Inconsequential Chat
For those who thought the original tale was a bit fishy ... although I doubt the bacterium ever looked like this...
Came upon these just recently:
Songs of disappearance - Australian Bird Calls.
In this ARIA chart-topping recording of pure birdsong you can hear 53 of our most threatened species:
(ARIA is the Australian Recording Industry Association. Aussie version of the Grammy Awards.)
Aussie Birds and their calls
Australia's most common birds
I may as well add this recent arrival to the collection ...
Rainbow Lorikeets - Everything You Never Knew (and Less!)
marksierra said:
This is very good. Mesmerising, in fact.
Wow, very cool.
DaveSchmidt said:
Bump for Jaytee.
thanks…. Where was it? Maybe the search engine here has an aversion to iPhones.
The lorikeet vid gives you a mild idea of the soundscape outside our bedroom windows, all day & half the night. Surrounded by tall flowering trees. Very very noisy.
Jaytee said:
marksierra said:
Smart move.
What? No Oolong?
What's worse, it's decaffeinated!
Didja see this about the beautiful 1898 GE Thomson Surrey?
It’s just kept just a couple hours north from here, in wonderful running condition. Apparently on 3 were made and this is the last remaining. Photo depicts GE founder Elihu Thomson driving with Thomas Edison and Hermann Lemp.
Found out more about the US auto museum: it was the Wolfden in Massachusetts. More details, discussion, and a lovely driving video from earlier this year here:
steamautomobile.com (Phorum. Look for SteamStuff, then Thomson Surrey. Sorry, link wouldn’t copy)
Hey, do you guys still play marbles??
There’s an error in this recipe.
The word ‘change’ should read ‘lose’.
As a broadcast engineer, I believe I can bring some illumination to the problem at hand.
marksierra said:
As a broadcast engineer, I believe I can bring some illumination to the problem at hand.
I shared this with my son who has a degree in aerospace engineering and works as a manufacturing (mechanical) process engineer. He chuckled and said that "Industrial Engineer" on the table was the one he could most relate to.
Solstice on Friday morning! 
New Jersey welcomes summer solstice on Thursday arvo, followed by a strawberry moon on Friday
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