101) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin... (消息 60583) 发表于：5 Jan 2005 作者： laughingboy Post: Yes, but why do they think they're birds?

102) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin... (消息 60540) 发表于：4 Jan 2005 作者： laughingboy Post: A fair question and one that in recent weeks 'as been much on my mind. It's my considered opinion that they're nestin'.

103) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin... (消息 60534) 发表于：4 Jan 2005 作者： laughingboy Post: Yeh.

104) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin... (消息 60530) 发表于：4 Jan 2005 作者： laughingboy Post: "Nope, I live 'ere." It's called continuity......now stay with it!

105) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin... (消息 60517) 发表于：4 Jan 2005 作者： laughingboy Post: Eh, 'tis that.

106) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 52699) 发表于：10 Dec 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: Australian Jingle Bells Dashing through the bush, in a rusty Holden Ute, Kicking up the dust, esky in the boot, Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs, It's Summer time and I am in my singlet, shorts and thongs Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey! Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut !, Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute. Engine's getting hot; we dodge the kangaroos, The swaggie climbs aboard, he is welcome too. All the family's there, sitting by the pool, Christmas Day the Aussie way, by the barbecue. Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey! Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!, Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute. Come the afternoon, Grandpa has a doze, The kids and Uncle Bruce, are swimming in their clothes. The time comes 'round to go, we take the family snap, Pack the car and all shoot through, before the washing up. Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey! Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!, Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute

107) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 51609) 发表于：5 Dec 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: Move It!

108) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 49536) 发表于：27 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: Doctor Who - The Original Theme Delia Derbyshire, with assistant Dick Mills, created the original version of the theme in August 1963 using techniques, described here, that applied for years, whether the sound sources were electronic or concrete. In 1963, when the job of producing the Doctor Who theme landed at Delia's feet, there were no synthesisers. The sound for electronic music came either from pure electronic sources, or from recordings of actual live sounds - the precursor of what we now term "sampling". But sampling now is easy: capture a sound, assign it to a range of notes on a keyboard, and play. But musique concrete was not so easy forty years ago. There being no "synthesisers", the Workshop needed a source of electronic sound. They found this in a bank of twelve high-quality test tone generators, the usual function of which was to output various tones (square waves, sine waves) for passing through electronic circuits for testing gain, distortion and so on. They also had a couple of high-quality equalisers (again, test equipment - equalisers, or "tone controls", were not that easy to come by at the time) and a few other gadgets including a "wobbulator" (a low frequency oscillator) and a white noise generator. Each sound in the Doctor Who theme was individually created using these instruments, and recorded to magnetic tape. By "each individual sound" I mean just that - each note was individually hand-crafted. The swooping sounds were created by manually adjusting the pitch of the oscillator to a carefully-timed pattern. The rhythmic hissing sounds were created by filtering white noise to "colour" it, as were the "bubbles" and "clouds". Examination of the original makeup tapes suggests that one of the two bass lines alone is a "concrete" sound, a plucked string sample. Once each sound had been created, it was modified. Some sounds were created at all the required pitches direct from the oscillators, others had to be repitched later. This was done by taking the piece of tape with the sound on and looping it. The loop was placed on a tape machine and its playback speed varied until the pitch was correct, then the sound was rerecorded onto another machine. This process continued until every sound was available at all the required pitches. To create dynamics, the notes were rerecorded at slightly different levels. Now the fun really started. They had all the sounds, all the notes, and now had to create the music. So each individual note was trimmed to length by cutting the tape, and stuck together in the right order. This was done for each "line" in the music - the main plucked bass, the bass slides (an organ-like tone emphasising the grace notes), the hisses, the swoops, the melody, a second melody line (a high organ-like tone used for emphasis), and the bubbles and clouds. This done, they ended up with a number of lengths of cut tape with the individual parts on. Most of these individual bits of tape, complete with edits every inch, still survive. This done, the music had to be "mixed". There were no multitrack tape machines, so rudimentary multitrack techniques were invented: each length of tape was placed on a separate tape machine and all the machines were started simultaneously and the outputs mixed together. If the machines didn't stay in sync, they started again, maybe cutting tapes slightly here and there to help. In fact, a number of "submixes" were made to ease the process - a combined bass track, combined melody track, bubble track, and hisses. Eventually, the piece was finished. The result is an astonishing piece of work with a magically organic quality to it that belies the many hours of patient work it took to create. As I said at the start, it is a "pure" electronic work - there is no element of "performance" at all, yet it still sounds alive. Even more extraordinary is that you can listen to the Doctor Who theme now, nearly 40 years later, and still not work out exactly how it was done. It must be one of the most timeless recordings ever - still fresh and modern when later versions sound dated and stale. Delia Derbyshire recalls that Ron Grainer was delighted with the result and, realising that the music worked perfectly well as it stood, abandoned his original plan of overdubbing a small instrumental ensemble (as in Giants of Steam). Recognising Delia's immense contribution, he also suggested splitting his performance royalty income with her, but BBC bureaucracy meant that this was not possible. I forget the code to insert a link, otherwise I would have for the original theme tune! "We're in the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun."

109) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 49464) 发表于：27 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: Wow! UFO.... I remember that. I even had the toy. Wonder what that would be worth now? I grew up with Space 1999, Blakes 7, and so on. Happy days. Anyone else remember the old Dr Who intro with the swirly tunnel and weird music? Used to scare the pants off me! Dunno why, just creepy! ......"I'm so gorgeous, there's a six month waiting list for birds to suddenly appear, every time I am near!"

110) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 47434) 发表于：17 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: "And we admire your 'Coupling', too." Like the court said, those tapes were poor quality and blurred! It was unable to prove it was me! So whoever passed the 'coupling' video on to you is heading for trouble! No sheep were hurt in the making of that tape. Ermmm....ahem... Or so I'm led to believe... Seriously though. 2 others to watch out for are 'Father Ted' and 'The Royle Family'. You may not get the chance to see these, or even like them, but as fans of RD, I think you would appreciate them.

111) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 47328) 发表于：17 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: "According to the log we're down to our last 3000 vomit bags. It'll never be enough." Go Red Dwarf!!! Didn't realise it had crossed the pond?

112) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 47195) 发表于：16 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: "I was having lunch with a beautiful woman the other day and in walked another woman who looked just like my date. I started asking them questions and found out that both women were born on the same day, same month, same year, and they had the same mother, but they were not twins. How could this be?" @ Tom. Because they were triplets/quads/ whatever? "An IQ of 6? Do me a lemon! That's a poor IQ for a glass of water!"

113) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 46079) 发表于：13 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

114) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 46014) 发表于：13 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: It's better to love a short girl than not a tall.....

115) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 45763) 发表于：12 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: Andskotinn hafi thad.... That's what I say.

116) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 45533) 发表于：11 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: "Said a fella to a fella, in a field of finches. Said a fella to a fella, how many F's in that?" >Now There is a river you must cross, but it is inhabited by crocodiles. >How do you manage it? Go over the bridge, laughing and pointing at the weirdos trying all manner of ways to do it?

117) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Ridiculous Thread (消息 45458) 发表于：11 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: @ Petit Soleil Well, I've sat here all night and I'm still waiting to find out which animal didn't attend? "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

118) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Can you Believe THIS??? (消息 41904) 发表于：1 Nov 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: We live in an age where illness and deformity are commonplace, and yet, Keith, you are, without a doubt, the most repulsive individual I have ever met. I would shake your hand, but I fear it would come off.

119) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Can you Believe THIS??? (消息 41789) 发表于：31 Oct 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: Give the likes of Keith the vote and we'll be back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner. Kinda like some other elections.....

120) 留言板 : Cafe SETI : Can you Believe THIS??? (消息 41723) 发表于：31 Oct 2004 作者： laughingboy Post: Listen, when I want to hear the sound a chimp makes when attempting speech, I'll rattle Dogs cage. Until then, quit gibbering fool. Now where was I, oh yes..... "Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly."

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