Hey! First off, thanks for the promote on my Circus Galop video.

You know, I bet that if we wanted to we could start up a VS band. Get kulpims on bass, gwiz on guitar and we'd be set!

Also I fixed up those tracks on my site if you'd like a listen
In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
I do all kinds of drums and percussion and do a little writing too.

I can't get the soundfiles on your webzone to play. :

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
I play piano mostly. How about yourself? Do you play?

If you're interested I have some tracks on my webzone (http://paulricheymusic.com/). Unfortunately soundcloud doesn't make 'em sound that great but oh well
In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
What do you play?

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Indeed! I was looking for a prince tune to cover with my jazz fusion trio. It's either kiss or nothing compares 2 u. Kiss might be too simple to cover without any words so it's looking like nothing compares will win out.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Right on. We have similar taste. You've got to be a musician, right?

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
*promote

I witnessed a Dozer start up today and the smoke stack made this Toroid of exhaust rise into the air for sixty feet.

It was effin neat !

I even audibly made a *science notation.

Thanks !

http://www.aquariumplantsandsupplies.com/product_info.php?pName=red-tiger-lotus

THAT DOES LOOK NEAT !@ I just have a CFL spiral bulb keeping the Star Grass alive ( and quite well)
I will put more plants when I get a proper hood and lights. I have over come some fish sickness and initial start up problems, I am learning a bit everyday.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Looking good, BR. But where's the red tiger lotus? Don't make me come over there!

>> ^Lann:

I find glass to be much more expensive. Then again, it depends on what you mean by "smithing" if you are talking about a blacksmithing studio then yeah a small lampworking set up will be cheaper but still more expensive than the basic start up tools for metalsmithing. Glassblowing however is extremely expensive requiring an annealer, glory hole (no not THAT kind for you dirty minds), and a furnace that runs all the time so it takes a great amount of glass. Coldworking tools are also very expensive. It is understandable why studio cost for glass students are always WAY higher than for metals students.
>> ^Porksandwich:
Glass and smithing are two things I'd like to at least say I'd made something from, even if they looked like crap. Glass is probably the bigger one because it's something you could more likely do at home and on a lower budget. But they are both one of those things where I think you need a apprenticeship in to keep from doing stupid things that could potentially kill or maim you bad enough to screw you up for life.



Honestly don't know enough about either to say one way or another. Glass seemed like it would be cleaner and something you could do without a full production setup, where as blacksmithing would be something you have to go full bore on to do anything worthwhile.

I know they have some metal like substances people use for jewelry and such now that only require a small oven. They are like some kind of clay-ish substance that you mold by hand how you want then bake it to get the metal like look. And I may even be half informed on that as well.

Although I can think of one type of glass creation that I've always wanted to make and keep, where you find a beach and stick a metal rod into the sand to capture the lightning formation as it heats up the sand to glass at the end of the lightning rod. Nothing really man created about it, just kind of coaxed.

I find glass to be much more expensive. Then again, it depends on what you mean by "smithing" if you are talking about a blacksmithing studio then yeah a small lampworking set up will be cheaper but still more expensive than the basic start up tools for metalsmithing. Glassblowing however is extremely expensive requiring an annealer, glory hole (no not THAT kind for you dirty minds), and a furnace that runs all the time so it takes a great amount of energy. Coldworking tools are also very expensive. It is understandable why studio cost for glass students are always WAY higher than for metals students.


>> ^Porksandwich:

Glass and smithing are two things I'd like to at least say I'd made something from, even if they looked like crap. Glass is probably the bigger one because it's something you could more likely do at home and on a lower budget. But they are both one of those things where I think you need a apprenticeship in to keep from doing stupid things that could potentially kill or maim you bad enough to screw you up for life.

Liberals depend on the suffering of the lower classes for votes. The oligarcs of the Republican party use them for cheap labour.

Both want liberal immigration laws. Only the true conservative want restrictive measures. The ones that care about a strong government and rule of law. Also they ususally favour a mono culture. Trust issues and family first and all that.

I believe the word your looking for is clusterf**k>> ^chilaxe:

@longde
"Yes, let's let high skilled workers in. The US probably does that more rigorously than any country."
The US is definitely the worst country in the world in terms of immigration skill level. 21st century workers in Silicon Valley get kicked out all the time, along their with brilliant tech start ups that were providing 21st century jobs. However, unskilled workers who will be in poverty for generations... we imported 80 million since the 1970s. That's more than the entire population of most countries.
Virtually all liberals advocate increased importation of unskilled workers, and they sabotage rational efforts to restrict it. They don't prefer societal decay, but they do prefer the conditions that cause societal decay.

@longde

"Yes, let's let high skilled workers in. The US probably does that more rigorously than any country."

The US is definitely the worst country in the world in terms of immigration skill level. 21st century workers in Silicon Valley get kicked out all the time, along their with brilliant tech start ups that were providing 21st century jobs. However, unskilled workers who will be in poverty for generations... we imported 80 million since the 1970s. That's more than the entire population of most countries.

Virtually all liberals advocate increased importation of unskilled workers, and they sabotage rational efforts to restrict it. They don't prefer societal decay, but they do prefer the conditions that cause societal decay.

This is just the kind of press the great state of Ohio needs. I had been planning on moving to Africa to start up my wildlife tour business but now it seems I can get started much closer to home!

Ok, let's see the animation you did that is so much better.
>> ^westy:

LOL and what they created was the most Generic start up tech company promotional video ever.

LOL and what they created was the most Generic start up tech company promotional video ever.

In other news, the sift thinks this is a related video: http://videosift.com/video/I-Don-t-Know-Much-But-I-Know-I-Love-You

So take a hit of whatever you have lying around, start up the Mickey D's video muted, and play this awesome fucking love song over top.

Alta Vista>> ^SlipperyPete:

>> ^Trancecoach:
anyone in Mountain View who says they worked in a start-up and is presently retired, you can bet dollars to donuts they're talking about the one you'd guess.

Ask Jeeves?

>> ^Trancecoach:

anyone in Mountain View who says they worked in a start-up and is presently retired, you can bet dollars to donuts they're talking about the one you'd guess.


Ask Jeeves?

anyone in Mountain View who says they worked in a start-up and is presently retired, you can bet dollars to donuts they're talking about the one you'd guess.

It's cool and all, but isn't also a factor of hardware and what is in the "startup?" I feel like my pc booted hella fast when I first got it, but as you use it and add applications (skype, steam, etc) that start up automatically, the machine isn't really usable for a bit longer than it was when you first got it...