The Just Venting, Airing Out, Talking Shit, Personal Beefs, Problems, Anger Management, and etc Thread for 2014

[G-Lexington]

"You know what you should tonight, Lex? Practice DJing with vinyl. And feel free to practice with your hard-and-impossible-to-replace records. And don't bother being careful, or giving it your full attention. I mean, what could possibly go wrong, Lex?"

...goddammit.

Lex

 

[GreyUnderscore]

^Oh the times I've had what I thought was a great idea at the time only for it to end in a bad way

Is there absolutely nothing you can do to repair it?

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Been seeing this belief quite often lately but I personally don't think "everything happens for a reason". Most of the time people say this is when something bad has happened in their life. I understand to a point that this helps people deal with it but the other side is that some times shitty things happen because they just do. Not everything has or needs a rhyme or reason.

 

[G-Lexington]

^Oh the times I've had what I thought was a great idea at the time only for it to end in a bad way

Is there absolutely nothing you can do to repair it?

Speaking in extreme generalities, vinyl isn't "repairable". The best you can do is clean it to get rid of the vinyl bits that scraped off, and hope it doesn't sound too bad. Luckily, it doesn't. It's a bit "click-y" during that section (as you might imagine) but nowhere near as bad as it looks like it would be. And I DID get lucky in that this particular LP isn't that difficult to replace, so I've added it to my shopping list.

Lex

 

[jdcnow]

Just got home, and am dealing with the aftermath of having just gotten a tooth pulled. There's a teaching hospital downtown, about roughly 20 miles away from where I live. Got my top, right-side, last-far back tooth pulled. Not my wisdom teeth - I got those pulled years ago. But the one right next to where the right wisdom tooth would have been.

It's the worst place in the human mouth to need to get a tooth pulled from - it's the tooth whose roots go down off into the right sinus. I've been to a dentist who wanted over $600 clams to do what I got done at the teaching hospital for $77. And then, one charity dental clinic a customer at my store told me about - while they were good (the dentists they used were actually medical students on loan from the same teaching hospital), they only do routine, basic extractions, and weren't equipped to handle a complex tooth extraction like mine, in a dangerous place like right in the right sinus.

So they referred me to the teaching hospital, downtown. I had to get there at half past 5 this morning - they only take the first 20 people who show up for the whole day, and they open at 7am. Sincere thanks to my boss from my housekeeping job for driving me down there.

The wait was kinda long, but understandable. Initial diagnosis at 8am, xrays at 9, and the extraction procedure at 10am. I got lucky - my doctor was a wonderful mid 20s student dentist. He was as easy on the eyes as he was with his touch. He was a clean-cut cutie with a touch of Brooklyn in him, a little bit shorter than me, but not by much. And he definitely knew what he was doing - I didn't feel shit. Not when he was shooting the area up with the injection, and not during the procedure itself. He was wonderful.

But, as I've said, I'm now dealing with the aftermath. (Censored out of consideration. Highlight only if you want to see.) There's nothing like an hour-and-a-half train and bus ride home with a mouth full of blood, and you don't want to swallow, but can't spit THE ENTIRE TIME!!! You have no choice but to hold it until you get home. (Because, when you're at a bus or train station, do you really wanna see somebody spitting up blood into a public trashcan?) So yeah, good times!

Back at home, and rinsing with warm, salty water (YUCK!), and my right cheek feels like I just got hit with a Louisville Slugger. When I rinsed out my mouth enough to where I don't think it's bleeding that badly, I'll take some ibuprofen for the pain.

After I get everything settled down I think I'll either watch YouTube, or Magic Mike, play Nintendo, or something. I just need to get the bleeding and pain to settle down

But it's done. And now (hopefully) it won't bother me anymore.

 

[GreyUnderscore]

Speaking in extreme generalities, vinyl isn't "repairable". The best you can do is clean it to get rid of the vinyl bits that scraped off, and hope it doesn't sound too bad. Luckily, it doesn't. It's a bit "click-y" during that section (as you might imagine) but nowhere near as bad as it looks like it would be. And I DID get lucky in that this particular LP isn't that difficult to replace, so I've added it to my shopping list.

Lex

Well that's good. By the way, isn't it possible to transfer the vinyl records onto a CD? If so maybe you could do that as back up?

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Read an article about a Bobcat being killed and hung on a goal post as a "prank." One of the many dumb comments being that this is "kids being kids". Really!? What is wrong with this universe?

 

[jdcnow]

Read an article about a Bobcat being killed and hung on a goal post as a "prank." One of the many dumb comments being that this is "kids being kids". Really!? What is wrong with this universe?

OMFG, do I ever hear you, MDL! "Kids being kids" is such a cop-out crutch to excuse malicious behavior of all sorts. What's worse is that said cop-out crutch is used to defend these kids by adults who should know better!!!

It's not like on your 18th birthday, a switch flips inside your head, "Oh, you suddenly know right from wrong, now. So now, we can actually hold you accountable for your actions." But if you're 17 or under, "Oh, it's OK, kids will be kids."

If you excuse it as KWBK, you're basically saying that you approve of what the kid(s) did. It's OK to torture and kill an animal, and hang it on the high school football field goal post as as a prank. Just for shits and giggles. Adults who use the KWBK crutch don't like it when you throw that commonsense logic right in their face. Because it hits their conscience a little too close to home, to where they then have to take a good long look in the mirror.

These kids whose adults defend them wrongly...these kids are being willfully cheated out of an opportunity to be taught right from wrong. It's a damn shame.

 

[jdcnow]

I usually love the Friday night editorials of John McCaa on the 6pm news of WFAA-TV Channel 8 here in Dallas. But this week, I think he just about knocked this one out of the park. Last week, a person was attacked at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by a drunk guy because that man (who was attacked) had on a pink shirt, and the drunk guy thought pink shirt guy was gay. Fellow total stranger passengers came to pink shirt guy's aid, and held the attacker down until police could show up to arrest him.

Here's his weekly editorial from the news earlier tonight: "Citizens are ahead of legal system in serving justice"

 

[frankfrank]

OMFG, do I ever hear you, MDL! "Kids being kids" is such a cop-out crutch to excuse malicious behavior of all sorts. What's worse is that said cop-out crutch is used to defend these kids by adults who should know better!!!

What gets me even worse, is when the parents say something like "Oh, but my child is a GOOD kid. He would NEVER do anything like that. Are they sure he did it?"

Yes, he probably DID. Every kid who misbehaves, almost certainly has parents SOMEWHERE in the area.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

OMFG, do I ever hear you, MDL! "Kids being kids" is such a cop-out crutch to excuse malicious behavior of all sorts. What's worse is that said cop-out crutch is used to defend these kids by adults who should know better!!!

It's not like on your 18th birthday, a switch flips inside your head, "Oh, you suddenly know right from wrong, now. So now, we can actually hold you accountable for your actions." But if you're 17 or under, "Oh, it's OK, kids will be kids."

If you excuse it as KWBK, you're basically saying that you approve of what the kid(s) did. It's OK to torture and kill an animal, and hang it on the high school football field goal post as as a prank. Just for shits and giggles. Adults who use the KWBK crutch don't like it when you throw that commonsense logic right in their face. Because it hits their conscience a little too close to home, to where they then have to take a good long look in the mirror.

These kids whose adults defend them wrongly...these kids are being willfully cheated out of an opportunity to be taught right from wrong. It's a damn shame.

The sad fact is that the term can be used legitimately, but it never is. lol. It's always used in instances where "kids" do something that most kids don't actually do. It's gotten to the point where kids are not being kids anymore, let's stop pretending and hanging onto that bullshit notion.

 

[jdcnow]

What gets me even worse, is when the parents say something like "Oh, but my child is a GOOD kid. He would NEVER do anything like that. Are they sure he did it?"

Yes, he probably DID. Every kid who misbehaves, almost certainly has parents SOMEWHERE in the area.

The sad fact is that the term can be used legitimately, but it never is. lol. It's always used in instances where "kids" do something that most kids don't actually do. It's gotten to the point where kids are not being kids anymore, let's stop pretending and hanging onto that bullshit notion.

 

[G-Lexington]

Well that's good. By the way, isn't it possible to transfer the vinyl records onto a CD? If so maybe you could do that as back up?

The first thing I do when I buy vinyl is to record it into my computer as mp3s. Not for "back-up purposes" so much as because it forms an easy list of what I own, and I can easily play with the music on iTunes to build playlists. You know - "what does this one sound like before that one? does the ending of this one go well with the start of that one?", without having to actually drag out the records and play them. And, as it ends up, I happen to own the album on CD.

But I don't do DJ gigs with CDs or mp3s - just vinyl. To my way of thinking, that justifies my presence at the event. If I do it from CDs or mp3s, I can just do everything at home, save it as one track, then show up and hit "play". In essence, I could just hand them a CD and not be there at all.

In essence, I've built my own little box, and I'm forced to work within it. (Most of the time, in fact, my guidelines are even more stringent - I only DJ using 7" 45rpm records. It's only recently, within one "format", that I use LPs and 12" singles.) If I use mp3s and CDs, literally everything ever recorded is at my fingertips. Hell, MORE than that - I can futz with songs and sounds and create new ones, and DJ with those. But "within my box", I'm a lot more limited. I have X number of songs, and I can't alter them much. (I can speed them up or slow them down, or start them late or end them early. That's about it.) Given that, can I create something worth listening to? I like the challenge of operating within those parameters.

Mind you, I'm not dismissing or criticize those that DO use CDs or laptops to DJ. Trust me, whenever I have to cram two turntables, a ton of records, and a sound system into my car, I completely understand the appeal of laptop DJing. And a lot of them are brilliant at what they do. It's just not what I do.

Lex

 

[pat grimshaw]

Why I hate the myth of the suffering artist

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/02/myth-of-the-suffering-artist

 

[borg69unimatrix]

The first thing I do when I buy vinyl is to record it into my computer as mp3s. Not for "back-up purposes" so much as because it forms an easy list of what I own, and I can easily play with the music on iTunes to build playlists. You know - "what does this one sound like before that one? does the ending of this one go well with the start of that one?", without having to actually drag out the records and play them. And, as it ends up, I happen to own the album on CD.

But I don't do DJ gigs with CDs or mp3s - just vinyl. To my way of thinking, that justifies my presence at the event. If I do it from CDs or mp3s, I can just do everything at home, save it as one track, then show up and hit "play". In essence, I could just hand them a CD and not be there at all.

In essence, I've built my own little box, and I'm forced to work within it. (Most of the time, in fact, my guidelines are even more stringent - I only DJ using 7" 45rpm records. It's only recently, within one "format", that I use LPs and 12" singles.) If I use mp3s and CDs, literally everything ever recorded is at my fingertips. Hell, MORE than that - I can futz with songs and sounds and create new ones, and DJ with those. But "within my box", I'm a lot more limited. I have X number of songs, and I can't alter them much. (I can speed them up or slow them down, or start them late or end them early. That's about it.) Given that, can I create something worth listening to? I like the challenge of operating within those parameters.

Mind you, I'm not dismissing or criticize those that DO use CDs or laptops to DJ. Trust me, whenever I have to cram two turntables, a ton of records, and a sound system into my car, I completely understand the appeal of laptop DJing. And a lot of them are brilliant at what they do. It's just not what I do.

Lex

You can't do that back and forth thing with a CD either... can you ???

 

[mikey3000]

Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!!! I have absolutely no privacy! Seriously thinking of going to a bath house just to jerk off and be around other guys.

 

[G-Lexington]

You can't do that back and forth thing with a CD either... can you ???

Actually, I owned one of these before I bought my turntables and mixer, and that's what I DJed with first.

"Laptop DJing" is even easier, because the mixer can be built into the laptop itself, along with any number of sound manipulation programs. And it's because of that that I tend to have really high expectations for laptop DJs. You can pretty much click the "make the ending of this current song match up perfectly with the next song, and make it sound awesome" button...and so it should. I'm actually disappointed how many of these DJs apparently haven't found the button yet.

Lex

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Grumpy Cat has a Christmas movie coming out.

 

[G-Lexington]

Hopefully, it will tackle all those unanswered questions that we have about Grumpy Cat. We may have to sit through the trilogy before we get to them all, though.

Lex

 

[Kulindahr]

stupid time change!

now I have one less hour a day I can do conservation work