...the last time this brood popped up, 17 years ago. You literally couldn't walk down the street without stepping on them. You'd go for a walk and come back with several cicadas clinging to your clothes. Racoons and other animals would feast on them - we had racoons who would eat a few hundred of them and then throw up on our roof. Ugh.
Since then I've become an avid bicyclist. I'm a little worried about what it's going to be like riding a bike with these things flying around. Yum, extra protein, no need to stop for lunch.
I can't speak for other moderators, but I don't mod people up because I agree with them. I mod people up if they have in interesting viewpoint or state something well that nobody else has stated. I have modded people up when I've strongly disagreed with them, because I think their post is worth reading.
Thanks - I did find this by googling up the full name and then found it in the Cook catalog. I didn't remember that it was a Cook production. Mr. Cook was quite prolific!
A few other items in the catalog looked familiar - I think my late father must have had a number of them. I sure wish my mother hadn't gotten rid of the LP collection when she retired and moved away.
I googled a bit and came up with a brief profile of Emory Cook and the complete catalog of his recordings, including the earthquake album, at the Folkways site.
My father had this recording when I was growing up in the '50s. A very weird listen, especially for that era. I guess I'll have to shell out just for the nostalgia value.
Now that my memories have kicked in, I'll also have to try to track down a recording called "Bull in a Chime Shop", which was a bizarre all-percussion ensemble. This LP would cause all the neighbors to close their windows and cower under their beds.
The '50s were the golden age of Hi Fidelity. Tubes ruled, small Hi-Fi shops were like temples, and the shelves were full of recordings intended purely to show off the quality of your equipment.
My 76-year-old mother has been a gamer for years, since she got her first Atari game console. When I helped her set up her new eMac a couple months ago, one of the first things she had me do was transfer all her old classic games over from her old Mac. She likes puzzle and card games the most, but she's been known to play blow-em-ups as well.
>Can you supply some proof that capitalism works? Where has it been tried? Certainly not in the U.S...
Try the US at the end of the 19th century, and to a lesser degree, the early 20th. The results (depressions, dislocations, mass poverty, child labor, corporate thugs beating and killing workers who object to being exploited, wealth concentrating in the rich investor class, etc.) show that capitalism doesn't work. Of course, communism doesn't work either. The lesson we as a nation should take from the last 150 years is that what does work is a system in which capitalism provides the engine of the economy, but its excesses are restrained by strong government regulation. Too bad the right didn't learn this lesson.
>drastic lowering of taxes at federal, state and local level from their 50% plus percent today.
50%? You must not live in the US. I'm making a pretty good living as a software engineer and I'm paying out about 35% in taxes, total.
There's a pervasive myth in this country that we are overtaxed, while the fact is that our tax burden is smaller than just about any other 1st-world country. In my state, the politicians complain about how we are taxed worse than other states, yet in truth our tax burden is in the bottom half among states. This tax myth is a powerful weapon for the right, which is why it's bandied about so much.
You don't need to spend money on a French press or an espresso maker. Get yourself a coffee filter cone like this.
You put the cone on your mug, put a filter in it, pour in some ground coffee, and pour in some hot water. Almost as fast as instant, same quality as any drip coffee maker, and no big outlay of $$$.
I got one of the first-generation X-10 cameras free in a promotion a few years back. I hooked it up and played around with it for awhile, and then started wondering what was to prevent someone with the same receiver from intercepting my signal. With that in mind I put the gear back in the box and haven't touched it since. Looks like I made the right move.
Slightly OT, but this brings up some related questions. I finally bought a MacOSX machine (iMac G4). I have a lot of music files in ConcertWare format. First question, is there anything on MacOSX that will import and use these files? Second, is there anything with similar capabilities - ability to use standard musical notation, MIDI in/out - but that won't cost me an arm and a leg? Finale is far too rich for my amateur musician blood.
I'll second the vote for SpamBayes. I get over a hundred spams a day at my work address, and the filtering capability in Outlook is worthless. I installed SpamBayes a couple months ago and Outlook is usable again.
It took about a week to train it, but since then its performance has been terrific. It gets very few false positives, and every one of those has gotten into the Possible Spam folder so I can salvage it and further train SpamBayes that it's not spam. A few spams get through to the inbox, but nothing like what I used to get.
My oncologist tried using a medical-specific transcription program a few years ago. One time he demoed it to me while I was getting my chemo. Let's just say that I was not impressed (of course the nausea I felt may have been from the chemo, not the demo).
A couple months later I asked him if he was still using it. He had given up on it and gone back to a transcription service. So I guess my records are in Pakistan or someplace...
Many experts have debunked Lomborg. His book was well-received by the entrenched corporate-owned media, but a number of rebuttals have been published more recently.
One example can be found at this URL. There are many others.
My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I recall a project back in the 80s called Spartan. It was a simple orbital platform that supported various experiments. It was carried aloft in the shuttle, let loose for a few days, and then retrieved and returned to earth by the same shuttle. A friend of mine worked on the software for it.
The Amphicar was an early example of the amphibious car. I think it was a product of the Netherlands, but I'm not sure. Was available in the 1960's, and was slow and underpowered. If you saw one on the street you could look under the back bumper and see the propellers. I did a quick Google on amphicar and found a bunch of sites, including this one.
Funny thing is, up until 1968 or 1969 the Army, at least, assigned its own serial numbers to the troops. I still remember mine. Then they switched to SSN. I don't know why they switched, but it does seem like a good idea to switch back.
There's a mention in the article of the practice of using real, innocent third parties' addresses as the return address for spam. Click through the link and you find a company that says it has been victimized in this way and is planning a lawsuit.
I hope they succeed and wipe these scumbags out. The same thing happened to me earlier this year. I started receiving hundreds of bounced mail messages from various mail servers. My address was the return address, and the content pointed to some particularly disgusting porn.
I suppose I should have tracked them down and sued them, but I don't have the time or the gumption to go through that process. I did forward some of the emails to the National Fraud Information Center but never heard anything back.
When I was in elementary school in the early 60's a local TV station played this movie once a year. It was a big event that we all looked forward to eagerly. Definitely under-10 friendly. Cheesy (you can see the zippers on the backs of the Martians' costumes), but good fun.
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...the last time this brood popped up, 17 years ago. You literally couldn't walk down the street without stepping on them. You'd go for a walk and come back with several cicadas clinging to your clothes. Racoons and other animals would feast on them - we had racoons who would eat a few hundred of them and then throw up on our roof. Ugh.
Since then I've become an avid bicyclist. I'm a little worried about what it's going to be like riding a bike with these things flying around. Yum, extra protein, no need to stop for lunch.
I can't speak for other moderators, but I don't mod people up because I agree with them. I mod people up if they have in interesting viewpoint or state something well that nobody else has stated. I have modded people up when I've strongly disagreed with them, because I think their post is worth reading.
Thanks - I did find this by googling up the full name and then found it in the Cook catalog. I didn't remember that it was a Cook production. Mr. Cook was quite prolific!
A few other items in the catalog looked familiar - I think my late father must have had a number of them. I sure wish my mother hadn't gotten rid of the LP collection when she retired and moved away.
I googled a bit and came up with a brief profile of Emory Cook and the complete catalog of his recordings, including the earthquake album, at the Folkways site.
My father had this recording when I was growing up in the '50s. A very weird listen, especially for that era. I guess I'll have to shell out just for the nostalgia value.
Now that my memories have kicked in, I'll also have to try to track down a recording called "Bull in a Chime Shop", which was a bizarre all-percussion ensemble. This LP would cause all the neighbors to close their windows and cower under their beds.
The '50s were the golden age of Hi Fidelity. Tubes ruled, small Hi-Fi shops were like temples, and the shelves were full of recordings intended purely to show off the quality of your equipment.
My 76-year-old mother has been a gamer for years, since she got her first Atari game console. When I helped her set up her new eMac a couple months ago, one of the first things she had me do was transfer all her old classic games over from her old Mac. She likes puzzle and card games the most, but she's been known to play blow-em-ups as well.
>Can you supply some proof that capitalism works? Where has it been tried? Certainly not in the U.S...
Try the US at the end of the 19th century, and to a lesser degree, the early 20th. The results (depressions, dislocations, mass poverty, child labor, corporate thugs beating and killing workers who object to being exploited, wealth concentrating in the rich investor class, etc.) show that capitalism doesn't work. Of course, communism doesn't work either. The lesson we as a nation should take from the last 150 years is that what does work is a system in which capitalism provides the engine of the economy, but its excesses are restrained by strong government regulation. Too bad the right didn't learn this lesson.
>drastic lowering of taxes at federal, state and local level from their 50% plus percent today.
50%? You must not live in the US. I'm making a pretty good living as a software engineer and I'm paying out about 35% in taxes, total.
There's a pervasive myth in this country that we are overtaxed, while the fact is that our tax burden is smaller than just about any other 1st-world country. In my state, the politicians complain about how we are taxed worse than other states, yet in truth our tax burden is in the bottom half among states. This tax myth is a powerful weapon for the right, which is why it's bandied about so much.
You don't need to spend money on a French press or an espresso maker. Get yourself a coffee filter cone like this.
You put the cone on your mug, put a filter in it, pour in some ground coffee, and pour in some hot water. Almost as fast as instant, same quality as any drip coffee maker, and no big outlay of $$$.
I got one of the first-generation X-10 cameras free in a promotion a few years back. I hooked it up and played around with it for awhile, and then started wondering what was to prevent someone with the same receiver from intercepting my signal. With that in mind I put the gear back in the box and haven't touched it since. Looks like I made the right move.
Slightly OT, but this brings up some related questions. I finally bought a MacOSX machine (iMac G4). I have a lot of music files in ConcertWare format. First question, is there anything on MacOSX that will import and use these files? Second, is there anything with similar capabilities - ability to use standard musical notation, MIDI in/out - but that won't cost me an arm and a leg? Finale is far too rich for my amateur musician blood.
Not to be a smartass, but I googled on
phone wiring home
and got a pile of useful information on upgrading or changing your home phone wiring. Try it, you'll like it.
Your calls can wait. Drive the damn car.
1. Sell only music made in China.
2. Use illegal aliens to keep the database clean.
3. ????
4. Profit!
I'll second the vote for SpamBayes. I get over a hundred spams a day at my work address, and the filtering capability in Outlook is worthless. I installed SpamBayes a couple months ago and Outlook is usable again.
It took about a week to train it, but since then its performance has been terrific. It gets very few false positives, and every one of those has gotten into the Possible Spam folder so I can salvage it and further train SpamBayes that it's not spam. A few spams get through to the inbox, but nothing like what I used to get.
My oncologist tried using a medical-specific transcription program a few years ago. One time he demoed it to me while I was getting my chemo. Let's just say that I was not impressed (of course the nausea I felt may have been from the chemo, not the demo).
A couple months later I asked him if he was still using it. He had given up on it and gone back to a transcription service. So I guess my records are in Pakistan or someplace...
Many experts have debunked Lomborg. His book was well-received by the entrenched corporate-owned media, but a number of rebuttals have been published more recently.
One example can be found at this URL. There are many others.
"I hear one is comming down the pipe and I wait with baited breath."
Eating worms again? Good protein source. But you'll find more of them on a Windows machine - you could starve trying to live off of Mac worms.
Or did you mean "bated breath?"
"Guinea pigs aren't rodents, they are cavies"
Just checked Britannica. A guinea pig is a cavy, and a cavy is a rodent "belonging to the family Caviidae (order Rodentia)".
My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I recall a project back in the 80s called Spartan. It was a simple orbital platform that supported various experiments. It was carried aloft in the shuttle, let loose for a few days, and then retrieved and returned to earth by the same shuttle. A friend of mine worked on the software for it.
The Amphicar was an early example of the amphibious car. I think it was a product of the Netherlands, but I'm not sure. Was available in the 1960's, and was slow and underpowered. If you saw one on the street you could look under the back bumper and see the propellers. I did a quick Google on amphicar and found a bunch of sites, including this one.
Funny thing is, up until 1968 or 1969 the Army, at least, assigned its own serial numbers to the troops. I still remember mine. Then they switched to SSN. I don't know why they switched, but it does seem like a good idea to switch back.
There's a mention in the article of the practice of using real, innocent third parties' addresses as the return address for spam. Click through the link and you find a company that says it has been victimized in this way and is planning a lawsuit.
I hope they succeed and wipe these scumbags out. The same thing happened to me earlier this year. I started receiving hundreds of bounced mail messages from various mail servers. My address was the return address, and the content pointed to some particularly disgusting porn.
I suppose I should have tracked them down and sued them, but I don't have the time or the gumption to go through that process. I did forward some of the emails to the National Fraud Information Center but never heard anything back.
When I was in elementary school in the early 60's a local TV station played this movie once a year. It was a big event that we all looked forward to eagerly. Definitely under-10 friendly. Cheesy (you can see the zippers on the backs of the Martians' costumes), but good fun.
Here's the scoop.
MyDOS! That's it. Thanks for jogging what's left of my memory.