Lil Links Jungle

Lil Links Jungle!

Lil Links Abandoned

Lil Links Abandoned

Lil Links gone Wild

What happened to Lil Links?

Seneca Lake Jam

Charlie Brown at Seneca Lake Marina

The true story of Dick Proenneke

Yep, Dick was 51 years old when he decided to go off into the wilderness of Alaska and build himself, by hand (and leg) with hand tools only, a nice sturdy log cabin! Oooh, man, fuggetabout that Christopher McCandless guy (the subject of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild") THIS guy, Dick Proenneke, is the REAL item. He hand built this lil sturdy cabin, then moved in, and lived there for about thirty years - AND he DOCUMENTED the whole thing via film and copious notes!!! Wow. I just saw this today on WVIZ and I kept saying to myself (as I watched the documentary) who is this guy??? Well, I found out - here is part of the doc.

Acoustic Guitar Sound 101

New Tusq saddle & brass bridge pins! I ordered these goodies from Musicians Friend, the first time I have ordered anything from them. The TUSQ SADDLE is a generic Taylor Compensated (B String) saddle, 1/8Th inch wide. In fact my saddle slot is 3/32 inch wide, however, it was VERY easy to simply use sand paper to adjust the width of the saddle. The height of the saddle needed some adjustment as well, and again, sand paper does the job fine - I did use a vice-grip like tool to hold the saddle between to scrap pieces of wood while I moved it back and forth across the sand paper. Also the length of the saddle needed to be worked - I hacked a piece off the length with (of all things) a hack saw. The shape of the top of the saddle was fine, no adjustment was needed, and after it fit the slot in height, width and length I put the strings on and BINGO it sounded great! The compensated B string is almost crucial to getting an acoustic guitar tuned up properly. And the newly installed brass bridge pins really add to the sound of my guitar, making it sing very sweetly in the high end - and the mids are stronger - lows are more focused. Overall, the combination of the brass bridge pins and the unique TUSQ saddle have improved the sound of my guitar substantially. I am a happy camper!!!

Half a Rainbow!

Half a Rainbow!

Meredith Whitney: NYC Queen 'Bear' Bee

If you were getting your market NEWS buzz on today then you may have seen the most recent cover of FORTUNE magazine unveiled on the CNBC Squawk Box this morning PROMINENTLY featuring Oppenheimer & Co. 'Star Analyst' Meredith Whitney looking VERY wealthy, VERY smart and VERY beautifully & powerfully attractive while she dutifully points out that the ECONOMY is headed for 'DEEP RECESSION' (as in the BOTTOM of the DUMPSTER). And this gorgeous bear REALLY KNOWS HER STUFF & she is STRUTTING it after having written about Citigroup (stock ticker symbol, C), in Oct. of 2007, basically telling the world that they would have to CUT the dividend ... which, it turns out, Citigroup DID do as did OTHERS (National City, NCC, among them). It was a prediction that, at the time, STUNNED many in the financial world, and since her prediction turned out to be 100 PERCENT ACCURATE, well, she got the Big Hot Spotlight turned towards her, and now she continues to BASK (if even uncomfortably) in that BIG HOT SPOTLIGHT. Just don't try to give Meredith ANY S**T because THIS PIC is of HER HUSBAND John "Bradshaw" Layfield who is the, uhm, LONGEST reigning WORLD CHAMPION of 'SMACKDOWN' HISTORY (yes THAT SmackDown as in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) previously known as World Wrestling Federation (WWF)) ... yup, Wall Street's current FAVORITE HOT FEMALE ANALYST is married to ... appropriately enough ... THE SMACKDOWN KING!

Jim Cramer: The REAL American Idol

I don't watch much TV anymore but recently I have re-discovered Jim Cramer and Mad Money. If you pay any attention whatsoever to Wall Street then you probably know Cramer, and if you have been following the Credit Crunch / Housing Market Crisis then you probably have seen some of the more entertaining episodes of Mad Money - I want to point out a couple of these episodes, like this recent piece where Cramer explains that the bank stocks have hit bottom. In a flash of irreverence and brilliant candor, Cramer uses wobbly Lincoln Logs cabin props to illustrate his thrust - check it out.
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I think it's safe to say that Jim Cramer has developed into the single most significant and recognizable figure in Wall Street journalism, he is like a crazy Wall Street weatherman pointing out storm fronts and dry spells while he bangs on his sound effect machine, shakes his props, gets his Booyah! on - he is the most consistently entertaining figure at CNBC and I think I only recently was able to completely grasp Mad Money's significance - will the REALLY real American Idol please stand up, Simon Cowell take note that Cramer is able to sing like a canary in a coal mine - just watch a few episodes of Mad Money, you will get it, for instance, here is a link to Jim Cramers Historic Credit Crisis Meltdown Warning Rant , this goes back a year, and it's a doozy, a real CLASSIC, a GEM - Jim Cramer, live on CNBC, basically ranting, raving that the FED was CLUELESS about what was developing (just prior to the Bear Stearns failure) -- this, folks, is MADatory viewing.
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(If for some stupid reason the link does not work, then CNBC may have moved the content, whatever. Just Google up Jim Cramers 2007 Credit Crunch Rant or something along those lines and you WILL find this classic gem of live television perfection probably on YouTube if not Google Video. Or just check out thestreet.com for ALL of Jim Cramer, Mad Money episodes, and the rest of Cramers crew - they're the bomb)

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