What's on your mind now?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

You can slow up or you can slow down, doesn't matter which one.  There are some other words or word combinations like that.  Recurring or reoccurring.

Oh here's a good one!

Complete stop

Don't take your seatbelt off until we've reached a complete stop.

There's no such thing as a non-complete stop! 

If we're still moving, we haven't stopped yet!

meaningless term!

[Bob]

[49410enrique]

[Bob]

Kakkoii.

[Bob]

I'm surprised they don't do more of these.

https://news.yahoo.com/photos/-beetlecam-captures-daily-life-of-lions-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252F-beetlecam-captures-daily-life-of-lions-slideshow%252Fbeetlecam-photo-1331315795.html

[slane]

You can only slow up in America. In Australia, we always slow down.
However ... I heard a funny conversation between an Australian colleague and a newly arrived Indian colleague about the various combinations of piss and prepositions used in this country.
It was all very muddling for the poor Indian. Pissing down for rain make sense, but why is a piss-up getting drunk? All very vulgar.

[Bob]

[db05]

"Non knowing is most intimate"

 

[Bob]

Nice.   I think if I knew I had a 50/50 type of chance of living I'd set up some emails from an email forwarding service for "after the event."  Just to mess with people.    It would be a little private moment of hilarity as I'm dying. 

"Dear So and So,
It's lucky you buried me with my smart phone.  But can you dig me back out of here please?  It's really stuffy.
Sincerely,
Bob"

I guess I'd have to make that a last request.  Please bury me with my smart phone... just in case.  And then they get that after a month or so.

 


If that's what this guy did.  It's not quite as entertaining if someone else is sending them in the present.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/emails-dead-man-account-helping-family-friends-closure-193306965.html

[Bob]

Those Mayans are going to lose a lot of credibility on December 22nd, 2012.

[littletune]

Tomorrow's recital!  I'm not all that excited about it! I had too many things this week and couldn't practice enough and besides I'm tired and sleepy and worried about other things so...  AND also my teacher said we would have to work on the piece I'm playing for the recital for about one more month! It will be fun!!!   

[littletune]

Those Mayans are going to lose a lot of credibility on December 22nd, 2012.

Well I don't know, for me they lost a lot of credibility when I read they were cutting out people's hearts while they were still alive for sacrifise...  (although I know they are not the only ones who did that and that a lot of people (even now) still do that, I mean to me it's just as horrible if they do that with animals of course!!!      ) when I hear things like that (and a lot of other things) it just makes me think human beings are a really big horrible stupid mistake!!    ... so you could sometimes almost understand why someone would want to end the (human) world... like: ok you had thousands of years of time to learn how to use your powerful brain for something good! But you failed!!! Cause you mostly used it to do bad and horrible and selfish things!!! To destroy and torture other beings and other human beings!!!!! Now time's over!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can go and start form the beginning again! Cause you're waaaaay too stupid to have such a powerful brain!   Goodbye!!!!!!!!!! 
(and I'm talking about human beings in general, I know there are some good ones too.)

[oxy60]

Well I don't know, for me they lost a lot of credibility when I read they were cutting out people's hearts while they were still alive for sacrifise...  (although I know they are not the only ones who did that and that a lot of people (even now) still do that, I mean to me it's just as horrible if they do that with animals of course!!!      ) when I hear things like that (and a lot of other things) it just makes me think human beings are a really big horrible stupid mistake!!    ... so you could sometimes almost understand why someone would want to end the (human) world... like: ok you had thousands of years of time to learn how to use your powerful brain for something good! But you failed!!! Cause you mostly used it to do bad and horrible and selfish things!!! To destroy and torture other beings and other human beings!!!!! Now time's over!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can go and start form the beginning again! Cause you're waaaaay too stupid to have such a powerful brain!   Goodbye!!!!!!!!!! 
(and I'm talking about human beings in general, I know there are some good ones too.)

You hit that right on the head.

Anyone who has animals as pets or who has worked with animals in the wild knows that animals treat each other better than humans do. Yes, animals do eat each other, but only to the extent to satisfy hunger. Not to satisfy some deity whom they haven't even seen, or to satisfy some manufactured concept.

[littletune]

You hit that right on the head.

Anyone who has animals as pets or who has worked with animals in the wild knows that animals treat each other better than humans do. Yes, animals do eat each other, but only to the extent to satisfy hunger. Not to satisfy some deity whom they haven't even seen, or to satisfy some manufactured concept.

Yes that's exactly right!  and also animals don't think that they're better than someone else, they don't think: oh I'm worth more than those other beings that's why I have a right to do anything I want with them! And people do that! and it's the stupidest thing and it just makes those who think that worth so much less for thinking that!!

[Bob]

Hmmm....  Apparently "someone" here forgot to remove the filter and leftover coffee the last time coffee was made... a few months ago. 

Time to bleach out the coffee maker... Who wants the first cup after that?

[db05]

Christopher Xiao. A young composer.
Actually his composition is in my ears. There's a free streaming somewhere.

[Bob]

Haha... That's good.  Almost had me for a sec.  I don't know what software it is, but it's the equivalent of Photoshop for videos.  

There's one spot that's editted with the jump in the screen.  

At first I thought they were trained with each dog just hitting the one note.  

Haha... Man.  There's still something about it that seems real and something I can't quite put my finger on that's fake.  It would be amazing if that were 100% real.

I don't even know if dogs can hear pitches like humans.  

Or I wonder if it's something like horses counting.  Horses can appear to add numbers but it's really the trainer standing next to them, cuing them to stamp their foot.  Maybe there's someone standing behind that lady cuing the dogs somehow and there's actually no 'video photoshop' going on.  Although I can't see a dog distinguishing the notes on a keyboard at all.  Maybe someone cued them when to tap the keyboard and then someone 'video photoshopped' the precise location that their paw appears to hit.  Still impressive to have animals trained to do something like that.  They sit behind that wooden bar and are responding to something.

Argh... I just want to know how that was done now.  I don't think dogs are capable to learning a melody on a keyboard like a trained seal. 

[oxy60]

Hmmm....  Apparently "someone" here forgot to remove the filter and leftover coffee the last time coffee was made... a few months ago.  

Time to bleach out the coffee maker... Who wants the first cup after that?

Is that the coffee maker in the teacher's lounge?

Yes that's exactly right!   and also animals don't think that they're better than someone else, they don't think: oh I'm worth more than those other beings that's why I have a right to do anything I want with them! And people do that! and it's the stupidest thing and it just makes those who think that worth so much less for thinking that!!

In recent years I have had a chance to watch a large colony of (partially) wild cats. They aren't truly wild because there is an open feeding station. The population changes constantly as some drift off and others join. What is interesting is how they treat the new members and how they react to the returning members. Also how far afield they wander. If anyone has the chance to watch feral cats they will learn lessons about how we should behave.

[Bob]

Nope.  It's my own personal coffee pot.  I don't share my pot.  Haha.  Which sounds wrong.

I think that possum is the smarter creature there.  *Bob keeps urging the possum to attack.*  Come on....  Come on...  She put a freaking sweater on you.  She named you Apple.  Bite her....

[49410enrique]

came across this 1992 photo of a  Bosnian soldier playing a piano in a destroyed classroom/school house. my imagination is running wild with wonderings of what he might be playing....

[Bob]

Update on the dogs on the piano clip above.

[ Invalid YouTube link ]

https://curiousclarinetist.blogspot.com/2012/03/dogs-have-perfect-pitch.html

So they learned solfege to the keyboard.  Impressive enough.  Then the trainer transferred to playing an ocarina.  So they learned the songs too, but still... That is impressive.  

What solfege system are they using?

I'm impressed with the training, but I'm thinking the dog still isn't experiencing music they way humans do.  I doubt they're feeling a beat, although that doesn't seem to be part of this.  Or hearing a line.  They're just hitting precise notes based on their training.  Still impressive training though.  *Bob thinks the animals he knows must be pretty slow.*

Does anyone know what kind of keyboard that is?

And the scary thing... This can be done with a dog.  It can be done with human too.  Those dogs are better at following directions than some students I've taught.  And they're better at matching pitch on the keyboard too.  Without looking even, haha.  Is it missing something though about the whole point of music education?  If you bump that up a bit.... Add a steady beat, simple melody, hitting the right notes... You've got a standard beginner level of performance.  

Hmm... Maybe that really is perfect pitch then.  They had rehearsed their song enough so the dogs hit some keys in advance.  

And that would be a lot of video editing if it were fake....

Haha... I'm just amazed.  They know which key to hit.  They move but can still find the key.  I was wondering if maybe they were taught to hit a few notes based on their body's positions.  Apparently not.  That's even better than some intro to ear training college students I've seen for matching notes.  

And what's that little bird doing there?  It looks like they put a seed or something for it on the keys.

[Bob]

Found online...

"I tried to look up ninjas in the online thesaurus. It said that, "ninjas could not be found". Well played, ninjas, well played.​"

[49410enrique]

Found online...

"I tried to look up ninjas in the online thesaurus. It said that, "ninjas could not be found". Well played, ninjas, well played.​"

awe man that's perfect!!!!

[Bob]

Harps in heaven... Accordions in Hell....

https://news.yahoo.com/video/#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fus-15749625%252Fraw-video-accordionists-a-ha-moment-28702556.html

They are quite hip.  Playing for the the Not-So-Eternal Leader.  

*Bob thinks they could give the kazookeylele guy a run for his money.*  Geez... That kazookeylele video has over four million views on youtube.  

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[49410enrique]

Suta-bakusu ni ikou - let's go to Starbucks
スターバクスにいこう

[littletune]

It's really annoying that today had even one hour less!!!   
This week I had a lot of pain! That thing that started with my head and my face hurting a little got really bad on Wednesday and I had to take a lot of tablets for the pain!! and then I was all tired and sleepy... well now it's getting better but really slowly... I think I have something with my gums, but I don't know if it's infected or if a tooth is growing or something... oh well I guess it doesn't matter that much cause it's getting better.  oh and yesterday I got a cut on my finger (like a paper cut I guess, except I don't think it was from paper) and it just wouldn't stop bleeding, I mean it wasn't bleeding a lot just enough that everything I touched got little blood stains on it, so I had to put on a Band aid (I think that's what it's called) on my finger and it's a little weird to play piano with it. 

[thalbergmad]

so I had to put on a Band aid (I think that's what it's called) on my finger and it's a little weird to play piano with it. 

Do not worry little one. Alfred Brendel used to play very well with lots of plasters on his fingers.

Thal

[oxy60]

It's really annoying that today had even one hour less!!!   

Thank you! You saved me. I had forgotten you guys changed your clocks today. That hour makes a big difference when calling from the US West coast to the EU and need to reach an office before it closes.

Here we love the change. Dinner can be outside in the setting sun. One of the moments I to which I look forward is dinner on the terrace of a sea side restaurant with the sun setting over the Pacific.

[Bob]

I see some people are being proactive about the upcoming end of the world.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/pic-bugarach-french-commune-home-20-000-doomsday-210932058.html


I haven't made my own plans... yet.  I still have time.  Plenty of time.  I'll get to it.  There's at least a full six months left.  I could probably build a spaceship in that time and take along some canned goods to tide me over.  ... And all that gold that people won't need anymore.  I can take that up with me too into space.  


Or wait a second... Does anyone else find it a little strange that these aliens just happen to "conveniently appear" before end of the world?  Show up just in the nick of the time here.....  I think it's obvious what's going on, don't you?  The aliens are going cause the end of the world.  Because then they can jump in and save everyone.  I just think that's wrong.  That's some galatic ego trip type of thing going on.  "Hey, look us aliens!  Saving the people of Earth from... from the problems we aliens intentionally created ourselves!"  The rational response to behavior like that is just to ignore it.  Ignore the behavior and the behavior will go away.  It's obvious those aliens are just seeking attention.  Well I won't give it to them.  I plan on going about my normal business like nothing happen or that I'm unaware.  If you ask, I'll probably feign ignorance of these aliens and laugh at the idea of them.  But secretly we all go about with a wink and a nod, knowing that we're all ignoring these aliens and their galatic antics.  Shame on them!

[49410enrique]

I see some people are being proactive about the upcoming end of the world.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/pic-bugarach-french-commune-home-20-000-doomsday-210932058.html


I haven't made my own plans... yet.  I still have time.  Plenty of time.  I'll get to it.  There's at least a full six months left.  I could probably build a spaceship in that time and take along some canned goods to tide me over.  ... And all that gold that people won't need anymore.  I can take that up with me too into space.  

just remember you're not scrooge mcduck and you cannot swim in all your gold money like in ducktails....

[j_menz]

just remember you're not scrooge mcduck and you cannot swim in all your gold money like in ducktails....

But, but... that's the only exercise I get! 

And I'm ignoring the aliens, too.  If they want my attention, they should make an appointment.

[Bob]

The increased use of cell phones has led to a decrease in my ability to figure out which people are nuts and are just talking to themselves out on the street.  I just saw someone out there... I thought they were nuts at first.  Then I thought they were on a cell phone.  Then I couldn't tell.

*Bob takes a look at this and his last post and also considers he's writing in third person here.*

[Bob]

Same artist as above.



I'm guessing the stomp-stomp clap is more accessible.  And that the money isn't the right measurement.  And that the symphony might survive well beyond the stomp-stomp clap.

From here in case the image URL is messed up.
https://www.tonedeafcomics.com/one-gazillion-dollars/

[49410enrique]

[birba]

I lived there for a year, and I found myself bowing on the phone as well!!!!

[m1469]

Would you like to know something?  Yesterday I was on a long drive home and I was in a very mountainy area and I did see a little bit of a tiny cougar crossing the road ... from left to right and s/he was like two times the size of a house cat ... It might have been a Bobcat, but I think it was a cougar ... I'll have to look at photos to see about the shape of the hind legs because I can still clearly see that shape in my mind and that might clarify what it was.

[49410enrique]

...I was on a long drive home and I was in a very mountainy area and I did see a little bit of a tiny cougar crossing the road ... from left to right and s/he was like two times the size of a house cat ... It might have been a Bobcat, but I think it was a cougar ......

wow maybe you saw the legendary chupacabra!?! oh man scary!

[m1469]

I think that's a Gremlin   (with a little bit of gyzzmo).  I looked at photos and it was a cougar ... I didn't realize they were so small sometimes though, but maybe it was a young one.  Of course Bobcats don't have the same kind of tail though, which would have made it easier, but it's those hind legs that I remember the most for some reason.  I guess those wild animals are really out there  :-.

[49410enrique]

lol i can't help but laugh at the people in line buying their tickets, they can't do basic math! ha ha... (kid in the back of the classroom, 'but mr smith this is stupid, when will i every actually use this? *in response to the lesson on probabliites and how to execute factorials and then apply basic critical thinking skils....)

[oxy60]

The exact odds are 175,711,536 to 1 to get the big prize and to get the second prize in 3,904,701. Remember it's parimutuel so the prize is split among the winners.

[49410enrique]

[rachmaninoff_forever]

OH MY GOD!  RIP every professional vert skater.  You just got showed up by a 12 year old!

Imagine what he'll do when he's 20!  1260's?!?!

[pianowolfi]

Time, space, gravity. If you are a travelling in a spacecraft floating in an orbit around the earth people are calling that weightlessness or absence of gravity. But it's not really true, gravity is still there but you are permanently in free fall, so to say, so you don't feel gravity. For a similar reason we don't feel the rotation of the earth directly, although we are travelling quite fast together with it, actually. But what is it that causes time, or our feeling that time exists? The movement of the different objects in space like planets, stars, galaxies? Would'n't we stop to feel time going by if every object in space was completely motionless?

[Bob]

A freefall so slow you don't notice it?

I don't think the scientists even know what time is exactly.  Perception of it can change, but things like the vibrations of atoms don't change.  It can be warped with gravity and motions, time-space can be.  There's an interesting show on nova online about that.  Especially how someone travelling to or from the Earth would experience the same time as the future or past here on Earth. 

The Nova show had a part where they focused on space.  Same idea -- How do you know where you are if there are absolutely no reference points?  You can spin though and centrifugal force while pulling things out so you know there's space.  Interesting ideas though.

[49410enrique]

i can't stop laughing, okay kind of mean, but funny, he's alright....omg i had no idea chickens could be so relentlessly scary!
 

[Bob]

Money, career, work, etc.

[candypiano]

I feel tired from practicing and is worrying about the upcoming concerts.

fingers crossed 

[oxy60]

I've just resubscribed to Piano Street, down grading my membership to only the forum. After three years as a paid member I have downloaded more than enough sheet music for me to learn. I had a plan to travel paperless and play from my computer screen. (I saw some pop groups using tablets on stage.) However, even though I could enlarge the image on my portable to be able to read the notes, page turning and scrolling became issues. I found that what was possible for pop groups playing from lead sheets wouldn't work for classical. I didn't even address the issue of 100 daily downloads of the same piece from this site either from the sysop's perspective or the consumption of bandwidth via 4G.

[thalbergmad]

I saw some pop groups using tablets on stage.

That could mean something completely different.

Thal

[Bob]

I was looking into playing all from PDF files years ago.

https://bilila.com/

I found that foot mouse.  It was about $100 at the time.  I didn't purchase.  I'm not sure if it would actually scroll or just button up/down pages which was a concern.

Hmm... That place looks little rinky-dink.  A presentation remote might be the way to go. 

Or take that bili foot mouse and cover it with a black cloth so it's not so gawdy.