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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Happy Saturday! :cheese:

    However, COMPLAINTS!

    - Wind, rain, occasional flash flood warning :ahhh:
    - Dreary outside
    - Neck and shoulders hurt
    - Feel really fussy :shut:
    - Tons of work to do, can't go out tonight :down:

    Non-complaints!

    - Lots of fancy salami, ham, and roast beef in fridge :cheese:
    - Lots of fancy sharp cheddar in fridge :)
    - Some fancy Amish-style potato salad in fridge!
    - Enough money on prepaid card to send out for a steak dinner! :cheese:

    Much to be done - already working on tagging my albums track with album and title info, starting in on the liner notes, and likely by this afternoon I'll be ready to dive into the album cover art! :bug:

    /It turns out that the album-as-a-single-track is over Bandcamps one-track limit of 250MB, so I'll have to put a link to the thing in the liner notes and post a high-quality MP3 version for download. :blank: Oh well...

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,228
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    I have to stop chewing on mine. I know it's a bad habit, but I just can't fight the urge to do it.
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    I have to stop chewing on mine. I know it's a bad habit, but I just can't fight the urge to do it.

    You must chew on your ball point pens, too. :smirk: ;-)

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Caturday!

    lost lottery again.


    no word from Anne?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Over the worst of the flu I think, is the second year in a row I had a flu shot and straightaway got sick, maybe coincidence think it was more a chill from being caught in a rainstorm the other morning. Rantworthy anyhow. Friend made me a pot of chicken broth not complaint. My family is threatening intervention if. don't have some time off :lol: Is tempting to just lay back and get looked after.... *weak wave* :)


    magical healing hugz

    +1 intervention :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    I have to stop chewing on mine. I know it's a bad habit, but I just can't fight the urge to do it.

    You must chew on your ball point pens, too. :smirk: ;-)

    Dana


    chews cuticles chipmunk style - whether needs or not - may oral fixation :lol:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    I reported to Netflix that the bluray was damaged and hopefully I can watch it Monday.

    Nope replacement won't ship till Monday.


    netflix haz every movie on earth?

    in the mood to watch lil shop o horrors

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,228
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    I have to stop chewing on mine. I know it's a bad habit, but I just can't fight the urge to do it.

    You must chew on your ball point pens, too. :smirk: ;-)

    Dana
    Of course not, that would damage them. ;-)

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    Unlike vinyl, a CD won't skip if it has a scratch. The plastic is only a protective covering, the metal underneath is what has the data on it, and the laser is focused to that depth. I don't think a scratch would matter...unless it had so many scratches that it obscured the metal. If your CD is that badly scratched, you need to figure out how to handle them more carefully. Hint: Do not use them as frisbees! :lol:

    Dana

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    Unlike vinyl, a CD won't skip if it has a scratch. The plastic is only a protective covering, the metal underneath is what has the data on it, and the laser is focused to that depth. I don't think a scratch would matter...unless it had so many scratches that it obscured the metal. If your CD is that badly scratched, you need to figure out how to handle them more carefully. Hint: Do not use them as frisbees! :lol:

    Dana

    A scratch can potentially be a CD killer if it's deep enough to hit the metal or wide enough to refract the lser. There is error correction for small glitches, so 90% of the minor dings won't be noticed.

    Oh, don't leave them in the back windows of your car in Summer, either. :red: :red:

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,865
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    Unlike vinyl, a CD won't skip if it has a scratch. The plastic is only a protective covering, the metal underneath is what has the data on it, and the laser is focused to that depth. I don't think a scratch would matter...unless it had so many scratches that it obscured the metal. If your CD is that badly scratched, you need to figure out how to handle them more carefully. Hint: Do not use them as frisbees! :lol:

    Dana

    A scratch can potentially be a CD killer if it's deep enough to hit the metal or wide enough to refract the lser. There is error correction for small glitches, so 90% of the minor dings won't be noticed.

    Oh, don't leave them in the back windows of your car in Summer, either. :red: :red:

    Actually, the data is on the top of the disc, under the label and lacquer. The pattern of dents is pressed into the blank plastic disc, then coated with a thin film of aluminium (I think) then lacquered, then labelled. The problem with bronzing - for those with long memories - arose because some of the early discs used a lacquer that was very vulnerable to acid, and the paper used for liners was enough to weaken it to the point that oxygen could get in and brown the aluminium layer.

    A scratch that runs around the disc can cause the laser to lose tracking and skip - one that runs across the disc from centre to edge, that would be bad for an LP, is more likely to be survivable.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    All WAVE files tagged with title/band/copyright/comments now. Whole album as a track compressed to a 320Kbps high-quality MP3 and currently uploading to my site. Liner notes almost done now, just need to add the bonus link to the MP3 and it's ready for publishing to PDF.

    Album cover next. I gave myself all next week and weekend to finish it.

    Doing this was hard work. :shut: Don't know if Album #2 will be any easier. :shut:

    The next album is tentatively titled "Twilight Whispers" and will be a more New Agey electronic album. :red: Ca't be all dark all the time! :cheese:

    This was like running a bloody marathon, I think I've been working on this for 4 months! :ahhh:

    Now having a nice vodka and diet Ginger Ale, a tasty treat while I watch the MP3 upload, which is like watching paint dry without the fumes to get high off of... :blank:

    Still gonna new laptop if I keep this up.. it took 25 minutes to compress the whole-album WAVE to MP3.. :bug:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    i wanna move. ready to retire. come on lotto!!
    been in the same apt 20 years. don't want this to be the last place of my journey. meh

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    i wanna move. ready to retire. come on lotto!!
    been in the same apt 20 years. don't want this to be the last place of my journey. meh

    Wow.. longest place I lived was 11 years.. damn.. :blank:

    I hope you win the Lotto! :cheese: :cheese: :cheese:

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    i wanna move. ready to retire. come on lotto!!
    been in the same apt 20 years. don't want this to be the last place of my journey. meh

    Wow.. longest place I lived was 11 years.. damn.. :blank:

    I hope you win the Lotto! :cheese: :cheese: :cheese:

    Diane and I were in the same apartment since we got married until we bought this house. We got married in 1974. We bought the house at the end of 2001

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited May 2015

    goin stir crazy a bit.


    doh 'Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember'
    thought they were singing 'but cody plays the mamba'
    liked it better when cody was playing it


    reasonable, nice pool http://www.mckinley.com/apartments/florida/kissimmee/wellington-woods

    Post edited by Mistara on
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,565
    edited December 1969

    Time to watch Sleepy Hallow. Oh Crane is so hot

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    Unlike vinyl, a CD won't skip if it has a scratch. The plastic is only a protective covering, the metal underneath is what has the data on it, and the laser is focused to that depth. I don't think a scratch would matter...unless it had so many scratches that it obscured the metal. If your CD is that badly scratched, you need to figure out how to handle them more carefully. Hint: Do not use them as frisbees! :lol:

    Dana

    A scratch can potentially be a CD killer if it's deep enough to hit the metal or wide enough to refract the lser. There is error correction for small glitches, so 90% of the minor dings won't be noticed.

    Oh, don't leave them in the back windows of your car in Summer, either. :red: :red:

    Actually, the data is on the top of the disc, under the label and lacquer. The pattern of dents is pressed into the blank plastic disc, then coated with a thin film of aluminium (I think) then lacquered, then labelled. The problem with bronzing - for those with long memories - arose because some of the early discs used a lacquer that was very vulnerable to acid, and the paper used for liners was enough to weaken it to the point that oxygen could get in and brown the aluminium layer.

    A scratch that runs around the disc can cause the laser to lose tracking and skip - one that runs across the disc from centre to edge, that would be bad for an LP, is more likely to be survivable.

    Actually...

    Dana

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681
    edited December 1969

    True for standard CDs

    But there are also eraseable CD

    DVDs

    Eraseable DVDs

    Doublesided DVDs

    Doublesided eraseable DVDs

    BluRays

    The 5 inch laser media, it's a standard that keeps on giving.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681
    edited May 2015

    Anybody remember the first recordable CDs? God they were terrible. Either expensive as hell or not worth a crap or both. The terms "coaster" and "clockface" were invented just to create a market for the rejects. :-S It's where we old timers learned the value of a "Verify pass".

    Remember the 3" mini-CDs or the rectangular Credit Card CDs?

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Morning. Luminous grey stormclouds roiled by gusting wind giving up occasional rain leaving roof and tree andtower sparkling in whatever sun is managing to poke through the overcast :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    ps1borg said:
    Over the worst of the flu I think, is the second year in a row I had a flu shot and straightaway got sick, maybe coincidence think it was more a chill from being caught in a rainstorm the other morning. Rantworthy anyhow. Friend made me a pot of chicken broth not complaint. My family is threatening intervention if. don't have some time off :lol: Is tempting to just lay back and get looked after.... *weak wave* :)


    magical healing hugz

    +1 intervention :)

    majic hugz working, fever gone and feel a bit more normal just now. Looks like a layoff for a couple of months for me need some time to rest up and hopefully recreate a bit :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    All WAVE files tagged with title/band/copyright/comments now. Whole album as a track compressed to a 320Kbps high-quality MP3 and currently uploading to my site. Liner notes almost done now, just need to add the bonus link to the MP3 and it's ready for publishing to PDF.

    Album cover next. I gave myself all next week and weekend to finish it.

    Doing this was hard work. :shut: Don't know if Album #2 will be any easier. :shut:

    The next album is tentatively titled "Twilight Whispers" and will be a more New Agey electronic album. :red: Ca't be all dark all the time! :cheese:

    This was like running a bloody marathon, I think I've been working on this for 4 months! :ahhh:

    Now having a nice vodka and diet Ginger Ale, a tasty treat while I watch the MP3 upload, which is like watching paint dry without the fumes to get high off of... :blank:

    Still gonna new laptop if I keep this up.. it took 25 minutes to compress the whole-album WAVE to MP3.. :bug:

    Am so looking forward to the release :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    Anybody remember the first recordable CDs? God they were terrible. Either expensive as hell or not worth a crap or both. The terms "coaster" and "clockface" were invented just to create a market for the rejects. :-S It's where we old timers learned the value of a "Verify pass".

    Remember the 3" mini-CDs or the rectangular Credit Card CDs?

    I remember the laser disks from the 1980s :)

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    ps1borg said:
    Over the worst of the flu I think, is the second year in a row I had a flu shot and straightaway got sick, maybe coincidence think it was more a chill from being caught in a rainstorm the other morning. Rantworthy anyhow. Friend made me a pot of chicken broth not complaint. My family is threatening intervention if. don't have some time off :lol: Is tempting to just lay back and get looked after.... *weak wave* :)


    magical healing hugz

    +1 intervention :)

    majic hugz working, fever gone and feel a bit more normal just now. Looks like a layoff for a couple of months for me need some time to rest up and hopefully recreate a bit :)

    Great news! (feeling better, that is!)

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,264
    edited May 2015

    ps1borg said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Anybody remember the first recordable CDs? God they were terrible. Either expensive as hell or not worth a crap or both. The terms "coaster" and "clockface" were invented just to create a market for the rejects. :-S It's where we old timers learned the value of a "Verify pass".

    Remember the 3" mini-CDs or the rectangular Credit Card CDs?

    I remember the laser disks from the 1980s :)

    They were huge! They were like my vinyl records! I remember seeing, and hearing, some of Xanadu on one at Ann & Hope...looked and sounded great...at the time.

    Dana

    Post edited by DanaTA on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    ps1borg said:
    Over the worst of the flu I think, is the second year in a row I had a flu shot and straightaway got sick, maybe coincidence think it was more a chill from being caught in a rainstorm the other morning. Rantworthy anyhow. Friend made me a pot of chicken broth not complaint. My family is threatening intervention if. don't have some time off :lol: Is tempting to just lay back and get looked after.... *weak wave* :)


    magical healing hugz

    +1 intervention :)

    majic hugz working, fever gone and feel a bit more normal just now. Looks like a layoff for a couple of months for me need some time to rest up and hopefully recreate a bit :)

    Great news! (feeling better, that is!)

    Dana

    Hey thanks :) Need to start eating solid food. chicken soup is hard to take every day, no matter how much barley and bean and vege goodness is in it :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    inertia

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    was up half the night watching Beast episodes, was with Patrick Swayzee. was heartbreaking to see him ailing.

    the 'beast' basically was the job gettin to ya.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Anybody remember the first recordable CDs? God they were terrible. Either expensive as hell or not worth a crap or both. The terms "coaster" and "clockface" were invented just to create a market for the rejects. :-S It's where we old timers learned the value of a "Verify pass".

    Remember the 3" mini-CDs or the rectangular Credit Card CDs?

    I remember the laser disks from the 1980s :)

    Only ever saw one in a department store. Never saw one actually playing though. But what a collector's item nowdays! :coolsmile:

    Welcome back to the land of the living.

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