Simply random stuff

[OldAsMono]

Best part of retirement... Waking up from a stressful 'work dream' and telling myself, "It's all a dream and you don't have to give a shit about it!" It is quickly removed from my stress and forgotten.

 

[DuncanS]

Hey Duncan
Weren't you the one that posted pics of your car park being re-done? Pic out of a 2nd floor window to the street below?

If so, how did it all turn out? If not it must just be memory hallucinating again...

Yep, I'll post a pic tomorrow, I've some on my PC

 

[Clement]

I'm in AZ, visiting my parents. Took a stroll by Lake Michigan this morning before heading to the airport. Note the Chicago skyline in the lower righthand corner!

 

[Clement]

Something about this time of year always gives me the urge to spin music by The Residents . . .

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-residents-mn0000420539#biography

 

[DuncanS]

Hey Duncan
Weren't you the one that posted pics of your car park being re-done? Pic out of a 2nd floor window to the street below?

If so, how did it all turn out? If not it must just be memory hallucinating again...

How it has turned out, from a muddy 0.75m deep pit to this - it wasn't cheap! At least it won't flood nor will my car get stuck in the clay as it used to.

 

[ar surround]

I'm in AZ, visiting my parents. Took a stroll by Lake Michigan this morning before heading to the airport. Note the Chicago skyline in the lower righthand corner!
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So Clement, do the Chicago skyscrapers actually have that really cool lean to the left?

 

[cbmmm3]

So Clement, do the Chicago skyscrapers actually have that really cool lean to the left?

AR
they dont call Chicago "The Windy City" for no reason.

 

[Sonik Wiz]

How it has turned out, from a muddy 0.75m deep pit to this - it wasn't cheap! At least it won't flood nor will my car get stuck in the clay as it used to.

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Wow that looks great! Very attractive. Esp compared to the before picture in post #716. And all the brick walls look new too.

 

[DuncanS]

Wow that looks great! Very attractive. Esp compared to the before picture in post #716. And all the brick walls look new too.

Yep, new walls on the sides & front, with around £4k of expensive bricks - my own 'fault' that one , but they do look good. Plus I've a bespoke gate that was made to fit the gap at the side of the house and a new patio - which was how the wildlife pond came into being! Hence the rather too eager and early newt last week.

Part of the patio was collapsing so had to be dug out (too many voids and nothing else substantial there) so either pay to fill it in, or, why not make a wildlife pond and build it into the gap - so being completely insane that is what I decided to do, would have been cheaper to have filled it in

 

[ar surround]

So Clement, do the Chicago skyscrapers actually have that really cool lean to the left?

AR
they dont call Chicago "The Windy City" for no reason.

Ricky, I nominate your 'Windy City' retort for QQ Simply Random Stuff Post Of The Year.

 

[Clement]

Took my bowling balls out to Arizona with me so my father and i could bowl together. I always dig a clean game!

 

[cbmmm3]

the annual Audio Video pornmag (lol ) from Music Direct arrived today. It has Robbie Robertson on the cover ( each year the cover photo is amazing )
Im going to look at the pictures---err Read --this one in bed tonite.

Seriously though - this is a great product catalog that Music Direct puts out every year at this time. It usually lists upcoming Mobile Fidelity releases. Ill report back tomorrow if there are any nice surprises

 

[J. PUPSTER]

WRAY -> PAGE

Rumble on

 

[DuncanS]

I live on what is called the Jurassic Coast, due to the level of fossils found (living & dead!), so its nice to read about another living fossil that has been rediscovered 62 years after it was thought to be extinct

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67363874

 

[JohnN]

I live on what is called the Jurassic Coast, due to the level of fossils found (living & dead!), so its nice to read about another living fossil that has been rediscovered 62 years after it was thought to be extinct

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67363874

For a second there I thought you were referring to Jimmy Page above.

 

[cbmmm3]

wind ME up

 

[ar surround]

I live on what is called the Jurassic Coast, due to the level of fossils found (living & dead!), so its nice to read about another living fossil that has been rediscovered 62 years after it was thought to be extinct

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67363874

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2021/05/echidna-penises-why-theyre-so-weird/
Should we be jealous?

 

[~dave~~wave~]

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2021/05/echidna-penises-why-theyre-so-weird/
Should we be jealous?

While at first glance it appears to be quad, apparently it is functionally double stereo, if I interpret the text correctly.

 

[kap'n krunch]

wind ME up

been a fan since the 2nd LP (well, the 1st one too) saw them in their watershed concert in San Juan in 1981, saw them again in 2017 in München , Mike still has the same pipes and they signed my Silent Knight LP ...except MIKE! even met Jim Crichton before the concert, got a selfie too!
I love Saga, they deserve to hit it big...

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Dave Mason & Joe Bonamassa – “Dear Mr. Fantasy” Official Music Video​

*Nice pairing of these two and Dave's vocals sound great all these years on.
I'm not finding this in Atmos, as of yet