Sleepy

[Isaac Sauvage]

@gregg and whoever,
just a quick note-- i've been using this site lately, and it's been particularly handy: http://keepvid.com/

you paste in the video source, the site takes a look at it, and then offers to convert it to either video / video with no audio / or audio at whatever quality level you'd like. this is nice when you've got a hard drive bursting at the seams like me and don't want the target file to be any larger than you actually need.

of course there's also extensions to do this kind of thing in chrome or firefox... it's all just a matter of preference.


@bill,
this really belongs in your thread about "sounds," but i'm just gonna drop it here for now.

this is a little page that lets you hear active updates being made to wikipedia in the form of ambient sounds. that probably doesn't make much sense on the surface of it, but i find it refreshing and pleasant to listen to this particular morning:
http://listen.hatnote.com/

 

[Sleepy's Sister]

Jon - Thanks for putting together the playlist. That must have taken A LOT of time to do. I agree with your assessment of the Vince Gill song. It is one of my husband's favorites, so I added it for him. I'm not much of a country western fan in general. Warren Zevon has always been a favorite of mine, and I found "Keep Me in Your Heart" especially moving, since it was written after his mesothelioma diagnosis.

Bill- I loved your "nuggets" thread. Never saw The Sterile Cuckoo, and never plan to.

Nic - Thanks for the keepvid.com link. I'll definitely check it out.

 

[GSGregg]

Kathy;

Horned lizards are indeed 'little dinosaurs', or at least were presented as such by budget moviemakers once or twice upon a time.....they needed no props or makeup and were quite convincing if slow-mo was properly used.

Everyone;

Video DownloadHelper 6.1.0 was a pain in the butt, losing track of which of The Albadukes' thirteen songs was being played / converted, and almost every file had to be renamed because DLH took the title of Arne's thread, which happened to be the title of the Mary Mack tune, and applied it to each one. I can't believe something that works this poorly was able to crash Mozilla's party, so obviously the fault rests with the new guy (myself)---I'll figure it out, but I just had to gripe.

All songs are in MP3-HQ and played well on my dinosaur rig; luckily the audio files themselves aren't what chokes out a slow computer when videos are played.

I put Reflections of My Life out there even though the Video copy Jon supplied is over twice the size of what I have (I think DLH sensed what my comp could and could not do; not once was I presented with an HD option for the vids). Luckily, MP3 audio doesn't care about the video format.....

Another duplication is American Tune, but this is a 'reunion' performance from 2004 by 'Old Friends On Stage'. The 'new' Albadukes material starts with 'Leaving Carolina', and is in the order in which Arne posted it, and he may have modified it to suit.....

 

[Sleepy's Sister]

Thank you to both Gregg & Jon for converting all of these songs! I know that it wasn't a simple feat. Usually, I find, that when I start a computer project, that I think will be fairly simple, it often takes 4 to 5 times longer to complete than I originally estimate, often accompanied by a few choice expletives. I have downloaded all of these songs, and will add them to my mp3 player. I greatly appreciate all of the effort that went into ripping them!!

Gregg - I was reading an article about the care and feeding of horned lizards, and it stated that they needed formic acid to survive. So, your instincts about ants as a food source sounds right on the money. It's a shame they didn't survive. In addition to horned lizards, when I lived in West Texas, I often encountered scorpions, rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and tarantulas. I thought it would be educational for my young son to learn about these creatures, so I once caught a scorpion in a jar and my son and I decided to put a red ant in the jar as food. That scorpion was terrified of the red ant, and would run away from it. Long story short... the ant survived and the scorpion did not.

Jon- I would have loved to have seen all of these bands. I have seen a few: Neil Young, when he was with Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young and Aaron Neville at Jazz Fest a couple of years ago. Two of my favorite concerts of all time were Pink Floyd- the Wall in 1980 and Simon and Garfunkel at Dodger Stadium in 1983. Although, not on the setlist, I also feel fortunate to have seen the Eagles History Tour when they played in New Orleans in 2014. Who would have thought that Glenn Frey would be gone two years later? We gave Arne a ticket to the Eagles concert at the Forum in Los Angeles, as a Christmas present, but he ended up being too sick to go. In Hindsight, I'm certain that it was the cancer that made him feel so ill. Wish he had gone to the doctor back then.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

...In addition to horned lizards, when I lived in West Texas, I often encountered scorpions, rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and tarantulas. I thought it would be educational for my young son to learn about these creatures, so I once caught a scorpion in a jar and my son and I decided to put a red ant in the jar as food. That scorpion was terrified of the red ant, and would run away from it. Long story short... the ant survived and the scorpion did not.

as an amateur zoologist and person generally fascinated with all forms of life, i find that pretty story pretty great.

EDIT: i randomly bumped in to this just now; might as well share: https://i.imgur.com/j58KGQE

it's panulirus ornatus, also known as the painted crayfish, tropical rock lobster, and several other names.

...Two of my favorite concerts of all time were Pink Floyd- the Wall in 1980...

dammmmnnnnn. now that's a hell of a thing to have on your life's CV.

 

[GSGregg]

Gregg - I was reading an article about the care and feeding of horned lizards, and...your instinct about ants as a food source sounds right on the money.

My 'instinct' was based merely on their being plentiful, which would become apparent if you stood too long in one place

...when I lived in West Texas, I often encountered scorpions, rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and tarantulas...

I'm not an arachnophile, or a lover of venomous snakes, and can't keep up with a roadrunner...but Vietnam gave me all of the scorpions I want. Rather than have us try to launder fatigues in a helmet full of water, Quartermaster Laundry was instituted; when the chopper/s brought out a clean load, we'd take off our less-than-fresh articles, throw them into a pile, and tear into the Clean Pile as though it was 50%-Off Day at Wal-Mart. 'First come-first served' was the rule, and those of us who were pulling guard duty got the last pick; I wound up with button-fly pants---with one button missing. In the morning, the inside of my left knee blew up like someone extinguished a cigar on it, and after whacking my leg several times to neutralize the 'ant' that was probably responsible (they got some BIG ants over there), three more 'cigars' got put out (with strength diminishing, thankfully).

So I slowly rolled the pantleg down so as not to miss the 'ant' again, and encountered a brown scorpion about 2 to 2-1/2 inches plus tail, perched atop the boot where the pantleg bloused into it. A whack from behind sent him into a tree trunk, and the same boot made certain he wouldn't sneak through a button gap again.

In almost forty-nine years, I have neither played with scorpions...nor so much as tried on button-fly pants. (Forget) THAT!

...the ant survived and the scorpion did not.

Too bad ants are communists; I'll bet that one passed up quite a feast!

We gave Arne a ticket to the Eagles concert at the Forum in Los Angeles, as a Christmas present, but he ended up being too sick to go.

Arne chronicled his experience with that one (specifically posts # 19, 25 & 28 ):

The Eagles, The Return of The Fabulous Forum, and THe Los Angeles Shopping Bag Ban - Pinball Nirvana Forums


And in case you'd like to hear Arne in composition mode, but don't have these yet:


Pop in once in a while; we're bound to discover some more, eventually!


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[Sleepy's Sister]

Gregg -

Thanks for posting Arne's music. I didn't have any of those files.

Yikes!! Those Vietnamese scorpions are much larger and more venomous than the ones we had in West Texas. I bet you shook your pants out before putting them on for a long time after that experience.

I'll definitely be popping in to this site from time to time. I'm already hooked on some of the games in the arcade.

 

[Sleepy's Sister]

Nic-

Sorry that it has taken so long to respond. That is one beautiful lobster! I don't think I could bring myself to eat it.

The Pink Floyd concert was amazing. The special effects were impressive, and of course the music was incredible. I read that Roger Waters is planning a 40 city solo tour in 2017. He claims that it will be along the lines of Pink Floyd's big scale performances of the 70's and 80's. It could be interesting!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...rs-2017-tour-us-them-20161011-snap-story.html

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

waters seems to be pretty busy this year as well with the concerts. right now he's apparently brought back the giant pig and has dedicated it to donald trump, so to speak.

he looks quite dashing and healthy at age 73.

i only saw the floyd once, in philly. i think it was probably sans waters, after their big feud. they did put on a pretty good show, tho. unfortunately i was still a hopeless nerd at that point... hadn't even tried ganja. it could have been a pretty good makeout scene and relatively trippy experience, but i wasn't even dating either.

 

[GSGregg]

Horny Toads are definitely interesting creatures.

Here's a story about another cute little reptile.....

Crocodile Whisperer - snopes.com

 

[Sleepy's Sister]

Here's a story about another cute little reptile.....

Crocodile Whisperer - snopes.com

That is insane! Hope Chito keeps that little guy well fed.