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  2. Posted

    Haha, well it seems like any good legend this one has grown with the telling. No ten rules I'm afraid.

    I finally found it after some roundabout search engining.

    And welcome back HK. Next time you put pics of guys giving head in the park can you put a "Not safe for work" warning on it please?

    **

    http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/inde...14847&st=25

    I noticed alot of new people joining up when the competition/raffle/free-stuff craze went through.

    Perhaps there were alot of people lurking and reading until the chance came up to get some goodies for participating.

    I don't like to mention 'noobs' much though because I feel pretentious, elitist and big-headed.

    Before posting I think people should just consider:

    - Is my post redundant?

    (Has this been mentioned elsewhere? Is the answer to this available elsewhere?) If it is something which is "common knowledge" like "What is HBWR?" then a little searching would dig the answer up.

    - Is my post informed?

    eg. don't speculate wildly about some physiological phenomena that to your knowledge could operate in an entirely opposite fashion. EVERYONE is capable of making uninformed idle speculation and noone generally wants to read it. If the thread goes untouched for a long time then maybe put your two-cents in, but generally someone else with more knowledge will pipe up.

    - Will post be appreciated?

    At certain times the aforementioned two rules can be disregarded in favour of eg. a joke. You can make a contribution through character (some of my favourite posts by others have been just such) but this should be done judiciously... unless you're a charming, witty, charismatic, celebrity, comedian like EG.

    - Does my post conform to the rules?

    Try to be nice. And of course don't incriminate yourself.

    Maybe there's some more things people could add that I've left out.

    In any case, new or old, anyone is capable of making useless, poorly thought out or annoying posts. Whether your presence here is appreciated will largely be judged on the ratio of these to your quality posts.

  3. Posted

    I tried playing by the rules for a while but found the protection on iTunes-purchased music to be more restrictive and frustrating than when I used to buy music on CD. I can't listen to the music my brother buys on his account, moving tracks from iPod to computer to computer to device is impossible and I've wasted dozens of CDs trying to burn albums with some sort of protection on them. I also don't have the net at home, so authentication, registration and all that bullshit is inaccessible to me.

    Anyway, this all recently built to a head, I got the shits and now I'm a pirate, yarrgh! I'll save my money for gigs.

    The album is fantastic I think. More of a Younger Brother feel with all the live drums on it. I think its been written with a more full live-band kind of vibe in mind rather than your DJ front and center with support.

    Love it!

  4. Posted

    Anyone here going to this one?

    http://www.highanddryfestival.net/

    27-29 November

    High&Dry Festival 2009.

    Three full days of arts, music, camping and ridiculous fun in the most magical setting of Camp Wollimi, just two hours North of Sydney.

    Spend the final weekend in November relaxing on the sandy riverbank by day and partying to some of Australia's finest independent musicians by night - what's more, High&Dry is Sydney's only BYO festival.

    Expect a full-fleshed arts program too; interactive installation, twisted sculpture and cutting edge theatre.

    High&Dry is not for profit, independent, and is funded one hundred per cent by its participants. That means there is no corporate or government sponsorship of any sort; every single dollar comes from the hard-earned pockets of the very same people grooving to the tunes, splashing in the river and soaking up the sunshine next to you.

  6. Posted

    My point about it being a subspecies of A. obtusifolia was that it was vanishingly unlikely to be one :)

    Good call xodarap.

    I keyed this out with Wattle last night just using the pics and a few of meanies clues and A. implexa seems a compelling answer. Read the species description from PlantNET:

    Erect or spreading tree 5–12 m high, often suckers freely; bark hard, smooth becoming corrugated or fissured at base, greyish or brownish; branchlets terete or rarely angled, glabrous, commonly lightly pruinose.

    Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to very narrowly elliptic, subfalcate or falcate, 7–18 cm long, 6–25 mm wide, glabrous, 3–7 longitudinal veins prominent, numerous longitudinally anastomosing minor veins between, apex acute or subacute with a mucro; 1 inconspicuous gland at base; pulvinus 1–5 mm long.

    Inflorescences 4–8 in an axillary raceme; axis usually 2–6 cm long; peduncles 6–13 mm long, finely hairy; heads globose, 30–50-flowered, 5–10 mm diam., pale yellow to ± white.

    Pods curved to twisted or coiled, raised over seeds, barely to slightly or variably more deeply constricted between seeds, 6–20 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, firmly papery to leathery, ± smooth, glabrous, often slightly pruinose; seeds longitudinal; funicle whitish, folded below seed.

    We need some reproductive material for a lock, but I think implexa she be.

    I also read that stock have died from ingestion of green pods and that leaves were used by aborigines as a fish poison.

  7. Posted

    Touch is your friend. Run your fingers down the margin of the phyllode. Obtusi will be rough and textured. I don't know what "resinous" means, but basically, the margins of obtusi phyllodes have texture, they are rough, uneven. Look carefully at shruman's pics and you will see that every phyllode has this textured margin. Try searching for pics on some other obtusi threads too.

    The pics of your tree show uniformly smooth margins. If I ran my finger along the phyllode edge I'm pretty sure they'd be rather smooth and continuous.

    Also, the feel of an obtusi phyllode is leathery and thick. Not flexible like a lot of the other acacias. Obviously, these are comparative references that you don't truly appreciate till you've experienced them first hand, so the confusion is understandable.

    If the South Coast variety/subspecies/form/morph of Acacia obtusifolia lacks rough margins and has weeping phyllodes then it is an unpublished, unrecognized difference. More likely I would think is that you have a different species.

    Which makes your observations of its geometry very interesting.

    More photos! :)

  8. Posted

    Not sure what she is but obtusi she ain't.

    The phyllode margins on this one are smooth - they lack the withering found on obtusi.

    The phyllodes on this tree mostly hang or tend towards hanging. Obtusi phyllodes are erect.

    Sure, some phyllode characters are very variable, such as width and shape, but in my opinion, these two characters haven't varied on any of the obtusi I have ever seen. Granted I've not seen obtusi from every part of its range.

  12. Posted

    Will this stuff be up to scratch with the Sargol gear SAB used to sell? That's the only benchmark I really have.

    Also, what sort of quantities are you looking for people to buy? I'm interested but wouldn't want too much and that may not be useful to you if you're trying to kick a bulk order above threshold.

  15. Posted

    Looking to trade for or purchase...

    Established plants:

    Artemisia absinthum

    Melissa officianalis

    Hyssop officianalis

    Dried herb:

    Acorus calamus root

    Liquorice root

    Just bought wormwood and melissa from SAB but wouldn't say no to another nice specimen ready to spring into spring.

    Let me know if you can help out.

  17. Posted

    Checked this out the other day paying particular attention to the Juliflorae branches :)

    A great idea but executed in a bit of a half-assed way. Ceramic pots and paving stones would have been a vast improvement on plastic pots and white rope. But I guess funding is tight and I'm a hypercritical bastard.

  18. Posted

    Dear Idiot,

    There are no reputable references that formalise the shorthand used by whisperz, i.e. (Ps. cub.). This is because nobody bothers to write down what is bleedingly simple and obvious to everyone else. If whisperz were writing a scientific paper he would have...

    Ah fuck it.

    Everyone else in the room agrees and understands. There's a point where ignorance ends and trolling begins... we might be over that line now.

    Nice grows.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_(biology)

  19. Posted · Edited by MORG

    Dear Issac Newton

    It can only be "Psilocybe Cubensis"

    OR

    "Psilocybe mexicana"

    The contracted nomenclature used by whisperz (Ps. cub Mexican) is valid but he hasn't explained it well to you, probably because of your attitude.

    Ps. = Psilocybe = genus

    cub = cubensis = species

    Mexican = Mexican = strain

    So in theory you can name a Ps. cub (Whateverthefuckyoulike).

    The strain name will be as good as people are diligent in keeping the name together with the culture. And obviously unique cultures will be more likely to engender this diligence.

  23. Posted

    Hmmmm.... I'd love to have a go at this. Meal worms are certainly not hard to obtain and culture. Could even try feeding lightly innoculated grain to cultured meal worms and see what happens.

    But I wonder if there is any evidence to suggest that C. gunnii might have the goodies that C. sinensis and C. militaris are reputed to have.

    We all well know that fungal metabolites such as alkaloids can vary widely between species within genera.

    $60 is expensive for a culture. Makes me wish I'd collected the specimen we found at Jenolan State Forest on the camping trip.

  24. Posted

    Thanks all for the comments, I have been reading them with interest.

    I must say, I can understand why G*P's attitude to this may ruffle a few but I kinda like what he's saying. I guess I'm a bit of a control freak and I have trouble believing I could entirely let go and offer myself completely to this. At the same time, I think it would be a valuable experience if I could do that, and therefore makes it worth trying.

    I will think on it more. I won't have time until early 2010 to get involved but I think one day I will certainly do this.

  25. Posted

    I'm interested to hear of anyone's experience with Vipassana meditation.

    I have been thinking recently about going on one of the retreats and learn these techniques. I'm primarily motivated by the opportunity to learn a new way to use my brain and to explore an altered (right word?) state of being. Who knows, I might even get some practical benefit like increased focus or concentration.

    I'm attracted to Vipassana because of its non-ideological nature. I'm slightly intimidated by the ten-day retreat though.

    Has anyone done these retreats? If so, where abouts did you do them? What was your experience? Would you recommend?

    http://www.dhamma.org.au/

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