Post a picture of your PC work area!!!

[KDOG]

Lets see where youre posting from. Give rig specs if you want too.http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/KDOG32/DSCN0419.JPG

[KDOG]

My rig: Athlon XP mobile 2500+ Barton @ 2.2Ghz (11x200)
1Gb Corsair XMS PC3200
Radeon 9500PRO @ 325/600

[PW_Plack]

My estranged wife's attorney still hopes to leave me living under a bridge, so I'm avoiding collecting any real furniture for now! Seriously, I'm living as cheaply as I can until we settle my divorce, expected in about a month. Note the stylish Oreck computer desk under the Dell Inspiron 5150, a 2.4-GHz Pentium-4 with 40 gig hard drive, Cd burner and Indigo IO aftermarket audio card.

(Note the stylish Rotor Wing Forum T-shirt...)

http://www.voiceswest.com/homesweet.jpg

[KDOG]

Oh boy. Don't know what to say to that.

I guess I did something wrong with my pic. Whats all that mean?

[jucie]

I have an Athlon 2000 running Linux.

[RICK MARTIN]

This is where I spend my evenings after teaching middle school all day. In the first picture that's my pristine 1963 Hammond B-3 Organ. Oh Baby!

[chuter]

Hey Rick,
Looks like a nice collection of guitars! I used to play some in my younger days. Now I just plink around the house on a $100 acoustic I've had for 25 years.

[RICK MARTIN]

Michael,
I have some pretty cheap guitars that sound pretty good. Keep playin' man!

[Hognose]

KDOG (have a real name, buddy?)

The reason that picture didn't show up, is that your site where you posted it does not allow external sites to link only to pictures -- presumably for you to see the ads or popups that finance the page. Lots of sites are doing this, because they pay for their bandwidth and think you are "stealing" it for deep linking.

It's part of the ongoing collision of the clue-deprived greedheads or commerce with the clueful but unrealistic culture of the Net! If you just attach it to your post it should be OK.

Hmmmm... do I take a picture of my laptop... (garden variety TiBook, 15", 800Mhz, 1G/40G in some scenic place around Hog Manor (I run wireless...)? Do I shoot it's brother that died in Afghanistan and whose remains still clutter my lab? Do I shoot the server rack? or the PC I use for Flight Simulator (period). Or my Dell from the Army...? I think the server rack. Maybe I will put a guitar in front of it (the studio is a different room... now unusable as such cause the servers are too frackin' LOUD). Hmmm... now I gotta find a working Nikon. Afghan dust is murder on digital and still cameras.

cheers

-=K=-

[Brian Jackson]

http://www.rotopix.com/space/jackson/studio.jpg
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http://www.rotopix.com/space/jackson/studio2.jpg
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It's obviously a little cramped in here :)

[barnstorm2]

I can't post everyplace I use my computer from but this is one of my favorites ;)

[daveb]

One reason I fly an open frame... look at the great view of the brick wall and wooden fence out my window. BTW If you can see the guitar, it's a 1961 Gibson 'Dot neck' 335 that I grabbed from its glass case. :D I'm interested to see a few musicians here, is it part of the aviation disease?

Dave

[Sonnyj]

Sorry guys I dont got oneodim spendy camaras but I do have a nice acustic guitar to bring to ROC,and I do like to play.Will I be the only one?

[RICK MARTIN]

Brian,
Give me an idea what you are into and what you do musically.

[RICK MARTIN]

Dave,

Nice Guitar. What do you like to play etc?

[Brian Jackson]

Brian,
Give me an idea what you are into and what you do musically.
I write, record, and make a feeble attempt at singing :o . Kind-of a melodic Prog Rock style... think "RUSH-meets-Enya", whatever that sounds like.

I'm also a practiced Lucid Dreamer (http://www.lucidity.com) and an avid chess player. So tell me a little about you...

What's funny is that DaveB mentioned the flying/musician thing. I read somewhere that flying was generally a right-brain activity, like music and other creative activities. Could explain why some of my favorite musicians (Gary Numan, David Gilmore from Pink Floyd, etc.) gravitate toward aviation. Could be an interesting topic for a new thread.

Cheers,
Brian Jackson

[daveb]

Hi Rick,

I see on your profile that you are a guitar instructor... you are welcome to drop over and give me lessons anytime! I'm a failed jazz player who gets lost in blues variations, plays a sort of sitar improvised feel with modal variations and substitution scales. In fact I'm so confused I'd rather go flying :D

Today my gyro got a new 582 after the old one died, while I in the air, most inconvenient.... paid for it today, also inconvenient....that’s why my blues are so twisted.... :eek:

Dave

[RICK MARTIN]

Brian,

That's quite a combination. I grew up on CSNY etc., but will play pretty much anything. I majored in classical guitar/choral education at FSU. While in school and after I started teaching middle school vocal music in 1977, I played in various small duos/trios. Around 1979 I accepted an invitation to play bass in a progressive bluegrass band (pretty easy for a guitar player). This group "Bluegrass Southern Style" did some recording and a 6 week USO tour in Germany. Since then it's been marriage, a daughter, divorce and a return to teaching guitar out of financial need while maintaining the public school job. I am mainly a solid rhythm guitar player but also play some lead, bass, piano and Hammond B-3. Even though I teach choral music, I'm not a very good vocalist. But it doesn't matter because I love to sing and play especially with other people. My music room is set up so that we have as many instruments on hand as possible. It makes for good jam sessions. Recently I have started playing mandolin and I'm loving it. I just take it to a restaurant where my friend plays and sit in and improvise. What a blast! Last Friday I was just wailing away at the restaurant. I looked up and Graham Edge from the Moody Blues was sitting at the table right in front of me just groovin' away (he lives in the area). I momentarily freaked out but was finally able to pretend he wasn't there.

Now I am also interested in the music/flying connection.

[RICK MARTIN]

Dave,

I think I can actually hear what you're describing and it sounds pretty neat. I learned a long time ago that you don't have to have great chops to completely enjoy playing music. Some of the most enjoyable and powerful musical moments I've ever had, have been incredibly simple in a musical sense. I'll take a few well placed notes with some energy, dynamics and emotion over a complicated flurry any day. I say go with your gut. If it makes you happy, mission accomplished.

I have often dreamed of visiting your world, but can't see it happening anytime soon. I would definitely contact you and others if I were coming.

And I'm jealous. At least you're flying.

[Mike Jackson]

Guys,

It's interesting reading relating your music and flying. I also believe flying is a right brained activity, much like conducting or playing music. The left brain comes in when the flydreaming is over and your in trouble. A long, long time ago in a land far, far away I was a fighter pilot. We used to say we got into that business because we were all "frustated rock musicians".

Mike (no)Action Jackson

[daveb]

I hope we are not too far off topic here, there was a note after my last post in another thread saying as much. How do you keep talking to the same people if you have to leave the room first?

Thanks Rick, you would find yourself very welcome if you make it over to OZ one day. Yes, I ran in the new engine yesterday, and got back in the air today :D :D :D

Mike, I'm wondering about all these connections too. I see lucid dreaming on one profile, I help people with OBE in workshops which is pretty much the same thing. Add the flying, musician, and how about keeping fish and programming computers?

Might be an interesting poll? I wonder if there are links between activities and open frame or enclosed gyro ownership too.

Dave

[Victor Duarte]

this is my personnal office, where i work for my own business... and.. yes sometimes, i like to appreciate a coffee, a cigarette.. and a cognac.. all vices except one that my girlfriend avoids :D

for music... i used to play bass, now i m on drums, but for it i go to my brother's pro studio.... and i was listening to Billy Cobham...

[Victor Duarte]

is drawing considered as a "left-brained" occupation? here s what i m working on.. my personnal website (not finished)

http://zeeoo.free.fr

[Brian Jackson]

...and i was listening to Billy Cobham...
Give Mike Portnoy a whirl... the drummer for Dream Theatre. Whenever I hear that guy I feel like pitching my drum sticks :D

[Victor Duarte]

yeah some guys make us feel so... humble ...

http://www.drummerworld.com/

makes me realize i ve got so much homework to do ....

[Brian Jackson]

yeah some guys make us feel so... humble ...

http://www.drummerworld.com/

makes me realize i ve got so much homework to do ....
You a musician too, Vic?

It would truly make an interesting poll to see how many of us had other interests in common. Todd? how-bout-it?

[Victor Duarte]

oh, brian, i shurely wont qualify myself as musician, i d really need to work hard to be called a musician, just say i m a "need to feel i play some music" guy... i played bass in a "post-teen" group for years, not really seriously but with great fun .. and about 4 years i began with a Tama and must admit its just ideal for me .. my brother ir more a pro musician, he owns a pro-studio, my sister played drums also, his BF plays bass... lets say we are sensible to music.
actually i design a website for a small label i could describe like "all kind of strange experiments", if you re curious , i ll tell you more when completed.

regards