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Post by Vassaggo on Nov 16, 2023 17:07:24 GMT
lol where exactly is your Heart of Darkness I'm assuming not Africa. Green Bay, Wisconsin, a most unholy place. Lol. You are Illinois man right? You going wear you blue and orange to stand out?
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Post by Vassaggo on Nov 16, 2023 17:10:33 GMT
I know King based Roland off of Clint Eastwood in The Man with No Name, but I always picture Kurt Russell in Tombstone sans the mustache.
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Post by ofunknownorigins on Nov 16, 2023 17:11:45 GMT
Green Bay, Wisconsin, a most unholy place. Lol. You are Illinois man right? You going wear you blue and orange to stand out? Yes to both, but I’m checking with Abbey if I’ll be attacked for it since they hate the Bears. Regardless I’m rooting for whatever team they’re playing (I think the Chargers).
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Post by bomtombadil on Nov 16, 2023 18:50:06 GMT
I knew it was going to take a bit to get the ball rolling. I've talked we a few of you privately, but I wanted to see if you guys are still going strong. Monday we will start discussing Oracle and the Mountain. It's a short chapter. And the the following Monday the last 2 chapters. (Slow Mutants / The Gunslinger and Man in Black). I didn't really plan this but the last 2 chapters we will be reading Thanksgiving week/weekend. Do not think you have to read if you don't have time. Have fun with your families. The Trashcan Man bartlesby Boricanator ofunknownorigins Dracula bomtombadil tommyrockarolla TheGoodMan19 san926f 🐾 Molly 🐾 Haven't heard much from Boricantor, ofunkownorigins, drac, bomtombadil, tommy and the Goodman... I wasn't able to get my phone to play the audio book that you linked to here, but I was able to do it on my normal computer. Since I was going to listen on my daily commute to and from work, I have to do it through my phone, but it just loads like normal, but won't begin for some reason.
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Post by Vassaggo on Nov 16, 2023 18:58:04 GMT
I knew it was going to take a bit to get the ball rolling. I've talked we a few of you privately, but I wanted to see if you guys are still going strong. Monday we will start discussing Oracle and the Mountain. It's a short chapter. And the the following Monday the last 2 chapters. (Slow Mutants / The Gunslinger and Man in Black). I didn't really plan this but the last 2 chapters we will be reading Thanksgiving week/weekend. Do not think you have to read if you don't have time. Have fun with your families. The Trashcan Man bartlesby Boricanator ofunknownorigins Dracula bomtombadil tommyrockarolla TheGoodMan19 san926f 🐾 Molly 🐾 Haven't heard much from Boricantor, ofunkownorigins, drac, bomtombadil, tommy and the Goodman... I wasn't able to get my phone to play the audio book that you linked to here, but I was able to do it on my normal computer. Since I was going to listen on my daily commute to and from work, I have to do it through my phone, but it just loads like normal, but won't begin for some reason. The way I do it on my Android Phone is to down load VLC Media Player. (VLC plays almost anything it's free/open source and there's one for Android and Mac.) Then download the audiofile completely (instead of streaming it) to the phone and open it with VLC.
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Post by Vassaggo on Nov 16, 2023 18:59:51 GMT
I wasn't able to get my phone to play the audio book that you linked to here, but I was able to do it on my normal computer. Since I was going to listen on my daily commute to and from work, I have to do it through my phone, but it just loads like normal, but won't begin for some reason. The way I do it on my Android Phone is to down load VLC Media Player. (VLC plays almost anything it's free/open source and there's one for Android and Mac.) Then download the audiofile completely (instead of streaming it) to the phone and open it with VLC. bartlesby you are better at this than me any chance you can help Bomtombadil through it in PM?
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Post by bartlesby on Nov 17, 2023 11:53:11 GMT
The way I do it on my Android Phone is to down load VLC Media Player. (VLC plays almost anything it's free/open source and there's one for Android and Mac.) Then download the audiofile completely (instead of streaming it) to the phone and open it with VLC. bartlesby you are better at this than me any chance you can help Bomtombadil through it in PM? Nope! Unless it's something obvious, I'm not going to be much help. If the files are off Google Drive, that means it's just a matter of him finding a player that supports them if whatever the default is doesn't work. To answer your question on the first chapter, I visualized the desert as being dark reddish as a trick of the light as dusk comes and the gunslinger is out in the wild but more stereotypical western desert in the light of day. I'll give the second chapter a re-read but frankly I'm falling behind so I may just catch-up later.
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Post by bomtombadil on Nov 17, 2023 13:50:59 GMT
I wasn't able to get my phone to play the audio book that you linked to here, but I was able to do it on my normal computer. Since I was going to listen on my daily commute to and from work, I have to do it through my phone, but it just loads like normal, but won't begin for some reason. The way I do it on my Android Phone is to down load VLC Media Player. (VLC plays almost anything it's free/open source and there's one for Android and Mac.) Then download the audiofile completely (instead of streaming it) to the phone and open it with VLC. I have an iPhone, but I'll continue to monkey around with it when I get some more free time. In a very hectic period right now.
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Post by Vassaggo on Nov 17, 2023 21:14:44 GMT
The way I do it on my Android Phone is to down load VLC Media Player. (VLC plays almost anything it's free/open source and there's one for Android and Mac.) Then download the audiofile completely (instead of streaming it) to the phone and open it with VLC. I have an iPhone, but I'll continue to monkey around with it when I get some more free time. In a very hectic period right now. Don't feel any rush or anything. That includes you to bartlesby . Everybody is feeling the crunch. Nobody expects that this is a priority during Thanksgiving week. :) Try monkeying around with VLC it has a Iphone version. Once the chaos simmers down. apps.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id650377962
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Post by Vassaggo on Nov 17, 2023 22:22:04 GMT
bartlesby you are better at this than me any chance you can help Bomtombadil through it in PM? Nope! Unless it's something obvious, I'm not going to be much help. If the files are off Google Drive, that means it's just a matter of him finding a player that supports them if whatever the default is doesn't work. To answer your question on the first chapter, I visualized the desert as being dark reddish as a trick of the light as dusk comes and the gunslinger is out in the wild but more stereotypical western desert in the light of day. I'll give the second chapter a re-read but frankly I'm falling behind so I may just catch-up later. Sorry for the expectation of knowledge about this kinda stuff. I assumed you were jack of all traded when it came to modern tech problems like this. Over the years I saw you tackle problems, so I likened you to a friend of mine. He was a music major when we went to college together. He dropped out and for an IT job. Now he is IT/Coding manager for a decently sized company. You kinda remind me of him. And 99 times out of a 100, I can ask him some esoteric problem he has a solution. No worried on the vlc problem. Also don't feel any pressure during the holiday and the crunch everybody feels right now. We feel it before, during and after to catch up because of it. Everybody can chill on reading and we can regroup when the holiday season has calmed down. As for the aesthetics of the desert in your mind... The dichotomy you conjured is pretty cool and fits with the themes of the book. Me personally I've mostly pictured the deserts in the Old Spaghetti Westerns in general. In the specific the deserts/scrub lands in The Good the Bad and the Ugly. mostly shot in Spain and italy. (some scenes were shot in Germany and a few in US) So it's more scrubland than desert in a lot of scenes. Also if you look at my avatar here I used Clint's Comicbook Persona as the Gunslinger. Even though I use Kurt Russell Persona while reading.
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Post by Vassaggo on Nov 28, 2023 3:17:34 GMT
Because of all the chaos my left ankle induced Lets just say the The whole book will be opened to be discussed on the Dec 4th.
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Post by Vassaggo on Dec 9, 2023 9:08:38 GMT
prolly going to continue to be spotty for a bit. I have had 2 surgeries on my left ankle in last 20 days. So far there is 1 Tibia Plate, 1 Fibula Rod, 150mm of Ortho Steel Wire, a T plate, and 6 screws ranging from 20mm to 60mm.
Ok The whole book is open to be discussed. Please discuss as much as you can as I'm going to be fucked for a while more.
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