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    In one week I will take the best flight in my life...

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    17 hours ago, bitflipper said:

    I've been going to the Philippines for, jeez, it'll be 28 years next February when I go again. In all that time I have only been scammed once, and those rascals took me for all of $1.

    I was being taken up river to a waterfall. We stopped halfway and there were people selling barbecued chicken on a stick. One of them suggested I buy some for my boatmen, which I thought was reasonable given how hard they were working (parts of the river were shallow, requiring them to get out and pull the boat over rapids). When they thought I wasn't looking, he handed the kabob back to the vendor, who put it back on the fire to resell. Obviously a regular scam they'd pulled on many a tourist. I was out 50 pesos, a whole buck. I have lost more than that in the washing machine.

    I have friends there who bring me vegetables from their garden as gifts. I've tried paying them for it, but eventually realized that I was insulting them by offering to do so. One neighbor hand-built me a bamboo couch. That time I did insist on giving him money, because it was obviously a lot of work, and bamboo is valuable in those parts. He refused to take any payment. A few days later he came by and I jammed the equivalent of ten bucks into his shirt pocket, over his protestations. That was a week's wages for him and I should have felt bad flaunting my wealth like that, but I am selfish that way.

    Yeah. This family is like that. Well some are more than others but they are mostly givers and wont take any from anyone. It's an insult to even to ask sister if she wants or need me to take something with me. In her mind, I basically say that she is poor and need help. Most people in the province are that way.  

    In one week I will take the best flight in my life...

    in The Coffee House

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    On 10/21/2019 at 7:41 PM, bitflipper said:

    You're going to be in a very rural area, so you might have to travel hours (everywhere you go takes hours) to find a bar with a live band. 

    However, it's a very musical country. At the very least, expect to do some karaoke. Don't be shy when invited to do so - it really doesn't matter if you do it well or not, they'll love you for participating.

    What I'd suggest is working in a couple days in Manila on your way back home. Staying in Manila eases the anxiety of catching your flight on time (believe me, you do NOT want to miss your flight), and it's the best place to find music of any genre, from folk to prog to metal.

    Have a great trip!

    Thank you! I will stay 5 days in Manila with the whole family at sisters house. That's from Saturday to Thursday. And we will take buss from Manila to Virac. Will buy a guitar in before home trip so I can have something to do... 😁

    In one week I will take the best flight in my life...

    in The Coffee House

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    On 10/22/2019 at 9:14 AM, Toddskins said:

    Allow me to say the following, having no idea about you and your values.  Just listen and be careful.

    An acquaintance of mine went to the Philippines about 7 years ago to meet a female he met online.  While at his hotel a couple of young girls came onto him, and he not being too smart, but generally a moral guy, allowed them into his room.  They wanted to have s_x, but he told them no.  Something was stolen by them, I do not remember what.

    But he later in the week discovered that the hotel had cameras and management was working with the girls.  

    Long story short, if he had succumbed to a base instinct, he might have been brought up on child s_x charges, or blackmail, or both.

    Papa, brother and sisters husband will meet me at the airport. 😁

    Don't think I will reach a bathroom before I meet them. 😁

    But thank you for the warning. It is a lot scams like that. And Philippine law is much harder than we are used to in the west. But I am not flowing any other that the family before I get a little warm(?) 😂

    I follow Richard Atkinson on YouTube to learn theory.

    in The Coffee House

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    2 hours ago, synkrotron said:

    I've just been pointed to another set of videos:-

     

     

    You use a lot of 5ths in fugue technique. You do transpose all the time so the starting key is most likely messed up at the second time the theme is played by transporting the key to the 5th of the original key. And then back or to the 5th of that new key too. I really love this stuff but I guess I am not smart enough to make it myself in levels close to these guys.

     

    In one week I will take the best flight in my life...

    in The Coffee House

    Posted

    Yeah.

    I am going to Philippines. Ether I am not going to post much in a while or I will post much more... Because I won't have a DAW with me and I don't know what my daily scheduled will be. I thought about fixing a laptop but then I need a sound-card that is not the UA Apollo card I have. And suddenly it is a large bill on equipment needed for a DAW I really don't need.

    Well I will update you ether way tho. If you want it or not. Yeah. I can mark the posts with a heart ❤️ so people can stay away if thew need! 😁

     

    Computer guru advise needed

    in The Coffee House

    Posted

    I think there is some tricks to "heal" dead pixels and fault's in LCD screens. There are some video's on YouTube. I did in fact "repair" a new screen with such a way. You have to massage the spot gently or run a program blinking from bright white to black to make the pixels open and close to. But find the video's before trying because its years since I did and I might have left out some crucial details.

    Computer - Buying One Part At A Time

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    Posted · Edited by Øyvind Skald

    I newer buy all the parts to a new computer at once. My current one has "new" motherboard, CPU, but i did rescue the RAM from the old one, and the rest is also from the old one. I shift out the parts that fail. And if CPU fail I buy the current motherboard fitting to the current CPU and so on. Newest part in the CPU cooler and mouse/keyboard. I don't remember how old everything is, but Some parts might me from back in Windows 8 and even older than that.

    Honky Tonk Tele

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    Hi Kenny. I can do a take almost as good musically as that but have to sit in Melodyne in an week to make it sound as good as this. Haha.

    Great playing. This things is beyond music genere and style. Well the guitar makes the "style" and the rest is fun! This is what I heard, at least! And again great plainig and also great sound.

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