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The vibrating grillwork for a wall heater fan, some oscillating computer fans, the vague slightly out-of-phase hum of heating and cooling system fans, and a refrigerator pump, burbling away in the background. Ambient noises at ambient temperatures. :)

The Earth is like a mountain; snowy at the top, tropical at the bottom! Much the same here in North America, snowstorms in the north, but down here we just had a summer-time thunderstorm - surreal! I hope you make the best of the snow, it's fun if it's not too cold, the sunny days always come after the storms, and I actually miss it! Are there plenty of warm arboretums there to enjoy? > I participated in a lengthy informal discussion this morning with some friends at the place I volunteer, and I think you would find a great deal of agreement amongst the three of us! The most powerful pull is the TV, radio, and movies, and in a culture that is in some weird ways addicted to intense voyeristic experiences, yea, that's here for sure. And the competition to top the other movie, or the last great high never ends - which in some ways is a natural progression, but one can only take it so far, and what is lost is time for the mind to think, to have fertile imaginative processes.. How true - imagination takes time, the real world works at normal speeds, we need more time to dream, to appreciate, to realize, and to feel for one-another. Hyperindividualism is us, ruled by the media zanies and their "programming", though I think part of it is a sort of weird dualism between one mode and another, between plodding along and then hyperactivity.. I am unable to avoid the TV, so I observe the programming others watch and the responses of the typical viewers, and it's definitely predictable, but often it's the only show in town, so people tune in, turn on, and zonk out. Pavlov's dogs at times. It is mass manipulation, but rather haphazard, yet it's main goal is proping up the consumerism through addictive hyperexcitement. There, a rant to your rant, I now refrain .:) Fixing it, that's going to be one tough nut to crack.;)

Well I built me a raft and she's ready for floating, old Mississippi she's calling my name. Catfish are jumping, and that paddle is pumping, and I ain't got no worries, cause I ain't in no hurry at all. And if it rains, I don't care, don't make no difference to me, take that streetcar

Spacebar: As in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?! :P

The Irish are coming, the Irish are coming! They've invaded California, jigging their way right down Rodeo boulevard, planting shamrocks on all the scantily clad Celts (or maybe Kilts?)! ;) I know I'm corny, could be all that corned beef and cabbage..

Time for piano, have a great day Matt, and thanks for all the fishes!;)

Sharing happiness and being a good listener for some very sweet people, for they are the true stars in this world.

That's quite an intense compilation of information! Though I understand the importance of it; glad to see James had the complete package and plan to make it all come together - a feat of great accomplishment. Thanks Tash for the post!:)

> I guess so, but maybe some of the qualitites of times gone by could be incorporated into modern TV- I think it's never too late to rethink our changes as with so many things, some really great aspects have been let go which should have been kept on. The older movies too really were great, made with human timing in mind. Maybe someone will re-invent those qualities, incorporating them into newer TV series?

:stunned: I've been in the lost and found department for quite some time now.. the diaspora of the Trues and the Guelphs one might say. Anything you would like to know?

How true, I have sensed the same thing as well - seems like the more that is shown, the less there is left to imagine.. but then how to keep viewer's interests piqued in an age of increidble special effects? But then again, there have been a few examples.. it does take better screen writers to create the right effect in the mind, leaving to imagination some things, while revealing others, for it is the mystery which excites and beckons one on. Hm, well times have changed, to bring back the suspense and timing from another era, that I haven't an answer for, though it might happen naturally as moods change. ~short acoustical break, piano yonder beckons!~

Dave Bailey's brother?? Welcome!! :)

> Hey, give it some mulling over, it just takes time to get the different parts to gel, time for all the disparate fields to come together in one's imagination. Sleep on it, the answers will appear in a dream. Maybe! Adams was off by a good 7 orders of magnitude, but then it was all in good fun in his universe! :laugh3: (A planet with it's tongue sticking out, now that would be quite a find.)

We all have great untapped potential, let's lighten one-another's spirits. :) __________________

Wasn't what I was thinking, and probably not something I would care to see either! Perhaps life itself is all the 3-D we really need!:laugh3: For all our creative drives, we seem to be loosing our most human of interactions.

You should rejoice with great enthusiasm for in-depth Wiki articles on this most fascinating of subjects! :bliss: Interesting how 35 turns out to be the important number, the ultimate smallest size being 10 to the -35th, though perhaps in another base, -42 could be magical!

I was dreaming about it as well, thinking it's a bit to odd when applied to regular TV.. still, the Star Wars scene of Princess Leia's communication intended for Obi Wan Kenobe comes to mind; very compelling in some ways. But then ideas arose - hummingbirds in 3-D flying about flowers, or skaters spinning round on ice, or underwater reef scenes, it seems useful for some experiences. Simulations too - vocanoes erupting, or time-lapse events in nature that take thousands of years condensed into minutes. Brave helios wake up your steeds, bring the warmth of the countryside to our needs.

I understand, trying to translate and think deeply would be a headache for sure! I tried that with the Old English Canterbury Tales, though it gets quite intense. Enjoy and I look forward to your analysis. ;) I got out of that frame of mind, a softer side sometimes is what's missing. When considering the risks a proposer of ideas faces in this world: to encourage all who would dream aloud is essential if we are to progress.

The dawning of the age of aquarius, that was the 5D in it's day and age! :mudkip::hippy: 4D sounds like real fun, does the theater move with the pitching of the ships? > I was thinking recently about 3D TV, and wondering if it's better applied to novelty things, something one might go and see in a bar or a haunted house? Just ramblings..

Every teardrop comes to mind, but Lovers in Japan is fantastic as well! I bounce around a lot in music..

Is this the quantum pub?:) Just loving the incredibly short abstract of a short abstract I ran across: In loop quantum gravity, spacetime emerges from excitations of an ultimate vacuum. > I am wondering if this is believable, though most things at the quantum level are non-intuitive, it just sounds so hocus-pocus. Anyone here have thoughts about this?

It's fish and chips, I'm just not into reading long things right now, as the night watchman cometh and the hour is near! ;)

And just who eats graham crackers and fish sticks without tartar sauce, I ask you Sir Anthony M. Romero? Such vulgarities and vague language, random ranting chanting chortlings and all that.. definitely not suitable for the soundstage of Wayne and Wanda! ;) Otherwise, a fine piece of American Literature, Pulitzers on the way.:)

Here in the Edison recording studio, "she wears her Easter bonette in the Easter Parade", which is close to the Entertainer, quite appropriate given the general age of the reisdents and the history of the fort. It is a little stange, the twists history takes - the back wall of a civil war fort becomes the screen for an early drive-in movie theater, now a flea-market grounds - would make an interesting Back-To-The-Future!

Welcome to Coldplaying, Tom! :) Quite a show they put on from what I've seen as well, maybe they'll do some encore performances?