Did you Know???

[lostinidlewonder]

Yes, here is that story of Prokofiev in more detail. Pretty cool that these two geniuses clashed at the board.
https://www.sprkfv.net/journal/three02/thegame2.html

[mikeowski]

This works, and I found the missing star.

Edit: If you got the method down, you can for example use it to see in "3d":

[birba]

Love those!!!!   I was just thinking.  Would that technique work in a 3d cinema without the glasses?

[mikeowski]

Yes I think it would, but I'm not sure how much effort it would be to make. The 3d effect comes from the 2 pictures being slightly different, so maybe if the film was shown one or a few frames apart next to each other. But you'd have to look out for screen transitions, because they would destroy the effect when you suddenly have two completely different images, even only for a split second. So you'd probably have to edit the movie in such a way that the cuts are aligned, but the films are set apart a few frames. And even then it wouldn't be save to say it'll work, like for example in fast scenes vs. slow scenes, the difference might need to be changed. And there's probably more.
And don't forget, you'd need a big enough audience that knows how to do this to even make it profitable.
verdict: will not replace 3d glasses.

[Bob]

That's cool.  Just cross your eyes. I think that would make my eyes feel weird if I did that too long though.

[lloyd_cdb]

That's cool.  Just cross your eyes. I think that would make my eyes feel weird if I did that too long though.

I thought so too, but after 20 seconds it just felt normal. That terrified me.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Around 2,500 left handed people die every year from using products made for right handed people.

[ashlin]

I really like this thread. But I'm still reading through it.

Do you know that Keith Jarrett hates coughing during his impros? Apparently everybody knows that! But I didn't and I was given cough drops on the entrance when he was playing in London because I was ill. They gave me a strange icky feeling in my mouth and didn't help at all. I ended up coughing into my sister's bra for the next two hours. Not a nice experience. Guess I should stay at home but we really didn't know! Do you guys know that?

[birba]

No, but i couldn't care less about keith jarret and his divistic quirks.  When an artist (and keith jarrett IS an artist) begins to care more about HIS mood,  HIS needs,  HIS quirks, saying, selflessly, of course, that all this is for the benefit of HIS pubblic, i lose interest.

[ashlin]

But maybe this is what makes him as good as he is. Some people's egos are blown out of proportion but they channel it the right way. Though yeah I couldn't care less about his performance as I was battling with my tickly throat all the time. But everybody else said it was out of this world!

[chopin2015]

But maybe this is what makes him as good as he is. Some people's egos are blown out of proportion but they channel it the right way. Though yeah I couldn't care less about his performance as I was battling with my tickly throat all the time. But everybody else said it was out of this world!

Lol i bet jarrett said

You know what I noticed about every single classical recording? Coughing! I HATE that!

[m1469]

Did you know that the water on Earth now is the same water that has always been on Earth?  We drink and bathe in the same water that dinosaurs did!

[Bob]

We're drinking what a dinosaur squirted out millions of years ago. 

That's what a teacher once told us.

[pianoplayjl]

Did you know that Morgoth is more evil and mighty that Sauron in Tolkien's Middle Earth Legendarium. Sauron was merely Morgoth's Lieutenant and would not have been able to rise to power without him.

Did you know that literacy in North Korea is defined as the ability to write 'Kim Il Sung'.

Did you know there is an underground river running 4 km beneath the Amazon and almost as long.

JL

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that this lady's relationship with music is amazing? 10min mark starts to reveal her great struggles.

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you at the end of experiencing this piece I was reduced to tears! How beautiful, incredible vocals.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Ravel had a fetish for playing hand over hand and crossing.

Lady Gaga got invited to Juilliard at age 13.

[pianoplayjl]

Did you know there is a taco bell in the Pentagon

Did you know that Scotland will vote on its independence on the 14th of September 2014.

Did you know that a Taliban commander turned himself for a reward after seeing himself in a wanted poster.

Did you know that in the interrogation scene from The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger wanted Christian Bale to beat him as hard as he could to get the real feeling of what was required for the scene.

Did you know that the Joker clapping in his  cell in The Dark Knight was improvised?

[lostinidlewonder]

This is an interesting insight into a deaf person hearing music for the first time. I found reading about some of his journey in acquiring a musical taste very interesting.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/what-its-like-for-a-deaf-person-to-hear-music-for-the-first-time/260890/

[pianoplayjl]

So today I learnt that as Beethoven went deaf, he composed music by hacking the legs off his piano and sat on the floor so that he could feel the vibrations.

[lostinidlewonder]

I heard he put his ear to the floorboards in despair to hear the sound. I also remember reading that if he lived now he would not have lost his hearing at all. I wonder what condition he had?

[j_menz]

I heard he put his ear to the floorboards in despair to hear the sound. I also remember reading that if he lived now he would not have lost his hearing at all. I wonder what condition he had?

You can read about the various theories (and cures) here.

[lostinidlewonder]

Thanks j

[chopin2015]

If he had labyrinthitis, the acoustic nerve would have eventually become useless. With a dead nerve, you cannot hear!

After my tympanoplasty, the tympanic membrane was inactive for quite a few days. I have this nice electric guitar that I would play unplugged, and I would press my left side of chin to the body of the guitar and rest my head to it. This bypassed the hearing mechanism, and let me still use my acoustic nerve. The sound was unaffected by any other noises! It was so pure, and I have never heard anything like it! (Nor will I, ever. I hope.) We don't simply connect to things, physically! Trust me, it was the most beautiful, pure sound.

I tried this with the piano. I am not sure why, but it did not work.

Regardless, without the nerve, you cannot hear again. So, depends on whether Lu's acoustic nerves were impacted.

[timothy42b]

After my tympanoplasty, the tympanic membrane was inactive for quite a few days. I have this nice electric guitar that I would play unplugged, and I would press my left side of chin to the body of the guitar and rest my head to it.

I tried this with the piano. I am not sure why, but it did not work.

Big mistake - with the piano you need to use the right side of your chin. 

[chopin2015]

Big mistake - with the piano you need to use the right side of your chin. 

Really? Why?


Also, labyrinthitis also may be linked to gingivitis, which kills other nerves, as well. So, I think that if Beethoven's acoustic nerve was damaged, he sat on the floor to feel the sound with other nerves he had...poor guy. This breaks my heart. I think this is the saddest story I have ever heard!!!!

[dcstudio]

had Beethoven not been deaf--he would have never taken music in the direction he did.   He never had to listen to a bad performance after a while...and that at times is a blessing...lol..He could just keep composing...  in anger he purposely broke rules or maybe it wasnt anger...although he never does look very happy does he?  Even my "imaginary beethoven friend" always seems to have a scowl...  I have imagined him at the end of my piano since I started playing...44 years ago. anyhoo...  Beethoven did get to be Beethoven and the guy could PLAY.  do you really think he would be comfortable with the nearly mythic status he has achieved? if he were here today.

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that this dance is quite hypnotizing?

[ted]

In the three "spot the difference" examples from a few months ago (I have only just started reading this thread) I saw the differences more quickly by ordinary systematic inspection than by the squinting and blinking method, which I found unpleasant, and which mostly just caused my eyes to go funny. Presumably this means that my brain is going to outlast my visual acuity.

[pianoplayjl]

Did you know that under proper conditions it is possible for men to breastfeed.

[Bob]

Did you know that under proper conditions it is possible for men to breastfeed.

Perfect comment for those random silences in big family gathering meals.

[timothy42b]

It is quite common for stroke victims to lose the ability to read.

Their vision is fine, but letters and words don't mean anything, they're just shapes.

And yet, many of them can communicate by writing.  They can still write, but not read what they've written.  This includes a couple of famous published authors. 

[Bob]

And sing too possibly.

[timothy42b]

It was -135.8 F yesterday in Antarctica.

[Bob]

Interesting.  It's their summer right now.  Lots of daylight.

https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/weather/sunlight-hours

[Bob]

All of history and time, even the existence of space itself, has led up to you... reading this post. 





That's disregarding all the stuff going on right now that isn't contributing toward your reading of this post.   

[kakeithewolf]

Earth has five quasi-satellites: 2010 SO₁₆, (164207) 2004 GU₉, (277810) 2006 FV₃₅, 2002 AA₂₉, and 3753 Cruithne. Of these, 2002 AA₂₉ and 3753.

However, from 1996 to 2006, the quasi-satellite 2003 YN₁₀₇, an asteroid of 10-30 metres in size, had a remarkable property: slow revolution about the Earth. So, in a sense, we had, for ten years, a second moon.

On another interesting note, Rhea, one of Saturn's moons, has a ring system of its own.

As well, there was a comet in 1744 with six tails, Encke's comet is a comet that circles the Earth every 3.3 years, the Great Southern Comet of 1887 had no head, the Great Comet of 1823 had two tails pointing in polar opposite directions, and on May 19th 1910, we passed through the tail of Haley's Comet, making it the second Great Comet we passed through the tale of (The other being the Great Comet of 1861, which we inside the tail of for two days).

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know there is this awesome app which allows you to point your mobile device to the sky and it will tell you exactly what celestial objects you are looking at? So awesome!

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/star-walk-hd-5-stars-astronomy/id363486802?mt=8

[j_menz]

point your mobile device to the sky and it will tell you exactly what celestial objects you are looking at

Cool! I can stop using this:

[lostinidlewonder]

Did you know that this is very cute and funny

[j_menz]

Did you know that this is very cute and funny

I thought so. 

[lostinidlewonder]

I thought so.  

ARRRRR

[lostinidlewonder]

W..T...F how do you post youtube on here now? Have they changed it?

[j_menz]

Just like that. 

[pianoplayjl]

Did you know when Russian pianist and compower Julius Isserlis defected in 1922, he found na apartment in Vienna, but the 102 year old landlady refused to rent it to him since the last tenant was noisy and would spit on the floor. That tenant was Beethoven.

[kakeithewolf]

Time shall never be the same again to me:

https://distractify.com/geek/trivial-facts/12-astonishing-facts-that-will-warp-your-perception-of-timeforever/

[lostinidlewonder]

Did you know that I bought a new house yay, moving in in June

[j_menz]

Did you know that I bought a new house yay, moving in in June

The house next to me just sold......mmmm...... could be creepy. 

[lostinidlewonder]

The house next to me just sold......mmmm...... could be creepy. 

Yes, I play piano until 3am every day and play so loudly I can't hear neighbors complaining

[j_menz]

Yes, I play piano until 3am every day and play so loudly I can't hear neighbors complaining

Anything you can play, I can play louder, a semitone higher, and half a beat behind.