Good question. One that I've asked myself a few times. The first time he did that, I had no idea what he was doing. I soon worked out (after a few orgasms), what he was doing, and I tested a few birds (I also had a Red Rumped Grass Parrot called Max) of what they were looking at and I realised it was the calcium in the fingernails that seemed to attract their attention. This made sense to me at the time, so I persevered with Joe (The cockatiel) for a while. He wouldn't do it with any other object. Then I felt that I was doing a dumb animal a favour and I didn't mind, but pretty soon I wouldn't allow him. Then, when friends would come, I would test him out on them. Of course they had no idea what what happening to their hand or why Joe would go all funny after a minute or two. After the party tricks got boring, it all stopped. Sadly, Joe is not with us anymore otherwise it would definitely be a YouTube video by now.
I had a cockatiel that used to masturbate on my hand! He would hop on my shoulder, walk down my arm onto my hand, grab my thumbnail and rub itself vigorously. After about a minute, it would tense, half stretch out it's wings and deposit bird semen onto my wrist. Mind you, using my hand and thumbnail as a tool for self-gratification is not normal behaviour.
Recognition by a bird in a mirror doesn't mean that it has 'consciousness', but understands that it is itself, so it is 'self aware'. This is due to the effect of natural reflection of (let's say) water. Some animals (lions, tigers and bears) would not be worried if they saw their own reflection in water. Others would - like dogs for example.
Caterpillars can be made to go around in a circle. Line up about 10 caterpillars, all front to back so the first is sniffing the tail end of the last one. Off they go! Round and round and round.... ----------- You can also get a rooster extremely annoyed. Record one crowing. They also crow when there are hens about. Copy and paste the crow until you get a good 10 mins of it and play it back to it. After a session of this, all the rooster can do is crow continuously until it drops from exhaustion. ------------ Newspaper reports a few years ago described pigeons getting a lift by clutching onto car roofracks, going under long city tunnels in Sydney.
I wonder what a Chicken BSOD would look like? Maybe it's a driver issue instead? Anyhow, who would you ring up for support? The advantage of course having a chicken BSOD itself is that you can eat it.
I'm not sure of background radiation, but something like a cell phone sim card can be EM 'bombed' easily enough by wireless modems and the like. Be warned! Sufficient EM energy will wipe out most electronics. Now if your computer lives in a Faraday cage, it may just survive.
Forgot to say that the pre 1920s 78s had a spiral groove that could accommodate low frequencies as the gap between each groove was quite large. Consequently, some records could only hold a few minutes of audio. This was before any applied EQ.
Ceramic and other piezo cartridges actually effectively had the RIAA equalisation curve built in to the cartridge itself
Maybe... but the ones I played with were the dual headed variety that could be rotated to play 78s. These cartridges didn't have any EQ circuitry built in as the preamp did all the work. But you are right, EQ controls can bring the tonal balance to the right levels.
Been there, done that. What you need to get as a basic setup, is a modern 33.3/45/78 turntable with a ceramic cartridge (or as modern as you can get). Those late 70s and early 80s turntable with strobe speed control is excellent because accurate speed is important. Try not to use a magnetic cartridge because you will probably need to amplify it. If you amplify it, or for that matter, click the LP/Record option on most audio rippers, you will be applying an eq curve called an 'RIAA EQ Curve'. What this does is to alter the sound as it is being ripped to disk. This curve is used to help get the tonal balance of records, but was only introduced in the 1930s, so any pre-WWII recordings probably don't have it as the RIAA curve was used in the process of cutting the disk. You'll find that those early records were made 'direct-to-disk' and pressed as such. Having a cheaper ceramic cartridge connected direct avoids this easily. Ceramic cartridges also have a higher output (more volume) and is better suited to sound cards in this case. So try not to use an amp (or if you have to, then get one where you can switch the RIAA curve out), and plug the T/table into the soundcard. There's lots of free audio ripper software out there and you should get it digitized with no probs.
Don't forget to clean each side - lukewarm water with a little natural soap, 1" paint brush to apply - get the brush bristles into the grooves. Rinse. Don't dry it with anything, but shake it dry. Don't get the label wet. Water on the grooves is ok and some actually flood the grooves when they record as it dampens the needle. The tone arm weight has to be heavy, about 5 grams if you can manage it - or put a small coin on top of the headshell. Experiment with a non-critical record and make sure that the needle is free to move and not jammed up into the cartridge. Now when you've done all of that, put up a website and let me know the URL:)
PLEASE don't/. this site! I've only got 3736 mp3s left to download! This guy had too much time on his hands, but I appreciate all his work greatly! Some good stuff there! De Hot Club du France!
VIA is 2nd best of the chipset manufacturers and it will be a pity to see them go. It's tragic really, as VIA outperformed SiS (which is junk) and was a good alternative to intel.
So what do we have now for general boards? Intel and SiS? NVIDIA are also pulling out I hear. SiS is crap and I really don't want to work with those fragile, slow drivers. That's bad news.
Yup! I still have an Apple//e with a Rocket chip + 384kb ram and 20 MB hard drive (Conner) running Prodos and Mousedesk. An absolutely brilliant machine for the time. Did a lot of programming and BBS work too with it. Damn these PCs!
Apple II can handle 64k of ram and that should be enough for everybody! The Apple//e can handle 640k of ram. Apple II cannot be used on a TV set unless you add a TV out (RF) card. It has a composite video out, which at the time, many TV's did not have. Although Apple II can do colour, many owners used either a green screen or amber monitor. A good colour monitor produced sharp text and images.
It means that the free oxygen in the atmosphere had combined with available hydrogen and metals. Simple put, Potassium/Sodium/Calcium had reacted with water or some hydrogen based acid - perhaps as gas forming a hydride and any free oxygen reacted with that compound to make a perchlorate! Stunning stuff if you think about it. If true, it's a real bonus for survival.
Don't miss the point! Perchlorates mean OXYGEN! They can breath the stuff AND make rocket fuel! The chemistry is relatively simple too! - 4 oxygen atoms for every potassium (I read somewhere NASA found concentrations of potassium).
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Good question. One that I've asked myself a few times.
The first time he did that, I had no idea what he was doing.
I soon worked out (after a few orgasms), what he was doing, and I tested a few birds (I also had a Red Rumped Grass Parrot called Max) of what they were looking at and I realised it was the calcium in the fingernails that seemed to attract their attention. This made sense to me at the time, so I persevered with Joe (The cockatiel) for a while. He wouldn't do it with any other object.
Then I felt that I was doing a dumb animal a favour and I didn't mind, but pretty soon I wouldn't allow him.
Then, when friends would come, I would test him out on them. Of course they had no idea what what happening to their hand or why Joe would go all funny after a minute or two.
After the party tricks got boring, it all stopped.
Sadly, Joe is not with us anymore otherwise it would definitely be a YouTube video by now.
Hey! Cann River? I've got a few stories to tell about Cann River! Mallacuta/Delegate/Bombala right?
I had a cockatiel that used to masturbate on my hand!
He would hop on my shoulder, walk down my arm onto my hand, grab my thumbnail and rub itself vigorously. After about a minute, it would tense, half stretch out it's wings and deposit bird semen onto my wrist.
Mind you, using my hand and thumbnail as a tool for self-gratification is not normal behaviour.
Recognition by a bird in a mirror doesn't mean that it has 'consciousness', but understands that it is itself, so it is 'self aware'. This is due to the effect of natural reflection of (let's say) water. Some animals (lions, tigers and bears) would not be worried if they saw their own reflection in water. Others would - like dogs for example.
Or, why do they call baby rabbits 'Kittens'?
Mob of Kangaroos and a murder of crows.
Caterpillars can be made to go around in a circle.
Line up about 10 caterpillars, all front to back so the first is sniffing the tail end of the last one.
Off they go! Round and round and round....
-----------
You can also get a rooster extremely annoyed.
Record one crowing. They also crow when there are hens about. Copy and paste the crow until you get a good 10 mins of it and play it back to it.
After a session of this, all the rooster can do is crow continuously until it drops from exhaustion.
------------
Newspaper reports a few years ago described pigeons getting a lift by clutching onto car roofracks, going under long city tunnels in Sydney.
I wonder what a Chicken BSOD would look like?
Maybe it's a driver issue instead?
Anyhow, who would you ring up for support?
The advantage of course having a chicken BSOD itself is that you can eat it.
I'm not sure of background radiation, but something like a cell phone sim card can be EM 'bombed' easily enough by wireless modems and the like. Be warned!
Sufficient EM energy will wipe out most electronics. Now if your computer lives in a Faraday cage, it may just survive.
Can you conjugate that for us?
I'm still hanging out for the 8 nm version.
Forgot to say that the pre 1920s 78s had a spiral groove that could accommodate low frequencies as the gap between each groove was quite large. Consequently, some records could only hold a few minutes of audio. This was before any applied EQ.
Ceramic and other piezo cartridges actually effectively had the RIAA equalisation curve built in to the cartridge itself
Maybe... but the ones I played with were the dual headed variety that could be rotated to play 78s.
These cartridges didn't have any EQ circuitry built in as the preamp did all the work.
But you are right, EQ controls can bring the tonal balance to the right levels.
I love the poster collection! Brings back memories of the good o'le days!
Thanks for the site!
Damn! Been /.-ed already!
Been there, done that.
What you need to get as a basic setup, is a modern 33.3/45/78 turntable with a ceramic cartridge (or as modern as you can get). Those late 70s and early 80s turntable with strobe speed control is excellent because accurate speed is important.
Try not to use a magnetic cartridge because you will probably need to amplify it. If you amplify it, or for that matter, click the LP/Record option on most audio rippers, you will be applying an eq curve called an 'RIAA EQ Curve'.
What this does is to alter the sound as it is being ripped to disk. This curve is used to help get the tonal balance of records, but was only introduced in the 1930s, so any pre-WWII recordings probably don't have it as the RIAA curve was used in the process of cutting the disk. You'll find that those early records were made 'direct-to-disk' and pressed as such. Having a cheaper ceramic cartridge connected direct avoids this easily. Ceramic cartridges also have a higher output (more volume) and is better suited to sound cards in this case.
So try not to use an amp (or if you have to, then get one where you can switch the RIAA curve out), and plug the T/table into the soundcard. There's lots of free audio ripper software out there and you should get it digitized with no probs.
Don't forget to clean each side - lukewarm water with a little natural soap, 1" paint brush to apply - get the brush bristles into the grooves. Rinse. Don't dry it with anything, but shake it dry. Don't get the label wet. Water on the grooves is ok and some actually flood the grooves when they record as it dampens the needle. :)
The tone arm weight has to be heavy, about 5 grams if you can manage it - or put a small coin on top of the headshell. Experiment with a non-critical record and make sure that the needle is free to move and not jammed up into the cartridge.
Now when you've done all of that, put up a website and let me know the URL
PLEASE don't /. this site! I've only got 3736 mp3s left to download!
This guy had too much time on his hands, but I appreciate all his work greatly! Some good stuff there! De Hot Club du France!
VIA is 2nd best of the chipset manufacturers and it will be a pity to see them go. It's tragic really, as VIA outperformed SiS (which is junk) and was a good alternative to intel.
So what do we have now for general boards?
Intel and SiS? NVIDIA are also pulling out I hear.
SiS is crap and I really don't want to work with those fragile, slow drivers.
That's bad news.
Yup! I still have an Apple //e with a Rocket chip + 384kb ram and 20 MB hard drive (Conner) running Prodos and Mousedesk. An absolutely brilliant machine for the time. Did a lot of programming and BBS work too with it. Damn these PCs!
I don't have to. I already have one.
Apple II can handle 64k of ram and that should be enough for everybody! //e can handle 640k of ram.
The Apple
Apple II cannot be used on a TV set unless you add a TV out (RF) card. It has a composite video out, which at the time, many TV's did not have.
Although Apple II can do colour, many owners used either a green screen or amber monitor. A good colour monitor produced sharp text and images.
'es not dead! 'es kipping!
In all seriousness, he's ok. A broken arm/shoulder injury and he's in good spirits.
It was also used to kill weeds and grass (paspalum).
They pulled it off the market a few years ago though.....
It means that the free oxygen in the atmosphere had combined with available hydrogen and metals.
Simple put, Potassium/Sodium/Calcium had reacted with water or some hydrogen based acid - perhaps as gas forming a hydride and any free oxygen reacted with that compound to make a perchlorate!
Stunning stuff if you think about it.
If true, it's a real bonus for survival.
Don't miss the point!
Perchlorates mean OXYGEN! They can breath the stuff AND make rocket fuel! The chemistry is relatively simple too! - 4 oxygen atoms for every potassium (I read somewhere NASA found concentrations of potassium).