Bubbles Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 http://www.zooxanthellae.com/borneman.wmv Dial-up users may want to consider using a download manager with resume capibilities, as the video weighs in at just over 300 MB. It's Eric Borneman doing an 1 hour, 10 minute workshop on coral fragging. I haven't watched the whole thing but the bits I did see seemed interesting (well at least to me they were) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slappers Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 thats a really cool link DIY coral man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishboi Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 video is pretty interesting especially about wearing gloves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slappers Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 lol the video goes for about 110mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishboi Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 yeah only manage to watch 30 minutes of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slappers Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 just finished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puttputt Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 excellent, watched all of it. Thanks for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 He needs a lesson in Latin pronunciation though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 Very interesting comments about feeding corals at the end. Anyone have a saw I can borrow?? Was surprised how young he was to, was expecting gray hair, white over coat, thick glasses, beard, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbles Posted May 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 Was wondering about the pronunciation myself actually. The reason for wearing gloves was obviously really valid, but I couldn't help but notice that he goes about touching everything on the workbench (including scratching his face at one point) Also goes to show just what can be done to these animals, as long as they go back into a tank that can support them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 yeah the gloves thing... guess that puts an end to having a polyp eatng contest dont know about others, but i have toughed my slimy leathers and zoanthids before and i aint dead yet. i will be using the ol' tongs a bit more now though i think... you have to wonder how much of that slime ends up in the water collumn and doesnt get skimmed or fried by the UV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puttputt Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 so what is the correct pronunciation...he is obviously extremely knowledgable. Is it "monit pora" or "mon tip ora" "acro pora" or "a crop ora" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Like anyone he can talk some crap too. ;-) But yeah he obviously knows his stuff. Pronounciation: ak-ro-POR-ah mon-tye-POR-ah (I always pronounce it mon-tee-POR-ah though) If you want to get technical: http://www.saltspring.com/capewest/pron.htm I think British English speakers in the whole have a more intuitive "feel" for the correct Latin pronunciation than American English speakers. (No offence Steve :-) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puttputt Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 thanks Layton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 I studied Latin for 2 years, although forgotten much of it now. It has been a dead language for one and a half thousand years. Nobody knows how it was pronounced. I had a bit of a laugh a while back watching a thing on TV about Eton. Some of them had to give a speech in Latin. This was done in such a posh English accent that I am sure Julius Ceasar would not have been able to understand a word :lol: Even I could not get it all, I was taught by an Italian who had his way to pronounce it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 True no one knows how it was really pronounced. But people have agreed on a convention for consistency's sake. They still teach Latin in some schools. We were taught it from form 1 through 4. I remember all the textbooks had illustrations creatively modified, and all the stories seemed to be about puellae. And rope learning declensions, painful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 So I'll assume you were taught to pronounce it correctly, with an "intuitive feel" for the British English pronunciation, as used, of course, by Julius Ceasar? . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Actually sorry Layton I really shouldn't mock. Just there is academia, and then there is gobledegook. Worrying if someone pronounced their Latin with the Correct English accent, or the Cras American one, struck me as the latter. I just found it hysterical, had to poke some fun. If anyone said something like that, it would have to be you :lol: . Anyhow, I did download the video, excellent, has done wonders for my appreciation of Eric, and yes, he is a lot younger than I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 If you mean wee for v etc yeah we were taught old school pronunciation which has a few differences from the taxonomic version. I just think that when British English speaker sound most of the words out, they come closer to the agreed upon pronunciation rather than the American English speakers who seem to come up with different sylabalisations sometimes. Maybe i'm over generalising. But that's what i've come across. I still don't know how you get a-CROP-ra from acropora though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Don't worry you are not over generalising. You are over academia ising :lol: You do that a lot, but hey I guess that you've been at Uni for a few years and that does make people go like that. 30 years later you become an old fart like me who has forgotten most of it, and finds life can still go on anyhow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 I'm not worried about it. It's just unusual that's all. And believe me, I am the last person who would be caught over "academia-ising" stuff. I've seen my share of cardigan wearing walkshort and sock wearing unionist uni staff. As well as what I call "professional" academic students. People who couldn't see the forest for the trees. I was doing engineering, which is basically applied science. There was a massive focus on practicality and reality in our courses, but of course based deeply in science. Many of our lecturers were consulting engineers with businesses outside academia who would "keep it real". But personally I couldn't wait to get out of the place. I'd go insane if I had to spend any longer there. It wasn't the course, just the environment at university, it gets old pretty quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Sweet As! Clearly you are a man of the world! Did you like the video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 I haven't watched the whole thing, but parts of what I saw were pretty interesting, like the porites wafers. Other than that from what i saw most looks pretty standard methods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Pretty standard to someone of your experience, but to us common folks I thought it was pretty derned good!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkey Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 Wow cool video Thanks for sharing. Some very good information. Anyone got a jewllery saw? I want to do some cutting got a orange fungia thats very healthy. Ive read they take a long time to heal but thats ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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