From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.
kloksman ·
Yahoo 🙂 a friend of mine started this thread at a different forum, and it seems like a good idea. just post one thing that made you smile today just something cheery and fun.
i'll start: my friend mel and i (who had fallen out) are working stuff out
doug4350 ·
True story...
Me and a few working buds had lunch today in the local sports bar. There was a pga tour on the tube. I was thinking about playing golf on Sunday and said "I think I'm going to try waxing my balls the next time I play." I realized right after I said it how it could be misinterpreted. One guy immediately came back in a serious context "why would you want to play with hairless balls?" 😀 What I really meant was I wonder if putting car wax on golf balls would have any aerodynamic effect to possibly improve my (not so great) game.
Aloha, Doug
skOre ·
Doug: no.
I finished the day job for today an hour ago. Always a good reason.
doug4350 ·
skOre: Does that mean you tried it already??? 😀 😀 😀
Today's reason: Gonna jam 2-nite! 😍
skOre ·
Heh no, but they already curve those ditches in for proper air flow. Apart from that, I think that wax is really just good for physical interaction of two materials, not for stuff that is in the air. Yet I know that it is good to keep things clean, to avoid extra micro-turbulences.
In the end, I think its up to you to practice 😉
doug4350 ·
I got the idea thinking about my car... It always seems to drive better after a good waxin', not to mention the sex appeal 🙂
In the end, I think its up to you to practice
Golf, piano or medicine .!.! 😮
stefan ·
doug4350 wrote: I got the idea thinking about my car... It always seems to drive better after a good waxin', not to mention the sex appeal 🙂
With "my car" you mean.... ?
skOre ·
weak 😀
doug4350 ·
With "my car" you mean.... ?
Oh, come on now, I don't like to brag 🙂 .
Hint hint, it's red and I had a speeding ticket last year .. oops. Lesson learned. Don't get caught 😀
Edit: -- Still, as fast as it is, I'm still always late 😀
stefan ·
doug4350 wrote: With "my car" you mean.... ?
Oh, come on now, I don't like to brag 🙂 .
Hint hint, it's red and I had a speeding ticket last year .. oops. Lesson learned. Don't get caught 😀
Edit: -- Still, as fast as it is, I'm still always late 😀
It stills sounds like you're not talking about your actual car... 🙂
doug4350 ·
It stills sounds like you're not talking about your actual car...
grrrrr 🙂 ok, ok, ok. It came from folks in your neighborhood.
An Audi Quattro TT 225. Lowered suspension, custom rims, body kit, chipped, trbo and an esp button 🙂 . There really is a purpose to the esp, but it's funny to tell people it has esp.
Now, if someone would solve the traffic problem here, I'd have a reason to post every day!
When my friends ask me if they can drive it, I tell them there's only 1 qualified driver on the island. 😀
Trust me, I earned this baby. No silver spoons allowed!!!
Aloha, Doug
stefan ·
🙂
You bought it in Gothenburg? 🙂
doug4350 ·
You bought it in Gothenburg?
Naw, the steering wheel is on the left side 🙂 . I know they've got some "trade secrets" that don't make it into the exported versions 😉
Aloha, Doug
stefan ·
Ah, it is on the right side. I see 🙂
doug4350 ·
🙂
Ok, I enjoyed the chat... Gotta run ... my pager just went off on one of our clusters downtown... Stilll, 🙂 , gonna jam 2-nite!
Aloha, Doug
doug4350 ·
One day a store manager was looking through resumes for someone to hire.
He decided that day he'd interview four chaps and only ask them one question.
He asked all the interviewee's in at one time. After a short ice breaker, he posed his question to the first guy:
"What is the fastest thing you know of???"
The first interviewee replied "A thought. It just pops into your head from outta nowhere."
The interviewer replied "Hmm, that makes sense." and proceeded to the next interviewee, "What's the fastest thing you know of???"
The second guy replied "Blinking..."
"I see." said the interviewer. "In the blink of an eye is a very popular clich'e."
The interviewer then asked the third interviewee, "What's the fastest thing you know of???"
The third guy replied "Light. We have a switch by the front door that turns on a light pointed at the barn way off in the field. As soon as you turn on the switch, you can see the barn at night."
That's the stereotypical answer he'd expected, but nonetheless, respected the other's replies. He asked the last interviewee, "What's the fastest thing on earth???"
The last guy replied "Diarrhea."
"Diarrhea!" replied the baffled interviewer...
"Yeah." replied the last guy. "Let me explain... Ya see, I'd been out eating and drining late. I woke up in the middle of the night with a big stomach ache."
"Before I could think, blink or turn on the light, I had already crapped my pants!"
😀 😀 😀
Aloha, Doug
AngularMomentum ·
Not only the reason for today but any day....When I wake up and the wife comes in the bedroom with my son...Donna goes to work and my son and me sleep for half an hour more before breakfast...that's the good life! 🙂
malc ·
Enjoy it while it lasts my friend.
"...waking to the gentle sound of my son screaming GET UP, GET UP at 6am whilst simultaneously bouncing on my chest and beating me around the head with a Power Ranger..."
doesn't quite have the same ring to it 😉
AngularMomentum ·
LMAO!
Thanks for the tip, trouble is my son doesn't have power rangers, most of his toys are made of wood! 😝 Might have to change my views on plastic toys...
GaryG ·
malc wrote: "...waking to the gentle sound of my son screaming GET UP, GET UP at 6am whilst simultaneously bouncing on my chest and beating me around the head with a Power Ranger..."
My daughter, just turned two, has a habit of poking me in the eye while shouting "Awake!".
Best alarm clock ever...
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electrogear ·
You guys are old! When did you all get interested in programming and the like? I'm 22 and only just getting into it really, and I thought I was late in picking it up, but maybe not... 😉 lol
stefan ·
electrogear wrote: You guys are old! When did you all get interested in programming and the like? I'm 22 and only just getting into it really, and I thought I was late in picking it up, but maybe not... 😉 lol
I'm 28. Been programming for 18 years, but DSP stuff only during the later half of those 18 years 🙂
electrogear ·
You've been programming since you were 10? Really? That's crazy! What drove you to want to learn at that age? I was quite happy playing on my roller skates and my Sega Master System.... lol 🙂
stefan ·
electrogear wrote: You've been programming since you were 10? Really? That's crazy! What drove you to want to learn at that age? I was quite happy playing on my roller skates and my Sega Master System.... lol 🙂
Due to my dad we've had computers at home since 1984. The fact that my dad had some knowledge in programming probably was a factor, and that I've always been into "engineering" stuff. Lego Technics was my favourite toy 🙂
No roller skates for me, skateboard ruu! 🙂
Shifrin ·
stefan wrote: I'm 28. Been programming for 18 years, but DSP stuff only during the later half of those 18 years 🙂
Interesting, I'm 28 too, and have been programming for 18 years too - since I got my first computer - a Spectrum 128k. Mind you I'm not spending anywhere near as much time programming now as I did when I was 16/17 🙂
Shif.
AngularMomentum ·
electrogear wrote: You guys are old! When did you all get interested in programming and the like? I'm 22 and only just getting into it really, and I thought I was late in picking it up, but maybe not... 😉 lol
36 years old...but have a 11 year younger partner...maybe that's why. 😉
GaryG ·
I got into programming at age 13 when I got a ZX81 for Christmas (eh...1981... 🙂) Spent the last 20 years (jeez...) working with high level business languages (like COBOL) and databases so never really got into lower level stuff like c++.
Only played around with audio apps the last few years thanks to software like SM and SE.
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AngularMomentum ·
I had a ZX80 and 81...you remember that flight simulator program for the ZX 81? At that time I was amazed by the awesome graphics! LOL....I also had the ZX Spectrum, which was a great gaming machine so I really did not do any coding then typing over game codes from those home computer magazines...I was going to get a Spectrum Quantum Leap as well, but then Amiga came along...I still love my Amiga 500. 😍
doug4350 ·
How about the Radio Scrap Trash 80 -- That's what my dad called it 🙂. It was my first intro into computers and say goodbye to a life 🙂! I was ~ 13 or so too. Before that I was tinkering with those electronics project kits, which I built most of, but didn't really have a clue how they worked at that age 🙂 . 29 years later, been there done that. Low level, high level, blown many things up 🙂 started fires 🙂 . I won't say I've seen it all yet though. There was a humbling experience I had with a chassis. It was bad (the chassis that is). Really... It was a bad chassis. That was my nemesis machine 😠 😠 😠 . There were no shorts, different power supplies caused the same symptoms, but taking the guts to a different chassis sung like angels. New guts in the beast failed the same way. Go figure...
Nowadays, if you remember the movie 'Real Genius', I kind of feel like Laslo 😀
Aloha, Doug
sambean ·
ZX Spectrum.. pffft.. rubber keys, one colour per square, monophonic beeps... need I say more...
C64 all the way...
😈
Shifrin ·
sambean wrote: ZX Spectrum.. pffft.. rubber keys, one colour per square, monophonic beeps... need I say more...
C64 all the way...
😈
My Spectrum had 3 channel sounded by the AY-3-8912, and you had 2 colours per 8x8 pixel block not 1 😉
Hehe, I was a die hard Speccy fan, even though the C64 had superior gfx and the SID onboard!
Shif.
GaryG ·
AngularMomentum wrote: I had a ZX80 and 81...you remember that flight simulator program for the ZX 81? At that time I was amazed by the awesome graphics!
The one with just a black line for the horizon and the occasional splattering of pixels to represent 'ground features'? Yeah, I remember it... 🙂
I really did not do any coding then typing over game codes from those home computer magazines...
oh don't remind me... hours typing in hex from Your Computer or suchlike only for it not to work... enough to put you off coding for life. Nearly.
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AngularMomentum ·
Yeah that was the one...hilarious to todays standards. 😀
doug4350 ·
Or backing up on an audio casette tape. I'm now actually surprised how well it worked considering... I was in heaven though with the C64 and the 5.25 floppy. That's where I did my 1st midi programming. I didn't like the Dr. T's package, because it didn't do looping, so I rolled my own.
Today's reason to smile: Woke up late, the boss is outta town and I left early 🙂 Ahhh. If only it was Friday.
Aloha, Doug
AngularMomentum ·
Well Friday it is now...hope you will have a good one this weekend
Man, if I would be living in Hawaii, i'll be smiling all day for that fact alone!
Yeah the C64, I had the luck my foster dad had a studio with Steinberg Pro 16 software and a midi interface. From what I remember it looked more like a ancient tracker then... So the first tunes I made in his studio was on a C64. He worked for a national radio station and teached music at a high school. After making some music of course play Impossible Mission...."destroy him, my robots!!"
Josh ·
Mission Impossible lol:Shtay awhile shtay foeva muhahaha... 🙂
doug4350 ·
Man, if I would be living in Hawaii, i'll be smiling all day for that fact alone!
Trust me, livin' and playin' in Hawaii are twwoooo different things. If I had time to play in Hawaii, I'd be smilin' more too 🙂 .
Today's reason to smile: It's Friday now (for me), and the risk of thermal runaway is drastically reduced! 🙂
Aloha, Doug
doug4350 ·
I've been going through hell the past few weeks dealing with a personal problem when some goodness just dumped on me today.
A coworker had "special" tickets to go see Pat Benatar playing with the Honolulu Symphony tonight (some of you more seasoned forum surfurs can appreciate where I'm coming from). Something came up and myself and a coworker ended up with the tickets 😍 . All I had to do was pick them up. Well, when we finally found where we were supposed to go at Symphony Hall, there was a pre-show banquet. So, not only did we get to see the show, we got to meet Pat Benatar 😮 !!! ( I should give some credit to her hubby Neil Giraldo, a very good guitarist, musician ). I have much respect for them after that experience as they are very down to earth, and deserve what they have because they earned it the old fashioned way. It's comforting to know people can keep their original stature under the duress of good fortune 🙂.
The next good thing is there was a photo shoot. I got a picture (with the small group I was with) with Mrs. B. A once in a lifetime experience for an unnoticed lowly developer like myself.
When I got home after the show, in the mailbox was another refund check. -- another wierd story--. Back when, I was wondering what happened to the first one, after waiting eons... The agency said to send in another claim. I did. The next day, the first refund came. I called them and told them I got the refund. They said the duplicate I sent was no problem as the system would kick it out. Tonight, another refund came 😮 🙂 ! I guess the rep meant the system would kick out another check 😀 . Maybe I should send in another claim 😉 . If that works, pretty soon my job will be filing claim forms 😀 .
My blood pressure is half as it was this morning, and, I'll get some sleep tonight with a full bully 😍 :sigh of relief:
Aloha, Doug ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz.......
doug4350 ·
Hmmm... This is becoming my fav' thread.....
If y'all didn't hear, we (Hawaii) had an earthquake today. I didn't get any damage and as far as I know, there weren't any injuries (thank u-no-hoo) 🙂. The event woke me up ~ 7:00 this morning. I didn't feel anything, but it sounded like a freight train was going across the roof (w/out the Wooo Wooo!) 🙂. I can only speculate that I didn't feel it because I sleep on a waterbed. My other 2 house mates said they felt it. I just laid there in bed, in a daze, after the hell I've been goin' thru I figured "great, now the house is gonna fall down -- puhleez make it quick and painless." Really though, there was some termite activity on my side of the house which made me think it was starting to collapse (in my daze being woken up and not thinking clearly).
Well, the power was out most of the day. One of my roomies had to work and the other was pissed because there was no football 🙂. Me, it was so quiet, nice relaxing rain outside, I became best friends with the couch 😀 .
Anyway, the moral of my story is this reality check today showed me that I can still get by with a lot less creature comforts and be happy 🙂 Not only that, I have an excuse to go in late tomorrow . 😀
Aloha, Doug
reitz101 ·
My reason today for being happy is that I've got till tomorrow till I get home from the oilr ig I'm on and am off for a fortnight before coming back, then I'll be able to get SM on the machine and start to use it and also moving into my owen place, 🙂
GaryG ·
Good to hear the quake didn't get you Doug, a biggie by the sound of things (7.something? bigger than a Korean nuke! 😉)
It's an amusing image though, you floating oblivious on your waterbed while everything collapses around you... 🙂
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doug4350 ·
😀 😀 😀 That's funny... Actually, it was a 6.6 @ the epicenter ~ 150 miles from here, ~ 20 miles off the big island where the volcano is.
Hey Reitz101, I feel for you... Weren't you on dirty jobs on the Discovery Channel 😀 You guys crank up there with the crab fishermen! 'twas ~ 20 years ago when I worked in POL (petrol, oil and lub) in the USAF. I kept the juice flowin' to the F-15's, F-4's, C-5's, C-130s, da da da, heck, on Okinawa, everything with a letter or number came through there and I never gotta tip 🙂. Still, nothing like the $h17 you go through I'm sure. Even though I arrived there just days after the Koreans shot down flight 707... A little testy-- yeah!
Ya also are why there're no women around while you're ashore 😀 😀 😀 .
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