting any here.