The collected works of fu - Page 6

uh oh you guys, as if avatar changes were not enough :p

what about a guardaroba - cloakroom - wardrobe thread? when i first got here, i had a mustache:

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guardian452 wrote:
we have one already. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4166&start=144 :D

i had avatars in mind but we likely have a thread about that somewhere

pent+syb get the (camera) trigger-happy prize

smj hits it 2-in-1 for being the exact opposite of the man with no avatar

i've been in watercolours for some time, still like that but mostly in white hair now. then diego caught a rare shot of me .

have a funky august y'all
give us some dirty shots sometime rec, i prefer your bikes dusty like when they're eating asphalt :)
haven't tested lion yet, and you guys probably know this already but since porter is looking for a solution, apple just posted Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

(nice prose r10 :))
will let you know canavan, recondas offered help already. last post house i've been to was empty of anything sgi though
^x2

fix up that divco bro, gotta get a real tribute rollin'

nice shots riders
mint indeed

reminds me a of a new old stock octane you got during the warehouse clearance, congrats rec :)
hot damn it's ze divco kids! milk-funk anyone?

oskar, you can have every mac's model/order number and a sea of specs at your fingertips here

the zen of the iMac is its cleanness, you only have to plug the power cord to the wall outlet, no ugly spaghetti above/under/behind your desk. it also sports the look and groove that gets the ladies :p

a mac pro will give you long-lasting service, i still get to use some of the 1st generation ones among projects. it'a different product/ballpark alltogether.
(g)rainy

'gators

:)
got one already sky?

i hear that macs are next to be retina'ed, no time to test anything these days though
nekonoko wrote: decided to go with a maxed out BTO 11" Macbook Air instead

you'll love the air pete, best laptop (in its literal sense) i've used so far

hamei wrote: Almost as nice as my eight year old IBM monitor

i bumped into one that wasn't in the accounting dept. this time and did some lower-thirds on it. yup its a decent monitor :)
sky did you notice any (over)heating issues while using it?
way exhausted these days, when i get back home i only want to hear either the "köln concert" or "jasmine" by jarret/haden.

Oskar45 wrote: - Maria Bethania, Eu preciso de voce

"en la fusa" vinicius de moraes con maria crueza, maria bethania y tomatito

PymbleSoftware wrote: Dick Dale and the Del Tones. "Misuru".

hamei sends me some crazy rock'n'roll and i get a 5min dream of being on vacation, surf's up

tux wrote: Louis Armstrong - Mack The Knife (Theme From Three Penny Opera)

unbeatable, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got...

tux wrote: Villa-Lobos - Bachiana brasileira #5 - Aria (Cantilena)

wish i had seen him conducting 30,000 kids in a stadium
i missed the announcement too, looks like there's nothing exciting, retinas will be standard soon. all this consolidation in their laptop line makes the "pro" euphemism kind of ridiculous.

re. extra ports, i used to worry about it but with a dock like this it seems to me that the problem's solved (when @ home/office). there are times i wish i had a plain ethernet cable but truth is that most cafes/hotspots supply only wireless, "double-espresso & rj-45 thanks", "absolutely sir but we have to transfer you next to the router" (which usualy resides next to the kitchen).

i've found on-the-go nirvana w/ the 11' air, i beat the hell out of it and it'd only burp/page due to the 4gb ram limit when i have to do some heavy work on it. looks like the current ones w/ 8gb ram, a dock and a decent monitor may serve as notebook/docked desktop combo for me.
Oskar45 wrote: Sure. Was there in January '75.

ah! lucky you. i'm happy to discover a melody built with 5 notes, jarret creates a whole universe out of 5 notes :) . i prefer his american quartet and most of his solo works.

Oskar45 wrote: the perfect love-making background.

that's what jarret says/writes about it. the blissfull part in my case right now is that these 2 works make up the only thing that untrips me these days. i'm working on a difficult performance in an ancient theatre and i have to finalcut the score/soundtrack soon.

syb, check out karen, the girl next library

smj, i think you're gonna dig the bad plus

sky, cooked any grooves out of your studio?
nice to see your collection being fostered among friends.

harry once had an idea about a "sgi lending library" in europe (can't find the thread right now) that would help members of this board, test/troubleshoot their machines without/before investing the crazy $$$ resellers asked for back then.

thanks for the scripts and all your help harry :) there was a time i couldn't set my scratch disks or change a freaky login icon whithout help from this board.
i think we should all give neko a brake and self-moderate ourselves. it's summer, the whole world is going broke, and the last thing we should worry about is one more rule in a fine place like this.

i think neko never had a problem with "politics" (or any other topic) per se as long as we don't bust his balls about it. there are times we get to have some very interesting discussions here (thanks to diversity) and other times that we act like crybabies.

i'd say to get in (or opt out) a conversation as adults. i enjoy conversing with a wild bunch of you whatever the topic is. i never had any problem w/ humour, different styles/views or critique. i'd join a discussion on religion started by you oskar without nagging @ neko/mods if we don't agree.

muppets @6:09 ask: is conversation a dying art ?
GeneratriX wrote: ...where to follow?

just get lost in music dieguito

off the top of my head during the coffee-brake:

- i gotta go now
- master percussionist making beats and exchanging phrases w/ acoustic & electric players alike
uhmmm can you handle the gin today? i can only find ice cubes around an ancient theatre, nearest bar is 10km away :)
Oskar45 wrote: I think Intelligent Design stuff is completetly demented.

agreed. i've only browsed the synopsis and it looks like i won't dive any deeper. all these late trends to hystericize the new millenia remind me of dark ages. we used to burn books back then, now we're burning minds.

vishnu wrote: A jar of olives? ;)

olives aplenty in Epidaurus, give us a hand and join vp , our regular us-side bartender :)

robespierre wrote: I found a book where Buñuel quotes Wisdom 2:1-9 out of context, and it impressed me a lot.

try to find "the exterminating angel" in a bohemian cinema room or dvd and tell us what you think. don't bother w/ the average stamp-size iphone clip, doesn't count.

hamei wrote:
mgtremaine wrote: Ezekiel 23:20 <- !! :lol: Just quietly lurking, browsing the topics, agreeing in my mind then I had to google your sig.... Starting laughing, my wife asked what I was laughing at. ;)

What I can't understand is, why would anyone want a boyfriend who farted like a horse ?

collateral damage turned into habit. i saw Ariadne yesterday, she never managed to (totaly) get rid of that Dionysus/Minotaur odor.
yes gents, tricky how discourse works.

fascism had both political&fiscal roots. the word got demonized, turned into taboo after the end of wwii in order to reflect certain imagery/emblems of that short guy with the moustache. benito eventually got hanged for high treason in piazzale loreto and here we are in 2012 bailing out bankers, worrying about job security and negotiating basic human rights.

i pity the kids, everything they grow up in is phoney these days. "get rich or die tryin'" mantras are doomed to end in blood+tears. truth be said, distraction techniques are much better nowadays.
i wasn't talking about religion in general but rather about the late trends to wrap everything in "scientific" paper. certain types of religion always had a tendency to update their wrapping paper. intelligent design, scientology etc, are just another trend of our days, grab some basic issues/axioms of theology, stick a few graphs & equations and call it "intelligent/scientific".

other than that how each one walks around his existential quests is purely a subjective matter. recent news suggest that we found god in a can nuclear reactor

ps: as the OP of this thread you're able to change the title. i've done it myself to keep threads funny/friendly under the "Everything Else" category.
i hope joerg didn't shrink, he used to work @cern
^ ah! the double entendres girl


sure jose, get a triclinium & the sirens will follow :)



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si vaquero, it's a dirty job but someones gotta do it :P

follow the signs, skip the monastery and look for the garden, i've left your names on the guest list
( wild night )
Oskar45 wrote: they have their roots in the 1870's

thanks for clearing that up oskar, browsing a synopsis online can be as useful as a fish shopping for a pair of shoes. i'm aware of creation sciences, but the title of "intelligent design" brought out an allergy in me since most things today are labeled "easy" "intelligent" "creative" etc. still, why would anyone blab over a typical set of theology based on christianity and try to mix+match a "scientific" clockwork approach, is beyond me.

ps: i got your current sig allrighty, i was just following up on hamei's reference about vices

mgt sums it up nicely as faith is the common denominator in every type of religion. besides a few efforts to explain genesis/cosmos or any other existential part, the main function of religion was to provide some sort of behavioural cookbook. now we have ultrabright-ready-in-10-seconds cultures coming out of a tv set. nouveau-riche kewl, evolution y'all!

mgtremaine wrote: Obviously I can only speak for the slice of society I see from where I'm standing. Your quote of "No different..bible but a hell of a lot more popular nowadays" is not true. Most people in America have no economic ideas or even knowledge, but 70% say they are Christian and 40%+ say creationism is true. That's a problem.

i'd take that a bit further w/ a few thoughts

-unless the main interest in this thread is statistical, i wouldn't worry too much about it. polls are being cooked daily and they provide yet another distraction for a "we smart, them dumb" placebo.

-when most people (whatever their initial stance on religion is) base their erections /lives on financial indices/services of invisible hands, then we have a major problem. we've been there (elevate money into a religious pedestal) before, didn't work out.
hey gators & rockers, how's everyone doing?

i'm acrobatting between brazilian soul and calypso while seizing the last days of my summer brake:
- take it easy my brother
- from a logical point of view

GeneratriX wrote: something like thrift stores or flea market!

yes general, nothing like digging the crates to find favourite vinyl on a cool sunday :D
wish you nail this one, then we won't have to bother with attachment limits every time i have something to send over
what's considered a decent android phone rockers & gators?

other than fiddling for a few seconds w/ demo units in store, ive never really used any of them. i read online that each manufacturer bloats/tweeks the core android os for their product line and only the nexus series come w/ a lean+mean version of the OS.

what would you suggest to an older person w/ minimal needs (email, family video-calls). do android phones boogie with iPhones nicely?


(mod team: if you think that this should better be under "Misc OS/Hardware", please teleport accordingly )
thanks for your thoughts rockers, will pop in store spend 5 minutes on 2 or 3 of them and try to find out if they fly or not. much oblige for the lowdown fellow duck :)

hamei's assist & your mom's case sound encouraging as i'm looking for a phone for my father who has to spend some time in the hospital. all he needs is email and video calls w/ his family and a tablet/laptop won't do.

re. iphone<->android boogie: facetime is iphone only but skype is cross-platform so it should work ok. i read that i phones can only send/transmit files via bluetooth to/from iOS devices only and given the fact that iphones don't have removable storage (xD, etc) all file transfers will have to go through the net instead of device-to-device.
i just grabbed a sony xperia (no nexus in stock). looked like the one with the cleanest ui in store. installing skype for video calls was a breeze and i'll check the file transfer apps later. duck is right, the kid in store warned me that most manufacturers don't update the android os for older devices in high hopes of selling new ones. hope all this works ok.

guardian452 wrote:
It depends on the app. I use Blue FiRe for recording with a tascam mike interface sometimes and it also has it's own ftp and webserver in addition to bluetooth and itunes sync et al. Works out of box.

thanks guard, gonna give that a try. all previous tests to transfer directly from one device to the other failed. i was thinkinkg of a simple scenario: you want to transfer a file from your iphone to your friend's android phone next to you. sure you can email/dropbox/doobeedoo it but wouldn't it be a heck simpler if you could just transfer it via irda/bluetooth/ladeeda, from one device to the next one?

guardian452 wrote:
Only thing I use bluetooth for is the car stereo and my electric shoes .. but it is definitely the future.

promise you're gonna mod a pair of red shoes (to shoes dance the blues to) for me, till then gather up your girl + friends and electrify something sleek to swing about :)

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^
handmade roadtrips is where its at!

got any picture of your funky divco? i bet rec + the rest of the gators will appreciate. only a divco could make it into a moto thread :)
Oskar45 wrote:
...Any recommendations?

Only for the record - I peruse just an iPhone 4, and I like it.

if you're happy with the iPhone then you'd better stick to it oskar, i don't see any reason to switch to a similarly-priced android phone unless you get a kick out of the reasons that the fellow duckling mentions above.

2 weeks after, the sony xperia does what my father needs. it looks to me that anyone who doesn want (or cannot afford) to spend the iphoney-kind of 3 figures, can get anlong with an android just fine. the interface sucks (esp. if you're used to apple/ios) but i hear it's getting better (or it used to be worse). the android freedoom vs ios closed closet is a teenage joke (you're just gonna get lost in google's labyrinth instead of apple's).

i saw a couple of windows phones in store. there must be some curse in microsoft and their UIs as they all resemble some fisher-price toy. you get greeted with a bunch of tiled squares full of crowded streams of data. some are blinking, others are flashing and another one plays a slideshow of pics. yipeee!
guardian452 wrote: ...married, graduated, starting new job. All within 2 months of each other.

triple congrats syb, save a slice of cake for us and boogie on down :)

(i'll manage to follow up with a decent pm when all this mess is over)

87Porsche wrote: I've also been increasing my vinyl collection 180 grams at a time.

:D
Oskar45 wrote:
a GOD who had created all that current mess just for his fun...

no no no pal, you're going too high.

we managed (again) to create all this mess (again) just by ourselves (again).

zarathustra redivivus :)
oh no geo, i've had a whole thread discussing illustrator weirdness with hamei and a few other nekochanners a while ago :P

if the fonts are truetype/opentype, then you just install them on your pc. i've done this a couple of times but can't recall the exact location on a windows machine (there should be a "fonts" folder somewhere). go back to illy, re-open the file and you should be good to go (check for import options when opening, iirc you get a dialog box when opening files from different versions of illustrator).
skywriter wrote:
Built a basement mixing studio, and currently building a backyard observatory.

please save some space for the teleportation capsule sky, will help with everything :)

hamei wrote:
recondas wrote:
Used to have a Valencia Blue 1969 Triumph GT6.

Great girl's car, wreck :D

guess what the girl drove when she came to meet me today. for a few seconds i thought we were on the set of the graduate and dustin was round the corner

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vish et al, russia is a trip of its own, i recommend it. i've ridden the transyb twice, first time was when the berlin wall went down and i got off @ perm. second time was a decade after and i managed to reach vladivostock, 100% shake, rattle and roll.

Oskar45 wrote:
No, no, no pal, you're staying too low.

gotcha allright the first time, i was just waiting for a logician's verbal diversion :)

Oskar45 wrote:
*Why* did a GOD create us so that we can manage (again) to create all this mess (again) just by ourselves (again)? It's a mystery to me :-)

panem et circenses, most likely :)
morning geo

funny, looks like the guy used some old mac zipper that gave you the _blues. iirc 7zip on windows can deal with this kind of muckup.

grab it, and you might also like a font manager for windows.

(zip of the ttf font . all free, we're not breaking anything)
robespierre's right, get some edelweiss instead but worry not about the food oskar, it's delicious outside the arena. juvenal's phrase (check his satire works) is spot on our current mess (feed people with products and false needs to keep them passively satisfied and socio-politically apathetic), which reminds me of... quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

back on topic, regan's got me covered
PymbleSoftware wrote:
I've seen most places I've wanted to go to, I wouldn't mind spending more at some of the places I've been though.