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TheMix wrote:

Daehawk wrote:People on there writing thats not her. I can hear her twang / lisp / accent so I know its her. She's my wife's cousin.

Apparently they don't understand that it isn't a recording of her singing sloooowwwweerrrr. They clearly don't understand how that affects the sound.

I guess a lot of people these days dont understand record players . Most have not seen one.

I don't believe it. Music slowing down is one thing but the words are all pronounced perfectly in the slowed down version. I believe the words would hardly be recognizable slowed down that much.

dbt1949 wrote:I don't believe it. Music slowing down is one thing but the words are all pronounced perfectly in the slowed down version. I believe the words would hardly be recognizable slowed down that much.

If that's a 45rpm played at 33rpm, then it's playing at 73.33% of the nominal rate. A quick sanity check is to look at the duration of the normal version of the song (2m:42s) and calculate what it would be if slowed down by that factor. That results in a duration of 3m:41s, which is within a couple of seconds of the "slowed down" version in the video.

Now speed it up to 78 rpms while I scream ALVIN at the top of my lungs.

If you speed it up to 128rpm I'll uncontrollably wet my pants. If you slow it back down to 45rpm I'll still wet my pants but I'll be in full control.

Gosh, who'da thunk someone would hack the Wikipedia article on Donald Trump? The entire article is a hotlink to <NSFW>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPzvP2VOq4M</NSFW> at the moment.

I don't trust anything on video as being true with no possibility of being tampered with. The video means nothing.

Am I alone in my fear of accidentally creating a homemade nerve gas and killing myself when I''m cleaning my place with off the shelf cleaning liquids?

hepcat wrote:Am I alone in my fear of accidentally creating a homemade nerve gas and killing myself when I''m cleaning my place with off the shelf cleaning liquids?

Nope. My breathing locks up when cleaning. I only do the hardcore cleaning... well, never... But when never comes, I only do it with good weather so I can open all the doors and windows to ventilate.

I once cleaned the bathroom with bleach and ajax....bad combo...good thing the window was open or I might have died. As is it was very breath taking and wheezy.

Just keep the bleach and ammonia away from each other and you'll be fine.

Here you go, HepC.

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dbt1949 wrote:I don't believe it. Music slowing down is one thing but the words are all pronounced perfectly in the slowed down version. I believe the words would hardly be recognizable slowed down that much.

If that's a 45rpm played at 33rpm, then it's playing at 73.33% of the nominal rate. A quick sanity check is to look at the duration of the normal version of the song (2m:42s) and calculate what it would be if slowed down by that factor. That results in a duration of 3m:41s, which is within a couple of seconds of the "slowed down" version in the video.

I've known about that forever! Great with some slide guitar. [urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgrjwa1gqQ0]Here's a version that is pitchcorrect. Not the best quality, but you get the point.[/url]

I just read where scientists have been studying the voice boxes of dinosaurs. As the dinos are the ancestors of birds they have bird voice boxes. So T-Rex instead of putting out a mighty roar as seen and heard in Hollywood would actually be putting out bird noises. I can hear it now, TWEET FUCKING TWEET CHIRP CHIRP CHOMP!

Ahhhhh... That is probably the basis for the latest XKCD.



Mouseover Text: Whenever you see a video of birds doing something weird, remember: Birds are a small subset of dinosaurs, so the weirdness of birds is a small subset of the weirdness of dinosaurs.

For reasons I can't explain, the word meme is beginning to make my skin crawl.

Perfectly explainable. Anytime a 'new' or 'cool' term creeps out far enough to be included in mass media and advertising, it's completely diluted and useless - and rapidly passes stale and goes right into rotting. In 30 years, though, it'll make the circuit back and be 'old school cool' ...

Paingod wrote:Perfectly explainable. Anytime a 'new' or 'cool' term creeps out far enough to be included in mass media and advertising, it's completely diluted and useless - and rapidly passes stale and goes right into rotting. In 30 years, though, it'll make the circuit back and be 'old school cool' ...

Perhaps that's it. Meme is a vocalization of "thing done to so annoying that I don't ever want to be bothered to acknowledge its existence ever again." Now get off my lawn!

Oh bummer. I just learned that the Superboy of today is different than the Superboy of my youth. Superboy was a young Superman in those days. Now I not sure what the hell he is.

dbt1949 wrote:Oh bummer. I just learned that the Superboy of today is different than the Superboy of my youth. Superboy was a young Superman in those days. Now I not sure what the hell he is.

Is it dont ask dont tell? I dont keep up on stuff.

In case you're wondering what wins in a battle between 10' of 1/4" waxed lasso rope and a 52" riding mower, it's the rope -- by a knockout. Holy shit, where's the Scotch?

I hope there's video.

Daehawk wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:Oh bummer. I just learned that the Superboy of today is different than the Superboy of my youth. Superboy was a young Superman in those days. Now I not sure what the hell he is.

Is it dont ask dont tell? I dont keep up on stuff.

Um, no.
Deeper spoiler:
I haven't read much (almost any) Superboy, but have gleaned this from other stuff.

Isgrimnur wrote:I hope there's video.

Of me Hulk-raging? Sadly, no but it happened. I'm hoping it's just labor to untangle the rope and replacement of some pins that snapped on the deck and not a bent crankshaft. If it is, my days of mowing lawns might have just ended.

I cant count how many mowers Ive been through.

Old one I hit a head to a axe/splitter that was laying in tall grass against a tree trunk. Warped the shaft nice.

Old old mower I had it throw a metal piece of some sort straight up through the rusted out deck. The mower still worked but I refused to use it after that.

Brand new Cub Cadet......Was simply mowing tall grass when the blade and shaft sheared right off and if flew through the back on the mower. Lucky for me the grass was thick behind or something and it spun into the ground before taking my feet off.

Old riding mower failed to start the blades spinning when I engaged it one day and before I noticed what the smell / smoke was the belt melted off.

Daehawk wrote:I cant count how many mowers Ive been through.

Old one I hit a head to a axe/splitter that was laying in tall grass against a tree trunk. Warped the shaft nice.

Old old mower I had it throw a metal piece of some sort straight up through the rusted out deck. The mower still worked but I refused to use it after that.

Brand new Cub Cadet......Was simply mowing tall grass when the blade and shaft sheared right off and if flew through the back on the mower. Lucky for me the grass was thick behind or something and it spun into the ground before taking my feet off.

Old riding mower failed to start the blades spinning when I engaged it one day and before I noticed what the smell / smoke was the belt melted off.

May I suggest that a walk through of the area to be mowed previous to beginning to cut the grass become your new normal?

Just borrow one of dbt's goats and let it loose in your yard.

Mandatory online class suddenly became really interesting.

Damn it, I didn't get enough sleep last night. I'm nodding at my desk. No amount of fresh air, stretching or interesting work is keeping me focused.

This is a weird level of fatigue, and frustrating.

It must be catching. I went to bed at 1, fell asleep at 2, and woke up at 5:38, all on top of the first cold of the season.

hepcat wrote:Just borrow one of dbt's goats and let it loose in your yard.

In an ironic twist of fate goats don't eat grass. They eat everything else. They love thorn bushes.

No I can't just give you read access to the entire server. There are multiple applications running with multiple owners and some have sensitive information just lying around (against my advice).

No I don't care who your boss is, and even if you get the director to order it he would be in violation of National Defense security policy, so good luck with that.

Just tell me what you need and I'll make sure you get it. Everything is not an answer.

Blackhawk wrote:It must be catching. I went to bed at 1, fell asleep at 2, and woke up at 5:38, all on top of the first cold of the season.

I went down at 2, as usual. At 4 Wife woke me up to inform me that the cats had popped a screen and escaped. They'd apparently been out for quite a few hours by then because they both came back in without much coaxing, and I was back in bed by 4:30 (previous jailbreaks took hours to resolve). At 5 a cat woke me because he was trapped on the wrong side of a closed door. At 7 Wife woke me to say she was leaving for work. At 8:30 the alarm went off, as usual.

You tell me how much sleep I got. Why am I even awake right now? Naptime for Bonzo.

I went to bed at 6am and woke up at 3pm.

To even it out I got a flu shot today.

Wimps. I get to bed at 2 am after checking the kids' blood glucose alarms. They go off periodically at night, but my wife nearly always wakes up first. Wake up at 6:30 am as the kids are getting ready for school. Make breakfast and lunch, send them off with my wife by 7:30 am. Crash for an hour, then get ready catch a ride downtown. Usually nap while the kids read before bed. About 6 hours per day over 3 rest periods.

This is why I got a dashcam.

Isgrimnur wrote:This is why I got a dashcam.

I had to watch that 4 times before I noticed one car give another a gentle kiss. I was expecting someone to come flying over the median or roll over in the grass!

I'm working my way up to massive damage. I first had to panic brake about two months ago, now I get a wreck in front of me. By the end of next year, I'm hoping for a meteor sighting.

You have to fix the date on the camera. Unless you've been holding out on us for 2 years.

It's on the list. I have to finagle with it, as it's not win a cell phone holder, after I broke the mount. And I left the card sitting in the PC at home, so if anything happens today, there will be no record!