Sorry :
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My herd is not so much a collection as insurance against the darn things breaking. Note that two of my instances are Free42. Thatās installed on all my Linux boxes, and the other is on a first gen Moto G that showed up in a junk pile much after I bought the old Pioneer series calculators. Iāve used RPN so long that every time I try to use a non-RPN calculator, I want to fling it against the wall, and while I do have a TI84 and TI85 a got at a garage sale before I found the HPs at a price Iād pay, they are clunky and annoying to use. One HP42s Iāve had for a while from a former boss, but given their price on the used market, I was afraid of losing it or having it stolen, so it never left the house. Were I to do it all again, Iād probably just run Free42 on a phone. The serious stuff gets done on my Linux boxes where I have Maxima, SciLab, and a boat load of programming languages. The calculators are still handy for that not-quite-back-of-the-envelope stuff.
Iāld like to eat at the restaurant where that comes out when they ask if you want black pepperā¦ 
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Perfect for those āblack pepperā¦ and the billā moments
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I havenāt touched my HP48sx since I installed Droid48:
Love those things. Want to get one of my own, but have no way of affording the mad prices they go for.
Should we perhaps split the thread?
āPics of your Studioā and āPics of your Calculatorsā
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Madness, itāll be OnlyFans pages next 
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Whether I use Free42 or the real thing depends solely on which is quicker to hand. The hp32s with the dog bite marks (long story), lives in the kitchen for doing recipe scaling. I should glue on a couple of scrap neodymium magnets, and stick it to the fridge.
Hereās my āstudioā. Going minimal at the minute: no leather studio chair, beechwood desk, massive monitor, or rack of beautiful modules 
One laptop, a 25 note mini keyboard, a panel of midi knobs. And a mouse, but no cat.
When my cat was still with us, heād have definitely sat on these things
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Simple is good.
Get a new kitten.
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I know, But every time I think of doing that, I remember that our Moozle was one in a million cats. Quite un-cat like in many ways, much less aloof and living in parallel. People tell me that siamese are more like that, never had first hand experience.
One very on-cat-message behaviour though was sitting on the current object of interest - whatever that was at the time.
I notice that the Behringer Crave has photo bombed this picture. Iād put it back the box as a sort of āit does one thingā unit. But I heard some Crave work on instagram yesterday and liked it, so it may make it back onto the first team. Then thereās the Volcaā¦and so the cycle begins again
I think the same thing when a good cat dies. We have three right now. Two are very personable in their own individual ways. The third is a psycho, and there is mutual dislike all around.
I donāt know why it would make any difference, but two of the best cats weāve ever had have been black cats. Really, really friendly. Sometimes, a cat is a person-cat and sometimes a cat is a cat-cat. These two black cats loved both people and other cats. Here is a picture of one of them, Stormy, after he crawled into the box with another of our cats which had kittens a short time before:
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Aaah. Lovely photos both of them. When I was a boy we had three cats, one for each sibling, and theyād sleep all curled up together.
Yes thatās right, Iād like a people-cat but hard to know how to find one. We keep thinking about getting a dog, but Iāve never owned one and it seems like a huge commitment these days.
I can imagine music making in our studios with a loyal pet looking on would be a fine way to spend an evening.
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We took in a stray cat two years ago. Aaand, heās a nice fellow, easy with the kids but very much a cat-cat. As in: I donāt think he gives a fuck about us and most of the time, when heās not outside, he sleeps in the spare room where heās unbothered by our existence. This here has happened about four, five times in these two years, but I like him 
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One of my cats hates people. When she sees people outside she growls at them. If anyone comes inside the garden gate she runs and hides.
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We are still shocked, our Romeo died on Easter sunday
He was my companion during work: I work at home doing a lot of webrtc and he was always walking on my Roland D50 that sits at my right asking for a caress 
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thatās sad
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