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Right Angle: Backstage (06-14-2022)
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If you had been in the studio with us, this calamity could have been averted…
37 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (06-14-2022)”
Dear Diary…what time does the backstage program show up for live viewing?
Always an enjoyable romp. 💯🇺🇲🏆
As a musician of over 40 years, I have to agree with Steve regarding the craftsmen way of recording your music. Learn it by playing it over and over, then record it…one take.
No Scott…I think it might just be you. LOL
Inarguable.
I loved Herman Cain. Even though the fact that his answer to every question was “9-9-9” showed he wasn’t a serious candidate, I was proud to call myself a Cainaanite.
I don’t necessarily agree with “9-9-9,” but I thought the idea behind it was absolute genius. Take personal taxes, corporate taxes and capital gains, and not only make them all the same, but make it so that you can’t raise or lower any of them without raising or lowering the others by an equal amount.
I don’t know that’s what he had in mind, but I always hoped it was. Better still would be if you can’t add or subtract loopholes or carve-outs to any of them without doing the same to the rest.
It would put a real wrench in the works of those who constantly try to use the tax code to punish their enemies and rivals, and reward themselves and their cronies.
I was just grateful that Cain’s rise caused the debate “moderators” to get out of their dopey “briefs or boxers?” line of questions
After a brief skirmish of “Less filling! Tastes great!”
While we’re on the subject of grammar, my favorite debate topic over beers is taking a line from Full Metal Jacket. If more thasn one “reach around” is given, how does one pluralize?
reaches around…. 😉
I can’t tell you how many of my friends have incorrectly argued that it’s “reach arounds”.
As insane as this sounds, @ 20 years ago I wrote to William Saffire asking for a ruling. Even crazier, he actually responded! I didn’t get a ruling on it, but from the content and timing it wasn’t an auto-reply either. He basically said something to the effect of, “We can only respond to so many topicsin our columns, and if yours becomes more timely in the future we may revisit.” Which had me wondering, “Would would make this subject topical again? Another Clinton presidency?
I just had to post this picture in reply.
The other financial truth (besides the fact that printing more money is a problem) that needs to be beaten into us is the guaranteed 7-10% yearly increase in what each department of the Federal Government is given to operate by law.
Just stopping this and giving them the same amount of (ridiculous) money every year (and no more) would eventually balance the budget in roughly 7-10 years.
Scott, speaking of “a little crazy”, I just read that 26% of our population has a diagnosable major psychiatric illness every year and 1% have schizophrenia. A whole lot of folks with psychiatric illness use substance abuse to compensate/self-medicate, a force multiplier.
Regarding efforts to help the mentally ill population … “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
That data provided by the pharmaceutical industry?
Keep in mind that 68.8% of all figures found on the internet are actually made up.
Whew! You almost had the opportunity to compliment General Robert E. Lee. That could have led to cancellation. Great General, but probably is responsible for >500,000 deaths of Americans from both the North and the South because he was so effective.
“Sheep Studies”? That title is most appropriate for those who research people who watch “The View”.
Nuke the Pentagon? Nuke the moon! That’s the best way to ensure peace. 😉
— G.K.
A fairly short interwebs search will lead to an article on Scott – the Bovine scientist. It is an interesting read.
And Fort McClellan was a lousy duty station.
I sat down, started to watch and took a drink of coffee. Steve started talking about goat wipe and I immediately had to run into the bathroom before I spat a mouth full of coffee all over my monitor!! Damn you Steve!
People have come to expect note-perfect performances, even live. When guitarist Christopher Parkening was performing in Dallas, he flubbed a note in one of his first pieces and there was an audible gasp from the audience. The rest of the concert was note-perfect. On the other hand, Andres Segovia would not edit his recordings to fix minor slips. He believed in the integrity of the performance. Another guitarist friend, when he was very young and just starting out, was called in to record with Errol Garner. Garner told him the changes and to just follow along. After playing the tune, he told Garner he was ready to do a real take. Garner said that was the take. Next song.
About sanity and programmers. First, second and third hand knowledge: was one for over 22 years. We are not sane. You can’t be. If you were when you started (starting is an indication you are not, or at least deluded) after programming your first code, you are no longer totally sane. At best, you are “off”. Me and other people know one language in common. Profanity. More than once I wanted to boot the computer: out the window, down the stairs, out the door, into the nearest bonfire, junkyard, pond, etc. Anywhere where it can no longer hurt anyone. But sane enough to not do it. But insane enough to try a again and expect a different result.
Madness. Just smile and nod when we go off, and you’ll be fine.
I understand this so well. I would not be a programmer if it didn’t pay so stinking well.
I actually enjoy coding. I like the challenge. Wish I could go back to it. Actually spent hours coding a tabletop game aid for free and the fun of it.
See what I mean about being insane?
Yeah the big money is the gateway drug to enjoying this insanity.
Many years ago I was a student engineer at a lab at NASA Langley. My first brush with the coding mentality was when, after spending many hours reviewing and reducing data from a flight simulator study, I heard the head of the research very quietly say “oops”.
He was coding (talking machine language to the main frame, the same one that had my data) and had crashed the whole system. Oops to him meant “I just killed everything and your last two days of effort were for naught. It’s ok, stuff happens” I am a NYer, I had much more interesting words to employ in that situation.
He was an odd duck, brilliant, but odd.
My “oops” meant nothing too serious happened. “Uh oh” meant it was pretty serious. “O dear God” or real profanity meant “Its going to be days before its fixed.”
I think he had the same criteria for language used. I just think he and I had different definitions of “nothing too serious” and “pretty serious”. I never actually heard him cuss, so I guess he never brought down the whole building.
I had two women in a programming class in either 1996 or 1997. Was odd enough to have females in a computer class, much less two. Odder still (though less so since they were farm girls) was that they would occasionally, so they told me, shoot old monitors with a shotgun as entertainment.
Also was speaking with a customer just a few days ago and she brought up in a business management degree related class from probably the same time period that a whole bunch of them were in the computer lab working on an assignment that wasn’t going well. Each found they were following the directions from the professor and all were getting the same wrong answer. When a group went to the prof’s office they found a line outside. Turns out he’d made a typo in the instructions and they were all virtually banging their heads for naught the last few hours.
I kind of did something familiar. Got an assignment, pounded on it got frustrated, and found the instructions error. Not teacher. The book. Teacher contacted publisher and it was fixed.
It was partially a math error. Am I a geek, or what?
The word for relating to sheep is ovine. That’s awesome about the bovine pregnancy test. I love watching Dr. Pol, and at least every other episode has him checking cows for pregnancy, which involves manually going up the rear to feel what, if anything is there.
I’ll share the pregnancy test part with a cousin who raises Angus steak. Also, we raised Angora goats, and my Uncles, Cecil & Dan raised sheep. After shearing, the guys tossed them into the dip vat. (Scott, you could compare it to a baptistry.) It was a rectangular box with the open top a few inches above ground level. One end was an incline so the sheep or goats could get out. Some nasty greenish (Sorry Steve) concoction filled it. I guess it was to keep the ticks off. They also got their hooves trimmed and were subjected to “drench”, which was another nasty liquid forced down their throats.
Scott, I’d guess the Sheep Hole in your creek would be dammed up to make a natural dip vat. Don’t tell the DEQ, EPA, Fish & Wildlife . . .
Being one of those that watched the animation the other day, I think this new “signage” for the DHQ is much better. Hope it doesn’t take the two months you said it would.
Great show, as always.
Just enjoyed myself watching you guys banter and somewhere in there you mentioned topics which I am sure to enjoy.