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The Usual Browout

mugtech

Electricity went off this morning at 5:30 AM.  We have had occasional brownouts since 3/15/20 lockdown started, usually about 90 minutes.  One was 3 hours.  When it got to 9 AM I feared we had a real problem.  Niece said she read online yesterday that the electricity would return at 11 AM.  With no fans, air con, internet, tv, radio or CD player I did some reading.  11 AM came and went, electricity was not back on until 1:10 PM.  7 hours and 40 minutes was about the time they used to shut down one day every two weeks while working on the national highway shoulder.  So perhaps today was another step to getting back to normal.  Yesterday the pandesol lady made the 6 AM rounds of the barangay, ringing her bell for the first time since 3/18/20.

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GuestPoster204

I remember eating pandesal with fried eggs and toyo embedded in it and washed with instant Nescafe or a hot cocoa. Without electricity? "Tinono nga sida" (charbroiled fish)
would be good with tomatoes and "bagoong nga ipon" (fermented salted fish) accompanied with fried rice... That´s really going local in Ilocos Sur! :D

robal

lasvegan

Fatburger for me! From Fat city USA! Go Cubs!

mugtech

lasvegan wrote:

Fatburger for me! From Fat city USA! Go Cubs!


Can a fatburger be cooked during  brownouts?  Does Second City have brownouts?  Should the name of the Cleveland NFL team be the Cleveland Brownouts?

manwonder

We don't get through a full week without facing a brownout. (Anything fm 1hr to 6hrs)....last one was 12hrs not usual but it does happen.
I've stocked up candles/emergency flashlights/kerosene lamps.... used to have a portable gasoline generator once, but it was way too noisy so sold it off.
Anytime is a good time for pandesal & nescafe after which I light up a cigarette!

lasvegan

AHA! Browout is Brownout! LOLololol

manwonder

lasvegan wrote:

AHA! Browout is Brownout! LOLololol


Reminds me of Scorpions album Blackout (1982)

:D

lasvegan

Yup

lasvegan

Darkthrone and later Dimmu Borgir and Gorgoroth! Norwegian black metal! Love it!

In addition to using modal harmonic relationships, heavy metal also uses "pentatonic and blues-derived features". The tritone, an interval spanning three whole tones—such as C to F#—was a forbidden dissonance in medieval ecclesiastical singing, which led monks to call it diabolus in musica—"the devil in music".

Not the Devil's Music but the devil in music! Forget the lyrics get your ear wax removed by vibration!

manwonder

lasvegan wrote:

Darkthrone and later Dimmu Borgir and Gorgoroth! Norwegian black metal! Love it!

In addition to using modal harmonic relationships, heavy metal also uses "pentatonic and blues-derived features". The tritone, an interval spanning three whole tones—such as C to F#—was a forbidden dissonance in medieval ecclesiastical singing, which led monks to call it diabolus in musica—"the devil in music".

Not the Devil's Music but the devil in music! Forget the lyrics get your ear wax removed by vibration!


Backmasking too was a deliberate process, whereas a message found through phonetic reversal may be unintentional. Backmasking was popularised by The Beatles, who usedbackward instrumentation on their 1966 album Revolver. ... Many popular musicians have since been accused of including backmasked messages in their music.
Btw love them too!....Sorry for asking/off topic but  ...but did the forbidden dissonance include the notes , U & K ?

lasvegan

LOl! Probably!

mugtech

manwonder wrote:

Backmasking too was a deliberate process, whereas a message found through phonetic reversal may be unintentional. Backmasking was popularised by The Beatles, who usedbackward instrumentation on their 1966 album Revolver. ... Many popular musicians have since been accused of including backmasked messages in their music.
Btw love them too!....Sorry for asking/off topic but  ...but did the forbidden dissonance include the notes , U & K ?


Ah yes, Paul is dead.  Few knew he died during a brownout.