Been to a concert tonight

in which one of your blogging team played 3rd Cello.

David Davis

If you are not careful, footage may be put up. In the meantime, here’s Mike Oldfield:-

Something to share

Michael Winning

I saw hwile over at Obnoxio the Clown’s place that these people, called Counting cats, would like this to be shared.

So, here it is! (Boss man says this stuff if lifted, has to be in red…wonder if I can do that)

BBC Bias (Again)

Feb 28th, 2010

by NickM.

I saw a small bit of a thing on BBC News this morning. OK, this is from memory and I didn’t watch the whole thing because I would have been sedated to prevent me from hurling the cat at the Samsung. And neither Timmy nor the telly deserve that…

I would though chuck an irate ocelot at Harriet Harman’s minge. That is another story though…

It was about “The Rise of Climate Scepticism in Australia”. It described climate sceptics (they’d burn ‘em if that weren’t “polluting”) meetings as being like an “American religious revivalist meetings” (that’s so BBC on so many levels, that’s the sort of thing to get the average Indy reader priapic) and it was just generally horrendous. Despite my inchoate rage I did though clock something which outraged me beyond feline-throwing comprehension.

It opened with a shot of the cracked, dry Australian Desert. You know that thing that Australia has a lot of but also had a lot of when Captain Cook made landfall and even had a lot of during the Dreamtime of the Aboriginals with this soundtrack:

Yup, whilst the BBC now calls us “sceptics” and no longer “deniers” it plays music from a symphony written specifically about the Holocaust.

Where do you think that band is performing? Don’t look much like the Royal Albert Hall to me unless that gaff has really gone downhill very recently.

So the likes of me, PA and Cats wanna disagree with the “consensus” on a scientific issue and we’re ushered to the “naughty-corner” along with that cunt Nick Griffin. Well, some of us, Aunty Beeb actually not only can parse the science but will not fall for cheap tricks like that. Some of us know what an adiabatic lapse rate is and some of us have also been to Auschwitz. Some of us even listen to C20th orchestral music.

Some of us also know what pride comes before.

PS. Fellow bloggers. Take this. I want it known. I want it screamed from the highest parapets.

Posted in: BBC, Climate change, Climate fraud, Jumped the Shark, Propaganda, The Righteous, twats.

Teh funneh

Fixing chaps’ amplifiers today

David Davis

I’ll put up a shot later, of one I fixed earlier.

Here it is:-

Great amp, underdesigned power supply and fusing, needs soft-start

Wish it was for ready money….

Friday Night is Music Night: tomorrow, Dresden…

And “now”, as that not-very-nice-man John Cleese always used to say… “for something completely different.” Tomorrow if I am not mistaken is the 65th anniversary of the raids by RAF Bomber Command and the USAAF on Dresden, for which the poor Western Allies (unlike Stalin who demanded them) got to carry the can, and got to be made to feel really shitty and ruthless and cruel, for six decades and more. We can by now probably all agree that this actual raid was not strictly necessary:  the war was effectively over, apart from clearing up the already-ample rubble, burying the corpses, trying and sentencing the villains, re-connecting up the Mains Services across Europe, and getting a functioning Market Economy running again.

But Stalin, bless the evil little bugger, wanted and demanded a show of “shock and awe”, loosely coupled to a less-than-needful wish of his Armies to have all enemy comms in front of them obliterated. He couldn’t range artillery that far  – be there ever so many Soviet “Artillery Divisions” (which there were) -  and his air force never quite had the heavy-lifting capacity ours did. So he got what he wanted: Roosevelt the scoundrel loved him anyway, and nobody was listening to poor old Churchill by then. The ally that bought the time in the first place, to form a coalition of allies, was by then regarded as the least important, and moribund, with a crumbling Empire to boot.

The result was the consigning down-the-memory-hole of chaps like this one in the video below. There has never even been a campaign medal for RAF Bomber Command, which suffered about 48% fatal casualties, around 56,000 men – a higher percentage even than the Merchant Navy.

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The whole sorry episode should be a real object lesson to peoples who have some vestigial abillity to appoint and dismiss their governments.

You people all around and around, including us here, ought to be bloody careful who you vote for – you might get tyrannical psychotic murdering messianinc megalomaniacs, masquerading as caring liberal social democrats. I’m not saying quite out loud that Obama is one of that crowd, but you Americans who come and watch this page should tell your compatriots that they were not really thinking straight when you/they voted for him en masse, now, were you. He’s never been anything in his life except a gauleiter, after all – and look what a society surveilled by gauleiters brought to its people…

There’s not much time left here for us to avoid it.

Bill Bailey and the Ger-Bills

The Internet, Mandelson, dinner, Geffen, File Sharing, data, film, music, and all that other stuff you don’t really want

The internet has probably got past the stage where it is a collection of dumb machinery. From now on, I think that  it starts to behave as a thinking organism. If attacked, it will interpret slicing and chopping as a threat, and will heal ways around that.

There is not a thing that I, or these other guys who had a dinner, can do about any of that, any more. I have only one word to say: China.

Forget “new government plans”. I think they are re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

But I like courgettes, silly girl

In a world of endarkening, here’s some fun. Why is it that European pop-singers are so much more musical and also better-looking that ours?

The guitar-instrumental part, half way through, is totally wasted. Peter Davis, one of my expanding young writers, would be able to construst two more interesting Cello parts, for each of the two useless dudes is the middleground. they would need to be electrically-amplified, but that is not a problem. An pair of electrically-amplified Cello parts would synchronise better with her movements.

Get on it, boy.

Those who want can go here for an alternative youtube version.

AND

When the Enemy Class has taken everything else, which is can and will, all that’s left really is sex. that’s the only pleasure they will leave us, but at their behest.

So perhaps we’d better kill them all now?

New inside look at OCR ICT education…….. …..First hand experience!

Peter Davis

I did this last year at my school, and you could just tell that this task was thought up by the government.  May I point out that the task was to create a video in Windows Movie Maker about recycling.

I think that, well yes, its fair enough that we have to make a video, as we would learn the skills to be able to do it…..But do we have to do it on ‘Recycling’?

Anyway, this was my submission for OCR nationals Unit 23. It got a very high mark, and it took me 20 minutes. I hope you enjoy it … or maybe not.

Recycling video final, video, music, WITH improvements

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Yes, you saw it: this is what your children do in year-9 at secondary school it the UK (for foreign readers, this is 13/14 year-olds.)

Blogeditor says:-

Something to do with this stuff would have been more fun…

(…but most of the poor buggers don’t even know what these things are, let alone that they might have even existed.)

The Steel Beast gets its WW2 meters working at last…

David Davis

Class A ultralinear, 30W RMS per channel

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It really pissed me off, man, that I could not get the blasted meters to do their stuff before. Got it now. And we can even adjust each side arbitrarily.

The new proper meter amps, crafted in a drunken stupor this morning at about 07.00GMT as the old setup was too insensitive for the Transformx outputs that existed in reality (where I decided to take off the meter signal), are linear – which I guess is a slight pain – but we will live with it: it works, and we get sexy meter-deflections at most listening-levels.

The meters do actually zero properly, when it is upright.

Logarithmic amps would be boring and modern, like what you get on VU meters…

But you can have log amps if you want on your copy of this.

The price is still £2,750. Today…

…but if the “economy” recovers, then you will possibly have to pay more, so why not comment now to the effect that you want one?

Fred’ll like this one…

Woz it really that Reynhard Heydrich fellow in the audience? I thought he’d been wasted by those Czechoslovak chaps.

A bit busy today.

David Davis

Not time to think about what sensible and topical stuff to write…so I may just broadcast some music later. Or possibly the expanding young writers will just weaponise another dustbin for you lot. Wish they’d do a proper socialist wheelie-bin.

Eurovision update

I’m just watching the Eurovision thing now, and Russia will win

OR THERE IS NO OIL!

More on this later.

Peter Davis

(They didn’t win – wonder what went wrong?   PD  )

(Seriously, Norway’s song was fun, but the Iceland girl was prettier.  -ED- )

Odd but interesting

Valve amplifiers coming on – you too can have one of these.

David Davis

Libertarians ought to be looking for other things to do as we enter The New Dark Age. I am not sure how we will be able to power machines like that I have created below, after the Lights Have Gone Out: lots of chicken-shit for biogas I expect, and highly-restricted viewings/listenings of the stuff, as methane in sufficient quantity is available to drive the Honda 2KW-generator (fast, high-eating-rate-chickens required, and someone who knows about motors in pumps.)

Yesterday, the Steel Beast made its nearly final journey to its hopeful owner. (Valves obviously taken out for lifting and transport, as it weighs about 59Kg and we can’t afford even one 12AX7 breakage, let alone one of the 8 matched KT88s.)

After some false-starts and terrible oscillation, it functions now (almost) perfectly on both sides. Still some AC mains hum to smooth out.

I will build you one of these, similar to that shown but with an all-metal case not a ceramic embedded tile which was a pain and a torment to me, for £2,750 for labour and all parts, including the specially wound set of 4 transformers. And you’ll have to have more modern meters, not that rare pair out of Avro-Lancasters. It would have been more than that price ideally, about £3,600 taking time into account, but there’s a recession on and I need the dosh.

You can power 4, 8 or 16-ohm speakers from the transformers, as you decide. The feedback is adjustable by yourself, for you to vary the colour-tone of the sound. HT voltage and current is avilable for up to 160 watts RMS per side if you wanted a Glastonbury-gig-job, but I’d initially build it for 20 watts at less than 0.6% harmonic distortion.

You will have to arrange your own collection, as I don’t think couriers’ delivery vans have strong enough springs.

It will of course work using 8 6L6, or EL34, or 5881/6550, with the correct bias system changes. Personally, I’d like it best with 6L6s, at about 50 watts a side and 0.8% to 0.9% distortion, with 585V at the anodes: quite hard and bright and tight, but also bassy, with restricted midrange.

I also like to build transistorised stuff, which of course is much much cheaper and lighter, and uses less pounds of chicken-shit-per-hour, as there are no heaters to power. But you don’t like that do you.

 

Off home

 

 

 

First burn-in

The light comes on!!!

Cheeer-up time: old men are here to save the world ‘coz they know what’s what and can play Fender Strats

Better than the Shadows original – you just want to do a jig to this one, at Glastonbury or somewhere:-

And what d’you think of these? I think the second one is too Hawaiian:-

And this is nice:-

Saturday night is music night

Peter Davis

“The lost city”

Here’s something I play sometimes, with the Formby Strings:-

Wednesday walk down Memory Lane. Before and after.

No music tonight, just this.

This.

The Night Duty Boy-First-Class Type Writer, commanding his Chimpanzee Shift, might put some music up as it’s Saturday: we shall just have to see.

Hat tip The Landed Underclass. That blog just gets better and better, and he will outlive us in The Line.

Some people are more equal than others now.

The Policeman concerned has found a clever and opaque way of saying he’s not the friend of all people: just those of them that happen to be powerful today.

Well then.

On totally unrelated matters, readers might like this book.

Thursday night is (organ) music night…

The Art of Fugue cont. IX :-

Some good footwork:-

More footwork (how does his brain know what to do all the time?):-

And just a boy, on such a powerful machine (Liverpool, down-t’road):-

Some lesser-known Widor:-

And from Poland, at the second-most-revered pilgimage site in the country:-