A little know-how is never a bad thing.

Irene’s GChat Icon

4. Peanuts are a legume.

Dinosaur!

It’s a Michael Jackson Mannequin!

In celebration of getting my new guitar, I have recorded some guitar solos that really accentuate the unique capabilities of my new axe. Your task is to identify the tunes.

This one is hard, but not as hard as the first one. I give it approximately a 38 D

Guitar Mystery!

I may not have been the first to play Scrabble on a cube-shaped board, but I do think I’m the first to play Scrabble on a Tesseract.

This weekend I built an alcohol still in the House of Rock’s basement! It even uses our existing furnace to boil the spirits!!

For the past few weeks, I’ve been reading the book “Slash” in my spare time. What an amazing book, what an amazing guitar player, and what an amazing impact it’s having on my outlook on life!

I’ve already started practicing guitar for 4 hours straight every day (I get up at 2, so I can practice before work), but I’ve been prompted to change my life even more radically.

I usually like to consider myself “thrifty,” although some have gone so far as to call me “cheap.” Well, friends, cheap no more! Slash has inspired me to live the hedonistic, extravagant lifestyle I’ve secretly always wanted. Some of you might remember when I was too cheap to do laundry; after running out of clean socks, I began wrapping my feet in paper towels from the WPI bathrooms.

From this day forth, I am going to purchase a new pair of socks every day, wear them once, then throw them out (or sell them on Ebay when I become as famous as Slash). The House of Rock is getting a jacuzzi. In the living room. I am retiring the Bench Warmer and buying a Bentley. Remember earlier today when I traded in my PRS? Well, I just bought two more. Two, in case I forget where I put the other one! Oh, and I just bought a Roller Derby team — the DiDonators. Awesome!! Thanks Slash!!

Despite the high entry costs of desktop humidors, I’ve decided to take up cigar collecting as a serious hobby

have been progressing along my kung fu training quite steadily, and I am quite proud of my accomplishments so far. Last night in the dojo, our sensei told me something very exciting — that I have been selected to train with Shaolin Monks in China for 4 months! This opportunity is not bestowed upon many kung-fu students, and I must say that I am very honored indeed.

Getting the time off work should be no problem. I have a huge amount of vacation and comp days banked up from the past few years, and my employer said I could even work from China, supporting the factory in Dongying!

This sounds like a perfect opportunity to both drastically further my kung-fu skills, as well as live in an entirely different culture for an extended period of time. While I’m really excited about it, after a long period of soul searching, I’ve decided not to do it. Why not? Well, because studying with the Shaolin would require me to shave my head.

My whole identity would be gone! Just imagine…how would I MSPaint myself?? I don’t think I can do it, readers. I just don’t think I can do it.

I haven’t told anyone this, but I think The Style Council is better than AC/DC.

In celebration of getting my new guitar, I have recorded some guitar solos that really accentuate the unique capabilities of my new axe. Your task is to identify the tunes.

I give this one about a 36 C

Guitar Mystery!

In celebration of getting my new guitar, I have recorded some guitar solos that really accentuate the unique capabilities of my new axe. Your task is to identify the tunes.

This one is hard. I’d give it about a 34 B

Guitar Mystery #1

As most of you know, I spent this fall researching guitars, looking to replace my old guitar with something of much higher quality. After talking with dozens of people and doing hours of research, I finally settled on getting a PRS 513. It took five months to get here.

However, for the same reasons that I switched from my old CC Clark to the PRS, today I have done the unthinkable — I traded in my PRS. Don’t get me wrong, PRS makes a fine guitar, with smooth action, and solid neck. The problem is, it’s holding me back; the poor 513 simply can’t rock as hard as I can. So, I traded in.

Behold, my new guitar!!

The main difference between this guitar and my PRS is that this guitar is being ripped in half by a scythe. It also has a skull instead of neck pickups, which gives the guitar a slightly “quackier” sound.

Overall, I am very pleased with this guitar, it is way better than my PRS, and I think, a wise purchase.

The internet will not soon forget the incredible accomplishment that was January 2008. For those of you who live under a rock (”House of Rock” excluded), this is the month where a new entry was posted on MikeDiDonato.com every single hour, 24 hours per day, for the entire month of January.

Well, dear internet readers, in celebration of Ryan Schenk’s birthday on April 30th, I am very pleased to announce that I will be posting one entry every hour for the entire month of April!

A bicycle seat designed for the ultimate man.