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Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:48:44 -0300

mike@macgirvin.com

Without a doubt these are the finest wood inlays I've ever seen. This was done by somebody in Vietnam using hand tools -- and I was told by the vendor that he received USD $20 for his work.

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Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:01:04 -0300

Jason Cook

jason@hub.inktada.com

Had to zoom in, beautiful.

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:12:12 -0300

Kris

kris@theres.life

@Mike Macgirvin

For your information this is how I see your message from Mastodon.

I also noticed that post from hubzilla or streams looks sometimes 'ugly'.

Image/photo

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:01:49 -0300

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

aleabdo@hubzilla.com.br

Wow! That doesn't look like a store display, is it home now?

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:19:02 -0300

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

I've had this for many years now. It's a 'Phoenix' and very rare. Most of these guitars spontaneously split or broke after importation because of the humidity differential between California and Vietnam, where they were manufactured. This is the only one I know of remaining and the only one I know of that didn't break in some dramatic way. It also has a beautiful and warm sound. The guy I got it from was a tech refugee who went into the music business in the early 00's - much like myself. He started with these superb guitars and that effort crashed and burned due to the unanticipated product breakage. Then he spent a few years importing school band instruments from China. Mark is now running a supply firm called Proteus Industries bringing in industrial manufactured goods from Vietnam. There's also now a different company called Phoenix Guitar Company and the original Phoenix Guitars (Aptos) is gone, subsumed by Proteus. So this case, two or three completely different Phoenixes arose from the ashes. It is not for sale at any price. I'm not hoarding it, but I also can't part with it. Every few years I share a photo and the back-story because it is a truly amazing work of fine art that deserves to be shared.

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 07:09:03 -0300

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

aleabdo@hubzilla.com.br

Thanks for sharing!

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:06:23 -0300 last edited: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:12:29 -0300

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

Here's what I see on Mastodon. Don't know what to tell you.

Obviously, the software looks ugly because it was created by an ugly person. I can't change that. My apologies.

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:27:46 -0300

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

Oh right. The reason you're seeing a broken image on Mastodon is because I'm not only ugly, but I'm also not rich, and I don't like begging for money and very few people are interested in ugly software written by ugly people so I don't get a lot of contributions - and as a consequence all of my sites run on a single shared hosting account for $3/month.

Shared hosting is "fun" to deal with because the provider only allows a certain number of connections per unit/ time. Any additional connections are simply killed. So what you're seeing as Mastodon's attempt to render a broken image because my site was apparently busy when you accessed it.

My apologies once again. Since this is obviously unacceptable to some people, my recommendation is to please go hang with the beautiful people with lots of money on their huge sites running on beautiful software that requires lots of money to run. This software is focused on things that don't matter to them like online safety and nomadic identity and a reasonable amount of privacy.

Cheers.

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:14:48 -0300 last edited: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:16:05 -0300

Scott M. Stolz

scott@authorship.studio

@Mike Macgirvin What are we supposed to say to that? LOL. I like your sense of humor. Haha.

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:17:26 -0300

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:58:58 -0300

Cyborg 2-A ✅

wago@rumbly.net

Not sure if it would work for you but Bunny CDN is great service for cheap. I've used them a few years without issue. I guestimate it would cost you like 25 cents a month, maybe 50.

https://bunny.net/cdn/

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:00:36 -0300

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.
Beauty is only skin deep ...but ugly goes all the way to the bone!
You are so ugly when you looked in the mirror your reflection walked away.
You're so ugly, you scared the crap out of the toilet.
Which sexual position produces the ugliest children? Ask your mother.
You are so ugly if they laid you on the beach, not even the tide would take you.
Do you wanna lose ten pounds of ugly fat? Cut off your head.
You so ugly when who were born the doctor threw you out the window and the window threw you back.
You're so ugly you have to sneak up on a mirror.

Yeah everybody funny. now you funny too,

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:08:42 -0300

Stefan Haydn

sh@hub.hayfidelity.de

@Mike Macgirvin Never heard the one with the window. That is hilarious. Ugly is also a great album by Life Of Agony.

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:45:23 -0300

@Mike Macgirvin
Sometimes the crazy and ugly are the coolest.