And I’ll start by hauling a couple of megatars —
But, say … I could haul *lots* more megatars in this truck!
Been Around the Block. Got Some Stories. These are Them.
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And I’ll start by hauling a couple of megatars —
But, say … I could haul *lots* more megatars in this truck!
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I have purchased a house here in Northern California, and the property had adequate space, and so it happened that, thanks to the goodness of the Benevolent Universe, a new shop is being constructed there. Mobius Megatar, where I make wonderful musical instruments, has outgrown it’s space at the Secret Megatar Laboratory, and soon will have this new and larger factory shop.
The construction has trampled the once-lavish grounds, but soon our team of avid gardeners will be back on the job. In the meantime, here are some pictures —
(a) The house (left) and new shop (right):
(b) The house (left) and new shop (right):
(c) The view out the windows:
If you’d like to see more photos of the shop construction project, on our Mobius Megatar website, in the News section, open up the MegaBlog, and choose “Factory” to find lottso photos from bare ground up through the current state.
It won’t be long before we move our equipment into the new shop, and create even more Megatars for a world thirsty for easy-to-play music.
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These books are called “The Easy Touch-Style Method.” The purpose of the video series is to provide a demo of how easy it can be to learn two-handed touch-style play using this streamlined learning method.
The first video — viewable today — is an introduction which simply explains what touch-style is, and provides a demo of how one can play by touch. It then shows why having more strings makes playing easier, and shows how clear it is when both hands can move exactly the same. Then, using four simple chords, the Bloggard demonstrates —
And so, for your elucidation and entertainment, The Adventures of Bloggard presents —
PS: If you are wondering, the instrument used in the demo is a Mobius Megatar TrueTapper Eclipse. The audio recording was done entirely in Guitar Rig 2 with minimal effects. As you can see, the demo was filmed in the Mobius Megatar Space Station engine room. (Warp Drives were offline for an oil change. Otherwise, it would have been too noisy.)
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My raison de etre for San Francisco is the ShopBot Jamboree down peninsula way, where I’ve learned things useful for Mobius Megatar, gave a presentation on a novel clamping system that we developed, and had such fun at the Maker Fair, seeing wonderful things.
However, as a thrill and delight, living with a cherished friend from times gone by, San Francisco, opening her Golden Gate just like in the song. A foggy mystery opening into a sun-bathed beauty, both comfortable and known and suddenly new, more exciting than ever. I expected to visit several people I know, but as it turned out, I had my hands full just visiting the places I wanted to see, more than enamored by my time in the city.
Walking the streets, and driving the neighborhoods, dining in the wonderful restaurants, seeing old haunts, haunted by the past and charmed by new vistas, things I’d never seen before. Things I wanted to see for a long time. Beautiful, sensual, familiar and new. A deep sigh of contentment and joy.
Au revoir for now.
I’ll be back.
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For the Mobius Megatar company, a simple how-to video about modifying guitar straps to make two-handed touchstyle playing easier on a standard guitar.
For future reference, here’s the link. But if YouTube is online, then you should be able to see the video here —
Yow. That’s fun!
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[reprinted from my former site How to Tune a Human, May 4, 2007]
Everybody’s talking about the cult-hit movie, “The Secret,” and no wonder. The method promises to give you anything you want.
The movie has a focus on “getting stuff,” which is probably a good thing, because this focus that anyone can understand is probably one of the reasons the movie has been wildfire word-of-mouth and rapidly making its way into mainstream culture. And after all, if you’re just too darned spiritual to want some stuff for yourself, you could always manifest a bunch of stuff and give it to the poor!
For the rest of us, getting some stuff sounds just swell. And just a tiny bit of reflection brings us to the realization that we could use the same method to be, do, or have more of the things that interest and inspire us. Nothing wrong with that.
But what about lazy people?
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[reprinted from my former site How to Tune a Human, May 3, 2007]
As described in the “What are Brainwaves?” article, the popular term “brainwaves” comes from the electrical operation of the brain, which as it operates, causes quick voltage fluctuations in the different parts of the brain.
::: FROM DEEPLY ASLEEP TO WIDE AWAKE
For convenience, brainwaves are described by their frequency, or how fast they’re waving. This is convenient because generally speaking certain frequencies correspond with certain mental states that we know.
So the simple way to look at this is: Different frequency = Different consciousness.
:: DOES ‘ENTRAINMENT’ MEAN GETTING ON THE TRAIN?
In a manner of speaking, it does mean ‘getting on the train!’
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[reprinted from my former site How to Tune a Human, May 2, 2007]
A blog that I enjoy is called “Evolving Times,” and recently the writer described the situation of being “spare-changed,” on the street.
People in my parents generation used the word “beggers” to describe people who beg on the street. Or sometimes “moochers,” “panhandlers,” or “bums.” Of course, in tiny Henrietta, Texas, where I grew up, the town was too small to have an official panhandler, so the town drunk filled in part time.
Friends of mine as I grew up didn’t seem to like the word “Begger,” though it would seem to be accurate. And I guess the phrase, “Buddy, can you spare a dime?” from that older time had mutated into “Spare change?” by the hippie period in the 1960’s.
THE SPARE-CHANGER
The writer in “Evolving Times” was describing what we’ve all felt in that situation. You’re walking along and you are suddenly asked, “Spare change?” Which as we all know, means “Do you have any spare change, that you could give to me?” (I guess those beggers are either very lazy, or they are astonishingly efficient.)
And then what happened?
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