Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

Hmmmm. I've gotten full screen images from my older standard definition DVD's and enjoying everything looking more high-definition I wonder if you have a setting in your setup to allow you to fill out your screen?

That’s just the way it is on my set.

The TV is old as far as this type of technology goes, 2006 and a new model was released a couple of months after I bought it. I hate it when that happens. At one time you could buy an oxford shoe, twenty years later you could still buy that same shoe.

They do format coversion better these days. Some of it has to do with the format. For example in the case of a DVD, they have to keep the original aspect ratio correct, be it letterbox or something else, otherwise the video would be cropped or unnaturally stretched. HDTV transmissions are full screen, non-HDTV channels have a black box around them on my set. No way around it without the image suffering. The advantage of non-HDTV channels is that they take up less space on the provider’s box disk if I to store an old movie.

 

[beans-on-toast]

For those who think young people today have no social conscience:

My parrot rescue has been hosting this week a group of six students from Indiana State University. They're part of a program in which kids use their spring break to travel to non-profits all over the US to WORK. Every day they've worked hard helping with cleaning, feeding, landscaping...and they pay their own travel, food, and lodging.

Excellent stuff!

Promoting a good work ethic is important. You’re providing an experience that well stay with them throught their lives.

Is there any danger of the birds being exposed to human viruses?

 

[mikeoso]

Promoting a good work ethic is important. You’re providing an experience that well stay with them throught their lives.

Is there any danger of the birds being exposed to human viruses? Does parrot poop contain anything of concern?

There are almost no diseases birds can catch from people. Droppings can carry some stuff, rarely. We run six big HEPA filters, and provide safety gear. Biggest concern is dander, which can be life threatening for people with compromised respiratory systems. Of course, bites are the main danger. Macaws can exert 2400 psi with their beaks. We try real hard to guard against that.

 

[beans-on-toast]

There are almost no diseases birds can catch from people. Droppings can carry some stuff, rarely. We run six big HEPA filters, and provide safety gear. Biggest concern is dander, which can be life threatening for people with compromised respiratory systems. Of course, bites are the main danger. Macaws can exert 2400 psi with their beaks. We try real hard to guard against that.

Sounds like they can hurt one another if fighting over food or females.

 

[mikeoso]

Definitely. We have to be careful about which birds can be around each other...and people.

 

[GwenOnBass]

That we may also be careful about which people are allowed around other people. (or simply that adults behave as adults)

 

[the harp unstrung]

That we may also be careful about which people are allowed around other people. (or simply that adults behave as adults)

Shout that from the mountain top!!

 

[Jeff Scott]

Whut heard tell - there are only three kinds of mens' haircuts. Moe, Larry and Curly.

Mine is closer to Curly's than not!

 

[GwenOnBass]

And when a GOF with a Larry haircut takes off his hat at the end of the last set, behold! (please don't ever do that to us, thanks)

 

[beans-on-toast]

Ever notice that a lot of bass players wear a hat?

 

[SoulReflection]

Ever notice that a lot of bass players wear a hat?

If they are like me, they are protecting the audience from the glare of their bald heads .

 

[GwenOnBass]

Wearing a hat is Captain Beefheart's Tenth Commandment

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[SoulReflection]

Wearing a hat is Captain Beefheart's Tenth Commandment

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Yep, just waiting for my lima bean to grow ...

 

[BargeOn]

Wearing a hat is Captain Beefheart's Tenth Commandment

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Pythagoras incarnate!

 

[beans-on-toast]

Bassman Paul


Paul McCartney displays his thinning hair in London | Daily Mail Online

 

[beans-on-toast]

One grumpy old dog.

 

[spiritbass]

One grumpy old dog.

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Complete with grumpy whiskers...

 

[shadowtippy]

Bassman Paul


Paul McCartney displays his thinning hair in London | Daily Mail Online

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He's about 110, isn't he? It ought to be thinning.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Ed Weston >

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Ansel Adams>

 

[biguglyman]

And when a GOF with a Larry haircut takes off his hat at the end of the last set, behold!

Ever notice that no matter how much of Larry's hair got pulled out by Moe, he always had more?
*cue Twilight Zone theme...*