The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread
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I wasn't aware of that, though a quick search suggest the IX7 isn't one, I don't think they sold that well so probably not worth anybodies investment. However as analogue is making a come back with vinyl sales increasing, the supposed return of cassette tapes maybe APS will make a come back, or maybe not.
Though I have a collection of digital cameras depending on what I need, a Canon 7D, a Panasonic Mirrorless DMC 3, and a small Panasonic compact that I typically use when out with the dog as I bought it second hand for £35 so if it gets broken due to a mad dog incident it's no great loss. I have been considering upgrading the DMC 3 for an Olympus OM series which would also probably mean the 7D will get even less use but at the moment I find I don't take enough photos to justify the outlay, even on the second hand market.
Complaint: Another Gully Washer: A few days ago, we'd had a gully washer rainstorm and I'd reported that the neighbor farmer up the hill visible from my kitchen window, had to come down with his tractor and scrape his garden dirt off the road and carry it back up the hill to his garden plot. Good on him. Farmers are amazing. And the next day, the town came by with their fancy road sweeping machine and polished the short, dead-end, town road clean of dried mud & stones. The next day, a crew of about six or seven machines came by and jockyed up & down the road as they sprayed tar on the cleaned road, then sprinkled new road gravel on the hot tar, then drove over it with a machine with about a dozen tires to press the gravel into the hot tar. Presto, new road surface. Wheee..., in-home entertainment!
Then as they were packing up to leave, the clouds opened and issued forth another gully washer.
The next morning (yesterday) I was out waiting for the bus to take me on my mini-adventure uptown, and noticed that some of the gravel didn't get stuck into the hot tar and had washed down to the base of the road where it meets the main State road through town and made a thick pile of loose gravel and chunks of now cold tar. Then last night I saw the farmer up the hill come down with his tractor again to try to get his garden back, again. But now the dirt was so mixed into the new gravel on the road that it was almost pointless to try to scrape it off the road without also removing the new layer of tar & gravel too. Poor garden.
More Entertainment: My neighbors in the other half of this house have ordered a big, construction-grade, trash bin and it's parked right outside my kitchen window halfway up the driveway. They are apparently refurbishing their half of the house. They're related to the landlord and, as I understand it, in charge of building maintenance. So far this morning I've been watching them remove old carpeting. Wheee... free entertainment from my kitchen window. I'm glad that I am not out there trying to manhandle old carpet. Been there, done that. Burned the T-shirt.
I hope you didn't mind me saving a picture of Toffee to my iCloud. Very beautiful dog.
I forgot to put a timer on for my pizza I have in the oven. I also forgot to read the directions on the package of the pizza. I did put extra Colby Jack on it. I love Colby Jack cheese!
...is the mechanical one an IBM Model M? I know they were made in British versions. That is the "Rolls Royce" of keyboards in my book as they have a great touch and are durable (unlike cheap keyboards where the letters, numbers, and symbols don't wear off after a few months) The trick is finding one with a PS2 connector on the computer end and which doesn't cost 300 USD (or more).
At my former multimedia development job, all our workstations had them which really spoiled me. Going form a Model M to a cheap membrane keyboard is like going from a Steinway to a toy piano.
Can you get a connection adapter? That might solve one of your two issues...
I used to have a toy piano. It looked much like the one Schroeder had, except it was kind of a beige color. I don't know where it came from or where it went. I want another one.
No problem about keeping a picture of Toffee, this is the short haired version, she went to the groomers a few weeks back. She's a minature Labradoodle and if left her coat grows out and she looks much bigger.
The mechanical keyboard is an inexpensive gaming type from Amazon, in part as a test to see how I got on with it as I had previously used the usual cheaper membrane type, might invest in a more expensive one as I do prefer the feel of the mechanical keys, though $300 (£222 at today’s rates on this side of the Atlantic) is maybe a bit much.
I had a toy organ, of all the weird things. I haven't thought about it in years, but now I can hear its whirring hum perfectly in my mind's ear, and each wheezing, labored note it emitted. And something had gone wrong with one of the keys, so you had to physically hold it up or it would just drone that one note endlessly. It came with sheet music, which had the numbers on it. I think it was supposed to be a step toward learning the notes, but it backfired... now every time I hear one of the songs in that book, instead of the lyrics, my mind supplies the sequence of numbers
5-6-5-3, 5-6-5-3, 8-8-7, 3-3-5...
...it was a relief the year we got recorders as part of music class. Finally, a decent instrument to play. Everyone else kinda hated them. I got good and went on to make money with mine. =P
....a far cry from this monster I used to play on..
The old stuff was built to last...
When we last went to Canterbury Cathedral, being a bit slow on the uptake, it took me a while to realise that one of the 60ft long x 1ft square wooden boxes on the floor I had managed to trip over was an organ pipe. Must have made music in the 4-5Hz infrasound range close to the 'Brown Noise' frequencies when intestinal resonance is hit and people's bowels spontaneously void themselves.
Regards,
Richard
..is it the Logitech G413?
One of the other nice features of the IBM model M is the gentle change in curve of the keys from the bottom to the top of he keyboard. .Much better and more comfortable than a completely flat keyboard. Another pfeature is the keys have what is known as a buckling spring action which is very solid and offers more positive tactile feedback. They are noisier than membrane keyboards but much easier to maintain, repair, and customise.
I find this much more comfortable and natural than those Microsoft split ergo keyboards.
...only three instruments in the world have true 64' octave pipes at the lowest "C" on the pedal board At 64' in length a pipe produces an 8 Hz tone. . In a sense it acts sort of like an "acoustic subwoofer" which you feel more than hear, as the lowest notes are below the human hearing threshold. Some other organs (like the Liverpool Cathedral Organ) have a what is called "Resultant" 64' which employs two pipes in the low register that sound together, one being at the "fundamental" or base pitch and the other sounding a fifth above that. At low pitches, this creates an acoustic effect of the fundamental pitch sounding an octave lower than normally would. For example, The 64' Resultant stop at Liverpool uses both a 32' and 21-⅓' long pipe to produce the lowest note. This is often done (for both 64 and 32 stops) where space is limited and for cost.
One of the three instruments with a full 64' stop in the pedal division is the Atlantic City Auditorium Organ here in The States (which is currently undergoing restoration). It is a 64' Diaphone, with a 19'' long 90° mitred section to fit under the auditorium's ceiling. The other two are at the Sydney Town Hall (64' full length Contra Trombone) and at the Church of St. Moritz Olomouc Czech Republic (a 64' Untersatsz which has a "stopper" in the top of the pipe and is only 32' in actual length though it produces a true 8 Hz tone [more acoustics involved here, as putting a stopper or cap on the top of a pipe lowers it's pitch by an octave)
Incidentally, Liverpool Cathedral also boasts one of the four heaviest organ pipes in the world, a 32' Open Wood that at the lowest note on the pedal board weighs over a metric tonne (1,117 KG).. Meanwhile the 64' Diaphone at Atlantic City tips the scale at a whopping 1,675 KG.
There will bea pop quiz on this later.
Thanks! I like saving pictures of cute animals to look at especially when I feel down!
Um, I give my mum canned cat food. She doesn't eat those canned food herself. She gives them to Oscar and Misty. Of course, their portions in their own bowls. They are not able to operate a can opener.
`Complaint: I had forgotten that Exmoor is the Tick Capital of the UK, so far removed 8 of the blood sucking little b@$!#&d's from Toffee this week, including a cluster of 6 at the top of her front right leg this afternoon. She is treated for fleas and ticks monthly (the last treatment 2 weeks ago) but it doesn't stop them taking up residence.
Non-Complaint: Despite me rooting around in what is basically her armpit Toffe did nothing more than growl at me a bit as I removed the six little suckers.
Another Non-Complaint: The set of two Tick Removal Tools I bought some time ago worked as advertised, the tools reside in the first aid kit I keep in the car and they will be staying there, I have another set at home and may well buy a couple more kits to keep to hand when out and about. The ones I bought were O'Tom ones but others are available and for £5-£10 (depending on brand and quantity) from Amazon I can heartily recommend this twist removal type to any pet owners out there.
The My Organ Is Bigger Than Yours Complaint Thread?
The winner of course is The Great Organ of the Unseen Univesity.
No outdoor pets, but I do have two outdoor kids... and by some miracle haven't had a tick issue yet, but I'm getting a couple of these on your recommendation. It's only a matter of time, and I'm all for making it as low-trauma as possible. So thank you in advance!
Q) What's better than a tick removal tool?
A) A TikTok removal tool.
Complaint: Hot days ahead. 90's(F) tomorrow, 95 for three days after that. My air-conditioner is full of mold.
We have a winner.
I don't think Richard would approve. "Tee hee," as Misty used to say.
D**n I miss Misty.
...that is hilarious.. Thank you.
Sound's like a post McGuyver would come up with BTW anybody hear from him lately?
ETA, found the 128' stop.
Non-complaint: being able to watch the solstice sunrise at Stonehenge online.
Complaint: Winter is coming, but today and tomorrow temperatures will be well over 30 Celsius
.....complaint, No sunrise to see as it was (and still is) cloudy and rainy while feeling more like the day before the Vermal Equinox than the Summer Solstice.
Was nicer in Adelade and it was the first day of "winter" there..
complaint: So tired of people thinking kids with AFRID are just picky eaters and "if they're hungry enough, they'll eat it." Little dude was so revolted by the sight of me eating a rice cake that he started gagging, ran to escape, and then proceeded to projectile vomit half-digested peanut butter from the top of the stairs... hitting every single (carpeted) stair and nailing the decorative railing and the artificial tree holiday tree and beaded velvet tree skirt on its other side. (It makes us happy so we leave it up all year.) Bonus points? It's the kind of tree that folds up, not the kind where the branches come off.
So yeah, the next person with some high and mighty food-related parenting advice is cordially invited to kiss my backside. Or better yet, come clean my carpet.
non-complaint: Elder Child made brownies for Litha. (We were careful to eat them where Little Dude couldn't see.)
Glad I could be of some small help, hopefully you'll never have to use them but a few pounds or dollars is not much to pay for some peace of mind and knowing you have the solution immediately to hand if needed.
Operation is straight forward, select the best sized tool for the tick in question, slide the fork under the tick, twist then pull.
Much more than a small help... youngest kiddo isn't good about holding still for such things, and elder kiddo has a phobia about bugs, so fast and painless will be a mercy. Honestly I'm shocked we haven't had the issue yet, given how rampant ticks are in Minnesota. I had no idea there was something better than a tweezers out there.