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Im running a 5850 as well and it works good. even though iom not an ATI fan, its ok

Happy Birthday Bud !

Happy Birthday !

No matter what, no matter how you look at it, no matter who pays, no matter who is at fault, this is real bad for everyone.

And they say our oil sands are dirty.... yikes which one would you pick now.

My first electric guitar was an Aria Pro-II I recived from my Dad in 1981 for passing grade 10. I was 16 at the time and thats when I started to learn how to play. I was a big Rush, Nazareth and Led Zepplin fan back then. (This is the wierd part... lol,) I had a dream one night that I got the job to replace Manny Charlton on the guitar in Nazareth. I played a whole gig in that dream. Anyways, next day I started teaching myself. In the band I play in today we do Nazareths Razamanaz, man what a fun tune to crank out. Always reminds me of that dream.

Re guitar and standard tuning especially if you want to play anything written in popular music from the last 100 years, Std tuning is: Fr the top to the bottom: (top = largest string, bottom = thinnest string unless your Jimi Hendrix who played em upsidedown.) 6 - E 5 - A 4 - D 3 - G 2 - B 1 - E There is no H note. From what I can remember in Bazzentine times or something like that H was written in German music for B natural. But I dont know too much about real old classical methods. Link to basic musical iformation; How Music Works

A few items: Biggest problem for beginners is: - Strings are hard to push down for a while - finger tip pain - This will diminish and go away over a few months with lots of practice. Watch this as it can be very discouraging if you let it go too far. When it hurts stop and let em rest. Avoid a blister. They can take over a week to go away. I use a lag screw 3/8 x 2" for wood with an aggresive thread pitch and press my fingers into the threads for hours to maintain my callouses between shows. - Wrist pain and finger joint pain. More so for those of us that are in our mid life. (This may or may not completly go away. I drink only water before and during a show and take a couple of advil so I dont cramp up) Id expect it to lesson though (a guitar is one of the most un-natural position instruments to play and hold and you may think you have a stong arm, but the angles cause some problems) as you get used to it and your arm gains strength in that position. - If you have the original strings on the guitar, Id replace them with a good set of strings. (factory ones are the cheapest piece of wire they can find) Strings are avail in many different thickneses, you can even put electric stings on (tone will suffer alot) if you require a light set to start out with. (see next paragraph) Then as finger strenght and callouses develope and pain starts to diminish, change em up back in to the acoustric range for good tone. Like most things in life, you crawl, walk, run, ect in that order, this isnt that much different. - I use Fender Phosphor Bronze Wound Ball End: .013 .017 .026 .036 .046 .056, which is a pretty heavy set, on my Ovation acoustic. I do this for tone and I dont do that much string bending on it, a bit but not like an electric. Strings are like Beer. There is alot to choose from, in many different strengths and flavores (tone) and it ussually comes down to personal choice based upon experimentation. If you have finger strenght issues for awhile, try a set of lighter strings, .010 .014 .022 .030 .040 .048 which are close to an electric range but should still have brass windings on the D,A,E strings. (4,5,6.) for good low end tone. Re guitar tuner: Use it to learn how to tune by ear. Please learn how to tune by ear. Dont get caught in the rut by having to rely on the tuner. There is a pattern to use based off of the # 6 E string where you tune the next string and then the next so on. If you dont have this info let me know and I can send you a link. Later on you should learn to tune with harmonics listining for the variation in the waveform. lol, dont worry about that till much later. Lessons: As Medic said, I also agree. I never took lessons. I really should have all those years ago. I may not have had to have a real job for the past 29 years....... but then, I dont have any chemical or herbal dependancies either lol. Anyways, take em if you can get em. Try to get a teacher with some guitar maturity. I dont think learning to play slayer or metalica right now will keep your interest. Guitar: Make sure it is one that will stay in tune. (weather changes can cause a guitar to be grumpy, this is different than not staying in tune.) A guitar that dosnt stay in tune needs to be gotten rid of or used for fire wood. Always buy an instrument that is way above your ability. If you buy one that is equal to you or below your skill youll hate it as it wont do what you are capable of. Again, get rid of it or use it for fire wood and get something that exceeds your ability by alot. Youll never regret this. Teaching aids: Buying the beatles book is fantastic. I taught myself out of a Rush for begginers music book. Learn Chords first: Dont worry about scales till you can play all of the basic chord forms in maj, min, 7th and 9th, dim forms. Learn scales later. Focus on chords in the same key ect. Learn the root, 4th, 5th, then the minor, and youll be playing the Beatles in no time. Thats all for today.

I play the guitar alot and if anyone wants some info or tips send me a pm.

That thing looks like a futuristic Sybian.

This will work for my 5850 then

Wouldnt that be the kicker eh, eeeeeerrrrrchhhhh ccrrrraaasssshhhhh!@%!&%#$@%!%$#@!&%^ whew I made it, ok, get seat belt undone and climb out of truck, there, "click" ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh cccccccccccrrrrrrrraaaapppppp ssunnnn rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooofffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff "THUD".......................

That snake got alot of its body out of the fan rotating at a high rate of speed. I cant imagine that the snake was ambitious enough to keep going at it if the blade was moving. Mayby fan was dead first. Mayby snake shorted out something and fan stopped. Question, how did it crawl in there through there in the first place, there is no room in a PS for a snake to crawl into if the side cover was off, they are bolted together or are screwd to the top very tightly, I assume for air flow. You can see in the first picture that the PS is fully enclosed. I think this is a planted snake and a made up picture.

I read this, then I read about the man. Not much I can find to say that can express myself correctly so tomorrow morning, when I go outside, Im going to take a time and look to the sky and and have a moment of silence.

Good perspective. Thank goodness the earth is flat and supported on the backs of an never ending stack of elephants. phew....

Fuel cells would be very cool. We''ll probably end up making em for you. But, your still going to have to wipe your own ass.

Well, Im still going to try to help the U.S. economy by driving the family down and across to Astoria Washington and then down the coast highway into N California to see the redwoods again and back for our family adventure this July. I dont really give a crap how much fuel is. I'm already paying equivelent of 3.63 a u.s. gal here in the great white north. At least with our dollar almost at par, it'll be the cheapest trip down there yet for us. We used to think it was no big deal with our dollar 48-54% less than the U.S. one, work that factor into a holiday. (thats like about 5.37 a u.s. gallon just a few years ago)

Welcome !

Happy Birthday bud!!!!

That is crazy funny

Happy Birthday !!! Keep those comming you guys. very nice.

14 day trial....... they can kiss my NOS if they want me to pay for this.

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Happy Birthday !!!!!!!