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RJGFox wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 12:13 am Some good albums there.
And agree on your vinyl comments.

Thanks. Thats a lot of music . . . . I haven't catalogued my CD collection, although I plan on doing so. Now that there's no NHL games on until the end of the month this might be a good time to do so. . . .

JBG wrote: ↑Sun Feb 01, 2026 12:14 am
Be nice after 20 years to go back to a turntable though. When I go back to work I’ll ask the resident audiophile about valve amps.

Jonathan

I love vinyl. Vinyl has a sound and tonal quality that digital can't equal.

I've had a direct drive turntable, my current one is a belt drive Thorens TD 150, SME V arm, and a nice Ortofon cartridge (from memory). It's currently in storage waiting for the purchase of our forever house. From an engineering point of view it seems to me that belt drive is more likely to provid...

Excellent Collection. Chicago II IMO is their best, Sold our Souls for Rock and Roll (early greatest hits is a good choice sans getting the library). Aqualung is a solid Choice. For CDB I liked Million Mile Reflections a little better. You got the best of Roger Waters' Pink Floyd, the two after are...

A mix of songs and albums there but I am noticing some overlap in our music tastes. I’ll talk albums. Though I may have to continue later. With Led Zep I’d delete the their 3rd album and insert Physical Grafitti. Three of their very best tracks are on that double album. With Black Sabbath: Master o...

Good stuff. My collection is more Punk/New Wave. The classics were mostly on cassettes. No Bowie? ouch. Funny Stones choices, Beggar's Banquet is my favorite, and Rolled Gold is a pretty good best so far. Not a huge Bowie fan. The Rolling Stones, I want to get Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, Goats He...

I don't know if "vinylphile" is a word, but . . . . I started my vinyl collection 13 months ago when my wife bought me a turntable for Christmas. Since then I have acquired the following albums: Arlo Guthrie Alice’s Restaurant Beach Boys Best Of Beatles Beatles Second Album Rubber Soul Rev...

My wife has ordered from Temu but not any more. Junk, junk, junk. Not only that, she had her debit card number compromised a couple times, thank God for Navy Federal Credit Union, they caught it and called her, reversed the bogus charges, and refunded the money. They would send through a small charg...

Wheat, oats etc is called corn in the UK. Ah. Did not know that. Thanks. The word is already used in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle c900 AD. No doubt earlier, I just can't find the sources this morning. Hie wæron be numene ægðer ge þæs ceapes ge þæs cornes. On ðisum gere wæs..corn swa dyre swa nan man æ...

Not to be pedantic, but Pre-Christian Britain. . .when was this? Corn is a Central/North American grain and was introduced to Europe in the 1500s. How did the 10th-13th century Anglos, Saxons, Celts, etc make corn dollies when corn was 2 or 3 centuries in their future? Did they make their dollies wi...

Karl Newman is another one, one of the "original" members along with Alousis, Soren, among others from the Politics of War board. Soren has shuffled off this mortal coil, and Alousis went off grid in Central America 20 years ago, IIRC.

Wow, nice find! Haven't used a slide rule since High School, over 50 years ago.

My cousins introduced me to his and Alice Cooper's music in the late 60s. Saw him in concert in 1982 at the Boston Garden. GREAT show! Truly an icon of the 60s-70s-80s hard rock scene. RIP, Ozzy

Micael wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 7:07 pm Congrats, neat to be able to choose between West Point and the Naval Academy. But the enlisted route is quite the thing as well.

Indeed. I was enlisted, Navy (aircraft hydraulics mech, served on the carrier Midway for 2 years) then Army National Guard (26trh Infantry). 12 years total

My grandson Malachi just finished his freshman year of college, has been invited to apply to West Point. He has also been approached by the Naval Academy. He's a track star, currently holds the Arizona high school high jump record. My other grandson Adam has decided to join the Army, seeking to be a...

I'd go to the theater to see that movie. . .

Navy Scraps Biden-Era ‘Climate Action’ Plan, Returns Focus To Warfighting By: Shawn Fleetwood April 23, 2025 The U.S. Navy officially scrapped a Biden-era “climate action” plan for the force on Tuesday, signifying the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to refocus the military towards warfightin...

From my friend Dave Benner. Dave is an author of several excellent history volumes centering on Colonial and Early US period. His works include "Compact of the Republic," "Thomas Paine: A Lifetime of Radicalism," and "The 14th Amendment and the Incorporation Doctrine." ...

7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. 8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord ca...

David Newton wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:54 pm My grandfather's only up to 9 great-grandchildren. Oldest is 12 and youngest is 2.

Our oldest great-grand is 12.