What's on your mind now?

[candlelightpiano]

You're too funny! How can anyone like having a cold? I was going to tell you to be sure to wash your hands often and wash them properly to try and prevent a cold but since you like having a cold, I won't do that! You sound like me when I was your age. Any reason not to go to school!!

[littletune]

You're too funny! How can anyone like having a cold? I was going to tell you to be sure to wash your hands often and wash them properly to try and prevent a cold but since you like having a cold, I won't do that! You sound like me when I was your age. Any reason not to go to school!!

  

Oh I forgot to tell you!! I watched your video (from your Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu project) and I was watching and I was thinking if your cat is ever in the video and just a little later your cat came by, first in one direction and then back again!! It was really cool!!    And I think I also saw those stairs that he loves so much (in the background).

[49410enrique]

i'm wondering why i can't get enough of the dancing violin playing lindsey! she's just so fun to watch and listen to (i'm a closet techno/remix o phile at heart i guess...secrets out).

[candlelightpiano]

 

Oh I forgot to tell you!! I watched your video (from your Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu project) and I was watching and I was thinking if your cat is ever in the video and just a little later your cat came by, first in one direction and then back again!! It was really cool!!     And I think I also saw those stairs that he loves so much (in the background).

Why didn't you say hello on my topic?   Bangkok, my cat, appears in almost every video if I shoot it from that angle. I think next time I make a video, I must introduce him to the audience! He doesn't seem to know that he's a cat. He follows me everywhere like a puppy. He's such a darling! Yes, you saw him climb up the stairs and sit on it. Usually he likes to play on the bottom step.

[littletune]

Well I didn't say hello because I didn't have any useful things to say. I will say hi next time! 

[49410enrique]

i'm glad we really don't have to go there, the picking's are apparently quite slim

[Bob]

Is that what Hell looks like?  Angels get harps.  Devils get accordions.

[littletune]

Has anyone else noticed something strange about latest members on pianostreet lately? I mean these few days I notice all the time that the usernames of a lot of new members look kinda alike, I mean like they have 3 letters then 3 numbers and then 4 letters and then I looked on the members page so that it was showing me new members and there are about 19 usernames like that since January 12 (that was just the first page of newest members)... isn't that kinda weird? I mean it couldn't be different people!!  I think it must be the same person!  maybe it's spam!
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?action=mlist;sort=registered;start=0;desc

[pianowolfi]

Yeah I think it's spam, it's all about that vitamin overdose thing Just report it to the moderator.

[Bob]

Must be some kind of spam.

I've wondered how so many members could keep joining all the time, looking at those statistics in the past.

[birba]

I went to look up the last posts of all these people.  (God, I've got to get away from this computer and do some practising!)  And I think they're all the same  person, too.  Why?  Who knows.  His comments on the threads are generally innocuous.  I think that's great that you can look up members here.

[Bob]

I'm going to have to buy yet another ink cartridge.... If I want all of Wikipedia printed out before midnight.  This is going to take longer than I thought.

[49410enrique]

I'm going to have to buy yet another ink cartridge.... If I want all of Wikipedia printed out before midnight.  This is going to take longer than I thought.

lol the blackout! tomorrow should see dramatic increases in worker productivity across all sectors! lol

[Bob]

Actually it sounds like that SOPA PIPA stuff could affect this site too.

[49410enrique]

Actually it sounds like that SOPA PIPA stuff could affect this site too.

i know it's stupid and scary. the bills are written essentially by the lobby with purposely ambiguos language that really puts most any site with user uploaded content at risk for shut down /ip blocks. to think that simply posting a recording of yourself playing a copyrighted work (which you purchased legally) to the audition room can upset a watchdog and boom no more pianostreet just like that.  man i hope they kill this thing.

[oxy60]

If Hollywood is so concerned about piracy they should be the ones to come up with protection for themselves. Off the top of my head I can come up with several ways to keep films from being pirated and still give the legit buyer the product.

No, this push to censor the internet is not about film and music. It's about free political speech. It's about accessing information from everywhere about the candidates. In case you haven't noticed, there is an election coming up...

[pianoplayjl]

I want a new phone. The one I'm using right now is 6 years old but thankfully fully functional and second handed. I might get one if I get good grades.

JL

[Bob]

I think Nemo was probably better off on his own.  


*Bob decides to keep a look out for packs of feral hamsters.*

[49410enrique]

january 18, 2012.  no no commrade .in muther russia, babies not fall, babies tackle streets.

[littletune]

I don't really understand that with the hamster...  what someone had a pet hamster and just decided to release him in the forest? 

[Bob]

Apparently.  Releasing (poor) Nemo... into the wild!  Dumb, dumb, dumb.  That seems naively cruel. 


I was just wondering if we're at a point where we'll start saying "twenty twelve" instead of "two thousand twelve."  Or it's just me.  It seems like more work to the "two thousand" part now.  I guess it's an extra syllable.

[tombowler]

gaining control of my wayward hands and fingers. I've always thought of experienced pianists as having little imaginary eyes in their fingertips....

[littletune]

Apparently.  Releasing (poor) Nemo... into the wild!  Dumb, dumb, dumb.  That seems naively cruel. 

Yes that was really stupid!!! How could anyone think of something so stupid?!! 



I really really really!!!! need to go practice math!!!! I still have sooooo many exercises to do till monday!!!! 

[Bob]

Global warming... Superman's Fortress of Solitude is located in the Arctic, in all that ice. But if global warming melts all that ice... What's he going to do then?  A Canadian Fortress of Solitude just isn't going to be quite the same.  Canadian Mounties, "Eh?  What's with all these crystals?  You got yourself a permit for those, do ya?"  Superman, "Go away Mounties."  Mounties, "Eh."

[littletune]

Littletune!!! GO PRACTICE MATH !!!! ALREADY!!!!  NOW!!!!!!!!

  

[tombowler]

I can't believe Blockbusters is coming back!!!! I'll have a P please Bob..

(google Bob Holness)

[birba]

Just got back from seeing "edgar".  As in Hoover.  sort of disappointed.  Eastwood is first-rate, though.  I had no idea of Hoover's alledged homosexuality.  But Eastwood brought it out with great honesty and tenderness.  Di Caprio owes his success to Eastwood.  His accent was NOT believable, though.  And the make-up jobs.  Tolson looked like night of the zombies.
Can't say it was a great film.  for me, at least.  Anyone else saw it?

[oxy60]

Just got back from seeing "edgar".  As in Hoover.  sort of disappointed.  Eastwood is first-rate, though.  I had no idea of Hoover's alledged homosexuality.  But Eastwood brought it out with great honesty and tenderness.  Di Caprio owes his success to Eastwood.  His accent was NOT believable, though.  And the make-up jobs.  Tolson looked like night of the zombies.
Can't say it was a great film.  for me, at least.  Anyone else saw it?

Did you see the original English version? I was not aware that there was a V.O. theater on the Riviera.

[49410enrique]

i'm wondering what was gonig on about 60 seconds before this picture

[unholeee]

there is something definitely odd about enrique

[birba]

Did you see the original English version? I was not aware that there was a V.O. theater on the Riviera.

Sure, in Nice.

[49410enrique]

there is something definitely odd about enrique

normal is soooo boring. who wants to be normal.  it's much more fun on this side. thanks for the compliment

btw i wasn't looking for elephant poop, the picture was actually used in an analogy by an olympic weightlifting coach on one of the blogs i was reading, i really i had weightlifting on my mind when i happened upon that hilarious photo.
https://artofcoachingspeed.com/2010/12/01/olympic-lifting-myths-7/

[costicina]

there is something definitely odd about enrique

Gott sei Dank!! The world would be a dull place without Enrique and his likes  (but probably Enrique is unique )
Marg

[m1469]

Nothing, there's absolutely nothing on my mind.  It's just like a huge blank space ... vvvvvvvvvveeeeee ....  I haven't ever had a thought.  What's it like to think?  vvvvvvvvvvveeeeee ....

[Bob]

Sounds like a Zen think m1469. 

*Bob ohms quietly.*

[49410enrique]

i'm already pretty excited about the summer games.  i can't wait to see what happens in london this year especially since i pretty much missed all of the 08 games in their entirety, at least this year i'll be able to record when i'm not around. and man i hope the US market gets television coverage of events other then the big ticket ones (i love gymanstics and track and field bunches but i really want to see some people throw up some big number on the oly lifts)
this little samplign is so cool, i love that pyrros dimas gets a 15 minute standing ovation in the 2nd vid from the crowd even with a failed lift, shows how much courage and athleticism it takes, i also learned a valuable lesson from it, sometimes the audience really is on yourside even in the face of a failure they are still routing for you.  i think my piano performance anxiety can take a note or two from that.

great beat. i need to download it for my next workout.

[costicina]

i'm already pretty excited about the summer games.  i can't wait to see what happens in london this year especially since i pretty much missed all of the 08 games in their entirety, at least this year i'll be able to record when i'm not around. and man i hope the US market gets television coverage of events other then the big ticket ones (i love gymanstics and track and field bunches but i really want to see some people throw up some big number on the oly lifts)
this little samplign is so cool, i love that pyrros dimas gets a 15 minute standing ovation in the 2nd vid from the crowd even with a failed lift, shows how much courage and athleticism it takes, i also learned a valuable lesson from it, sometimes the audience really is on yourside even in the face of a failure they are still routing for you.  i think my piano performance anxiety can take a note or two from that.

great beat. i need to download it for my next workout.

I'm curious: how many kg are you able to lift?

[thalbergmad]

i'm already pretty excited about the summer games.  i can't wait to see what happens in london

I'm bored of the games even before they have started. Probably because the stadium is only 15 miles from where I live and I have heard nothing else but bloody Olympics since London won the blasted thing.

I think the games will be a disaster. For a start all of the rail and tube workers will go on strike so nobody will be able to get to the damned place anyway. The roads will be full of V I P's in their limos and MP's and their mates and no doubt half the roads will be up with pointless works anyway.

All of the British athletes who are thought to be in with a chance of a medal will likely fail, half of     
the athletes from certain Countries will fail to go home again and hopefully the whole rotten charade will be bulldozed and returned to wasteland.

Thal

[elspeth]

And then there's those of us in the regions, who have to host various foreign teams so the government can justify making us pay extra tax to pay for a shindig in London, which we have no access to - because, as Thal says, the transport's going to fall apart, even if we could afford it now the train fares have gone up.

My local city council is using it as a marketing campaign to get us to take more exercise - while quietly ignoring the fact they just shut my local sports centre because they couldn't afford to maintain it.

Mutter mutter...

[49410enrique]

And then there's those of us in the regions, who have to host various foreign teams so the government can justify making us pay extra tax to pay for a shindig in London, which we have no access to - because, as Thal says, the transport's going to fall apart, even if we could afford it now the train fares have gone up.

My local city council is using it as a marketing campaign to get us to take more exercise - while quietly ignoring the fact they just shut my local sports centre because they couldn't afford to maintain it.

Mutter mutter...

could be worse ,you could live in rio (de janeiro) in 2016, if ever there was a bad idea....
https://www.rio2016.org/en/home

1646 days until all hell breaks loose

[elspeth]

How about this for an idea... The Olympics are given a permanent home, back in their original home of Greece.

This relieves the rest of the world of the financial burden of building new facilities that are allowed to rot afterwards and gets rid of all the politics surrounding the event. It takes all the pressure off transport infrastructures that can't even cope with the domestic use they get.

It also gives Greece a proper domestic industry which will help them get their economy going and reduce the amount of money the rest of Europe has to subsidise them by.

Everybody wins...

[thalbergmad]

My local city council is using it as a marketing campaign to get us to take more exercise - while quietly ignoring the fact they just shut my local sports centre because they couldn't afford to maintain it.

Mutter mutter...

One often finds that for every sports club that closes, another Kebab shop opens.

Thal

[ahinton]

How about this for an idea... The Olympics are given a permanent home, back in their original home of Greece.

This relieves the rest of the world of the financial burden of building new facilities that are allowed to rot afterwards and gets rid of all the politics surrounding the event. It takes all the pressure off transport infrastructures that can't even cope with the domestic use they get.

It also gives Greece a proper domestic industry which will help them get their economy going and reduce the amount of money the rest of Europe has to subsidise them by.

Everybody wins...

But who pays to do this in the first place? The EU that's already bailing it out? In putting together an infrastructure that it hopes will accommodate and enable this year's Olympic Games, Britian has already invested a fortune which would then have to be spent all over again in dismantling and relocating it, to say nothing of reassembling it all in Athens which, given Greece's currently parlous ecomonic state, would be vastly more difficult, time-consuming and expensive to do. Such a scheme would not in any case give Greece anything like what it needs to help it get its economy going again, especially since you mention "the financial burden of building new facilities that are allowed to rot afterwards", a factor from which Greece would suffer following every set of Olympic Games held there!

Best,

Alistair

[49410enrique]

puppies, this one in particular, i love how little it's legs are it basically hops around like a rabit, can't really run yet lol

[oxy60]

Eastern Europe and our member Littletune. Hope that she and her family are OK under that blanket of snow.

Also I was thinking about Birba as I had an extra glazed doughnut at a morning meeting. Coincidentally, they came from Dunkin-Donuts along with the coffee. We need a lot of sugar and coffee to stay awake as the lights dim for a power point presentation at 7AM.

[littletune]

Eastern Europe and our member Littletune. Hope that she and her family are OK under that blanket of snow.

Also I was thinking about Birba as I had an extra glazed doughnut at a morning meeting. Coincidentally, they came from Dunkin-Donuts along with the coffee. We need a lot of sugar and coffee to stay awake as the lights dim for a power point presentation at 7AM.

Thank you Oxy for thinking about me! You're very nice!   Well there are some parts in my country where schools are closed and people are not supposed to go out and all that, but not even so much because of the snow but more because of really strong wind! Here (in the capital city) it's windy and cold too (but not that much) and we don't have snow here yet but they say we'll get it soon too!

Oh that puppy from the video is really cute!!! 

[oxy60]

Thank you Oxy for thinking about me! You're very nice!   Well there are some parts in my country where schools are closed and people are not supposed to go out and all that, but not even so much because of the snow but more because of really strong wind! Here (in the capital city) it's windy and cold too (but not that much) and we don't have snow here yet but they say we'll get it soon too!

Oh that puppy from the video is really cute!!! 

You're welcome! My wife and I have been though some really rough winters in the Netherlands. When she was very young it got so cold that the North Sea froze the salt out of the water and there were salt dunes along the shore. This year the Netherlands will run the 11 Cities skating tour. For it to be safe for the public and the skaters the natural ice must be thick enough to bear the weight and this year it will be ready. It has been quite a few seasons since this event has been run. (My friend almost froze his nose off competing.)

Glad you and yours are OK. Be careful!

[Bob]

Haha... Just saw an advertisement for an upright.  $100.  "Needs some work."

  ie POS.

*Bob wonders if it's possible to use a giant, powerful saw and cut an old upright up into pieces to make it easier to hault away.*

[Bob]

I wonder what would happen at something like the Super Bowl if the athlete got done with the game, won the game, but just walked off the field, no celebration, no emotion, just business.

[Bob]