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Is There Some Hidden -or- Special Meaning To Your Unusual Az Name / Avatar?
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Love analog as well! However I got rid of my Analog source... I also toyed with tubes (tenor audiom audio research...). I had a table setup worth north of $30K but still wasn't satisfied... I got rid of the table and stuck with CDs, it was better for my bank account.
Happy new year!
Luc
I know what you mean. Anolog is still the best IMHO, but you'll pay to achieve it and you'll work hard to keep it. The devil is in the details.
I just read a short article by another doc that is an audiophile, he's frustrated with the miserable quality of the popular formats etc. With the popularity of heavily compressed formats and gawd-awful transducers (ear buds) I think a lot of the current crop of "music lovers" have no idea what a sound stage is. They think loud DJ equipment makes good sound.
In addition there is the total destruction of the stage by poorly designed transducers. We have a whole generation destroyed by Amar Bose. He created the smeared soundstage as a standard. It still frustrates the hell out of me when people think Bose creates good sound. Bose is a marketing company, not a high fidelity company. It's nothing but noise to me. It frustrates me as well when they credit him with the creation of the satellite type system when M&K actually developed the idea. I still have a magnificent Miller & Kreisel sub, a sealed accurate design, not one of these booming ported type "home theater" designs that are so popular now. People don't understand that loud car crashes are not high fidelity audio.
I was a speaker nut specifically. I designed and built a few, including some magnificent (read physically intimidating) folded horns. I had to curtail that when I realized I would need to build a music hall to really appreciate what I was building. LOL!
These days I don't have a source that would merit really good transducers and on top of that a shooting accident robbed me of the highest frequencies in my left ear. That's what ended it for me. I tried really hard to compensate for it but it ended in total frustration.
I worked in an audio store for a while a long time ago and used to love to get people to audition cables. It was a beautiful thing to behold their faces when I demonstrated the difference between cables in blind tests. When a skeptic's eyes lit up I knew I had awakened an awareness. There was that holy shit moment when they realized what they had not been hearing before.
I'm glad you have been able to continue to pursue your passion and I am a little envious. Thanks for sparking some nostalgia for me.
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Oshua86, my name is Joshua, my dad lived many years in Sweden and when his friends would come visit they wouldn't pronounce my name right they would call me oshÜa and I guess it stuck, the "86" its obvious, I was born in 86 lol. Since everything online for me is oshua86 most of my friends in the pool world call me oshua86 rather than Joshua (weird right?) or they call me "Top Shelf" because my last name is Padrón and they think its "Patrón", means the same but spelled differently.
"I have a host of friends"
PT,
The title is just a line James Caan used a few times in one of my favorite John Wayne movies, Eldorado. Of course I have dozens more favorite John wayne movies. Somehow reading your post brought that one to mind though! :thumbup:
As to names and avatars, shootingarts was the name of several of my businesses over the years. Hu was too short to use here, therefore "ShootingArts". Also at different times I shot different things pretty well. Shotguns, pistols, rifles, cameras, pool, and of course I am unsurpassed at shooting the bull when we meet face to face!
My avatar is my smiling face from an old paramutual horse owner's license and I'm sure you remember the badges are to support Smorgass Bored, still maybe the most interesting and entertaining member the forum has ever had. Back then I was a pillar of the community and ran wreckers for a handful of law enforcement agencies. I don't remember being quite that wooly looking, I think like adding ten pounds, the camera adds a couple inches of hair and beard.
By the by, I'm all American mutt but there is a generous dose of Scot-Irish mixed in, close to half. More than a little Italian too and that shows more than the Irish. Just as well, some of my kin are family men.
I'm too far out in the sticks to play on the net much. Only check e-mail a couple times a week, usually when I drive to the nearest "big city", one big enough to have a Mickey-D's with free wifi.
Happy New Year to all my friends and "family" on here!
Hu
I'm checking in for Shooting Arts here..he's been MIA since the NOLA water problem.
"Shooting Arts"....is it pool related, denoting a dexterity with a cue?
Does he have a problem with anyone named Arthur?
Does he have a problem with those who produce graven images?
Is he so adept with a firearm that he can shoot a replication of Van Gogh's
'Cafe in Arles' scene into a target 400 yards away?
Hu is depriving this forum of his knowledge, common sense, and humor....
...well, maybe not so much the humor....Sean Leinen and meself have an
excuse (Irish blood)...Hu's jokes are just as bad.
Sooo, Hu, c'mon and defend yourself before all this supposition goes
VIRAL......
regards
pt
PT,
The title is just a line James Caan used a few times in one of my favorite John Wayne movies, Eldorado. Of course I have dozens more favorite John wayne movies. Somehow reading your post brought that one to mind though! :thumbup:
As to names and avatars, shootingarts was the name of several of my businesses over the years. Hu was too short to use here, therefore "ShootingArts". Also at different times I shot different things pretty well. Shotguns, pistols, rifles, cameras, pool, and of course I am unsurpassed at shooting the bull when we meet face to face!
My avatar is my smiling face from an old paramutual horse owner's license and I'm sure you remember the badges are to support Smorgass Bored, still maybe the most interesting and entertaining member the forum has ever had. Back then I was a pillar of the community and ran wreckers for a handful of law enforcement agencies. I don't remember being quite that wooly looking, I think like adding ten pounds, the camera adds a couple inches of hair and beard.
By the by, I'm all American mutt but there is a generous dose of Scot-Irish mixed in, close to half. More than a little Italian too and that shows more than the Irish. Just as well, some of my kin are family men.
I'm too far out in the sticks to play on the net much. Only check e-mail a couple times a week, usually when I drive to the nearest "big city", one big enough to have a Mickey-D's with free wifi.
Happy New Year to all my friends and "family" on here!
Hu
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If you have to explain...
They wouldn't understand. I'm a Harley man since i was 13. But the sound of Ducati is one of the sweetest sound on earth. I've been looking for a red 900for a couple of years now. It's the only import i would ever consider owning.
They wouldn't understand. I'm a Harley man since i was 13. But the sound of Ducati is one of the sweetest sound on earth. I've been looking for a red 900for a couple of years now. It's the only import i would ever consider owning.
Mine was given to me by my students and colleagues. I am a classical musician - Concert Pianist, Composer, Conductor and Teacher by profession. Maestro appeals to me not only because it is earned but also recognized for my affinity for times gone by.
I have loved pocket billiards since my early years as a way to transport into a timeless space of meditation. Thus the idea for the avatar image:
My image of Jack Klugman laying on a pool table is from the Twilight Zone episode where he meets the very best and in various versions of this episode, remains forever with the table and knowledge that challengers will continue to come as he has.
Jack is one of my favorite people on the big screen and I have named my pets in the past in honor of his movie screen personalities as well as for his own name.
I would like to add as Jack has just passed to that Twilight Zone on the other side... rest in peace my friend and thank you! One of the warmest souls that has kept me and many others company while encouraging to move through life with a smile.
I have loved pocket billiards since my early years as a way to transport into a timeless space of meditation. Thus the idea for the avatar image:
My image of Jack Klugman laying on a pool table is from the Twilight Zone episode where he meets the very best and in various versions of this episode, remains forever with the table and knowledge that challengers will continue to come as he has.
Jack is one of my favorite people on the big screen and I have named my pets in the past in honor of his movie screen personalities as well as for his own name.
I would like to add as Jack has just passed to that Twilight Zone on the other side... rest in peace my friend and thank you! One of the warmest souls that has kept me and many others company while encouraging to move through life with a smile.
Very long ago (when internet started to become *normal*) i was trying to create a nickname- and everything i tried was already given away.......so i just hammered finally something in, lol.
Rattapeng then finally worked and since then i used it on internet. That s it
So Ratta just the short-version.
Rattapeng then finally worked and since then i used it on internet. That s it
So Ratta just the short-version.
I used to be into comics as a teenager. I loved Wolverine, one of the X-Men. But everyone loved Wolvie, I didn't want to pick a screen name like "Wolverine" or "Logan" because I saw other guys using those.
So to avoid looking like a bandwagon-jumper, I went the last name of his arch-rival, Sabretooth (Victor Creed).
Later, the band Creed got big and a million people asked me if I was a fan, and that got tiring. I also was getting harassed in IRC by someone who wanted the same nick and was willing to go to great lengths to discourage me from using it. So I added the "o".
It rhymes with Frito(s). Not Ski-doo.
edit: oh yeah, the avatar.
In person, my sense of humor is a little offensive... I make a lot of off-color jokes.
On the forums I think people should try a little more careful about pushing people's buttons,
so my forum personality is definitely more politically correct than IR?L.
The eagle is a typical 9/11 crying eagle with stereotypical gangsta wear.
Shows a little bit of my tacky side without (hopefully) directly pissing off anyone.
So to avoid looking like a bandwagon-jumper, I went the last name of his arch-rival, Sabretooth (Victor Creed).
Later, the band Creed got big and a million people asked me if I was a fan, and that got tiring. I also was getting harassed in IRC by someone who wanted the same nick and was willing to go to great lengths to discourage me from using it. So I added the "o".
It rhymes with Frito(s). Not Ski-doo.
edit: oh yeah, the avatar.
In person, my sense of humor is a little offensive... I make a lot of off-color jokes.
On the forums I think people should try a little more careful about pushing people's buttons,
so my forum personality is definitely more politically correct than IR?L.
The eagle is a typical 9/11 crying eagle with stereotypical gangsta wear.
Shows a little bit of my tacky side without (hopefully) directly pissing off anyone.
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GeoEnvi is just a simple contraction of geotechnical and environmental; both my fields of study and employment.
The avatar is a still frame of the music video for George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone." It's from the scene right before George ashes his cigar on the floor and drops the 8 into the corner pocket, to win against Bo Diddley and his backer, Mosconi, and send the neighborhood kids into a cheering frenzy.
The avatar is a still frame of the music video for George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone." It's from the scene right before George ashes his cigar on the floor and drops the 8 into the corner pocket, to win against Bo Diddley and his backer, Mosconi, and send the neighborhood kids into a cheering frenzy.
This is one of those threads that it seems gets repeated a couple times a year, but in reality is only repeated every other year or more!
So, here is my answer:
I suppose this a good place to tell a boring story.
I've been on forums forever. Okay not forever, but since 1996 or earlier. Most of us used our real name, and as we continued through to Bulletin Boards, USENET, and Web Forums, we also continued to use our real names.
When I started writing the Cue Makers Corner monthly article for Inside POOL, it was suggested to me by one of my internet friends that I needed to stop engaging in flame wars (for reputation's sake.) Since I couldn't give up one of my favorite pastimes, I thought I could simply change my internet name and post pseudo-anonymously.
I didn't quite follow through quickly, but a few years ago (I see it was 2005 when I changed vs 2003 when I started writing for InsidePool), I decided that if I ever decided to not use my name as my ID, that I would use a name related to the reason why I would ever change it in the first place. So, Cornerman was born.
I'm not and have never posted anonymously, but it almost separates me from the internet. I suppose that's what others have been doing all along by not using their real name.
My current avatar is my breast-cancer awareness New England Patriots hat. I've been a Patriots fan since 1975 or so. So, I've lived through some really bad years and am enjoying the good ones.
Regards,
Freddie Agnir <~~~ writing from the Corner
So, here is my answer:
I suppose this a good place to tell a boring story.
I've been on forums forever. Okay not forever, but since 1996 or earlier. Most of us used our real name, and as we continued through to Bulletin Boards, USENET, and Web Forums, we also continued to use our real names.
When I started writing the Cue Makers Corner monthly article for Inside POOL, it was suggested to me by one of my internet friends that I needed to stop engaging in flame wars (for reputation's sake.) Since I couldn't give up one of my favorite pastimes, I thought I could simply change my internet name and post pseudo-anonymously.
I didn't quite follow through quickly, but a few years ago (I see it was 2005 when I changed vs 2003 when I started writing for InsidePool), I decided that if I ever decided to not use my name as my ID, that I would use a name related to the reason why I would ever change it in the first place. So, Cornerman was born.
I'm not and have never posted anonymously, but it almost separates me from the internet. I suppose that's what others have been doing all along by not using their real name.
My current avatar is my breast-cancer awareness New England Patriots hat. I've been a Patriots fan since 1975 or so. So, I've lived through some really bad years and am enjoying the good ones.
Regards,
Freddie Agnir <~~~ writing from the Corner
Name
I couldn't really come up with anything cool. I'm a locomotive engineer for a railroad and my football number in high school was 82 so that's how I came up with that.
I couldn't really come up with anything cool. I'm a locomotive engineer for a railroad and my football number in high school was 82 so that's how I came up with that.
Alerotaz - Name info
I always loved Oldsmobiles. My grand father always bought them for what ever reason. I really got into the Cutlass (68-72's) so in 1999 when they finally dropped the cutlass for the "ALERO" I bought a white one loaded..
I just went through a Divorce and was getting my footing back so I started getting into the Loony tunes Taz logo. ( before it was popular...) LOL
Anyway hello AOL and Hello Alerotaz... I still owen Crazy4acutlass/ Crazy4a442 on AOL too!
I finally sold my Avatar (1972 Cutlass supreme, a Black 1971 Cutlass Supreme and 2005 Mustang GT three years ago due to the job market and thinking i was moving to Tx for work.
Funny but sad thing was the week before the actual move i was told by the rest of the fmaily.. We dont want to move.. So sold the cars for nothing! Grrrr. BTW I went ahead and got a 2013 Mustang GT to replace the 05. Looking for a great price on a Cutlass again! LOL (Im cheap..so it may be awhile before those are replaced)
I always loved Oldsmobiles. My grand father always bought them for what ever reason. I really got into the Cutlass (68-72's) so in 1999 when they finally dropped the cutlass for the "ALERO" I bought a white one loaded..
I just went through a Divorce and was getting my footing back so I started getting into the Loony tunes Taz logo. ( before it was popular...) LOL
Anyway hello AOL and Hello Alerotaz... I still owen Crazy4acutlass/ Crazy4a442 on AOL too!
I finally sold my Avatar (1972 Cutlass supreme, a Black 1971 Cutlass Supreme and 2005 Mustang GT three years ago due to the job market and thinking i was moving to Tx for work.
Funny but sad thing was the week before the actual move i was told by the rest of the fmaily.. We dont want to move.. So sold the cars for nothing! Grrrr. BTW I went ahead and got a 2013 Mustang GT to replace the 05. Looking for a great price on a Cutlass again! LOL (Im cheap..so it may be awhile before those are replaced)
Thanx, Geo.....never knew about this video..and I'm a Thorogood fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYPcY15JaWY&list=PL529743C31805060A
I got a friend who saw George when he was unknown in a bar some place
in New England....he said there were only 6 people there, and three of
them were staff.....
...and the band played like there were 50,000 people in the audience.
He thought to himself "These guys are gonna make it."
Yup
Off topic but i luv old cars too.
My 56 nomad in storage-still waiting to b restored for the last 15+ years.
One of these days.....
Nice to know there are some "car guys" among us...
Off topic but i luv old cars too.
My 56 nomad in storage-still waiting to b restored for the last 15+ years.
One of these days.....
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Which motor did that cutlass have in it? My buddy has one with a 455 rocket in it' wow she's a bad mambajamba!
As far as my Azb name> dontlitethat> I have used that name online for at least 10 years. John >OTLB shortens it up and called me DLT..
It refers to the non ignition of a fuse' best to let that monster sleep...
My aviator is me hitting balls on my favorite' a GC
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Thanks all'
DLT
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