Just booked a short break in Devon/Dorset for next week. Staying in Seaton and spending 3 days looking for fossils on the Jurassic coast and then submerging myself in crab and cider in the evenings!
What's making you go 'Woot!'?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Lots of things. My band are now a 5 piece with a live drummer playing a mix of electronic samples and live percussion. I'm hoping to play a t-shirt company launch. I'm penning up ideas to release a sampler of several bands for my promotions company cum label. My boss is away for two days and I'm more productive. I'm very proud of my girlfriend for working really hard towards something she wants and she's very nearly done. A bundle of woot.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Lots of things. My band are now a 5 piece with a live drummer playing a mix of electronic samples and live percussion. I'm hoping to play a t-shirt company launch. I'm penning up ideas to release a sampler of several bands for my promotions company cum label. My boss is away for two days and I'm more productive. I'm very proud of my girlfriend for working really hard towards something she wants and she's very nearly done. A bundle of woot.
Life is beautiful.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm feeling WOOT for Mikee's WOOT.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Let's get crunky.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I've filed for bankruptcy. Goodbye $70,000 of debt. WOOT!!!!!
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
And then real life comes crashing in...
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
go suck yourself, mask
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
On the Woot! tip, I just wandered round the corner to the hardware shop and bought a geologist's pick (IRL brick hammer) and a handy-dandy archaeologist's trowel (IRL pointing trowel).
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I've filed for bankruptcy. Goodbye $70,000 of debt. WOOT!!!!!
Doesn't that mean that you lose both homes? (Obviously you won't be worried about one of them, but presumeably you're quite fond of the new one?)
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
No...I keep the home(s), land, and cars. Just say goodbye to my debt! WOOT!!!!! My credit will be ruined for five to ten years, but still...
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Ah, getting back to the land! Fresh air, soil beneath your feet, good old fashioned values...
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
For me, it's the prospect that in only a few months, we'll be off to California. This wouldn't be a 'woot' moment except that I'm at Logan airport right now and it's not making me regret leaving Boston in the least. It's almost certainly unfair to condemn a city for its airport, but still...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Someone should make a film set in California. Why don't Americans ever do that?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: What's making you go 'Woot!'?
I'm getting my haircut by a hairdresser to the celebs on Thursday. Very exciting stuff. I'm hoping I get given wine while having my haircut and possibly a blowjob.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: No...I keep the home(s), land, and cars. Just say goodbye to my debt! WOOT!!!!! My credit will be ruined for five to ten years, but still...
I don't understand, what kind of bankrupty is that then?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I don't understand, what kind of bankrupty is that then?
It does seem strange doesn't it.
Step 1 - Spend $70,000 on credit cards and loans to buy car and build new house Step 2 - Declare Bankruptcy but keep car and house Step 3 - Profit
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Yeah, it's sort of like 'Hi, I'd like to borrow some money please and not pay it back'
'I don't know, sir you get to keep the things you buy and not give them back'
'Hmmmm....ok then '
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm wootin' for the following reasons:
I've almost finished the Bassonator - a two string bass guitar version of the much fabled Avonator. The strings are tuned an octave apart and a motor sits between them, fapping them alternately with a strip of plastic. A speed control varies the sound from a slow 60 rpm pling-plong-pling-plong right up to a 6,000 rpm drone which sounds more like it's being played with a bow. It has an ignition key to start it, and a full size front panel made from the side of an old PC case, with the paint stripped off to reveal a rather tasty brushed metal finish. Took it along to rehearsal on Sunday and nobody got hurt. But other than that, all was good.
Just got back from the dentalist, who told me nothing needed to be done other than a minute's worth of painless electro-scraping.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Jesus fuck. I had no idea that if I didn't want to pay off my debts I just declared myself bankrupt and all that happens is I won't be able to borrow some money for a few years. I thought they'd look at my sallary and be all like "You're not bankrupt, you can afford to pay off at least most of what you owe!" but apparently not.
I need to get on the blower quick sharp!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Actually, thinking about it, I'm not sure I'd be able to cope with the shame of knowing I'd basically failed to manage my own financial affairs to the point where I have to grovellingly go and tell my creditors that i've put myself into a situation where I'm completely unable to meet the financial commitments I've made for myself.
Edit - obviously this situation could only be worse if I'd been spending a lot of time on the internet boasting that I earn loads and loads of money, and then had to admit that I'd managed to fuck it all up. That'd be some seriously humbling shit wouldn't it.
[ 19.05.2009, 09:50: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
How can someone earning $120,000 or whatever ralph is on these days be allowed to declare bankruptcy? It wouldn't happen over here and that is why England is in such a good financial situation.
Ummmmm. Well, it wouldn't happen here but we're still in a rubbish financial situation, but it's mostly ralph's fault.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I feel pretty stupid about doing loads of overtime a few years back and actually paying off my debts. That was money I could have spent on trinkets.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Concentrate on the woot, people.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
So, y'know, woot to not being bankrupt I guess! I was looking at my overdraft earlier while tugging at my collar and explaiming "erk!" but this thought has really made me feel better. Y'know, that despite the fact I may owe a fair bit of money, and that sometimes it's a bit of a struggle to afford the things I want, I've never over-stretched myself to the point where i've had to declare myself bankrupt.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
^^ That's a good WOOT. There's a particularly sweet kind of schadenfreude in being financially better off than people who earn way more money than you. My crummy salary probably wouldn't pay ralph's monthly petrol bill, but I'm only £300 in debt (waves at new guitar) and I'm not bankrupt. Sweet! Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
High fives and air guitars for everyone able to meet their financial obligations!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
It's called Chapter 7 in Massachusetts. The downside to it is that it shows up on my credit report for 10 years, so I'm very likely not to be able to get credit in that timeframe. And it's not like I borrowed the money to go on vacations or buy video games. My wife was quite ill and we needed shelter ffs.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
On a vaguely guitar related woot - woot for learning to play Money for Nothing
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Nice work. Now you need to buy yourself some sweatbands and you're properly ready to rock Mark Knopfler style
[ 19.05.2009, 10:21: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: On a vaguely guitar related woot - woot for learning to play Money for Nothing
Call me when you can play Sultans of Schwing. My old band used to crack that one out at every gig. All four of them, in fact...
Towelling headbands FTW! Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Call me when you can play Sultans of Schwing.
I can play that. *flexes fingers*
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Money for Nothing
How apt...
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: It has an ignition key to start it, and a full size front panel made from the side of an old PC case, with the paint stripped off to reveal a rather tasty brushed metal finish.
Pic?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Pic?
It did happen!
I'll take some tonight...
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I can play that. *flexes fingers*
Good skills. That solo can't be easy.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Pic?
It did happen!
I'll take some tonight...
I'm sure it happened, it just sounds very picworthy.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm going to give a woot to talking nonsense. You know that nonsense which sounds like proper language but when you actually try to understand it, it turns out to be completely meaningless.
On the drifting forum I use, some noob had put up a video of himself doing donuts and handbrake turns on a football pitch in a Toyota Rav4. Everyone was like "you're an enormous gaylord, FOAD" etc. I was like:
quote:Originally posted by Mazdachris:
Lubs, dude, don't listen to all these haters. Everyone has to start somewhere.
For what it's worth, you did very well for a first go. I would like to maybe give you some pointers though. You did well with the steering, but the idea of optimum drifting is the balance using slip frequencies and accellerances. To give an example - when you reach the moment of inertia, the tendency is to use torque to try to keep the car from under-revving. If you actually do the opposite, and increase the angle of steer-thrust, you'll find that actually the power curve becomes close to the optimum rev-line, and so your drift angle will increase at a rate inversely proportionate to the rate at which brake assist becomes less noticeable. It takes a little bit of practice to get this right and really if you want to advance onto the higher speed steering techniques, this is something you must be constantly aware of.
There are also a few things you can do to improve the performance of the car. Each wheel can be shimmed, according to the requirements of the surface and the kind of speeds you're hoping to achieve. Obviously the roll centres need to be taken into account when you are calculating the angles of the shims, but I find it's best to just take a selection along with me so I'll generally be able to shim my wheels at the correct angle. It's an easy modification and really does help when it comes to minimising the contact patch. Obviously tyres are important too. The number of radial bands in the cross-ply construction has a fairly dramatic effect on the volumetric torque efficiency of any simple breathing modifications you have done to your engine. If you are using an artificially induced engine, for instance, you could go with 5. On a 'stroker' (engine with ceramic rod shafts) you would be best with about 38.
Hopefully this will be of some help to you. Good work and keep trying! :thumbs:
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Good old Lubs. He gets a lot of shit but it doesn't stop him from trying his best. I've always been a fan of his.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well, at least he's out there giving it a go, y'know? Not just sat on a forum telling people how it's done. Hopefully with my sound advice he'll be able to advance to the next level.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I was convinced right up until the breathing modifications to the engine.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
To be fair, wen you say breathing modifications, it refers to replacing things like the air intake, filter, and exhaust systems with aftermarket items to improve the flow of gasses through the engine. So it's a term which is fairly widely used. I just used it in completely the wrong context.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sorry. Cars are really tedious aren't they Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
Woot!
I get paid lot's'so money, work for a State owned (kinda sorta... complicated) school, get to faff about almost all day every day, got paid last month with 123 hours over time, had a chin wag with boss and blagged 8 weeks paid holiday, bought tickets to go home, bought a new computer, iPod Touch (still still feeling dirty), netbook, new phone, and looking at a flat screen telly.
Working 9-5 is SOOO much better than freelance!
/yearly post quota - DONE!\
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Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
It looks quite cool, but what is it?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Woot. I am now 100% free of Microsoft at home.
I shall attempt to get a video of me Sultans of Swinging online later. Perhaps tomorrow after my haircut as I don't want to be on "the internet" with messy hair.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Woot. I am now 100% free of Microsoft at home.
Apart from the Xbox obviously.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: It looks quite cool, but what is it?
Read the thread, Froop...
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I've almost finished the Bassonator - a two string bass guitar version of the much fabled Avonator. The strings are tuned an octave apart and a motor sits between them, fapping them alternately with a strip of plastic. A speed control varies the sound from a slow 60 rpm pling-plong-pling-plong right up to a 6,000 rpm drone which sounds more like it's being played with a bow. It has an ignition key to start it, and a full size front panel made from the side of an old PC case, with the paint stripped off to reveal a rather tasty brushed metal finish.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Misc that looks amazing!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Misc would you or nwod be interested in an old fashioned studio mixer? allegedly used by the stone roses but I don't have any evidence of that...
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
That's fantastic, Misc.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Misc would you or nwod be interested in an old fashioned studio mixer? allegedly used by the stone roses but I don't have any evidence of that...
I can't speak for NWoD, but I have a feeling he might be interested in this for the twistnotpush studio.
The Bassonator is fantastic. Any chance of hearing it in action?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I like the fact that you can wear the Bassonator really low, because there's no need to strum anything. I'm hoping to mount a spike on the bottom at some point, so it can be played upright, like a double bass.
I'll try and put a video together tonight, but the best way to see it would be to come to a future Interloper gig - once we've found a suitable way to work it into the set.
I'm thinking of making an Acousticator next. Obviously it can't be powered by electricity so it'll have one of these mounted inside:
[ 20.05.2009, 05:47: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
How will you turn the handle?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
With my right hand. I know it totally defeats the point of having a string plucking system, but that's sort of the joke.
[ 20.05.2009, 06:21: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Misc would you or nwod be interested in an old fashioned studio mixer? allegedly used by the stone roses but I don't have any evidence of that...
I can't speak for NWoD, but I have a feeling he might be interested in this for the twistnotpush studio.
I totally would of been, but the problem is that my partner in crime, Jack is only 20 and doesn't have to work full-time so naturally he was asleep until 4pm this afternoon or I could have rustled up 50 quid for it easily.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I’m going hiking in Norfolk this weekend, and my friend is bringing a POWERKITE! Awesome. Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I've been to two meetings today with quite senior people present, and in both I managed to sound intelligent and clued-in, and raised valid issues which have either saved us time and money doing pointless work or have raised concerns which if unaddressed would have killed a project delivery.
I am consultant WIN.
Plus I have a lovely weekend ahead of watching the Silver Fox get my garden in shape (oo-er!) on Saturday, maybe followed by some gentle moshing and/or bogling at the Dot to Dot Festival in the late afternoon and evening, Sunday to be spent eating lovely home-made nosh and quaffing much wine and port with good friends before staggering to the pub in the evening, then Monday to generally do as I wish. Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I’m going hiking in Norfolk this weekend, and my friend is bringing a POWERKITE! Awesome.
Whereabouts? I'm back home in lovely Norfolk this weekend attending my aunt's wedding, would rather be hiking in the (hopefully) sunshine though tbh..
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I'm giving a big Woot to Darryn as he miraculously got my Sky box working yesterday so I have telly again. And also a big Woot to myself as my boss dumped the early shift on me on my own at the last minute as part of my training, and all has gone well.
But I need to also send a big woot to my Dad who is in hospital with Pneumonia, which is seriously worrying. Keep in there pal and the biggest Woot is for you!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Woot. The weekend has started.
Edit to change image hosting - Misc - for some reason when I put it on your one it only had the top half of the picture.
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Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
More props for the Bassonator. Inspiring.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm hungover woot. Now to get some food and install some shit woot!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Just a general 'it's a bank holiday and I've got nothing planned and it looks like being good weather' woot here
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I'm listening to the new Future of the Left album. It's well W00T!
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Wootery includes:
Bank holiday + sun + going out Up West for first time in years + picnic
Only SEVEN DAYS left at work before maternity leave
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
From Hunstanton to Wells-Next-the-Sea. I am HIGHLY EXCITIED. Camping in the sun by the sea! What delight Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I LOVE Wells-next-the-Sea – some absolutely dear little restaurants. But Hunstanton's a bit of a shit hole.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Hunstanton is only the starting point - we shall be heading out immediately to look for nudists on the beach. And the promise of dear little restaurants in our final destination will prove a useful motivational tool – thanks!
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: I LOVE Wells-next-the-Sea – some absolutely dear little restaurants. But Hunstanton's a bit of a shit hole.
True, but it does have the truly splendiferous Hunstanton Sealife Centre (at least it did last time I went there, which was admittedly a lot of years ago). It also has a lovely big pipe bi-secting the the beach pumping sewerage into the sea if memory serves..
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