#excelsus

A couple of my friends told me about this brand so I decided to share some of their styles with you. I do not know too much about this label but I know that the shoes are hand-made in Spain. Also, the label takes its name from New Zealand’s Excelsus tree. This tree is one of the most durable on the planet and the label believes in creating long lasting designs in honor of this unique tree. Each…

Apatosaurus excelsus and Ornitholestes hermanni

[I made a soundtrack for this painting, which can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/oviraptor-space-program/giants-of-the-kimmeridgian ]

North America, morning in the Kimmeridgian Age of the Late Jurassic:

Roused from slumber by the passage of a giant, the little “bird robber,” Ornitholestes, watches silently from the shade. Despite its bulk, the giant's feet are nearly soundless on the earth, cushioned against the shock of its weight, but the little robber's senses are keen indeed, and this time of year the giant makes his presence known with rumbling infrasound and bright display structures as he searches for a mate, driven by genetic imperative.

The giant doesn't see the little robber as food, consuming vast quantities of vegetation instead, but that much mass, those strong limbs, that whip-fast tail are dangerous, and it might draw other, carnivorous giants near with its scent and the signs of its passage. But the little robber is quiet, nimble and swift - perhaps there's some advantage in keeping close to this moving mountain, this giant of the Earth: its great strides flush prey from the bush, its presence attracts insects and other, more substantial morsels to be caught in the little robber's claws, and larger sharp-toothed predators will focus on the giant instead of the little robber. It wouldn't be the first time, if they did: the giant's hide bears the scars of past battles won.

The giant moves slowly, but with the inexorable power of the environmental cycles of which it is a part, in which its kind have evolved; first a drink from the lake, then onward seeking companionship and evolutionary legacy. It's that time of year again. The little robber will follow, for a while.

And in time, deep time, after a full life, the giant's bones will be buried in gravity-drawn sediments, replaced with other minerals, fossilized, unearthed by bipedal mammals, studied and admired, named and renamed: "Deceptive Lizard," "Thunder Lizard," Apatosaurus excelsus, Brontosaurus, sauropod, dinosaur...

Brand: Excelsus

Single Line Filter

DSL Line Filter

The Z-330PJ is a small, in-line, ANSI T1.421-compliant customer premises equipment (CPE) filter designed to expedite the service delivery and improve the performance of digital subscriber line (DSL) and home phoneline network (HPN) services over plain old telephone service (POTS). The Z-330PJ filters all telephones, facsimile (fax) machines, answering machines, and other telephone equipment.

Brand: Excelsus

Meets ANSI T1.421 (2001) North American DSL filter standard

Provides a DSL convenience jack for connecting a DSL modem or HPN device

Blocks xDSL and HPN signals from voice-band equipment up to 10 Megahertz

Isolates telephone equipment impedances from the xDSL and HPN systems

Compatible with all major xDSL standards

The Z-330P2J2 is a small, in-line, ANSI T1.421-compliant customer premises equipment (CPE) filter designed to expedite the service delivery and improve the performance of digital subscriber line (DSL) and home phoneline network (HPN) services over plain old telephone service (POTS). The Z-330P2J2 filters all telephones, facsimile (fax) machines, answering machines, and other telephone equipment. Its third-order filter design electronically isolates the high-speed DSL and HPN data streams from the voice-band POTS to provide premium voice quality and optimal DSL and HPN data rates. The DSL user installs the Z-330P2J2 in-line filter into each telephone line jack in the subscribers' premises that contains voice-band equipment devices, including corded/cordless telephones, answering machines, fax machines, 56Kb/s and lower rate modems, automatic dialers, recorder connectors and satellite television set-top boxes. The Z-330P2J2 in-line filter is one of many filters and splitters manufactured by Excelsus for subscriber-installed digital services within homes, offices, and hotels. Excelsus is the number one selling brand of DSL filters worldwide.