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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #6250 on: June 02, 2016, 09:27:55 PM
Yum! Add a bowl of oatmeal with berries and coconut butter and then it is a perfect breakfast.
No
But I know what else to add to make it a Perfect breakfast. ;)
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Re: What's on your mind now?
Reply #6251 on: June 02, 2016, 09:39:25 PM
No
But I know what else to add to make it a Perfect breakfast. ;)




surströmming? Please say it is anything but that stuff..

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Reply #6252 on: June 02, 2016, 09:41:29 PM
visitor. i have to give it to you. you are way quick.  lol
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Reply #6253 on: June 02, 2016, 09:46:07 PM
visitor. i have to give it to you. you are way quick.  lol

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Reply #6254 on: June 02, 2016, 10:38:15 PM
Price.  Deja vu of Michael Jackson.
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Reply #6255 on: June 03, 2016, 04:10:28 AM
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Reply #6256 on: June 03, 2016, 04:31:57 AM

surströmming? Please say it is anything but that stuff..


Have you tasted some? I have ;D

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Reply #6257 on: June 03, 2016, 11:12:54 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming

"Just enough salt is used to prevent the raw fish from rotting...."

"A fermentation process of at least six months gives the lightly-salted fish...."

"contents release a strong and sometimes overwhelming odour; the dish is ordinarily eaten outdoors"

"has one of the most putrid food smells"



At some point, I could kind of understand the first person *having* to eat that if there was nothing else.  But later, people are choosing to eat rotten fish.
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Reply #6258 on: June 03, 2016, 07:36:08 PM
Well, I can tell you it tastes really bad. I guess the Swedes are just that weird...

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Reply #6259 on: June 03, 2016, 08:01:11 PM
Well, I can tell you it tastes really bad. I guess the Swedes are just that weird...

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Reply #6260 on: June 03, 2016, 08:13:19 PM
oh god not the *** fermented swedish crap

why the hell would you even eat it
you can literally smell the crap from yards away
EWWWWWWW
WHY.

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Reply #6261 on: June 03, 2016, 10:28:26 PM
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Reply #6262 on: June 04, 2016, 04:51:36 PM
Another jogging event.  Slower jogger girl this time though.  I see her in the distance and slowly catch up.  She keeps turning the way I'm going at every spot there's a chance to turn.  I refuse to turn off because I've already got my path mapped out.

This time though, instead of turning, slowing, or running on the other side of the street, there's another option.

This one got this.  Haha.

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Reply #6263 on: June 05, 2016, 04:44:42 PM
If jogging and exercising is actually giving me any energy or if it's just siphoning off energy, causing a crash at the end of the day.
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Reply #6264 on: June 05, 2016, 11:31:08 PM
Mangos and strawberries... mmmmm
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Reply #6265 on: June 06, 2016, 01:18:32 AM
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Reply #6266 on: June 06, 2016, 02:21:09 AM
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Reply #6267 on: June 06, 2016, 07:11:06 AM


Actually I would say it sounds Sooth Aufrikan.
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Reply #6268 on: June 07, 2016, 03:32:22 AM
If I attached a string and added a tail to a fedora would it work for kite-flying?
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Reply #6269 on: June 07, 2016, 04:19:34 AM
If I attached a string and added a tail to a fedora would it work for kite-flying?
No are you insane?
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Reply #6270 on: June 08, 2016, 10:34:59 PM
Geez... Voting options.  Sometimes I think I might go out and vote against someone.  But what if both are the ones you would want to vote against?  Third party then I guess. 

I'm not political.  I didn't think candidates would get worse, but it looks like they have.  Donald Trumpet or Hillary Clinton.  And regardless of anything I do, one of those two will be President.
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Reply #6271 on: June 09, 2016, 03:39:59 AM
Donald Trumpet
No context needed

In all seriousness, if you're not interested in either candidate, I'd vote third party. You might like Dr. Jill Stein (who I almost like more than Bernie), from the Green party, or Gary Johnson, from the Libertarian party.

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Reply #6272 on: June 09, 2016, 01:33:25 PM
this is so well done.  ;D

Pianist Misses Notes In Recital, Says Pianist

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BLOOMINGTON, IN—An undergraduate pianist at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music missed a bunch of notes in his recital yesterday evening, according to the pianist.

Jeremy Hayes, a bachelor’s of music candidate in piano performance, was in the middle of his graduation recital when all of a sudden he just totally messed up, Hayes claimed in a testimonial given shortly after the recital concluded.

Speaking to friends and family who had gathered backstage to congratulate him on what they believed was a wonderful performance, Hayes described in lurid detail that spot in Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op. 16 where his left hand momentarily lost its place and everything went to sh*t.

The incident occurred shortly after 8:00 p.m. in Ford-Crawford recital hall on Indiana University Bloomington’s campus during the second half of a 65-minute program also featuring selections by Bach, Beethoven, and Scriabin—which, Hayes reported, went fine and certainly weren’t the disaster that was the Schumann.

“I was a few bars into the first ‘Intermezzo’ of the second movement when I hesitated and had to start the whole section over,” Hayes said to his friend and studio-mate Christine while she was trying to give him a hug and compliment his beautiful playing.

“Oh my god, no. What are you talking about? I was terrible,” Hayes said, challenging Christine’s version of events. “I missed so many notes, I can’t freaking believe it. I never mess up there.”

Several audience members besides Christine also failed to notice Hayes’ embarrassing mistake, leading them to falsely conclude that the recital was a success and the 22-year-old pianist should be proud of his tremendous accomplishment. Most attendees were seated at a considerable distance from the stage and had at best a partial view of Hayes’ hands, while several among them lacked the musical education necessary to have formed a credible judgement of his performance.

Their glowing accounts of Hayes’ recital were directly contradicted by Hayes himself, who was the key eyewitness to the memory slip in the Schumann. Not only did Hayes have a closeup, firsthand view of his own senior recital, he had also been studying his repertoire in depth for several months and had better knowledge of the correct notes than anyone else present in the auditorium.

Hayes’ childhood piano teacher, Ms. Kruger, tears still in her eyes after what she mistakenly experienced as a heartfelt and emotionally moving performance, was apparently unaware of the complete mess her former student made of the whole thing.

“Oh Jeremy, you’ve grown up so much. Your Schumann, especially, shows what a mature artist you’ve become,” Kruger said, echoing the same misguided sentiments expressed by Hayes’ parents and grandparents, before Hayes corrected their naïve and ignorant impressions of his utterly abysmal Kreisleriana.

“I’m a complete failure,” Hayes assured his family, all of whom traveled four hours from Chicago to hear him perform. “I’m sorry you drove all this way to watch me make a complete ass of myself on stage.”

At press time, Hayes had finally built up the courage to listen the recording of his humiliating performance from last night.

“Whoa, I sound way better than I remember,” he thought to himself. “I might be able to use this for competition applications, after all.”

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Reply #6273 on: June 09, 2016, 10:54:12 PM
Haha.  Except... There is a mistake then, and he knows it.  That's why you make a separate recording before or after.  Also gets rid of the audience noises.  Except the only dishonesty there is that you can't pull off the performance on a target date.


I was thinking about how the brain/mind changes for whatever environment you're in.  The type of thinking adapts to that environment.  Move to a different environment and a different process of thinking emerges.
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Reply #6274 on: June 09, 2016, 10:59:21 PM
Predictions.  ;)

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Reply #6275 on: June 10, 2016, 03:47:36 PM
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Reply #6276 on: June 10, 2016, 04:23:40 PM
i want this


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Reply #6277 on: June 13, 2016, 10:35:57 PM
I wonder if in the future people will go along with having artificial intelligence do things for us or monitor us, in general.

Driving -- AI gets a better track record.

Surveillance -- I bet people would choose to have AI watch everything if it meant getting rid of the random, senseless shootings.  It usually seems like there's some kind of trail leading up to things.  News stories or people say, "Why didn't anyone do anything or notice?"  but it's after the fact.  I imagine something computerized would be able to sift through mountains of information to at least narrow down a list of people who might go off. 
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Reply #6278 on: June 14, 2016, 06:42:14 AM
All Beethoven sonatas.
Ready, go!

Looks like you inspired at least a few.  I see Bob is listening a lot.  If this were a contest, I may have just won.  I finished listening to the last of my Ashkenazy 10 CD set just now (op 109, op 110 and op 111).  What a great journey. I think the largest gap where Beethoven did not write a sonata was maybe 4 years. Think I’m done?  No way!  I just ordered the Brendel complete vox box edition.  I used to listen to this edition when I was a kid.  Thanks also for suggesting Brendel!

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Reply #6279 on: June 15, 2016, 12:47:54 AM
Tired of being tired.
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Reply #6280 on: June 15, 2016, 12:57:53 AM
It's the ability to move too.  That's was fizzles.
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Reply #6281 on: June 17, 2016, 03:52:44 AM
Dimly aware.  I forgot the rest.  But I didn't want to lose it.
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Reply #6282 on: June 22, 2016, 04:23:47 AM
Negatives of habit...
Being blind to stupid things you do.
Or just not thinking, esp. not thinking about doing things better.
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Reply #6283 on: June 23, 2016, 05:20:16 AM
Saw the movie Edge of Tomorrow. 

There's something that's poking my mind about it.  Something about learning from repetition.  Not just a few reps though, but hundreds or thousands. 
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Reply #6284 on: June 26, 2016, 02:56:31 AM
*Bob's brain is blown by the magic roundabout.*  :o :o :o

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Reply #6285 on: June 26, 2016, 07:14:44 PM
Thoughts of the older men in India at the moment:
"Wait... you can just VOTE the British out?"

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Reply #6286 on: June 26, 2016, 09:32:07 PM
https://www.weatherfrom.com

Your weather from an old Jewish lady.  Haha.  Click at your own risk though.  There was swearing and some other stuff, but it was funny.
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Reply #6287 on: June 27, 2016, 04:49:25 AM
RIP Aaron Pajich. I knew him as a little child and helped his mother and her children as they lived with me over the years. Your murderers will be put to justice.
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Reply #6288 on: June 27, 2016, 08:33:14 AM
How I'm the luckiest man in the world
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Reply #6289 on: June 28, 2016, 10:45:18 PM
Habit vs. willpower.

Habit being like a path worn into grass.  There's a pull to follow it, as deep as the path is carved in.

Willpower being like steering a boat.  You could change directions from habit, but it's more effort.
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Reply #6290 on: July 01, 2016, 01:02:18 AM
Something about rest and recovery for being at my best and making real, better progress.
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Reply #6291 on: July 04, 2016, 10:48:45 PM
All Beethoven sonatas.
Ready, go!

Done.  Phew.... Yes, that was a challenge.  And that was just listening with them in the background.  I can't quite imagine learning all those.
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Reply #6293 on: July 05, 2016, 11:29:32 PM
Hm.




I can't still can't see the point of buying overpriced coffee from a shop. 


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Reply #6294 on: July 05, 2016, 11:44:46 PM
Done.  Phew.... Yes, that was a challenge.  And that was just listening with them in the background.  I can't quite imagine learning all those.
Props to you!
Try the 5 piano concerti.

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Reply #6295 on: July 06, 2016, 10:33:24 PM
https://wisdomofchopra.com/

This is a quote generator that creates random BS, meaningless, apparently inspirational quotes.

It was linked/used in a study where they determined less intelligent people fell for these. 

I thought it would be more amusing.  It's interesting to click a few times, but it gets old quick.

(My current profile tagline is an actual saying.)
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Reply #6296 on: July 07, 2016, 04:28:17 AM
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Reply #6297 on: July 08, 2016, 03:58:52 AM
Have any of you guys had rotator cuff injuries?

I fell skating about a month ago and my shoulder is still bothering me.

And occasionally I get pain from playing the piano.
Live large, die large.  Leave a giant coffin.

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Reply #6298 on: July 08, 2016, 04:34:17 AM
RIP Aaron Pajich. I knew him as a little child and helped his mother and her children as they lived with me over the years. Your murderers will be put to justice.

Jesus christ I just googled this and the it's so freaking morbid. Knowing him I can't even begin to imagine how you're feeling...

:/

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Reply #6299 on: July 08, 2016, 10:34:57 PM
Fatigue, energy, recovery, staying healthy, being hungry for something but having already eaten, getting stuff done.
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