I like to own physical music media and am not a fan of digital downloads simply because I don't trust that my ownership rights to my music purchases are guaranteed to persist over time.
What happens if a server gets corrupted that has any or all of my digital download licenses? Or, what if the...
Yeah, I contacted Brunswick and requested an image from the actual brochure that shows the cutaway construction. I plan on printing it up at Kinkos and putting it in a frame on the wall.
I also picked up a Brunswick Gold Crown cue rack earlier this week:
This weekend I'll sand off that...
My wife and I finally got the basement remodeling project to a point of completion where I hired a billiard company to come out and re-assemble my table. New rubber cushions were put on it (the original rubber bumpers were almost 60 years old and started showing signs of dry rot in some spots)...
August 3, 1978.
The Warehouse in New Orleans.
The Kinks with an opening act of a relatively unknown group at the time named Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
I have an early 1960s Brunswick Gold Crown I that is scheduled to be professionally re-assembled on the 30th of this month. We are finally finishing our basement remodeling project.
Can't wait.
This is what it looked like when it was last assembled at our previous house over 10 years ago:
I still have my Boston Acoustic A-100s that I bought in the 1980s and a few years ago I picked up a Fisher MT-6224 turntable to play the vinyl collection I have amassed since I was a teenager. (The turntable has no moving motor. Instead it has 120 magnetic poles that push the platter around, so...
The NCAA should have cancelled the entire season from the get-go like they did the baseball season in 2020. This whole season has been nothing more than what should be considered a "scrimmage year" due to the pandemic.
They must be shell shocked from playing in the Louisiana Superdome about now.
2018 Sugar Bowl: Alabama 24 Clemson 6
2020 National Championship: LSU 42 Clemson 25
2021 Sugar Bowl: Ohio State 49 Clemson 28
The only other time they played a post-season bowl game in New Orleans was in the...
If you have one of the original Polydor "League of Gentleman" albums by Robert Fripp, on side 2 between the album and the label, etched into the vinyl is "The Next Step is Discipline"...foreshadowing Kind Crimson getting back together.
My next house (if it ever happens) will likely be built with SIPs. With SIPs a sizable house can be completely roughed in about 2 days (not to mention that they are extremely energy efficient in terms of insulation).