Bazza Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 1860s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 37 minutes ago, L. Marcus said: Along Route 66, to the tunes of classic rock music of the Sixties ... Or the soundtrack to the first Cars movie. There's some good traveling music on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 Hey, I drove on Route 66 when it was still officially Route 66. The same is true for Route 666, too, before the wussies renumbered it to 491. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Citation found in a paper accepted to Astrophysical Journal: "Clarke, A. C. 1945, Wireless World, 55, 305". That's the geostationary orbit discussion article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 It's a pretty good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 The preprint with the citation -- it's about detecting extraterrestrial civilizations on the scale of ours via effects on the light curves of exoplanet transits -- is here. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 I think I've read it somewhere, but cannae be arsed tae search meself -- what would the ideal frequency be for a directional signal to make it the furthest through the interstellar medium with the least loss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 The "Water Hole" L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Important leisure task this weekend: selecting the 24 disks (number dictated by the capacity of the CD wallet) that will get taken on the 3-week road trip. (Other music is present on the ipod, but for annoying reasons I can't change what's on that.) 2 disks with the Brandenburg Concertos; 2 disks with the Beatles' "blue" collection; 1 disk of digitally reprocessed Glenn Miller; Enya's Watermark; John Jarvis's Whatever Works; Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow; CCR's Cosmos Factory; Yes's Fragile; Kansas's Point of Know Return; KT Tunstall's Eye to the Telescope; Camel's Breathless; Peter White's reveillez-vous; Al Stewart's Past, Present, & Future; Jackson Browne's Late for the Sky. Eight slots remain to be chosen, paying particular attention to the wife's desires. I have left out some thing I know she dislikes (though some of that is on the ipod). Her tastes run to singer-songwriters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Wow, even I don't use CDs any more. Even iPods are vintage now, come to think of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 I bought a couple of CDs just last month. I like having the liner notes and the artwork. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Singer-songwriter suggestion: Sandy Denny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 Well, singer-songwriters in general are not my cup of tea. My list above includes ones I am more tolerant of. I know the ipod is a fossil now, but it's got 800 tracks on it most of which I like, and it serves admirably as sonic armor in my bus commutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 21, 2018 Report Share Posted April 21, 2018 5 hours ago, Cancer said: I know the ipod is a fossil now, but it's got 800 tracks on it most of which I like, and it serves admirably as sonic armor in my bus commutes. ' Sonic armor ' has a nice ring to it. I've got a micro SD card in my phone that serves the same purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 Daughter discovered the CD hoard last night. Started ripping stuff to flash drive. lemming 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 A natural reaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 Well, she originally was looking for a fresh rip of a disk of Pachelbel and Fasch stuff that she hadn't copied to her new box since the power supply in her old one died. Then she had to go through the cubic meter of jewel boxes to find the one she wanted, and I don't think she'd actually gone through it that way before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 11, 2018 Report Share Posted May 11, 2018 Okay, I'm back. Got home about 6:30 pm local time. Tired; I did all the driving today, from Ontario, Oregon, to Seattle, via Maryhill and Union Gap. I'll probably start a thread with observations, etc., from the vacation. The first one is already in the Nice Happy thread. California condors were all rounded up and put under protection while I was in grad school, and I took that as a sign they'd never be free in the wild again. I hadn't paid much attention since then, so I was surprised when my ex told while we were at her place, but I didn't set my heart on it. Then to have one over us in a cloudless Grand Canyon morning sky was a joy I could not have imagined before it happened. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 Surgery time! Catch all y'all on da flip side. Pariah and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 Wait, what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 Flip side is Flatliners right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 If I understand correctly, he is the surger, not the sugree? So if this works right, I think maybe he comes back with a custom-scratchbuilt "aide". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 Cybernetic arm? Arc reactor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 Just don't call him raccoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 24, 2018 Report Share Posted May 24, 2018 Can we call him snorklewacker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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