The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[h2oratt]

They are very nice looking birds.

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi Lisa and Robin

Quilt is super!

 

[speckledhen]

Hi Lisa and Robin

Quilt is super!

Thanks, I almost have the entire top done, but I couldn't concentrate today for some reason.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Hi Lisa and Robin

Quilt is super!

Hi back. Are you getting rain up in your neck of the UP woods this summer? We seem to be in a dry zone where everything is going around us. Seems Wisconsin is either too dry or too wet this year depending on where you are at.

 

[robhuncor]

Here in NY the rain has been brutal this summer. A LOT of thunderstorms. Twice lightning hit our electrical system last week. First time the A/C compressor was knocked out but the second one was a real doozy! I had just pulled into my driveway and was waiting for the rain to let up so I could run for the house. A flock of wild turkeys was ambling through the yard when lightning struck a big pine tree right next to the house. The turkeys exploded and scattered in all directions like they had a grenade dropped into the middle of them! I bolted for the house thinking the heck with waiting this out! My son was home and we ran around checking to see if all was ok. I couldn't find the cat so went out on the back porch to look for him and saw that the big pine tree was on fire! Flames were leaping up the trunk and it looked like in a few seconds the needles would catch on fire and it would turn into a big torch. Luckily we have a rain barrel nearby so we ran with buckets of water and got it out before we needed to call the fire department! Then we discovered a 5 inch deep trench the lightning had gauged out that zigzagged right to the corner of the house! All our computers were screwed up but everything else is ok. I was a little rattled after that but when I think what has been going on in California with all the fires, this was minor. I wish I could send CA some of this rain!

 

[getaclue]

Our part of Florida has broken all rainfall records this year.

 

[speckledhen]

We're about to get a break from rain after today and some slightly cooler weather.

My son posted this on FB awhile ago. The new movie "Alpha" is done with a constructed language created by someone he knows, much like the language he created. I tell you, there are folks who live for this sort of stuff.

Mike Bacon
8 hrs ·
Just went to see ‘Alpha’ at the theater. Freaking incredible! Done completely in a constructed language and English subtitles...and to think I know the language creator. AWESOME!

 

[speckledhen]

Just for fun, a blast from the past, when music was just fun, not always degrading to women, not sinister and dark all the time. Good morning, Atlas fans! This was one of my very first purchased records as a kid, I think. Listen and start the day upbeat!

 

[getaclue]

I never really considered someone making up an actual language. When they started with Klingon, on Star Trek, I thought it was just gibberish that the writers threw in. Turns out, it either was, or became an actual language. Same thing with some of the other "futuristic" or alien type sci-fi movies. Interesting.

 

[speckledhen]

I never really considered someone making up an actual language. When they started with Klingon, on Star Trek, I thought it was just gibberish that the writers threw in. Turns out, it either was, or became an actual language. Same thing with some of the other "futuristic" or alien type sci-fi movies. Interesting.

Klingon is an actual language with its own grammar/syntax. If my son could be hired for a movie to use his language skills, that would be fabulous, or to use his art in some way. He knows a lot of bands, so he could do album art, etc. If he could get breaks like that, he could get out of food service, that he should not have been stuck in in the first place.