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20 Oct 2007, 9:30 am
20 Oct 2007, 10:35 am
blessedmom wrote:
rathermousie wrote:
blessedmom wrote:
Quatermass, I found a solution to your duck problem! This is for pigeons but the same theory would apply, I think.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdYc86AA8M0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdYc86AA8M0[/youtube]
The first thing I thought is, I wanna build one! Then I thought about the fact that I have no where good to put it. Then a new idea...
I could run off Trick-or-Treaters! (I'm a wimp though, I'd feel bad for ruining their costumes
)It would be going off non-stop at your house. You could set it a few feet from your bedroom to keep the birds at least a few feet away.
lol, whats wierd is that I didn't even think about the birds in the house.
I guess it is because they are having a rare fairly quiet time right now. If I set it up for them though it would have to be sound activated so I could train them to shut up! 
Maybe I would set it to go off for anything above a certain decibel. 
Aditinoal note:
Of course, after I mentioned them being quiet they started to pick up in volume. Also, the macaw has a bell and is ringing it while imitating me say "Stop.", "Shut up", "Bad".
20 Oct 2007, 11:13 am
20 Oct 2007, 11:39 am
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20 Oct 2007, 11:39 am
Sapphix wrote:
SleepyDragon wrote:
Weirdobird wrote:
I just describe what I experience in return for their experience, and together, we paint a composite picture so vibrant, so full, it is the closest to a complete reality.
I like this. One voice may sing beautifully on its own, but the more voices can sing, the greater the truth of the song. There may be sour notes in it, and anharmonics, but the song is incomplete without them.
I like to remember that none of us sits down at the piano, or enters a concert hall, and plays a concerto without practice. I like to remember that on the way to playing in harmony, we all hit off key sometimes. If we didn't, we would never become musicians. Not even Mozart sat down and played perfectly the first time he tried. He practiced daily to get to the point that he did, a fact that many overlook when using it as an example of perfection. I like to think that in the very least we are sitting down at the keyboard and trying.
I've been rather fond of this one for a little while. Supposedly credited to Richie Blackmore {Deep Purple, (Blackmore's) Rainbow and Blackmore's Night}
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
It takes practice and we all dance a bit clumsily through life at times.
A few others from him as well. Since I like the cello a lot and he does too, this one I get a big hoot from too.
"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."
And I'm glad he did. I like almost all the music he's done, his current band is very cool, in my opinion.
I think you could take his last statement as in the first, I just choose to be selective in my thinking about it.
That and sometimes I just tire a little from doing the Gracie Allen take on life. But not today.
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20 Oct 2007, 11:49 am
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20 Oct 2007, 12:21 pm
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20 Oct 2007, 12:35 pm
20 Oct 2007, 12:41 pm
postpaleo wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
huh?
Merle
huh?
Merle
If you screw up playing, and went striaght back to the right notes, it would stand out even more.
Make it blend. You ever see Nureyev screw up? He did, you just didn't notice.
Or are you asking how it fits what I quoted above?
did we leave the word "without" out?
20 Oct 2007, 12:42 pm
boojums cost extra now? what the heck?! you're not even giving us a professional discount?
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20 Oct 2007, 12:48 pm
Nan wrote:
postpaleo wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
huh?
Merle
huh?
Merle
If you screw up playing, and went striaght back to the right notes, it would stand out even more.
Make it blend. You ever see Nureyev screw up? He did, you just didn't notice.
Or are you asking how it fits what I quoted above?
did we leave the word "without" out?
Yeah, you know me. It would be something I would do and do often. In this case he did.
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20 Oct 2007, 12:51 pm
Nan wrote:
postpaleo wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
huh?
Merle
huh?
Merle
If you screw up playing, and went striaght back to the right notes, it would stand out even more.
Make it blend. You ever see Nureyev screw up? He did, you just didn't notice.
Or are you asking how it fits what I quoted above?
did we leave the word "without" out?
Sometimes we can "cover" with quick thinking and improvisation, sometimes we can't, we need to keep "ourselves in the box",
especially when we are faced with the unfamiliar.
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20 Oct 2007, 12:53 pm
Nan wrote:
boojums cost extra now? what the heck?! you're not even giving us a professional discount?
you're not even giving us a professional discount?I give group rates, they cost more though.
Yeah them boojums can be a b*tch. But as you see by telephone number, I got their number too.
SNARK!! *poof*
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20 Oct 2007, 12:54 pm
Nan wrote:
postpaleo wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
huh?
Merle
huh?
Merle
If you screw up playing, and went striaght back to the right notes, it would stand out even more.
Make it blend. You ever see Nureyev screw up? He did, you just didn't notice.
Or are you asking how it fits what I quoted above?
did we leave the word "without" out?
just wanted to see if he could recover gracefully. . .
20 Oct 2007, 1:01 pm
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
postpaleo wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
huh?
Merle
huh?
Merle
If you screw up playing, and went striaght back to the right notes, it would stand out even more.
Make it blend. You ever see Nureyev screw up? He did, you just didn't notice.
Or are you asking how it fits what I quoted above?
did we leave the word "without" out?
just wanted to see if he could recover gracefully. . .
somehow the thought of cutting postie slack is kind of... amusing. what out what he does with it!
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20 Oct 2007, 1:12 pm
Nan wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
postpaleo wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
huh?
Merle
huh?
Merle
If you screw up playing, and went striaght back to the right notes, it would stand out even more.
Make it blend. You ever see Nureyev screw up? He did, you just didn't notice.
Or are you asking how it fits what I quoted above?
did we leave the word "without" out?
just wanted to see if he could recover gracefully. . .
somehow the thought of cutting postie slack is kind of... amusing. what out what he does with it!
Hmm, sometimes I find myself up the creek without gas for the motor. It does get cold out in that world. I almost always can find a bridge to burn.
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