Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done?

2020-06-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done? BTW, if you watched that whole video, she says she has something about using a microwave in the description. I will say that at least none of the stuff is toxic, I was a bit surprised that C4H6O2(n) wasn't. That's polyvinyl acetate, the main

Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done?

2020-06-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done? I just googled how make air dry clay microwave. Here's the first link.  https://whatsupmoms.com/uncategorized/air-dry-clay/  I have no idea if this is one of the recipes in your video, I'm not particularly interested in making my own stuff, at

Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done?

2020-06-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done? Metallic clays tend to be more expensive, and the kilns aren't cheap either. However, they're just clay, and pretty much work the same. So grabbing some air dry clay and practicing that would be a great starting point, if you eventually wanted

Re: Advice needed, why does this have to happen

2020-06-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Advice needed, why does this have to happen I can see why she gets listed as folk. But I've never been a fan of what happened to the term folk music, i.e. singer songwriters like Baez or James Taylor. But glad it helps. That's my local record store and they're awesome. I didn't even

Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done?

2020-06-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done? I haven't done anything with it yet, but have you considered pottery? You can get air-drying clay pretty cheap, also tools pretty cheap, but you don't really need many, if any, to start out with. At least some air dry clays, Amaco for example,

Re: Advice needed, why does this have to happen

2020-06-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Advice needed, why does this have to happen Here you go.https://strictlydiscs.com/Artist/6974937Also, that's not folk music. Like, at all. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/538788/#p538788 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Re: Problem with Luna RSS

2020-05-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Problem with Luna RSS For me, it just comes up and has "categories" or whatever, but you can't do anything. Well the menus work and stuff, but I can't get to any actual feeds. I hope it gets fixed at some point because an accessible podcatcher that actually works would be really

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Lovecraft was absolutely a crazy racist. But I tend to try and take stories as stories. Indeed, one of the things I disagree with The Lovecraft Reread about is their interpretation of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", or rather, the interpretation

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Dark:  There's certainly lots of Lovecraft available in audio. His stuff's in the public domain now so there's stuff on Librivox. There's stuff on Audible. The link I posted is narrated by Gordon Gould, not the physicist but the actor. It's

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Dark:  If you don't mind literary criticism with your stories, there's a pretty good blog here. I don't agree with everything they say and they're clearly pretty into Lovecraft and the genre, so if you're new, you probably want to skip the

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review I love Tolkien. Also H. P. Lovecraft, they're probably my two favorite authors. I've really been digging Shirley Jackson lately. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526775/#p526775 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: I'm thinking of starting a blog called Brads magnet fun.

2020-05-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: I'm thinking of starting a blog called Brads magnet fun. You could do reviews as well, and links to different magnet thingies. For instance, I have the ball of whacks.https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Whack-C … 0911121013I also have whatever the other two are called that form hollow

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Jayde, totally with you about Doctor Who. On paper, it sounds like something I should love. There's just something about it that ends up making me actively contemptuous of it. Well, I actually know what some of those things are, but like I

Re: book series written by different authors

2020-05-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: book series written by different authors There's the Witch World stuff, originally done by Andre Norton but I think other people got to write for it too. There's also a thing called Thieves World I think but I can't remember who wrote it. But if you're interested in that kind of thing,

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Dark:  Not to hijack this thread to be about Dr. The Who, as I often call it to piss people off, but ...No, they were literally super angry, seriously it's difficult to convey just how frothing mad they were which is why I saved the post, that

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Oh, Doctor Who only has to do with it insofar as I have a bunch of friends who love it to bits. I've never been able to get into it, for reasons I'll only get into if anybody cares and I'm sure they don't, I mean unless you like a good rant

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review My wife watches them, but she's also willing to point out the dumbness. For instance, we once compared movies and found out there are a lot of duplications. So the other day she's telling me, "oh I was flipping threw channels and a Hallmark

Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review

2020-05-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review I can't help the person who's just wondering why people read porn, some things you just gotta work out for your own self. But I'd like to help them maybe figure out the issues in the review.  Suppose you're watching a romance movie, you know,

Re: Problem with sunrise waterfall.

2020-04-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Problem with sunrise waterfall. I don't even know what Sunrise Waterfall is, but what that error means is that you're giving it a file it doesn't know how to process, or it thinks you are. So suppose it can only use .wav files as sounds, and you're giving it an .mp3 file. It's going to

Re: new newb with an ear on native musical things...

2020-04-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: new newb with an ear on native musical things... There are a ton of controller options, yes. The M-32 is the cheapest, that's why people are settling for 32 keys. But there's the A series, which the M-32 is sort of an offshoot of. I think an A-61 is a couple of hundred dollars here in

Re: Problem with Luna RSS

2020-04-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Problem with Luna RSS 4:  Don't take this the wrong way, but if your program needs admin access to create directories, you've screwed up your program. I get if I were trying to write directly to c:\ or some sort of restricted path, but I'm not. It didn't work when writing to its

Re: Problem with Luna RSS

2020-04-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Problem with Luna RSS I'm also having a problem. If you search for Knowledge Fight, I did it on iTunes, and try to download anything, it doesn't. It just sits there. But thanks to changing the save directory, I know it gives an error "can't create c:\podcasts\Knowledge

Re: Dark topic

2020-04-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Dark topic The darkness was the darkest darkness and the darkest dark history of the twelve darkest darknesses within the darkest forever darkness. All other darknesses, however dark those darknesses might be, were lesser darknesses than the darkest darkness and the darkest dark

Re: Is it worth getting the Olympus LS-P4?

2020-04-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Is it worth getting the Olympus LS-P4? Huh, does it have talking menus like some of the other Olympus recorders? I tried googling it but didn't come up with anything. Looks interesting though. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/518729/#p518729 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

Re: powerball

2020-04-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: powerball I have one yeah, the autostart as it happens. My physical therapist has me doing an exercise with it that goes like this. Get it started. Hold it in your hand palm down. Turn your forearm so your thumb is going from pointing to the side and pointing toward the floor, and back

Re: does anyone know what my signature means?

2020-03-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: does anyone know what my signature means? What's a cipher in there? It's just written backwards. An axolotl is a salamander/lizard thingy.Mald gasarah rah daszagar blaf nartasag halnavgasramat dargagvam ram xarkasvi. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/511120/#p511120 --

Re: Audio drama discussion and something some of you might want to know.

2020-03-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Audio drama discussion and something some of you might want to know. Here's the link to The Dark Passenger. Looks like they do other stuff too.  https://www.finalrune.com/dark-passenger/Links people. They're super useful. I wouldn't have to have waded through a bunch of Dexter bullshit

Re: Favorite Audiobooks

2020-03-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Favorite Audiobooks Man, nobody's mentioned The Dresden Files yet? Also H. P. Lovecraft, though I can't recommend narrators. If you're at all signed up for NLS in the US try "Dagon and Other Macabre Tales", narrated by Gordon Gould, he's awesome. Other than that, check out Audible and

Re: Test for non-Afrikaans speakers.

2020-03-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Test for non-Afrikaans speakers. Since nobody's tried, it appears to be about a sport, I'd assume soccer/football. I didn't listen to all of it though URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/505968/#p505968 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: books with the subject of dark and light dualism

2020-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: books with the subject of dark and light dualism It's kind of both. Both texts comment on rulers, in various ways, quite a bit. But let's stick to Laozi and try to untangle this.Look at the part about valuable objects. If you have a gold plate, let's say, and that's seen as valuable,

Re: books with the subject of dark and light dualism

2020-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: books with the subject of dark and light dualism The Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching), and Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tsu), would be a good start. Nothing's going to get as specific as you want it to be, i.e. everything about light and shadow or darkness or whatever, but Daoism, those are the two

Re: Has anybody tried home brewing?

2020-02-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Has anybody tried home brewing? I'd love a recipe. Especially since wines are supposed to be the easiest thing to brew. There's this beer that's made with spruce that comes out seasonally, but it tends to show up once every other year or so. I don't know if I could get my hands on

Re: Has anybody tried home brewing?

2020-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Has anybody tried home brewing? How did it not go well? I mean, can you talk about the process a bit and what you did? Do you think it was just that you didn't have proper supplies? I'd get those. I'm too dumb to improvise,even though I'm sure people did all sorts of things back in the

Has anybody tried home brewing?

2020-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Has anybody tried home brewing? If so, any tips or tricks? I've never done it. But I keep finding out about things that sound interesting, alcohol made with birch for instance, that I can't buy locally. I've thought about trying it off and on over the years, but there seems to be a lot of

Re: Doing a Scottish accent

2020-02-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Doing a Scottish accent 1. Listen to Scottish folk music for years.2. Look up all the words you don't understand.3. When you've done that for a while, fire up the Youtube and search for Burnistoun. That would be a Glaswegian accent. Here's a taste, for all you Lovecraft

Re: wear can I get a windows 10 vurtual machine from?

2020-02-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: wear can I get a windows 10 vurtual machine from? Get the file, make a USB/CD/DVD. Fire it up in your favorite virtual machine software. If you make sure sound hardware is set up in your virtual machine, you can hit ctrl-windows-enter, and narrator will come up talking and you can do

Re: Is peetersan described wrongly by manestream media?

2020-01-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Is peetersan described wrongly by manestream media? Man, I stopped watching that video as soon as I heard stuff about "the matrix" and "the old operating system".My problem with Peterson is that he's a cagey bastard. He likes to imply all sorts of things and then say he never meant

Re: Streaming services and their low volume.

2020-01-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Streaming services and their low volume. If you get to the sound mixer, you can do this also by going to start/run, (Windows-key r), and typing sndvol or sndvol32 depending on your flavor of Windows, you can adjust volumes for individual apps, at least you can as of Windows 8. Set your

Re: What is one thing you would like to see happen in your lifetime?

2020-01-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is one thing you would like to see happen in your lifetime? I've never understood this whole "let's upload our consciousness" thing. Because I feel like, if you stop and think about your body for like, five seconds or less, it's ridiculous. It's kind of the same reason I can't get

Re: What is one thing you would like to see happen in your lifetime?

2020-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is one thing you would like to see happen in your lifetime? Birth control. For the yeti. Seriously you guys, the population's just getting out of hand, and the stuff they get up to! Don't you even get me started. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/496488/#p496488 --

Re: For what to live?

2020-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For what to live? Hey Dark.Sorry, I might have muddled things. Most of the stuff I've posted is from Daoism, only the chariot simile is from Buddhism. Briefly, Daoism's basic idea is that things have ziran, which is something like their own spontaneous nature. If you leave them alone

Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username

2020-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username Heh! I just realized when I logged in today that I'm just khomus on here. I'm khomustu on Twitter, which I never use. So you have two user names explained for the price of one! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/496070/#p496070 --

Re: For what to live?

2020-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For what to live? Oh boy, I get to post more Zhuangzi! That's awesome, because I loves me some Zhuangzi. This quote is a lot like the Hume quote Dark posted, or so I take it, and also tackles life and death a bit.""How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in

Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username

2020-01-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username Get ready for a super dumb story!My username is a misspelling of a Tuvan word. Tuva is part of the Russian Federation, right next to Mongolia in Southern Siberia. Known for khoomei (throat singing), among other things, it was briefly a

Re: How can blind people make YouTube videos

2020-01-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: How can blind people make YouTube videos I've done some with the Camera app in Windows and my wife has shot some of them. I'm currently trying to figure out how I can get lights set up so I can put them in a good place when I'm shooting and know they're at a good angle and all. I

Re: For what to live?

2020-01-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: For what to live? My, you do enjoy putting all sorts of restrictions on things, don't you? Why, for instance, should I have a purpose? I'm an animist and a Daoist. So I'm kind of against purpose, as some sort of end in itself."Hui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu, "I have a big tree of the kind

Anybody doing pottery?

2020-01-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Anybody doing pottery? Hey all. Since people were so helpful with my last question, here's another one that's totally different. I'm thinking of trying some pottery, with an air-drying clay at first, maybe trying to make an instrument or something. Anybody doing it, and if so, got any good

Re: Currently available portable talking book players.

2020-01-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Currently available portable talking book players. Thanks for the help everybody. Sounds like the Stream is what I want to go for. I was planning on that to begin with, but I figured it was worth checking to be sure. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/495619/#p495619 --

Re: Currently available portable talking book players.

2020-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Currently available portable talking book players. Nah, that won't work for me, I do NLS all the time. Audible too though to a lesser extent. I'm not really worried about a ton of wireless features. I mean, I don't know what you want to see that they don't do, but I'm fine with what

Re: Currently available portable talking book players.

2020-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Currently available portable talking book players. I could get a phone/iPod, sure. Did you not see the part where I said I didn't want to do that? I have an iPod. It's old, but it still works, more or less. I have a phone, that isn't even charged anymore, but when it was, it was used

Currently available portable talking book players.

2020-01-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : khomus via Audiogames-reflector
Currently available portable talking book players. Hi all. I'm thinking of getting a Victor Reader Stream. I have an old iPod Touch, 4th gen. I think, and I'm literally using it for nothing but reading books. It's dying.Anyway, I was wondering, just for the sake of research and

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