Yesterday, my father and I went to see the Western Illinois Threshers Inc. 50th Annual Show in Hamilton, IL. There were many old tractors, a couple oil pull threshers, some garden tractors, some automobiles, and a few Mack trucks. This website describes it more in depth: http://www.westernillinoisthreshers.org/Here is an Oil Pull thresher/tractor (being used to turn the belt for a sawmill that is outside of the picture). CORRECTION: This is an Advance Rumely steam tractor/thresher (being used t
So it's around 5:45 in the morning; I'm sleeping. Mind you, we've only all gotten moved back into college on Friday (or Saturday for some), and most people are in different townhouses than last year. Anyway, it's 5:45 AM and I'm asleep. I hear my door open which wakes me up. I figured it was my roommate because last year he had the room on the right, and myself the left, but this year it got switched. Well it turns out it wasn't my roommate.
Someone walks into my room. I stay still, pretendi
So I came up with a question - how many members are there with zero posts?
I clicked "Overall Top Posters" on the main page:
Went to the very last page, and starting jumping backwards to the point where the members listed on the top of the page had 1 post, and all the rest after it had 0 posts. That is page 1021 of 1555.
Each page lists 20 members...
*As of 4:30 AM, 3/8/2016*
The last page only had 1 member, and page 1021 had 9 members with 0 posts.
(1554 - 1022) = 5
***I'm not trying to start any arguments. I just want to know if anyone has ever thought about this, or maybe even if someone can help me possibly come closer to a better understanding.***
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It's not that I am having doubts, per se, but rather have over time pondered some thoughts and questions... But I think this will mostly be centered around one main, overarching topic.
How?
I just can't wrap my mind around how it is possible. The fact that there are so many variatio
Okay so, let me explain to you that I'm not just one of the folks who "says" they are an audiophile.
My father is an Audio/Visual Tech Manager for Caterpillar currently. But, even before he was so lucky to get that title, he's been a DJ for over two decades (he's been doing it as an odd-job since before I was even born).
When I was young, he sometimes took me to some of the parties he played music for. Over the years, he taught me about sound quality, speakers, distortion, ... just,
Although many would say "don't speak too soon - you'll jinx it," but, I don't believe that's the case.
A month ago a made a blog (as well as another a month before that) explaining some emotional discomforts. I was in the midst of going through a periodically recurring cycle. For the past 3 years, I would seem to go through it once per year, always around the start of fall, when I go back to college. Typically, it would last until winter came...
Well, I believe I broke the cycle. I think
*Disclaimer: Very much flow writing, as my mind has been bouncing about around thoughts at the speed of sound that I have to just let loose, and chronology may not exist in this*
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College
Becoming and an adult
Opportunity and free will
attachments
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It's freaking weird. It's so familiar, yet so unknown. It's so close, yet light years away. I have felt it before. But this isn't the same. It's not the same thing it felt the last time, nor the time before it.
When people ask me if I'm ready to go back to college, all I ever say is essentially: "It's not that I don't like college; I do. I just don't like leaving home."
I've always been that way. A "home boy" - literally speaking.
But how true is that anymore...
I'm beginning to hate this hellhole. The only reason I loved it so much to begin with is because it's all I ever had, it's the only place I had lived. This backwards, country town, with it's traditionally minded citizens. Masking th
Disclaimer: The first couple sentences here started out as if I was just going to make a status update about this. Then, of course, I realized I had a lot to say. So, I decided to make a blog.
Whoa. Uh... This is hard to describe, but... This song just gave me a sort of "situational nostalgia" - I remember listening to it a long time ago one night when I had insomnia. And this feeling I have... makes me kinda want to be able to remember what I was feeling when I had insomnia. Yeah, I know
Sometimes I get bored and have the urge to edit a song in Audacity...
Of course this time around I edited the song "Trust" by Adema (it's one of my favorites).
I boosted the bass, and made the instruments sound a bit "dirty" (rockers, you know what I mean)... I wanted to make it sound a bit more "grungy," and I think I did pretty good, too.
This is unlisted because idk, lol, I guess I'm halfway trying to avoid copyright infringement, lmao:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-0K
I was at church yesterday, and during the sermon I thought to myself how ironic it is that I'd grown up going to this church, which teaches and preaches of things I do not agree with...
*Sigh*
For a long time I've been realizing the amount of attention that religion has been getting (here [on the forums] and everywhere [in real life, generally]). It's sad to see that more often than not, the people talking are, on both sides, stubborn.
I know what you may have been thinking, "oh gre
--- After I made this status, it hit me. A feeling that is very difficult to describe in words. Multiple things simultaneously ran through my mind. About how important this site, the show, and the fandom is to me. Just that feeling alone you saw in my status update about how much I loved seeing the MLG Forums banner, and even the Comic Sans text, was enough to kickstart these thoughts... (and sure it was funny but the reason is more than that). It's easy to see just how much the staff care a
Hey Everypony!
I thought I'd make this song into a video so I can share it with you. It's just a picture background (had to make it a video file to upload to YouTube).
This is the elusive background song that I know many of you were probably wondering about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkn8-AfFoCw
Such a fun song
I have the video as unlisted, more or less trying to avoid copyright issues, lol.
~ Miles
The other day I was reading someone's blog, and came upon a single sentence that struck me in the best way possible. It was something that I had always known, but that I didn't know that I had always known. You may think that to be quite a contradiction, but I'm sure you'll understand what I mean after I tell you what that something is.
At the time I read it, I was compelled to quote him in my comment, and tell him I totally agreed, but I didn't do anything more than that.
Today, as I
*Read this intro before you look at my list*
Alright, how do I even begin...
When I first set forth to make this blog, I had wanted to make a Top 5 favorites list, just like Rivendare did, here.
I realized I couldn't just choose 5 songs, because there are way too many songs I love from the show. Now you may be thinking, "Oh, it's because he's indecisive..." --- But you couldn't be more wrong. It's because I'm too decisive, and stubborn. And, also because if you analyze my favorites,
So... We all love the original... personally it's probably one of my favorite songs in the show. But, I wanted to make it better. I wanted to hear those beautiful voices even better. So, I took it upon myself to edit the song in Audacity... and I did it; I enhanced the clarity of their voices, as well as the instruments...
Use 720p for best results!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCESwvJ7US8
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
~ Miles
Welcome to my first blog. Pleasure having you.
I'm here to do a few things. The main point, actually, is for myself. The aftermath I want for you and you all to be able to use as guides for yourselves... in order to better your own mindsets, if either possibly troubled, or if even just fine, I am damn near sure that such a case that I will be laying out here, that such my own example, is something that can help you to feel better about yourself, whether or not you need it --- I just l
