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I ordered a pre-cut body from Warmoth, which is nice cause it was already made and I got it quick. I ordered a custom neck from Musikraft that will be here in 8 weeks () . I've been frequenting this forum at reranch.com/reranch that has been a HUGE help. I bet if you asked about your chrome spring cover they might know. Are you looking for something like an "ashtray" cover that telecasters have?

How about that video rental thing they're gonna do? That seems kinda cool, but I bet the videos will take forever to download.

I started building a guitar over the holidays and have learned a lot of stuff. So much, that as I do things on the guitar I'm building, I think to go look at things on my other (factory built) guitars. So, the other night I shielded the body of my Strat. I bought this shielding tape and put it all in the pickup cavities and control cavities. I used to never use the neck or bridge pickup by itself cause the hum was so bad -- the tape cured this, 100%. It even made the tone better. So, if you want a quick and cheap little project, I suggest doing this to any single-coil guitar.

Froogle search: Les Paul Double Cutaway

Those are cool. I really, really wanted one a couple years back...never had the money when I was in college. The worst part was that I came across a guy selling a 1958 (50 something) for $1400 and there was just no way to jump on it.

Gibson makes a faded SG (in worn cherry and worn brown) which is in your price range, so if you wanted to stick with an SG-type guitar that'd be an option.

Gibson Faded SG Special Electric Guitar

Probably the best looking broad who I would rather hit in the face with a shovel than hump.

Well, that's probably the best description...Never could quite put my finger on it, but that's it.

Katie Holmes was on TV the other day. She's easily as stupid as he is. Easily.

blu ray just feels like a fraud to me, i don't know why, but my gut tells me to wait even longer

That's cause Sony makes it. I get that icky DRM feeling.

Hipsters.

anyone hear a price? I'm betting the 2k range, easy.

Ok. The new laptop has tightened my pants.

Macbook Air. Holy. Shit. Me. Want.

what do you do?

 

in the tech world dice.com rules your face

Marketing and graphic design, but my degree is in journalism. I'll check dice.com out.

Toshiba's HD-DVD makes a move. I guess here comes everything they got. Slashin prices. I think this is a last attempt at saving themselves and dont see it working. I already see bluray players and discs coming down. Amazon is having a sale right now.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hd_dvd_price_cu...MWu8MM2s5kjtBAF

Gotta clear out inventory *sigh

Thanks for your advice. Monster currently has what they call the "Job Search Agent". When you initially setup your profile, you enter a bunch of job criteria, etc. Then, on a daily basis, this "agent" spits jobs out to you via email. I've very diligent about applying since November -- numerous resumes per week. I guess I'm just feeling down on my luck. I know nothing in this world is handed to people, but damn -- I need a new job already!

Has anyone had any good results with using Monster.com? I've been researching and applying for jobs that I'm very qualified, and even over-qualified for, and I'm not seeing any good responses. I have sent my resume to 50, yes 50 companies. I have never been contacted when my resume was sent through Monster.com's application process. When a company posts their email address, I contact them directly. Then and only then have I received any form of a reply. I am beginning to think Monster is a bullshit service.

I would really appreciate any suggestions. I have to find a job in Los Angeles in the next two months.

Anyone have anymore comments on these things? It seems like the most common complaints are that it takes you a rather indirect route (not freeways) and that the info on gas stations and restaurants is very out of date. I'm moving to Los Angeles in a couple months and am really considering getting one.

Now I'm excited to check the mail!!

Yeah right. Your luthier fixed it as soon as you walked out the door and has been playing it ever since.

Probably

Congrats -- it's a good-looking axe. I think you made the right choice.

Thanks! The bad news is, despite it being brand spankin' new, it was fretting out on the 12th and 15th frets. I took it to the local luthier and he is backlogged for three weeks So, my new prize is waiting in the shop for a setup.

Philip Rivers is quite the douche truck.

Kind of a wanker. Seriously, how about the second string holding off the Colts. That was pretty impressive.

Petra Nemcova. They dated for a while. Inexplicable.

Is there any explanation for this? ugh...She's super smokin' and his music is pretty lame.

It is most def about one hour too long but it is really good.

I thought it could have used more early stuff, rather than "now that we're famous" stuff.

What's the consensus about AB's Bowl of Fire material? I remember one VCer saying it was nothing like Eggs or Armchair, so I never gave it a listen

Is it even possible to have high-bitrate songs play on an iPod? I thought even if you rip them at 320, they still get compressed or converted to 128 when you put them on your iPod. Either way, music is totally fucked these days for a whole number of reasons. The bitrate and compresssion issues really only matter to a small minority -- I don't like it, but it's true. You can't tell me that people who buy Avril Lavigne records give one fat shit about bitrate and sound quality -- and that's the the issue. Most people don't realize how lousy most pop music is, let alone that it's compressed, etc.

Yes - it is @ 4 hours long as I recall.

I found all four of them enjoyable. I really dig that kind of stuff -- wish there was more out there like that.