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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 10, 2018 15:20:17 GMT -5
I went to a concert on Saturday. I guess you could call it a big band concert. A really really big band. Bigger than "76 Trombones". And lower-pitched. This band consisted of over 200 tubas, at least 25 sousaphones, about 50 euphoniums and a handful of baritone horns, in the main public square in the middle of Portland. This was our local Tuba Christmas concert. Tuba Christmas is a tradition that's sweeping the globe. In cities and towns around the world, people who play tubas and tuba-like instruments get together once a year to play Christmas carols. Here, the players ranged in age from 11 to 77. There were singers from Portland Opera and a solo by the principal tuba player of the Oregon Symphony, but the day really belonged to the band. It's hard to describe the sound of that many big instruments playing in unison. This is my favorite kind of heavy metal music. If there's a Tuba Christmas near you, don't miss it! www.tubachristmas.com/readtcloc.php?TCState=DATE
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2018 15:15:45 GMT -5
I'm going to change my Avatar once a week starting Sunday ... I used to have over 500 avatars and I'm down to 52 of them and they are my top favorites. Either by Upload or linked via IMGUR.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 12, 2018 16:17:23 GMT -5
I'm going to change my Avatar once a week starting Sunday ... I used to have over 500 avatars and I'm down to 52 of them and they are my top favorites. Either by Upload or linked via IMGUR. It's fun to see Blonde Phantom, Namora, Sun Girl and Venus in there. I used to have Namora #1 and Blonde Phantom #13, and always wished there would be a nice reprint set of all the appearances of the first three (I did have some '70s reprints of Venus, a title that changed from heroine to horror to romance). I have no idea how to do these animated icons so I think you do them very well and they always load fast where I've seen some elsewhere by others that seem to take time or even mess up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2018 17:14:13 GMT -5
I'm going to change my Avatar once a week starting Sunday ... I used to have over 500 avatars and I'm down to 52 of them and they are my top favorites. Either by Upload or linked via IMGUR. It's fun to see Blonde Phantom, Namora, Sun Girl and Venus in there. I used to have Namora #1 and Blonde Phantom #13, and always wished there would be a nice reprint set of all the appearances of the first three (I did have some '70s reprints of Venus, a title that changed from heroine to horror to romance). I have no idea how to do these animated icons so I think you do them very well and they always load fast where I've seen some elsewhere by others that seem to take time or even mess up. I used an optimizer program found in free animated gif that's allows the animated avatars that I use and doesn't take much time. Most of my avatars runs from 700 KB to 900 KB ... the Maximum Size for this forum is 1 MB and I do have about 10-15 of them in that department and they don't impact this site at ... the one that I'm currently using is a 998 KB and it's one of my biggest one that I made for this site alone. About a year ago ... it's takes me 3-5 minutes to make one ... now with my experience that I have it's takes me a minute or less. I have a friend -- that taught me how to make them and I even made several of them out of YouTube video clips and those are pretty difficult to make My avatar that has the Superman Helicopter Scene ... took me 45 minutes to make.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 12, 2018 20:35:29 GMT -5
Wow !
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 13, 2018 5:10:59 GMT -5
I went to a concert on Saturday. I guess you could call it a big band concert. A really really big band. Bigger than "76 Trombones". And lower-pitched. This band consisted of over 200 tubas, at least 25 sousaphones, about 50 euphoniums and a handful of baritone horns, in the main public square in the middle of Portland. This was our local Tuba Christmas concert. Tuba Christmas is a tradition that's sweeping the globe. In cities and towns around the world, people who play tubas and tuba-like instruments get together once a year to play Christmas carols. Here, the players ranged in age from 11 to 77. There were singers from Portland Opera and a solo by the principal tuba player of the Oregon Symphony, but the day really belonged to the band. It's hard to describe the sound of that many big instruments playing in unison. This is my favorite kind of heavy metal music. If there's a Tuba Christmas near you, don't miss it! www.tubachristmas.com/readtcloc.php?TCState=DATEI actually started my music adventure playing a Baritone Horn. It must have been great for you to hear those Tubas.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 13, 2018 21:25:40 GMT -5
My baby girl is growing up WAY too fast for my comfort. Following her middle-school band concert this evening, she went with a group of friends to the local pizza place for a get-together. She was the only 7th grader in the group, but since she is on the older end of her grade, been in the band for four years and had been moved up in English two years ago, taking the advanced course in the next grade, she's been friends with these 8th grade girls for years.
I'm not ready for this new stage, but at least there were no boys involved in the festivities. Small victories, I guess.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 14, 2018 11:35:29 GMT -5
My wife was babying our teenage son about something one night. And I'm like you do realize in less than a year he can legally drive? And then two years from that he'll be a legal adult? She's like don't say that he's my baby boy.
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Post by impulse on Dec 14, 2018 13:09:18 GMT -5
I am so not ready for my daughter to move out in 15 years.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 14, 2018 13:21:11 GMT -5
My wife was babying our teenage son about something one night. And I'm like you do realize in less than a year he can legally drive? And then two years from that he'll be a legal adult? She's like don't say that he's my baby boy. My youngest son graduates in just over five months. My wife is not dealing with it well.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 14, 2018 16:04:51 GMT -5
The Captain, brace yourself. You think the first 12 or so years have flown by? Now things are really going to start moving. Kinda like this, only faster As for you, impulse, just savor every moment you can. You might want to write things down, too. Memory's a slippery critter.
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Post by impulse on Dec 14, 2018 17:51:59 GMT -5
The Captain, brace yourself. You think the first 12 or so years have flown by? Now things are really going to start moving. Kinda like this, only faster As for you, impulse, just savor every moment you can. You might want to write things down, too. Memory's a slippery critter. At least that is one good thing of my generation cataloging everything with iphone photos and videos. We have lots of memories.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 0:59:08 GMT -5
Somebody mashed up a Christmas Story with a zombie film...and it works pretty well...
there's a little blood in the video so beware if such offends you or you are watching someplace public.
-M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 15, 2018 9:19:24 GMT -5
The Captain , brace yourself. You think the first 12 or so years have flown by? Now things are really going to start moving. Kinda like this, only faster As for you, impulse , just savor every moment you can. You might want to write things down, too. Memory's a slippery critter. Yesterday a friend of mine confided that he had a hard time accepting he’ll be 60 next year... How is that even possible??? In our head we’re still 22! But the evidence is there: our college students are now younger than our own children. My oldest son just bought his first house. How can that be??? Where did the time go???
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Post by Jesse on Dec 15, 2018 10:35:16 GMT -5
That's actually an episode of The Walking Dead I think from season 1 @mrp.
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