Dave Ryder

Happy Birthday Storm Thorgerson (2-28-1944)

Dave — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 05:13:49 +0000

In 1968, along with Aubrey Powell, he founded the graphic art group Hipgnosis. He created many iconic album designs during his career for so many great rock bands: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Alan Parsons Project, Yes, Black Sabbath, Bad Co., ELO, Robert Plant, 10cc, AC/DC, Paul McCartney, Genesis, The Police, and MANY more. Considered one of the greatest album covers of all time, his most famous album cover was The Dark Side of the Moon. A great talent and a really nice guy by all accounts. Check out his wikipedia page for more info, and his appearances in several Pink Floyd “Making of” documentary’s were very cool. He passed away 18 April 2013 (aged 69), but his legacy will live on. RIP, Storm.

“There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark…”

Soldering Skillz

Dave — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 05:27:59 +0000

A long while back I posted a bit about soldering, and linked to a page about the basics (it’s gone now, and I had to link to an Archive.org page – and what with link rot and domain changes, it could be gone tomorrow).

So I came across this page The Art Of Soldering and it’s actually better IMHO. It seems like these guys (European Circuits LTD) really know what they’re doing.

I even did a bit of chatting with Sam and Max, they are nice guys – thanks for the tips!

Guitar notes and frequencies

Dave — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:38:29 +0000

I found this on the web some time ago, now I forget where, but it’s useful to me occasionally so I thought I’d post it.

* 82.4 E – open 6th string
* 87.3 F
* 92.5 F#
* 98.0 G
* 103.8 G#
* 110.0 A – open 5th string
* 116.5 A#
* 123.5 B
* 130.8 C
* 138.6 C#
* 146.8 D – open 4th string
* 155.6 D#
* 164.8 E
* 174.6 F
* 185.0 F#
* 196.0 G – open 3rd string
* 207.6 G#
* 220.0 A
* 233.1 A#
* 246.9 B – open 2nd string
* 261.6 C – “middle C”
* 277.2 C#
* 293.6 D
* 311.1 D#
* 329.6 E – open 1st string
* 349.2 F
* 370.0 F#
* 392.0 G
* 415.3 G#
* 440.0 A – 5th fret on 1st string
* 466.1 A#
* 493.8 B
* 523.2 C
* 554.3 C#
* 587.3 D
* 622.2 D#
* 659.2 E – 12th fret on 1st string

Some stuff I’m doing

Dave — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:36:28 +0000

Here is my latest Newsletter, so if you like this kind of thing go sign up for it (I don’t send them out very often, but when I do I try to make it fun and entertaining )

Hi Everybody!

I’ve been working on a bunch of stuff I thought you might be interested in, so let me jump right in:

First off, are you feeling cloudy? Mentally sluggish? Then get your B12! As most of you know, I’m personally very interested in the whole range of B vitamins, but this article concerns B12:

http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/pb/23357. However, you should probably lay off the Niacin which was just linked to heart disease (update 3/14/2024): High levels of niacin linked to heart disease

Also, I’ve been working on a landscaping project in my backyard, two terraced patios with a fire pit, so I thought I’d post some pics .

View from my back door.

View from the hillside.

Wall detail.

Close-up of the fire pit – I can see a lot of smores being eaten here in the next few weeks.

I also made a guard rail salvaged from old galvanized pipe from a trampoline, some 3/8″ cable and solar lights (2 bucks each at walmart) – total cost about $50 with the concrete:

Solar-capped guard rail.

So, as you can see I’ve been using a lot of bricks, here’s 1000 bricks with Muggy hamming it up for the camera:

Bricks in the truck, with ham.

In the truck, total ham.

Bricks unloaded. Hard fucking work.

We also got two new German Shepherds, sisters from the same litter, they are 1 year old. We originally called the first one “Lucky”, but Muggy called her “Lucky Kiki” so we ended up naming her Kiki, and naming her sister Koko. We got the first one in early June, and a month later we got her sister so she would have a playmate, and they absolutely love running around the woods together. Here are the hounds:

Smithers, release the Hounds.

Only thing is, they’ve been running over to the neighbors property, so we bought a fenceless system that shocks them if they go off our property. Unfortunately, now I have to bury 1000 ft. of wire. After doing about 150ft by hand, I created the Gouger 5000, a labor saving device that works pretty well actually:

Call now to order The Gouger 5000. Hurry, supplies are limited! (Bobcat not included)

Don Cole, Kent Hall and I have been rehearsing at Cole’s house: I was concerned about leaving my gear at his house, so to protect against burglars I built this Closet of Security +5. It has poisoned lock traps, as well as 240 amp shocking capability for unauthorized access:

Closet of Security +5. More traps per square inch than the Tomb of Horrors.

Well that’s all – I’m out l8r,

Dave

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We’re on a mission from God.

Remember when Halloween was like this?

Dave — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:10:59 +0000

It is for me again, when I see how much Muggy loves things like this:

DOT: World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Animation Film

Dave — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:16:34 +0000

Dinosaur bones? Or freak rock formations?

Dave — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:02:00 +0000

I found these rocks, wouldn’t it be cool if they were dinosaur bones? Dinosaur bones from the Jurassic period – just joking, if anything they would be late Pleistocene. (Click on images for full size):

This looks like this egg found in China:

This looks like the head of a femur, and it even looks like something gnawed the bone:

This looks like an egg cut in half, and it almost looks like a skeletal embryo inside:

Happy 70th Birthday Ringo!

Dave — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:28:45 +0000

Wow, I hope I look this good at 70:

Emily Singer writes a terrific review of his birthday bash all-star concert, you can read it here.

Apparently it was pretty special, his all star lineup was:

Wally Palmar – guitar, bass, harmonica, vocals
Rick Derringer – guitar, vocals
Edgar Winter – keyboards, saxophone, vocals
Gary Wright – keyboards, vocals
Richard Page – Bass, vocals
Gregg Bissonette – drums, vocals

Then his son Zak Starkey took over on drums for the classic With A Little Help From My Friends, and some long time friends joined him on stage: Yoko Ono, Joe Walsh, Angus Young, Nils Lofgren, Jon Bon Jovi, Mick Jones, Steve Van Zandt, Brian Johnson, Max Weinberg, and Jeff Lynne to name a few.

It all culminated when none other than Paul McCartney surprised everyone when he came out onstage, gave Ringo a hug, and the band (with Ringo playing drums, of course) launched into Birthday!

Coolest.House.Ever.

Dave — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:35:06 +0000

One of our local TV channels KPLR 11 did a feature on this guys ultimate man cave:

Check out a photo gallery of it, it’s an amazing 3 stories and 17,000 square foot dwelling in a limestone cave:

Photo gallery of the cave house

Aurora Borealis from the ISS

Dave — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:11:48 +0000

This pic from Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut who tweets live from the space station. Full story at Discovery.com:

Images: Earthly auroras in Skitland, Alaska (top) and viewed from 220 miles above the planet aboard the space station. Credit: Lance Parrish, Spaceweather.com; JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi via Twitter.