Take this and shove it..................................
Have a little fun.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

The kitty is off on another journey, courtesy of Paramount +.
Just watched season 1, episode 1, of Star Trek. Otherwise known as the first pilot for the series. I don't believe I have ever seen it before.
When the pilot was not picked up, apparently, Roddenberry was offered the opportunity to produce a second pilot show, which became the "Where No Man Has Gone Before" episode.
Thankfully, they dumped Pike and replaced him with Shatner playing Kirk, who we all have come to associate with the show. They also dumped Majel Barrett playing the second in command, who actually became Roddenberry's wife.
LOL quote from another site..........
"To hear Roddenberry tell it for years, he “kept the Vulcan and married the woman, because in California it would have been illegal to do it the other way around.”"
It will be interesting to see all of the old episodes, many of which I know I have already seen at least partially. But I am sure there will be a few that will be new to me.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

They also dumped Majel Barrett playing the second in command, who actually became Roddenberry's wife.

Majel Barrett was recast as Nurse Chappel.

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That show alone might make me get a subscription to Paramount +
I guess the sets were as shaky as they were in the subsequent show in series 1 - it wouldn't be series 1 without them"

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

That was all new territory back then with Star Trek TOS (The Original Series). I was 6 or 7 back then in the middle 70’s watching reruns. I even watch then today.

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Took a break from TOS and watched the new Sonic 3.
Now watching #2 to catch up with the story line and references.
3 was pretty good, if not predictable.
Particularly enjoyed watching the current state of the art of CGI graphics and effects.
As usual, many of them supplied by the Lucasfilm group.
Pretty spectacular.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Well, I just watched "The Doors", 1991, Val Kilmer.
I now know what a sick, sotted, waste of skin that Jim Morrison actually was.
Which is a pity. If he had not written such dark, sick, demented lyrics, he actually could have been somebody.
But the drugs and drinking did him in.
He had some very good men performing behind him. He had a great voice.
And it was Krieger who wrote the song "Light My Fire" that launched their career, not Morrison.
But I don't honestly think that their career could have lasted much longer that it did.
I will never hear another Doors song in the same way again.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Was watching the 007 movie Spectre tonight, and the mid movie chase scene with the cars with their wheels off of the ground took me back to a time in my teens when I did a street jump in my '69 Buick Stage 2 GS400 Skylark.
There was a set of railroad tracks in town that had a huge hump in the road ahead of them, and if you hit it with enough speed, all four wheels would come off the ground.
That GS400 was actually, I believe, an underbored big block (like the 455) rather than an overbored small block (like the 350) engine, and put out something like 360HP out of it's 400 cubes. Which was pretty amazing for a naturally aspirated, carbureted engine of the time.
A pity that I don't have that car anymore. Blew it up. Drag racing and I slipped the clutch a bit too much launching. The flywheel shattered and blew fragments through the roof, the fenders, and into my right leg.
If I knew then what I know now, I would have at least saved that remarkable engine. It went to the junkyard with the rest of the carcass.
Now I drive a '91 Oldsmobile that would take at least a half a mile to get up enough speed to even try to bump over that old set of railroad tracks.

Meowsigh.
Meow.

Mark

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Cars I have owned, and most of them loved.............
'64 Oldsmobile Cutlass F85. Rolled it on a curve.
'68 Buick LeSabre. Backed it into a guardrail trying to do a favor for a hitchhicker.
'69 Buick GS400 Stage 2 Skylark. Blew it up.
'69 Pontiac Lemans station wagon. Interesting car, had an overhead cam engine. Found a special camshaft in a junkyard wreck and got more HP. They produced about 230HP from 230CI.
'69 Pontiac Firebird TransAm. 400 some cubes with a hood intake. Wrapped it around a telephone pole one New Year's eve. Never saw the girl again.
'64 Pontiac LeMans. Should have had a bigger engine. Ran the cops for a quarter mile. Ran on foot for another quarter. Meow.
'67 Pontiac GTO. This one pisses me off. Went to jail on an OWI bust, and by the time I got out, some bastards stole it. The wheels alone were worth well over a grand. Unfortunately, I later learned that my relatives were involved.
'70 Plymouth Cuda. Big mistake. Went out for a drive, one drive. And the cops took it after I crashed it.
'69 Buick Wildcat Le Sabre. Big V8, Crashed it backing up into a barricade trying to rescue a hiker.
'71 Buick Skylark. Stock 350 engine.
'71 Buick Skylark. Another sleeper.
'72 Buick Skylark. Another dog.
'70 Buick GS455. Just sold that one off out of my garage a number of months ago.
'69 Buick Electra 225. A unique car. Had a '400' motor that turned out to be a 403 Olds engine. Ran it for years until the wheels about came off.
'72 Buick Electra 225. I fell in love with the Buick 455 engine.
'73 Buick Electra 225. Same big Buick feel.
'74 Buick Electra 225. Another 455.
'75 Buick Electra 225. This one was as big as they ever got. And I had one.
'85 Maxda RX7. A rotary engine beast.
'90 Olds Cutlass Ciera. Ol' Toothless. Served me well for more years that I could ever count.
'91 Olds Cutlass Ciera. Dear old little lady's car from California. Not in service yet.

Things went downhill after that.
Sold the '70 off to some friends that wanted the Kenne Bell switch pitch transmission and torque converter that I had in it.

Most of the 455 engines I had I tossed the #8 rod out of. (They had a notorious under oiling problem at the back of the engine). Lack of oil pressure.

And now I have a 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera in the driveway, named 'Toothless'.
(It's a 'How to Train Your Dragon' thing.)
It has more miles on the chassis than the odometer shows, and the Tech4 engine will run long after the chassis has gone away. The salt here in Wisconsin has eaten away most of the car, and I have kludged the suspension to the rest of the car with aircraft cable. Needless to say, I never take it on the highway anymore.

I have a nice '91 Cutlass in the driveway. With only 57k on the odometer. Might need a power steering pump, but other than that, she's cherry. Bought it from a dealer close to me, only to find that it came, literally, from a 'little old lady in Pasadena'. Snagged it the day it came online and had it trucked to my driveway.
Plan to take the instrument panel with it's gauge package from my '90, which came from a 6 banger, and transplant it later. I do love gauges.

The RX7 is a very long story. It is a love affair that came about with a very old friend.
We flew to Atlanta, GA and drove it home from there.
After I got it home, I eventually replaced the very tired engine with one built by Mazdtrix in CA.
There is less than 25k miles on it.
And I had the differential rebuilt with all new clutch packs.
You drop the clutch at high RPM, and that car takes off. Like a rocket ship.

I still have it, and somebody will inherit it when I die in the not too distant future.

I sold the Buick off to a guy downstate. He knew the value of that special hood.
If anybody wants a Mallory distributor and wire setup for a 350 Buick, let me know.

And very little on this planet has run longer than the Tech4 2.5 liter engine in that Olds.

And God bless Detroit. They need it now.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Anybody know where Mary Ann Theresa Hendricks is?

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Cars I have owned, and most of them loved.............
'64 Oldsmobile Cutlass F85. Rolled it on a curve.
'68 Buick LeSabre. Backed it into a guardrail trying to do a favor for a hitchhicker.
'69 Buick GS400 Stage 2 Skylark. Blew it up.
'70 Chevy Camaro hatchback. Pitiful little car. But the girls who owned it picked me up and tossed me in the back one New Years Eve.
'69 Pontiac Lemans station wagon. Interesting car, had an overhead cam engine. Found a special camshaft in a junkyard wreck and got more HP. They produced about 230HP from 230CI.
'69 Pontiac Firebird TransAm. 400 some cubes with a hood intake. Wrapped it around a telephone pole one New Year's eve. Never saw the girl again.
'60 through '70 Ford station wagon. A loaner from the garage that my dad knew. Tossed it into a ditch.
'64 Pontiac LeMans. Should have had a bigger engine. Ran the cops for a quarter mile. Ran on foot for another quarter. Meow.
'67 Pontiac GTO. This one pisses me off. Went to jail on an OWI bust, and by the time I got out, some bastards stole it. The wheels alone were worth well over a grand. Unfortunately, I later learned that my relatives were involved.
'70 Plymouth Cuda. Big mistake. Went out for a drive, one drive. And the cops took it after I crashed it.
'60's GMC pickup truck. Could ram anything else on the road and continue unscathed.
'69 Road Runner. The most amazing car I ever had the pleasure to drive. Faster than bat shit.
'69 Buick Wildcat Le Sabre. Big V8, Crashed it backing up into a barricade trying to rescue a hiker.
'71 Buick Skylark. Stock 350 engine.
'71 Buick Skylark. Another sleeper.
'72 Buick Skylark. Another dog.
'70 Buick GS455. Just sold that one off out of my garage a number of months ago.
'69 Buick Electra 225. A unique car. Had a '400' motor that turned out to be a 403 Olds engine. Ran it for years until the wheels about came off.
'71 Buick Electra 225. Rammed this one into a Camaro driving back to the buddy's place after bowling. HIs was totalled. Mine, not so much.
'70 Buick Electra 225. Emerald green. Dad should have known not to give me the keys to this one, but on the day of my brother's death, he did. Not a good day for anybody involved.
'72 Buick Electra 225. I fell in love with the Buick 455 engine.
'73 Buick Electra 225. Same big Buick feel.
'74 Buick Electra 225. Another 455.
'75 Buick Electra 225. This one was as big as they ever got. And I had one.
'85 Maxda RX7. A rotary engine beast.
'90 Olds Cutlass Ciera. Ol' Toothless. Served me well for more years that I could ever count.
'91 Olds Cutlass Ciera. Dear old little lady's car from California. Not in service yet.

Things went downhill after that.
Sold the '70 off to some friends that wanted the Kenne Bell switch pitch transmission and torque converter that I had in it.

Most of the 455 engines I had I tossed the #8 rod out of. (They had a notorious under oiling problem at the back of the engine). Lack of oil pressure.

And now I have a 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera in the driveway, named 'Toothless'.
(It's a 'How to Train Your Dragon' thing.)
It has more miles on the chassis than the odometer shows, and the Tech4 engine will run long after the chassis has gone away. The salt here in Wisconsin has eaten away most of the car, and I have kludged the suspension to the rest of the car with aircraft cable. Needless to say, I never take it on the highway anymore.

I have a nice '91 Cutlass in the driveway. With only 57k on the odometer. Might need a power steering pump, but other than that, she's cherry. Bought it from a dealer close to me, only to find that it came, literally, from a 'little old lady in Pasadena'. Snagged it the day it came online and had it trucked to my driveway.
Plan to take the instrument panel with it's gauge package from my '90, which came from a 6 banger, and transplant it later. I do love gauges.

The RX7 is a very long story. It is a love affair that came about with a very old friend.
We flew to Atlanta, GA and drove it home from there.
After I got it home, I eventually replaced the very tired engine with one built by Mazdtrix in CA.
There is less than 25k miles on it.
And I had the differential rebuilt with all new clutch packs.
You drop the clutch at high RPM, and that car takes off. Like a rocket ship.

I still have it, and somebody will inherit it when I die in the not too distant future.

I sold the Buick off to a guy downstate. He knew the value of that special hood.
If anybody wants a Mallory distributor and wire setup for a 350 Buick, let me know.

And very little on this planet has run longer than the Tech4 2.5 liter engine in that Olds.

And God bless Detroit. They need it now.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Just watched an excellent movie. Kitty tested, kitty approved.
Alien Hunter, 2003, with James Spader.
I think Spader is an great actor, and this movie does not disappoint.
The plot revolves around an alien artifact found in the antarctic.
And what mankind would probably screw up (or who knows, our government may already have screwed up) upon first contact with an alien species.
Good special effects, not overused.
Great entertainment, on the kitty scale, it rates a 10.

Meow!!

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

That sounds like a puuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect evening :-)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

That sounds like a puuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect evening :-)

It was, followed up by one of my top ten flicks of all time, Drive Angry, with Nick Cage.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I wish I could explain this to you, but I never could.
And I no longer feel I have to or should.
Those who have understood my feelings for years will know so now.
And those who have ridiculed me for years will continue to do so now.
It's all quite beyond my control.
I used to be sensitive.
Now I just don't care anymore.
Just what most of you wished for.

[url=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtDrlk7vnkI]/url].

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I wish I could explain this to you, but I never could.
And I no longer feel I have to or should.
Those who have understood my feelings for years will know so now.
And those who have ridiculed me for years will continue to do so now.
It's all quite beyond my control.
I used to be sensitive.
Now I just don't care anymore.
Just what most of you wished for.

Jewel - I'm Sensitive.

Fixed hyperlink.
Mark, I consider you a friend. That has not changed. I accept you for who you are and whoever you want to be.
Carlos

Thank you, Carlos.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I went in past the 15'th thread but nice to see Mark still here posting.

So had a chat with a nurse and also a cold drink and it falls off in the meantime.

I have seen a couple of things and next it was droplets in the rain, for not any UFO instead.

This is a message that I composed to a totally different person for a totally different reason, but I thought some of you might be interested in what it took to become...............ME.

I said I would tell you more about me at another time...........I guess this is the time.
Well, here is my 68 years in a nutshell. Yeah, I have had quite a life.

No, Tom, I am not an engineer. I am more of a jack of all trades, or as Wyatt Earp said in the movie Tombstone, "A man of many farts."

In high school, I was a member of the AV Club. We once took a 16mm film copy of Bullitt that was on loan and cut the chase scene into a loop which we showed for about 12 hours until the authorities caught up with us.....a bad boy beginning. Oops.

I have been employed since high school..........and I now own my own home.
Started out as a salesman for a lumber and building supplies store. Fell in "love" with one of the cashiers and that ended badly. LOL.
Then my dad helped me out and I got a job at Great Northern Container Corporation in many positions, starting as an offbearer on the corrugator, box taper, Thompson die cutter operator, and ending up as the scheduling manager and paper purchasing agent for that corrugator.

Then I worked for Appleton Electronics for 15years, as a salesman for electronic parts and test equipment. I was finally driven out by a "new age" manager who just flat out didn't like me, and I was on the road again.

After that, I worked for Pierce Manufacturing as an electrician building fire trucks and safety vehicles for another 15 years until I retired.

I also crunched on the SETI project for the UW Berkely for many years on as many as a dozen computers, finally ending up at #10 on their all time credit list when the project finally shut down.

Along the way, I repaired most of my old cars (including replacing a starter in a '70 Buick Skylark at 20 below zero), spent a summer replacing gas and electric meters, worked a couple of years with a master electrician, and also worked part time for some 20 years for Sound World, a mid to high end audio equipment retailer in Appleton, Wisconsin.

My stereo equipment bug I caught from my dearly departed father. He got hooked up with a guy in a hifi shop and started out with a huge Voice Of Music tube powered console with a 15" main woofer. That amp had BALLS. When stereo records first came out, he had the console turntable retrofitted with a stereo cartridge and the right channel was fed to an RCA jack which was then routed to a stand alone tube powered speaker. You had to adjust the volume level on each unit separately. He also then got one of the first pairs of stereo headphones that Koss made, which required a metal box that had the headphone jacks and rheostats to control the volume and which was wired into the speakers on both separate amplifiers. The first thing that I can recall hearing on them was a Les Paul and Mary Ford album. When he put those headphones on my head, my eyes got as big as saucers.

He than built a new home and the same guy engineered ported speaker cabinets built into the walls between the studs. Jensen drivers, I believe. Powered by a tube H.H. Scott stereo receiver.
He later got a 1st generation H.H. Scott transistorized receiver. Which turned out to be a total piece of junk. All hand wired with wire wrap connections, which constantly failed. I have to admit that the guy who sold it to him was constantly apologetic. And did make it right when the next generation came out.

The old console went down to the basement, where I played 45's donated to me by an uncle. Discards from the juke boxes in his chain of pizza parlors. That lasted for years until the main power transformer shorted and went up in a cloud of smoke. I was heartbroken.

Then, dad bought me a little Motorola receiver and gave me his cherished Garrard turntable. The receiver was crap, but I loved the turntable. I had another uncle who took delight in buying me quite a few LP's and introducing me to classical music.
One of my favorite operas is still Turandot.

Years went by and I, aided by the salesman's discount from my job at Sound World, built myself a huge stereo system. Avid model 105 speakers, 2 pairs stacked, which I eventually gutted, tweaked the crossovers, and rebuilt with all JBL musical instrument drivers.
Started out with Harman Kardon Citation 16 series preamp and power amps (160 HONEST watts per channel, and I had the main power caps upgraded), and an SAE parametric equalizer, those were all stolen from my home in a break in. Used my salesman's discount again and replaced them with a Nakamichi preamp and 3 Nakamichi PA7 200w/ch power amps, a JBL 18" subwoofer the size of a color television set, and a high end Denon turntable. Also got a DBX impact restoration unit and equalizer.

And an old SAE tick and pop reducer. It did a little bit, but I suspect it will pale in comparison to what you have created in the 329AD.

Regards,
Mark

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Thanks for sharing that, Mark. I wonder if we should start a thread, "Tell me your life story." I think I will start it with a placeholder and see if anyone starts to use it.