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Bought an iPad today. Got target to price match Walmart and knock 50 bucks off. I like it so far.

oh god I’m one of them now aren’t I?
 
Avder said:
Bought an iPad today. Got target to price match Walmart and knock 50 bucks off. I like it so far.

oh god I’m one of them now aren’t I?
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I'm an Android guy for phones, but I love my iPad. I'm still very far from the Apple cult, so I think you're good.
 
Minnewildsota said:
At exuberant prices!
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Because the more you pay for a cool thing, the more you think your friends care about your cool thing. And the more you think your friends care about your cool thing, the more money you think your cool thing is worth. And the more you think your cool thing is worth, the more you'll pay for your cool thing. And the more you pay for your cool thing...
 
Avder said:
Bought an iPad today. Got target to price match Walmart and knock 50 bucks off. I like it so far.

oh god I’m one of them now aren’t I?
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Being happy with the purchase price and enjoying what you bought is what really matters for anything.

If it was bought as a status symbol, then yep you're one of them and you're about 2 steps away from joining a cult.
 
Wabit said:
Being happy with the purchase price and enjoying what you bought is what really matters for anything.

If it was bought as a status symbol, then yep you're one of them and you're about 2 steps away from joining a cult.
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‘Twas not bought as a status symbol but like a semi-laptop thingamajiggy that I got target to come down $50 in price to match Walmart for and for just doing stuff on a bigger screen than my phone while screwing around on the couch. And also cause I wanted a device capable of using Apple Pay, and am considering an iPhone in the future once my android phones battery life starts to go so I wanted to try out apple.

Also the case I bought for it make it look like a black PADD from TNG, so that’s cool.
 
I’ve got these broad winged Hawks nesting in the woods just outside by back door. My first experience with them. Apparently they hunt mice, squirrels, rabbits, and the like(good), and other birds(bad, no more Cardinals). These things won’t shut up, and screech all day long. Doesn’t that sort of give the game away if they want to go hunting? A bit more verbal stealth would seem to be in order if they want to have successful hunting, and my ears would sure appreciate it.
 
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I'll start it after I take the kitten to the vet. Follow up appointment from his surgery last week to get a fishing lure removed from his mouth.
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Ouch! Many years ago, I had a lab puppy pick up a Rapala that was sitting on the dock. Two of the treble hooks got deeply embedded in her gums. Since it was on the 4th of July, I had to bring her to an emergency vet and got a large bill due to the holiday.

Since then, I've been VERY careful to keep any and all lures out of the reach of my dogs. :DD
 
Wabit said:
I'll start it after I take the kitten to the vet. Follow up appointment from his surgery last week to get a fishing lure removed from his mouth.
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MuckOG said:
Ouch! Many years ago, I had a lab puppy pick up a Rapala that was sitting on the dock. Two of the treble hooks got deeply embedded in her gums. Since it was on the 4th of July, I had to bring her to an emergency vet and got a large bill due to the holiday.

Since then, I've been VERY careful to keep any and all lures out of the reach of my dogs. :DD
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Nothing to do with fishing lures, but an old dog of mine wasn't eating the way he normally would, and he had really bad breath. We couldn't figure out why, took him to the vet and he had a stick wedged between in teeth on the roof of his mouth (imagine a U is his teeth, now make a horizontal line across the middle connecting the two sides). Vet took it out and it was very painful. Don't know how long it had been there, but there was a permanent indentation in the roof of his mouth from where the stick had been lodged. Now I'm always paranoid about stuff like that happening with my current dog.
 
My Dad caught me once. We were n a remote location, so hook was removed with a pair of pliers.

Never fly fish with an amateur in a small rowboat.
 
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57special said:
My Dad caught me once. We were n a remote location, so hook was removed with a pair of pliers.

Never fly fish with an amateur in a small rowboat.
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So many possible jokes/stories come to mind reading this...

The only joke I got from the kitten is his new name: Kittenfish and when he grows up it'll be Catfish. The kid hates it because she named it something different. I told her to STFU because I've got over $1k in this little feline now, so I get to name it whatever I want.
 
RIP Robbie Robertson. Not a big star, but an important one, IMO. Led the band that backed Bob Dylan when he "went electric" back in 1965. Robertson was a really good guitarist, but more of a songwriter, and arranger (did the music for many of Scorcese's films). Just like i did with Jeff Beck, I'll be posting a few of his songs that will show the breadth of his career.




 
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Later on, in his solo career. Very few "hits', but still on his game.




 
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57special said:
RIP Robbie Robertson. Not a big star, but an important one, IMO. Led the band that backed Bob Dylan when he "went electric" back in 1965. Robertson was a really good guitarist, but more of a songwriter, and arranger (did the music for many of Scorcese's films). Just like i did with Jeff Beck, I'll be posting a few of his songs that will show the breadth of his career.




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Big fan of The Band. Interesting note: one of the reasons Clapton left Cream was because he wanted to join The Band. Also interesting that their music had such a southern feel, when everybody but Levon Helm was from Canada.
 
MuckOG said:
Big fan of The Band. Interesting note: one of the reasons Clapton left Cream was because he wanted to join The Band. Also interesting that their music had such a southern feel, when everybody but Levon Helm was from Canada.
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The Band were originally called "The Hawks", and were a backing band for Ronnie Hawkins, cousin of Dale Hawkins(Susie Q), who was a transplanted Southerner. As teenagers, they got a thorough grounding in early rock n' roll and rockabilly from Ronnie(quite the character himself...I met him years ago at his lake house), most of it with it's roots in the south.

Back then, if you listened to the radio late at night you would get stations from hundreds, if not thousands of miles away, and they would've been listening to, and heavily influenced, by the sounds coming out of St. Louis, Memphis, Chicago, and the like.
 
57special said:
The Band were originally called "The Hawks", and were a backing band for Ronnie Hawkins, cousin of Dale Hawkins(Susie Q), who was a transplanted Southerner. As teenagers, they got a thorough grounding in early rock n' roll and rockabilly from Ronnie(quite the character himself...I met him years ago at his lake house), most of it with it's roots in the south.

Back then, if you listened to the radio late at night you would get stations from hundreds, if not thousands of miles away, and they would've been listening to, and heavily influenced, by the sounds coming out of St. Louis, Memphis, Chicago, and the like.
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Yeah, I think I remember reading that about them., or watching a documentary...I don't recall exactly.

On a related note, I remember being floored when I first learned CCR was a band out of San Francisco. When I first heard them, I could swear they were out of the deep South with all the songs about bayou, the Mississippi River, hound dogs, etc. But, like The Band, they were also fans of rockabilly and "roots rock" and came up with their own distinctive style that fused early rock, country and blues.
 
MuckOG said:
Yeah, I think I remember reading that about them., or watching a documentary...I don't recall exactly.

On a related note, I remember being floored when I first learned CCR was a band out of San Francisco. When I first heard them, I could swear they were out of the deep South with all the songs about bayou, the Mississippi River, hound dogs, etc. But, like The Band, they were also fans of rockabilly and "roots rock" and came up with their own distinctive style that fused early rock, country and blues.
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And of course, covered "Susie Q" by Ronnie's cousin. CCR was really good, but what people forget is that they went to HS together, and were rehearsing for years together, then had to serve in the military, then came back and took the world by storm. That's what gave them such a tight, great sound. They were not some thrown together, ragged sounding band like many back then. In that respect, they had a lot in common with The Band, The Beatles, and AC/DC....groups that put in a lot of work before they got discovered, which gave them a cohesive, unique sound.
 
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