Storage Forum 101: how to make sense of this madhouse [Archive]

Tea

06-08-2002, 12:35 PM

Hi.

I'm Tea. I'll explain a bit more about me a little later on. For now, I'm your Storage Forum Tour Guide. I'm going to introduce you to some of the more prominent members here. Let's start with .... hmm ... how about James?

James is one of our Australian brothers. He knows all about fibre optic cables and large scale networking, and works for a major telco. Apart from that though, he's a nice bloke and can usually be relied upon to give you a fair hearing and a sensible response to most questions. He's a busy man so he doesn't spend as much time here as most of us would like him too, but he is always good value when he does visit. If you manage to upset James, you've probably overstepped the line a good long way.

Cougtek, on the other hand, is excitable. He's very strong on CPUs and chipsets; claims to be something over six feet tall and work out obsessively. When he's not looking after the front page, Coug can usually be found somewhere around the place, jumping up and down and throwing his arms around.

Ahh, but these are real members.

It's the imaginary members that are more interesting. Take me. I'm Tannin's imaginary little sister. That's my photo over on the left. As you can see, I'm rather good looking. Tannin and I have huge argumements sometimes, mostly over who's turn it is to use the computer next, but when the chips are down, we always stick together. And not being a real person, I can say all sorts of things that Tannin isn't allowed to. Mostly, Tannin does the boring technical posts and I do the funny stuff, but sometimes we get bored and swap.

Then there is the Bartender. He's probably the most important imaginary person of all, because if you're not nice to the imaginary bartender you can't get an imaginary drink.

Just like me, the Bartender has a particularly close friendship with a with a real person. (I think that's a sort of rule about being imaginary - you have to be imagined by a real person first, otherwise you don't exist. This is very unfair, but - shrug - what can you do?) And the real person that belongs to the Bartender is Buck. Buck is a bit like Tannin: they both spend a lot of time working with computers, and that seems to do something rather odd to the brain cells - boring ordinary people call it "going a little crazy". But we shouldn't hold it against them.

Hey! If it wasn't for people like Buck and Tannin being a little crazy, the Bartender and I wouldn't even exist!

Prof.Wizard

06-08-2002, 12:53 PM

Hi all,

I'm Costantine, aka Prof.Wizard. Neither Professor, nor Wizard.
Just 22 years old (next month) of muscles and nerves... :P

Jokes apart, this place is a nut house. You may see more than 100+ persons but we're actually far less. Everyone here owns more than one persona (including me)... :rnd:

Don't get frustrated if you find yourself disagreeing here. It's the usual course. CougTek for example is a pain in the ass... :P :frusty:

flagreen

06-08-2002, 12:55 PM

The_Giver agrees with CougTek.

Oh God... here we go again! :cyclop:

Groltz

06-08-2002, 04:12 PM

Everyone here owns more than one persona

Incorrect. I had a sock-puppet over at SR for a while that was used to flame a few morons that came in there asking about warez, crackz, and appz. After they let the server dump all our forum history last December, I did not resurrect it into the new SR forum.

I don't have any other user names in this forum besides this one.

P5-133XL

06-08-2002, 04:44 PM

I also do not have any other alias.

Bartender

06-08-2002, 05:47 PM

I also do not have any other alias.

How boring - but quite professional and predictable. Those are admirable qualities P5, so no need to change. Groltz, you are not to be left out of the aforementioned description.

Then there is the Bartender. He's probably the most important imaginary person of all, because if you're not nice to the imaginary bartender you can't get an imaginary drink.

Imaginary my.......Tannin has a lot of nerve letting you loose with these weak descriptions. Buck is the imaginary, overweight, git, who pretends to work, but spends a good portion of the day and evening drinking bourbon and beer. Whilst I, break my back cleaning this place up from the odd debate. Setting kegs, cleaning glasses, fixing furniture (Tea is pretty strong), and consulting with other bars is busy work my friends. The one patron that hasn't shown up around is the OT:Polizei. I suppose this place has always been in order, so he's quietly died away in one of the corners over at the Storage Review Bar & Grille.

Buck

06-08-2002, 05:49 PM

Bartender, I think it's time for the sock drawer.

Groltz

06-08-2002, 07:10 PM

How boring - but quite professional and predictable....Groltz, you are not to be left out of the aforementioned description.

Yes, well, I don't see the need to bring forth a "moron flamer" for this forum. As it was, the one I had at SR posted a grand total of about 8 times in 6 months preceding the data dump.

I had considered asking Handruin if I could change my user name a couple weeks ago, but talked myself out of it.

--Steve

flagreen

06-08-2002, 08:10 PM

Steve,

What was the alias you used at SR if you don't mind me asking? Did you get caught by the admins checking IPs there? :cry:

Groltz

06-08-2002, 09:57 PM

Steve,

What was the alias you used at SR if you don't mind me asking? Did you get caught by the admins checking IPs there?

I'd rather not divulge who it was, Bill. Not that I have any mistrust of you or the other guys here, of course, but that I'd rather just leave the old puppet buried in case the same miscreants that I used it against ever visit here. I will confirm that my ex-SR Puppet never attacked anyone on SF's current member list.

I knew that my IP could have been traced by the brain trust in charge of SR. Therefore, I used an IP cloaking web site, similar to "The Anonymizer" as a buffer when I created that user and also every time I had him make a post. Also the E-mail I used for him was a throw-away web based operation that was just enough to get my password, etc. Due to the nature of the people I did flame, I never got any complaints or warnings from the SR chairmen. They were probably happy I did it.

--Steve

flagreen

06-09-2002, 03:26 AM

That's cool Steve. So that it is a pro does it huh? Pretty clever. :)

Mercutio

06-09-2002, 11:51 AM

Groltz, were you the anti-Trinton?

I do not have an alias (except this one). I never have. I don't much care for my real first name and I've always gone by nicknames anyway.

At any rate, there is a justification for this thread. A lot of what is shared by the folks here is history is unpreserved now since the loss of StorageReview's database. The knowledge our members have of each other is mostly contained in information that's now in the great bit-bucket in the sky. To take an example, Sol (a new guy) probably isn't aware that part of P5_133XL's identity on SR was as the go-to guy on SR's tech support forum or why Clocker probably has one of the coolest jobs I've ever heard of, not to mention one of the most interesting work computers.
A great many here probably don't know the origin of "sock puppet", why Tannin and I sometimes talk about degrees Cats or the reason Prof Wizard lives in fear of Micropolis hard disks. Heck, even the reason Flagreen felt the need to take up The Giver's mantle is now lost to time.

An archive/chronology project is something that does have value.

Prof.Wizard

06-09-2002, 12:32 PM

We all miss the old (before 27/12) SR forums, Mercutio...
but WE WILL NEVER FORGET! :wink:

Groltz

06-09-2002, 01:39 PM

Groltz, were you the anti-Trinton?

Nope. More than enough other people put the heat on him. I didn't feel moved to add to it. "Trinton Assamouth"....Ha! :mrgrn:

Again, my other ID made only about 8 posts, TOTAL. The only attacks were against a couple dumbasses that were asking about crackz & warez.

--Steve

JKKJ

06-09-2002, 04:47 PM

Errr... as a newcomer, this thread is not doing a lot to help make sense of things.

That being said, it is nice to find you here. I had followed many of you on SR, mostly I just lurked and learned a bunch. After the big burp there, I moved on to other things. For whatever reason I tracked this site down recently, and it's good to see that the community lives on.

Prof.Wizard

06-09-2002, 04:53 PM

Aloha JKKJ,

are you real or a sock?
(sorry, don't freak out by the question... it's the usual course here) :wink:

CougTek

06-09-2002, 05:21 PM

Welcome JKKJ,

Don't worry too much about the multiple personalities thing. Eventually, you'll figure everything out anyway.

Hope you'll enjoy the forum and the web site in general.

Mercutio

06-09-2002, 06:16 PM

Let's do this right, a bit.

The history of this site can be found elsewhere but it boils down to the simple notion that a dozen or so of soon-to-be SR expatriots needed a better way to talk than CCing emails.

Handruin started Storageforum. The rest of us followed.

At the moment, Tannin is in charge of the administrative aspects here.
Handruin is the web guy.
Flagreen is our unofficial King and chief lawman (moderator).
I am the other moderator. There will be a third (maybe a fourth, given the opinion of some).
CougTek handles the news on our front page.
The others among the original group all have behind-the-scenes jobs as well.

Personalities:

Tannin: Tannin is the owner of a computer shop in Ballarat, Oz. He's an old hand at the hardware tech stuff, an advocate for SCSI, OS/2 and the opera web browser. He's also very literate and a surprisingly good photographer.

Tea: The original "sock puppet", Tea is a figment of Tannin's imagination. I see Tannin sitting at a computer desk talking to the sock on his hand to decide what Tea has to say. Tea tends to post lighter fare but sometimes things get mixed up.

Handruin: Handruin is the great guy responsible for bringing us SF. He works for EMC, the enterprise storage company (in QA? I think?). Handruin is an all-round good guy.

Buck: Buck is a system builder/integrator. Sometimes he breaks into German. Buck seems to know more about Western Digital hard disks than I would normally say is healthy. :)

Clocker: Clocker works for GM as an engineer. Safety verification on Corvettes, IIRC. Clocker is a gamer and a hobbyist and a good friend to everyone here.

P5_133XL: P5 is our resident wise man. He's particularly good for tech support issues but his experience as an IT professional as well as old-fashioned common sense, make his comments, regardless of subject, something worthy of attention.

timwhit: timwhit is a college student and an IT Pro in training as well as one of our most frequent contributors.

Stereodude: One of our resident audiophiles and also an Engineer. He doesn't post often but usually has something interesting to say.

Fushigi: Fushigi has an odd area of expertise: IBM i-series (AS/400) systems. Enterprise computing is a rarified world and his expertise on those high-end systems is quite welcome.

Professor Wizard: Sometimes called PeeWee, Professor Wizard is a Greek studying medicine in Rome. Prof seems to like the latest and greatest in hardware and software.

CougTek: Resident wild man. CougTek is a computer reseller and a good person to talk to about CPUs and motherboards. I recall that CougTek has a particular interest in motorcycles.

James(W): In addition to being a really nice guy, James has worked for a couple of cool companies - Sun and Cable and Wireless, and almost certainly knows more about high-level networking that anyone else here.

Sol: Noted for skill at fixing computer hardware in ways that just shouldn't work, but do, Sol is apparently a major reason that Tannin stays in business. :)

That's as many names as I can think to mention at the moment. Feel free to add your own or to correct what I've written thusfar.

CougTek

06-09-2002, 07:30 PM

You forgot Gary :-( How could you? Gary is a veteran IT professional IIRC. He often post light-hearted comments, but he his also very well aware of the new developments in the IT world. Also a passionate guitarist.

There's Bill Green too, aka Flagreen. He's our local elder. Bill seems to have an bottomless wallet when it comes to dual-Xeon setups. An original folk to say the least.

Time, another Aussie computer reseller I think. Time has useful computer knowledge and he often helps people with technical problems.

Groltz, the mysterious one. He doesn't say much, but everytime he does, it's worth listening (or reading, whatever). He's a bit like Mark on this side.

There are others too, but I feel other members who be able to introduce them better than I would.

JKKJ

06-09-2002, 08:57 PM

Aloha JKKJ,

are you real or a sock?
(sorry, don't freak out by the question... it's the usual course here) :wink:

I am real, and I wear my socks with pride.

Let's do this right, a bit.

The history of this site can be found elsewhere but it boils down to the simple notion that a dozen or so of soon-to-be SR expatriots needed a better way to talk than CCing emails.

<snip>

This is better, thanks.

By way of introduction, my first computer was an XT, and things were hobby-ish until I put my hand up when someone at work asked if anyone knew about computers around 386-time. So now in addition to managing at a commercial flooring distributor, I'm the resident techie.

Bartender

06-09-2002, 09:04 PM

Welcome JKKJ. I think you'll enjoy this forum, especially the bar. What would you like to drink?

JKKJ

06-09-2002, 09:20 PM

Welcome JKKJ. I think you'll enjoy this forum, especially the bar. What would you like to drink?

I'm currently drinking wine from New Zealand, hope that's OK. Cheers!

Bartender

06-10-2002, 12:02 AM

What you drink is what we serve. Some folks like Bourbon, others Scotch (Lagavulin for the love of God!), some rootbeer, and then, some enjoy their tea. For me, a kettle and some Tetley is fine. If you like your New Zealand wine, we'll store all you want, and more variety then Tannin has hard drives collecting dust in his shed.

JKKJ

06-10-2002, 12:41 AM

<snip>and more variety then Tannin has hard drives collecting dust in his shed.

Ahh, an large cellar. Excellent.

Funny, I noticed a couple of hard drives sitting in the closet while I was working on my house today. Why are they there? Where did they come from? They're not in my system, I've really no idea what's on them, or when they became inactive.
I never used to be this way. :o Storaholics Anonymous?

Groltz

06-10-2002, 03:03 AM

Groltz, the mysterious one. He doesn't say much, but everytime he does, it's worth listening (or reading, whatever).

Mysterious? Hardly. What do you want to know? I know that in the course of my posts through SR and here that I have divulged my age, my location, my employer, my employment status, my marital status, at least one of my vehicles, most of the components making up my home PC, and my 2002 New Years resolution. Also both iGary and Mercutio have unwittingly made discoveries about what genre of music I listen to. (By means of the Misfits avatar I used to display). 8)

He's a bit like Mark on this side.

Oh CougTek....Mark is probably having apoplexy over that statement, the poor guy. I can't agree with you on that one.

--Steve

P5-133XL

06-10-2002, 10:38 AM

Groltz, the mysterious one. He doesn't say much, but everytime he does, it's worth listening (or reading, whatever). He's a bit like Mark on this side.

Perhaps I was lying and Groltz is my sock puppet or I am his. Perhaps we are twins or doppleganger's. You'll never know for sure.

Sol

06-10-2002, 10:54 AM

Funny, I noticed a couple of hard drives sitting in the closet while I was working on my house today. Why are they there? Where did they come from? They're not in my system, I've really no idea what's on them, or when they became inactive.
I never used to be this way. Storaholics Anonymous?

I had a simmilar experience recently. I just gave mine to Tannin and Tea.

Sol

06-10-2002, 11:01 AM

As any new members reading this can see I'll be the one with the stuffed up and poorly formated posts.

And as I'm only now beginning to notice my computer smells like radiator cooland and old socks. Not I think a good sign.

James

06-10-2002, 10:01 PM

JKKJ,

Which North Shore in Canada? Pretty much everywhere I know there that has a northern shore has such a place name, either formally or informally.

I lived in Nova Scotia for six years (I'm going back there for a visit at the end of this month) and there was a North Shore there too. It's home to such alphabetically challenged places as Antigonish.

James

06-10-2002, 10:42 PM

It's funny to see other people's view of you. My area of expertise is really the business analysis and then managing the design and build of large scale Internet-connected IT systems - I've had about eight years experience of doing that. This telco thing is really only a sideline for the last three years - I was supposed to do lots of the above but ended up mostly doing bid pre-sales and management for network sales to global multinationals.

Because I got bored out of my skull waiting for projects that I was skilled in to come along at Cable & Wireless, I started causing trouble by looking into things I wasn't supposed to, like cost base and infrastructure issues. As a result, I pioneered some work to redesign C&W's AsiaPac network for better margin, ran a program in Japan to deploy our new fibre metro network in Tokyo, then when I got back to Australia I was eventually given responsibility to negotiate the wholesale agreements between C&W and other carriers in Australia/NZ, and now I'm regional pricing manager. And lucky me, I still get to keep my old job as well. Oh, and I started off a program to build out our regional IP network and deploy MPLS - always tricky stuff to do when capex controls are in place, I can tell you. It looks like we've been successful though, which is excellent.

I'm working out my looooong notice period while I'm waiting for KPMG to free up their headcount freeze so I can take up the job I've accepted there.

So really anything I've learned about telco networks is accidental. :mrgrn:

JKKJ

06-11-2002, 12:09 AM

JKKJ,

Which North Shore in Canada? Pretty much everywhere I know there that has a northern shore has such a place name, either formally or informally.

Yes.
My North Shore's on the other side.

Onomatopoeic

06-11-2002, 01:52 AM

You forgot Gary :-( How could you? Gary is a veteran IT professional IIRC. He often post light-hearted comments, but he his also very well aware of the new developments in the IT world. Also a passionate guitarist...

I'm actually not an IT person, instead an engineering / management position. I've been working at the same place here (yes, I'm at work right now) since forever (early 1980s). Systems design and operational issues are what I'm about. I haven't done the "real work" in a long time now, since there are finally people in these modern times flowing out of academia that have most of the necessary training to perform image processing work and writing image processing applications and utilities. There is a traditional IT group here at work, but I have nothing to do with them -- unless it's an emergency, argh.

Guitarist, yes, but I'm not sure about the passionate part. I'll admit to having basically grown up with guitars, since the early 1960s. Unfortunately, I don't get a lot of decent practice time on a regular basis, so my hands have to go through about a week's worth of reconditioning to get them back into playing shape like in the days when I played in bands. Much to the chagrin of my wife, I have guitars and musical equipment stuffed into a closet or two (or 3) and a "music studio" -- some of which I've had since the early 1970s. If you don't mind looking at a bunch of guitars, here's my collection:

http://www.gary-hendershot.com/instruments/

flagreen

06-11-2002, 01:59 AM

Damn Gary, you have more money tied up in guitars then I do in Computers. And that ain't easy.

CougTek

06-11-2002, 01:59 AM

20 guitars and it doesn't pasionate you :eekers: I don't even have half as many computers.

Some people have way too much money in their hands.

Cliptin

06-11-2002, 02:25 AM

Nice colection Gary. The most fun bass I ever played was a Gibson Thunderbird. Very distinctive sound.

Onomatopoeic

06-11-2002, 02:42 AM

20 guitars and it doesn't pasionate you :eekers: I don't even have half as many computers.

Some people have way too much money in their hands.

Heehee... It's not like I went out and spent a mint last weekend! That's about 30 years of accumulation -- which would actually include the few guitars that I sold or traded over the years just to get to the point where I am now. I'm not really into duplicating any instruments, though many of these instruments do have some overlapping qualities.

Besides, it's not about having a bunch of guitars (actually I believe its 37+ guitars, not 20). I've only bought and kept what I have a need for. As far as people with collections of guitars, there are people that I've met over the years that have collections in the 100s or even 200s (!). Unfortunately, these are typically people who are "collectors" and not actually really players -- a group I don't much care for to be honest.

Onomatopoeic

06-11-2002, 02:58 AM

Nice colection Gary. The most fun bass I ever played was a Gibson Thunderbird. Very distinctive sound.

Yes, but they are neck-heavy, unlike a P-bass or a J-bass, and that's why I never did like 'em or nearly any other Gibson bass (other reasons).

But, there would be one exception to that, and that would be the Gibson Les Paul Signature bass from the early 1970s. Normally, I would go running in horror from a Gibson bass. But, the Les Paul Signature Bass was a pretty astounding instrument in its own right. I have an Epiphone "reissue" of the Les Paul Signature Bass, now called the Jack Casady Signature Bass (yes, Jack Casady from Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna). The Les Paul Signature Bass and more-recent Epiphone Jack Casady Signature Bass are true hollowbody electric instruments with no centerblock (semi-hollowbody). These are fast and responsive players and their tonality is big and round and full of nuance unlike many solidbody basses.

http://www.epiphone.com/legacy/images/ebjc.jpg

James

06-11-2002, 03:12 AM

Yes.
My North Shore's on the other side.The south? :mrgrn:

JKKJ

06-11-2002, 01:50 PM

Yes.
My North Shore's on the other side.The south? :mrgrn:

Hee. No no no.

The Antigonishians (?) are alphabetically challenged?

The Grammar Police

07-29-2002, 10:52 AM

I seemed to drop out of this thread just as it got to the interesting (i.e., off-topic) bits.

Forgive me if I've mentioned this before, but I once had the long-term loan (i.e., several years) of a 1959 Fender Telecaster bass. A truly delightful instrument that made even me - more a refugee from my 12-string than a proper bass player - sound good. Rare too: there were at that time only a pair of '59 Teles in Victoria, and this one much the better of the two. Perhaps just one now. (My friend moved to London and took his Fender with him.) Maple neck and power blue body, and that perfect weight and balance that only Fender guitars ever seem to achieve. Soft and gentle on the hands, a surprisingly high action, and so easy to play fast that one only wanted to play middling-slow and shape the beginning and the middle and the end of every note the way a trumpet player does.

The rest of my rig was simplicity itself: a Fender Super Six 100W guitar amp head (shorn of the six 10 inch speakers that were originally a part of it), a good 15 inch speaker, a crossover, and one of the 10 inch speakers from the Super Six in a box I made myself. No pedals, no FX, just nice fresh valves in the Fender head.

There is a delight to a truly fine instrument that is, perhaps, impossible to describe properly. It's commonplace, I guess, to say "it plays itself", but that is almost exactly what a really great instrument does: one stops being aware of the mechanics of it all, gives little or no thought to fingering or technique, just falls in love with the wonderful sounds that are happening without you, the musician, being particularly aware of how you are creating them.

That's true on one level, and yet on another level you are aware of what you're doing, of the techniques you are using. This awareness is quite different to the "normal" awareness one has of fingers and strings and sounds and intentions: it almost an "after the fact" thing, something that one is simply aware of and accepting of and thankful for, as opposed to the rather mechanistic willed and intellectualised effort that one puts into playing any ordinary instrument. I suppose the best analogy is that of good sex on the one hand, and actually making love on the other.

Indeed, now that I think of it, I would trade a night with all bar a very, very small number of the women I have known over the years for a one more golden night when the guys catch fire and the dance floor fills to the rolling thunder of my beautiful borrowed Telecaster bass.

The JoJo

07-29-2002, 03:22 PM

For some on topic stuff:

I'm The JoJo, please to meet you all.

I'm working as a Senior Test Engineer in a Software company. In my spare time I build computers, OC my own computer, try to learn Linux and install the FAH client on every possible computer...;)

Off/On topic:
Managed to sell my gf's computer. Maybe a XP1800 would be enough for her wordprocessing, or what do you think people?

Oh, yes, the FAH client just might end up running on that computer too... ;)

07-29-2002, 04:23 PM

Off/On topic:
Managed to sell my gf's computer. Maybe a XP1800 would be enough for her wordprocessing, or what do you think people?

Wordprocessing?

I think she's going to need something from Cray (http://www.cray.com/) for that, don't you?

:wink:

Jake the Dog

07-29-2002, 06:24 PM

hmm, a cray for wordprocessing? she better keep her files small then. you don't want it bogging down with 10+ pages of word documents...

CougTek

07-29-2002, 08:46 PM

I'm working as a Senior Test Engineer in a Software company.
You gotta agree that IT is a weird world for calling people like this guy (http://www.redhill.net.au/sf/jojo.jpg), a senior at anything. Not exactly what I have in mind when I think about an old snock (senior). Or maybe it's just me...

P.S. Try to let that beard grow a bit and use grey colorant for hair, then maybe Senior will sound a bit more correct. ;-)

Mercutio

07-29-2002, 09:22 PM

Gray hair doesn't help either. :(

The JoJo

07-30-2002, 12:52 AM

;)

Explorer

08-01-2002, 12:46 AM

...Forgive me if I've mentioned this before, but I once had the long-term loan (i.e., several years) of a 1959 Fender Telecaster bass. A truly delightful instrument that made even me - more a refugee from my 12-string than a proper bass player - sound good. Rare too: there were at that time only a pair of '59 Teles in Victoria, and this one much the better of the two...

I was playing a Telecaster BASS recently. I've played a few from time to time over the years. I'd have to say that I *still* favour the Jazz Bass slightly over the P- or Tele- basses. The Telecaster bass was available for a long time, even through most of the 1970s.

I do own 3 (quite different) Telecaster guitars, though. One is a Telecaster Thinline 72 with a resonate ash semi-hollow body and 2 Fender stagger-pole humbuckers, a Tele Custom with a heavy '60s-style double-bound alder body and Barden blade pickups, and a Tele Designer Series with a select very light solid ash body with Fender Texas Special single coil pickups utilising a unique 4-way pickup selector.

Jake the Dog

08-01-2002, 01:06 AM

I'm working as a Senior Test Engineer in a Software company.

we are of the same :) i'm a QA manager and lately ive been running a team of BA's as well.

The JoJo

08-01-2002, 03:37 AM

Great to know that Jake, now I know who to turn to when expert advice is needed ;) .

Bartender

11-21-2002, 01:10 PM

Welcome to our forum Newtun, and please stay a while. Drinks on the house for Newtun!

The JoJo

11-21-2002, 02:48 PM

Bottoms up! :)

Groltz

11-21-2002, 06:24 PM

Greetings Newtun 8)

Dïscfärm

11-22-2002, 01:23 PM

Töö mänÿ nëw mëmbërs lätëlÿ! Ï'm drünk!

mubs

11-22-2002, 05:35 PM

Howdy everybody, this is mubs. I'm here courtesy Tannin (discovered SF through him). I used to lurk the forums over at SR (still do) and was away between 09/2001 and 08/2002, with little chance of getting on the Net to do anything meaningful, so I missed a lot.

Anyway it's good to be back!

Buck

11-22-2002, 05:39 PM

Welcome mubs. Anaheim is quite a distance from Ballarat. Drinks on the house for mubs (skip Dïscfärm, he's drunk).

Tea

11-22-2002, 05:47 PM

Hi Mubs and welcome. Don't worry about being here courtesy Tannin. We promise not to hold it against you!

DrunkenBastard

11-22-2002, 07:15 PM

Bartender, I finally found an American beer that I can drink. Miller "High Life". Quite close to a normal Australian beer, and around $9 for 30 cans at Eckerds. Beats that overpriced Molsons (people were looking at me strangely). Perhaps we could have it on tap at your fine establishment?

Groltz

11-22-2002, 07:25 PM

Welcome mubs, and cheers. <clink!>

Bartender

11-22-2002, 07:28 PM

Sorry DB, I thought you had already seen the Miller tap. It's around the corner next to the Corona tap.

DrunkenBastard

11-22-2002, 10:20 PM

Ahh, many thanks Bartender. I have this problem where I usually end up on the floor (hoping for a peek up Tea's dress) before I get to that end of the bar.

The Giver

11-22-2002, 10:53 PM

Ahh, many thanks Bartender. I have this problem where I usually end up on the floor (hoping for a peek up Tea's dress) before I get to that end of the bar.
Talk about self-destructive behavior.

Buck

11-22-2002, 10:56 PM

Ahh, many thanks Bartender. I have this problem where I usually end up on the floor (hoping for a peek up Tea's dress) before I get to that end of the bar.
Talk about self-destructive behavior.

I believe that his alias makes that point quite apparent.

The Giver

11-22-2002, 11:35 PM

Actually Buck The Giver was talking about peeking up Tea's dress.

mubs

11-23-2002, 09:51 PM

Thanks for the welcome, folks. Sorry I disappeared for a while. Much as I'd like to hang out with fine folks like yourselves, free time is a constraint.

Bartender, a round for eveybody on me, please, thank you!

Dïscfärm

11-24-2002, 10:33 AM

...Bartender, a round for eveybody on me, please, thank you!

Äll öf dëëz nëw mëmbërs sö süddënlÿ! Äll öf dïs dwïnkïng sö süddënlÿ! "Böttömz üp! Böttömz üp!" thë vöïcë sëz! Ï äm nöw sö..... jüst söööööööööööööööö.... DWÜNK! Ï thïnk ït's Tëä's fäült!

Hëÿ Mübs! Whät mëäns mübs? Ï knöw thät NÜBS mëäns Nön Ünïförm B-Splïnë.

Öh! Öh mÿ göd! Ëvërÿthïng sëëms därk! Ït's gëtting ëvën därkër! Öh. Wäït. Ït's jüst mÿ sünglässës slïppïng döwn! Ï stïll hävë my sünglässës ön änd ït's... 3 ÄM! ÖK, whërë's mÿ wällët?!? Äll öf dïs dwïnkïng! Ï thïnk ït's Tëä's fäült!

Bartender

11-24-2002, 02:24 PM

Coming right up mubs.

Could someone help Dïscfärm to the door and then drive him home?

Tea

11-24-2002, 06:30 PM

I can carry him to the door eazily enough, Bartender, he'z only ztruggling a little bit, but I need zomeome to help drive him home. Damn American carz - I can't reach the pedalz!

Groltz

11-24-2002, 06:50 PM

Last time I drove him home he threw up in the car.

We need someone with a pickup truck so he can ride in the bed.

Tannin

11-24-2002, 07:26 PM

With "I'm changing the climate" sticker? Or without?

Groltz

11-24-2002, 10:19 PM

With "I'm changing the climate" sticker? Or without?

Without, in this case.

You have to put that sticker on him after he has overindulged in 3-alarm TexMex chili.

Buck

11-24-2002, 10:34 PM

The Batender told me that we can get TP from THG to give Dïscfärm a drive home. We don't care if Dïscfärm pukes, and TP will have someone (albeit passed out) to talk to that won't talk back.

Bartender

11-24-2002, 10:45 PM

With "I'm changing the climate" sticker? Or without?

Without, in this case.

You have to put that sticker on him after he has overindulged in 3-alarm TexMex chili.

That will certainly change the local climate.

skeet

11-25-2002, 09:07 AM

Brought tears to my eyes! Or maybe it was the old Tele bass I was playing.

I've just got it back from a setup. It has been gigged a bit in the last ten years, so I thought I would do the right thing and get a fret dress and finally pay some attention to the failing electronics (scratchy pots and the like). You'll be pleased to know it's still a good girl. Sometimes, old guitars seem to want to tell you stories and your job is just to listen...

For those that don't know...
"My mate Des, he owns a motel
He thinks times are tough, I think he's doing pretty well
He says things aren't what they used to be,
can't afford a Rolls just a Mercedes"

Loads of cool posts about guitars and stuff. Got a dozen or so myself so I'm feeling more at home. The Les Pauls been setup by a robotic system called "PLEK". It does the fret grind under string tension which is a pretty cool development - also does a seperate fret grind for each string, no more buzzing fourth string. (I wanted to say G-string but couldn't quite manage it. It's a sad story about a Policewoman throwing a black leather number into the front seat after a car accident had ripped the back off the van I was driving, throwing all my worldly possesions across a major intersection in Melbourne. Morally of the story - don't have gay friends or take bets - Ever!!!)

Oh yeah, I'm Peter, I don't own a computer and I thought storage related to cupboard space. But I'm learning fast and having a laugh!

skeet

11-25-2002, 09:26 AM

Sorry about the previous post, I've just figured-out how to quote a previous post. I was of course back referencing "The Grammar Police", who had very eloquently rendered a non-sober portrayal of the smokey club, blues session, tortured soul, art-house bass player, propping up the destined for greatness, unsympathetic, self-centred guitarist, the "my arms are too long" drummer and the talented but tragic female beauty who sings her heart out, night after night.

Beautiful stuff. I felt it! I thought you played in a Disco band, Tony!

I do own 3 (quite different) Telecaster guitars, though. One is a Telecaster Thinline 72 with a resonate ash semi-hollow body and 2 Fender stagger-pole humbuckers, a Tele Custom with a heavy '60s-style double-bound alder body and Barden blade pickups, and a Tele Designer Series with a select very light solid ash body with Fender Texas Special single coil pickups utilising a unique 4-way pickup selector.

I've got Texas Specials in my Tele and I can't get on with them at all. Funny how one mans meat...

Groltz

11-25-2002, 02:25 PM

Hmmm.

Gary, let me know if you want to add yet another guitar to your collection. I would really like to sell mine...cheap.

iGary

11-26-2002, 01:26 AM

...Äll öf dëëz nëw mëmbërs sö süddënlÿ! Äll öf dïs dwïnkïng sö süddënlÿ!

Dïscfärm, have you been drinking cough syrup or something??? You normally make perfect logical and even virtual sense when you talk, or as we say in the business, you have all of your controllers in a row. But here, you seem to be hallucinating and rambling on in a desultory fashion, not to mention that all of your vowels look as if they've been snakebitten!

It's time now for you to return to your proper place on the disc farm. You weren't meant for city life.

iGary

11-26-2002, 01:30 AM

Hmmm.

Gary, let me know if you want to add yet another guitar to your collection.

Er... probably not. Each guitar I have actually has a distinct purpose in my collection.

I would really like to sell mine...cheap.
I guess there's always E-Bay.

BTW, what is your guitar?

Groltz

11-26-2002, 01:52 AM

A Cort CL1000 with a Joe Barden HB Two-Tone in the neck and a Gibson Tony Iommi Signature HB in the bridge.

Compared to the beauties in your collection, it might as well be sitting in the lap of a wino in a trailer park. Sounds good though. I never finished the changes that I originally planned for it...Still needs a black replacement bridge from WD Music and a set of black Sperzel locking 3+3 tuners.

Pic 1 (http://www.storageforum.net/groltz/Guitarbody.gif)

Pic 2 (http://www.storageforum.net/groltz/guitarfull.gif)

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iGary

11-26-2002, 01:54 AM

...I've got Texas Specials in my Tele and I can't get on with them at all. Funny how one mans meat...

The Texas Special Tele and Strat pickups aren't for everyone -- especially the traditionalists. The Fender Texas Specials are overwound for that "go for the throat" tone.

Fender's Texas Special pickups aren't exactly an original idea. Here are the high quality "originals," which have been manufactured for many years locally, but now copied widely by everyone and their uncle.

http://www.riograndepickups.com/

iGary

11-26-2002, 02:38 AM

A Cort CL1000 with a Joe Barden HB Two-Tone in the neck and a Gibson Tony Iommi Signature HB in the bridge...

http://www.storageforum.net/groltz/Guitarbody.gif

Speak of the devil, I saw one of these "PRS Single Cut Clone" Cort just like yours this past weekend, used and for sale at a Walmart.... I meant at a Guitar Center.

Yours does have pretty good pickups, though, and fortunately installed in the proper positions for their sonic characteristics. Your Barden *humbucker* (in the neck postion) is a fairly uncommon pickup. Joe Barden sells a hell of a lot more Telecaster replacement (micro-humbucker) pickups than his full-size humbucker. I have an set of original Bill Lawrence twin-blade humbuckers that is physically very similar to your Barden. The Iommi pickup you have in the bridge position is pretty hot, and works much better in that position.

Speaking of Tony Iommi, the pickup model Tony Iommi used throughout the 1970s in all those early classic Black Sabbath albums is -- ironically -- the pickup shown in my avatar! It's the Gibson P-90 single coil pickup (Tannin's favourite pickup, don't ask) which is a large sort-of-"dark" single coil pickup with a fairly powerful output. Tony had a Gibson SG with P-90s, I have a Les Paul with P-90s outfitted with creme covers. Other notable P-90 users have been Santana (early 70s) where he used an SG with P-90s for his scalding wah-wah solos, and Pete Townshend used an SG with P-90s (specifically "Live At Leeds") for a few years LIKE THIS HERE (http://www.gibson.com/products/custom/signature/townshend.htm) which he also used to hit Abbey Hoffman with at Woodstock (!). The big mid-range punch of the P-90 is not for everybody, as Tannin can telll you, and they can be a bit noisy and hummy like other single coil pickups (unlike humbuckers).

http://www.gary-hendershot.com/Gem.jpg
My Les Paul Gem Topaz with P-90 pickups...