keys42

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[–] keys42@literature.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

We were early-ish adapters, but these also weren't true in ears. Our guitarist had a professional quality soundboard with a bunch of out channels, so we each bought a cheap soundboard and used the output from the main one as our monitor channel. My setup cost me $125 and that's still cheaper than decent in ears today lol. (And I've used the soundboard for jazz trio gigs so it's paid me back in spades!)

[–] keys42@literature.cafe 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When RadioShack was still a thing. I was in a band that used in ear monitors. I bought a pair of decent earbuds there for $25 with a $5 extra warranty, which states I'd have to pay $5 for a replacement. Between jumping on stage, forgetting they were plugged in or just plain blowing them out, I went thru 6 pairs jn 3 years, each time paying 10$ (5 for the replacement and 5 for the warranty)

[–] keys42@literature.cafe 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When my grandma passed away, we had to sell the family farm that had been in the family since the 1930s. While mounting the massive undertaking of cleaning out 100 years of stuff from 2 houses and 3 barns, I stumbled upon 2 old wooden cheese boxes being used to store screws from a brand called Blue Ribbon Cheese. I googled it and that was how Pabst Blue Ribbon survived prohibition. One sits in my sock drawer with a few pocket knives for me to choose from each morning.

I don't use it daily, but I also have a 3 foot long homemade level with my great grandfather's initials carved in it. He died in the 1950s but it could be older than that.

[–] keys42@literature.cafe 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't think the TV series had started shooting yet, they just signed a deal. (If I'm wrong I'm gonna have to suck it up and get Apple TV because the entire series is phenomenal and I'm looking forward to it)

[–] keys42@literature.cafe 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm not suggesting that corporations aren't inflating prices, but your chicken breasts come from birds which are slaughtered pretty young, as opposed to egg layers so there is a much larger window to be infected.