craigb

One for each of the birthday boys. ?

You look taller in the pictures. ?

When I was young I had over 2,000 records. They took up a LOT of room! After literally listening to my first CD I sold all my records and began collecting CD's (often 100 at a time to get killer discounts). I don't even remember how many thousands of CD's I eventually ended up with. They took up even more room! I used to have four of those Sony CD jukeboxes for the 1,400 CD's I wanted to listen to the most (LOL!). I had two 400's and two 300's. Once iTunes (the jukebox app) came around, I began ripping the CD's to disk. I had an external bay with four 250 GB hard drives in it (the largest I could find at the time), but it didn't take long to fill it using .WAV files and I still had thousands of CD's still to go. I also bought iPods as they came out working my way from a 40 GB (now dead), to two 60 GB ones (I have one and I put a bunch of music on the other for my Mother), an 80 GB and, finally, a 160 GB. I still use one of the 60's, the 80 GB and the 160 GB iPods all the time, however, I really needed to put a smaller format on them so I did a test. Back in 2003, I played .mp3's of a few songs at various resolutions on a $4,000 stereo system. 128 kbps and 160 kbps sucked but, once I got to 192 kbps, I couldn't hear anything different as I went higher. So I settled on 192 kbps for everything. It took months to rip everything to disk (I converted the previously ripped wave files to .mp3 first). iTunes basically became useless after about 30,000 songs so I switched to Media Monkey which was designed for large collections. Then it took even more months to import almost 200,000 songs into it (I'm very OCD about all the organizing and tagging). I can import between 1,000 and 1,500 tracks in an 8-hour period (between the actual importing and my fixing the tags which includes researching genres, subgenres, correct release years, song titles and special extras like identifying live, demo, bonus and special tracks, etc.). I still have about 150,000 tracks still to import! Oh, and when I lost almost everything back in the 2009 "Credit Crunch", I had to give all of the CD's away. That sucked. So I'm glad I had something on disk to listen to because music is almost always playing while I work (and when I'm not!). Now, when I buy new stuff (which I'm still doing all the time - heh!), I either get it on Amazon or from Bandcamp. I have NO idea how much I've spent on buying music over my lifetime, but I know I've spent well over $40,000 just on the CD's from back when I kept track! ?

And a Columbian singer. Nice. (But why is this buried in the Deals subforum???)

Serious question? That be Cheech & Chong! ?

And the rest, as they say, is history! ?

41++ Yep. That's the answer!

LOL! Look at all that extra string sticking out! A good way to get a bunch of pin-***** holes in your hand while you play (don't ask how I know!). ?

Does it cover Bill finally getting his? ?

He'd probably just yell at it until it played itself! ?

The ad picture doesn't do this one justice. My favorite for several reasons! ?

What reasons are they giving? I can probably guess, but thought I'd ask anyway...

It makes sense as long as you don't think about it! ?

Isn't that the same hairstyle the Flock of Seagulls had? ?

Now that's just hokey!

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Ooo... That gives me an idea! I have a friend who creates some truly awful stuff. I should tell him to market it to Guantanamo! It would be perfect for torturing the inmates. ?

I just looked at his member profile back at the old place and it looks like he only posted once since 2008 and that was in 2017! Do I think he's gone? Yep. ?

LOL! Reminds me of my first studio where I spray painted a bunch of those egg-carton type foam squares (fluorescent paint) and mounted them on the wall... They double-stunk. The room looked extra cool thanks to the tube black lights I had, but I could only turn them on while listening due to the interference they produced. Dumb, but oh well, I was young! ?

Well! It's obvious that you should apologize to us for not letting us blatantly know it was your birthday Bill! ? BTW - I only knew Steve's because that info shows up in the Beyond My DAW forum. I don't see it showing here. . . . (Oh yeah, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL! ?)

I didn't even need a bottle to get the message!

Weird timing! I just played this (which is sometimes called Chess!).

And that, is what makes the joke funny. ? (I suppose you've never heard of the dyslexic porn star either... Her motto was "Hey, if life gives you melons..." )

A bunch of dyslexics thought they would show they have a sense of humor and created some joke t-shirts. They read "Dsylexics of the World Unite!" (Actually heard that one at one of our IT clients, a private school for dyslexic students.)