Links and Miscellania

 

Briken   sent me some pics of the guitar ready for the top to be attached.  

  Briken of Istanbul has started making me a baritone guitar.  This baritone guitar will be tuned BEADF#B  

Take a look at Mr. Bacciagalupe's t-shirt.    Now, that's a sharp looking shirt.   I was a kid in the 1950's, and it was common for t-shirts to have horizontal stripes.   After the 1950's, though, God must have decided that t-shirts would not have horizontal stripes anymore. 

After 6 months of being listened to by a small, wild bird, that roosts in my heater box on the roof, it's had it's effects on me, and the bird, too.  I don't think this situation is sustainable due to the plus 100 degree days we have here, during July and August.   Listening to music full time, as this bird wants, is something I've never done before.   Very soon, the music that I liked was either listened to again and again, or I had to try new music, which I've done, so this is what's been happening for  6 months....every day.  Expanding my horizons, musically, is something I wanted to do as a retiree, and the bird has been a positive force in my current living environs.     How does a bird listen to music?   I've read that birds listen to music differently than humans, and that must be true.   And it's probably the case that other species of birds listen differently, if they listen to music at all.  Does a bird remember the music that they'

Fat people avoid exercise Fat people eat sugar Fat people wolf their food.   I fasted for 3 days, once, when I was in junior college.   On that 3rd day, I stopped being tired and hungry, and I felt full of energy. What happened was my digestive system stopped drawing energy to digest because there was nothing left to digest.  It was a eye-opening lesson in how much energy it takes to digest food.  Eating slower means the food is chewed more thoroughly.  It's the opposite of wolfing down your food.  Unchewed food takes more energy, and stomach acid, to digest.    I think it's the usual cause of sluggishness.  During 20013-14 when I lost weight,  I experimented with chewing food until there was nothing left to chew.   It takes quite a long time.   Surprisingly, there is flavor in the tiniest of morsels left in the mouth during chewing.   After a while I get bored with chewing and become easily distracted from what was on my plate.   My food craving is satisfied with