From fredjenkins@earthlink.net Sun Feb 17 10:54:37 2013
Subject:Re: OT: Times change


Roger that!

Some practical points offered only for your consideration:
If you've no time to practice, lose the TV.
If you'd like to have an hour (more) of daily practice,
make a TV log and see if your life is by choice or default.
If you've no room for a home musical instrument lose the TV.
If you "really only watch the news" make a real honest log of
TV for a week, then see above.
If you love your kids, lose the TV.

These are imperatives from me to me, for all others I merely
state them as food for thought, as no man should tell another
man how to live. Actually, TV is nothing except telling others
how to live...

As for iPhone - I program them for a living (day job - jazz
improv instructional applications only) and what a horrible
two edged sword that is - We've seen couples sitting at a
really nice restaurant each padlocked on their own little
sacred box ignoring the other for 30 minutes at a time.
Anti social networking indeed.

On a much happier note Karaoke gets a really bad rap but I've
been amazed at how often a group at a small gathering (at my
house with karaoke machine) will go from "no can't do that" to
100% of them got up there and tried. Gives one hope, but then
hope is not a plan.

Regards
m

ps - got my two manual clone wheel Frankenstein wired up last
night. Weighs more than a real B3 but it happened from
parts on hand. I swear on current path I'm going to have
a clonewheel in the house for practice and a real B3 for
the weekly gig because the B3 is more portable.
Nextweek Pedalboard. How can I do all this?
Because I have no TV.

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Jackoverfull wrote:
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> I would like to point out that technology is not inherently bad or good, it depends on how we use it. It allows us to chat all around the world with ease, it surely helps learning (now you can spend much more time studying the material instead of trying to acquire it, for example) and so on. Personally I've always hated my ("dumb")phones, a badly designed piece of technology that was partly useful and partly an annoyance, in 2009 I bought an used iPhone and I'm still using it a lot. Also helps to get away from staying in front of a computer on a chair actually, my body thanks (my eyes less so, perhaps).
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