I have been meaning to come by here and get involved. Now I see that a bunch of people I already know and like or here, so I've picked out an avatar and I'm thrilled to be here.

Hi, everybody!

Thanks for inviting me over, Denis!

Well I love the name anyway! Welcome.

You're welcome

You can stay as long as you want. They keys are under the door mat.

Hi T.,

Did notice your presence here already . Welcome!

BTW, the keys are no longer under the door mat, I put them under de turned upside down flower pot behind the waterbarrel next to the shed door at the back of the garden, next to the gnome.

Kind regards,
Wim

Hi Roy,

Nope, I put it under the upturned flower pot I said, behind he water barrel, next to the gnome. And why do you think I put the gnome there?

Kind regards,
the mad gnome (there is a whole story behind this, some other time )

Welcome Welcome,
So glad that you're here. It was nice to chat last night.

Regards,
Karin :bunny1:

So, I got to ask, who is that cutie in your avatar ?

I think we have a pet thread somewhere in the Chatter, if you want to share more pics.

That handsome devil is Juan Carlos, or actually, King Juan Carlos the First. (We call him Juan, or Juanito) He is my youngest, six years old, although this picture was taken when he was only a year. My little boy is getting all grown up!

We have one other kitty, another Siamese who is 14 or 15 who I adopted from a neglectful owner (okay, abducted, not adopted) when he was three or four. His name is Gus and he is our Elder Statesman.

What does that t-shirt say? The more I get to know people, the more I love my cats? Yeah. I'm all over that sentiment.

Hi TRex (David),
I remember you from Pentrace!
Welcome to FPN I think you'll like it here, too....

Greetings, T. Rex,

I just sent you a letter yesterday. I admit it was insipid and inane, but I decided it was better to send an inanity than nothing at all. Or is that bad thinking? Is it better to get a moronic letter than none at all?

I see that you are Byronic!

Your cat is beautiful indeed! I have always admired the Siamese for pure intelligence, sleekness, and discernment. Much as I love my cats, they do have all of the intellectual ability of the proverbial meatloaf. Beauty gets them far, however.

Cheers,

Natalie

Hellooooo, Natalie!

I can't WAIT to get your letter. Nobody EVER writes me letters.

"I just sent you a letter yesterday. I admit it was insipid and inane, but I decided it was better to send an inanity than nothing at all. Or is that bad thinking? Is it better to get a moronic letter than none at all?"

Well, something I have come up hard against in Pen Space is just how hard it is to write a decent letter to someone you hardly know at all. So, good on ya for taking the first step! And really, seriously, I have not gotten an honest to goodness letter from someone in I don't know HOW long. It's just good to get a letter, period.

"Much as I love my cats, they do have all of the intellectual ability of the proverbial meatloaf. Beauty gets them far, however."

Living with intelligent cats has its down sides. We've had to put childproof locks on the cabinets with food or cleaning solutions. They also have an uncanny knack for grand statements. When I was gone a lot a few weeks ago, training for my new duties after getting a promotion at work, Juan C decided he'd had enough, so he pulled my favorite (how does he know that?!) sweater out of the clean laundry and slept on it for a whole day, covering it in fine, beige hairs so that it had to be sent back to the dry-cleaners without even getting worn. I think he might have left a tiny hole in it, too, to remind me who's in charge here.

More soon!

Rex

ACK!!!

:doh: I SUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!! :doh:

If any of you nice folks are out there listening to the webcast of my show tonight, I swear, I'm usually better than this. Really.

I guess it really is Monday. For at least another half hour in Eastern Standard.

Tune in tomorrow night and I promise, promise, promise I won't make this many mistakes.

I went to your website, however, I'm not able to get a stream going. I even downloaded the recommended player. I've never listened to a radio station online, maybe my computer can't handle it. Odd, I just bought this about 2 years ago.

Bryan

Well, I tried to listen, but couldn't get connected to the streaming broadcast. Don't know why. iTunes would start connecting but wouldn't. I'll try some other night, hopefully it'll be going better for you. Bad days at work happen to all of us....

I have the same problem than Bryan. I listen to several radios online, but I can't seem to connect to WUGA stream. I even downloaded two more recommended players....

I just tried listening to some other radio station and they worked fine. Something must have happend to your stream tonight. Hopefully tomorrow we'll be able to tune in.

Bryan

Welcome T-Rex....

OK, someone give me the link to T-Rex's station, so I can listen too. Pppllleeaaaaseee. thanks

Kev

I just tried to hook up to it via my computer and the program stream does seem to be down. I am emailing my boss first thing in the morning to find out what's going on.

Maybe the Internet Gods saw me teetering precipitously toward the Bad Radio Abyss and pulled the digital plug on me. An act of mercy.

The music was good tonight, just...I wasn't.

Honorable winedoc-san, the link is http://www.wuga.org. (*bowing deeply*)

Trying to get a discount on a Maki-e ?

"Trying to get a discount on a Maki-e ?"

Dammit, Denis!! <_<

Okay, busted. Guilty as charged.

Thanks. Will give it a go. What time are you on? This sounds fun, a celebrity among us very cool

Kev

Hey, Doc!

My show airs 10 to midnight Eastern time. Although now the notion of even MORE people tuning in to hear me mangle composers' names has got me all freaked out. It's a nightly tightrope walk.

If I'm a celebrity now, how come I'm so broke?

Cheers!
Rex

Hi Rex,


Hahahahahahaha.... Maybe because of something that is the main topic of this board?

Warm regards, Wim

Great, and thanx.

We are broke because of our addiction We need to get help... NOT!

Hey, break a leg tonight!

Kev

hey... the stream works Two more hours and I'll know how you sound Go get them !!!!

I hear you !

Commenting live here... great French accent TRex !

Merci!

Just trying to hold it together, here. It's harder than it sounds, trust me.

Thanks for listening!

I believe you. Nice program. Nice radio to listen to while working... I've been listening few hours before you came on.

Too bad I can't receive it in my car... in which I'm gonna jump in few minutes to go home.

I missed the name of the last Stanley Myers piece... can you tell me ? That was simply beautiful.

Thanks for listening, Denis! We are very proud of our station.

I wrote the name of that Stanley Meyers piece down, let's see..."Cavatina". It was used in the movie, "The Deerhunter". The version I played is on the album, "A Portrait of John Williams".

Glad you enjoyed the show. I enjoyed tonight's show a whole lot more than last night's, that's for sure.

Thanks David !

No luck last night. Must I download WinAmp to listen to radio? I am not a big tech guy, not too difficult to download winamp I assume.

Kev

I too still can't seem to catch the stream. Any sugestions Dennis?

Bryan

Bryan, Kevin,

it works with iTunes for me (I use the windows version). Under the "Advanced" menu, choose "Open Stream", and paste that URL : http://live.wuga.org:8000/

That's a bit pedestrian, but I am behind a heavy firewall at work, and iTunes is the only software that went through it.

Denis.

btw, I downloaded iTunes for Windows recently, and the playback quality is much higher than Windows Media Player.

iTunes can be downloaded from Apple.com.

Ok, is it just me or does that piece from "The Deer Hunter" sound a lot like the theme from "Forrest Gump"?

Itunes is great but one word of caution... unless you want duplicate copies of any music you import disable the feature in Itunes that does the format conversion.

I'll look up the specifics...

Hey, I got it through Firefox and RealPlayer Mar 31 at 21:00 EST. Really nice music.

You working then David?

Gerry

[Edit: Hi Keith]

Those details...

Under EDIT and PREFERENCES go to ADVANCED and disable the "copy to Itunes" button.

Gerry, actually, I come on at 2200 (est). I'm broadcasting right now.

Naked.

(KIDDING!! KID-DING!! I always wear a coat and tie on the radio. And NOTHING ELSE! Okay, still kidding. It's getting towards the end of the work-week. I'm a little punchy.)

By the way, I am about to play a really AWESOME Bax tone-poem, if any of you are out there listening. Sir Bax is my new favorite.

you just have to go in under the import tab and change it to MP3 rather than the Itunes flavor.


Didn't figure this out until I had 20 hours of converting doe to my collection before hooking my Ipod up. not to mention all of the deleting I did!

Kurt H

If you're going to listen to your music only on your computer or your iPod, and won't need to feed it to any other sort of MP3 device, you're better off using the AAC format. It produces ripped files of greater quality and slightly smaller size. But if you start with an MP3, you're better off keeping it there or you'll end up with resampling problems in the quality of the final file.

Mark C.

Yes, I hung around for a while and finally there was a stn break where you mentioned your name. So now I have heard your 'hint of GA' accent, and awesome music, I'll be back.

Trying *not* to imagine you sitting there with just a jacket and tie.

Hmmmm, another one on the FPN while at work - I get the impression there's a lot of that going on...

Regards

Gerry