What's on your mind now?

[littletune]

PS - A big brown spider crawled over my stomach as I was laying down on the couch over Thanksgiving holidays ... I screamed super loud without being able to control it, even though the kids were asleep  

m1469 I think spiders really love you! I don't know why they don't get that you don't love them back... Or maybe they're trying to tell you something!
I don't think I would scream, I think I would just start jumping around and I would probably break something which would be even worse 

[oxy60]

Could that have been a "brown recluse"?

[birba]

Remember NEVER EVER kill a spider.  They are auspicious creatures and portents of good luck.  They are also intelligent and sensitive.  Well, maybe not sensitive, but they are beautiful creatures.  I have two daddy longlegs that hang over my head as I shower and I'm very careful about not disturbing them.   

[Bob]

And a sign other bugs are around for their food. 

Kill them.  Kill the rest.  Bleach the area.  Spray it with pesticides to keep them away.  Or cinnamon, powder laundry detergent, cedar chips, etc.  Bugs don't like that stuff.

[littletune]

  Bob!   

Birba, you're not afraid those spiders would fall into the bathtub... well I guess they're not that clumsy... but once there was a spider above our bathtub and it was eating a bug and then exactly while I was in the bathtub under that spider it threw a half eaten bug almost on my head...  Maybe it thought I was hungry and it wanted to share lunch with me.   

[m1469]

Well, the only message I can imagine them spidies are trying to get across to me is that they rule the world, they are watching me, and that I better watch what I do or they'll be there to get me!  I didn't say it earlier because it was SO much about spiders, but there were three, yes three, in our house when we got back from being with family over T-Day.  Two big brown (one in our bedroom, one in the living room), one black widow (yes, in the house - in our bedroom, nonetheless).  Sorry, but, not cool!  I couldn't help screaming when it was on me.  I couldn't help it.  One time, about 13 years ago, I was camping and sitting at the fire and I just happened to gaze at my left knee (which had sweatpants on it) and do you want to know what there was?  Yes.  A spider.  But, this was not an ordinary spider.  This is the biggest, craziest spider I've ever seen in the wild.  It had crawled up there and was just sitting there, looking at me.  I noticed it and became paralyzed and said ... "Get. That.  Thing.  Off.  OF ME!!!" and I was absolutely scared stiff!  My friend actually swatted it off of my leg.  

I'd love to feel more at peace with them, but they are seriously not helping their cause much.  We do have mice and rats here, btw.  Just the other day one of our apples that was sitting in a box in the garage had a very nicely groomed ring bitten around it, as though a person ate that ring but it was a mouse or rat.  They rule our garage.  We've been setting traps but those stopped working, for some reason.  They've worked before with peanut butter on them, though!  So, you might want to try peanut butter, Birba!

[oxy60]

With all the joking about spiders don't forget that they bite! Some of those bites could be very harmful. A friend got bit, didn't think much about it and ended up VERY sick requiring hospitalization. He was down three weeks. When he first told me about the bite I told him to see his doctor but he waited and it almost cost him his life.

I work in construction specializing in remodeling and I tell my crew to not make any assumptions about spiders. None of us are experts. To us, a harmless spider is a dead spider.

[birba]

They've worked before with peanut butter on them, though!  So, you might want to try peanut butter, Birba!

good idea!  Hadn't thought about that.  I'll try it tonight.

[littletune]

m1469 you really had a black widow spider in your house?? The ones that are dangerous?  That is really not cool! I would be really scared for my pets if a spider like that came into the house, but they say those spiders don't live here, so I'm REALLY glad about that!

[pianowolfi]

Yes, black widows are dangerous!
We don't have so poisonous spiders here. Most of our spiders are poisonous but their poison is not strong enough to seriously harm human beings, or/and their fangs (or whatever you call it) aren't strong enough to permeate the human skin.
Our most "dangerous" spider:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_garden_spider

[birba]

Yikes!  Did you see the video of the female eating the male?  You can never trust 'em...

[pianowolfi]

Yikes!  Did you see the video of the female eating the male?  You can never trust 'em...

So the rumour says. But, of course, I am not an advocate of humanizing animalistic behaviour. Especially those species can't really be compared to humans, I think. They're so very different.

P.S. I just saw one "cute" little spider in my bedroom today, it's really little and it's somehow cute, and I won't disturb it because I know that it won't do me any harm. But of course I can very much relate to m1469's feelings, because I am also not really fond of big brown (or black) ones that are fast and running all over the place, I'm actually avoiding any contact with those...:-S

[m1469]

Yes, there really was a black widow in our room (it wasn't TOO big, though).  It was not the first time to have a blacky in the house.  I don't think I got her, though.  She disappeared into the wall, I think.  Generally, blackies are pretty much super shy and don't want to be around people, and for some reason I'm not as creeped out by them as those big brown ones.  There are brown recluse around here, but those big brown ones that I'm not fond of aren't those, I don't *think*.  There are of course lots of different spiders around, some bigger and more poisonous than others.  Those big brown ones are the most menacing looking to me, they aren't shy and they scurry around like nobody's business, and their teeth are really obvious, though I don't think they are extra poisonous, I still don't want those on me and for them to bite me (they still bite!).  As it turns out, I've got loads of spider stories from all throughout my life!

The only time I've been pretty creeped out by a black widow is once when I showed up to my church job to practice piano before anybody else was there.  I was going to the piano and my eyes drifted to something on the wall directly behind my bench, and there was a very, extra big black widow on the wall, which is unusual (normally they are hidden in corners).  She was just hanging out.  There's no WAY I'm squishing something that big, because I'm sure I'd feel it and hear it .... EEEEEEEWW, plus, I did feel badly.  And, I just felt like I didn't know what to do, so I decided I'd try to practice anyway until somebody else showed up who would take it outside  .  I couldn't concentrate though.  I was convinced it would jump on me, as they are supposedly good at jumping (and I always imagine it like a lunge ... they lunge for you and your throat or so  ).  The wall was only about 2 feet away but the spider was up about 6 feet or so ... but, that definitely equaled too close for comfort in my world.  So, I brain stormed and looked all around and found the perfect remedy!  

There were these long curling sticks that had been part of a large flower display, they were like 4 feet long, and I got her on the end of that, she hung down a little so it kind of looked like I was fishing ... hahah ... and with her hanging down from my pole, I took her outside and let her go.  Problem solved.  Good karma ... right?  hmmmm.

One time there was a spider in my shoe and I didn't know until after I put it on ... that's when I was a kid.  I always, ALWAYS, check my shoes and hit them heel first against the ground to make sure there aren't any hanging out in there then I visually inspect, before putting them on.

[Bob]

https://bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/12/11/ghosts-machine/G2xkHb7r4GVSIAytgs1njO/story.html

[littletune]

I'm thinking I should make a poll: Will Littletune survive the next 10 or 11 days till Christmas holidays?
No
Yes, but almost not.
Yes, but the math test on 20th will be a disaster.
Yes, but the recital on 21st will be a disaster.
Yes, but both the math test and the recital will be a disaster.
Yes, but then she will get sick and will be sick for Christmas.

[furtwaengler]

Every thread is new!

I really want to program a recital with the theme, "Suffering and Glory."

[pianowolfi]

A good subject, Furtwängler! What a coincidence. I am reworking my "Centuries" and I am thinking about the way from "via dolorosa" to a "via gloriosa"!

[furtwaengler]

A good subject, Furtwängler! What a coincidence. I am reworking my "Centuries" and I am thinking about the way from "via dolorosa" to a "via gloriosa"!

I have been for a time so taken with Schumann's Gesänge der Frühe that I've been dreaming of a way to incorporate it as a key component in a recital...the middle, not the beginning. They seem to me less like the dawning of any day then awaking to the spender and glory of Heaven itself. I've been experimenting with an idea of a silent (no applause except at the end) recital in which a piece like Mosolov's 2nd Sonata moves straight into Gesänge der Frühe. Liszt's B minor Sonata which I played again back in October seems to be like a synecdoche of the idea...just a dreaming away.

Wolfi, did you ever think of allowing another person to play Centuries...an experiment to see what came of it, the experience of the composer out of the seat of control to see what worlds opened up? This is more or less a random question. 

[pianowolfi]

Wonderful! Gesänge der Frühe are very special and not very often played. I don't know the Mosolov sonata yet.

Yes of course I will allow others to play my programs. Styx is soon ready. Are you interested? I can send you the sheet music. The best would be that you set a concert time, so I have to finally finish all the editing I didn't publish anything yet because I'm constantly correcting and changing things. Now for instance with centuries, it will be a totally different program and I'm hitting walls because I don't have the whole new shape yet, but I just can't play it the way it has been, anymore. Many pieces will be removed from it and others will be added. Those who get removed will be in a different program.

[Bob]

Another "lost!  never heard before!" type of article about Bell again.

https://news.yahoo.com/alexander-graham-bell-recordings-played-1880s-210138693.html;_ylt=Ao9WtD1gZjggot1bK2GHrEUjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTNxY2JqNG1iBG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBUZWNoU0YEcGtnAzE2YjE0NGZjLThhOWYtM2ExYy1hMzA1LTZhYTlmM2IzMTAzNgRwb3MDMTEEc2VjA3RvcF9zdG9yeQR2ZXIDMWM2ZDA4ZTAtMjY1Yy0xMWUxLWI2M2ItMjhjOWZlN2IxNmVm;_ylg=X3oDMTFvaGJsMzhmBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAN0ZWNoBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

[littletune]

I'm learning Wolfi's piece from Opus 3 number 10!      (except now I haven't had time for a month already  ). But I'll practice it again during holidays!!!!!   

[pianowolfi]

I'm learning Wolfi's piece from Opus 3 number 10!       (except now I haven't had time for a month already   ). But I'll practice it again during holidays!!!!!    

That's truly special, as I actually had not enough time to practice it myself yet   I have written almost the whole program InSecret op. 3 but I'm still busy practicing other pieces. I am sure you will play this one very well

[pianowolfi]

A question to the scientists here: does this really work? Or is it a scam?


[ Invalid YouTube link ]

[Bob]

I lean toward scam.

I've heard the name Bob Lazar before.  Associated with entertaining sci fi, UFO, type of stuff. 

They're very laid back about it.  It's interesting and amusing.  But I think it's a scam.

[Bob]

spam

[Bob]

*Bob realizes why "Bob" sounded a little familiar.* 

[birba]

What is also admirable is the way Bob, pianostreet bob, knows how to do research and gets to the root of the question.  I would have just come away from that first video, a gullible sucker, thinking "wow!  and all this is hidden by the government because the world economy would burst like a bubble if petroleum became obsolete, etc. etc. etc"   

[Bob]

I had a feeling.  Then I saw the name at the end. 

Cheap entertainment.  Circa the late 1990s, X-Files era. 

Although actually if that stuff works... It could work.  I'm not sure.  The guy explaining it has no credibility though.

[pianowolfi]

I had a feeling.  Then I saw the name at the end.  

Cheap entertainment.  Circa the late 1990s, X-Files era.  

Although actually if that stuff works... It could work.  I'm not sure.  The guy explaining it has no credibility though.

Thanks Bob That's quite calming Unfortunately I'm completely lost when it comes to physics and chemistry. You can't do everything. Anyway, perhaps there might be a scientist here too? I vaguely remember that there used to be some on this board.

[littletune]

That's truly special, as I actually had not enough time to practice it myself yet   I have written almost the whole program InSecret op. 3 but I'm still busy practicing other pieces. I am sure you will play this one very well

Thanks Wolfi! I really hope I'll play it well!!!  That would be really cool! 

[Bob]

The Lazar stuff can be a little entertaining.  UFO.. downed in Roswell, NM... The government gets ahold of it and starts dispersing the technology gradually over time.... OOOOooooo.....



What was on my mind earlier today....

"All right.  I guess I'll have a chocolate.  What the heck."

"I wonder who brought these."  *chewing*  "They could be contaminated.... But they were straight out of a packaged box.  I'm so daring."

*chewing* "Oh God... What did I just bite into?  Was that a raisin?  Or a cherry?  Something else?  It better have not been a chocolate covered cricket or something.  The chocolate was too small to be a grasshopper.  That better be cherry juice in my mouth right now.  Is anyone looking at me?  Can I spit it out?  Is anyone looking at me because I'm taking forever to eat one little chocolate?  Why don't they label these darn things?!" *swallows* "What the heck was that?  I don't want to know.... I don't want to know... It was probably a cherry or a raisin.... Unless something crawled into the factory machinery and I was the lucky one... Probably just a cherry, exept it was kind of small... Then a raisin, but it was juicey...."

[oxy60]

Back to that hydrogen car...

The key question is where does the power come from for the tank heaters?

Perpetual motion has been a challenge from the beginning. So far no  one has come up with it, much less get a net energy gain from it.

[pianowolfi]

Back to that hydrogen car...

The key question is where does the power come from for the tank heaters?

Perpetual motion has been a challenge from the beginning. So far no  one has come up with it, much less get a net energy gain from it.

Yeah the perpetuum mobile. So I think it's a sort of scam after all, isn't it? I mean of course I know that the perpetuum mobile exists, though, because Carl Maria von Weber composed it  

[Bob]

Back to that hydrogen car...

The key question is where does the power come from for the tank heaters?

Perpetual motion has been a challenge from the beginning. So far no  one has come up with it, much less get a net energy gain from it.

Darn laws of thermodynamics.  The world would be a lot different without them, I cant tell you.

[littletune]

Yesterday when we went out with my dog there was a plant just lying there near the road, like pulled out of the ground  and then we saw that it was pulled out of this large flower pot (or what it's called) like the ones they have outside... and one same plant was still in but it looked like two were missing... but I didn't see the third one anywhere... and I would think that the wind pulled it out (because one day before it was very windy) but it looked like someone digged it out on purpose.  what's wrong with people??? So I put it back... I hope they will leave it there!!! (and I wish I could find the third one too, if there was a third one).

And one day (or maybe two) ago my cat found an earthworm... it's weird that they're out now but I guess it's too warm... but it was crawling on the concrete near the stairs so I picked it up and put it on the earth under the plants so it can hide.
And then the next day when it was raining really a lot (that day when it was also very windy) I found another one crawling where it wasn't safe and I put that one under the plants too.....

well and I also found a toy  it's a seahorse  and if you squeeze it and put it under water it then spits the water out  that's good for the summer... it was just lying there for more than a week... so then i just thought i would take it... and now it's having a bath in a disinfective thing... I'll post a picture in the toys thread later... 

[Bob]

I feel strangely compelled to purchase a Piano Street gift card for someone.  I don't know why...


I'm wondering how much of our food is actually what it says it is.  Orange juice has arsenic in it.  Orange juice from a cartoon isn't actually orange juice, or technically it is orange juice but that sounds like junior high/lawyer logic.   *Bob considers making his own orange juice.*

[Bob]

*Bob gets paranoid of oranges and PS now that a Love for Three Oranges/Prokofiev/Sarcasrms ad has popped up.*

[pianoplayjl]

Kim jong ill dead..

This image caught my eye while browsing DOTM.

https://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e158/mcnail/ChangeintoaTruckforweb.jpg

JL

[pianoplayjl]

NOTE: Profanity ahead. Many of you probably have seen this anyway but this cracked me up so hard when I first watched the movie yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0eBrV7Ssw

JL

[49410enrique]

this  morning i can't get enough danbo!

[williampiano]

What's on my mind? pianoworld.com
I just joined that forum and I am not impressed. It's very confusing and difficult to use.

This website(pianostreet) is much better!  

[Bob]

Nils' limit on the number of boards makes more sense after going there.

[pianobilliam]

On my mind, it the thought of piano. Most specifically, a Dark Red (maroon) piano. Its always been my dream to be on stage with a Maroon Piano, and one day I will!
Thats on my mind right now.

[Bob]

You realize there's one year left for the world?  Everything will end one year from today.


Or not... They might be wrong again.  They've been wrong before.  Several times.  I don't think they've ever been right actually.

[m1469]

Contemplating how much more I get done in practice on days that I don't teach.  It's really quite a difference.  Sometimes that's frustrating, but no use in letting it be frustrating.  
  

[pianoplayjl]

You realize there's one year left for the world?  Everything will end one year from today.


Or not... They might be wrong again.  They've been wrong before.  Several times.  I don't think they've ever been right actually.

They predicted something would happen on 9/11 and the 2004 tsunami. But I don't believe the world will end this day next year. Perhaps something big might happen. Riots, impact event, anarchy....

JL

[ethure]

They predicted something would happen on 9/11 and the 2004 tsunami.

Or not... They might be wrong again.  They've been wrong before.  Several times.  I don't think they've ever been right actually.

who are the 'they'?

[furtwaengler]

Wonderful! Gesänge der Frühe are very special and not very often played. I don't know the Mosolov sonata yet.

Yes of course I will allow others to play my programs. Styx is soon ready. Are you interested? I can send you the sheet music. The best would be that you set a concert time, so I have to finally finish all the editing I didn't publish anything yet because I'm constantly correcting and changing things. Now for instance with centuries, it will be a totally different program and I'm hitting walls because I don't have the whole new shape yet, but I just can't play it the way it has been, anymore. Many pieces will be removed from it and others will be added. Those who get removed will be in a different program.

I am interested even though I know I cannot set a date at the moment...I'm juggling commitments in a not so organized fashion at the moment. It is definitely true I want to explore your music deeper, though!

[49410enrique]

hmm still got  danbo on my mind

[jesc]

contemplating the life cycle in forums...

Life... death... the birth of a thread... and its death as it is buried within the archives for years. Mostly, the few people who resurrect threads are called necromancers (search internet flame warriors).

When I encountered the newly "raised from the dead" threads I thought: Maybe the poster just ran out of threads to reply to and dug these up. Then, everyone seems to be doing it here.

Maybe I got it wrong and the concept of necromancy is wrong. Maybe this is a place where no thread dies... a place of eternal life   .