What have you done today? (Pt 2)

[Pyraxis]

suffice it to say, I am puking about having to deal with Christmas already.

Finished with editing, but at least, I now remember how to puke on screen.

Hahahaha I hear you on having to deal with Christmas already. No love lost for false treaties and all that, but what ever happened to Thanksgiving?

[DirtDawg]

{ Edited}
The tacos were very ordinary tacos. Hard taco shells from the grocery, a salsa which WolFish had taken from a jar and strained the liquid out of so that it wouldn't be so watery, ground beef with seasoning, fresh avocado (my favorite part) and lettuce.

BTW I love avocados.

When I was a child, I lived in a place that had three avocado trees thriving and you could just wait and pick them up off the ground once the fruit was ripened.

No having to deal with grocery store fruit. I miss that home.
Still, your tacos seem to have created with certain care. Well done!~ ~~~~~~ (Those are taco tildes!)

[DirtDawg]

suffice it to say, I am puking about having to deal with Christmas already.

Finished with editing, but at least, I now remember how to puke on screen.

Hahahaha I hear you on having to deal with Christmas already. No love lost for false treaties and all that, but what ever happened to Thanksgiving?

An excellent point!

I think that taking a day for nothing but thanks and more importantly, life's reflections, is an idea that should be continued and passed on to the future generations.

... but wtf do I know? I am feeling like I am the last of a kind these days.

I work with young guys who have porn tatted on their arms, ffs, and my mom turned seventy seven this year, (yeah, I have a young mom. She was pretty hawt when I was a teen and she was thirty something, but that is another story)

What happened to Thanksgiving?

I have a theory that it is the "Evil Politically Correct nazis" that have decided that this day should never be commemorated.
Of course,  the lack in enthusiasm for Thanksgiving could all just be because of the horror of the idea that gifting for Christmas should take on a fever frenzy about this time. Seems kind of stupid.

Or maybe the rampant apathy for having all our wealth that has set in so deeply in our society makes feeling thankful seem insignificant.

['andersom']

The bit of thanksgiving that is still remnant in my country is a christian celebration, thanking for harvest and jobs. There is a praying day for the same in spring. No holidays, just a moment of gratitude and prayer.
So, last Wednesday, a colleague brought cookies, with a card, saying thanks to her colleagues for making a pleasant group to work with.
I liked it a lot.

[Queen Victoria]

Back on topic and again, as always, I am generally late to report.

Last night was Halloween (unfortunately, the weather was horrific and we did get many t or t'ers) and I had been working in my spare time to create a disc of combined "Scary" sound effects that I had gleaned from several corny discs from the library.

I slammed a few together, using Audacity to combine thunder, rain, howling, screaming, bumping and creaking effects effects all into one track, etc. I made a fairly awesome hour long disc, using or combining the  best parts of five other creepy sound effect discs.

I set out one of my bass speakers, dual fifteen JBL, wired in stereo, but all in one enclosure. I figured that no one would care that it was not actually presented in true stereo after they had approached all those enhanced low frequency sound effects emanating from bass speakers, instead any of those squeaky little  speakers that most people put outside.

Unfortunately, the weather sucked (we had snow, ffs!) and we only had about twenty "trick or treaters"
Planning to make this a new family tradition since both kidletts (too old to go trick or treating) were SO into this idea.

You might be amazed how awesome these screamy, thundery, creepy things sound coming from bass speakers! NO shit!

My dad built 3 hi-fi sets in the early 1960's.  On New Year's Eve he would put the speaker to our set outside and play Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at full blast.  He always timed it so the cannons shot off at midnight.  (It was a record made with real cannons overlayed with the hall recording.)

One thing that is interesting about that particular piece of musical work is that is is so often played with some sort of make believe cannon sound effect.

Even inside; once I used my sound system (it was paid work) where, at the right moment they had a "percussion musician" fire a shotgun into a barrel filled with sand to emulate the sound of a cannon.

Yes, every one of my microphones (I think I had seventeen microphones covering the orchestra) went "max out"  and as loud as the sound was live, back stage, my sound system, amplified the the sounds it captured. REALLY. Half of the people in the audience stood up and clapped.

They experienced not only the massive sound of a shotgun fired into a barrel  backstage in a super efficient  auditorium, they felt basically every thing my sound system could do to support that sound from  the stage.(I never went minimal with my sound jobs - I had a lot of power there, really!) Everyone stood up and clapped, but I am sure it was from the fact that the orchestra company scared everyone in the audience with an incredible sound effect created outside most everyone's imagination.



Honestly. it was a night to remember as evidenced by the simple fact that, after all these nights and all these other jobs  have done since, I still remember THAT night, after about thirty years.

The special thing about this recording was that they used actual cannons.  Awesome sound.

[Parts]

Went and picked up some supplies for work
Showed the people at Habitat how to seal up air leaks
Received way too many phone calls and texts

[Icequeen]

Fixed a mower (broken drive cable), returned it. Hopefully that will be it until spring now.

[DirtDawg]

Back on topic and again, as always, I am generally late to report.

Last night was Halloween (unfortunately, the weather was horrific and we did get many t or t'ers) and I had been working in my spare time to create a disc of combined "Scary" sound effects that I had gleaned from several corny discs from the library.

I slammed a few together, using Audacity to combine thunder, rain, howling, screaming, bumping and creaking effects effects all into one track, etc. I made a fairly awesome hour long disc, using or combining the  best parts of five other creepy sound effect discs.

I set out one of my bass speakers, dual fifteen JBL, wired in stereo, but all in one enclosure. I figured that no one would care that it was not actually presented in true stereo after they had approached all those enhanced low frequency sound effects emanating from bass speakers, instead any of those squeaky little  speakers that most people put outside.

Unfortunately, the weather sucked (we had snow, ffs!) and we only had about twenty "trick or treaters"
Planning to make this a new family tradition since both kidletts (too old to go trick or treating) were SO into this idea.

You might be amazed how awesome these screamy, thundery, creepy things sound coming from bass speakers! NO shit!

My dad built 3 hi-fi sets in the early 1960's.  On New Year's Eve he would put the speaker to our set outside and play Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at full blast.  He always timed it so the cannons shot off at midnight.  (It was a record made with real cannons overlayed with the hall recording.)

One thing that is interesting about that particular piece of musical work is that is is so often played with some sort of make believe cannon sound effect.

Even inside; once I used my sound system (it was paid work) where, at the right moment they had a "percussion musician" fire a shotgun into a barrel filled with sand to emulate the sound of a cannon.

Yes, every one of my microphones (I think I had seventeen microphones covering the orchestra) went "max out"  and as loud as the sound was live, back stage, my sound system, amplified the the sounds it captured. REALLY. Half of the people in the audience stood up and clapped.

They experienced not only the massive sound of a shotgun fired into a barrel  backstage in a super efficient  auditorium, they felt basically every thing my sound system could do to support that sound from  the stage.(I never went minimal with my sound jobs - I had a lot of power there, really!) Everyone stood up and clapped, but I am sure it was from the fact that the orchestra company scared everyone in the audience with an incredible sound effect created outside most everyone's imagination.



Honestly. it was a night to remember as evidenced by the simple fact that, after all these nights and all these other jobs  have done since, I still remember THAT night, after about thirty years.

The special thing about this recording was that they used actual cannons.  Awesome sound.

You might be talking about the famous Telarc Digital vinyl record, which was actually one of the very first completely digital recordings in history.  I have measured this record with an oscilloscope in front of audiences before. I can tell you that when the cannons fire in this record, it has some five hertz signal content.  You actually need a pretty decent turntable to even play it in vinyl, to be modest.

That particular record is still considered to be one of the best ever recordings in the entire history of recording.

[DirtDawg]

Had the day off.

Got some good fun using my new (table saw) toy/tool.

[DirtDawg]

Once my son came home from school, I had promised that we would go shoot my Remington 1100 shotgun for his first time.

I also took my Ruger  twenty two pistol and rifle as we have done several times.

Unfortunately, I only took one box (twenty five rounds) of shells. I figured that the recoil of this twelve gauge shotgun would put him off a bit and after a few shots, I would get a turn.

No way! (He is a fairly big boy.) He fired off those twenty five rounds and did not even blink. THEN, he did not even want to shoot either of the smaller guns.

I did not get to shoot.

 

[Icequeen]

Once my son came home from school, I had promised that we would go shoot my Remington 1100 shotgun for his first time.

I also took my Ruger  twenty two pistol and rifle as we have done several times.

Unfortunately, I only took one box (twenty five rounds) of shells. I figured that the recoil of this twelve gauge shotgun would put him off a bit and after a few shots, I would get a turn.

No way! (He is a fairly big boy.) He fired off those twenty five rounds and did not even blink. THEN, he did not even want to shoot either of the smaller guns.

I did not get to shoot.

 

That's great.

SO just gave me a Winchester 1300 full camo a few weeks ago...have to switch the choke on it...but looking forward to taking it out.

[Queen Victoria]

Back on topic and again, as always, I am generally late to report.

Last night was Halloween (unfortunately, the weather was horrific and we did get many t or t'ers) and I had been working in my spare time to create a disc of combined "Scary" sound effects that I had gleaned from several corny discs from the library.

I slammed a few together, using Audacity to combine thunder, rain, howling, screaming, bumping and creaking effects effects all into one track, etc. I made a fairly awesome hour long disc, using or combining the  best parts of five other creepy sound effect discs.

I set out one of my bass speakers, dual fifteen JBL, wired in stereo, but all in one enclosure. I figured that no one would care that it was not actually presented in true stereo after they had approached all those enhanced low frequency sound effects emanating from bass speakers, instead any of those squeaky little  speakers that most people put outside.

Unfortunately, the weather sucked (we had snow, ffs!) and we only had about twenty "trick or treaters"
Planning to make this a new family tradition since both kidletts (too old to go trick or treating) were SO into this idea.

You might be amazed how awesome these screamy, thundery, creepy things sound coming from bass speakers! NO shit!

My dad built 3 hi-fi sets in the early 1960's.  On New Year's Eve he would put the speaker to our set outside and play Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at full blast.  He always timed it so the cannons shot off at midnight.  (It was a record made with real cannons overlayed with the hall recording.)

One thing that is interesting about that particular piece of musical work is that is is so often played with some sort of make believe cannon sound effect.

Even inside; once I used my sound system (it was paid work) where, at the right moment they had a "percussion musician" fire a shotgun into a barrel filled with sand to emulate the sound of a cannon.

Yes, every one of my microphones (I think I had seventeen microphones covering the orchestra) went "max out"  and as loud as the sound was live, back stage, my sound system, amplified the the sounds it captured. REALLY. Half of the people in the audience stood up and clapped.

They experienced not only the massive sound of a shotgun fired into a barrel  backstage in a super efficient  auditorium, they felt basically every thing my sound system could do to support that sound from  the stage.(I never went minimal with my sound jobs - I had a lot of power there, really!) Everyone stood up and clapped, but I am sure it was from the fact that the orchestra company scared everyone in the audience with an incredible sound effect created outside most everyone's imagination.



Honestly. it was a night to remember as evidenced by the simple fact that, after all these nights and all these other jobs  have done since, I still remember THAT night, after about thirty years.

The special thing about this recording was that they used actual cannons.  Awesome sound.

You might be talking about the famous Telarc Digital vinyl record, which was actually one of the very first completely digital recordings in history.  I have measured this record with an oscilloscope in front of audiences before. I can tell you that when the cannons fire in this record, it has some five hertz signal content.  You actually need a pretty decent turntable to even play it in vinyl, to be modest.

That particular record is still considered to be one of the best ever recordings in the entire history of recording.

I wish that was it.  This is a recording from the early 1960's.   

[odeon]

Woke up, was greeted by an enthusiastic puppy and got a cup of coffee before logging on here.

[Pyraxis]

Slept in, because I was feeling kind of off and it was deliciously warm under the covers Now I should do something productive to make up for it.

[odeon]

Shopped groceries.