Recent content by Dr. Jekyll

A whole house water filter system was on the of the first things we did after moving to Florida. Maybe the natives have grown up with it and think it's ok, but unfiltered Florida water tastes awful.

You should also look for Muscle Shoals and 20 ft From Stardom. The first is like The Wrecking Crew but about the evolution Muscle Shoals and The Swamp Boys as the recording Mecca for Southern Rock. The second is about backup singers. I loved all three.

I used ChatGPT recently for help in writing a letter. In short, I had to write a letter to an organization board of directors demanding that they "poop or get off the pot" and bring a subject up for a vote. The issue has been in limbo for two years. I drafted the first letter and then asked...

All I ever talk about is guitars... Since I started playing bass I (foolishly) thought I wouldn't need a 6 string hanging about so I used my Squier Affinity Stratocaster as part of a trade for one of my basses. Now I know that I just have to have a 6 string available when I want to play around...

The ugly secret in the industry is that porn really drives the cutting edge of technology advancements. From a CNN article called "In the tech world, porn quietly leads the way"

In short, you are. The biometric information, fingerprint, face recognition, PIN, etc., is stored on your device. I agree that the changeover to a passkey can be confusing, and I, myself, have resisted it for a while. However, it truly is safer than typical password and/or 2FA method. Some...

Still digging the blues. Especially Larkin Poe

The only individual shares that we own are in Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines International. Bought a hundred shares back during the pandemic to get the shareholder perks when cruising. Didn't really buy it for the investment - but as it turns out, we got it near the bottom during the pandemic and...

Great minds... I was just about to post that same clip. Yes, for folks of our era, this was the defining example of talk box use.

This is what I do. For the longest, before retirement, I used the bill payment system that was part of my credit union. I felt more like it gave me some element of control by specifying exactly when I wanted to make the payment. However, since retiring and now having a rather well defined set...

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I thought I would keep the topic all in one place. I had my right knee replaced last February and just had the left knee done in January - coming up on three weeks post-op. Things are going well. We can't decide if I'm really recovering faster on this one...

The topic seems to go in waves. For the last few months I've gotten a ton of voicemails and text from "so and so" at "something tax advisors" noting that I seem to have some tax related issues that they will be happy to help me with. While we still lived in Atlanta, we had months of people...

Pretty easy bass lines to play. Easy note-wise (mostly blues patterns), but pretty hard to keep perfect time since they are driving and repetitive eighth notes. The community jam group that I'm in does Sharp Dressed Man and it's lots of fun. ZZ Top songs will get a crowd rockin'.

I took piano lessons for a few years as a kid. That gave me my musical foundation, reading notes, understanding the keyboard etc. One of my great life regrets was giving it up, but as a boy, too many other things were more interesting. Starting in middle school, I played the clarinet all the...

I'll second (or third) the free version of DaVinci Resolve. I like it because it also has the integrated audio editor. However, Infinnab is more than correct about the steep learning curve. But, as with almost everything, there are a ton of tutorials on YouTube.