The Chat Thread

[karlhenning]

Take a couple of lessons.

[greg]

Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try. Thanks.

[karlhenning]

Yes; one can take a couple of lessons even in a language in which one has no ambitions of mastery.  The process is good for the mind . . . and for the ear.  That in addition to the fact that you seem to wish to make the fellow's better acquaintance . . . .

[mahler10th]

Lets hear it for old guys!   

[Andante]

Lets hear it for old guys!   

Hooray,   It's about time I was appreciated.

[greg]

Lets hear it for old guys!   

I like old guys that are cool and smart (i have a feeling that old guy Esperanto teacher is like that).

I don't like old guys such as one that drove me in a taxi once... he asked why I needed a taxi, etc. and I told him it was because my parents were gone. He then acted extremely shocked that I wasn't throwing a party, especially since they were gone for so long. I wanted to say, "hell, no, I'm not letting a bunch of drunk monkeys run around in my house," but I didn't. 

And then he's like, "man, get drunk, get laid, man," the sort of attitude that really irritates me. Then he went on and talked about how he met someone in a bar, and she called him up and told him she had a porno video on and she wanted him to come over and have fun. I mean, who talks about this after just meeting someone?  People like that are like the bottom feeders of society.

I did enjoy talking to him, though, and was nice and friendly. It's just his style I don't like...

btw, I think everyone here is awesome. 

[knight66]

Well thanks Greg, You may call me, 'Your Awesomeness'.

If getting older has compensations, I have yet to discover them.

Mike

[Elgarian]

If getting older has compensations, I have yet to discover them.

We get wiser. Haven't you noticed that?

[knight66]

Balance that with the loss of memory; the wisdom is there, but what is it I was so wise about yesterday?

Mike

[Szykneij]

If getting older has compensations, I have yet to discover them.
Mike

We get wiser. Haven't you noticed that?

And it beats the alternative.

[greg]

Well thanks Greg, You may call me, 'Your Awesomeness'.

If getting older has compensations, I have yet to discover them.

Mike

Yes, sir, "Your Awesomeness." 
lol

[Lethevich]

Some lunatic on Demonoid (I know it's full of them, but even so, this guy takes gold):


"As those are old soviet recordings I thought to give them some "fresh air", coverting (upsampling) them to 96khz/24 bits for a better, more open-sounding and, at the same time, absolutely accurate to the original, audio experience.
No other proccessing of the original material was made.

[...]

WARNING:

There will be here at no time after I upload this a bunch of a shelf-called "audio engineers" who are nothing else but maniacs with some strange complexes, and will tell you that the final acoustic result is not enchanced thus, furturmorre that is somehow deteriorated, that you may harm your hard disk or speakers or even your brain, that resampling a cd`s data is an insult to the artists, to the music , to God, etc...
I shall not reply to any of them!
Please do not consider that as a lack of arguments.
I would have never considered occupying an extra place on your hard disc, if I had not been extensively exprimented with this proccess and those particular programs over the last two or three years.

Just ignore them, download this and TRUST ONLY YOUR EARS!."


He managed to make a sub 300mb CD 2gb in size.

[greg]

 

[knight66]

I have been buying and watching some series of documentaries on history, religion and architecture. All of these have been prepared by academics and therefore in their fields, experts. However they all abuse the music they use within the programmes.

Typically, discussion of the Norman French influencess on English 12th Century architecture is accompanied by Tallis or by Bruckner motets or Handel! The music gets chopped up and smeared across the soundtrack in a really superficial way, merely for effect.

I assume that many who know nothing about music watch these programmes and assume the music is contemporary with what they are being asked to look at.....it annoys me.

Outraged of Gloucestershire

[Lethevich]

Same. They often play Wagnerian sounding synth music during documentaries on medieval kings too. My face during this:

[knight66]

Why Miss Sarah, without those glasses you look so............


Mike

[Lethevich]

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/protesters-mock-parkinsons-man/

Finally a victory against those darned PCers

[Sergeant Rock]

I like old guys that are cool and smart (i have a feeling that old guy Esperanto teacher is like that).

If you want to learn a useless language, I suggest Klingon. At least that way you have a chance of getting laid at Star Trek conventions.

Sarge, an old fart who's pretty sure he's no longer considered "cool and smart" by Greg 

[Opus106]

If you want to learn a useless language, I suggest Klingon.

No, I think he is set with C#.

(Just kidding, Greg. )

[greg]

If you want to learn a useless language, I suggest Klingon. At least that way you have a chance of getting laid at Star Trek conventions.

Sarge, an old fart who's pretty sure he's no longer considered "cool and smart" by Greg 

I actually knew someone who was learning the language from The Lord of the Rings. My dad's friend and his wife were learning it so they could talk to each other in public and people wouldn't understand what they were saying. I don't know how much they learned, but in my opinion, it would be fun but a waste of time at the same time. Why not learn a real language, which is just as fun, but also actually useful at the same time? 

No, I think he is set with C#.

(Just kidding, Greg. )

Lol. 
I haven't learned C# yet, but it would definitely be the language to learn for writing Xbox games (not that I plan on doing so...). But if I don't have to learn it for a job, honestly, I don't plan on learning it. It'd be fun to learn, but not the #1 most interesting thing in the world.