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Showing posts with label Sixty Grit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sixty Grit. Show all posts
Monday, April 12, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
I love food!
Sixty Grit said "I hate food."
That's the most Protestant thing I think I ever heard. Yes Sixty is salt of the earth Scots Irish. The stock that built this country. Dining on beans and weevil biscuits and the occasional squirrel. The Irish who came next were no better. They didn't like to eat. They preferred to drink. It was only when the Guineas and the Greeks and the Polacks and the Jews came over did America start to eat. No more passenger pigeons and occasional rodents. Instead it was brisket and veal parm and pirogues.
Food is life. You have to enjoy your food and revel in its life affirming goodness.
Above is the gluten free lasagna that I made on Monday night. I found these great gluten free noodles that are superb. So good that my ultra picky mother in law came back for thirds.
This is what you are missing out on buddy.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
KLEM FM
Overheard:
Sixty Grit wrote
Sixty was referring to the song "Whipping Post" by the Allman Brothers. He's right -- in those terms, it's unforgettable.
I want to take this KLEM FM series in a slightly different direction: unusual time signatures in rock.
First up is "Manic Depression" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Unfortunately, the Hendrix family has purged YouTube of any studio versions of the song, but there's a VIMEO version here if you need a refresher. I looked at the Wiki page for the song and learned that it was in 3/4 time, which is the same time signature as most waltzes. Heh. That doesn't help. The main drum groove is said to be represented as follows:
Well, I still didn't get the feel for it -- not how Sixty described the 11/4 beat in "Whipping Post." So I turned to the online drum scholars. This guy gave me my "ah ha moment." See particularly beginning at 2 min 25 sec.
I get it now! I can see how the musical notes represent the groove.
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[added: Can you tell what this guy gets wrong?]
Sixty Grit wrote
Not a fan of the Allmans, they always seemed to be dying.
I had never paid attention to the 11/4 intro until I read about it yesterday - they called it "the elevens". Very nice - 1,2,3, 1,2,3, 1,2,3, ONE TWO - once you hear it in those terms it is unforgettable.
[other comment omitted]
Sixty was referring to the song "Whipping Post" by the Allman Brothers. He's right -- in those terms, it's unforgettable.
I want to take this KLEM FM series in a slightly different direction: unusual time signatures in rock.
First up is "Manic Depression" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Unfortunately, the Hendrix family has purged YouTube of any studio versions of the song, but there's a VIMEO version here if you need a refresher. I looked at the Wiki page for the song and learned that it was in 3/4 time, which is the same time signature as most waltzes. Heh. That doesn't help. The main drum groove is said to be represented as follows:
Well, I still didn't get the feel for it -- not how Sixty described the 11/4 beat in "Whipping Post." So I turned to the online drum scholars. This guy gave me my "ah ha moment." See particularly beginning at 2 min 25 sec.
I get it now! I can see how the musical notes represent the groove.
_____________________
[added: Can you tell what this guy gets wrong?]
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
KLEM AM
Dappled, non-stick photos of the 2017 eclipse from my mailbox:
Question for Sixty: Are you going to butcher that walnut tree someday for its wood?
I don't have any filters so I took indirect pictures of the partial eclipse we had here.
Two of those utilize the leaves on my walnut tree to form multiple pinhole cameras, the other is a picture I took of the image cast by a "pinhole" camera I made using a scrap of walnut through which I bored a half inch diameter hole.
Eclipse is over, as you were.
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Monday, August 21, 2017
Saturday, August 19, 2017
KLEM AM
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Related: Wal-Mart Applies For Patent For Blimp-Style Floating Warehouse
There are two disused wooden blimp hangars in Tustin, CA, which date from WW II. One of them is slated for destruction. What a publicity coup if one of the big retailers would refurbish, preserve, and use these white elephants.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
KLEM AM
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| Photo by Sixty Grit |
White light matters
Monday, June 19, 2017
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
KLEM AM
A crow flies in the morning...
Planes fly in the mourning...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
KLEM AM
photo by Sixty Grit. Click for crows
What is the average distance between trees and clouds as the crow flies?
Friday, April 21, 2017
A Place For Sixty To Reflect
Overheard at Lem's:
Carbon, silicon, and germanium align vertically in the Periodic Table like a stack of mid-verse rhymes. I say "mid-verse" because they're not at the end of the periodic verses -- the noble gases are. Further below, the rhyme continues with the heavy metals tin and lead, making a vertical pentad of elements.
Carbon, tin, and lead were long-known but silicon eluded discovery until the early 19th-century. This seems astonishing because silicon is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust behind oxygen. The simple combination of silicon and oxygen, SiO2, is the inorganic analog of CO2 and is otherwise known as sand or, when pure, quartz. Elemental silicon was long suspected and early 19th century chemists were convinced that some new element must be present as an oxide in silica -- the problem was finding something to free it from oxygen. Voltaic piles -- which had then recently helped reveal metallic sodium and potassium -- were too weak. Berzellius used a two-step process, first treating quartz with HF to generate SiF4 and then treating the SiF4 with potassium metal. Recently discovered potassium metal was needed. The Germans still call silicon Silizium, giving it the metallic suffix -ium.
Another German (a very bad one) developed a carbo-centric Periodic Table which contains more chemical subtlety than I can master:
Sixty Grit said...
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III/V, baby - those were the groups we used. Si, indium, aluminum, gallium. those were the ones I had direct experience with.
Carbon, silicon, and germanium align vertically in the Periodic Table like a stack of mid-verse rhymes. I say "mid-verse" because they're not at the end of the periodic verses -- the noble gases are. Further below, the rhyme continues with the heavy metals tin and lead, making a vertical pentad of elements.
Carbon, tin, and lead were long-known but silicon eluded discovery until the early 19th-century. This seems astonishing because silicon is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust behind oxygen. The simple combination of silicon and oxygen, SiO2, is the inorganic analog of CO2 and is otherwise known as sand or, when pure, quartz. Elemental silicon was long suspected and early 19th century chemists were convinced that some new element must be present as an oxide in silica -- the problem was finding something to free it from oxygen. Voltaic piles -- which had then recently helped reveal metallic sodium and potassium -- were too weak. Berzellius used a two-step process, first treating quartz with HF to generate SiF4 and then treating the SiF4 with potassium metal. Recently discovered potassium metal was needed. The Germans still call silicon Silizium, giving it the metallic suffix -ium.
Another German (a very bad one) developed a carbo-centric Periodic Table which contains more chemical subtlety than I can master:
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Thank You, Sixty Grit!
[this post continues in part from here]
From an email exchange with Sixty Grit yesterday:
Sixty: You may email me pictures of the railing wood and I might be able to see them better.
A close up of the end grain would be good, as will pictures of the long grain.
Me: [sends two photos]
Sixty: The piece that has been sanded looks like Douglas fir - straight grain, close growth rings - don't let a tree hugger see that - that is beautiful wood.
If you could sand whatever coating is on the end grain I would better be able to see what is going on there - just as there are standards for baluster spacing there are requirements for the type and quality of wood used in handrails - that looks like very high quality wood right there.
Me:
I think you're right about the bottom being Doug fir-I've worked with it before. The rail is more fine grained. Both woods are soft and can be scratched with a finger nail
Sixty: That looks like old growth vertical grain Doug fir. That is beautiful stuff, unavailable these days. The true tell is the aroma - since I can't see color too well - are you familiar with the distinctive smell of Douglas fir? I would say fill and envelope with sawdust and mail it to me, but we would both end up in jail if you did that. Perhaps a trip to the local big box wood store might be in order - they might have some Douglas fir in stock and you could compare and contrast.
As I say, that is high quality stuff right there - well worth refurbishing and keeping.
Me: The growth rings are much tighter in the railing wood.
Sixty: Indeed they are - I guestimate at least 30 rings per inch. Check the smell of both of them - if they smell the same then the railing was made out of old growth stock.
Me: They do smell the same.
Sixty: Well there you go - high grade vertical grain stock used for the railing itself, as required by code, lower grade used for the non-crucial application. I like it - sounds as if the mystery is solved. Well done!
From an email exchange with Sixty Grit yesterday:
Sixty: You may email me pictures of the railing wood and I might be able to see them better.
A close up of the end grain would be good, as will pictures of the long grain.
Me: [sends two photos]
Sixty: The piece that has been sanded looks like Douglas fir - straight grain, close growth rings - don't let a tree hugger see that - that is beautiful wood.
If you could sand whatever coating is on the end grain I would better be able to see what is going on there - just as there are standards for baluster spacing there are requirements for the type and quality of wood used in handrails - that looks like very high quality wood right there.
Me:
I think you're right about the bottom being Doug fir-I've worked with it before. The rail is more fine grained. Both woods are soft and can be scratched with a finger nail
Sixty: That looks like old growth vertical grain Doug fir. That is beautiful stuff, unavailable these days. The true tell is the aroma - since I can't see color too well - are you familiar with the distinctive smell of Douglas fir? I would say fill and envelope with sawdust and mail it to me, but we would both end up in jail if you did that. Perhaps a trip to the local big box wood store might be in order - they might have some Douglas fir in stock and you could compare and contrast.
As I say, that is high quality stuff right there - well worth refurbishing and keeping.
Me: The growth rings are much tighter in the railing wood.
Sixty: Indeed they are - I guestimate at least 30 rings per inch. Check the smell of both of them - if they smell the same then the railing was made out of old growth stock.
Me: They do smell the same.
Sixty: Well there you go - high grade vertical grain stock used for the railing itself, as required by code, lower grade used for the non-crucial application. I like it - sounds as if the mystery is solved. Well done!
Saturday, February 11, 2017
KLEM AM
Good morning, sunshine!
What's the over and under for cloud cover in your neck of the words?
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| Photo by Sixty Grit |
Sunday, December 25, 2016
KLEM AM
Getting a Handel on Christmas...
That one came highly recommended by Sixty Grit and MamaM -- two of the straightest shooters at Lem's.
Here's the thing: Handel is gorgeous but above all -- baroque. I crave simplicity. Musically, I actually liked three-man power trios better than The Beach Boys and The Beatles. Maybe that's why I like small molecule chemistry better that molecular biology. Simplicity. Less is more.
Consider the following video that I found, researching a post a few nights ago:
What daunting challenges that musician faces! Four keyboards and more foot pedals than a centipede could master -- and yet somehow he does. Why was that instrument perfected for a soloist? Why didn't organists have footmen, much like a locomotive engineer had a fireman? Because they could?
I suppose that next you'll tell me that the pipe organ soloist evolved specifically to play baroque music.
Merry Christmas, All!
That one came highly recommended by Sixty Grit and MamaM -- two of the straightest shooters at Lem's.
Here's the thing: Handel is gorgeous but above all -- baroque. I crave simplicity. Musically, I actually liked three-man power trios better than The Beach Boys and The Beatles. Maybe that's why I like small molecule chemistry better that molecular biology. Simplicity. Less is more.
Consider the following video that I found, researching a post a few nights ago:
What daunting challenges that musician faces! Four keyboards and more foot pedals than a centipede could master -- and yet somehow he does. Why was that instrument perfected for a soloist? Why didn't organists have footmen, much like a locomotive engineer had a fireman? Because they could?
I suppose that next you'll tell me that the pipe organ soloist evolved specifically to play baroque music.
Merry Christmas, All!
Saturday, May 28, 2016
KLEM FM
Donald Trump used that song shortly before speaking at his rally in San Diego today. It's a great CCR tune. I'm pretty sure that Fogerty's lawyers will be in touch with Trump's people shortly. They also played a lot of Stones' songs.
I got about as close to the stage as Sixty Grit must have gotten to John Fogerty back in '69 when he attended that august fest.
I was still going through the metal detectors when I heard Sarah Palin's distinct voice. Here she is:
Trump took the stage:
Visually, the whole rally could have really used one of those live projection screens. You people watching YouTube really had a better seat. At least his words came through loud and clear. Most of his message resonated. The part about Iraq being wrong got a muted response. San Diego is full of veterans.
Friday, January 15, 2016
The Trill of it All
Overheard at Lem's:
The German "r" is an untamed thing. Northern Germans prefer a guttural "r," trapped in the back of the throat. The Dutch are wholly in the gutter when it comes to 'r's. Southern Germans trill their 'r's.
Here is an opinion I agree with:
Sixty Grit said...
Mr. Lit, I just now watched the 1931 film version of Die Dreigroschenoper. Very interesting film, about which I know next to nothing. When the song known here as "Mack the Knife" is sung, a few minutes into the movie, I was struck by how the r's at the end of words were trilled. I remember you mentioned that not long ago, but I had never heard such a thing. Spanish rolled r's, Scottish (aye, laddie, my people) and how they roll their r's, but the German thing was different indeed.
I have many questions about the meaning of that story, how it represented its time and place, did the writer, and I don't mean to call him vile, really think that was an accurate representation of Victorian England. I marvel at how the songs have held up for over 80 years and how I have been listening to them for close to 60 years. Amazing stuff. But for now I'd like to know if the r affectation you were writing about is what the fellow is doing starting at 4:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUgkrlL8GkE
Oh yeah, one more thing, the subtitles frequently replace the letter "n" with an "r", which makes the coronation references very odd.
The German "r" is an untamed thing. Northern Germans prefer a guttural "r," trapped in the back of the throat. The Dutch are wholly in the gutter when it comes to 'r's. Southern Germans trill their 'r's.
Here is an opinion I agree with:
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