From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2016103023320889797-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I should proof read my posts better. Lot's of typos. Opps.   
      
   Windows 10, the os I'm using, has a real time spell checker, but since I'm   
   also using a notebook computer, which means no *proper* keyboard, it's more   
   of a necessity than a luxury.   
      
   > Probably a lot smaller production runs on the larger screens, so higher   
   > costs to get parts and made.   
      
   For a couple of bucks more maybe, but not the difference you mentioned,   
   which being usual for crApple, sounds like nothing but more GREEEEEEED.   
      
   > We have done that in the past. I've used small extra monitors, and large   
   > ones.  The issue is just in taking one and setting it up.  They use up   
   > space and need stands and such.  What generally works is just the laptop   
   > on a nice stand. Just seeing a computer onstage use to get gasps from all   
   > the out of work musicians in the crowd. No, not so much. Ok, maybe they   
   > still don't like it, but we don't bother letting them bother us with their   
   > backward ways these days.   
      
   Yeah, with computers on stage, one has to wonder if the name of the band is   
   something like "The Office" ;)   
   But I'd much rather have a nice piano in a real office instead...and that   
   might get some gasps too ;)   
      
   > Band girl sat in with a square dance band a few weeks back. Their normal   
   > singer / caller was unavailable. Over the course of the evening, one of   
   > the old timers in the band tossed off a comment about her iPad ( that she   
   > has lyrics in ).  He said something about her needing that thing as a  "   
   > cheater " ( the ipad ) to remember her lyrics.   
      
   I prefer to memorize what I'm singing, just as I memorize what I'll be   
   playing, better Vibe that way!   
      
   > Skip to yesterday. There was a young girl in the audinece, dressed in a   
   > halloween costume of a lady bug. We were talking to her. She told Onita   
   > that she had an iPad too.  She was proud of it.  Onita and the girls mom   
   > then talked about some puzzle games they like and that the little girl   
   > would enjoy.   
      
   Proud to be supporting a Monopoly? Well, "iWon't" ;)   
      
   > Point ?   Old bastards don't like progress.   
      
   Depends on what you mean by 'progress'.   
      
   > Young people do.   
      
   Bet she hasn't the slightest idea of how it even works...and how it may be   
   Spying on her...so that would tend to indicate that Ignorance is bliss is   
   'progress'...into More Tyranny!!!   
      
   > Why the hate from old timers ?  Jealousy, mostly. Or fear of progress.  Or   
   > jealousy.... again.   
      
   Or perhaps they value core Values more than Superficial Phoniness.   
      
   > Argue that all you want.  It won't change reality one bit.   
      
   As the lyrics from track 11. of the Through The Eons album so aptly put it:   
      
   reality is just the effort that's put forth to make it...into a Paradigm   
   Return!   
      
   > I thought about buying a different computer when I finally buy a new one.   
   > Wife shot that right down.  She pointed out the conversion time to move   
   > all my stuff into a new system wouldn't be worth the money difference.   
   > And, really, there wouldn't be a money difference.  By the time I buy a   
   > less expensive laptop, assuming there is one that will do what I do and   
   > actually cost less, then add in the cost of new software, I'd be right   
   > back where I am.   
      
   But you'd have choices then.   
      
   > Then I'd need months to more all my songs over.   
      
   > Life is too short.   
      
   The way to do it is to get the new computer and start moving into it   
   gradually while phasing out the more Monopolistic equipment...then it's not   
   so overwhelming.   
      
   > Yes, that's exactly why low end guitars are so good now.   
      
   Never anything wrong with quality, and affordability together.   
      
   > do they even make carbon fiber guitars ?? what's the point, to just make   
   > them weirdo ?   
      
   There are both acoustic and electric carbon fiber guitars, and what's so   
   weird about something that's impervious to moisture, i.e. no warping, and is   
   louder than wood, and never loses it's tonal qualities over time?   
      
   > Isn't it the other way around ?  Epiphone owns Gibson, as far as I know.   
      
   No, Gibson owns Epiphone.   
   The guitar player in my first band had an Epiphone 6 string  acoustic, and   
   it sounded great, just like every other Epiphone I've ever heard, and their   
   players Love them, and their prices are pretty much unbeatable.   
      
   > It rained here today. We had ONE trick or treater, and that was an old guy   
   > doing it for some neighbor kids who weren't allowed out in the bad   
   > weather.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Yesterday was October 30 - Tonight is Halloween, October 31st.   
   Who trick-or-treats the day before Halloween...and on behalf of WIMPS no   
   less? ;)   
   If someone ever did that here, I'd tell 'em to come back the next night and   
   do it right ;)   
   And doing it right means at Night, Not in the day - that's for WIMPS and   
   Halloween is supposed to be Spooky!   
   If trick-or-treaters come by while it's still light out, before I turn the   
   decorations on, I'll give 'em something l ike one piece of candy and tell   
   'em to come back later, after dark!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)