BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 09:24 PM

Soon, sIx, soon . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: number 6
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 09:23 PM

Peace ... did you move that chair?

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Kaleea
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 08:20 PM

While I haven't been to Hell, Michigan, I've been to where Exchange is not, in Kansas. It was a very dull day.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 08:17 PM

OK. You guys are getting the hang of this.

rssz oj;zdorkg

Shucks. My forehead hit the keyboard . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 08:14 PM

Here's some dull and unimaginative thread for ya.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:53 PM

"The above variants, along with those among the multiple readings of
numerous other pieces, provide convincing evidence for certain practices. Those who were commissioned to gather a collection of motets and related pieces were free to add one or even two voices to an existing Tenor-Duplum pair. Conversely, they were free to dismantle a piece for three or four voices and present it as one or more pieces for fewer voices. Usually, a piece for three voices was reduced by omission of the Triplum, while a piece for four voices lost either its Quadruplum or its Quadruplum and Triplum. The scribes occasionally even entered a Duplum or a Duplum with Triplum without Tenor. With respect to texts, scribes were free to enter a motet without its
text and give the music as a clausula or even as a discant passage in an organum, just as they could enter a motet with a text other than the original one. Conversely, they must have felt free to add a text to a Tenor-Duplum pair that had started out as a clausula or a discant passage. To a certain extent, moreover, an existing text and its music were subject to variation, and we often have no way of knowing whether the change was made deliberately or by mistake. Those who performed motets, and that probably included creators of motets, had similar freedoms. All of this strongly suggests that the modern respect for the "authentic" form had no parallel among those who transmitted motets to us."

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:08 PM

I'm afraid of what would happen to the inside of my head if I mastered the art of being dull & unimaginative by request. It's like being asked to choose totally bland food.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:54 PM

Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:52 PM

Well... oh... nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:43 PM

You guys are making this thread imaginitive. Talk about yer thread drift.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:37 PM

(It is reliably reported that "that other place" freezes over every Winter.)

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:27 PM

And then there's that other place...

that other place

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:24 PM

I found this:

"In Kansas, where Bob Dole grew up, there used to be the little town of Exchange, a little dot on the map where Atchison-Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) trains would trade mail sacks. When the ATSF later added an east-west line through the middle of town, it became known on the area maps of the time ....as N.exchange and S.exchange."

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:21 PM

where this is all headed .....and it seems it ain't far off.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: suzi
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:18 PM

ps....anyone know why I dont have a line..???

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: suzi
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:17 PM

yeeaahhh....whatever......

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:58 PM

Where they make the famous banjos.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:54 PM

Ya know, if they grew cucumbers there . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:50 PM

Welcome to lovely and scenic Dull.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Folkiedave
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:49 PM

I don't do drugs any more - I get the same effect standing up fast.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:47 PM


PSSSSST!

Peace passed out in the chair.

Sombody get the shaving cream.

And the cup of warm water too.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:44 PM

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Alba
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:44 PM

This thread is actually a tad more stimulating than many others below the line at the moment:)

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Janie
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:10 PM

*yawn*

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:09 PM

Step we gaily, ennui go...

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:56 PM

Twiddledeethumbs....

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:43 PM

don't start 'em, and we won't fill 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:40 PM

"For every Culture has its own Civilization. In this work, for the first time the two words, hitherto used to express in an indefinite, more or less ethical, distinction, are used ina periodic sense, to express a strict and necessary organic succession. The Civilization is the inevitable destiny of the Culture, and in this principle we obtain the viewpoint from which the deepest and gravest problems of historical morphology become capable of solution. Civilizations are the most external and artificial states of which a species of developed humanity is capable. They are a conclusion, the thing-become succeeding the thing- becoming, death following life, rigidity following expansion, intellectual age and the stone-built, petrifying world-city following mother-earth and the spiritual childhood of Doric and Gothic. They are an end, irrevocable, yet by inward necessity reached again and again."

Oswald Spengler, "The Decline of the West"

it goes on a bit...more on request

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:38 PM

Sigh . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: alanabit
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:29 PM

I bet there won't be another post less interesting than this one.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:25 PM

As I've always said, "Quartic equations need to be solved when ray tracing 4th degree surfaces e.g., a torus. Quartics also need to be solved in a number of problems involving quadric surfaces. Quadric surfaces (i.e. ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, cones) are useful in computer graphics for generating objects with curved surfaces (Badler, 1979). Fewer primitives are required than with planar surfaces to approximate a curved surface to a given accuracy (Herbison-Evans, 1982).

Bicubic surfaces may also be used for the composition of curved objects. They have the advantage of being able to incorporate recurves: lines of inflection. There is a problem, however, when drawing the outlines of bicubics in the calculation of hidden arcs. The visibility of an outline can change where its projection intersects that of another outline. The intersection can be found as the simultaneous solution of the two projected outlines. For bicubic surfaces, these outlines are cubics, and the simultaneous solution of two of these is a sextic which can only be solved by iterative techniques. For quadric surfaces, the projected outlines are quadratic. The simultaneous solution of two of these leads to a quartic equation."

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: number 6
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:24 PM

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sIx

Subject: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:17 PM

Ho hum.