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Hasn't stopped me!!! 🤣

Oh, what the heck! As long as I'm wool-gathering, I'll add what was probably my greatest achievement for cell-phone users! 😁 During my 7+ years of contracting to Verizon Wireless (where I was part of the 1xRTT project which brought the first version of the internet to your phone), I also wrote the fuzzy logic to match up call records as they are passed from cell tower to cell tower. Doesn't sound that impressive you say? Well, back in the day, people paid for cell phone usage by the minute and, every time they had a dropped call, it was very frustrating for the user and Verizon lost money because the user could call up, say they were dropped, and get credited for that call. Calls drop because there was no way to keep each cell tower perfectly on the same time and, with BILLIONS of call records, matching them was not an easy feat! I fixed that. 😎

Ha! Boy, does that bring back memories! Back around 2008-ish, as part of a contract to Intel, I learned Expression Blend over a weekend and, along with some C#, created the dials that went out on the extra DVD Intel provided with every multi-processor board. This was the app that could be used to adjust your system performance based on what you were trying to do (i.e., normal, gaming, etc.). The dials provided racing-style feedback to what the changes were doing to your system. I also wrote some of the PLC logic that Parker Hannifin used in Wind Turbines that allowed the main axis to rotate backwards instead of turning all the way around to match with wind direction (i.e., moving directly to X instead of 360 degrees minus X). I was even cited on a General Electric webpage for correcting a water-flow power output formula on one of their hydro-electric pages! Heck, when I first started using MIDI (and debugging Cakewalk v1.0 with Greg) I was primarily writing with numbers not a keyboard! I like math. 🤓

That's become optional up here apparently...

Thanks John! I may do that later. Currently, I've been so busy that I can't watch stuff like documentaries, but I can certainly listen to music while I'm doing other things! 🙂

That's one reason to have a goat or two... 😁

Although I had to take some breaks, I'm STILL going through his discography that I started last weekend (or was it the weekend before??? 🤔). At least I'm now into the 1990's! 😁

This came up on my YouBoob feed. I thought it was interesting. He sounds like a pretty sharp and funny guy. 🙂

"So, avoid buying a V because it will kill you!!!! Right??!" 😮 ~ The thinking of youth now-a-days...

Their other big hit...

But you will NOT be allowed to own the hive!

Maybe something from Mow Town? 🤔

Gotta be...

Can attest that Agile makes some fine instruments! As for Flying-V's, this was mine (and, no, I couldn't play it sitting down! 😆). I got to use a black one for my one, big gig where we opened for Blue Oyster Cult. Wish I still had the picture for that one!

She Wants Revenge - Red Flags And Long Nights

Red Flag - Russian Radio

I think a more interesting task would be to come up with which songs are the most identifiable with just a 0.5 second clip. 🙂 Pink Floyd's Time (with the alarm) or the Smith's What Time is Now are the first to come to mind (I'm intentionally avoiding the song that must not be played in Guitar Center! 😁).

Yeah, but the question was "Where do you guys want to take the picture for the new album?" 😆

So, a lot more copyright infringement lawsuits are coming, right? 🤔 (What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? The skid-marks in front of the dog.)

Unless something goes wrong in which case you might have to settle for des(s)ert!

While that's true, Def Leppard literally made their (mis)spellings the way they did to copy Led Zeppelin. 🙂

Give the man a hand!!! 😆 (And, no, Nigel's just not right. 😜)

*Pfft!* This has been happening to Ol' Keef for hundreds of years by now (probably)! 😂

Many, many hours were spent watching this show when I was young! Although there are bunches of videos out there about this show, including some that really go down some rabbit holes (like how each member matched one of the seven deadly sins), I thought this one was done very well! Short and sweet. I never knew that Raquel Welch had auditioned for the part of Mary Ann before! (Plus I only discovered recently that my Dad had gone out with her once! Go Dad! 😜)

Two connections: One obvious and one more subtle (do you know it? 😉 ) Def Leppard - Love Bites