"Kay, um ... 'power on'?" |
And I can recognize what’s happening. It’s similar to when I started making soup, in my 20s — I threw in WAY TOO MUCH STUFF. The trouble was, when the broth started tasting “off,” which it did from the git-go, I kept adding things until it gelled into a sludge of indigestible goo.
A friend finally invited me to his kitchen and gently straightened me out. “Pour a pot of water. Then start with three ingredients, and work your way up to five,” he said. “Salt and pepper don’t count, but other herbs and spices do.”
I have two amps — a small digital plug-and-play practice amp (with an “under the hood” menu I do not touch) and a 50 watt performance amp with three dials. Should I finally be made bold to perform with others I may add a pedal or two to the latter.
Decisions, decisions... |
The Outer Worlds — kinda works against my “you only need three knobs” rule, I realize. But I wonder what the “three knobs rule” looks like in this age of media option paralysis? On Netflix, which we finally subscribed to for the family, it boils down to Brooklyn Nine Nine, Star Trek TOS and Jeopardy (because we want Alex to make a full recovery).
BNN is, really, the only “new” content in the bunch. The elder urchin introduced us. Lite, affirmational, funny — to my delight it is, as she claimed, the Get Smart for the current millennium.
Three knobs at work. |
3 comments:
Ha, have not heard the expression before, but how handy. Thinking about this.
What little I know of your temperament I'd say it's not likely to freeze in the face of an enormous options menu. Or maybe your typical options menu is, "Hammer? or saw?"
Ah man, that’s very interesting too. I don’t think of myself this way really at all — very much the other way around — but there’s a good deal to mull over in the gap between that impression of myself and the corresponding alternate impression somebody who’s known me a long time in internet-land might form. Going to have to try to come back to this.
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