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Post by Cranky on Mar 25, 2007 9:09:40 GMT -5
I was doing some research on something in our members list and I found out some of our posters are REALLY talented. C'mon guys, step forward and show your increadable talents.
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Post by Toronthab on Mar 25, 2007 21:41:24 GMT -5
I can do an armpit fart.....sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2007 21:30:01 GMT -5
I got a PM from you, HA. Don't know if you've visited either: A.) my original writing members page or B.) my website where I hold all my music.
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Post by Cranky on Mar 27, 2007 21:39:04 GMT -5
I got a PM from you, HA. Don't know if you've visited either: A.) my original writing members page or B.) my website where I hold all my music. Your website. I downloaded some stuff and it's pretty good! If you want, share it with the community. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2007 23:44:56 GMT -5
I wish I had a better soundcard. Otherwise I'd totally be the complete attention whore in that department. I'm getting a Mac in the fall which will also allow me to obtain some better programming.
Thanks for your support, HA.
BTW, if nobody's figured it out yet, I'm a composer.
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Post by Skilly on Mar 29, 2007 13:47:30 GMT -5
Talent hey .... Well I can roll my tongue three times (in a "W") ...  My talent I guess is that I design, construct, and manage construction projects. My claim to fame in Newfoundland (if you want to call it that) is that I was a part of the design and construction of the first bridge in Canada (maybe even North America) using the "Static Cantilever Construction Method". Basically, the bridge is built, in reverse, in place with a counterweight on the end. A 23t crane is on the end of the bridge as it is being built in place and the steel members are hoisted up from a barge. Once the bridge is built acros the river and touched down on the other abutment, you go back and "reverse" the members (those that were in tension, you move them to be in compression) This method is employed regularly in third world areas because it is labour intensive, and labour is cheap there. Voila ... my bridge ... ( ain't I cute!)  In the picture you see the counterweight in the background (it is actually another bridge built as a tail) ... and you see the bridge being "touched-down" on the abutment. |
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Post by insomnius on Apr 3, 2007 12:39:40 GMT -5
myspace.com/victorlevy
listen and let me know what you think...
Franko liked it enough that he purchased the album I put out on 2000.
Would YOU like to be the 2nd HabsRUs member with a copy?
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Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Apr 3, 2007 16:38:19 GMT -5
I'd post some of my poetry, but the Vogons have warned me against doing so.
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Post by insomnius on Apr 3, 2007 20:24:19 GMT -5
oh freedled gruntbuggy
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Apr 3, 2007 21:50:11 GMT -5
Thank you insomnius. I'm on the site now and listening to your material as I surf the site. As an aside, I used to go to school with Lynn Myles. Cheers. |
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Post by insomnius on Apr 13, 2007 7:28:22 GMT -5
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
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Post by insomnius on Apr 13, 2007 7:29:17 GMT -5
Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.
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Post by Polarice on Apr 13, 2007 7:50:50 GMT -5
myspace.com/victorlevy listen and let me know what you think... Franko liked it enough that he purchased the album I put out on 2000. Would YOU like to be the 2nd HabsRUs member with a copy? Wow, pretty good stuff Victor!! |
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Post by Andrew on Apr 13, 2007 10:51:48 GMT -5
myspace.com/victorlevy listen and let me know what you think... Good stuff. In your Bio you forgot to mention one other significant event of 1967: the last Leafs cup haha. My talent is also on myspace. I play guitar in a rock band: www.myspace.com/dirtfellaband |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2007 23:12:35 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jul 25, 2007 5:31:40 GMT -5
Just listening to some stuff before going to work, Matt. Good easy-listening music. Will listen in more when I have more time. Thanks. Cheers. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2007 0:27:12 GMT -5
New work. I've lately been inspired by musicians that I know and/or live with, and thought I'd write an appropriate tune. Kind of corny-sounding considering it's using MIDI, but some of the effects of my sequencer are pretty neat. Check this out: Traversal Plain |
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Post by insomnius on Jul 27, 2007 7:02:56 GMT -5
Wow - haven't been to this thread in a while... Polarice: Thanks - glad you like it! Andrew: Excellent stuff - good singer, good melodies, dirty rock feel - I love it! Come to Montreal and we'll do a double bill - easier said than done of course  Mattias: Very european feel - I like The Storm the most from your my space page - sounds good but I bet it will sound great when you get that new sound card... |
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Post by Kareem on Jul 29, 2007 19:40:31 GMT -5
I wish I had a better soundcard. Otherwise I'd totally be the complete attention whore in that department. I'm getting a Mac in the fall which will also allow me to obtain some better programming. Thanks for your support, HA. BTW, if nobody's figured it out yet, I'm a composer. Awesome Mattias, I'm a musician as well, played 16 years piano and have played various instruments; flute, violin, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, cello. My last year I did a lot of studying on orchestration Stravinski style and atonal music. I see you like german orchestration i.e. Wagner and Beethoven. I've always admired the Russians, check out the Russian Beethoven, Tchaikovsky. Talent hey .... Well I can roll my tongue three times (in a "W") ... My talent I guess is that I design, construct, and manage construction projects. My claim to fame in Newfoundland (if you want to call it that) is that I was a part of the design and construction of the first bridge in Canada (maybe even North America) using the "Static Cantilever Construction Method". Basically, the bridge is built, in reverse, in place with a counterweight on the end. A 23t crane is on the end of the bridge as it is being built in place and the steel members are hoisted up from a barge. Once the bridge is built acros the river and touched down on the other abutment, you go back and "reverse" the members (those that were in tension, you move them to be in compression) This method is employed regularly in third world areas because it is labour intensive, and labour is cheap there. Voila ... my bridge ... (ain't I cute!) [image] In the picture you see the counterweight in the background (it is actually another bridge built as a tail) ... and you see the bridge being "touched-down" on the abutment. I'm an engineer too, great design on that bridge! On another note, have you seen the model design they were thinking of using for the Gibraltar bridge(they're now thinking of a tunnel)? 1km height, 14km long, hybrid type bridge, 1km pillar for the most profound place on an elevated "plateau" in the mediterranean. Incredible stuff. On that note, I'm currently designing some products after my first year of university. I'd show them, but I haven't patented them yet. |
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Post by Cranky on Jul 29, 2007 22:57:47 GMT -5
I'm an engineer too, great design on that bridge! On another note, have you seen the model design they were thinking of using for the Gibraltar bridge(they're now thinking of a tunnel)? 1km height, 14km long, hybrid type bridge, 1km pillar for the most profound place on an elevated "plateau" in the mediterranean. Incredible stuff. On that note, I'm currently designing some products after my first year of university. I'd show them, but I haven't patented them yet. Sadly, I play no instrument not involving myself and have no special talent. Okay, maybe one. I have two co-patents, three of mine and filling two more the next few weeks. Hopefully, these two will be massive, make me billions and I finally get to buy the Hab's. Or more likely, the Chinese will copy them, I will be involved in endless litigation and end up broke, destitute and working as a stock boy in a Chinese dollar store.  |
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Post by Kareem on Jul 30, 2007 15:27:43 GMT -5
What you need HabsAddict, is a fellow Habs addict as an intern. An engineer intern you'll pay 20$ an hour and give a good report. You'll also let him work like a blue collar.
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Post by Cranky on Jul 30, 2007 18:31:03 GMT -5
What you need HabsAddict, is a fellow Habs addict as an intern. An engineer intern you'll pay 20$ an hour and give a good report. You'll also let him work like a blue collar. 20 bucks an hour? That's 18 more then I pay myself! Did I mention that I was cheap?  About 10-12 years ago I started to hire engineering interns for the summer, actually, a few where working part time even during the school season. Most of the time it was to do process studies and/or create BOM's. What I found was few mechanical engineering students have any inherited mechanical apptitude, worse yet, some of them don't want to get their hands dirty. I came from the "old school" where one designed a process/product and then went out there to build machines to do the work. Welding, machining (lathe, mill), sheet metal, wiring, hydraulics, everything in house. The guys who were really into it just loved to see the raw functional beauty of what they designed/built. And then came China's 25 cents an hour..... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2007 18:45:18 GMT -5
I see you like german orchestration i.e. Wagner and Beethoven. I've always admired the Russians, check out the Russian Beethoven, Tchaikovsky. Beethoven is more of an anti-inspiration, if it makes sense. Personally, I feel that he just made a lot of noise and tried to do as much of it possible for several pages at a time (I sight-read one of his piano pieces recently, and I was so bored playing through the same passages over and over with going in and out of keys). I like Tchaikovsky, but I actually prefer Rimsky-Korsakov over him. |
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Post by jkr on Jul 30, 2007 20:23:56 GMT -5
What you need HabsAddict, is a fellow Habs addict as an intern. An engineer intern you'll pay 20$ an hour and give a good report. You'll also let him work like a blue collar. 20 bucks an hour? That's 18 more then I pay myself! Did I mention that I was cheap? About 10-12 years ago I started to hire engineering interns for the summer, actually, a few where working part time even during the school season. Most of the time it was to do process studies and/or create BOM's. What I found was few mechanical engineering students have any inherited mechanical apptitude, worse yet, some of them don't want to get their hands dirty. I came from the "old school" where one designed a process/product and then went out there to build machines to do the work. Welding, machining (lathe, mill), sheet metal, wiring, hydraulics, everything in house. The guys who were really into it just loved to see the raw functional beauty of what they designed/built. And then came China's 25 cents an hour..... Interesting comments about the engineering students HA. I used to work in the I.T. department of a large manufacturing company that hired mech. eng students, mostly from Waterloo. You're right. For the most part they spent their days sitting at a CAD station & I rarely saw them on the shop floor. PS: I LOL when I read the term BOMs. I actually know what it means. |
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Post by habmeister on Jul 30, 2007 21:11:18 GMT -5
hmmm, special talents? some people, especially from the prairies will think it's impressive that in my last games skipping in curling vs rick folk, pat ryan and kelly law, i'm 3-0. i haven't thrown a rock in almost 4 years though, the amount of time and money invested to climb a ladder and maybe get a one time shot at the brier is lonnnnng and tedious. now for some reason i have it in my head to learn golf and see how far i can go with it.
i was listening to soul food by insomnius as i typed above, great!
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Post by BadCompany on Jul 31, 2007 7:45:31 GMT -5
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Post by Skilly on Jul 31, 2007 8:19:55 GMT -5
On another note, have you seen the model design they were thinking of using for the Gibraltar bridge(they're now thinking of a tunnel)? 1km height, 14km long, hybrid type bridge, 1km pillar for the most profound place on an elevated "plateau" in the mediterranean. Incredible stuff. Once France build the Millau Bridge (tallest bridge in the world), then engineers want to go further .... you know what we are all like.    Millau Bridge |
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Post by Kareem on Jul 31, 2007 16:25:54 GMT -5
Once France build the Millau Bridge (tallest bridge in the world), then engineers want to go further .... you know what we are all like. Millau Bridge Cable stayed bridges are amazing. It does indeed look very tall, which wouldn't make sense since it would crush under it's own weight during construction. Any idea if they'll be using fiber glass? Beethoven is more of an anti-inspiration, if it makes sense. Personally, I feel that he just made a lot of noise and tried to do as much of it possible for several pages at a time (I sight-read one of his piano pieces recently, and I was so bored playing through the same passages over and over with going in and out of keys). I like Tchaikovsky, but I actually prefer Rimsky-Korsakov over him I completely disagree! His music was theorical genius, from the appassionnata ownards, his style was defined and refined, just look at the complexity of the counterpoint. With the notions(or lack of) of his time, you can't help but marvel at the orchestration, his use of cadenza(see last sonata first mouvement, and hell, even the 2nd) and the fact all of his sonata form pieces can translate from orchestra, to quatuors, to piano to pretty much any harmonic type instrument(s). 20 bucks an hour? That's 18 more then I pay myself! Did I mention that I was cheap? About 10-12 years ago I started to hire engineering interns for the summer, actually, a few where working part time even during the school season. Most of the time it was to do process studies and/or create BOM's. What I found was few mechanical engineering students have any inherited mechanical apptitude, worse yet, some of them don't want to get their hands dirty. I came from the "old school" where one designed a process/product and then went out there to build machines to do the work. Welding, machining (lathe, mill), sheet metal, wiring, hydraulics, everything in house. The guys who were really into it just loved to see the raw functional beauty of what they designed/built. And then came China's 25 cents an hour..... Actually, I agree with everything you just said. I love the theorical aspect of engineering, but working with technicians and mecanics, I want to put my hands in the paste(les mains dans la pâte). I actually would love to find an employer who lets and asks me to learn all that stuff. In fact, I'd say you can't be creative until you actually try to build, fix and work with the things you design. Employers have to realise these mechanical engineers are actually trained to be brain power, as administrators, business and anything that involves thinking. If an engineer is doing design exclusively, then fire his ass because he's scewing you out of big bucks! I'm kidding of course, but that would be a waste of talents imo. And by the way, I was serious, for 8 to 10$ an hour(hell, I'd take minimum wage) part time(I should have a four day week I think), I'd love to work in my field, actually do things with the machines, either building or fixing, or getting my hands dirty. I'm a straight A student also who loves work. Also, you get paid 20$ an hour as a student working as a blue collar  |
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Post by Kareem on Jul 31, 2007 16:28:12 GMT -5
I used to work in the I.T. department of a large manufacturing company that hired mech. eng students, mostly from Waterloo. You're right. For the most part they spent their days sitting at a CAD station & I rarely saw them on the shop floor. Fire their asses! Nothing worse then that, guys with their education should be doing a lot more then that! They should also be in constant communication with workers on the shop floor. |
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Post by MC Habber on Jul 31, 2007 21:21:36 GMT -5
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