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i passed my ESD test. 96%. luv multiple choice. they aren't allowed to tell me which question i got wrong.
i need a tambourine. in my story, the power pixies are a traveling dance troupe.
mebbe i should give up on the power pixies as dancers. a lil ickiness, they could play scifi mosqueets.
11:35 and i haven't eaten a candy bar today. trying to not eat candy anymore. except for the once in a while godiva truffle.
cold turkey withdrawals. waahhh
didn't carry water with me walking home last night, noticed a huge-mongus difference. exhaustion level was intensified without sipping water on hike home from the bus stop.
wondering what difference eliminating caffeine would make in energy vs energy crash. not at the same time as quitting candy.
candy makes me so tired, yet so happy.
the lunch trucks is nothing but sugar. dirty sugar, too. yeah, dirty sugar ick. why don't i believe that? mega-sigh
it was tempting. :) my buppy wanted me to stay home.
You could catch an Ostrich instead of a bus. Ostriches are fast :lol:
i like ostriches. something cheerful about them. their eyes are soulful.
It took me about six months to quit sugary food, and this was before I knew I was diabetic - my body started to tell me "stop" long before the docs bothered checking me. It's not easy but I did feel better once I did it.
Quitting caffeine, now.. I've quit about 5 times in my life, every time it was a week of headaches, followed by 2 weeks of feeling dead, then finally getting some energy back. I keep getting re-addicted to coffee because I'm not a morning person but my darn job always seems to need me wide awake by the time I reach the office.. so.. I'm stuck. :down:
So here I am.. sitting next to a cup of coffee.. with fake sweetener in it. Welcome to my world. :blank:
Tambourines
tambourine
http://lab108.x0.com/lab108/inst.html (seventh from bottom)
Tambourine (OBJ format)
http://sharecg.com/v/50120
Tambourine poser prop
http://sharecg.com/v/50410
Big fun today - reading Craigslist ads for housing in Portland, OR. Not that much more expensive than good housing is in Austin now.. but prices here have gone up a ways since I first arrived.
Other big fun is sitting down with the TriMet bus/rail map and seeing what's what. South Portland is WAY under-served, I can see why KK has a hard time getting around. Downtown and Hillsboro look pretty decent, and Hillsboro has a ton of tech companies.. could work out.
Fun times. :smirk:
That is amazing!
Dana
+1...except for the grey drippy...that will come tonight.
Dana
caffeine withdrawal headaches last a week?! dang
Thanks Cho. :)
this is exciting: i would love a 3d printout of my space statin. do lil buildings to make a fantasy city. Dragons! oh woww
Edited for Breaking Forum formatting UPS 3D Printing
http://stratasys.com/3d-printers/idea-series/uprint-se-plus
To see what I did Misty just Quote your post. That way works best for those LONG addies.
Thanks JR :)
chapter foofs - not at the level of artistic merit i wishing em to be :down:
removed the foofs, cuz i think i killed the thread.
who vs whom
whom is on first? what's on second? i don't know on third?
http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/who-versus-whom
So: Who's on first? :)
Blech, back to doing more testing - which means waiting for the device to do things - which is slow. :-S
Doc appointment tomorrow to make sure all the nasty bugs in my guts are dead and that things are back to working order. It means I can sleep an hour extra! :coolsmile:
Dinner tonight - barbacoa soft tacos! That's bbq shredded beef in a soft flour tortilla.. I habe tortillas and shredded bbq beef at home, and cheese sprinkles (lol). Should be super tasty!
Resisting the urge to buy a new Android tablet to replace my aging Tablet PC. I got the Tablet PC to do writing when out.. which I never do.. so now I just use it to read Kindle books and check email on the go. An Android tablet would last twice as long (battery-wise) and be half the weight.. tempting.. it'd come on my vacation with me. :)
I wanna go home but I need the money, so stuck here for 2-1/2 more hours. Meh. :blank:
97f outside, going to be a hot trip home tonight! :bug:
Yes it does. That's what I was using up until about a few months ago (^_^)d.
might as well get the Kindle Fire then.. GF has one, she loves it for reading, playing games etc.
I have an Ipad with Office HD on it, which I use for note taking ALOT, its word compatible so works with Open office and Libre Office (both free and compatible with MS office products).
I got home in time, because now it is dumping rain. I would not want to drive in that.
I tried to give up caffeine but first I want to work on my procrastination. Maybe I will do that tomorrow.
might as well get the Kindle Fire then.. GF has one, she loves it for reading, playing games etc.
I have an Ipad with Office HD on it, which I use for note taking ALOT, its word compatible so works with Open office and Libre Office (both free and compatible with MS office products).
I hear that Amazon will release a new, better Kindle HD in September.. I can certainly wait until then. I could shove my whole 500+library on it (lol)!
A Kindle is a good idea! :coolsmile:
Good job! :D
Dana
Good job! :D
Dana
Thanks
That's nice; we have lots of old organs over here, all of them fully functional despite the age (they were built to last). Some new organs are currently being set up, with loving handicraft associated with them: for example, an organ where all the pipes are made out of wood. Pretty sure that will be an impressive sight and I really want to hear how it'll sound like, as wood has its own peculiar timbre to sound.
...I really have to scrape up the resources for an extended holiday to see (and hopefully) hear these instruments.
Here in the States we still ascribe pretty much to the "disposable" mentality. Only recently has there been a push to save old architecture in our cities rather than tear it down for some awful glass steel monstrosity with a retro looking brick facade.
Organs in this nation have often suffered a similar lot. Instead of maintaining and repairing, many churches and civic halls simply replaced their original instrument with a new one. I like to call the 20th century (from about the 1930s) the "Appliance Organ" era as often there wasn't even a case as in a number of churches/halls, the pipes were buried in stone chambers inset into the walls behind an ornamental grillwork facade. Another style was to just have the windchests and pipes out in the open with no outer casework The whole idea of a case on an organ is to project and reflect the sound of the pipes into the sanctuary or hall. In effect, the casework is the organ's "soundboard" which is why those 200 - 300 year old handcrafted instruments you have there offer such a nice pleasing rich and cohesive sound.
By the 1960s, the organ here all but lost it's identity as a musical instrument since with introduction of electricity the keydesk could be completely separate from the windchests. In fact even the pipes themselves could be replaced by electronic tone generation systems and speakers.
I remember a few years ago, finding a fully working and quite playable pipe organ from the 19th century, mechanical action with a over dozen stops, 2 keyboards, pedal (flat pedal board instead of the concave type seen to day) for sale on of all sites, eBay. When I did a bit of research I discovered the instrument was on a list of historic American organs having been built in the 1870s. However the church it resided in wanted to "modernise". I tracked the bidding just to see what transpired and who purchased it. The final bid was around 2,100USD (can't even buy a new vertical piano for that). Back then, I actually could have afforded it at that price had I a place large enough to install it in.
Not to say it's totally hopeless here however as since about the mid 1970s, there has been a growing interest in returning to the roots of the instrument's craft. After a number of new organs from Germany and Holland were imported in the late 1950s -1960s, builders here began to look back at the older traditions these instruments were based on. Eventually shops began constructing new instruments along similar lines, echoing specific styles like North German, Flemish Baroque, and even Gothic/medieval. Most of these new breed of organs however are still somewhat "eclectic" (combining various periods of organ styles for that "one size fits all" approach that many churches still want), but still are built with an strong eye on craftsmanship, one at a time.
Maybe some day a cathedral or concert hall here will decide that an instrument designed purely in the style of Cavaillé-Coll (like the one I linked to) is what they need and will finally have one built. Interestingly enough, while a few of Mr. Cavaillé-Coll's instruments found their way into Latin and South America (unfortunately most now in terrible states of neglect), none were ever exported to the United States, even for demonstration at a world exposition. The closest we have is in the Cathedral on Jackson Square in New Orleans' Vieux Carré which has a few sets of Cavaillé-Coll made pipes that came from from another organ.
...keep in mind though it is total suburban sprawl on that side of the city. Not much in walking distance, heck, a lot of areas don't even have sidewalks. I like to call the west side 'Little LA" as that is what it reminds me of with wide main thoroughfares with fast traffic, strip malls as far as the eye can see, and side streets that go every which way usually ending in cul de sacs and dead ends. Out there, the car is definitely KING.
"Nightlife" in the west burbs is well...not the most exciting and certainly nothing like what you have in Austin, and in the evenings bus service out there pretty much goes to bed early and is spotty in many areas on weekends.
The best place would be to live in "uptown" (west side of the downtown area) as you still would have a lot of places in walking distance, and decent bus service on weekends/evenings, plus you wouldn't need to go through downtown on your way to work. Unfortunately it is a bit more expensive, but at what Intel Intel those firms pay, not unmanageable if you don't mind a smaller place (though larger than where you are in now).
For example, when I was looking for a new place, I found a very nice clean large studio flat (almost a 1 BR) a couple blocks from Powell's Books (a Northwest icon) on SW 10th Burnside and only a few blocks from the Max line that goes to Hillsboro for 650$ + utilities.
They may also underwrite the cost of part of or all of your monthly or even annual bus pass. The place I interviewed at last week will cover 80$ per month of my commuting expenses. That would mean a monthly pass would only be 20$ instead of 100$.
@KK - I'll keep that in mind. My thought was to spend the Sunday I'll be there taking a "bus tour" to selected areas, to see what it's like.
$100 for a monthly pass isn't cheap, but Austin transit is the cheapest in the land - $30 a month - but it doesn't cover light rail. A full monthly pass in Silicon Valley is $140 (ouch!) and I didn't squeal too much at that, so no big deal. Still way cheaper than a car payment!
I'd prefer a small place - studio or 1 bedroom - I travel light and prefer it this way, so I'm good there. I've been checking Craigslist an dits not that much more for a lot of the apartments I looked at.
Thanks for all the info, too! :coolsmile: Much appreciated!
Finally pack up and go home time! Grab some beer, hen whip up some bbq beef tacos! :cheese: :cheese:
It's been crazy this week.. urgh.. making me earn my pay! :gulp:
ARGH! Now I got a image of Wooly whipping a Giant Taco stupid with a rubber chicken stuck in my head....
are you running out of fish?
Tambourines
tambourine
http://lab108.x0.com/lab108/inst.html (seventh from bottom)
Tambourine (OBJ format)
http://sharecg.com/v/50120
Tambourine poser prop
http://sharecg.com/v/50410
hato-lele is adorable :)
http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/who-versus-whom
So: Who's on first? :)
: Yes.
:)
Anybody know the name of an application that lets you create seamless tiles for texturing? I used to know it but I've forgotten, and someone elsewhere is asking about it.
Dana
LOL :)
Today is the last day of the Platinum Club DAZ O/PA special sale, which ends at midnight DAZ time.
After midnight, my August PC monthly coupon should be activated.
Just sayin'.
Maybe the sale will be extended. That happens a lot.
Just sayin'...