(second block, fourth letter of the prisoners' quadratic tap code...)

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...am here to tap through the walls.


Fri Dec, 12 2008

430-21-4093

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the number with which this rotten government has tagged me, and which fools nationwide know as the "social security number". Go look it up. That number was issued in Little Rock, Arkansas, where I was born. My birthdate is 11/27/56.

I despise the idea of tatoos, but I think the time is coming when I will put that on my left forearm, like the Nazis did it.

In any case, anyone here is free to publish it anywhere (I've done it in Usenet several times, and Wendy McElroy once blogged it with my hearty blessing), and anyone here is free to use it for anything, because I don't.

The government does.

Do any of you people understand?

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That was my comment at a blog that doesn't matter anymore.

Obama, you grinning creep: do you hear me? Do you understand? I will never belong to you. Never. Pass the word down to your Daschles and Clintons, your Holders and Browners, and all of them: you're never going to own me.

If I am the only man in this country who'll swear this out-loud and then live it, then by god I am the one.

Not you.

Never.

Dec 12, 08 | 2:20 am

AxeBites

Various guitars I see floating by, mostly Gibson and mostly eBay.

Early Norlin ES-335 -- 1970, in Walnut ("ES-335TDW"). This is a period-piece look and feel, and arguably the sound as well but that's to cut things very finely. A "classic" 335 would be the original of 1958 in the Sunburst or Natural finish, or the Cherry Red of 1959; the Walnut of 1970 (second year of that finish offering) is not really a "classic" 335. In the history of the Gibson aesthetic, this is analogous to, say, vertically-striped polyester bell-bottoms or Bahama Blue shag carpeting. None of this is to say that they're not cool guitars, and this is a nice one. Excellent photographs.

Chrome hardware, featuring the trapeze tailpiece (like my L-47 and I've always liked it) and ABR-1 bridge with period-typical nylon saddles. Bound rosewood fretboard, with small block markers, and then the crown inlay at the machine head. These would be the T-top Humbuckers. Vintage Nazis would moan that the upper bouts are pointy (the body templates were wearing-out in the factory) and the fourteen-degree machine head with the volute signals a sometimes not-fun era of the line, but these things really do rock or moan or whatever you want a 335-type semi-hollow to do. ...which, of course, is because it really is a 335.


In the months since I've let AxeBites languish all to bleedin' hell, Gibson's Robot Guitar technology has sifted out to other models than the original Les Paul application. I don't know how it's going: I still haven't even seen one of these self-tuners. I don't see piles of them burning on the sides of the highway, nor reverent hangings in display cases over bars, so who knows? This 2008 Robot SG is ready to rock in the Metallic Red. Nickel hardware; it's the stoptail wired for data to send to the tuners, with dual Humbuckers. It's a bound rosewood fretboard, but I really like the single-bound machine head with the crown inlay. That's a real cool old-school look, right there, to set off that crazy-ass color. {nod}