joepampelMay 18, 20222 min readGuitar stuff on the webFor the curious, here are various resources: In the press: Reviews of "Now is not a great time" by John Sally Ride....
joepampelMay 18, 20221 min readRemoving your stone guardsIf you have them and you like them, you can skip this one. If you are not crazy about them, they are fortunately easy to remove. With...
joepampelMay 18, 20225 min readUpgrading to H4 headlightsThe US DOT is very good at some things. Headlights are not one of them. The ROW cars got nice bright H4 halogen lamps which consisted of...
joepampelApr 21, 20223 min readMirror MirrorEvery old car has issues. Rufus is no different. It's just part of the journey. My PPI looked for accident damage, serious engine issues,...
joepampelApr 21, 202211 min readApproaching maintenance on a 34 year old carMuch more saasoned advice than I coud ever give here from the gurus at Butzigear: https://youtu.be/8is8AfFDOEk?si=gM-MQqsrJ83s9OZ7 I...
joepampelApr 21, 20226 min readBuying a 1988 3.2 liter CarreraI bought a car online, having never driven it. A very odd experience. I did a bunch of research first, read buyers guides, and tried to...
joepampelApr 21, 20229 min readWhat every guitarist should know (a work in progress)Lessons from Bob Mayo, Dan Hovey & others Bending & Vibrato You're bending strings with your ring finger, but use the two behind it for...
joepampelJul 3, 20207 min readThe Story of OEIThe name pre-dates the company by many years. It was originally a joke from my dial-up days on Prodigy. My friend Ed was teasing me...
joepampelJul 3, 202012 min readThe Amp DogsBack in the days when Prodigy was the big alternate to AOL and the internet was a thing you tied up your POTS line to connect to, people...
joepampelJul 1, 20205 min readElectronicsI don't know where curiosity comes from. For me it was always there. By the time I was 4 I was explaining the 4-cycle gas engine to our...
joepampelJul 1, 20204 min readMusic finds the scientistSenior year of HS I found myself interning at Memorial Sloan Kettering in Rye, NY. It was right behind the woods by our athletic fields...