i wana degree

i only got roflcopter diplomas in music

my roommate is a law major. i always make fun of him for being a law major cos when he graduates he has to go back to school because a BS in business law isn't really worth anything.

in other news look what i found

[IMG]http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/117/zas.jpg[/IMG]

remember when the lod was fun?

wait, is top gear on tv in the states? i just figured you were from england or thereabouts.

only reason i know about top gear is cos i was in wales on vacation this summer and i watched a few episodes.

good show theres a live gig on here ina few days or so, top gear live

and all my friends who have degrees end up doing complething completly unrelated to the degree but they get paid more cause they have one! madness

got the gf gift sorted this year for christmas thank fcuk

reruns of seinfeld are on at 5am i shud be asleep


theres an episode of top gear with an american stig... rather funny

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17692173]I'm not sure what you're smoking, but an EE major straight out of college (depending his field) makes $60-120k a year. I'm not a controls EE, so I wont be making 100k+, but a single guy can live pretty happily on $60k a year... and that is bad pay for my degrees.



[/QUOTE]

I suppose your right and I guess my mindset on pay is slighty askew. I know what our control techs at work make and it less than me with my lack of even an associates degree. The electrical engineers, process engineers, and IT people also make less. Sure I have to do way more physical labor but, I actually like getting out in the field and bustin ***. I don't think I am capable of sittin behind a computer all day.

**** you people finishing your finals already, mine don't start until Monday. :angry:

So getting to sleep last night sucked balls, got three hours of sleep (which is less time than it took me to get to sleep). First final of the day is the big one. It is going to be hard, it is going to be fast, and while looking at my grades it may seem impossible. If I get under a 51 on this test I don't graduate. I shouldn't, but there is just a lot to cover, and none of it is easy.

Then later my last and easier final, which I will be studying for after my first final. Which I have been studying for two days for, so I better make the grade.

[QUOTE=oary77;17692512]Sure I have to do way more physical labor but, I actually like getting out in the field and bustin ***. I don't think I am capable of sittin behind a computer all day.[/QUOTE]

Physical labor, pending the area, will get more than desk jobs. I know some friends who (prior to Obama) worked out on oil rigs during Christmas/Summer breaks. They'd make the equivalent to some one making 150k a year, pending they worked year round.

In the later years of his life my dad made $80k a year, my family managed to pay off the majority of our debt, we have about $100k worth of cars sitting in the drive, and the only major debt we have is a little left on the house and my car. Yet we have the money for that in the bank, it'd just break us to pay it off right now.

In other states I could see how it would suck, but in Texas (at least the Houston area) the average house is like $90-100k before you start getting into the fancy houses. Middle class is fine by me tbh.

My mother has a friend who is a controls engineer for N.A.S.A., gets payed $120k a year (started straight out of college). He told my mother "N.A.S.A. doesn't pay well, he'll probably only get $60, 70, or 80k a year if he gets a job here."

Hell, if I got lucky I'd be making what my dad worked his a[size=2]s[/size]s off to get just out of college. The money only goes up with experience too. The only issues I have is that in this economy no one is hiring for crap. Most of the jobs I see are for manager positions where they want like 5-10 years experience.

[QUOTE=Modern Iconoclast;17692534]**** you people finishing your finals already, mine don't start until Monday. :angry:[/QUOTE]

Think of it this way, we probably started school a week before you did. My Texas friends always laugh cause their finals are usually the week before mine, but I always start school a week later.

[QUOTE=Modern Iconoclast;17692534]**** you people finishing your finals already, mine don't start until Monday. :angry:[/QUOTE]

my finals week is supposed to start monday too, but all my classes had them early. probably because all the tests i've had are non-cumulative, and are more like a 'last test' than a final.

enjoy your finals!

That's probably the case, but my school is notorious for shafting us on stuff like that. Last year we had a full month off for Christmas break, this year it's 3 weeks. I was like "well maybe the year is over a week early", nope same day as last year...

sup bitches, back from my cost accounting final, my half assed studying paid off, because that test was easy. only one question on it i was unsure of, and when i acutally did the work right (i think right) my answer was the same as my guess so here's hoping i get that one right and get another 100% on a test in that class.

time to get drunk at 11am, inabit lod

So the one class I was worried about not making the grade in, got an A when I needed a B. Every one else must have failed the final miserably because I need a 100 on the final to get an A in the class, and I left two questions blank.


Not officially until I get my Safety test grade back, but I don't think I have anything to worry about there. Which means graduation b[size=2]i[/size]tches!


Now time to pack up my desktop and a bunch of other crap and head home.

hey look what i found

[IMG]http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3733/wtfh4x2aj.jpg[/IMG]


wheres AES

well that was faster than expected

a while back that picture used to get posted like every page of the lod becuase mx learned how to meme, and then one of the mods (AES) said he'd ban people if they posted it

so i posted it just now, good times

It was pretty good timing actually. I dragged my seedy arse out of bed and into the Lod just at the same time.

I had the office Christmas party last night. Highlight was when the office fat-chick hooked up with the office ranga. They disappeared off together at around ten-ish.
Right on!


[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmJbJs-9ST0[/url]

that dude is grade a negro

party on gareth... christmas shindig tomorrow here shud be good

LoL'n at B& for WTF H4X

So I'm hoping that my Safety professor gives be a B. I got a 68 on the final, which you would think is bad. However I was 4/31 in the class. Which jumped me up to 9/31 in the class with a final grade of 74.


I still have a feeling I'm going to get screwed out.



Oh yeah, and I'm pretty much re-stringing/setting up/cleaning my guitars. Pulling bridges apart is so fun, I am not looking forward to doing it to my RG570 and RG1570. The floating bridges are already going to want to cut my balls off because I haven't restrung them since January... but then again I haven't played them since January.

Oh, and I don't block my trems when I don't play them for a while because I did that once and it took 8 hours to set up one and 7 for the other. I'm not doing that crap again...


Edit: Two hours well worth it, my Talman sounds way better now that I set it all up again. Not looking forward to the RG1570 or RG570 though. I mean, floaters are a b[size=2]i[/size]tch if intonation decides to be a dick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414TmP12WAU

I have a sheep doing roofing over at my house doing roofing. We'll put on some zeppelin and eat some CHHHEDAAA CHEESE.

Serious question below:

So it seems I keep adding springs to the back of my RG every time I restring the bastards. Right now I have 4 springs in the back of my RG570, which I just tore down (the bridge) and cleaned in hopes of reversing this effect, yet it is still high. I figured hey, this is because I didn't really screw the screws back to where they were (bring up the spring plate of course) and I brought the plate up about a half an inch and the damn bridge didn't go f[size=2]u[/size]cking anywhere. B[size=2]i[/size]tch is still above where it should be. What is up with this? Seriously, it isn't like I don't know how to set up/take care of the guitars. Granted I have been neglecting them over the last few years, but now college is over and I will be at their beckon call.


That and I always wonder why "stretching" the strings in fact makes the bastards taughter. That that is just me being me, hell I even added a 3rd spring tonight in my Talman (not floating). Though that was more because the screws in the back where like all the way in since I bought the thing second hand.


P.S. - I even dropped down to 9s again for my floaters, hoping that would help.


Edit: so after complaining on here my guitar decided to act rational, bridge went down. Now intonation and string height on a floating bridge guitar, <3 it!

this is why i like tune-o-matic bridges.

my roommate, i've set up his hellraiser and carvin that have floyds, and as if setting up guitars isn't annoying enough, goddamn i hate floating trems. seriously i dont think they could make it harder to adjust the intonation on floyds even if they tried.

Well my RG570 is like... 98% correct intonation. I'm tired of looking at it, and wondering why the low E string on my Talman (strat style bridge) doesn't want to have intonation. The friggin 12th fret is always 1/4th of a step above the 12th fret harmonic, the rest of the strings were fine. That one damn string just moves the harmonic/note up and down, but always with about 1/4th of a step between them.


Some things just aren't meant to be figured out I guess.

jew magic probably.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17695090]wondering why the low E string on my Talman (strat style bridge) doesn't want to have intonation. The friggin 12th fret is always 1/4th of a step above the 12th fret harmonic, the rest of the strings were fine. That one damn string just moves the harmonic/note up and down, but always with about 1/4th of a step between them.


Some things just aren't meant to be figured out I guess.[/QUOTE]

crappy asian build quality. i had a prblem like that on an epiphone. it sounds funny but the bridge needs to have been put in differently. or the nut is filed wrong. something like that.

if anyone has anything to say about how ibanez's are awesome and the talman is a great guitar or something, well, **** off. if it was so great it would be able to intonate properly. good news is its not like its your high e string that you use for leads. still not good tho. whatever.

i was having prbs with my trem as well, was thinking of blocking it and putting a dtuna on it. then i fixed it, and learned to palm mute corectly, and its awesome now. other than my semihollow and tele (and maybe an LP in the near future) i dont think i could ever go back to non trems again.

the amount i use my trem now FAR outways the amount i do not use it. i can only think of maybe two songs i dont NEED to use my trem but i do anyway. but if evh can record a phenomenal track using a hardtail, maybe i will someday too (see 1984s Hot For Teacher. custom gibson explorer. dont believe me? where are the whammy runs?)

Sup lod. Studying Calc all day makes me want to kill myself.

[QUOTE=TriggerNYC;17695182]crappy asian build quality. i had a prblem like that on an epiphone. it sounds funny but the bridge needs to have been put in differently. or the nut is filed wrong. something like that.

if anyone has anything to say about how ibanez's are awesome and the talman is a great guitar or something, well, **** off. if it was so great it would be able to intonate properly. good news is its not like its your high e string that you use for leads. still not good tho. whatever.

i was having prbs with my trem as well, was thinking of blocking it and putting a dtuna on it. then i fixed it, and learned to palm mute corectly, and its awesome now. other than my semihollow and tele (and maybe an LP in the near future) i dont think i could ever go back to non trems again.

the amount i use my trem now FAR outways the amount i do not use it. i can only think of maybe two songs i dont NEED to use my trem but i do anyway. but if evh can record a phenomenal track using a hardtail, maybe i will someday too (see 1984s Hot For Teacher. custom gibson explorer. dont believe me? where are the whammy runs?)[/QUOTE]

you are a gigantic tool

So over night I guess the strings on my RG570 decided to settle or something. I don't know, when I stopped trying to get intonation perfect at about 4 a.m. this morning the low strings were a hint off because I did the intonation on the high strings. Plugged it in today, and everything checked out except the 2nd strings was like a fraction off. Not even enough to really care to adjust it really.


Every time I play my Tone Zone after playing the Norton or Super Distortion for a while. I just sit there and say to myself, "best pickup EVER".


[QUOTE=TriggerNYC;17695182]or the nut is filed wrong. [/QUOTE]

I had the nut worked on a few years back because the low E was giving me fret buzz. So that is probably why. :upset: ... and don't hate on Ibanez, good cheap guitars and just about anything that comes out of Japan is gold. Just because I have one of the Korean Talmans don't hate. I actually love my Talman past this stupid little problem. If I had a damn allen wrench small enough I'd adjust the height of the saddle and hope that fixes it.

Sadly I don't, and the screws are like rusted or something in place on that one saddle only.

Just looked through the new Guitar world and seen one of the tabbed songs is tears in heaven, reminded me how much I love Clapton,
Anyways I picked up my acoustic and tried to muddle though the song and realized that I have,t played in over a half a year and I suck at guitar all over again. Time to start practicing a lot more.

Sup LFD live journal

LFD I need you to transfer your calculus knowledge to me via telepathy tomorrow. I've been studying for 10 straight hours and I have a feeling I'm gonna get to the test tomorrow and ****ing forget all of it...

I'll see what I can do, but I can't guarantee I'll be awake before noon. I stayed up all last night setting up my RG570 from scratch, and tonight it is the RG1570s turn.


On a side note, finding women attractive with your same last name (if there is a relation it is s[size=2]h[/size]it far back and no one knows about it) weird to any one else? Seriously, friend has a friend and I'm like she's hot. Then he tells me she has my same last name and I'm like... she's... hot?

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17695465]and don't hate on Ibanez, good cheap guitars [/quote]

im not hating on ibanez. i like them. but a lot of times guitars slip through the cracks and it happens most often with esps, epiphones, ibanez, squier, and less often with schecter (who are also asian) hagstrom, and for some reason jackson. just my experience.

[QUOTE=Left Face Down;17695465] Just because I have one of the Korean Talmans don't hate. I actually love my Talman past this stupid little problem. [/QUOTE]

thats like saying i love my girlfriends big fat [butt], except for all the hair on her lower back. yeah i guess its not that big of a deal but still.........

Lol NYC.

Also LFD I once dated a girl with the same surname as me, and I wasn't weirded out by it. Although it's a VERY common name, kind of like chang/wang is in china. I'd hit it tbh.


NGD today by the way, but can't be bothered to create a new post about it:

[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/Skogferd/ESPM-II.jpg[/IMG]

Looks wayyy better than my other M-II, which has a rosewood fingerboard. Gonna spend the night getting it set up, cos the guy who owned it before me tuned it to Eb with .56 gauge strings... Ah well.

edit: dunno if I've posted this also, but OMG I GOT MYSELF A WARWICK CORVETTE!

[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/Skogferd/275490.jpg[/IMG]

FNA Jazzman, sounds ridiculously good.

Calc final done. Much easier than expected.

[IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/330vh9w.gif[/IMG]

Any one have more issues with thinner strings going out of tune compared to thicker ones? As you all probably know, I set up my RG1570 last night, the RG570 and Talman the night prior. Due to issues with the bridges taking pissy fits I changed back to 9s on the RG1570/RG570. Even though I gave them way more stretching, as the process in it self was longer to string and tune them, they are the ones which are screwing up on tuning. I mean, bad... I don't remember 10s giving me so much issues.


That and the Talman seems to be holding tuning about 99%.

[QUOTE=E.S.P.;17697297]
NGD today by the way, but can't be bothered to create a new post about it:

[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/Skogferd/ESPM-II.jpg[/IMG]

Looks wayyy better than my other M-II, which has a rosewood fingerboard. Gonna spend the night getting it set up, cos the guy who owned it before me tuned it to Eb with .56 gauge strings... Ah well.
[/QUOTE]

Looks beautiful. I've thought about ESPs before, but I've only ran across one store which stocks them (and that was in a city I was only in for a day or two). So I haven't really ever been able to get my hands on one.


When I get a job, if I have some free money, I want to track down a HH/HSH guitar that has a hard-tail and maple fret board. I'd rather something like an RG style guitar super strat, but something tells me I'm going to end up with a strat. If only ESP made one with a hard tail of the M-II. :upset: Last resort I'll get a Fender fat strat.

That and I'm thinking about getting rid of the RG570, probably for a hard-tail. The neck was so dried out before I got it the bastard tends to play like a damn maple board I would say. The Tone Zone isn't that much higher in treble than my Super Distortion or Norton, but I mean all the pickups (Air Norton, Blue Velvet, and Tone Zone) get like a boost of treble in that guitar I swear. :lol:

[IMG]http://www.espguitars.com/images/guitars/M-1-NTB.jpg[/IMG]

Pretty sweet, or whaddaya say LFD? Ebony fb though, but it's a damn fine axe :thumb:

Maybe a little [i]too[/i] simplistic for me. I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but I can't live with out a neck pickup. :lol: I haven't really set up my guitars from scratch since I went to college, and all three of them sound better than I remember now that I have done it.


I've never actually had very much time on an Ebony fretboard though. Only like one or two LPs I've just wanked on in a store. I'm seriously considering an Ibanez RGA32 or RGA32FM to possibly replace my Ibanez Talman. The ESP use to drool over past the M-II like you have is the Horizon NT-II. Though I'd probably swap out the pickups for DiMarzios... as I am a DiMarzio whore.

[IMG]http://www.espguitars.com/images/guitars/Horizon-NT-II_DBSB.jpg[/IMG]

Edit:
If I had $600~ right now I'd be really tempted to buy the LTD MH-1000
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/ESP-LTD-MH1000-Duncan-Pickups-Electric-Guitar?sku=423297

Im gonna be picking up an LTD MH-1000 after christmas! cant wait.

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4sS0ZCPqwQ[/URL]

Hes lost it.