What's on your mind now?

[Bob]

Donald Duck - Mathmagic Land
TrueDisney
TrueDisney

[Bob]

Habit.  The ease/trap of a daily habit vs. trying to set up a periodic habit... which isn't quite a habit if it's not daily possibly.


Limits on what's possible in reality, with time, now and overall.

[Bob]

How to promote yourself for work done without appearing to do so.  The idea being that if you do the work but don't tell anyone, no one knows that you spent effort on it, esp. if you make it look easy.  There are ways, like asking for advice from someone, where you can subtly let others know what things you're working on without making it obvious.

[Bob]

Energy.  Definitely beats time.  And lack of it can burn up willpower.

[Bob]

Why does vinyl sound better than MP3?
Gigwise


A bit elitist.

[Bob]

Hm.... *Bob checks out Mary Poppins.*  *Bob calculates the birth year and movie year....*  I'm well older her now.   

And I remember already thinking this.

[Bob]

"Accidentally" start this piece instead of some traditional quiet service music during a church service. 

[Bob]

Interesting.

Schenkarian analaysis videos on youtube.  I wonder how far in depth they go though.

[Bob]

Trump's "jazz hands" motions don't look presidential.  It looks more like something that gets your attention for a second but is weak. 

[Bob]

It was something about recharging, being 100%.... which reminded me of treating myself like a battery.

And then something about pushing more for progress.  I might be on track, but maybe I can nudge it more.  More intense, more reps/capacity, something like that. 

[Bob]

This sameness driving me nuts.

[Bob]

Time.

[Bob]

Hm.   

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37899902

Photoshop voices to say whatever you want.... Plus autotune.... I would imagine in the future a pop "singer" wouldn't even have to know the words let alone sing on pitch.  Or even sing.  That's disregarding being able to trust audio in general for spoken words.

[Bob]

Wondering if there's a "top x number" of pop hits for 2016 so I can retain my hipness.

But I don't see one yet.

https://www.billboard.com/charts/pop-songs

[Bob]

The intelligent part of "intelligent progress/practice."

[Bob]

Having time.  And energy.  Playing through some actual music.

[Bob]

Dang.  2016 just gets stranger as the ends wraps up.

https://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/

[Bob]

And another.

https://www.tmz.com/2016/12/28/debbie-reynolds-dead/


And there year's not over yet.

[Bob]

Hitting a wall.  Having no energy.
Despite not really having done much all day.
Wondering why there's no fat loss if I've actually burned up energy.
And how to fix it.  Carbs?  And watching calories very closely I suppose.

Global effect too.  When things go well, everything goes well.  If I'm out of energy, I see that effect in everything.

I wonder if I didn't enough of something.  Calories, carbs... hm.    Interestingly enough, I did lose weight, but according to the scale, it's muscle.  I wonder if that's what burning mode for fat (and muscle) feels like. 

[Bob]

Four years or listening to Trump say stupid things.  For the students that a little dense or overly arrogant, I knew they could grow up and get jobs... I've got one as a boss now.  Haha.  And I've heard of plenty gym teachers who became principals.  Apparently they can also become president, let alone becoming rich.  Strange world.  Except there will be four years of him in the news now, plus any decisions he makes that filter down.

[Bob]

Energy.  Motivation.  Wondering if it's possible to build up a reserve of something, like muscle, to have more energy later.

[visitor]

Apparently I made the headlines recently....  
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obamas-dog-perhaps-not-taking-transition-well-bites-201036553.html

[Bob]

Carbs, losing fat, and basic energy needed during the day.

I noticed this, was curious about it, so today I'm testing it more.

I loaded up on protein (shakes).  Very little carbs.  It's halfway through the day and I'm exhausted.  Number of calories is fine/normal.  Amount of carbs is less.

The idea is carbs are the battery energy for the body.  Lack of carbs, even with enough calories, means I'll hit a wall.  Lack of energy, but it's making sense if there are no carbs to charge things up. 

My body feels heavy and I'm dragging.... Ugh....

[Bob]

Seems like carbs give energy.  I don't hit a wall if I eat them.

I actually lost fat and gained muscle, according to the scale, for as much as the scale can be trusted.  I still feel like crap though.

I seem to plateau in any area, not necessarily music.  I get so far, form a routine/habit, and then it just sits there.  I'm thinking the solution is to drop a piece so there's more time to focus on a specific area.  Then rotate through areas.

[Bob]

Trump, SNL, blockbuster movies, fake news.... My mind is getting them all mixed up.

[Bob]

Fudge....

[Bob]

Trump stuff. 

Sounds like some students I've run into and the Donner-Kruger effect (whatever the name is).

I've had students do something against the rules right in front of me and then completely deny that they did it, to the point of getting a principal and parents involved and it becoming my word against theirs. 

[Bob]

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/19/502717977/how-misspellings-caught-a-spy

[Bob]

Tired of hearing about Trump.  Burned out.  Thought I'd ignore it.  But you can't because you don't know what's going to happen next.

[dogperson]

EPIC:  as in 'Epic Piano Cover'.   Since this means 'extremely awesome' in terms of internet slang, how is it that these pop musicians are able to label their own work as 'extremely awesome'?   

As a classical pianist, I am not able to label my own performance as 'extremely awesome' without meeting derision from other musicians. 

Just wondering....................

[visitor]

EPIC:  as in 'Epic Piano Cover'.   Since this means 'extremely awesome' in terms of internet slang, how is it that these pop musicians are able to label their own work as 'extremely awesome'?  

As a classical pianist, I am not able to label my own performance as 'extremely awesome' without meeting derision from other musicians.  

Just wondering....................

+1 this.

me  however, it seems I am able to label my own feeble attempts as epic fails, and that seems to be acceptable to others lol  

as for my definition of and epic cover of something modern and non classical, I tend to think of this, talented concert pianist and brilliant arranger, here in a special with the composer he closes this part of the talk with this performance of one of the cooler pieces, has sort of neo impressionist and neo romantic slant but still doesnt' sound old fashioned.

=10m47s

and this is most epic, duet with the composer herself

=7m56s

[Bob]

Hm.  I'm still anti-"epic."  I stick with the original meaning, not, "I think this is cool," or maybe virtuosic.



Sad seeing reality/the world affecting things or people sometimes.

[Bob]

Huh... I suppose this had to happen eventually.  Today's been my lucky day.  Several things went well and were solved at work.  I come home and get more good news out of the blue.  I'll take that.

Random chance, but it makes me start thinking I've got a special touch today.  Geez.

[Bob]

Burning in eternal Hell...


I'm wondering where they get that kind of fuel supply.  Typically, Hell is shown as having just about everything on fire, right?  And eternally?  What's fueling that?  You don't see that on the Heaven, so why did Hell end up with all the fuel apparently? 

[outin]

It must really annoy you that this is not the last post wins thread 

[Bob]

What did she mess up on?  If she had covered it up, I might not have known the difference.  What happened to the performance technique of covering up your mistakes?

[visitor]

This tool. It seems to be better the more it fails. Haha
https://benedictcumberbatchgenerator.tumblr.com/

[Bob]

Live music.  Whether it's me or ending up hearing professional produced things more, but it doesn't seem like the lines are brought out enough in live ensemble music to me.  Hopefully I'm not going deaf.  I don't think it's me though.  It could be having produced music all the time where the lines are forced out maybe. 

Audience members who don't know how to be audience members, and the effect of phones on audiences now.  I've lived through the time before cell phones through now, with phones.  There's the obvious use of them during the performance (go to a performance, feel compelled to jump back on your phone) but also between pieces and during intermissions -- Back on the phone.  Don't talk to anyone you went to the concert with, get back on that phone to play those app games.  Bizarre.

[visitor]

Been a minute since saw any activity by either of those katz. Hope they are well.

[Bob]

Woke up in the middle of the night, remembering some music materials I bought years ago to study.  Never actually cracked the covers on them.  But I found them.

[Bob]

(Contains swearing... but it's funny.)

I've been thinking about this exact response for the idiot who idiot guy who monitors kids on the playground.  Kids have to be quiet and follow rules.  This guy?  He sounds like moron yelling for kids.  Every... single... day....

I probably won't but someday... I might yell back....

[Bob]

Haha.   Old phone area code envy.

[Bob]

Learning some Chinese.... by watching youtube videos on swear words.

[Bob]

Definitely a  conundrum... If I have salsa and chips, where do I store the remaining salsa so it's not ice cold when I get it out later?  If I put it in the fridge, it comes out cold.  Cold salsa doesn't quite taste right.  I tried microwaving it but it ends up too hot.  I need to hit room temperature somehow.  

*Bob solves this by opening a brand new jar of salsa that's at room temperature.*  

This explains why I have many almost empty jars of salsa in my fridge... in the "it's not that old, I can't throw it out, but I'm definitely not eating it because it's old" section of the fridge.

*Bob's brain begins to overheat....*
Leftover salsa has to go in the fridge....
Heating it doesn't work....
It's too cold straight out of the fridge....

Leaving it out waaay ahead of time might be the next solution but that's too much work to plan food that far in the future.






Actual solution:   I'll have to hit the other buttons one microwave, i.e. use lower nuke settings.

[Bob]

*sigh*

A serious sigh.  But inevitable.

[Bob]

The more I've thought about it and the older I get, the more the Soylent Green movie plan of life doesn't seem so bad.  You live for something like 80 years in good health.  You know when you're going to go.  When you go it's peaceful.  And then they even recycle the body so there's no waste.

Compared to reality?  There's no guarantee on how long you live, but 80 isn't bad.  Maybe you'll live longer though.  But if you do, the quality life, as it is with today's technology/medicine/science, isn't there.  You might just exist for decades trapped in your own body.  Or your brain might deteriorate, and you might even be aware of that while it's happening.  And then the end might be a long, drawn out process.  After you're gone your body might take up space.  Or you could be burned, but (this is trivial though) it's still producing smoke.  Long, drawn out suffering for years at the end sounds more horrific than the Soylent Green movie scenario, even more horrific since it's reality.

[Bob]

Recovery.  Bouncing back.

Freaking tight calf muscles again.

[yewtree]

I ran out of potatoes.

[Bob]

I ran out of potatoes.

Haha... I'm thinking about death. 

The body and mind will eventually break down.  No one, no living thing, has ever overcome that.  It's inevitable.  But I'm wondering when it starts.  Toward the end, maybe you lose your mind a bit.  You're alive, but not quite yourself anymore.  Say you're 90% "you."  Does that mean you're 10% dead?  If so, how far do you go back?  Around age 25 things start to decline.  You might not notice it, but maybe you're 1% less than you were.  Does that mean somewhere are age 20 or 25 you're 1% dead?

And then there's change.  Toward the end you're still alive, but maybe only 90% yourself.  But you're still 100%, so you're 10% something different than before.  Maybe the brain broken down.  Maybe things rewired differently.  Or maybe they didn't rewire at all.  Things just work differently.  But you're still here, still 100% "something."  But not the same something you used to be for sure.  So it's change then?  How far back does that go?  The body is always regenerating things.  Nearly everything in your body gets replaced.  Physically, there's not much that's the exact same parts that you had in the past.  Theoretically you could meet your past self, and that past self is probably going to be different from you.  You can definitely send a message to yourself in the future.  The two different time "yous" are different.  Changed.  And that change would have taken place so slowly you barely noticed but things did still change.  The old self is not there anymore.  At some point there's more change.  So if you very slowly change from your old self to your current self and then to a future self, and if that's "change," would that also mean your old self dies a little and then completely if it becomes you, and then you'd "die" a little over time to become your future self?  But you wouldn't notice it because it's small changes, and you're actually alive the whole time?

[Bob]

Shin splints.  Tight, tough muscles.  Ugh...