I had never heard of this before I saw this video:
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Open thread 1/6/22 — 21 Comments
At first, I wondered why they circled the penis, but then he said it as multiple faces like a totem pole. I never heard of it either.
I have heard of it, but did not know all the info shown in the video. Humans have a very diverse and long history. Wonder why after it collapsed it was not reset. Possibly the creators had left the area, but we will never know.
I read “The Source” when I was in college. Michener did a pretty good job with the history.
Welcome to the left wing’s “insurrection” day extravaganza. Is anyone listening? I certainly am not. I’ve heard excerpts from Biden’s shameful speech on conservative talk radio and it lived down to my worst expectations.
The narrator has the most annoying cadence I’ve ever heard.
So, it’s 11,500 years old made during the mesolithic period, shortly AFTER the last ice age.
You mean the climate changed FROM an ice age to a warmer climate.
Clearly, the folks who carved this must have been driving SUVs, generating electricity by burning coal and otherwise using evil petroleum based products to flood the atmosphere with CO2.
Let me take a wild guess here; climate scientists have zero idea what ended the ice ages (or caused them to start).
But hey, they have no problem predicting the climate 100 years into the future.
Sure.
huxley…yes! sing song narration….I could only listen to a few minutes before I turned it off.
As if you’re interested in my further intrepid tales of reading the KEF manual…
I went back to the “vague tiny diagram” I complained about and saw that it was part of a graphic story, “The Problem of the Speaker Too Close to the Wall.”
In Panel #1 we see our poor speaker is huddled in the back corner of the room.
The speaker has a narrow black triangle emanating from its rear which expands, like a thought balloon, into Panel #2, a schematic diagram with a label indicating the speaker distance from the back wall is < 225mm or < 9".
Panel #3 directly below shows my vague tiny diagram of something like a cork being plugged into the back speaker horn, then an arrow to the speaker successfully plugged.
Panel #4 shows a stick figure of something like a bed with a pillow on the left side. However, below that one can see axis marks for "2Hz 2kHz 20kHz." The pillow is marked with a downward pointing arrow.
My translation: If speaker back is less than 9" from the wall, plug the speaker horn with the foam insert and thereby flatten the speaker frequency response so the low-freq "pillow" is reduced to the same flat line.
Elegant in its way. Rather like the inscription plate announcing our presence in the galaxy on the Voyager space probe.
Is this the brave new world of tech manuals as intercultural hieroglyphs?
@Huxley:
By Jove, I think you’ve got it!
Robert Pirsig is doing his technical writing Upstairs now. So we’re reduced to deciphering IKEA assembly instruction hieroglyphics, it seems. Some of it is intercultural efficiency cost-cutting… I suspect much of it is just laziness and ignorance.
The big Japanese firms spared and I think still spare no expense on multi-lingual text product manuals. But they have a reputation for burying information in walls of text and not making things easily discoverable.
“Elegant in its way. Rather like the inscription plate announcing our presence in the galaxy on the Voyager space probe.”
Well please don’t show up at the KEF factory and turn it into a Vogon Hyperspace Bypass until I decide whether or not to upgrade to the LS50IIs.
Tinkering with this kind of stuff is fun, though, ain’t it!?
Where are my manners? Here’s a link to the manual page on the web, an improvement over the one I received:
On the face of it that’s a pretty decent set of graphics…. but only once one has a rough idea of what it’s all about. Assumes too much of the target audience. I detect the hands of an… Engineer!
Talking of tinkering, having purchased a very transparent DAC and an ultra-transparent amp for my Chi-Fi headphone rig (including the Cans), I’ve gone and ordered a cheap $50 Chi-Fi tube pre-am to stick between DAC and amp so that I can *degrade* its performance at the flick of a switch whensoever the spirit moves me.
Zaphod:
Fun, well…
Lately I find myself baffled trying to help a cafe friend arrange an online marriage with a woman forty years younger in the Philippines, using his cell phone and two different email accounts of which he forgets the passwords.
I’m not quite so adroit with cellphones and my friend doesn’t realize that because I know a thing or two about computers, I know how to cut through online red tape on international marriages.
As far as I know the Vogons aren’t yet interested in the Earth — Hyperspace Bypass-wise — but I’ve got my towel ready.
Zaphod:
Is this the tube amp “warmth” I hear about which is supposed to be better? Degrade to improve? Cruel to be kind?
@Huxley:
I *am* adroit with cellphones. Irrititatingly so. But trying to navigate another person’s phone … one who forgets passwords and who needs to finesse officialdom and juggle documentation through a teeny weeny mobile browser…? I think not! Commiserations.
I trust that your friend is contemplating taking himself to the Philippines (where Divorce is not a thing) to live happily every after and not contemplating bringing the Sweet Young Thing to the USA where she will absorb the very latest notions about matrimony instanter.
It’s funny the way everyone thinks that a facility with computers makes a person good at tech support. I really lack the temperament for it. I pass on my old phones eventually to the part time Filipina maid but always with the strict proviso that I never hear a single peep out of her about setting it up or troubleshooting. Would drive me (more) insane. Fortunately she has a friend who seems to be an adept.
@Huxley:
There’s something apparently about the distortion introduced by tubes having euphonious harmonics because Physics. I’m not really into it, but will be when this little box of glowing goodness arrives and shall then read widely and shallowly and utter pontifications.
Some music (particularly early digital recordings from the 80s before they got the hang of the new tech) can sounds rather brittle and harsh. A diversionary trip through a tube or two can help.
But mainly I’m curious to get a taste for what all the fuss is about.
@Huxley:
One curious thing I’ve learned so far is that many of these New Old Stock tubes have the letters JAN printed on them. Stands for Joint Army Navy. Part, I guess, of some specifications and purchasing program to keep production going after consumer tube equipment mostly disappeared from the market in the Sixties. You can bet that there was legacy heavy-duty built to last military kit using them well into the Eighties.
Much hilarity today in Honkers as a big bunch of local fat cat quisling civil servants have been bunged in the very spartan quarantine camp to stay a while because they all went to a birthday party to brown nose some official from over the fence who was also attending the birthday boy’s bash.
Refreshing to see the Great and Good getting a dose of the medicine they prescribe for the rest of us Peasantry.
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At first, I wondered why they circled the penis, but then he said it as multiple faces like a totem pole. I never heard of it either.
I have heard of it, but did not know all the info shown in the video. Humans have a very diverse and long history. Wonder why after it collapsed it was not reset. Possibly the creators had left the area, but we will never know.
I read “The Source” when I was in college. Michener did a pretty good job with the history.
Welcome to the left wing’s “insurrection” day extravaganza. Is anyone listening? I certainly am not. I’ve heard excerpts from Biden’s shameful speech on conservative talk radio and it lived down to my worst expectations.
The narrator has the most annoying cadence I’ve ever heard.
So, it’s 11,500 years old made during the mesolithic period, shortly AFTER the last ice age.
You mean the climate changed FROM an ice age to a warmer climate.
Clearly, the folks who carved this must have been driving SUVs, generating electricity by burning coal and otherwise using evil petroleum based products to flood the atmosphere with CO2.
Let me take a wild guess here; climate scientists have zero idea what ended the ice ages (or caused them to start).
But hey, they have no problem predicting the climate 100 years into the future.
Sure.
huxley…yes! sing song narration….I could only listen to a few minutes before I turned it off.
Petition to tell Biden to scrap vaccine mandates:
https://www.afa.net/activism/contact-officials/?vvsrc=%2fcampaigns%2f90480%2frespond
Idealized remembrance of alien (god-like) visitors?
Hunter gatherers with abundant leisure time; immediately after the glaciers retreated, global warming was a good thing.
You’ve heard of Matter and Anti-Matter.
Now there’s Knish and Anti-Knish:
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/01/when-daniel-greenfield-joined-isis.html
And from the Antipodes, no less!
Zaphod:
As if you’re interested in my further intrepid tales of reading the KEF manual…
I went back to the “vague tiny diagram” I complained about and saw that it was part of a graphic story, “The Problem of the Speaker Too Close to the Wall.”
In Panel #1 we see our poor speaker is huddled in the back corner of the room.
The speaker has a narrow black triangle emanating from its rear which expands, like a thought balloon, into Panel #2, a schematic diagram with a label indicating the speaker distance from the back wall is < 225mm or < 9".
Panel #3 directly below shows my vague tiny diagram of something like a cork being plugged into the back speaker horn, then an arrow to the speaker successfully plugged.
Panel #4 shows a stick figure of something like a bed with a pillow on the left side. However, below that one can see axis marks for "2Hz 2kHz 20kHz." The pillow is marked with a downward pointing arrow.
My translation: If speaker back is less than 9" from the wall, plug the speaker horn with the foam insert and thereby flatten the speaker frequency response so the low-freq "pillow" is reduced to the same flat line.
Elegant in its way. Rather like the inscription plate announcing our presence in the galaxy on the Voyager space probe.
Is this the brave new world of tech manuals as intercultural hieroglyphs?
@Huxley:
By Jove, I think you’ve got it!
Robert Pirsig is doing his technical writing Upstairs now. So we’re reduced to deciphering IKEA assembly instruction hieroglyphics, it seems. Some of it is intercultural efficiency cost-cutting… I suspect much of it is just laziness and ignorance.
The big Japanese firms spared and I think still spare no expense on multi-lingual text product manuals. But they have a reputation for burying information in walls of text and not making things easily discoverable.
“Elegant in its way. Rather like the inscription plate announcing our presence in the galaxy on the Voyager space probe.”
Well please don’t show up at the KEF factory and turn it into a Vogon Hyperspace Bypass until I decide whether or not to upgrade to the LS50IIs.
Tinkering with this kind of stuff is fun, though, ain’t it!?
Where are my manners? Here’s a link to the manual page on the web, an improvement over the one I received:
https://www.manua.ls/kef/q150/manual?p=9
@Huxley:
What are Manners?
On the face of it that’s a pretty decent set of graphics…. but only once one has a rough idea of what it’s all about. Assumes too much of the target audience. I detect the hands of an… Engineer!
Talking of tinkering, having purchased a very transparent DAC and an ultra-transparent amp for my Chi-Fi headphone rig (including the Cans), I’ve gone and ordered a cheap $50 Chi-Fi tube pre-am to stick between DAC and amp so that I can *degrade* its performance at the flick of a switch whensoever the spirit moves me.
Zaphod:
Fun, well…
Lately I find myself baffled trying to help a cafe friend arrange an online marriage with a woman forty years younger in the Philippines, using his cell phone and two different email accounts of which he forgets the passwords.
I’m not quite so adroit with cellphones and my friend doesn’t realize that because I know a thing or two about computers, I know how to cut through online red tape on international marriages.
As far as I know the Vogons aren’t yet interested in the Earth — Hyperspace Bypass-wise — but I’ve got my towel ready.
Zaphod:
Is this the tube amp “warmth” I hear about which is supposed to be better? Degrade to improve? Cruel to be kind?
@Huxley:
I *am* adroit with cellphones. Irrititatingly so. But trying to navigate another person’s phone … one who forgets passwords and who needs to finesse officialdom and juggle documentation through a teeny weeny mobile browser…? I think not! Commiserations.
I trust that your friend is contemplating taking himself to the Philippines (where Divorce is not a thing) to live happily every after and not contemplating bringing the Sweet Young Thing to the USA where she will absorb the very latest notions about matrimony instanter.
It’s funny the way everyone thinks that a facility with computers makes a person good at tech support. I really lack the temperament for it. I pass on my old phones eventually to the part time Filipina maid but always with the strict proviso that I never hear a single peep out of her about setting it up or troubleshooting. Would drive me (more) insane. Fortunately she has a friend who seems to be an adept.
@Huxley:
There’s something apparently about the distortion introduced by tubes having euphonious harmonics because Physics. I’m not really into it, but will be when this little box of glowing goodness arrives and shall then read widely and shallowly and utter pontifications.
Some music (particularly early digital recordings from the 80s before they got the hang of the new tech) can sounds rather brittle and harsh. A diversionary trip through a tube or two can help.
But mainly I’m curious to get a taste for what all the fuss is about.
@Huxley:
One curious thing I’ve learned so far is that many of these New Old Stock tubes have the letters JAN printed on them. Stands for Joint Army Navy. Part, I guess, of some specifications and purchasing program to keep production going after consumer tube equipment mostly disappeared from the market in the Sixties. You can bet that there was legacy heavy-duty built to last military kit using them well into the Eighties.
Much hilarity today in Honkers as a big bunch of local fat cat quisling civil servants have been bunged in the very spartan quarantine camp to stay a while because they all went to a birthday party to brown nose some official from over the fence who was also attending the birthday boy’s bash.
Refreshing to see the Great and Good getting a dose of the medicine they prescribe for the rest of us Peasantry.