Hubzilla Brasil
Login
Hubzilla Brasil
Login
System Apps
Directory
Help
Language
Public Stream
QRator
Random Channel
Report Bug
Search
Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:48:44 -0300
View Profile
Mike Macgirvin
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.
Link to Source
20230918_083740.jpg
18 Likes
18 Likes
Héliosélène
Jason Cook
Bill Statler
Cyborg 2-A ✅
Giac El Vecio
André
Sophie
RockyIII
Hans
Oliver
Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)
Alexandre Hannud Abdo
Max Kostikov
Unknown
Langdon Alger
Scott M. Stolz
lotfi
Stefan Haydn
show all
13 Comments
Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:01:04 -0300
View Profile
Jason Cook
jason@hub.inktada.com
Had to zoom in, beautiful.
Link to Source
1 Like
Max Kostikov
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:12:12 -0300
View Profile
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'.
Link to Source
ee3a1aefb80dc12c.png
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:01:49 -0300
View Profile
Alexandre Hannud Abdo
aleabdo@hubzilla.com.br
Wow! That doesn't look like a store display, is it home now?
Link to Source
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:19:02 -0300
View Profile
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.
Link to Source
9 Likes
Héliosélène
Bill Statler
Unknown
Jason Cook
Oliver
Hans
Alexandre Hannud Abdo
André
Papa Dragon
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 07:09:03 -0300
View Profile
Alexandre Hannud Abdo
aleabdo@hubzilla.com.br
Thanks for sharing!
Link to Source
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:06:23 -0300
last edited: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:12:29 -0300
View Profile
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.
Link to Source
Screenshot from 2023-09-20 06-57-19.png
90c08483-fd1f-48c5-a80e-87544867587a-1.png,
1 Like
Stefan Haydn
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:27:46 -0300
View Profile
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.
Link to Source
1 Like
Stefan Haydn
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:14:48 -0300
last edited: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:16:05 -0300
View Profile
Scott M. Stolz
scott@authorship.studio
@
Mike Macgirvin
What are we supposed to say to that? LOL. I like your sense of humor. Haha.
Link to Source
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:17:26 -0300
View Profile
:)
Link to Source
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:58:58 -0300
View Profile
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/
Link to Source
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:00:36 -0300
View Profile
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,
Link to Source
1 Like
Stefan Haydn
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:08:42 -0300
View Profile
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.
Link to Source
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:45:23 -0300
View Profile
@
Mike Macgirvin
Sometimes the crazy and ugly are the coolest.
Link to Source
Conversation Features
Loading...
Conversation Features
Loading...
Login
Email or nickname
Password
Remember me
Login
Register
Password Reset
Remote Authentication