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Made this video yesterday after a friend told me the chorus on a guitar track sounded really good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABRdxglJuk

Moving to the O.C. eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s78adWHXQ8U

I make sour beef for my mom's birthday every year. I took some pictures of the process a few weeks ago.

My grandmother never browned the beef. But I also used half chuck and half short ribs, which makes this a bit more bougie.




My grandmother also never browned the onions and ginger.



From there you dump all the meat back in and the marinade, which is half vinegar and half water with pickling spice, then at the end put in some dissolved flour to thicken so it basically just looks like stew. And my potato dumplings didn't fall apart this time, which was nice. We were too busy eat to take pictures of the finished product, unfortunately.

Impossible chili

I recorded this on my 424 last year as a goof for my friend's birthday.


I couldn't make the embed work for some reason. Not real familiar with SoundCloud yet

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/raDLn

Ha, that's great! It's like the Talking Heads covering Bruce Sprinteen!

This is legit.

Playing a whole lot of guitar, but hardly ever grab a pedal that isn't already on my board. Building rack gear and microphones but that requires a significant investment in time, money, and space, so I don't take it nearly as lightly as I did building guitar pedals.

I wonder if the tofu would be better with just the cornstarch. 

I used to do just corn starch or half corn starch half rice flour. The latter is better than just corn starch, but both kind of get a tiny bit of goopiness in sauce. The semolina really seems to hold its crunch in sauces.

Did fried tofu a couple times lately a different than I usually do. Usually I just pan fry cubes in a little bit of oil on each side until it browns, but I tried a coating with corn starch and semolina flour, which makes a really good crust when deep fried. Used it for some General Tso-fu the first time and liked it there. It also cooks a lot faster than the pan frying method. I wouldn't use it all the time because it is actually a different texture.

C3 technically isn't even really needed if the power supply is really clean after C1, though you do want it absolutely dead silent since that 4.5V is acting as your virtual ground. C3 is just supplemental power filtering. The top leg of the voltage divider forms a low-pass filter, with 47K and a 10uF, which is easily far, far more filtering than you're getting from the few Ohms your power supply presents to the 100uF in C1.

I gave up on FaceBook in 2016...mostly because I realized it made me a lazy friend. It was easy to post something and assume that everyone you'd want to know would see it and never actually take the time to connect with people. It was also easy to assume that friends would post everything they'd want you to know. I'd fallen out of the habit of pursuing friendships.

I was the same.

Unfortunately, I am and always have been a lazy friend. Being on or off facebook didn't change that about me very much.

I also have no idea how anyone finds out about shows, but if I had to guess the most effective is still direct communication, or at least the appearance of it, until you get to the point where there's a critical mass of people who will tell others. That was always the most effective way.

EDIT:
The last person to post something to my timeline (in 2016) is dead. He died in 2019. I don't know how and I certainly didn't hear about it.
I played in his band for a couple years. We weren't close friends anymore as he'd kind of gone off the deep end in several ways.
Frigging surreal.

Hell, I feel like forums are moving over to facebook groups

I agree with this and feel like it's a bad thing.

Yeah, FB and the like are uniquely ill-suited to any collective knowledge task since its results don't show up even in Google results and the content is designed to be dynamic (a timeline) rather than the static display of a forum. Discord is very slightly better because it's better organized but it's still not designed for acting like a library.

That sucks Jon. I feel your pain. I was on Facebook when it was invitation only. Dropped off about 7 years ago , too much drama. Now, I feel like I don't hear about shows or albums. Hell, I feel like forums are moving over to facebook groups. Cant enter any contests or even keep up with what's going on at work anymore.

It's not just the shows and albums, it's indicative of how hard it is from both sides to keep up with people who are sort of locked into FB as a primary way of communicating. Another friend and bandmate (not like some random acquaintance), who I've had text conversations with several times during the pandemic just had their second baby and I found about it a month afterward. I'm not some super social person, but I feel like the nature of communication about friendship has fundamentally changed, to the point where it wouldn't even occur to one of my close friends to mention his family's second baby on a text, because of course everyone's already known for a while. I'm completely disconnected from community in a very fundamental way now. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and it's very different from the last time I reactivated my account, at the worst possible time, for about a year. I originally ditched the account in 2013, then reactivated it in like 2015 or 2016. I have actual data from that experiment about how disconnected I became from the music community in Baltimore, because I had almost no gigs for two years (at least not my own -- I was playing guitar and mandolin for people at the time though) and then I had lots of gigs in 2016 many of which came just from responding to a Facebook post. If I needed to rely on this to put food on the table, I would probably starve if I didn't use it, so it's no wonder to me that most musicians I know are on there and heavily invested. (By the way, when I got rid of my account in 2013 or whenever, I actually nuked the account: I deleted all my posts and removed everyone from my friends list. This time I just deactivated it.)

I think I've lost the "don't be on FB" war and it blows.

I found out that some of my best musical friends put out an album ... in November 2019. I've shared multiple gigs with them, recorded them and produced songs for them, and I had no idea. They're not the only ones. I actually missed the release of another album I played on for basically the same reason: I think it really is so difficult to be a musician without Facebook that most musicians don't use anything else to communicate with people. I lose a subscriber every time I send a mailing list e-mail, and the online stuff I do use like forums aren't exactly a way to keep in touch with too many people I know near home.

There is at least one local venue (that I've played several times) that won't use anything else to book shows. Can't call, can't e-mail, can't talk in person. Have to use FB.

It was kind of easy to ignore this problem when I was in school and couldn't play shows or even most of the time find time to go to any, and during the pandemic when no one could play shows and I wasn't going anywhere and didn't get frequent reminders that I didn't have any clue what was going on.

Good thing, too. You get used to three monitors

Everyone at work thinks I'm weird and/or crazy for sticking with my laptop monitor alone. I keep telling them I don't want to get used to two screens. I mean, the other reason is that I don't have anywhere on my desk at home to put it, but that's beside the point.

He looks like I image RG does, and sounds like I imagine PRR does.

EDIT: I'm not sure why his voice surprised me, I've talked to him on the phone before.