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Quote from: PrairieGhost on November 05, 2015, 02:26:52 AM
I have no idea why anyone would hate the show. This was an instant classic in my book.

agree

Quote from: Paper*Boy on November 03, 2015, 04:20:59 AM
Is this asswipe still on?

that's no way to talk about Hoagland. :-)

Orbs and ghost,s oh my… This doctor last night was a regular sideshow huckster but art was at the top of his game, a regular Wizard of Oz, the man behind the curtain playing the knobs and ropes! In it to win it to put on a great show.

Quote from: paladin1991 on October 25, 2015, 07:52:24 PM
Tarbaby, my brother.  I'm afraid you are not allowed to vote because, well, you....you're a Tarbaby.

ha! I tried it again today and it excepted my vote.

Quote from: Catsmile on October 25, 2015, 01:16:04 PM
I personally don't care one way or the other.
However, I deal with enough bleating, bleeding vaginas in real life...

Keep the ignore feature, that way the precious people can ignore others until their forum experience is like their MyFace Wall. Most people who need to lean on the IU feature heavily rarely have anything interesting to input anyway. Why take the IU from them, and get a string of rants because they don't have the mental fortitude to simply ignore other members; or worse defend their arguments.

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
                                                                                                               - Samuel Clemens

yes, if only you had he did those pithy words. :-)

Quote from: coaster on October 25, 2015, 01:04:05 PM
That's a pretty dumb argument. Saying that people annoy you in real life so they should have a chance to annoy you here. In my real life, if someone annoys me, I avoid them. Thats the beauty of the ignore feature. It makes a visit here easier. Why get rid of a great feature that helps and improves the site. I do not understand the reasoning.

agreed. And it's a bizarre poll anyway because I see about half of the people vote to have the feature removed when all they have to do is not use it. So why do they want the feature removed?

Why would people who don't use "ignore user" (Probably the vast majority) care one way or the other if it was removed and two, why would people who do use it vote to have it removed?
  Granted, it is poorly designed.
  Note: the vote function above wouldn't let me register my vote. I tried to vote no.
  How did Onan vote? I can't see his post. :-) (Just kidding)m

Quote from: Catsmile on October 20, 2015, 10:35:24 PM
Infrared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared

yep, I know. I was just having fun with wordplay. In other words, how can something be called red if it's invisible. i actually do realize it's the red end of the spectrum that trails off beyond what we can see.

I'm a bit confused about how the healing red lights are invisible. Can something be both red and invisible?

Quote from: brig on October 18, 2015, 05:25:37 AM
MK, I typed in Why So Technical Podcast in Skype, with and without spaces and cannot find it.....also, what time will the show be this coming Thursday?  I REALLY want to try not to miss it.  Would love to hear the first one you did if you saved a copy of it somewhere.  All this might already be posted somewhere, and I just missed it.

as I remember, I just typed "why so technical" into YouTube and found it right away.

Art, we Bellgabbers run the entire spectrum of the Art Bell curve.

Quote from: VoteQuimby on October 15, 2015, 07:10:37 PM
I'm 30 and I've literally never heard this double spacing rule.

which brings up another issue, the superfluous use of the word "literally". :-)

Quote from: paladin1991 on October 14, 2015, 12:55:02 PM
did you have it pointed at the side of your head or was it in your mouth?

The side of my head? What do you think I am, double-jointed?

MudKing: just listened to episode one. Nice, easy to listen to, good quality.  one thing, I always have trouble getting my volume loud enough on YouTube. my YouTube volumes are about 90% softer than the general system volume. Or for example the podcast levels. This is on an Apple iPad. and it's not just your program, it's many YouTube programs. I either need a way to turn up my YouTube volume levels or normalize the sound on all the apps here.

Quote from: themudking on October 14, 2015, 10:14:25 AM
If you read the manual it says on page 69 section 4.20 to maintain a regular cleaning schedule to avoid messy clogs. This is right after the section about avoiding use of the device in areas that are prone to black light usage.

this happened to me too… In my personal life. I was cleaning it and it went off.

When art gives a big long formal introduction and there's nobody there I think his heart just sinks and his face turns white. I know I always feel bad for him when that happens.

Quote from: markpaterson on October 10, 2015, 12:10:49 AM
I think he might be calling on Skype??? The audio quality sounds a touch clearer than a phone call, but still a little muddy, like maybe his connection isn't so great, so Skype is compressing it more than usual.

perhaps. I just thought he sounded older. And maybe a bit out of  practice? Not the same old quickwitted rapidfire pseudo-vicious srepartee.

But here's a true story: when I was a little kid, about seven or eight years old, I was sleeping at my grandmas house out in the country about 60 miles from the nearest city. in the middle of the night I woke up from a sound sleep on the couch in the dark living room suddenly wide-awake. From the wall about 10 feet across from me a small round sphere about the size of a ping-pong ball but glowing with a soft blue light rolled out of the wall on the floor and soundlessly rolled toward me. Nearby objects like the coffee table etc. reflected the soft blue light. The sphere rolled under the couch I was on and at that point I lost consciousness until the next morning. I didn't tell anyone because I thought it was too bizarre.
  I really didn't think of that incident until just the other day when I heard some so-called expert say that the human consciousness when outside the body can take the form of a small blue sphere.

Last night I watched the most boring sci-fi movie I've ever seen. It was on the STARZ channel and it was called "transmitter test".

Quote from: Amethyst on October 04, 2015, 04:49:29 PM
I'm catching up today by listening to Friday's MITD, and I hear Art saying that Leo Ashcraft is going to Coast to Coast after a couple offers and some troubles with Keith.

What I find interesting is that Leo frequently mispronounces words.  (He sure had some problems with „Tutankhamen" the other day!)  As we all know, Jorch speaks some wacky ESL.  Do y'all suppose the mispronunciations (Leoisms) are why C2C made offers to Leo?  Maybe Premiere & Jorch are developing a new dialect and they wanted some extra help.  Leonoorish?  Daveleoese?

i've heard Leo do such odd and bizarre pronunciations my first thought was he might be a hubrid.

I mean, how are the rest of us who desire to learn more about reality and metaphysics and ontology supposed to determine what is real from what they are just making up as they go along?

I bailed after about five minutes. I can't stand listening to these delusional fanatics be they religious or any other kind of subjective belief system. They love to trot out the myriad rules of a complete belief system that they have made up and has no basis in any objective reality.

Exceptionally good show with Richard and his astrophysicist guest tonight but I still find Richards neurotic in your face confrontational questioning annoying. Also, he confuses causality and correlation and jumps to the most conspiratorially assumptions rather than the simplest most supported reasonable assumption.
  Once again Richard has a guest on and actually badgers him rather than interviews him. I don't know if Richards confrontational style is based on bolstering his own sagging self image or what. Once again the guests showed amazing amount of restraint under Richards fierce hostile witness cross-examination technique.
  Again we see how Richard, when faced with almost any issue, be it the moon or Mars or Pluto or astrophysics, jumps to the most bizarre anti-establishment approach. The contrarian attitude which is enhanced by Richards brilliant mind. Nonetheless neurotic.

You're working yourself into a frazzle!

Quote from: TigerLily on September 25, 2015, 10:02:52 PM
Whoo hoo!!!!!

you sounded great!

Quote from: triola on September 24, 2015, 11:41:52 PM
It looks like it's the network.

This function 'scrapes' the 'now-playing' metadata (the text that scrolls in the player) and it goes down when the aac stream goes down. Different address, different data, same network.

Metadata address:  (triggers a down() function when metadata fails)
http://player.streamguys.com/dmr/sgplayer/include/php/metadata.php?stream=0

Stream address: (when this stream goes down, the metadata fails too)
http://live.darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com/darkmatter.aac

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function checkshow()
{

if(DS.DEFSTREAM.search('darkmatter')==-1){
   setmarquee(DS.PDES);
   return ;
   }

var gui = require('nw.gui');
gui.App.clearCache();

var newcontent, buffer="";
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
var ran = Math.round(Math.random() * 10000);

xhr.open("GET", DS.PLAYING+ '?' + ran, true);

xhr.onload = function (e) {
  if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
    if (xhr.status   === 200) {
        buffer=xhr.responseText;
 
    var mydata = JSON.parse(buffer);
            var d1     = mydata[0].StreamTitle;
    newcontent = d1;

    if(newcontent==DS.marqueecontent){
       return;
    }
    else{
       DS.marqueecontent= newcontent;
           var mq           = document.getElementById('mqtx');
           mq.innerHTML     = DS.marqueecontent;
    }
    up();
    return buffer;
    } else {
        console.error(xhr.statusText);
down(); //<---this fires when the stream goes down, it's
                    //not the stream url, but it -is- the network.
    }
  }
};
xhr.onerror = function (e) {
  console.error(xhr.statusText);
  down();
};
xhr.send(null);
}


thanks for that analysis. I had been wondering about it.

Good guest, great show.

MV, if your next child is a son could you name him Steven? It's just that it would tickle me.

Quote from: onan on September 20, 2015, 03:09:08 PM
umm, it is your choice to "waste" your time here.

It is also amusing that you want to win an internet argument about global warming on a forum primarily about Art Bell's radio shows.

You may know science, but logic left your building some time ago.

maybe he's another example of "performance art". A spoof?

I likeed colbert back on the Colbert report but I'm not liking him on this current show.

I wanted to like David but the more he talked the more he gave himself away with his bad grammar, syntax, mispronunciations, occasional slips and anger, etc I was getting bad vibes and thought he was most likely a fraud. there were just too many tells and they got more frequent as the interview progressed.
  I mean, don't get me wrong, I think he is sincere about what he's doing he's just not qualified.