Hi All. Booting up my Mac Mini this morning it tells me the external eye wateringly expensive Glyph hard drive has errors and needs to be reformatted. Happily I have a backup so the data is safe, but I realise my backup drive is old and quite small and I think the time has come to replace it. Recommendations for a 2tb USB 3 external drive? Seagate? Samsung?

Thanks all

PS My bid for most boring post of the day….but will help with my stress….

Any ideas, maths AWers?

♣ and ♠ both stand for whole numbers. ♠ is 50 greater than ♣. (2x♣) + ♠ = 500.

Calculate values of ♣ and ♠.

How does the calculation approach work? Doh.

Just looking at Photobucket, I realised I have loads of pictures and images from threads passim which have sadly lost their home with the demise of the various blogs. So here is new home for perfectly nice, interesting photos we may have seen before but which are currently stateless. No logic required, just post ’em here.

Elvis’s double neck guitar/6 sting bass, snapped in Gracelands in 1996.

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i449/charlieboy14/elvisdoubleneck.jpg

I love this, from “The Secret Policeman’s Ball” – Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck playing “Further on up the road”. Thing is, it’s Eric’s song, but Jeff, guesting, decides to have some fun by outrageously upstaging him with a series of completely off the wall licks which still manage to wriggle back to the blues, jumping about, pulling faces, throwing shapes and generally showing why he’s the best. To his credit, Eric appreciates it and several times acknowledges that on this occasion he’d been had. Brilliantly musical and brilliant fun, and probably still unplayable by anyone other than the Beckster.

On the list of things I’m not interested in in the slightest, this plumbs new depths of apathy. Anyone intending to get one?

Phew. I mean, phew. Those who watched, comment within. Those who haven’t, don’t look!

15 minutes inside the deadline…I hadn’t realised it’s the birthday of our finest songwriter and guitarist. Happy birthday RT!

Over a sociable beer a mate fixed me in a gaze and said “The sweet you can eat between meals…” and I automatically responded “without ruining your appetite…”. I haven’t seen or thought about this for 20 years, but there it was. We had a good laugh coming up with old ad catchphrases and finishing them for each other (possibly you had to be there…). But now I couldn’t tell you a single one – partly because I avoid them at all costs, but have advertisers lost the ability to embed their wares in your brain in short order?

Some classics here…including Elvis Costello’s Dad….

We use Windows Defender which is fine but doesn’t seem to pick up some malware/unintentionally downloaded by Twang Jr crap. Any reccos for a nice not resource hogging bit of software? Don’t mind paying for decent tool. (Mcafee….eeeeugh).

Coming soon!! Series 2 is currently being re run on 4OD for those who wish to catch up. Can’t wait!

We were discussing the Hitler Hears videos at the Mingle on Friday. For those unaware, there’s a clip from “Downfall” in circulation, and people replace the subtitles with hilarious alternatives on the most bizarre or mundane subjects. They get funnier as you watch then as you start to know which character appears next and how they’ve been used. Here, Hitler hears Yes intend to tour with Benoit David replacing Jon Anderson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6IH27T-5E

All the business about Richard III’s funeral leads me to ATM – guilty or not guilty? I’m voting guilty. He had opportunity – the princes were clearly in his power. He had motive – he’d just been through years of fighting over rival kings ascending to the thrown and getting bumped off again. Alive rival kings are always a threat. Dead ones are much more manageable. And he had the means – he’d bumped off or would bump off numerous other rivals and had a hardy band of blood soaked mates around to do the do – I doubt he did it himself whatever Shakespeare says. I also think it’s wrong burying him in Leicester – he was far more associated with York as a base, but when his wife died he specifically had her buried in Windsor – surely he’d have wanted to be buried with her? Leicester was just where he was dumped in a pit after losing at Bosworth. Any other history fans here?

Hope to see some of you at The King and Queen pub , 1 Foley Street, London W1W 6DL, United Kingdom

Goodge St tube.

From 6ish.

Cheers!

Remember this cureo from the days when charity singles were new? The metal community did their version of Live Aid. Marvellous stuff, organised by Ronnie James Dio who shows again what a great singer he is. Much gurning, fist clenching, screwed up face singing, leather trousers and widdly solos within. A stirring song too. I love the YouTube comment “every time I see this I want to get some rad shades and a white blazer”. Hugely good hearted and they look like they’re having the time of their lives. Loving David St. Hubbins in the chorus too.

http://youtu.be/P7eqxg92YG0

Hopeless isn’t it. I get too distracted. Like writing this for example.

One of my all time favourite guitarists. Back in the day when I first heard the solos on “Money” and “Time” off “Dark Side” I thought that is probably as good as it gets for atmospheric underground rock guitar…and listening now, little changes my mind.

My word Relayer is a good album. I ignored it until very recently but golly, from 14.50 “The gates of delirium” is stunning.

Just sayin’.

I was listening to one of the always enjoyable “Stuff you should know” podcasts from How Stuff Works, concerning important movies. There’s an essay on it on their website if anyone’s interested (they have lots of good little essays on diverse and generally interesting subjects, mind you the site itself is a right mess). Anyway, it got me thinking, there’s a thread I’d like to read. So, film buffs, name an “important” movie and why you think it’s important.

http://shows.howstuffworks.com/

Helping out a bit…..I’ve knocked up a quick Doodle poll. It takes 30 seconds to express a preference.

Select the date you prefer or both, and if you have a venue preference, add it in the Comment under the dates.

http://doodle.com/bapb5hkt8wm5t8i8

Did we decide on a venue/date for later this month? Can’t find it if we did.