Thankyou for your comment!Yes,I very much like the Kinki Kids,although I admit they are one of the few groups from the far east that I actually know.We cant get much asian music in the U.K.The site I first saw a lot of world music on was You Tube and since then Ive been introducing a number of friends to bands and groups none of us have ever heard before.We felt we had been really deprived !!!
honestly, right now I am reading any book about autism that i can get my hands on. My 2 year old is going to be tested in a few months for autism, and i would rather know all i can, just in case. But, I am a little strange with books. I like humour, dark fantasy, horror, Sherlock Holmes, and for some reason, epic fantasy. You know, the whole quest to save the world; a lot of people say i am rotting my brain, but thats ok, its fun. I read to escape, so if your still interested in a recommendation, anything by R.A. Salvatore. (I love a good swordfight!) I guess thats why i don't belong to any bookclubs, not too many people want to talk about the stuff I read.;) Sorry, if I wasnt any help. But I just might try the book you spoke about. You can never read too many books, right?
Hello, again! I have to say I've got a lot of my music from friends in Japan, so I can only recommend making some generous penpals! The other option is finding the albums online and downloading them... although it's best to give money to the bands we like, in the case of overseas-origin or rare music it can be difficult. Some prices are so outrageous, too, as you mentioned. :\
You can (sometimes) get some good deals on eBay, though. There are also websites such as Play-Asia and Yes-Asia, which have relatively large catelogues. Their prices are (usually) not too expensive and I've had quick delivery from them both.
Well, 1st, I'm not American so I can't really tell you. But I guess it's quite similar, but there are more festivals and stuff in the US. I live in Germany where it is the same as in the UK. American bands are normally more successful, cause well, America is such a big country with so many people and so much money in the churches…
I was in a christian store in the US and I just stumbled upon one of their CDs. It somehow became my favourite. Then I read about them in a christian teen-magazine, and now bought also a second CD. I just love their songs, they have funny, but deep texts and the voices and music sound great.
sorry for the late answer, but i was a bit busy in this week.^^ (i have a japanese transfer-student... it's very tiring sometimes) so . i'm a hungarian living in hungary, of course.(i'm 16 years old^^) but i would like to go to Finnland once, and of course to Japan, too. And maybe to Cote d'Ivoire...^^ (there are so many cacao^^)
and you? where are you from? and why did you add me? :) sorry, but i don't see... :)
I'm not very creative on Bestuff at the moment because I'm preoccupied with research for my Quasar page, on which I'm having a serious debate with my friend belacqua.
Thank you. It started as just a rival to Silthilar's 'Best Weird Thing in Space' but has grown into a 'serious issue.' I have even been in touch with Halton Arp about it and have terrifying visions of him reading it and putting me right!
I have also been in touch with the physicist Jayant Narlikar - in fact, I think I need to ask his advice on how to counter belacqua's assault on his maths - and have been doing more serious research than I think I ever have!
To let you know a little in advance - belacqua cites the SDSS or Sloan Digital Sky Survey. If you click on that link, you'll find a galaxy (NGC 7603 - sixth on the page) which is listed as an 'interacting system,' which is precisely what I am saying. You can even see the two bright 'knots' in the 'bridge of stars' that have much higher red shifts than anything else in the picture. I have (somewhat gleefully) e-mailed SDSS about this - but unsurprisingly have received no reply. A paper on this system and these two quasars - by two Spanish astronomers - was rejected by Nature. I have yet to establish on what grounds.
But I have found their follow-up paper on the system and am reading it voraciously...
Hey, there! Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I've just started a new job.
As for you VCD question, it depends on your DVD player. For example, my multi-region player seems to play anything under the sun, but our secondary one doesn't. There might be a sticker on your DVD somewhere saying what it can play.
And yes! You're right about Sushi Ouji. I'm really hoping for a Western release of this film. Have you watched the TV drama at all? I downloaded a few episodes, but they weren't subtitled (obviously) and my Japanese wasn't good enough to comprehend more than a little bit of dialogue.
Thank you for your congratulations and for adding me to your friends stuff. Thank you also for the nice words. It's very good to have a friend at this site. I hope to make some more friends here. How long have you been married? My fiance and I are marrying in two years and we've been engaged since February. I'm really looking forward to the wedding! Anyway, thanks again and I'll be in touch.
Yes, it would be rather difficult, wouldn't it? Still, you never know what will happen; I was slightly taken aback when Battlestar Galactica was recently taken out of the cupboard and dusted off.
By the time the BBC knocked Blake's 7 on the head I had lost interest - and there is very little I actually remember about it now. I've just looked it up in Wikipedia and still recall not much at all about its four years (Four? Was it as many as that?) years on the box.
You certainly may! I also live in a coastal location, so we have a mutual interest in sea levels and similar whatnot.
Well, I don't really know where to start. Humans tend to think that they're the most important species on the planet, but when you consider the forms of life that have been and gone on this world, it does put it into perspective a bit more. Trilobites (read Richard Fortey's book Trilobite!) lasted about 300 million years, the last ones fading from the scene shortly before the Permian Extinction (which apparently came close to killing everything - 95% of species vanish suddenly from the fossil record).So far we've managed about 4 million.
And the variations in climate over the millennia (we're actually overdue for another Ice Age, it seems) make it very difficult to point fingers at guilty parties.
It is certainly measurable that temperatures are rising slowly. What the cause is; that's the controversial bit.
There are some who think that we're just going through climate variation and that humans couldn't possibly alter the climate of the whole planet. I disagree with that, but I can't point the finger either.
And there are other factors to consider, too. The coast of any piece of land is an ever-changing thing to which sea defences can only give a temporary stability (See Scarborough, for example).
I'll stop here before I cure your insomnia. When I've read it back I'll probably comment more.
I think Brendan is the best saint because I wrote my university thesis about him :) well, I took the middle-English version of the poem telling his adventures and translated it in Italian, adding also a study about other versions of the poem. That's it!
Thanks!!! Anyway, I'm not graduated in Theology, but in German Philology, which in Italy is compulsory when studying English language and literature. I wanted to write a thesis (it's compulsory for graduating) about an Irish topic and my teacher suggested me Saint Brendan's poem. Then the idea came out all alone while collecting the material! :)
Hmm...I've just been looking at the "Sea level rise" page of Wikipedia, and I'm tempted to use the standard professional response of "Sorry, not my area!"
It's difficult to say. Imagine watching a really big pendulum (with a light source attached) swinging in the dark. Once you've watched it for long enough, you can establish that the light's not likely to do anything other than swing back and forth. The picture at the moment is that we have only enough data to see that the damn thing is moving, and while it's clear that sea level can't go on increasing without limit (there's only so much water in the world), precisely what happens next depends on a very complex system of interacting cycles - the whole planet - rather than my simplistic analogy of a pendulum. If I get any major insights I'll be back.
PS The sort of pendulum I was thinking of was actually constructed at least twice (without my addition of a lamp) to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, because a pendulum keeps to the same path as the Earth rotates beneath it. The demonstration works best at the poles, but the version I saw was constructed in St. Paul's Cathedral about 1985. The original (in the Panthéon in Paris?) was set up by Léon Foucault, hence the expression and book title Foucault's Pendulum.
A randomly connected thought (inspired by your last mention of the jetty!): don't even think of moving to a nice shiny new house built on a flood plain as our glorious Government decided to permit some time ago. Why the hell is it called a 'flood plain,' for God's sake? The idea of the contents of the local sewers being paraded through your lounge is not a pleasant idea to contemplate.
PS I've worked at Fleetwood High School (now Sports College - but my point is that the whole town has quite impressive flood defences) and know a thing or two about such flooding - if you get the right combinations of high tide/excessive rainfall/low atmospheric pressure (= higher sea level)/local river in excessive flow/etc, etc then the results can be disastrous beyond imagination.
A similar combination of circumstances led to the loss in 1912 of the 'unsinkable' R.M.S. Titanic, which you may just possibly have heard of!
I was going to recommend a telescope firm to you, but a Google search reveals they've ceased trading.
Oh, well. Buy an astronomy magazine and hunt the adverts. And Be Careful. Avoid any trader who stresses the magnification, as this is just hype. What's important is the quality of the optics.
Make sure they know about Halton Arp and us other heretics, too! ;)
Telescopes come in all shapes and sizes; but since children are involved, I'd suggest that 'robustness' be a consideration fairly high on your list.
And don't go for something with an expensive fancy high-falutin' object finder that claims to find all sorts of faint objects - they would really only be of great use in photographic work. Even in perfect seeing conditions (I've managed it once, next to Coniston Water) even the brighter objects - I'm thinking of the Ring Nebula - are deucedly difficult to make out.
Good, stable mount. That's what you need in a telescope. It's just as important as the quality of the optics.
Any professional would insist - before the days of computer control - on an 'equatorial' mount, but it's a luxury. A stable and sturdy tripod ('altazimuth' is the technical term - it means you can simply rotate the telescope up and down (its altitude) and from side to side (azimuth)) is good enough.
The higher the magnification, the faster the image crawls out of view. Also, the higher the magnification, the dimmer the image - which is never widely publicised in the hype.
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You like the KinKi Kids! :)
Hi,Lackadaisy.
Thankyou for your comment!Yes,I very much like the Kinki Kids,although I admit they are one of the few groups from the far east that I actually know.We cant get much asian music in the U.K.The site I first saw a lot of world music on was You Tube and since then Ive been introducing a number of friends to bands and groups none of us have ever heard before.We felt we had been really deprived !!!
thanks for the invite
That avatar is so cute!
It's funny you should say you can't get much Asian music in the UK, 'cause... I'm in the UK too! :)
Mainly I listen to improve my Japanese (I'm learning!), but also because I love some of the music, too.
honestly, right now I am reading any book about autism that i can get my hands on. My 2 year old is going to be tested in a few months for autism, and i would rather know all i can, just in case. But, I am a little strange with books. I like humour, dark fantasy, horror, Sherlock Holmes, and for some reason, epic fantasy. You know, the whole quest to save the world; a lot of people say i am rotting my brain, but thats ok, its fun. I read to escape, so if your still interested in a recommendation, anything by R.A. Salvatore. (I love a good swordfight!) I guess thats why i don't belong to any bookclubs, not too many people want to talk about the stuff I read.;) Sorry, if I wasnt any help. But I just might try the book you spoke about. You can never read too many books, right?
Wow, that is amazing. Thanks so much for your kind words and i will definately look up that book.
Hey! Sorry about all of that friend stuff; I've been trying to figure this place out, and only just now realized how to post a comment to you LoL
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Hello, again! I have to say I've got a lot of my music from friends in Japan, so I can only recommend making some generous penpals! The other option is finding the albums online and downloading them... although it's best to give money to the bands we like, in the case of overseas-origin or rare music it can be difficult. Some prices are so outrageous, too, as you mentioned. :\
You can (sometimes) get some good deals on eBay, though. There are also websites such as Play-Asia and Yes-Asia, which have relatively large catelogues. Their prices are (usually) not too expensive and I've had quick delivery from them both.
Here's the links:
Yeah, they are. Actually they are the best American band ;)
what kind of venues do they play in the UK?
Well, 1st, I'm not American so I can't really tell you. But I guess it's quite similar, but there are more festivals and stuff in the US. I live in Germany where it is the same as in the UK. American bands are normally more successful, cause well, America is such a big country with so many people and so much money in the churches…
I was in a christian store in the US and I just stumbled upon one of their CDs. It somehow became my favourite. Then I read about them in a christian teen-magazine, and now bought also a second CD. I just love their songs, they have funny, but deep texts and the voices and music sound great.
By the way: at relientk.com, you can listen to my very favourite song, it's must have done something right, but well, I guess u could see that :P
sorry for the late answer, but i was a bit busy in this week.^^ (i have a japanese transfer-student... it's very tiring sometimes) so . i'm a hungarian living in hungary, of course.(i'm 16 years old^^) but i would like to go to Finnland once, and of course to Japan, too. And maybe to Cote d'Ivoire...^^ (there are so many cacao^^)
and you? where are you from? and why did you add me? :) sorry, but i don't see... :)
Welcome!
Feel free to rummage around in my stuff.
I'm not very creative on Bestuff at the moment because I'm preoccupied with research for my Quasar page, on which I'm having a serious debate with my friend belacqua.
But anyway... talk to you soon.
Thank you. It started as just a rival to Silthilar's 'Best Weird Thing in Space' but has grown into a 'serious issue.' I have even been in touch with Halton Arp about it and have terrifying visions of him reading it and putting me right!
I have also been in touch with the physicist Jayant Narlikar - in fact, I think I need to ask his advice on how to counter belacqua's assault on his maths - and have been doing more serious research than I think I ever have!
To let you know a little in advance - belacqua cites the SDSS or Sloan Digital Sky Survey. If you click on that link, you'll find a galaxy (NGC 7603 - sixth on the page) which is listed as an 'interacting system,' which is precisely what I am saying. You can even see the two bright 'knots' in the 'bridge of stars' that have much higher red shifts than anything else in the picture. I have (somewhat gleefully) e-mailed SDSS about this - but unsurprisingly have received no reply. A paper on this system and these two quasars - by two Spanish astronomers - was rejected by Nature. I have yet to establish on what grounds.
But I have found their follow-up paper on the system and am reading it voraciously...
Hey, there! Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I've just started a new job.
As for you VCD question, it depends on your DVD player. For example, my multi-region player seems to play anything under the sun, but our secondary one doesn't. There might be a sticker on your DVD somewhere saying what it can play.
And yes! You're right about Sushi Ouji. I'm really hoping for a Western release of this film. Have you watched the TV drama at all? I downloaded a few episodes, but they weren't subtitled (obviously) and my Japanese wasn't good enough to comprehend more than a little bit of dialogue.
Thanks for the recommendation, I am going to look the books up now. I have been very busy lately, not much time to myself. Hope you are all well.
Thank you for your congratulations and for adding me to your friends stuff. Thank you also for the nice words. It's very good to have a friend at this site. I hope to make some more friends here. How long have you been married? My fiance and I are marrying in two years and we've been engaged since February. I'm really looking forward to the wedding! Anyway, thanks again and I'll be in touch.
Re Blake's 7:
Yes, it would be rather difficult, wouldn't it? Still, you never know what will happen; I was slightly taken aback when Battlestar Galactica was recently taken out of the cupboard and dusted off.
By the time the BBC knocked Blake's 7 on the head I had lost interest - and there is very little I actually remember about it now. I've just looked it up in Wikipedia and still recall not much at all about its four years (Four? Was it as many as that?) years on the box.
625 lines... three channels... ah, nostalgia...
You certainly may! I also live in a coastal location, so we have a mutual interest in sea levels and similar whatnot.
Well, I don't really know where to start. Humans tend to think that they're the most important species on the planet, but when you consider the forms of life that have been and gone on this world, it does put it into perspective a bit more. Trilobites (read Richard Fortey's book Trilobite!) lasted about 300 million years, the last ones fading from the scene shortly before the Permian Extinction (which apparently came close to killing everything - 95% of species vanish suddenly from the fossil record).So far we've managed about 4 million.
And the variations in climate over the millennia (we're actually overdue for another Ice Age, it seems) make it very difficult to point fingers at guilty parties.
It is certainly measurable that temperatures are rising slowly. What the cause is; that's the controversial bit.
There are some who think that we're just going through climate variation and that humans couldn't possibly alter the climate of the whole planet. I disagree with that, but I can't point the finger either.
And there are other factors to consider, too. The coast of any piece of land is an ever-changing thing to which sea defences can only give a temporary stability (See Scarborough, for example).
I'll stop here before I cure your insomnia. When I've read it back I'll probably comment more.
I think Brendan is the best saint because I wrote my university thesis about him :) well, I took the middle-English version of the poem telling his adventures and translated it in Italian, adding also a study about other versions of the poem. That's it!
Thanks!!! Anyway, I'm not graduated in Theology, but in German Philology, which in Italy is compulsory when studying English language and literature. I wanted to write a thesis (it's compulsory for graduating) about an Irish topic and my teacher suggested me Saint Brendan's poem. Then the idea came out all alone while collecting the material! :)
Hmm...I've just been looking at the "Sea level rise" page of Wikipedia, and I'm tempted to use the standard professional response of "Sorry, not my area!"
It's difficult to say. Imagine watching a really big pendulum (with a light source attached) swinging in the dark. Once you've watched it for long enough, you can establish that the light's not likely to do anything other than swing back and forth. The picture at the moment is that we have only enough data to see that the damn thing is moving, and while it's clear that sea level can't go on increasing without limit (there's only so much water in the world), precisely what happens next depends on a very complex system of interacting cycles - the whole planet - rather than my simplistic analogy of a pendulum. If I get any major insights I'll be back.
PS The sort of pendulum I was thinking of was actually constructed at least twice (without my addition of a lamp) to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, because a pendulum keeps to the same path as the Earth rotates beneath it. The demonstration works best at the poles, but the version I saw was constructed in St. Paul's Cathedral about 1985. The original (in the Panthéon in Paris?) was set up by Léon Foucault, hence the expression and book title Foucault's Pendulum.
A randomly connected thought (inspired by your last mention of the jetty!): don't even think of moving to a nice shiny new house built on a flood plain as our glorious Government decided to permit some time ago. Why the hell is it called a 'flood plain,' for God's sake? The idea of the contents of the local sewers being paraded through your lounge is not a pleasant idea to contemplate.
PS I've worked at Fleetwood High School (now Sports College - but my point is that the whole town has quite impressive flood defences) and know a thing or two about such flooding - if you get the right combinations of high tide/excessive rainfall/low atmospheric pressure (= higher sea level)/local river in excessive flow/etc, etc then the results can be disastrous beyond imagination.
A similar combination of circumstances led to the loss in 1912 of the 'unsinkable' R.M.S. Titanic, which you may just possibly have heard of!
Very wise! Whatever your view, the future is never predictable. In the short term, that is.
Hey Tribble, thanx for the friend invite and thanx for welcoming me :o) xx
Hello There^_^
That's ok! ^_~
I do like astronomy,but I not an expert in it.I'm actually not sure what a good telescope would be..sorry! <3
I was going to recommend a telescope firm to you, but a Google search reveals they've ceased trading.
Oh, well. Buy an astronomy magazine and hunt the adverts. And Be Careful. Avoid any trader who stresses the magnification, as this is just hype. What's important is the quality of the optics.
Yeah… you're right, I stopped a little, had other things in mind ;) Cool you thought about Relient K… yes they're just my favourite^^
Make sure they know about Halton Arp and us other heretics, too! ;)
Telescopes come in all shapes and sizes; but since children are involved, I'd suggest that 'robustness' be a consideration fairly high on your list.
And don't go for something with an expensive fancy high-falutin' object finder that claims to find all sorts of faint objects - they would really only be of great use in photographic work. Even in perfect seeing conditions (I've managed it once, next to Coniston Water) even the brighter objects - I'm thinking of the Ring Nebula - are deucedly difficult to make out.
Good, stable mount. That's what you need in a telescope. It's just as important as the quality of the optics.
Any professional would insist - before the days of computer control - on an 'equatorial' mount, but it's a luxury. A stable and sturdy tripod ('altazimuth' is the technical term - it means you can simply rotate the telescope up and down (its altitude) and from side to side (azimuth)) is good enough.
The higher the magnification, the faster the image crawls out of view. Also, the higher the magnification, the dimmer the image - which is never widely publicised in the hype.thank you for accepting my friend invitation....
and thanks for welcoming me.:D
i am totally new here and i really dont no what to do here...so can u help me out???
thanks
take care
hope to hear from u soon... :)
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so where r u from???
The New Forest in England is very nice and looks like very peace full....
so hw is ur family doing???
everyone is gud.. I am very happy to hear it :]
English winter! we dont get winter in maldives.... but its very cold now days with heavy rain... so winters must be more cold rite..
Jun Matsamoto... not on maldivian TV... i like to watch japanese series very much thats y...
so do u like to watch japanese series??
oh i see
no i dont watch jin jun disagreement stuff
i know jun from japan seires like hana yori dongo, gokusen....
do u know shun???
he is my fav
You're welcome. Thanks for requesting. :)
Lol nope! I only joined like 7 months ago.
Heehee Mitzy's in his box right now, giving me the…...."I want food!" look. XD
hi again =]
ya all in this site is very friendly
oh u haven't seen shun... so can i give u a opinion.. watch hana yori dongo.. u will luv it..:)
i dont no if shun sings.... i have seen him in dramas only...
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I didn't mind your friend request at all!
I have no problem with friend requests^_^
I just hadn't been on to except it ;-)
Hi! Nice to meet you! Thanks for adding me!
So, what do you like to write? I love reading and writing too :)
I write some poetry and short stories, but what I really want to write is a full-length novel.
It's my dream and goal in life to become a published writer.
Is that your kitty? It's so cute!
Nope I haven't a idea really. XD