Driver lost his gloves the other day. Came through yesterday and the day before asking if I’d seen ‘em lamenting the fact that they were real leather and he really like them.

While putting a spit shine on the shop this morning, I found them. We’ll see how much he really liked those gloves. Sent him a ransom text from my wife’s phone:

Bring 10 dollars in small unmarked bills or the gloves get it!

fastone371 said:

Unfortunately the only players that want to eliminate Fargo are the strong players who want to steal from league players in tournaments. When there is an open tournament advertised around here most of the higher "open" level players who bitch about Fargo are nowhere to be seen. Its like they don't want to compete against players their level.

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I disagree with this, at least for the Northeast. You see the stronger players coming out for most of the open events. Fargo has become such a talking point that people match up less often unless they can negotiate some type of advantage, so more arguments. When the skill levels are unknown, you just play and adjust accordingly.

If you are unrated or above 600, there's so few events that pop up unless you like to travel. Then, even if you win the event, you still lose out due to travel costs.

It's become just a more widely accepted handicap system that allows people to complain about everyone sandbagging. Same exact arguments that you hear in APA, just on a bigger scale. I'm not against Fargo, its just become really annoying to hear about it from all the players around me.

Zerksies said:

I'm going to call BS on that one. I use a CF shaft without a glove and I have no need to constantly wipe the shaft and I go months without using alcohol wipes. It does not get sticky at all.

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good for you
my experience is different.
My first ever session with a CF shaft was without a glove and it was great.
In the middle of the second session it started to get a bit sticky, trying to remove it with a towel didn't really worked.
Third session I had a glove...
If you play in better conditions that I play in, you could experience something different, but do remember that most pros never used gloves, they hated it and used some talc if needed (so did I), but now most of them that do use CF, use gloves, trust me, it's not just for marketing...

I finally joined the club this week! Thanks Kenney Tran for a seamless transaction. I do have a question for the Tascarella experts. What is your experience with their low deflection shafts- specifically the ones with the 1/2 inch ferrule? Mine came with two full ivory ferrules. Also if anyone has one of these specific for sale PM me please.

Chopdoc said:

Even magnetic tape degrades.

I ran across this video about archiving and preserving audio tape recordings at the Smithsonian. While watching it I noticed what looks like Eastman film reel cans at the bottom of a box of audio tape recordings.

It just made me think how some films we might value could be randomly stored somewhere, mixed in with other media. It could be somewhere like this archive, or in someone's garage or attic, or in the closet or basement of an old editing studio that's now a Chinese restaurant.

It could be in a drawer in the President's desk next to a copy of the 18.5 minutes of missing audio from 1972.

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That 18.5 minute recording isn't 'missing'. It's archived with many other documents in the basement of the Alamo. You can go there and listen for yourself if you know the secret codes!

you can use a slip on extension, it works well. Not as nice as a fitted extension but better than nothing,
I have one for the cues that I can't fit an extension.
I got this one from Amazon