A older couple took in an 18-year-old girl as a lodger. She asked if she could have a bath, but the woman of the house told her they didn't have a bath, although if she wanted to, she could use a tin bath in front of the fire.
"Monday's the best night, when my husband goes out to darts" she said. The girl agreed to have a bath the following Monday.
After her husband had gone to the pub for his darts match, the woman filled the bath and watched the girl get undressed. She was surprised to see that the lass didn't have any pubic hair. She mentioned this to her husband when he came home. He didn't believe her, so she said "Next Monday, when you go to darts, leave a little early and wait in the back garden. I'll leave a gap in the curtains so you can see for yourself".
So the following Monday, while the girl again got undressed, the wife asked "Do you shave?" "No" replied the girl. "I've just never grown any hair down there. Do you have hair?" "Oh, yes" said the woman, and she pulled up her nightdress and showed the girl that she was really generously endowed in the hair department... very generously indeed.
The girl finished her bath and went to bed. Later that night, when the husband came in, the wife asked him "Did you see it?" "Yes" he said "but why the hell did you have to show her yours". "Why ever are you worried about that?" she said. "You've seen it often enough before". "I know" he said "but the dart team hadn't!"
Start-up Business Costs, eh?
Mashed articles by Pat Darnell | Mar 9, 2014 | Bryan TX
[Picture LINK] The freedom we endorse means that everything we create shall be free to be used for any purpose, free to be studied how it works, and free to change it, free to the redistribute copies and copies of your modified versions to others. GNU
Use this article as an introduction to Open Source. It was written in 2010. But if you think about it, if the LINKS it publishes are still around today, 2014, then you might have a good indicator that these do really work.
Does Open Source mean Free? Nothing in the world is FREE... so ? What's the real cost? All we can figure at this level of discovery is that Google Summer of Code acts as developer for many Open Source projects.
" ... Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovators Dilemma, coined the term “disruptive innovation” to explain the “process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors (January 13, 2014. By Jeff Vance. LINK) ...”
50 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Software - Datamation: "The "Great Recession" has businesses and consumers alike looking for ways to cut costs. That includes looking for cheaper alternatives to expensive software. In most cases, open source applications offer much lower prices, even if you need to purchase paid support. With that in mind, we've put together a list of open source alternatives to software that tends to cost a lot (August 17, 2010. By Cynthia Harvey. LINK) ..." 'via Blog this'
If you are trying to go into business today Open Source could help you through the first three years ... the default years of development when you show very little profits, if you know what you are doing. Other topics that interest me:
Downloading online Open Source can be risky. What you get when you download might be tagged with a virus or two. New softwares can mess with your databases, or your operating system, and might alter your start up. We don't know the answer to any of that. It would take a great deal of research to figure which Open Source delivers with fewest complications.
Others comment:
" ... One of the key issues with proprietary software, including free software is the lack of ability to integrate with a database. We have been using a free version of ChartGantt Ultimate which had delivered fantastic integration capabilities (Gantt Chart. March 27 2013.)..."
"...Open source is a huge success. The benefit it has achieved is that the paid software is now being developed with utmost sincerity as they always have a threat that ppl may switch to free open source alternatives. The only problem with opensource software is that ppl try to implement only cooler stuff within it and don't pay any attention to detail for user-friendliness. If opensource pays attention to user-friendliness there may be much cooler stuff happening (Gotya. September 09 2010)..."
"... First, it's nearly impossible to find prices for the very most expensive software you can buy. Many enterprise software vendors don't release their prices because they negotiate separately with each customer or because their licensing schemes are so complicated that they could never explain them adequately in less than 5,000 words.
" ... In addition, custom applications can be extremely expensive, but are also difficult to price. Because we wanted to list prices in this article, we limited ourselves to "off-the-shelf" products with relatively easy-to-find suggested retail prices (ibid. Harvey.)..."
Since 2005, "... Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects... Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits..."
"... In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all. (LINK)..."
CONCLUSION
What is the real cost of Open Source for the start-up? At this point the real cost is time: time it takes to learn a new software. Learning curves for new businesses will dictate their ability to compete. If a business, or the individual, has used a licensed software in the past, he/she/it will find a similar open source software to use. If the business start-up is highly proprietary, it may require costly licensed custom software anyway.
I have a son who has successfully used Ubuntu for the last eight years in his business.
First, Leo Kottke does “Taxco Steps”. I saw Leo a couple of years ago in a similar setting. He walked on with two guitars, 6 and 12 string, laid one on the floor (no stand) and played. He has this deal where he engages in banter while tuning between songs. It comes in handy because he will change tunings from song to song. At one point, while he had the 12 string, he went from standard to D tuning. That’s a weekend job for a lot of guys.
Video no longer available: "This was also written in Mexico. Outside of Cuernavaca, there's a town called Taxco [pronounced "TAS-koh"] and it's more or less on top of a [audience member says something] -- which? -- it's on top of a mountain, many steps, if you want to be cool, to get there. And I've walked these steps. And when I got there -- this was on a weekend -- I entered the city square and fell asleep, as a result of this walk, on a park bench. And I was awakened, I don't know how much time had elapsed, but I was awakened by a little boy who was beating me in the face with a rolled-up newspaper. He was a totally corrupted evil child and he was delighted with himself. He was one of the happiest people I've seen in a while. So naturally I burst into song and this is called Taxco Steps. (SOURCE)
Leo is a brave man. A lot of the records that guitar heads refer to when lauding Leo Kottke are the things he did in the 70s when he used finger picks. He abandoned that technique because it caused tendonitis. So, he’s a living lesson in how one needs to be able to adapt to life’s circumstances. His playing now, with just fingers, is maybe not as raucous. It’s more subtle but, now that I’ve become accustomed to the difference, I much prefer what he does now to the old stuff. He’s at the top of his game, I think.
Next, Tony Rice does “Church Street Blues” So, there’s an entirely different technique with the flat pick. I’ve listened to Tony play with bands a lot. He has a real knack for getting a very liquid lead tone on the acoustic. His vibrato is very sweet.
Some people say that he phrases almost like an electric player in that he seems capable of pulling a seemingly impossible sustain out of an acoustic guitar. I like this clip because it shows the solo, flat pick approach which, you hardly see anybody doing these days and Tony…well he just nails it. One thing you will notice is that he has impeccable time which is just one of the difficult things to achieve with this type of playing. See, I think Tony’s time is the real secret behind his lead playing. Time obviously affects your phrasing but, your tone as well. If you are putting the notes in the right place, they sound better tonally. It lets the note breathe.
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Some people say that he phrases almost like an electric player in that he seems capable of pulling a seemingly impossible sustain out of an acoustic guitar. [Illegal aliens do this naturally by the time they enter grammar school where I come from.]
My catholic case for a Hard-shell Case for The Acoustic Guitar Same old Same old... by Pat Darnell
I realize that most of the persons commenting in here are too young to have experienced the “introduction” of rock ‘n roll. That is — “When it was beginning” — well truth is it embarrassed almost every music teacher and music student I knew. Presbyterian Preachers, Jews, Cubans and Mexican immigrants, plentiful in ’60’s Houston, found Rock ‘n Roll to be “lousy.” Cheerleaders, Baptist Choirs, and most school girls in Pappagallo’s thought It’s musicians and culture was too much for them, or too repetitious.
I have just enough curiosity to have formed opinion and rhetoric related to the intro of Rock and Roll. I like it, and as I lived through it, it's a fact it came from acoustic performers.
First was Hootenanny in our white neighborhoods, then there was a switch to electric instruments. First electric equipment was hand made, like speaker cabinets, and strange glowing ovens for amplifiers that buzzed.. you get the picture? Trap sets came out of show band styles. Singing cowboys upfront toting the melody was like Audie Murphy, at least to us Southern Gulf Coast muttley-mish-mash’s Mud Bugs in our deep south nouveau riche yet tasteless bedroom communities. Sing a-long's became impossible with amp-ed instruments, and most of my musicians friends thought that was a good thing anyway.
1959 Rock performance was met with real disdain. Elvis’s wiggling made Veterans of Foreign Wars in my neighborhood sick to their stomachs. Stylized, syncopated, synchronous dancing like Motown was a further reason to segregate the neighborhood in Houston… so said founding fathers of Democrat deep south Houston where I lived those years, was ten years behind Detroit.
As a matter of fact, many would not drive through old Downtown Houston because they did not like to see a’capella dance groups singing and moving in unison on the corners of Main Street, by the bus stop in front of the Foley’s Department store. It was so natural to perform and dance there with captive audience queued up waiting for the buses.
It was cozy when the band came forward after intermission; it was the first time anyone did that. Houston at that time, Rock concerts were like wrestling, not all that well attended, at first.
Also, various performers would show up, mostly Willie Nelson, or Jerry Jeff,.. to add “value:” Ha! but cool too. It was a natural way to figure out their markets… no? So they included several sides of themselves.. no?
There is an historic building that was razed in the ’90’s, 1928 - 1998, called the Houston Coliseum, where most of the first concerts were held. It is where also wrestling started. It is there also where a friend of mine paid $8 to see the Beatles.. the first maniac sell out Coliseum Rock concert..
My friend at 14 years old dropped acid during that concert, and now at 57 still doesn’t remember much after the concert. He mumbles about the security guards did something to him while he was there… he was one of the fortunate sons with enough money to get in and well it changed him forever for the worse.
You see Houstonians, we, were so dense back then, we didn’t even know what amount of LSD to drop. Make it up as we go, and if we survive, well we still get drafted. Pretty good quick look at that Coliseum History HERE
My older brother, 7 years older, did not even go to many pre-70’s concerts back then, because there really weren’t any. And $8 was a ton of money then… we weren’t raised as fortunate sons by our Navy Dad; always low on cash… sons. Therefore I settled for Leon Russell, Allman Brothers, Elton John, Poco, BeeGees, Willie, Z-Z, etc… and you know it was a good run for a rudderless child in Houston.
Stadium concerts followed as crowds grew and audiences could no longer be contained, and well then it became a completely different experience. I went to one stadium “mishap” at the Astrodome, and never to return to that venue. Not intimate enough for me… sound system like being inside a conch shell… opposite and totally unlike what I first experienced at the limestone columned Coliseum. My view had changed on Rock and Roll from embarrassed dweeb to enthusiast.
One purpose is to really tell how it was for those who might want to know where all this 2% rock ‘n roll self-defeating venue comes from. It doesn’t take much math to figure that stadium Rock is where big money is. In stadium rock, as long as there is a sound system that delivers, a band can get more ticket sales per capita per song. If Keefer strokes his guitar 1200 times in a concert, then he is getting paid more per stroke when he is able to in front of 98,212 fans. I personally cannot think of anything worse than this type of performance. JumboTrons of excitement?
Beginnings are “Not” unlike the tales Pribe’s and San’s, Ovid, Gary, Ron, et al tell about gigs today. That is the tradition I most believe in, and when I ran across old Jack and Ron back when, it is why I and my bride to be followed them around for a year or so. It is a hard shell case for acoustic, buskin’ down under the bridges by the bayous; Making a pleasant noise. Thank you and good morning. __________________________________Sans Direction wrote, If I might contribute another video….
The Relevant Quote: “And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs - that song, endlesly reincarnated - born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket ‘88′, that Buick 6 - same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness.” – Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather [SOURCE]
Hedges was great. Just a very musical soul. There are a lot of people wandering around now that are attempting to utilize a lot of the things he was doing but, I don’t get the same feeling from them. One example of how Hedges really impressed me; I have this Pat Martino record where he’s doing duets with an all-star cast of guitarists. It’s one of those discs where some of it works and some of it falls short. See, Pat has a genuine dinstinctive style and tone. And, neither his style or tone rely on outboard gear. It’s pretty straightforward. Now, some of the cats brought all of their delays, choruses, rectifiers etc. and, it doesn’t work so well with Martino’s substance. Odd because it’s Pat’s record. In other words, you should always defer to the guy whose record it is. Anyway, Hedges, who wasn’t above employing any of the gizmos, found a way to blend with Martino and make a wonderful musical statement. That is a musician’s musician.
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