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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:14 am
by wayne
Got one of these yesterday - cheap, small & sounds real nice :grin:

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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:30 am
by next to nothing
i havent made a decent tune in half a year but i will today.

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:59 am
by Counterparts
Nice kit, Wayne :smile:

@ Piddi - I started my tune for the French biking video yesterday (was humming it in my head all 'round France...so I think that I know where I am going with it).

LOL: http://photos.imageevent.com/wforest/ho ... falle.mpeg

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:26 am
by wayne
Yeah, Royston, it's dinky but fat (20"x8" Bass drum :smile: ).

I love developing tunes that hit you while doing big drives - kinda like songlines - you're going to have fun with that :smile:

...and Piddi, you rock that f#%ker :grin:

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:34 am
by at0m
Nagasaki was nuked today 60 years ago. The plutonium bomb dropped there was even more powerfull than the uranium bomb used in Hiroshima 3 days before that. Together, the two bombs killed over 400.000 men, women and children. Still worth our thoughts?

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:44 am
by Gordon Gekko
discovery touched down.. nice to watch and a bit of distraction from work where frankly i don't know why they are keeping me here.. Ah well, my contract ends on december and i'll be making music all day long for a coupla years then.. can't wait

peace

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:00 am
by Counterparts
at0m wrote:
Still worth our thoughts?
Absolutely. There was a very powerful and moving documentary/dramatisation on BBC2 the other day (the day of the Hiroshima anniversary), about 1:30 long with some harrowing accounts from survivors of the event.

In the program's favour, it pointed out that nearly every other major Japanese city had been fire-bombed to hell by the US prior to the dropping of the atom bomb (there weren't many left, in fact which narrowed the US's choice of city to attack to just a few). I guess that the atom bomb seems worse due to the after-effects of the radiation and the fact that it's just one bomb being dropped, but many thousands of people were equally killed by "conventional" weapons.

Sadly, the mayor of Hiroshima declared after the attack that it had been an extensive air raid, and that the Japanese people should not give in and remain prepared for the (US's) invasion :sad:

The original primary target (Kioto?) was cloudy on the day of the second bombing, which is why the plane moved on the Nagasaki. It was cloudy there too, but they dropped the bomb anyway. It missed the designated target by some distance, else even more people would have been killed.

Royston

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:03 am
by Liquid Len
On 2005-08-08 18:48, narly wrote:
Please feel free to diverge in any direction. Lord knows every other OT thread goes even further off-topic.

Recent polls (although still unofficial) indicate that lament and bemoaning of societal and governmental status-quo to be a popular choice for digression...
God loves me because I guessed the real true religion. I work hard and earn more than a hundred times what an African makes. Thats because I really do work a hundred times harder. If there's any problems in the world it's because other people don't see how wise me and my people are. You can see how they could be very jealous of me / us.

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:09 am
by pseudojazzer
I'd like to make a toast...
"to coffee and cigarettes"

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:21 am
by Liquid Len
On 2005-08-09 07:09, pseudojazzer wrote:
I'd like to make a toast...
"to coffee and cigarettes"
Hear, hear!

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:21 am
by Gordon Gekko
cheers, i'd like a toast to girls with big tits

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:45 am
by Counterparts
Two very good toasts! :smile:

Here's one to "Random Acts of Kindness"

*clink*

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:05 am
by Michu
Gotta drink that one with you, Royston
:grin:

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:10 pm
by narly
Sage words, indeed - and a host of welcome diversions in a variety of atypical directions...

BTW, the onions are cheap (free?) on your taco at Taco-Bell...!

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:31 pm
by astroman
On 2005-08-09 06:34, at0m wrote:
Nagasaki was nuked today 60 years ago.
... Still worth our thoughts?
reminds me on that animation movie When the Wind Blows, featuring a naive old couple that gets into the consequences of a distant nuclear strike.
needless to mention there was no happy end, both died from radiation disease without even knowing what was going on - a touching realism, even though it was painted.

it's the only time I can remember that there was some 10 seconds of complete silence in the cinema after the lights went on again.

cheers, Tom

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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:56 pm
by symbiote
I'm saving up for this cute puppy =P

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In other news, Goblins make very good solid state operational amplifier, provided you can convince them to stand inside a overheated box full of weird electronics,

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:54 pm
by wayne
Oh come on, goblins aren't solid state, they're full of tubes :grin:

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:01 pm
by hubird
and I am after this one:

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dual 1,25 mHz, CD-DVD RW drive, latest OS9 bootable mac OS-X desktop.
Noisy, but I don't have any choice...

Since Apple announced the changeover to Intel (mac outside), the price of a used one has risened up to 1400,- EUR on ebay.de :eek:
A few weeks before this announcement a friend of mine bought one for 750,- EUR, imagine :sad:

I got an offer by email of 1000,- eur from someone who saw my wanted ad on a dutch used-mac site...I hope he will stay with this offer :wink:

Upgrading from my G4/733 (yes folks, works still great) this G4 dual 1.25 will be my transition to an Intel G5/OSX...who would buy a new mac today.
In the meantime CWA has a job to do...

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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:36 pm
by symbiote
No Luke... *I AM* your tater

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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:34 am
by MikeRaphone
Buzz off motherfuckers this thread is mine!
And i've got a shutgun, and a dynamite strap.
I want my honeybunny, i am so lonely i think i am going to cry... Keep off, dont get near me!!! This thread is all i got left. Oh yeah and i want an airplane and million bucks and all political prisoners in nOrd Emerica released. And i want to shit in the bush, cause my ass is exploding soon.
Thank you,
keep up the Good work