The Vent and Rant Thread

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Is it fingered similarly? I used to play bassoon in school, but that was a score and a half years ago.

Yes.




http://www.bagpipejourney.com/articl...ositions.shtml

Depending on key.

http://www.moceltic.org/docs/whistle_chart.html

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Best to start with the Tin Whistle.

If a Tin whistle is made of tin, what's a Fog horn made of?

I have several different recorders and some Japanese shakuhachi. I love the sound of the pentatonic scale that the shakuhachi play in. You can play with them for hours, ever knowing any real music score. Very 'Zen' sounding. Complete antithesis of the heavy drum/fast bagpipes for battle.

Speaking of which, as I'll be out of town, can you please take some pictures of KK painted blue brandishing her battle ax and claymore. I'd hate to miss that. Thank you very much.


Stitchawl

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

If a Tin whistle is made of tin, what's a Fog horn made of?
...

I have a few made of plastic that work quite well.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

If a Tin whistle is made of tin, what's a Fog horn made of?

And what is a penny whistle made of?

Speaking of which, as I'll be out of town, can you please take some pictures of KK painted blue brandishing her battle ax and claymore. I'd hate to miss that. Thank you very much.

Stitchawl

Is this her?
Swiped from here

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

And what is a penny whistle made of?

OMG!!! Has anyone seen Penny?

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Is this her?
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I'm not sure why, but I prefer to think of Tom's version...


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I'm not sure why, but I prefer to think of Tom's version...


Stitchawl

It's the cat-eyes and the scales. Gets us every time, bro!

[Stitchawl]

I just tried to sync my iPhone using iTunes and it wiped out everything in my phone! Gone. All my music. All my contacts. All my speed dials. All my new apps. Everything! Dammit.

Not a total loss as everything is backed up on my computer somewhere, but it's going to be a bother to re-install everything and get it set up the way I like.


Stitchawl

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I just tried to sync my iPhone using iTunes and it wiped out everything in my phone! Gone. All my music. All my contacts. All my speed dials. All my new apps. Everything! Dammit.

Not a total loss as everything is backed up on my computer somewhere, but it's going to be a bother to re-install everything and get it set up the way I like.


Stitchawl

Oh No!!!

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Oh No!!!

And in my mind keeps repeating that wonderful phrase of yesterday...

"Computers are here to save us time and energy, and make our lives simpler."


I think I'm going to spit.


Stitchawl

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

And what is a penny whistle made of?



Is this her?
Swiped from here

uhhhh no. that's a Slumpf. I much more dangerous than that

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

And in my mind keeps repeating that wonderful phrase of yesterday...

"Computers are here to save us time and energy, and make our lives simpler."


I think I'm going to spit.


Stitchawl

I took my cellphone in last week to see if they could get the camera feature working. they managed to wipe out ALL of my messaging, including stuff from my Dad and Uncle, both of whom are now passed on *sob*

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

I took my cellphone in last week to see if they could get the camera feature working. they managed to wipe out ALL of my messaging, including stuff from my Dad and Uncle, both of whom are now passed on *sob*

Now there's a rant. I understand how you feel. Years ago a computer virus did a number on my hard drive. I took it in to the experts and asked them to remove the virus but save what files and pictures they could. I lost many irreplaceable memories and most of the pictures they did save were in the form of very low-resolution thumbnails. I was not happy.

The self-defense clause that has saved many a victim of violent crime from the charge of murder when they acted to save their own lives should be expanded to cover people who shoot writers of computer viruses.

[bjones6416]

Do you guys remember the conversation we had going here a couple of days ago about bystanders not being helpful, and I said that for the most part people around here are helpful? Well, this afternoon when I rolled my big over-filled garbage can to the curb, I accidentally turned it over in the street when I bumped off the curb unevenly. As I tried to brace the wheels so I could pull it upright again, two strange men sitting on a porch across the street actually stood up and asked if I needed some help getting it upright again. Just about that time I got the angle right and was able to get it back up, so I told them I had it but thanks anyway. Still, though, I appreciated the offer.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Now there's a rant. I understand how you feel. Years ago a computer virus did a number on my hard drive. I took it in to the experts and asked them to remove the virus but save what files and pictures they could. I lost many irreplaceable memories and most of the pictures they did save were in the form of very low-resolution thumbnails. I was not happy.

The self-defense clause that has saved many a victim of violent crime from the charge of murder when they acted to save their own lives should be expanded to cover people who shoot writers of computer viruses.

indeed *sob* and simultaneously *fume*

Originally Posted by bjones6416

Do you guys remember the conversation we had going here a couple of days ago about bystanders not being helpful, and I said that for the most part people around here are helpful? Well, this afternoon when I rolled my big over-filled garbage can to the curb, I accidentally turned it over in the street when I bumped off the curb unevenly. As I tried to brace the wheels so I could pull it upright again, two strange men sitting on a porch across the street actually stood up and asked if I needed some help getting it upright again. Just about that time I got the angle right and was able to get it back up, so I told them I had it but thanks anyway. Still, though, I appreciated the offer.

HUZZAH! for real humans!

[devilsadvocate]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

I presume you are familiar with Beatallica? (Lennon and McCartney songs as Metallica would do them. Dead on imitation of Metallica, and hilarious covers.)

Yup. These days the singer does a better Hetfield than Hetfield. Of course to be fair Hetfield's been at it for 30 years.

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

If memory doesn't fail me, the Boone album wasn't bad if you ignored who was doing it. If it hadn't been Pat Boone, there wouldn't have been nearly the reaction.

Erm, well...it sounds more like swing than lounge to me; his "Smoke On The Water" cover sounded like the theme to a detective noir story. Must be the horns. In my case (partially due to age) it's easy to ignore that it's Pat Boone because I was never a regular listener of his anyway, and my definition of "lounge" involves something much less charitable than what Boone does here (think Bill Murray's character on SNL). I lived in Vegas for a few years and I've heard what atrocities can be committed by a lounge singer attempting hard rock or metal.