On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:06:04 -0600, the infamous Steve Ackman
scrawled the following:

In , on Tue, 25 Aug 2009
14:00:41 -0700, Larry Jaques, novalidaddress@di wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:53:01 -0600, the infamous Steve Ackman
scrawled the following:

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:25:10 -0600, Steve Ackman
wrote:

Something even better (not to mention a more
expensive instrument, which my wife has *almost*
convinced me I need):

[...]

There's this intro from megatar,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGYrIv-4-is

Bwahahahaha! I love the names "Traktor Topaz"

That's not the name he was born with, but the one
he gave himself.

He's a "Prince".


and "Mobius Megatars". He looks like a combine salesman.
Plays OK. shrug

Well, he's a guitar builder/salesman, not a guitar
*player.* He's not really supposed to be all that good...
How many car salesmen / factory workers are able to
drive competitively in NASCAR? ;-)

Gee, not even a laugh?


New:
Megatars range from $1300 to ~$3600. (12-string only)
Chapman Sticks go $1900 to ~$3500 (10 and 12 string)

Ouch!

Exactly the reason for the *almost* in my initial
statement.

Grok that.

--
A striking fact of the last two years of financial trouble is how
accountability has differed in the public and private spheres. On
Wall Street and across the country, decades-old firms have failed,
fortunes have vanished, and some former captains of finance face
jail or fines. In Washington, meanwhile, most regulators and Members
of Congress remain on the job, often with enhanced power.
-WSJ "Bernanke's Second Chance" 26aug09