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paul croxson · Music - well that's what they call it

Can I make a heartfelt plea for that AWFUL noise that accompanies the address list to be cut off?. It serves no useful purpose and alerts my Wife to the fact that I am fossicking around again. Apart from that it is utterly appalling in my opinion. Who on earth chose it? Why does a simple address list need an accompaniment anyway?
Modern life seems to demand that everything has to be accompanied by music (noise/cacophony) particularly documentaries, Oh for that golden silence. I used to plead for the opportunity to buy silence at the going rate for a record on the jukebox at Deutsches Haus all to no avail. I took Elvis as a personal affront to my ears. The same bloody turgid songs night after night. What was that awful German ditty ? "In sommer ehr sonne in Winter ehr schneit" or something like that (excuse the appalling German please) . Anyway, I preferred Schumanns for other reasons.

Television is the worst offender. Radio is not that much better.
Our local Pub has singers (that's a joke) 3 times a week. In a room some 4 X 6 metres they seemingly need to have an amplifier. Why??? What is wrong with voice projection? Anyway! No one ever stops talking to listen and battle commences. Soon everyone is shouting and screaming. And the wine is lousy!!!!!
Am I alone (as usual).
Yours GRUMPILY

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paul croxson

Dear Mr Administrator
what you do not realise is how limited I am with a computer. I can use Word fairly well and, Excel, I am quite clever with, neither of these require any sound. So ... when the damned machine suddenly bursts into sound it throws me. But then what do you expect when one is 71. Only hassle!!!!
My point is still "WHY HAVE THE MUSIC IN THE FIRST PLACE? IT SERVES NO PURPOSE". But then, someone must have liked it to include it in the first place.
Fortunately I can still turn the gramophone on and off. I sold my Edison Gem (this is true) last year with some cylinders for £275 which is considerably more than it cost originally. I wonder what Bose will be worth in a 100 years.
Where the hell is the volume control?
It is terrible weather here today, even the seagulls have buggered off.
Cheers for now.

admin

paul croxson

What speakers?
My laptop sits nestled against my ample belly, not a speaker in sight.
The only monitor in my life was the blackboard monitor until I went to big school and I became Milk Monitor. From then on it was all down hill in my career.
Anyway, thanks for the knob thingy

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paul croxson

Bloody hell. A few more lessons and I'll be an expert. Many thanks.
You were quite right! I never read computer instruction manuals. I can't be bothered to find them in english and give up trying to translate the other languages. (Don't get me going on the subject of assembly instructions - I'll never end). I buy those " Computer .... for dummies books and still struggle. I am currently trying to steal JR's History work from the Langeleben website and fit it into the compilation of the Living History stuff that I am puttig together (its quite big now!) I cut and paste it beautifully but can I get the text on the page width to be the same? No. I've been at it for hours. Any offers?

Oh, happy days; as ink monitor. I didn't dare mention it in case you all thought that I was boasting. Like dust, the powdered ink went everywhere particularly if you as clumsy as me.

Do you remember those teachers who could hit a fly at 50Ft with a blackboard duster? Nowadays they would be part of the prison statistics

My next task will be to incorporate some of the photos. My clever son-in-law mutters about "doing it in Frames. As far as I am concerned that's a travel agency. Won't they complain?

Honestly, with calligraphy being one of my hobbies that I pick up and put down (that'll wake up young Gordon Peacock) and my collection of several hundred fountain pens I firmly believe that I am in the wrong era.

I hate this 'no tie' business from Cameron. I've got a drwaer full of them all beautifully and lovingly stained with meals that I have enjoyed over the years. Ive got a load of cravats too. I am reliably told that they are now popular with "Chavs" whoever or whatever they may be. I am a fashion leader. So ... treat me with respect.
By the way, did I see young 'Udson flitting through our pages or are we haunted by his spirit?

GerryK · music

Paul, if your laptop is like mine, look at the bottom right hand corner of your screen. You will probably see a SPEAKER icon. Click on that, it should show you a VOLUME CONTROL. Best of luck.

paul croxson

Gerry.
My hero, that works. I am sure Tom's method does too but I tried your's first!

Gordon

Paul

I am awake, and have been since 0400 today, when I put my head out of the window to see if the Perseid meteor shower was active. Sadly it was obscured by cloud, but I did see a single meteor the night before.

Couldn't agree more about noise pollution. It's particularly hard on those who wear hearing aids. If some of the noise levels in entertainment were found in industry, the perpetrators would be prosecuted under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

Gordon

paul croxson

Good morning Gordon
Does this mean that you have the benefit of a hearing aid? If so it is probably from you lot playing your recorder thingies.
What did confuse me was your getting up to see the meteors (or whatever). I didn't think that it ever got dark in Scotland in the summer. I once took some Liberian Govt officials up to the Hyster factory in Irvine when they were buying fork lift trucks for the Port of Monrovia. Living on the Equator - well nearly - they were used to sudden and very clear sunsets. I told them that, in honour of their visit, I had arranged for it not to get dark during their stay - and it didn't.
My reputation as a witchdoctor was widespread in Liberia at one time!

Gordon

Paul

No; but I have a sympathy for those who do. They are not the panacea they are sometimes made out to be.

And how did you know that I once lived in Scotland? Or is that a daft question to ask of a former spy?

Actually it was on guard duty at Crail (JSSL) that I realized how little I knew about the constellations. The main gate gave you 180 degree field of view over the North Sea to the east, and the sky to the west, though over land, was also as dark as a bag. Ever since I've retained a low-level interest in astronomy. I have a wonderful bit of software in my laptop called Red Shift, which allows me to reproduce on my screen exactly the bit of sky that I can see from my window, changing as the earth rotates. A great help in identifying stars and planets.

Gordon

paul croxson

Gordon
What a wonderful idea. I'll have to get it.
My Wife bought me a reasonable telescope for Christmas and i keep itour beach hut to look at the Solent. I still prefer my sturdy old Russian monocular though.
Oh, and Scotland ... we have our way of finding out these things!
Do you fancy 100 odd A4 sheets of history to proof read before \i put all the photos in to the text?

Gordon

Paul

Russian optics had a good reputation, and may still have. A couple of years ago I bought a Russian Zenit camera for a few pounds from a charity shop. Built like a tank and as heavy as lead, but I put a roll of film in it and tried it out on the architectural glories of York with excellent results. I had intended to mount it on my 4-inch reflector and make a first foray into astronomical photography, but never got round to it. In the course of fiddling with it I discovered a very good website devoted to Zenits, their history, a list of models, and hints on repair. I think they were close copies of Zeiss cameras.

Gordon

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