OT Things to ponder

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Will_L

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I planted some milkweed in my garden this year.

Young milkweed pods are delicious, parboil them to make them tender
then saute in butter or olive oil with garlic and a bit of salt.

Did you get that recipe from a Monarch Butterfly? Or at least the caterpillar?

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Will_L

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I planted some milkweed in my garden this year.

Young milkweed pods are delicious, parboil them to make them tender
then saute in butter or olive oil with garlic and a bit of salt.

Some of my pods have been crawling with milkweed bugs. How do you prepare them? Saute them with the pod or deep fry them?

[Will_L_OLD]

Don't remember if it was the butterfly or the caterpillar, was at a tea party so it was probably the caterpillar [;)]

Try deep frying them, maybe they'll puff up like popcorn! They might be a little bitter though since they eat the milkweed sap [8D]

edit: They actually eat the seeds and not the sap but go ahead and try 'em, lizards eat all sorts of bugs [:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Will_L

Don't remember if it was the butterfly or the caterpillar, was at a tea party so it was probably the caterpillar [;)]

Try deep frying them, maybe they'll puff up like popcorn! They might be a little bitter though since they eat the milkweed sap [8D]

edit: They actually eat the seeds and not the sap but go ahead and try 'em, lizards eat all sorts of bugs [:D]

You are aware that many caterpillars have poisonous setae along their body? [:-]

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Will_L

Don't remember if it was the butterfly or the caterpillar, was at a tea party so it was probably the caterpillar [;)]

Try deep frying them, maybe they'll puff up like popcorn! They might be a little bitter though since they eat the milkweed sap [8D]

edit: They actually eat the seeds and not the sap but go ahead and try 'em, lizards eat all sorts of bugs [:D]

You are aware that many caterpillars have poisonous setae along their body? [:-]

Guess I better wear gloves if I need to move them from one group of plants to another.

[Will_L_OLD]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Will_L

Don't remember if it was the butterfly or the caterpillar, was at a tea party so it was probably the caterpillar [;)]

Try deep frying them, maybe they'll puff up like popcorn! They might be a little bitter though since they eat the milkweed sap [8D]

edit: They actually eat the seeds and not the sap but go ahead and try 'em, lizards eat all sorts of bugs [:D]

You are aware that many caterpillars have poisonous setae along their body? [:-]

That reminds me of a millipede I saw walking to work one evening at "the box" on Torii Station, Okinawa.
Thing looked like a piece of carpet around 10" long. As I got close it turned towards me and I stopped about
three feet away, stomped my foot and the damn thing charged at me! Gives me the creeps imagining if it had gotten
close enough to climb my leg LOL. Saw another, bigger, of the same climbing rock ledges near the Summer Palace north
of Nago. Fearsome looking critters, black with short & long "hairs" 2-3" inches wide and friggin' quick.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Will_L

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Will_L

Don't remember if it was the butterfly or the caterpillar, was at a tea party so it was probably the caterpillar [;)]

Try deep frying them, maybe they'll puff up like popcorn! They might be a little bitter though since they eat the milkweed sap [8D]

edit: They actually eat the seeds and not the sap but go ahead and try 'em, lizards eat all sorts of bugs [:D]

You are aware that many caterpillars have poisonous setae along their body? [:-]

That reminds me of a millipede I saw walking to work one evening at "the box" on Torii Station, Okinawa.
Thing looked like a piece of carpet around 10" long. As I got close it turned towards me and I stopped about
three feet away, stomped my foot and the damn thing charged at me! Gives me the creeps imagining if it had gotten
close enough to climb my leg LOL. Saw another, bigger, of the same climbing rock ledges near the Summer Palace north
of Nago. Fearsome looking critters, black with short & long "hairs" 2-3" inches wide and friggin' quick.

Sort of sounds like a centipede - they are all carnivores. But really what I'm wondering is: how did you know it was walking to work?

[Will_L_OLD]

Because it didn't have wings [:'(]

Trying to figure out what kind it was... most similar pic I found was a giant leopard moth caterpillar
but that doesn't coincide with the size or aggressiveness it displayed.

[geofflambert]

That's nothing. The coconut crabs in the Solomons can get to about one meter in diameter and the hornets in China about 6 inches long (15 centimeters).

[geofflambert]

I know I've posted this before, but it can't hurt to do it again. Very nice piece of oboe work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJhax7Jmxs

[geofflambert]

I'd like to say something here. I like music. I really like music. I do not understand how people make it. I don't understand music at all. Composition? How is that done? Jazz musicians improvising on the spot. How is that even possible?

[geofflambert]

As a kid, I learned to play the piano, the cornet and the flute. I was good at none of them. I could kinda sorta read sheet music. I had an aluminum flute. That was the cheapest kind and the best I deserved. A steel flute cost more and rightfully so. An aluminum flute's sound might be described as "warm". A stainless steel flute's sound is sharp and authoritative. The next thing up is a silver flute. Aluminum flutes don't know what warm is compared to a silver flute. Next up are flutes of gold. They sound unlike any of the previous, sound like an entirely different instrument. The best of all, it's strange (or is it?) that the metal value is congruent with the value of the instruments, are flutes of platinum. Those are like the Stradivari of flutes, or the Amati's. I believe I've heard of flutes made of titanium, but know nothing of those.

[BBfanboy]

I like the resonance of wooden instruments too. Listen carefully during the instrumental interludes in this video and you can hear the wooden flute ...
You might have to watch it three or four times to hear anything!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRHyjj34ZE

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I'd like to say something here. I like music. I really like music. I do not understand how people make it. I don't understand music at all. Composition? How is that done? Jazz musicians improvising on the spot. How is that even possible?

warspite1

Listen to something like Beethoven's 6th. Right. How the hell.....?

So even a genius like Beethoven presumably can't play every instrument. So how does he get all the instruments of the orchestra working as they do, playing the notes that they do, to make music that brings a grown man to tears.

Incredible.

[szmike]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I'd like to say something here. I like music. I really like music. I do not understand how people make it. I don't understand music at all. Composition? How is that done? Jazz musicians improvising on the spot. How is that even possible?

+1

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I'd like to say something here. I like music. I really like music. I do not understand how people make it. I don't understand music at all. Composition? How is that done? Jazz musicians improvising on the spot. How is that even possible?

warspite1

Listen to something like Beethoven's 6th. Right. How the hell.....?

So even a genius like Beethoven presumably can't play every instrument. So how does he get all the instruments of the orchestra working as they do, playing the notes that they do, to make music that brings a grown man to tears.

Incredible.

You nailed my favorite. Everyone always talks about the 7th, but I just adore the 6th. Now the 9th, of course that's the best thing ever, but you don't have to love it. Then there's the Lenore overtures. Musical orgasms.

[geofflambert]

You know, when the B wrote the 9th, he was completely deaf? Explain that to me. He still played the piano. Huh? [&:]

[geofflambert]

My mother, when she was singing hymns in church, she would constantly go off key. I was so embarrassed I thought maybe I should side-step away from her. When she thought no one was around she'd play on the piano in the living room and sing. She'd get to a certain point in the hymn and hit (and sing) the wrong key. She'd stop, somehow knowing that something wasn't right, and start over. She'd get to the same place and do it again. [:D] Then she'd start over once more, and it sounded like a broken record. There's probably a lot of youngsters here who don't know what a broken record is, but there's no better way of describing it.

[szmike]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

You know, when the B wrote the 9th, he was completely deaf? Explain that to me. He still played the piano. Huh? [&:]

He heard music in his head when looking at notes.... the closest would be when you sing in your head. Assuming Gorns can do it. [;)]

[geofflambert]

I've been thinking about starting a dating site to attract cute women who wear falsies. My idea is to call it Fauxes Only. Oh, did I just make a fox paw?