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by MandoMark
Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:50 am
Forum: Traditional String Instruments
Topic: Mandolin hero...
Replies: 10
Views: 3903

Dang double posts!
by MandoMark
Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:54 am
Forum: Traditional String Instruments
Topic: Mandolin hero...
Replies: 10
Views: 3903

I ordered one on Sunday... Don't go to the link above, as it is a customized product and likely not something that persists. Just go to http://www.torsopants.com/bandgeekhero I love the TorsoPants stuff... I did click that link, from the other thread, and if I click on any of the shirts, it gives t...
by MandoMark
Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:13 pm
Forum: Traditional String Instruments
Topic: Mandolin hero...
Replies: 10
Views: 3903

I ordered one on Sunday... Don't go to the link above, as it is a customized product and likely not something that persists. Just go to http://www.torsopants.com/bandgeekhero

I love the TorsoPants stuff...
by MandoMark
Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:10 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: marathon training
Replies: 15
Views: 1835

It must be a grand thing to be fit... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7615694.stm Be careful out there.. Slan, D. It happens, sadly... I was running the La Jolla Half Marathon and the race was on the toughest climb, up Torrey Pines (the park road, not the car one, which is much l...
by MandoMark
Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:01 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: I'm admitting it
Replies: 16
Views: 1559

Ah, my favorite season... Having grown up in Central NY, anything to kiss the humidity goodbye was welcome.
by MandoMark
Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:48 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: marathon training
Replies: 15
Views: 1835

So can sprints be a good part of long distance running or is it counter productive? Speed is an integral part of a distance program. You don't have to do hard, short efforts to finish a marathon, but if you want to get faster and be a stronger runner, all training programs should incorporate some s...
by MandoMark
Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:43 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: marathon training
Replies: 15
Views: 1835

Don't dwell on your most recent race... It's a building block towards MCM. I've run MCM twice, and both times had miserable races... the first time was my first marathon and I was WOEFULLY undertrained. It was VERY hot and humid, and aid stations were running out of water towards the end. The next y...
by MandoMark
Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:33 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: PROCT closed for the weekend
Replies: 59
Views: 5480

What direct insult? :-? Obviously I'm not doing enough fishing. My theory is that the cats are away for the weekend and the mice are not trusted to play. Maybe they are changing the main bearings... I was just responding to my "tinfoil-hat" response of how many states use Diebold voting m...
by MandoMark
Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:31 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Looking for the ultimate whistle!
Replies: 17
Views: 3745

It ain't cheap (compared to the Clarkes and PVC specials I have), but I LOVE my Burke DBSBT. It's really hard to not have good intonation with this thing (I've been playing for about 4 months, so blowing correct intonation is an issue) and it just sounds great. The second octave is clean and pure. C...
by MandoMark
Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:26 pm
Forum: Lost/Stolen/Missing Instruments
Topic: Seamus Egan's Copeland low D stolen
Replies: 14
Views: 29663

Didn't Pete Yarrow have his guitar returned after something like 20 years? There is some hope.

It is low to steal someone's instruments. I suppose I can see this happening to a bar band, where a Fender amp might fetch $200 or more from a pawn shop, but who is going to try to pawn a low whistle?
by MandoMark
Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:13 pm
Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
Topic: Bowling Green Slow Session Resource Page
Replies: 5
Views: 1839

djm wrote:Your link works fine for me. Does your browser want you to stick the www in the URL?

djm
Odd... When I replace the http:// with www, it works now. Funny, as I've had the bookmark for a few weeks and it worked fine, and the link from Google didn't work for me.

Crisis narrowly averted!
by MandoMark
Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:19 am
Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
Topic: Bowling Green Slow Session Resource Page
Replies: 5
Views: 1839

Bowling Green Slow Session Resource Page

Does anyone know what happened to the page with all the tune links? I found this a few weeks ago and have found it to be one of the most helpful resources out there to learn new tunes. Over the weekend, it appears to have vanished... http://toraigh.com/slowsessions/ Google still shows this as the li...
by MandoMark
Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:22 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: Prayers for New Orleans... again...
Replies: 33
Views: 2970

Has anyone heard whether any provision has been made for pets this time? One of the main reasons people will refuse to leave their homes in a disaster is that authorities will force them to leave family pets behind to "take their chances." This wasn't helped by scenes at the Superdome aft...
by MandoMark
Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:08 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Monthly Updates are Due from Newbies
Replies: 21
Views: 4203

1. If I really lean into it. 2. Generally good. It's OTHER people's music (and my attempts to play it) that I feel bad about 3. Wife, pretty good. The dog is OK, but when I pick up the Burke, any cats in sight suddenly remember something pressing to check on in another room 4. I played at my monthly...
by MandoMark
Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:07 pm
Forum: Traditional String Instruments
Topic: How do you play the mandolin?
Replies: 25
Views: 6826

PS- This thread is a good example of how you can get conflicting advice on the internet. sbfluter's mandolin used to be mine, which she got in a trade. When I was starting out on it, I got a lot of recommendations to learn with 4 strings (I believe it was banjo hangout that I got the advice from). ...