chuck kottke

water :sunny: As an Aquarius, you were born in the sign of water, and it's there that you feel your best. You feel very deeply, are positive, and are very rational. :cool:

Hmm.. I need to go back, then go forward..

bleu cheese rhapsody, on lettuce. :laugh3: Well, it must have been some wild class! I recall in the mists of my memory that Gershwin wrote his Rhapsody in Blue after riding on a train (steam train) - perhaps incorporating some of the sounds and experiences from the train ride into the music.. Robert Johnson - I'll need to take a refresher course on his music..:inquisitive:

The Zodiac - Scorpio - represents metamorphosis from a Scorpion, to an Eagle, and finally to a Dove. Interesting!

Welcome Prospektress from Italy! You're English is quite good, actually, and we're all glad you could make it over to this community of loyal listeners. Enjoy, and keep Udine hopping!

Viri, what's your sign?:rolleyes:

Not Milkacowthon? Then Milkcowathon! Different events in each. One is more oriented towards milking, and the other centered mainly around the cow itself, and if it has the stamina to walk 10 miles back to the barn...

12 letters, starts with an M, ends with an N. Milkcowathon? Sort of a triathlon event, involving milking, herding, and bringing out to pasture a herd of Gurnseys. In the final event, extra points are awarded to the farmer who gets the milk without turning it to butter.

Hi there my favorite Albanian! :) What's new with you??

Ye useth great computational power, and yet ye doesn't knoweth how thyne machine works?? 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit - depending on the machine's CPU, any way you slice it, it's all just a byte! (just don't ask what a nibble is). :P

It's all in the expression, and the gate. Just don't push me off the stack here!:P

and just in who's closet are you?

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

*pokes back, and changes the byte*

Nyet! TNP has a Nubian goat with a little bell hiding in their closet.:P

Ian, do something!:cry::laugh3:

It depends on the herd size.

The end - I win. Last. There, it's done. Quick - Ian, lock this thread so I can win the prize!!:):escaping3::lock::lock::lock::lock::lock::lock::lock::lock::lock::lock::laugh3:

And so the monkeys in the jungle mated, and there was joy in the tree canopy.. but what on earth does that have to do with milking cows? Obviously, nobody here knows a Holstein from a Jersey, or a Brown Swiss from a Nubian Goat for that matter!:P Where have all the farmers gone..

..generally it depends on the number of teats, and the size of the udder, plus time between milkings, milking machine vs. hand stripping, and the breed of cattle being discussed.. Am I missing something in the inference here?:laugh3::P

Alright, I'll check it out! ;)

Aside from the macabre, it's generally good news methinks. But what bothers me is how this information is couched in the belief that everything is some sort of contest. Life is about experiences, and if we boil it all down to net worth, then we've cheapened the things that really matter. Looking at the happiness index, the US has a long long ways to go towards understanding true wealth..

So that's all I need to do then!:rolleyes::P

heaven

(maybe I should just record the new songs I'm playing, as crazed fans will buy anything new connected to the band!:laugh3:).. Something about me that someone else out there doesn't already know.. hmm.. that's a tough question! Like, why or what would anyone really want to know?? I find it fascinating imagining the trees as colonies of cells, their DNA traveling through time, shaped and shaping the environment, the web of life - symbiotic, competitive, niche specific, ancient and yet modern. The tree's cells over wood are like coral polyps living on a reef, and the fungi are extensions to the larger web, like the phytoplankton in the ocean - some interwoven closely as roots intertwined with mycelium, some detached as lichens, but all associated with the tree, and from a common ancestor going back millions of years ago.. It's a wild world.