Swiftparrot

Freewheelin'56 · Post by **Freewheelin'56** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 2:31 pm

Does anyone know if Swifrtparrot.com is still up and running? Have not been able to connect for a while.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:44 am

thx free, i was just going to post a "where's subby!" thread.

from my end you can tell the 'referring server' still indexes swiftparrot correctly because the site name immediately gets picked up in the URL field and you immediately get half of the blue load bar in firefox. so my guess is swiftparrot is down on the originating end. he talked about a hacker going after his site around a month ago. maybe the punk came back to finish the job. that makes me sad and angry.

i hope the database hasn't been destroyed, because i wrote some GB stuff that i still occasionally refer back to or link to from other sites. possibly this connected the hacker to the site in the first place.

i also left a PM here for subby- still not answered. hope he's okay.

Freewheelin'56 · Post by **Freewheelin'56** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:28 am

Ok thanks Nicolas. Will keep trying though.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:18 am

btw, how's peachie doing? i forget whether you said she liked to talk much.

talking about talk, i was watching a PBS thing on dolphins and orcas tonight, and scientists are still trying to crack the language barrier. when researchers jumped in the water and played a dolphin group's own call back to them, the group responded with some new response the researchers had never heard before. they felt that if they had been able to respond correctly in dolphinese the conversation could have kept unfolding...

also a long-time dolphin researcher recently had a chance to jump in the water with some orca (who aren't quite the man-eaters they are made out to be). one individual brought a man-made toy back to the scientist and gave a series of clicks and whistles. there clearly was some kind of game the orca wanted to play, but the researcher was frustrated because he couldn't figure out the rules.

lastly, one ugly fact i learned- washington state has some of the harshest laws against messing with whales in the world. this was necessary because around 1970 many fisherman and poachers would catch individuals and pods on the washington coast and sell them to places like seaworld. the population got decimated at that time. but when the researcher-host of the show returned recently he found that the laws had not saved the orca population. altho orcas typically live 50-80 years, all the male individuals he met and recorded in the 70's had died. the cause was PCB's- it's in the waters and the animals take it in and store it in their fatty tissues. the situation is so bad that the bodies of dead orcas have to be classified as toxic waste. the only reason the mothers are still alive is because they are able to eliminate the stored PCB's into their milk, which of course means the calves are sure to die. pretty sad for orcas in that area.

Freewheelin'56 · Post by **Freewheelin'56** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:55 pm

Aw did not know about the Orca thing in the 70's. Thats to bad, ya I knew that they where not the supposed man-killers. Lunacy and I found out one day doing some research on them. She was big on whales and dolphins.
Peachie is doing fine. No talking yet, that will take a while

or may never happen. I don't have as much time as I would like to spend with it. Does squawk up a storm sometimes though

. Likes to fly around in the room it stay in and sits on the window ledges to check out the world. I think our dog thinks its a tid-bit for her sometimes, keeps a close eye on it at times.

Sabarai · Post by **Sabarai** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:46 pm

Who/What's Peachie?

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:49 pm

Oh Sab, its clear that wheels here has gotten a pet gargoyle.

PS Nic come back to Tron!

Freewheelin'56 · Post by **Freewheelin'56** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:34 am

Peachie is a Peached Faced Lovebird. I found it one day while walking the dog in the park.

Post by **Tank Program** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:33 am

I can't believe you found a bird like that in your local park... That aside, very cool

.

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:36 am

very clever wheels, but not clever enough. I applied special filters to your picture of your "bird" and found something incredible.. It is a gargoyle!

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:02 am

lol, joe- n1

DrJoeTr0n wrote:PS Nic come back to Tron!

i guess i'll always be flattered that someone misses me, but joe- i gotta say this question is getting tiresome. i quit for concrete reasons and everytime you say this to me i explain what the reasons were (again). i should point out that i actually discovered arma almost three years ago and tried to spread awareness as much as i could over time. i've gotten dozens of people playing the game. i also played very intensely for about six months, aiming to compete more-or-less on the same level as the top players in the game. i got reasonably close, being able to beat some regularly, altho i could never really touch people like communist, eggcozy, or yourmom.

maybe one day i'll sample the then-current flavor of arma and get hooked again. but for now MPOGD.NET (thanks to, er, you!) is going to take some time to sort thru.

P.S. i think you IM'd me a couple times a month or two ago and i didn't respond. well i was finally making the switch from trillian to gaim and fumbled some messages away. sorry, dude!

Freewheelin'56 · Post by **Freewheelin'56** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:00 pm

Tank. I cuold not belive it myself when I caught it, had clipped wings so was easy but suprised. A cat was eyeing it when I came by.
Ok Dr. how'd you find out, can't pull the wool over ur eyes

nice pic.

Sabarai · Post by **Sabarai** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:53 pm

Aha, nice birdy/gargoyle FW.

Now both come back on the grid

Freewheelin'56 · Post by **Freewheelin'56** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:26 am

I'm on the grid everyday

Where are you?

Sabarai · Post by **Sabarai** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:22 pm

Oh... I'm not on the grid that much, I've got a job now

And I can't keep up with new tactics

Though I check the forums regularly so please PM me when you are online (and you want someone to lose)