yay my air conditioning is working again. just in time too.

[QUOTE=AG;17934715]2 mile run.
[/QUOTE]

3 mile run

what.





in other news, i'm gonna start lifting now, my roommate has decided to get off his lazy *** and teach me what he knows about lifting. yay

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I was going to post this on facebook with a slightly racist caption then realised i befriended an asian chick lately

so here will do.


Bear Grylls at his best

[QUOTE=SgtBaker;17935404]how to play guitar well enough to write stuff (and understand as opposed to just hitting notes randomly, hoping that the next note sounds good following the previous, etc.) rather than just doing covers.

I know basic theory from drums but can't read melodic sheet music or anything. I know hardly anything about guitar either.




Sounds good man, thanks for all of the information, I'll check it out.[/QUOTE]

dont rely on tabs though man, youll kick your own a[COLOR="Black"]s[/COLOR]s later on in your guitar life, well that is if you dont get too caught up in sherd/meturhl

He'll probably quickly realize that 85% of tabs are crap now a days. I really do miss the days of MX and tab sites every where. I assume you're referring to being able to learn a song by ear when talking about kicking your own as[size=2]s[/size] later. If he practices the scales, learns how to recognize them by sound for the most part; it makes learning a song by ear a lot easier.


It is a case of do what I say not what I do. Theory is great, I just never had the patience to become a BIG theory buff. I know like 3 or 4 scales by heart, can play along with a metronome, and past that I hardly try to learn songs by ear. As the songs are either mainly power chords, i.e. too easy, or me trying to tab out a Paul Gilbert song, i.e. too hard/long.


...sadly does impress the ladies when they are listening to crap music and you figure out the power chords on the spot. Though it really takes little skill.

Good tabs are in power tab / guitar pro.. any other random txt tab is most likely garb

I'm not really looking to play covers and such, I'd rather be able to create original stuff

back when i used tabs i always used the text ones, i didn't discover powertab/guitarpro until after i stopped using tabs.

kinda sucks, i wish i knew about powertab/guitarpro back when i started playing, would have been much nicer.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17935706]He'll probably quickly realize that 85% of tabs are crap now a days. I really do miss the days of MX and tab sites every where.[B] I assume you're referring to being able to learn a song by ear [/B]when talking about kicking your own as[size=2]s[/size] later. If he practices the scales, learns how to recognize them by sound for the most part; it makes learning a song by ear a lot easier.


It is a case of do what I say not what I do. Theory is great, I just never had the patience to become a BIG theory buff. I know like 3 or 4 scales by heart, can play along with a metronome, and past that I hardly try to learn songs by ear. As the songs are either mainly power chords, i.e. too easy, or me trying to tab out a Paul Gilbert song, i.e. too hard/long.


...sadly does impress the ladies when they are listening to crap music and you figure out the power chords on the spot. Though it really takes little skill.[/QUOTE]

not what i was thinkin but your right about that as well. im talking more about the fact that tabs have a 'gated' feel to them, when using standard notation your looking more at music and less at guitar.

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in other news, i'm gonna start lifting now, my roommate has decided to get off his lazy *** and teach me what he knows about lifting. yay[/QUOTE]

Rippetoes Starting Strength is your best bet for beginner lifting.

Protip - Don't buy any weights.


/looks at pile of weights in bedroom, grr. One day.

I'd advise buying a set of weights over a gym membership, for beginners.

That episode of Man vs Wild where Bear gets pwned by the bee was on telly here last night.
Same episode where he drinks his own piss out of a rattlesnake skin.
Classic.


And if you want to get strong, I reckon pulling is better than lifting.

Lifting is a general term; plenty of lifting routines make use of push/pull/press splits.

Why only limit yourself to one type of movement, serious, why? i'm interested to know, given that pulling rules out deadlifts, squats, half of clean and press etc.

[QUOTE=Squirrel;17937008]Rippetoes Starting Strength is your best bet for beginner lifting.[/QUOTE]

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sweet

AG seems like a gun nut, but any one who knows is free to chime in. Any one know the value of a 1919 Beretta 6.35mm? In great condition, though I reckon it hasn't been fired since WW1.

Couldn't tell you about prices. Go to /k/

I wonder if these steroid eye drops i'm using will have any effect on my physique when i start lifting again

hmm microsoft points generator?

[url]http://www.mspointsgenerators.com/?i=1907030[/url]

thats the code i got need a few more clicks for a code to generate, i wonder if it works! click it!



EDIT:

as suspected

it doesnt work

:) ..at least we know now

click'd cause I'm bored.


Got my RG570 to work, but the single coil seems like it isn't getting grounded. So I'll have to open her up again. Bought a Fender 5-way switch yesterday when i was in Guitar Center. I guess the other switch was bad or something... idk, it worked when the DiMarzios were in there. I wasn't getting any sound from it prior to swapping out the selector switch for the Fender and now everything works properly, just a louder than normal buzz from the single coil.

im iskc of this volcano causing havoc with the airspace

bloody all over the news the last week

[QUOTE=Squirrel;17937177]I wonder if these steroid eye drops i'm using will have any effect on my physique when i start lifting again[/QUOTE]

you're gonna have MONSTER EYES :naughty:

what do i make tonight, salmon or some kind of meat and potato dish such as hot pot or cottage pie, i need some protein.

Pie, nice and Northern.

cottage pie the same thing as shepherds pie? if so then it is ultimate win

Shepherds pie is made with lamb, Cottage pie is made with beef.

Not a fan of Salman, so I say hot pot.

[QUOTE=Squirrel;17937661]Shepherds pie is made with lamb, Cottage pie is made with beef.[/QUOTE]

ohdamn didnt know the difference but yeh cottage pie all the way then

Clue is in the name ;)

So let's follow the pattern.

hazer, what is in fishermans pie?

soylent green?

Awesome, windows update bricked my non-legit MS Office :( should of thunk

if you're only using it for word processing and basic stuff, i'd just get openoffice.org it's free

i am back from shop and have bought for myself:

400g oxtail
400g aberdeen angus mince
maris piper potatoes
leeks
cabernet sauvignon
a carton of beef stock
button mushrooms
carrots
onions
eggs
broccoli

now to begin the work.

[QUOTE=The Transporter;17937813]if you're only using it for word processing and basic stuff, i'd just get openoffice.org it's free[/QUOTE]

Very nice, surprised windows doesn't come with anything

they'd be cannibalizing their MS Office products if it did...

open office .org has a spread sheet and word processor and all that jazz, can read and save ms office formats, it just has trouble with advanced excel functions and crazy stuff like that.

Back in 98 it came with word didn't it? That's when the program wasn't obnoxiously shitty like it is now

i like open office, esp its .pdf exporting function

[url]http://www.zoho.com[/url] is free and works brilliantly as a MS Office substitute as well as other programs.

so this cottage pie is extremely bangin