Monday, December 31, 2012

BlooogMeet Report

[MUSIC: BLOGMEET REPORT THEME,* FROM START AND FADE UNDER OPEN]:

     Good Morning, Mr. and Mrs. America (remember, do not 'turn them all in!'), I'm Roberta X and this is your BlogMeet Report!

[MUSIC FADE OUT]

     Most attendees were more than prompt -- Tam, Turk Turon and Your Correspondent arrived with a degree of promptness and found Shermlock Shomes, the younger (but all growed up, let us be clear!) Shomes, Kerry and Old Grouch already enjoying ale and conversation.  Joanna arrived while we were crossing the parking lot and Fuzzy Curmudgeon was only just too late for the group photograph.
     Kerry brought a particular wonder, an antique Weeden tabletop steam engine that had belonged to his grandfather!
     Possibly a No. 14, a very nice toy engine.  L to R atop boiler: whistle and valve, throttle and safety valve. (Kerry also brought some home-grown, hand-picked artisanal eggs for the kitchen at Roseholme, for which our thanks!)

      Chatter was wide-ranging as usual -- a high point was the Shomes giftage giveaway, three nice stocking-stuffer items for three recipients selected by choice of random number.

      Food?  How 'bout this take on the "Ploughman's Lunch:"
     Yum!

     A fun time for all!  -- See you at the next?
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*Probably the instrumental open from Baba O'Riley; you've got like 1:15 before the lyrics and it works very well as a news theme.
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6 comments:

  1. Home on the RangeDecember 31, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    Sorry I missed it, but had invite from colleague for a gathering pre New Years. :-(

    LOVE the steam engine.

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  2. BGMillerDecember 31, 2012 at 10:00 AM

    Nah, for your opening audio I would imagine something more along the lines of an old school news ticker chattering in the back ground with maybe a bit of Morse from your correspondent "over there".

    Just my two cents.

    BGM

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  3. Dave HDecember 31, 2012 at 1:43 PM

    WATH-AM in Athens, Ohio inadvertently developed a neat sound effect for their news broadcast. Their "news room" was a phone booth sized closet with a small desk, microphone, and the rack holding their wire service receiver and a small thermal printer. Whenever the newsreader paused, the speech compressor would turn up the microphone gain until it could pick up the quiet "burrbur bur burrburrburrbur burr burr" sound the printer made.

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  4. Old GrouchDecember 31, 2012 at 8:29 PM

    "...a neat sound effect for their news broadcast..."

    Back in the old days it was two or three Model 15s in the room adjacent.

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  5. MSgt BJanuary 1, 2013 at 8:20 AM

    Happy New Year Roberta!

    That lunch looks delicious.

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  6. Fuzzy CurmudgeonJanuary 1, 2013 at 9:23 AM

    I hate being late. Glad I got there. :)

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