craigb

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Did any of you check out my friend's last live stream that I posted on here: He uses a lot of AI generated video although he plays all the music himself.

Judging by what I've seen of the so-called Popular music lately, AI can't produce songs dumb enough to chart very well...

Aerosmith - Dream On

Alice In Chains - The Rooster

Wow! Just WOW!!! ?

Note that I think Melodyne might be able to fix that so it's not as flat...

Besides, we know this was your old car! ?

I DO hope that was just a joke and didn't really happen to you Ed. Note that someone Slashed my tire too!!!

Fun story (if I may!)... My friend growing up ended up working as the manager at Sherman Clay Organs & Pianos down in the area made famous by Zappa's Valley Girl song. He was the top salesperson in the Nation three years in a row which also tells you how annoying he was to be around at times! ? Anyway, a lady approached him and said that her husband had recently passed away and that he had an organ kept covered in a special room of the house that she claimed "he loved that thing more than me!!!" so she just wanted to give it away. My friend goes to her house to see what it was and it's a B3, not just any B3, but one that was used by the Rolling Stones (with all the provenance)! So my friend says there's no need for her to just give it away in spite and offers her $2,000 to which the lady is head-over-heels happy about. Needless to say, my friend turned around and sold it to a Japanese investor for $120,000 within a month... ? Note that this was in the mid-to-late 1980's, so $120k was a LOT of money!

What do you call a brunette in-between two blondes? An interpreter.

Now Kenny... You shouldn't make fun of the new Queen of England! ?

Just got done listening and watching my friend play one of his live sets. He's been playing on Second Life (something I had never heard of!) for quite a while and just started live streaming to YouTube as well. He rents one of the rooms upstairs from my classically trained pipe organist friend who I've linked to here before. He's got a few albums out that are pretty dang nice! His biggest current project is a psychedelic movie that I've had the pleasure of seeing a pre-release of a couple of times (it's still being polished). Check him out and let me know what you think! ?

LOL! I've used that as a joke for decades! But, I used to add "Your head is a melon!" to the end. ?

And... At this point, you might as well call this one a Flying W... ?

Anyone else feel totally mislead here??? ?

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! ?