'Atsa one catchy-a tune-a!

March 8, 2006 10:34 AM

The Sounds of Pasta
posted by grumblebee (23 comments total)

Ah, the sweet sounds of embedded MIDI.
posted by nebulawindphone at 10:37 AM on March 8, 2006

Yay pasta !! Disgrazzziato ! :D
posted by elpapacito at 10:37 AM on March 8, 2006

I like the dog one.
posted by greasy_skillet at 10:38 AM on March 8, 2006

I think the sound of this site getting mefi'd was
*WACK!*
posted by Baby_Balrog at 10:44 AM on March 8, 2006

Ah, the sounds of an exceeded transfer limit.
posted by ursus_comiter at 10:44 AM on March 8, 2006

You linked to a Geocities site? Aren't they limited to 10 page views a day (or something equally ridiculous)?
posted by Plinko at 10:44 AM on March 8, 2006

Ah, the sweet non-sounds of a farked Geocities site.
posted by lazywhinerkid at 10:44 AM on March 8, 2006

silence. A good sound for pasta.
posted by dwivian at 10:46 AM on March 8, 2006

Farked? 'e's a witch!
posted by Plutor at 10:46 AM on March 8, 2006

The sound of relief as I hit Preview before posting the same comment as three other posters.
posted by creeky at 10:46 AM on March 8, 2006

Oops. Didn't even think about the geocities thing. Sorry. Well, if you'd like to visit the site sometime, it's a series of links to mp3s of pasta. Seriously. "8 ounces of elbow macaroni being poured from a cardboard box into a plastic container. 59KB; 8 ounces of elbow macaroni being poured from a plastic container into a cardboard box. 56KB; 1 pasta ruffle rolling down a 3-1/8" diameter cardboard tube 40-1/4" long into a 14" diameter stainless steel wok. 24KB; 3 pasta ruffles rolling down a cardboard tube into a wok. 45KB; etc"

If that's not the best of the web, I don't know what is!
posted by grumblebee at 10:48 AM on March 8, 2006

Damn, that sounds hot. You might be able to make an entire song out of something like that.
posted by bigmusic at 11:01 AM on March 8, 2006

Pasta da bandwidth.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:03 AM on March 8, 2006

Sounds interesting, Grumblebee. I didn't notice it was from you, and feared it was only another video of someone growing pasta. Pasta makes some fun sounds.
posted by Goofyy at 11:14 AM on March 8, 2006

With Google giving everyone gigs and gigs of storage and bandwidth, doesn't Geocities feel just the least bit chincy? Hello?! What is the point?! jeebus.
posted by shoepal at 11:14 AM on March 8, 2006

See no evil, hear no evil.
posted by furtive at 11:22 AM on March 8, 2006

Grumblebee, it's not a bad idea to preload these sites into the Coral Cache and post that link in addition, even with big sites.

It's pretty easy to do.... you insert .nyud.net:8090 after the hostname, but before the actual URL. So the Coralized version of this thread would become http://www.metafilter.com.nyud.net:8090/mefi/49852.

Heh, Coral is very, very slow right now, so it's no panacea. :)
posted by Malor at 11:34 AM on March 8, 2006

I flagged this post as 'noise.'
posted by crunchland at 11:34 AM on March 8, 2006

heh.
posted by matteo at 12:24 PM on March 8, 2006

Since the geocities site refusilli to load, you might want to give these guys a call instead. Click on 'recipes'.
posted by nylon at 12:24 PM on March 8, 2006

Thanks for the tip, Malor!
posted by grumblebee at 3:04 PM on March 8, 2006

The first couple of these work for me right now. I'll keep trying the other ones until I can get them working.

Main site: http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/

8 ounces of elbow macaroni being poured from a cardboard box into a plastic container. 59KB
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/MacToPlas.wav

8 ounces of elbow macaroni being poured from a plastic container into a cardboard box. 56KB
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/MacToBox.wav

1 pasta ruffle rolling down a 3-1/8" diameter cardboard tube 40-1/4" long into a 14" diameter stainless steel wok. 24KB
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/1Ruffle.wav

3 pasta ruffles rolling down a cardboard tube into a wok. 45KB
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/3Ruffles.wav


A 16-ounce box of pasta ruffles being poured into a wok. 65KB
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/RuffDumpWok.wav


3 pasta ruffles rolling down a cardboard tube into a 10-1/4" diameter ceramic bowl. 44KB
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/3RuffBowl.wav


A 16-ounce box of pasta ruffles being poured into a ceramic bowl. 77KB
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/BoxRufBowl.wav


My dog getting to a pasta ruffle before me. 36KB
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/Heartland/Farm/9258/DogEatBowl.wav
posted by grumblebee at 3:16 PM on March 8, 2006

Well. I don't really know what I was expecting...
posted by jrengreen at 8:35 AM on March 9, 2006