Stick sold; basement finishing underway; song written. It’s been a good week so far! ?
I can’t explain it, but lately I’ve been on a huge ELO kick. I really love Jeff Lynne’s songs as well as his production work; John Lennon once admiringly called them “son of the Beatles,” and it shows in amazing tunes like Mr. Blue Sky [Real] and Twilight. I picked …
I am selling my 12-string Chapman Grand Stick on eBay, and the auction ends tomorrow night. I have a 10-string that I play much more regularly, and both are in fantastic shape. My hands are just too small for me to get comfortable with the 12-string, but they are smaller …
I have a more recent picture of Evie available on the links to the left. Still haven’t gotten to organizing them all. Time to go practice, I love my new GuitarPort!
I ordered a new Variax yesterday from Guitar Center. A lot of “talkback lusers” seem to have a problem with GC, but I never have. Plus I have a friend who works there who got me a deep discount price. ? Hopefully I should see it in a few weeks; …
I played one of the Variax guitars this weekend at Chuck Levin’s in Wheaton, MD. The physical report is that they are a very good value for their cost ($909), especially considering the cost of the electronic components that do the guitar modeling. This guitar feels more solid and playable …
When, o when will the Variax army arrive at my local music store? Confound this tiresome waiting!
A new piece of Linux knowledge today: Compiling your kernel with devfs support will kill your ability to use “LABEL=” in your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf files. Make sure CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=n in your kernel .config when you build, or alternately fix your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf files to change the offending lines to …
Happy 2003! We had a wonderful NYE, with friends visiting from Richmond and Charlottesville. My wife and her dance troupe performed for First Night, and Evie really enjoyed seeing them as well. She also liked being wheeled around town after dark, with all the streets lit up with holiday lights …
Many folks complain about not being able to mount NTFS partitions (such as on Windows 2000/XP) with their newly-installed Red Hat Linux systems. Red Hat does not ship with NTFS as a supported file system because there is not currently any reliable write support. Customers who think they have full …