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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,873

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  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,456
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Hints on determining if the weather is bad outside: 

      If it's daytime and you can't see outside your window, it's bad!

      If it's daytime and you're not in a moving vehicle and what you see out the window is completely different that what you saw a few moments ago, it's bad!

      If your window is gone, it's bad!

      If you didn't move and you find yourself outside, it's bad!

    If the rain is falling sideways, it's bad! surprise

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,873
    edited February 2020

    ..speaking of "nuts", did some research into SSDs for one of my old notebooks in which the HDD failed (still have the recovery disk) and it has an IDE, not SATA HDD so installing an SSD to replace the failed HDD is pretty much moot.  There are SSDs which are compatible, but they are smaller capacity and far more expensive then the SATA III ones currently available (even a 60 -  80 GB drive can be upwards of 165$ or more).  The reason I want an SSD is not so much the speed, but the durability as notebooks get jostled around while carried which increases the risk of drive failure.  No moving parts, less to break.

    Went on eBay and found slightly newer Win7 Pro notebooks (no W10 )in my flat) with 128 - 256 GB SATA SSDs for around the same price of an IDE/PATA SSD that even have i5 or early i7 CPUs. One I am currently watching even has 12 GB of memory.  Mainly I just need one for my role play gaming sessions to put my PDF library of books as well as characters and campaign notes on, which is a a lot easier to lug around than 15 - 20 kilos of "dead tree" game books, so it doesn't have to be ultra powerful..

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  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,456
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Mystarra said:

    harpsichord sounds so different from a piano

    It's the difference between  being plucked by a plectrum or being whacked by a soft mallet.

    Original name for a piano is piano-forte which in Italian essentially means soft-loud, (soft-strong) which was its technical advantage over other keyboard instruments like harpsichord or clavichord.  It had a wide range of volume dynamics depending on how hard and quickly you depressed the keys.  The piano was more suitable for use in large orchestras in large halls rather than just small musical ensembles like trios, quartets or quintets in small rooms.yes

    I know personally that if I were an instrument I'd rather be whacked than plucked.devil

     

    Imagine Jerry Lee Lewis playing the harpsichord. He would destroy it in 5 minutes...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,873

    ..Franz Liszt and LV Beethoven would have likely as well .

    The technique for playing a harpsichord come totally from the fingers and a bit from the wrist, not the arms as hitting the keys any harder does not make it louder (and most likely would just break the plectrums of the jacks). 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,103
    edited February 2020

    Harpsichords tinkle, pianos roar. smiley   (roaring at 11:35)

    Audience roars back at 14:05 yes

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    harpsichord sound eviller devil  munches nuts snax

     

    started my Spring purging early. 4 jumbo garbage bags of clothes, socks,  hangars. towels.
    even the food processor cuz i fraid of the blades.

    i now have more storage conainers than stuff to store.
    cant bring this stuff if i retire overseas.   i'll leave my brown bettys to my cousin and buy new when i get there

    i makin a plan to use my tax refund to get a secured loan.  i'll build up credit and double the amount by the time is paid off enlightenedsmiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    uhh oh  bill bixby touched uncle martin's antenna  now he's trapped in the 4th dimension

    cycle a tron sounds like a real thing.  a nueral cerebral stimulator sounds made up. it looks like a popcorn popper turnrf upside down.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited February 2020

    uhh oh  Bill Bixby messed up again.  he broke uncle Martin's time machine

    now they in England year 1215.  the ebil duchess drugged uncle Martin's wine.  now he tiny and is in the goblet and the ebil duchess henchman burned the magna carter

    oh what a picklement.

    uh oh  tee hee  

    1. Martin's molecular reassembler turns a squirrel into a human.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,154
    Mystarra said:

    harpsichord sound eviller devil  munches nuts snax

     

    started my Spring purging early. 4 jumbo garbage bags of clothes, socks,  hangars. towels.
    even the food processor cuz i fraid of the blades.

    i now have more storage conainers than stuff to store.
    cant bring this stuff if i retire overseas.   i'll leave my brown bettys to my cousin and buy new when i get there

    i makin a plan to use my tax refund to get a secured loan.  i'll build up credit and double the amount by the time is paid off enlightenedsmiley

    I think it was Sir Thomas Beecham who described the harpsichord as sounding like two skeletons indulgng in carnal activity on a corrugated metal roof.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,103

    Found it.

    2506597-Thomas-Beecham-Quote-The-sound-of-a-harpsichord-two-skeletons.jpg
    3840 x 2160 - 833K
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,103
    edited February 2020

    Hmmm, Thomas Beecham.  Must investigate him more thoroughly... yes

    Add him to my list:

    H. L. Mencken smiley https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/h-l-mencken-quotes

    Dorothy Parker smiley https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52358/25-dorothy-parkers-best-quotes

     

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,341
    edited February 2020
    Mystarra said:

    uhh oh  Bill Bixby messed up again.  he broke uncle Martin's time machine

    now they in England year 1215.  the ebil duchess drugged uncle Martin's wine.  now he tiny and is in the goblet and the ebil duchess henchman burned the magna carter

    oh what a picklement.

    uh oh  tee hee  

    1. Martin's molecular reassembler turns a squirrel into a human.

    If he can go back in time, why didn't he just go back to the day before he crashed and warn himself?   indecision

    Dana

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,873
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Harpsichords tinkle, pianos roar. smiley   (roaring at 11:35)

    Audience roars back at 14:05 yes

    ...indeed, they can roar and rumble...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHz4OjARK88

    ...but also sing....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGKSsLUPss8

    ...and tinkle as well (about the 2:30 mark).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxlf-ZmE8JI

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,873
    Mystarra said:

    harpsichord sound eviller devil  munches nuts snax

     

    ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXGsvrrNbGo

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    DanaTA said:
    Mystarra said:

    uhh oh  Bill Bixby messed up again.  he broke uncle Martin's time machine

    now they in England year 1215.  the ebil duchess drugged uncle Martin's wine.  now he tiny and is in the goblet and the ebil duchess henchman burned the magna carter

    oh what a picklement.

    uh oh  tee hee  

    1. Martin's molecular reassembler turns a squirrel into a human.

    If he can go back in time, why didn't he just go back to the day before he crashed and warn himself?   indecision

    Dana

    that was his idea, until bill touched it, the return trip broke it.

    watched the last episode, poor uncle martin didnt make it home.  
    his nephew visited, they didnt explain his fate

    was a better fate than poor Alf.

    would our society really be so hostile to visitors?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,103
    edited February 2020
    Mystarra said:
    DanaTA said:
    Mystarra said:

    uhh oh  Bill Bixby messed up again.  he broke uncle Martin's time machine

    now they in England year 1215.  the ebil duchess drugged uncle Martin's wine.  now he tiny and is in the goblet and the ebil duchess henchman burned the magna carter

    oh what a picklement.

    uh oh  tee hee  

    1. Martin's molecular reassembler turns a squirrel into a human.

    If he can go back in time, why didn't he just go back to the day before he crashed and warn himself?   indecision

    Dana

    that was his idea, until bill touched it, the return trip broke it.

    watched the last episode, poor uncle martin didnt make it home.  
    his nephew visited, they didnt explain his fate

    was a better fate than poor Alf.

    would our society really be so hostile to visitors?

    Yes.sad  "Human nature" scares the bezezus out of me.  surprise  Human being does not imply enlightened being.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,341

    I think people in general are more willing to accept alien visitors than, say, 30 years ago.  However, governments are a different story.

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    we should hurry up and claim prospecting rights to the asteroid belts in our solar system. before aliens help themselves.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,274

    Good news I got my laptop back.  Bad news I do not know where the charger is.  When I get back home I need to look for it.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    this was fascinating

    weird cuz wasnt it all 1 super ocean in the pangia days?

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,103
    edited February 2020
    Mystarra said:

    we should hurry up and claim prospecting rights to the asteroid belts in our solar system. before aliens help themselves.

    Too late, they've already been here and the asteroid belt is the rubble left from the last planet that pissed them off by eating their ambassador.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Mystarra said:

    we should hurry up and claim prospecting rights to the asteroid belts in our solar system. before aliens help themselves.

    Too late, they've already been here and the asteroid belt is the rubble left from the last planet that pissed them off.

    milky way tourism. should set up a space station at one of the bigger planets.  a place to hand out brochures and pamphlets.

    a hubble telescope for every planet.  put up a for rent sign on pluto.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,274

    IPad is about to update soon.  I found my computer charger and trying to turn the computer back on.  Be back soon.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,103
    edited February 2020

    Non-complaint:  Wheee...  Used up my left-over ingredients for cookies.  Cookie jar is full again.  Made 46 big cookies.  All but three made it into the cookie jar.  Mmmmmm, warm cookies.smiley  (choc. chip, oatmeal, pecans, vanilla, flour, eggs, brown & white sugar, Crisco, salt, baking soda, +love)

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,274

    I got the iPad updated but now the computer needs some updating.  or something.

  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,456
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Hmmm, Thomas Beecham.  Must investigate him more thoroughly... yes

    Add him to my list:

    H. L. Mencken smiley https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/h-l-mencken-quotes

    Dorothy Parker smiley https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52358/25-dorothy-parkers-best-quotes

     

    CLARIONET, n.

    An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.

    -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,274

    DIM is now acting up.  After I manually updated it, it wants to update again?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    DIM is now acting up.  After I manually updated it, it wants to update again?

    i let my ios update, now my phone calls and textx dont ring or ding.  i like siri.  samsung prolly has an equivalent.

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