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  1. Several folks on this thread are pretty critical of their welds (we all are) and I do have some thoughts on this : 

     

    I've welded over 10 years and was self-taught. This is a path I do not recommend to anyone. In my case I was working as a hand and a ranch foreman threw me a box of electrodes, pointed to a broken gate with an SA 200 parked next to it, and said "Figure it out.". I've made just about every mistake you can make in welding and far more sinister, developed a pile of bad habits along the way. Bad habits get burned deeply into your muscle memory and they're a booger to get out of there. Ultimately this led me to welding school - Let's right the wrongs, let's re-learn this from the ground up with qualified in-person instruction, and let's do this the right way. Qualified, in-person, hands on instruction is how you're going to get better at this. Fast. You see... .the thing is... you can't see yourself welding. You can't see the little ticks in your movement that get your rod angle off... or that the reason your welds are laying down on you is that you're ever so slowly pulling the electrode towards you as you weld. And about 100 other things that someone standing over your shoulder will see about yourself that you don't.. and correct them until you are the one correcting yourself. I made more improvement in the first 2 weeks of welding school than I had in the 5 years prior just welding on my own. I'm not saying I'm an expert at this, I think we're all still learning, but I can lay a bead better than your average bear and I get stoked watching people learn and get better at this. 

     

    Sound stick welds really come down to these 5 things :

     

    Proper electrode selection, proper current, proper arc length, proper travel speed, proper rod angle. Whether you're pursuing welding certifications or will remain a hobbyist the principles are the same. Naturally, not everyone has the time or the interest to go to welding school nor am I recommending that.... but for some of y'all that are looking to get your chops up a little, consider a short or even one day CE intro course if it's offered in your area.

    Took a CE course at Brookhaven in Dallas and it was great.

    The one thing I learned after the basics is you gotta practice practice practice practice practice...

     

     

     

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  2. One of my top 5 favorite college bands. I still kick my self in the ass for not going to see them on their stop making sense tour instead of spending an all nighter studying for an exam that I can't even remember the subject.

    It was pretty special. After the show my wife was convinced Byrne was an alien sent to earth to teach us about music.
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  3. I enjoy Tom Tom Club,also

    Saw them at the Fair Park Bandshell in ‘90. Escape from New York tour.
    Ramones, Blondie and Tom Tom Club.
    They played their stuff, some of Harrison’s solo stuff and some TH stuff. Genius of Love is one of the coolest songs ever.


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  4. In all seriousness, while I did enjoy jumping into the 80s with Remain in Light, Talkingheads debut is still my favorite, and really the only one that to me is I think of putting on the platter now and again of all of their stuff.
    Side one
    No. Title Length
    1. "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town" 2:48
    2. "New Feeling" 3:09
    3. "Tentative Decisions" 3:04
    4. "Happy Day" 3:55
    5. "Who Is It?" 1:41
    6. "No Compassion" 4:47
    Side two
    No. Title Writer(s) Length
    1. "The Book I Read"   4:06
    2. "Don't Worry About the Government"   3:00
    3. "First Week/Last Week… Carefree"   3:19
    4. "Psycho Killer" Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth 4:19
    5. "Pulled Up"   4:29
     
    It just got to complicated.  The foray into south american stuff was appreciated, I guess, but just depressed me in some ways.
    Guess you can't keep the good musicians down. 

    Byrne did the Latin stuff early in his solo career. He did Rei Momo and also released some compilations of Latin artists on his Luka Bop label.
    I saw his Rei Momo tour at The Fair Park Bandshell in ‘90. It was great. An orchestra of top notch Latin musicians. Early summer and you could see lightning in the distance from a big thunderstorm behind the stage.


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  5. sad deal.  an acquaintance of mine was murdered over a car this past weekend, at least that is how it appears.  I only knew him casually.  We had some of the same friends.  My wife is an attorney, and is often on the defense side of his cases.  We shared a love of cars, and the few of times I saw him at parties we had the car connection.  Of course, his car collection is amongst the most incredible in the entire US.  he has something like 20 Ferrari's.  Hard to imagine he's gone.  He was seriously one of the nicest an humble people I have ever met.  Just senseless. some great pics and videos of his collection can be found easily. RIP, Randy.  
     
    https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-charged-in-killing-of-prominent-edwardsville-lawyer/article_0f847d4d-b586-50bd-9119-47c25eef98ec.html

    Damn that sucks.
    One of my High School buddies was a musician and worked part time at a car lot. This happened to him over a used BMW:
    On Dec. 6 Smith and Ables left a local car lot in a black 2001 BMW. Following him in his mother’s Ford Taurus was Charlotte Nioche Davis, 18. In the back seat of the Taurus were her 12-year-old brother and Smith’s 2-year-old sister.
    “He had him traveling around under the guise he was going to show the car to somebody,” Haltom said of Smith’s actions shortly before he shot Ables in rural Arkansas. “He shot him in the head and then kicked him into a ditch. He was still moving around, so he shot him two more times.”
    Davis told police Smith motioned the 12-year-old to join him before Ables was shot, according to court documents.
    After shooting him once in the head, Smith kicked Ables’ body into a deep ditch and lost his shoe in the process, Haltom said.
    Smith sent the 12-year-old down the slope to recover his shoe. When Ables began to move slightly, Haltom says Smith shot him two more times.
    According to witnesses who told police Smith had confided in them about the killing, Smith told them Ables had told him he could take the car and that he didn’t have to shoot him with the chrome colored .357 magnum he carried.
    “It’s a Beamer,” was the response Smith told others he gave to Ables seconds before ending the man’s life.


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  6. Of course- Miata is always the answer. But I hate my money and enjoy being inconvenienced, so I would go with the BMW.

    I fell in love with British sports cars when I was a kid and my Dad’s friend would take me out in his TR3. I actually owned a Spitfire and a TR3A for a while so I know what it takes to keep them up.

    When I decided to get something just for fun I found a 2005 Mazdaspeed MX5. RWD, 6 speed manual and factory turbo.

    Reliable and still fun 8 years later.
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  7. There was a netflix documentary about this issue with IKEA and supposedly they knew about the tipping hazards. Instead of abiding my the 50lb mandated tipping rule they provided some bolts and anchors and passed the burden to the buyer. At last check they still refuse to abide by the international 50lb standard like most manufacturers.

    The 50 lb standard was not a mandate but voluntary. They had been selling the dressers for ages overseas without reported incident. That’s why their 2016 recall was only North America. I think later China and maybe Australia said “Hey! We want one too.”

    Not sure but I don’t think any of the incidents occurred with units that were properly secured per assembly instructions.

    They re designed all dressers to meet the 50lb standard after the recall.

    Not sure how many dressers were returned in US but people would buy them off Craigslist etc and return them for full credit, sometimes bringing in 6 or more on flat bed trailers.


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  8. I think I had a book by the same title from the same author, Gowland, back in my college days, but it was modern, at least for the times. Pretty decent photo book, but not enough tips on how to get the whores to pose for you.

    This is a 1967 revision of a 1954 copyright.
    He does suggest not using your photography to get a girl “out in the woods” but no mention of whore posing.


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  9. Gotta do better closing out games.

    “In reality, though, Saturday night’s home overtime loss to Charlotte continued a season-long trend of head-scratching results, often characterized by poor late execution and an inability to close out winnable games.
    More than half of the Mavericks’ 13 defeats can be characterized as bad losses. In short, Dallas is in the process of blowing a promising season. Consider the mounting evidence, if you can stomach it:
    -- The Mavericks lead the NBA in offensive rating (115.3), but are 28th in offensive rating (92.3) in clutch situations – that is, within the last five minutes of games when the differential is five points or fewer. Only New Orleans (86.0) and Atlanta (79.6) have worse clutch ratings.
    “Let me do some homework on it and I’ll try to get you a better answer,” Carlisle said Saturday night, when asked about the clutch rating following the Charlotte loss, a game from which Dallas rallied from a 20-point deficit, yet led by six with 1:39 left in regulation.
    “Now’s not a great time to try to analyze that, but it’s pretty well proven that in any league playing from behind is a losing proposition.”
    -- The Mavericks are 10-8 at home, including defeats to 15-23 Charlotte, 13-23 Sacramento, 10-25 New York and 15-21 Portland.
    -- The Mavericks are 0-3 in overtime games.
    -- In nearly half (six) of their losses, they have led with 42-or-fewer seconds remaining in regulation and/or overtime. Four of those defeats have come at home.
    Those six losses are to Charlotte, Oklahoma City, Toronto, Miami, the Lakers and Portland, and three of the defeats have occurred in the last two weeks. The Mavericks lost a seven-point lead in the final 2:42 at Oklahoma City, and they led by six with 1:39 left in regulation against the Hornets on Saturday.
    “Terrible decisions,” Doncic said after the Charlotte loss. “I’ve got to do better. ... We could have won it, but I made terrible decisions.”
    -- In fairness to Doncic, but of no solace to the Mavericks, the NBA referees’ final-two-minute report released Sunday acknowledged that Dwight Powell was incorrectly called for a shooting foul with the Mavericks leading by six and 1:39 left in regulation; and that Doncic drew a foul with 1:59 left in overtime and should have been awarded free throws with Dallas trailing by two.
    That marks at least the fourth time this season in which errors acknowledged in two-minute reports factored into Mavericks defeats. That doesn’t count the controversial coaches challenge that Portland won with 9.4 seconds left in a two-point victory.
    -- Six of the Mavericks’ 13 losses have come in games in which they led by double-digit margins, including Saturday night’s 12-point lead over Charlotte with 9:09 left, and the franchise-record-tying 30-point blown lead at Toronto.”


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  10. That book does look awesome "First, get a woman who looks like "Ginger" from Gilligan's Island". 
    Every picture of my family from when we were growing up was taken on a Yashica that looked a lot like that Rollei. All of my older brothers and I learned on it in succession. It was killed one day in the spring during my senior year of high school. I let my art teacher hang onto it while I was doing something else and when I came back I was told that it had been dropped and broken. Oof. 

    My dad was a portrait photographer when I was little and had a Rollei similar to the one I found. Was always fascinated with it for some reason.


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  11. Holy shit that is a great grab. Which Rolleiflex is that? Which lens? That book about photographing women is awesome.

    Seems to be an early 50s automat K4 or K4A. Taking lens is Zeiss Tessar 3.5-75mm.
    Yeah, the Gowland book is very cool.


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    I’m not much of a photographer but stumbled across this at an estate sale in an old ranch house south of Cleburne and couldn’t pass it up.

    I’ve only taken one roll of T-Max 100 test shots. It’s challenging for a novice like me but pretty fun.
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  13.  
    I've seen Floyd three times and Roger Waters twice.
    I saw the In The Flesh Tour, (Animals) at Jeppesen Stadium in 1977. Only show I saw that had Floyd with Waters.

    Saw that tour in Ft. Worth at Tarrant County Convention center. Pretty fuckin epic.


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  14. And Stephen Pyles is done.   There was a real struggling happening at Flora Street / Fauna.  I guess he couldn't figure out how to fix it.
    Flora Street Closes
    He says that he is getting out of the business to and focus on consulting and culinary travel.  And this...

    "This will also give me the time, finally, to document my experiences in serving the city’s famous and infamous, as well as cooking for the likes of Mick Jagger, Queen Elizabeth ll and six American Presidents and First Ladies," he says. "I will also be able to share special stories of my mentors and protégés. My memoirs will also allow me to evaluate dozens of food critics I have encountered over the last four decades."

    This is a loss for Dallas.  As I said, I have been a fan of his and his restaurants for a very long time.   

    Bummer. Met him several times and he was always very nice. My friend got a culinary degree from El Centro and went to work at Nana for Anthony Bombaci. When Pyles came back to Dallas and opened his place on Ross he hired her as his Sous Chef.


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