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Re: "Did you know that over 8000 Windows PCs are used at CERN everyday?"

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: "Did you know that over 8000 Windows PCs are used at CERN everyday?"
Date 2018-11-21 18:07 +0000
Organization O.W.L.
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Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 10:30:31 AM UTC-7, owl wrote:
>> Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 10:03:38 AM UTC-7, owl wrote:
>> >> Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 9:18:54 AM UTC-7, owl wrote:
>> >> >> fr314159@gmail.com wrote:
>> >> >> > On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 10:44:48 AM UTC-5, chrisv wrote:
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> >> 
>> >> >> >> and short-sleeve shirts in the Fall
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> > Short-sleeve shirt?  Only a fucking asshole wears a short-sleeve
>> >> >> > shirt.
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> > If you want short sleeves, put on a long-sleeved shirt and then
>> >> >> > roll up the sleeves.  That's the "cool" way to do it.
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> There was this cashier at my local grocery store who wore the long-sleeved
>> >> >> version of her uniform all year long, and it gets pretty hot here in the
>> >> >> summer.  I figured there were three possible reasons for that:
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> 1. She had really hairy arms.
>> >> >> 2. She had tattoos. 
>> >> >> 3. She was a cutter.
>> >> > 
>> >> >  4. She'd been geezin'
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> Not familiar with that term.  Needle tracks? 
>> > 
>> > Feeb knows, he still dresses "cool" out of habit.
>> > 
>> >> >> She was only about 17, so it's probably #3.  She's not there anymore.
>> >> >> Either went off to college or killed herself.
>> >> > 
>> >> > LOL! There's just no in between with you, is there ;)
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> "Shy prostitute" didn't seem to be a high probability.  She was pretty
>> >> cute though, so who knows.  There's a cross-eyed one, who I think is
>> >> this one's sister, who still works there.  I might have ask her.
>> > 
>> > Maybe she a musician... maybe she'll be the next DP guitarist ;)
>> 
>> Well, it probably won't be jazz, unless she ends up covering her ears
>> as well as her arms.
> 
> LOL!
> 
>>  But then she's already killed herself, so maybe
>> she *did* dabble in jazz.  After all, there's only so many times you
>> can break out the slide rule to explain why you hit the wrong note,
>> before it gets to the goodbye-cruel-world stage.
> 
> "Nobody wants to break out a slide rule to keep track of all the 
> "slick sounds" they're listening to.  Well, I suppose jazzsters do." - owl
> 
> “I've always been very intense about anything I wanted to do. I think 
> that’s part of my character, being intense about whatever it is I want 
> to get into, whether it’s research, or kicking a ball around in soccer, 
> or playing the guitar, or delving into medieval and Renaissance music. 
> I can’t just do things passively; I have to really study something and 
> try to figure it out.” - Ritchie Blackmore
> 

With Blackmore, you listen to his playing, not what he says, since
he's a world-class nut.


> To me, this guy gets what I've been trying to tell you:
> 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqeQto8PZYU>
> 

I hate that non-musical, jackass shredding.  It's like that idiot
you posted once who was trying to cover Gilmour, but just couldn't
help himself breaking into tapping and 100mph tremolo picking.

> On blues:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_j8Zb4LLdw
> 
> At least watch the 2nd one all the way through.

Executive summary:  bend out of the pentatonic into whatever
notes you need.

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"Did you know that over 8000 Windows PCs are used at CERN everyday?" DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-20 10:15 -0500
  Re: "Did you know that over 8000 Windows PCs are used at CERN everyday?" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-20 15:31 +0000
    Re: "Did you know that over 8000 Windows PCs are used at CERN everyday?" chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-20 09:45 -0600
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        Re: "Did you know that over 8000 Windows PCs are used at CERN everyday?" chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-20 10:10 -0600
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