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Post by mrgare5050 on Feb 24, 2024 5:15:56 GMT -7
Since I know not everyone is into podcast, apps, etc, I thought I'd try something new, i can load raw feed transcripts from episodes now that i've mastered google docs new voice print feature. I HATE editing, so i'm just going to load the raw feed, which may prove problematic. But i'll give it a shot, this one this morning was actually addressing a few thoughts on what Sheep and Duke were talking about, needing more space, etc. Anyway, this will give your site here more content RW. Call it an experiment.
Ghost ‘Tarians in the Sky Podcast (available on Spotify)
With Gary Likert
Transcript - 2.-24-2024 - Episode DIY-6
Welcome to my Podcast. My name is Gary Likert and I am now broadcasting out into the vast Spotify Netherlands. And not to be confused, I'm not talking about the Amsterdam kind of thing. This is like.And I want a free package now, so I don't really have any stats. I can see total downloads, but I don't know where they're coming from. And actually that's kind of well, the only analogy to that I've been able to think of is is is a kind of a.You know questionable one where don't look in the hole. You know don't people get obsessed with stats don't they We get obsessed with you know how much support how many likes how many you know views how many all that and I have been that way myself and so now for the first time perhaps.Podcasting.I don't know. And I just, you know, I like it that way now. I'm not looking in the hole anymore. I'm not looking at the stats anymore. You don't want to hear that a third time. So I'm also struck by the I've I've been reading this morning about people wishing they had more space.And here it's two sides of the same coin almost. People with too much space like me worked variously trying to download or downsize, whereas people that wish they had more space or trying to upsize. So it's you know.It's kind of a never ending cycle. Um, one thing that comes to mind this morning, I did have to I have to repurpose.Within a set, boundary and boundaries are very important. You can't. You know, and and maybe it's good to to be thankful that your boundaries aren't too wide because it just becomes another thing. You know, I have 6 acres here and how many do I actually live on? I make an effort.To walk through my woods every day. But you know, I was just as happy if I think about it in that walk in closet back in the late 70s as I am now. So you know, it's all relative. I think we all wish for something and strive for something that we don't have or we used to have. I'm also branching out.The DIY thing is is 2 sided coin to I've. I've still working on the home home planetariums, just the flavors like Baskin and Robbins. You know, almost. I like flavors as opposed to colors as opposed to Henry Ford's one-size-fits-all.Like the Spitz Junior, you know, he went through a couple. There was the yellow one, he had a few blue balls, but then it's standardized on the white and black. I'll give them any color Spitz Junior they want, as long as it's black and white. No, no. I want banana cream. As we've said, I want cherry.Yeah, I went. Anyway, I'm babbling. So.Just a few thoughts this morning at one last thought how having to keep these short. I am trying now also to start adapting some of the hobbies of my child, my son. He is collecting watches and I have decided we're going up to vet.City in Kentucky north of Bowling Green again today and that Saturday. Isn't it better check. I'm losing track. Five years of retirement. We'll do that. So.I am going to look for a pocket watch. I I want a watch now. He knows. So I've asked my son. You know, how can I do this? I don't want to spend too much money, but I would like some, perhaps something just to give my child because I realize my child might not and wink and say sure.That I'll take your 28 inch copper star cylinder, but you know, does he really need it? What's he'll turn it into a coffee table if he keeps it at all saying with the guitars, the beer cans, I want to collect something that he will want to inherit someday. So there's that.so i'm gonna be looking for a pocket watch i'm gonna you know try to stay under 500 it's got to have a chain though you know i want to be able to hypnotize myself or something you know swing it like that like a pendulum almost so just a few thoughts as we get you know comfortable in our new platform.
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Post by Ron Walker on Feb 24, 2024 10:33:46 GMT -7
I've discovered it's not space one needs but "horizontal surfaces under roof" (HSUR) that one really needs. The problem is that as one makes then, they fill up with projects. I've often wondered where those projects would be if the space wasn't available. There are always enough projects to fill any and all useable available space. I think collecting grandfather clocks or better yet Orreries would better suit you.
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Post by starsheep on Feb 24, 2024 14:43:49 GMT -7
Well they say time and space are relative.
I think what I really want is a small technology musuem. Or the California Acadamy of Sciences of the 1950s and 1960s before they went all political and trendy. Ironically it was probably Frank Oppenheimer's ExplorOtorium, that shifted the focus away from the technology models. What could compete with that! By the time I could really appreciate the accadamy's collection it was upstairs in the hallway and in vaults. There was real fear of theft. Especially after the loss of the Soloman's collection. Museum catalogs were seen as shopping lists for art thieves. A lot of great stuff is not on public display.
At least I was acquainted with people back in the 1990s that could get me in to see it.
Does present a conundrum, it it is not out there to be seen, does it still retain value. That estate sale where I got the planetariums from was a classic in compulsive hoarding. I went there to see the Organs. Wound up with planetariums and a 3D projector.
When traveling to the great Musuems of Europe to see the watches, I fell in love with the Band or Fairgrounds organs, with the carnival painting and animated figures. No thought at all about where to put such things. Mostly I was interested in information. A different estate sale came up in Pennsylvania. I wound up with two attics full of 'parts.' Including 700 rare 'stencils' for making music rolls. Which are like piano rolls but play specific instruments. I got deep into scanning these to MIDI format.
In the early 2000s the clock collector freinds died off. So I lost interest in the watches. The Pipe organ people were much younger. One recently retired was looking for a home for his pipe organ. He was restoring an instrument in his San Francisco garage. Another retiree, bought an old Masonic Hall 60 miles up river in the Delta. After WWII almost every returnee was a mason or related service order. So a lot of these halls were built. The hall had been used as a residence and was trashed. The new owners were fixing it up for their residence as the owner collected vacuum tube radios and clocks. While it was being restored those owners lived in the nearby retirement community.
My friends organ was moved up to the Hall and we set about to install it in the temple portion. I quickly learned that such things occupy every foot of space. The social hall was rented out to a church (also of retirees.) The owners of the hall died and as per agreement my friend bought the hall. In the last 15 or so years we have added 4 or 5 more instruments. One instrument, which was purchased from one of the main supplier of Rolls in the 1950s through 1990s in 2013, Needed a complete overhaul. Another friend recently remarked, It looked like it exploded.
I think it was the trip to Switzerland in 2022 what revived my interest in watches. I think this nearly awakened several times during the pandemic. I had become stalled on fixing a watch and needed a part. I made a promise to myself not to get another watch till I got that part. The local hardware store watchmaker said they could order it. Watch manufactures do not sell parts to the public, as this was abused with people making 'Frankenstein' watches from spare or service parts. There are also strong tariffs selling watches across country boarders.
A misdirected online search, and I found the part from a Los Angeles materials house, which does sell stuff to the public. Turns out the old wholesalers will sell the old inventory online. Many repair shops also have turned into online estate sales. It is just the new stuff made after the mid 1990s that is hard to come by. Of course the popular brands have depleted stocks of spares of part which wear out faster than others.
Curiously, I lost all interest in pocket watches. I have drawers of them. Probably should have sold the material for Steampunk 'art' projects, when such things were popular. What other item is where two hundred year old stuff is considered junk. Mas production of pocket watches were perfected by the 1780s. 100s of thousands were made. By the 1850s Millions were made. By the 1920s, there was one watch for every person alive. It only took cell phones about 7 years to do this. There are many billions of watches in this world.
My current interest is in complicated (chronograph) watches. Also watches made by Omega (was called SSH, now is simply called the sWatch group.) I like their industrial design. I also have their 'moonwatch' chronograph. Probably the best mechanical watch ever made. My mentor said of the common Swiss stuff, That properly cared for the watches could last 500 or more years. Not a good business model when it involves selling one watch to one person every year. Most big name manufactures restrict how many they make, and have waiting lists, to control the markets. Try and pretend there is limited supply.
Ironically. Since cell phones have a clock in them. They are also considered pocket watches. And one can even get display skins what mimic the old railroad, and navigation watches.
It really comes down to the price of gold. As only gold cased pocket watches with gold chains and fobs are of interest. Then there is also a certain Rairoad grade such as B. W. Raymond or Appleton and Tracy that the collectors want. Everything else is garbage. I got so sick of the dogma, I gave it up. Curiously many digital watches and phones which came in solid gold cases are now just as obsolete, only worth the melt value.
The only truly valuable part of a watch is it's dial. These are made with a graveir printing process, identical to that used to print currency. It is impossible to replicate this without the original printing plates. It is also impossible to clean this printing without damage. Up through the early 2000s there were companies that did repaint dials. Now the collectors can tell the difference. It also violates copyright and other IP to put the name of a well known manufacture on the dial. This is the very definition of counterfeit.
... And I thought this was going to be a reply how 'stuff' expands to fill the space allocated.
It really is about HSUR to keep things protected from the elements and can be heated or cooled to comfort. Then we are also attempting to place the whole universe into a box. Amazing how the mind can see beyond the edges of infinity. Especially when the infinity is finite, like the point of a dot, or the circumference of a circle. Even the ticking of a clock is a bounded infinity.
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Post by mrgare5050 on Feb 25, 2024 5:39:07 GMT -7
thanks for that discussion!.
Ghost ‘Tarians in the Sky Podcast
With Gary Likert
Unedited Raw Feed (with apologies)
Transcript - 2.-25-2024 - Episode DIY-7
Welcome to the podcast. I'm Gary Likert. Welcome to all I can see on my new podcast here on a cast, our total downloads. I don't know where they're coming from, but that has spiked, so I am assuming that we've got some new folks who may be tuning in for the first time.Across the Spotify platform. Welcome to you. We're glad you're here. Welcome to all those who have followed me in the past as well. In fact, yesterday I went up to the Vet City Antique Mall with my wife, of course, and she.Is better than I am at shopping. Now there's no doubt about that. I am collecting. I'm. I'm branching out. I'm. I'm collecting old poetry collections in the public domain. I just feel safer that way. Safer. There's so many copyright issues now, you know?I just feel better when it's old stuff that's. But here's the thing. I am looking for obscure poets that I have never heard of. I don't want the common ones. I don't want Keats and Coolidge and you know, all that stuff. So I I go to 1.Truth up there that this is an antique mall just north of the Corvette Museum, which is in North Bowling Green, KY which is a short drive up. We actually don't take I-65 from Gallatin. We actually take a side Rd. called 31 W, which it used to be called.Louisville Highway, because before the Expressway, it was the main drag from Louisville all the way down into Nashville. Of course now you know there's no truckers left on that. So we take it because it's more scenic.Uh.So anyway, I go to 1 booth up there at this vet city. That's where that name came from, and that's full of books, but I've fished it out. It's like a fishing hole that no longer has what I'm looking for because, you know, those things are hard to come by. It looks like somebody's old collection of books.So I came up empty handed. I did find an on the air sign, which is a good omen for continuing the podcast. So I've got two now. One I taped down to say AI, but now I've got another one, red, white and blue. So I'll be hanging that on the coop today. It's USB powered, baby. No batteries.No electrical because I'm maxed out on my AC cords out here, but the my better half, my partner, she has an eye for detail, she goes through every booth meticulously and the last two trips when I have basically come up empty.She has handed me a book and said here and it's a book of obscure poetry by somebody I've never heard of. So I immediately Google them to see who they were and it's just more fun that way. So you know there's two I I tend to shop.You know, I take the easy way out, but there's limitations to that. So I owe her a debt of gratitude for being far more detailed and I'm trying to emulate her with my approach to this subject and related subjects Building planetariums at home and.Examine what you've got. Go into the details. Don't just, you know, don't. Like I said, I think yesterday, Well, I've covered this for the fifth time. No, no, no. There's always new aspects. There's always new places to look at, new rocks to look under, if you will, in any subject that you're interested in.And you know, it's just that's just the way it seems to work out. So you don't I used to think, well, if you're not growing you know your weeds are going up around your feet. But now I'm beginning to think, no, it's this, all this looking back, this nostalgia.It really has a purpose because you can find things that you missed. You know, there's always new things to learn. I've really found that. I'm on a hometown Facebook board and I really find that just this morning I found out three new things about an old neighbor who used to live right.Across the street from me that I didn't know, but somebody else did know. So that's the message today that whatever endeavor you're doing now, it's home planetariums here, but that's just a launching pad for looking, turning on the right, turning over rocks. I don't know what I'm saying and just digging out.More detail. Finding those poets that everybody knows, the famous ones. Finding the ones that are not so famous and you might just discover inspiration that muse lurking there, looking back at you, waiting to be asked to show you a new way. Thanks
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Post by Ron Walker on Feb 26, 2024 11:31:19 GMT -7
Well they say time and space are relative. I think what I really want is a small technology musuem. Or the California Acadamy of Sciences of the 1950s and 1960s before they went all political and trendy. Ironically it was probably Frank Oppenheimer's ExplorOtorium, that shifted the focus away from the technology models. What could compete with that! By the time I could really appreciate the accadamy's collection it was upstairs in the hallway and in vaults. There was real fear of theft. Especially after the loss of the Soloman's collection. Museum catalogs were seen as shopping lists for art thieves. A lot of great stuff is not on public display. At least I was acquainted with people back in the 1990s that could get me in to see it. Does present a conundrum, it it is not out there to be seen, does it still retain value. That estate sale where I got the planetariums from was a classic in compulsive hoarding. I went there to see the Organs. Wound up with planetariums and a 3D projector. When traveling to the great Musuems of Europe to see the watches, I fell in love with the Band or Fairgrounds organs, with the carnival painting and animated figures. No thought at all about where to put such things. Mostly I was interested in information. A different estate sale came up in Pennsylvania. I wound up with two attics full of 'parts.' Including 700 rare 'stencils' for making music rolls. Which are like piano rolls but play specific instruments. I got deep into scanning these to MIDI format. In the early 2000s the clock collector freinds died off. So I lost interest in the watches. The Pipe organ people were much younger. One recently retired was looking for a home for his pipe organ. He was restoring an instrument in his San Francisco garage. Another retiree, bought an old Masonic Hall 60 miles up river in the Delta. After WWII almost every returnee was a mason or related service order. So a lot of these halls were built. The hall had been used as a residence and was trashed. The new owners were fixing it up for their residence as the owner collected vacuum tube radios and clocks. While it was being restored those owners lived in the nearby retirement community. My friends organ was moved up to the Hall and we set about to install it in the temple portion. I quickly learned that such things occupy every foot of space. The social hall was rented out to a church (also of retirees.) The owners of the hall died and as per agreement my friend bought the hall. In the last 15 or so years we have added 4 or 5 more instruments. One instrument, which was purchased from one of the main supplier of Rolls in the 1950s through 1990s in 2013, Needed a complete overhaul. Another friend recently remarked, It looked like it exploded. I think it was the trip to Switzerland in 2022 what revived my interest in watches. I think this nearly awakened several times during the pandemic. I had become stalled on fixing a watch and needed a part. I made a promise to myself not to get another watch till I got that part. The local hardware store watchmaker said they could order it. Watch manufactures do not sell parts to the public, as this was abused with people making 'Frankenstein' watches from spare or service parts. There are also strong tariffs selling watches across country boarders. A misdirected online search, and I found the part from a Los Angeles materials house, which does sell stuff to the public. Turns out the old wholesalers will sell the old inventory online. Many repair shops also have turned into online estate sales. It is just the new stuff made after the mid 1990s that is hard to come by. Of course the popular brands have depleted stocks of spares of part which wear out faster than others. Curiously, I lost all interest in pocket watches. I have drawers of them. Probably should have sold the material for Steampunk 'art' projects, when such things were popular. What other item is where two hundred year old stuff is considered junk. Mas production of pocket watches were perfected by the 1780s. 100s of thousands were made. By the 1850s Millions were made. By the 1920s, there was one watch for every person alive. It only took cell phones about 7 years to do this. There are many billions of watches in this world. My current interest is in complicated (chronograph) watches. Also watches made by Omega (was called SSH, now is simply called the sWatch group.) I like their industrial design. I also have their 'moonwatch' chronograph. Probably the best mechanical watch ever made. My mentor said of the common Swiss stuff, That properly cared for the watches could last 500 or more years. Not a good business model when it involves selling one watch to one person every year. Most big name manufactures restrict how many they make, and have waiting lists, to control the markets. Try and pretend there is limited supply. Ironically. Since cell phones have a clock in them. They are also considered pocket watches. And one can even get display skins what mimic the old railroad, and navigation watches. It really comes down to the price of gold. As only gold cased pocket watches with gold chains and fobs are of interest. Then there is also a certain Rairoad grade such as B. W. Raymond or Appleton and Tracy that the collectors want. Everything else is garbage. I got so sick of the dogma, I gave it up. Curiously many digital watches and phones which came in solid gold cases are now just as obsolete, only worth the melt value. The only truly valuable part of a watch is it's dial. These are made with a graveir printing process, identical to that used to print currency. It is impossible to replicate this without the original printing plates. It is also impossible to clean this printing without damage. Up through the early 2000s there were companies that did repaint dials. Now the collectors can tell the difference. It also violates copyright and other IP to put the name of a well known manufacture on the dial. This is the very definition of counterfeit. ... And I thought this was going to be a reply how 'stuff' expands to fill the space allocated. It really is about HSUR to keep things protected from the elements and can be heated or cooled to comfort. Then we are also attempting to place the whole universe into a box. Amazing how the mind can see beyond the edges of infinity. Especially when the infinity is finite, like the point of a dot, or the circumference of a circle. Even the ticking of a clock is a bounded infinity. Why don't you start a thread in the "We Can All Have Other Hobbies Then Planetariums" |
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Post by starsheep on Feb 26, 2024 13:11:46 GMT -7
Other hobbies? I have other Hobbys?
Everything I am interested in is related. (all eventually back to that swiss doll that plays music.)
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Post by mrgare5050 on Feb 28, 2024 15:59:51 GMT -7
thanks for the discussion!
just picked up some new listeners from Canada, Belgium, and the UK (Duke, that must be you) unedited word salad as usual
Ghost ‘Tarians in the Sky Podcast
With Gary Likert
Transcript - 2.-26-2024 - Episode DIY-8
Welcome to the 8th sojourn of this particular podcast. I'm Gary Likert. We're glad to have you here.Now we are DIY.In these episodes, because at the heart of my efforts here is, by the way, 8th sojourn is a takeoff on the end of the classic 7 Moody Blues albums, which was called 7th Sojourn. So this is the 8th Sojourn now I started.I've got some unlabeled episodes out here on ACAST, the free Swedish service that you can't beat the price right or anything. So where was I ohh the.I've got some unlabeled episodes I've been too lazy to go back and change. So if you were not here following along and who was? Sometimes I don't follow along with my own podcast. Anywho the.Eureka moment is in this case for my soon to be realized Line of inexpensive 5 bucks home planetariums that I am going to basically aim not at kids because they're noses.They're on their phone screens, right? Everybody knows that. Not at bloomers cause it's too whimsical and crazy and low tech for them. No, for group leaders, scout leaders, that kind of thing that might be looking for easy, you know, easy project.Basically, and they're scouting guys I don't know who work with me, so.Um, the Eureka moment in this case. Well, let's look at any engineering, whether it's Tinker toys right up to nuclear reactors. The tricky part is what? Interfacing the moving parts, right? Anything. Anything with moving parts.Like our very lives require special handling. Look at, you know, high tech planetariums with their rings, concentric circuits, slip rings they call them. I mean it's the moving parts that are the gotcha usually.How to rotate that star ball? How to tilt the projector? Silo, one or sphere once you make it? No, it's how to make the moving part. So my Eureka moment and you may have missed this. It was like DIY 4. I'm repeating it now, there'll be no mistake.So it was that hey car, now we go, we put our low tech pie plate hat on and say a Quaker Oats carton fit securely but still turned in a coffee can, Kroger coffee can, which is our preferred brand. No that.Doesn't mean we always shop at Kroger, but we do for our coffee. We have special needs coffee. It's gotta be the supreme blue and nothing else. We know the difference in taste. Local management will know if I've tried buying taste tests. The local management knows they're always right. They always.When, as we've recently said to somebody, and so anyway that it was the key, how to make it rotate so once that Eureka moment was found, the rest just fell into place. Now I had already been.You know, I've already built similar things, but never this. You know this pretty and I whimsical them up by putting cheap sunglasses on them so they can, you know, they're folk art. They're Americana. If I say they are, doesn't that make it so? Anyway, that's that's the pitch.I'll use when I try to put these on a couple couple do-it-yourself websites and the flavors, same thing. You know, nobody wants black and white, they want flavors, I'm thinking. So they are going to be vaguely functional, but I figure most kids, that's the last thing. I want them to look good.On the shelf 1st and then function. Maybe not so much, because let's face it, even we jaded. I mean seasoned home planetariums. How much do we really? We look at the sky. We rave at it. Our own sky on our ceiling or our Dome. But.We don't sit out there and study it for hours on a kid isn't going to do that either. They don't sit still for 30 seconds. So you want some recognizable constellations, but it's not doesn't have to be built at these low costs for the, you know, studious, you know, if they come away.knowing the big dipper you've won you've won the battle i'll be back
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Post by Ron Walker on Feb 29, 2024 11:37:03 GMT -7
DOES THIS MEAN WE WILL NEVER SE EPISODES 1 THRU 5?
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Post by mrgare5050 on Feb 29, 2024 13:10:45 GMT -7
the first entries of series were just dumb intro's which collapsed pathetically. this has just been a 3 transcript sampler for my new listeners who may not be familiar with our niche. nothing you havent heard for the past 4 years, but now hopefully you get a flavor, and you are more than welcome to download the free spotify app and join us if you wish!
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