qbertsoul wrote:By the way, I really like the word "bonkers" and am trying to use it as much as possible.

Justin from Queens wrote:It reminds me of a joke.

MIT held a banana designing contest.

It came down to the two finalists. The first guy gets up.

"After nearly one million man hours of design, testing and research, my team has finally crafted the perfect synthetic banana! The polymer coating is actually bruise sensitive! You drop it and it will turn brown, just like a banana! We've FINALLY been able to design it so that it will pretty consistently peel in four to five different size strips! It even snaps a little when you first breach it, just like a banana! The soy-based interior fruit substitute is either pliable or mushy, depending on how hard you press it, just like a banana..!"

This goes on for five minutes. The judges look over at the second guy as he steps up to the podium to present.

He stands there for a second and then holds up his design. "I have a banana I bought at the store."

<JOKE OVER>

Actually, it didn't remind me of that. I just made that joke up.

= Justin

tarandfeathers wrote:I think the reason they've not been completely displaced by solid state devices is a combination of the fact that the 'tube sound' is so widely percieved to be THE sound of electric guitar, and that that sound is a result of so many variables in physical tube design that modelling it either through transistor design or digital means is a pretty thankless task.

ubercat wrote:May I suggest that Bonkers makes for a good kitty name?

qbertsoul wrote: I read an interview with Greg Sage of the Wipers who said that in the 80's, everybody was selling their old tube amps to get solid state or digital technology, so you could get some really great sounding tube amps for really cheap.

ubercat wrote:I still use mostly iron for cooking. I only have a few bits of chantall for applications that I can't perform on iron. Also, I still haven't found a decent pie iron and loaf iron, so I have two pieces of (shudder) teflon.

Same deal with my V4bs.

tarandfeathers wrote:That's a good point actually, carbon (blue) steel knives will always be better than stainless, even though they go rusty in a matter of hours if you don't keep them dry.