RealMarkDeneen

Learn something new every day. I've never heard of Wattpad before this post. I wasn't able to get the link to open anything other than a "missing page" message. I've been working on a non-fiction book since June. It has no title yet but is an examination of how the idea called "civilization" - now about 7,500 years along - is leading inexorably to the destruction of the biosphere and probably the eventual extinction of H.sapiens. I would like to finish by Christmas and will publish on Amazon. I find the greatest benefit of writing to be the "clarification and testing of one's ideas." It's also handy to give to friends who in various discussions will say, "What? What do you mean by THAT?" "Here's the book, dive in! 😀" Writing is also a fabulous way to spend the oodles of time one has once retired.

The history of credit cards might be instructive here. 1940s -Diner's Club charge card is all the rage. Charge meals, pay the full bill when it arrives. Convenience for wealthy people. 1960s- "BankAmericaCard" launched. It provides "credit" at about 5% interest to all comers. 1970s - SCOTUS declares state usury laws are unconstitutional, and credit card companies move to South Dakota where there was no usury law. 1980s- SCOTUS declares that Credit Card customers NOT in South Dakota are subject to the same terms banks set IN South Dakota. 1980s-Interest rates begin to rise dramatically above prime rates, mortage rates, car loan rates, etc 1990s-SCOTUS rules there are no limits to what banks can charge in late fees or jacked up interest rates (Door swung wide open for predation) 2020s - Credit card debt reaches $5,500 per card at an average of 16.5% and millions will never, ever be out from under it. Incrementalism -- at it's best! "Step right in!" said the spider to the fly.

Now yer talkin'

"Step right in!" said the spider to the fly. I can see the obvious reason for the EO - the government's interest is tracking, and nothing makes tracking easier than digitization. I'm having trouble seeing the benefit to Tom, DIck and Mary though. After 35 years the Internet is still a sieve with holes that any teenage hacker can exploit. Ransomware is still rampant, and cell phones....fagettaboutit. So, sure, let's introduce "digital assets" and have Grandma and Grandad invest their retirement assets in digital Ape GIFs. What could go wrong?

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I guess it is the genetic code used by Celedon in their "remote solutions". They sell "Tx/Rx sets", which is what i opted for with JMA products. Easy Peasy to implement in something like Peach/BBX.

Peach II Schematic (more or less).

Remote Schematic - Peach

For those interested in an OEM stick: It is still available from Celedon. http://www.celadon.com/remote-control-specs/BW7070-remote-control.htm If anyone buys one, let me know what they are charging. Should be pretty cheap. The one used in Peach is an RC5 code.

Hi-- I responded to your PM. Check my instructions out, and let me know if that solves the problem.

@MicroMara That's quite a talent!

Not Quite Abbey Road - Eureka, California 2013

Prescott, Arizona, 2018

Learn sumpin' new ever day! I had to look up "chugging" on the 'tube. I never did dive into rock and roll, nor metal. Never owned a Metallica record, or even a Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin record.

My take... In theory..... Take a room, a listener, and a guitar player. Put the blindfilded listener on a fixed seat near the center of the room. Have the guitarist play from various positions from around the room - to the front, side and rear of the listener. At each guitar location play a short selection and ask the listener to "point" to the location of the guitar. I suspect the listener will be quite accurate in locating the guitar each time. This is the ideal case where the variables are controlled. The room is fixed, the sound source is real and local. The listener's hearing is working normally. The reflections will obey the laws of physics and the listener's "location detection" will work as it always does to alert people of danger, which is what it was built for. Now, let's compare that to listening to a record on a stereo. The "pseudo-source" of the sound is a player located in a "pseudo-room" of unknown dimensions at the studio. The real source of the sound is a left and right loudspeaker in fixed locations in the room. The listener will easily locate the position of the speakers in the room. They don't move around. All sound is eminating from that source. To the listener, all the instruments are playing from inside the speaker. Regardless of what room they were recorded in, they now reside in the speaker. The reflections from the two fixed speakers bounce around your specific room, or my specific room DIFFERENTLY. Any pseudo-location you hear for a guitar let's say, is derived from your speaker making sound reflect in your room. Same in my room, only my room and my speakers are different! So, imaging is an abstract arbitrary plot unrelated to any "original space" where the instrument was recorded. Speakers ARE the performance.

Around the house when I was a wee lad in short pants........... -Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis -Ella Fitzgerald -Broadway show tunes -Big Band music -Jazz So, I still love that music too, which came before my own records at age 14 or so. I have a lot of that older music on tape. Sounds every bit as good to me as when I was 10 years old.

OMG! Never did any Bread songs?!?!? Just kiddin' ya. But, I seriously LOOOOOOVE Bread!

I have no doubt. But, it wouldn't have any deep meaning to me if I heard it now, because it would be brand new to me carrying no memories. There would be no touchstones involved. Songs I love and play are songs that connect me to something or someone in my personal history. When I sing the old songs of my "time" it's very comforting in the way that your favorite old flannel shirt is comforting. Music is art. Art is life when you can see into it.

What sort of songs do you all play on those fabulous guitars? I'd love to know about the music! This is a list from one of my play books showing the sort of stuff a decrepit geezer likes to play. Essentially, I've heard no new music made after 1980, and I am a total sucker for sappy love songs.

@gigantic Lordy, lordy! You've made some gorgeous guitars there! Outstanding.

@Wrench I really like your eye! Lovin' your photographs!

Pioneer Town, 2018

Tetons - vacation 2021

Palm Springs Fairgrounds, 2019