What's on your mind now?

[costicina]

i'm not sure how much good i can do, but rockstar kitty says you're a strong girl and you'll get through this and be there for mom.  yes problems suck, money problems suck big time but you have many things to be very thankful for, focus on those. (rockstar kitty disn't say those words exactly but that's what i understood)

try to find a way for that emotion to come out through the piano, look for some music to let your soul get it out. and since your family makes the sacrifice for you to study piano the very best way for you to 'pay them back' is to study really hard, practice and discipline yourself (which we know you do) so that you learn as much as you can, i think that is what would really make them happy even when there's problems around.

  Enrique, I adore you......

[oxy60]

I've seen many changes, but sure not for the better...yet, I have the luck to live in the historical center, in a 15th century building. The legend says that in my apartment used to live Lucrezia Borgia, (in)famous for her beauty, her dissolute life and her unpleasant habit to poison her hubbies when she got tired of them (needless to say, I admire her!!! )

And no, I'm not an ex-pat, I'm Italian, but I was born in Sardinya: another world altogether.....

The building where I lived was older. The subway had just been dug and I got to see the unopened station (Pza Barberini) on a private tour. I wasn't prying into your private life when I asked about your status. I was involved with one of several ex-pat night clubs which were scattered around the center. If you were an ex-pat we might still know some of the same people. Although when I left in 1980 the ex-pat community was dwindling.

this might have been asked and answered before, but i really wonder why drive up ATM machines have the braile for the vision impared (i'm not against someone with vision problems getting quick convenient access to their money, it's the driving up to and driving away from the machine that i can't figure out).

ALL ATM machines in the US MUST be ADA compliant, regardless of how stupid it might seem.

[costicina]

I wasn't prying into your private life when I asked about your status.

Don't worry!!!  :)I moved here in 1989, it's not likely we have acquaintances in common (yet it would be a funny and pleasant coincidence!)  And now, may I pry in your private life, asking you what brought you in Rome, and if you liked the experience? 

[littletune]

You are right, Littletune,
it's NOT FAIR that a special person like you have to experience this kind of hideous money problems.... You deserve to be happy, and serene. You are very dear to us....

P.S. Enrique, please, do something to cheer up our Littletune, only you could do that!!!

Thank you very much Costicina!

i'm not sure how much good i can do, but rockstar kitty says you're a strong girl and you'll get through this and be there for mom.  yes problems suck, money problems suck big time but you have many things to be very thankful for, focus on those. (rockstar kitty didn't say those words exactly but that's what i understood)

try to find a way for that emotion to come out through the piano, look for some music to let your soul get it out. and since your family makes the sacrifice for you to study piano the very best way for you to 'pay them back' is to study really hard, practice and discipline yourself (which we know you do) so that you learn as much as you can, i think that is what would really make them happy even when there's problems around.

And thank you very much Enrique!!  That's a really funny and cute kitty!      Yes I will practice really a lot! I have my piano exam in two months! I hope I can practice really a lot! I know now all my exam pieces (well I'm not 100% sure about that Bach prelude, but I think my teacher thinks I can learn that one - the more difficult one). I think my exam pieces are pretty difficult for me so I will really need to practice A LOT!!

[costicina]

I got them at last!!!!! My cat-earrings designed for me by a nice friend!!!!!  I have posted them in My pets thread too, I'm really produd of them....

[pianovlad1996]

Well, thalbergmad's image of Spongebob is continuously haunting me for about 20 minutes so perhaps this is what I have in my mind. 
PS: I want your cat-earrings costiciana !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Timea 

[costicina]

I hope you like these  cat earrings,   too (cat mother + kitten)  

[pianovlad1996]

These are gorgeous... Hope I'll find a similar pattern in the jewelry store. 

[pianowolfi]

Well my cancelled home concert (due to spontaneous absence of the few listeners, probably due to the even more spontaneous announcements from my side beforehand) at least had the pleasurable side effect of having more order in my flat...

#alwayslookonthebrightsideoflife

[oxy60]

Don't worry!!!  :)I moved here in 1989, it's not likely we have acquaintances in common (yet it would be a funny and pleasant coincidence!)  And now, may I pry in your private life, asking you what brought you in Rome, and if you liked the experience? 

First off I loved all aspects of the life there. It is different for an ex-pat. I came to Rome as I traveled around Europe just looking for a change of pace. Accommodation opened up and I stayed, moving from one furnished flat to another via my ex-pat contacts. That also gave me a role assisting in managing an ex-pat night club. 

Shortly after I returned to the states in 1980, the club was sold and the management team went their own ways. I also doubt we would have friends in common because of the generation gap.

[49410enrique]

according to the yt vid this is not available for purchase except old vhs tapes, i wish it would be cleaned up and released on blu ray or dvd, it looks interesting and though this didn't actually happen, it's entertaining as hell, fun scene

"Uploaded by AlphaTerminus on Dec 13, 2010


This is the best clip in the movie Scott Joplin (1977) by Universal Studios. It depicts a competition between "professors" (brothel pianists) to win $100 from John Stark in Sedalia, Missouri. Louis Chauvin, who is a better pianist but can't read/write music, teams up with Joplin and unleashes Maple Leaf Rag upon the public for the first time (this did not actually occur.) You cannot buy this movie anywhere except terrible VHS non-original copies on Amazon and searching Google for the same terrible copies. Dick Hyman is playing the soundtrack and Billy Dee Williams is portraying Scott Joplin. Please contact Universal and encourage them to release a high quality DVD and/or streaming versions of this good, but historically inaccurate, movie!

..."

this is another great scene this i have seen (the movie) it's quite good, about an orphan piano prodigy child that grows up on an cruise ship and never leaves the boat, fantastic film , great piano playing (i have the piano scores sheets too some nice pieces in there)
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this one is best enjoyed on yt in 720P

[m1469]

ah gawd, I keep having brilliant ideas 

[costicina]

according to the yt vid this is not available for purchase except old vhs tapes, i wish it would be cleaned up and released on blu ray or dvd, it looks interesting and though this didn't actually happen, it's entertaining as hell, fun scene

"Uploaded by AlphaTerminus on Dec 13, 2010


This is the best clip in the movie Scott Joplin (1977) by Universal Studios. It depicts a competition between "professors" (brothel pianists) to win $100 from John Stark in Sedalia, Missouri. Louis Chauvin, who is a better pianist but can't read/write music, teams up with Joplin and unleashes Maple Leaf Rag upon the public for the first time (this did not actually occur.) You cannot buy this movie anywhere except terrible VHS non-original copies on Amazon and searching Google for the same terrible copies. Dick Hyman is playing the soundtrack and Billy Dee Williams is portraying Scott Joplin. Please contact Universal and encourage them to release a high quality DVD and/or streaming versions of this good, but historically inaccurate, movie!

..."

this is another great scene this i have seen (the movie) it's quite good, about an orphan piano prodigy child that grows up on an cruise ship and never leaves the boat, fantastic film , great piano playing (i have the piano scores sheets too some nice pieces in there)
[ Invalid YouTube link ]
this one is best enjoyed on yt in 720P

What's the title of the second movie? I WANNA WATCH IT!!!!!!

[Bob]

ah gawd, I keep having brilliant ideas 

Not going to share?  All right.... *Bob takes m1469's brilliant idea and divides it into 70,890 pieces, one for each member.*   Can I get a volunteer to start passing out pieces?  One piece per member.

[49410enrique]

What's the title of the second movie? I WANNA WATCH IT!!!!!!

the legend of 1900. it's a very good movie, and visually it's beautiful, fantastic costumes, scenes, music.

[littletune]

Well my cancelled home concert (due to spontaneous absence of the few listeners, probably due to the even more spontaneous announcements from my side beforehand) at least had the pleasurable side effect of having more order in my flat...

#alwayslookonthebrightsideoflife

   Wolfi, how could those people not come to your concert???  they don't even know what they're missing!!! 

well there's a lot on my mind, like always... there's just too many things happening!!! well yesterday we didn't have school because teachers were on strike!    but I didn't have much time anyway because we had to go to the vet again!!!!!!!! not because of my guinea pig, but this time it was because of my turtles!!! because they started acting kinda weird... one started biting the other one and they were more nervous and not eating as much as usual... and so they said they would have to do X-rays to see if there was something wrong, and they found one had three eggs stuck in her tummy, that's the one that is biting the other one, and the other one has only one egg but her stomach is full of stones!!! because she's eating stones that they have at the bottom, and we saw the x-ray picture, you can really see all those little stones in her stomach!!!! it looks pretty scary! the vet said that maybe she was eating stones cause she's nervous because that other one is biting her (she bit off three of her nails! or whatever that's called in turtles). so they had to stay at the vet over night and today we got them back, and they got two eggs out of the turtle who had three eggs stuck, but probably they will have to go back especially the one with stones in her stomach and she will have to stay for a longer time. And we also don't know if the other turtle will stop biting or not and if she doesn't stop we will have to put something in the middle of the aquarium... and we also need to remove the little stones on the bottom and get bigger ones that they won't be able to eat!!!!

And also the downstairs neighbour now started saying that water was running down into her apartment (from our apartment) 11 times already!    and so today my mum and dad got a letter from inspection (or whatever that's called) and the inspectors will come on May 8 at 9.30 to inspect whatever they want to inspect, it says in the letter there's a suspicion of water running (or something like that, don't know these words in English)... I mean suspicion?! there's no suspicion! There were people here who repaired everything here and at that stupid woman's place, so ther's no suspicion!!!! everyone saw that there was a little water leaking and they repaired it!!! so what it's supposed to mean that there is a suspicion? stupid people!!!!!!!! a suspicion!!!!!  there is a suspicion you have water pipes in your apartment!!!!  and even a toilet! and even a bathtub and that you even use the toilet and have showers every day!!!!      nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo what a crime!!!!     

[m1469]

"The people in a village on the Niger River in Africa were losing fellow villagers at such a rapid rate, that they had to call in the Army to hunt down the culprit. A 22 foot, 2500 pound Crocodile. Speechless...."

from Ed Piotrowski WPDE:  https://www.facebook.com/EdPiotrowskiWPDE

[Bob]

2.5-3 weeks to come inspect a potential water leak?     Plus some amount of decision-making time before that.  Good thing there isn't a real leak.

[oxy60]

Read what Littletune writes very carefully and gain some insight into what it is like to live somewhere else. I have lived in places like that and have experienced some jaw dropping contradictions. When most people travel they stay in hotels or "turn key" furnished apartments. They never know what life is like for the actual residents.

And thanks to her for giving raising the curtain to give us a glimpse into another world.

[littletune]

2.5-3 weeks to come inspect a potential water leak?     Plus some amount of decision-making time before that.  Good thing there isn't a real leak.

   yes if there was our dear crazy neighbour would have a swimming pool in her apartment...
I have no idea what they will be inspecting...  I mean will they break the wall just to see if any of the pipes are leaking?  really stupid! 

[oxy60]

  yes if there was our dear crazy neighbour would have a swimming pool in her apartment...
I have no idea what they will be inspecting...  I mean will they break the wall just to see if any of the pipes are leaking?  really stupid! 

When I not practicing piano, I look for leaks. Have been doing that as an apartment manager most of my life and... no walls need to be opened. This process is very technical and very accurate.

An average person can hear water moving through the pipes but ignores it. A crazy person becomes fixated on it.

[Bob]

I think it would be kind of intersting and a bit creepy too if they would rebuild the Titanic.  Make it safe, but keep it as much of a copy to the original as possible. It didn't even make it for one trip.  It could be a functional, travelling museum type of thing.  Call it Titantic 2012 or something but keep Titanic in the name.  Imagine walking on board something like that.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/australian-billionaire-plans-build-titanic-ii-064606594.html

[essynia]

 Do purely "evil" human beings exist?? Those with positively no redeeming or "good" qualities? Are they consciously aware of their malignant nature? Is there a place for them WITHIN human society, or is their integration limited only to beings balancing force between "good" and "bad?" ... Or is it all just relative and an argument based in semantics??

[essynia]

*being balancing forces.....

Whatever. Lol.

[iratior]

Thinking about 239 x 4,649.  Somebody check and see if 101,010,101 is a prime number. (It would be so picturesque if it were.  More generally, for what cyclotomic polynomials p(x) is        p(10) a prime number?)

[iratior]

101,010,101 = 271 x 372,731.  Fortunately, didn't have to check every prime less than 10,050.  Also have 271 x 41 = 11,111.

[j_menz]

Thinking about 239 x 4,649.  Somebody check and see if 101,010,101 is a prime number. (It would be so picturesque if it were. 

Sorry to break it to you, but it isn't:

41 X 2463661
271 x 372731
9091 x 11111

 

[iratior]

Yeah all right.  101,010,101 = 41 x 271 x 9091.  (In the book I have, the table of prime numbers lists all less than 100,000.  A very picturesque quadruplet of them is 13001, 13003, 13007, 13009.  And 9901 is prime too.)

[49410enrique]

i don't know why but the above math comments got me thinking about numerical palindromes, i wonder if there are functions that will consistently yield any for any set of real integers....hmmm would love to see an equation where i could substitute in and out comes a 32123 or something similar in terms of being an exact reading of itself backwards to forwards....


also on a completely unrelated but  musical thought i got to thinking about trying to hunt down videos for creative piano performance venues, so far this is my favorite, not only beucase it is one of my fav schubert impromptus (played very well) but c'mon a lakeside stage in what appears to be a most picturesque little alpine village?!?! really this is so incredible to me, a dream...

[iratior]

Well, no one could say it didn't look pleasant at Weissensee.  I am left wondering what skeletons are hidden in the closet!

On the subject of arithmetic:  that's interesting, whether or not there are infinitely many palindromic prime numbers:  like 313 or 191.

[j_menz]

On the subject of arithmetic:  that's interesting, whether or not there are infinitely many palindromic prime numbers:  like 313 or 191.

Being palindromic is not an arithmetical quality of a number. By way of axplanation, a number is the same number whatever base it is written in. It would be rare that it would be palindromic in all base notations.

That said, since being palindromic is a mere accident, given that there are an infinite number of primes, the number of palindromic primes in any base notation system should also be infinite.

[iratior]

Agreed that being palindromic relative to one base doesn't mean the number will be palindromic with respect to another.   But being palindromic relative to base 10 is still a well-defined property of numbers.  How to prove there are infinitely many such numbers, that is the question.  The sequence is going 2,3,5,7,11,101,131,151,181,191,313,353,373,383,727,...  And when you get to 1000 the numbers have to be of the form 1__1 where there are two equal digits in between.  But such numbers are always divisible by 11. 10301 is prime.  From the table in the book, the greatest 5-digit palindromic prime appears to be 98689.

[costicina]

This mathematic discussion is so fascinating...nut frustrating as well, at least for an ignorant pig like me.. .
I knew that a good musician is almost always good in the math field. My only hope is in that 'almost'.....

[j_menz]

But being palindromic relative to base 10 is still a well-defined property of numbers.  How to prove there are infinitely many such numbers, that is the question. 

The problem is that it is not a mathematical property of the number, it is only well defined by reference to its appearance.

In base ten, there will be an infinite number of palindromic numbers, since for any palindromic number  you just have to stick a one (or a two, or a three, or any palindromic number) before and after it and you have a larger palindromic number (eg, 121 is palindromic, 11211 is also palindromic). I have no idea how you would express that as a mathematical formula.

[iratior]

Well hello again!  The mathematical way to form a bigger palindromic number from what we already have is (if I can get subscript notation to work correctly here)

                         [2+ log₁₀N]
                   r*10                                   +r,

where r is an element of {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}, and [ ] is the so-called bracket function (

• = the greatest integer less than or equal to x).  In the example you gave, N = 121,
[2+log

₁₀N] = 4, and the bigger palindromic number is 11211.  The bigger palindromic number we get is not necessarily prime, though, even if the original palindromic number was.  For example, 151 is a prime number, but 11511 is not.  I am still trying to figure out why you mind it that a number whose base 10 representation is palindromic might very well not have a palindromic representation with respect to a different base.  There is nothing wrong with defining a property of a number with reference to its base 10 representation.

[iratior]

The little white square above is supposed to be the sequence of characters [, x, and ].  Apparently, in the text editor here, that is some kind of "buzz word".

[Bob]

May the 4th... be with you. 

[49410enrique]

fascinating!  i knew there was more it to it when i started playing around with it in my head, alas i have a predilection for numbers but i claim a fair amount of ignorance not ever having gone far enough in my mathematics courses i.e. just through several calculus ones (my focus more and more went into the cellular biology/physiology and biochemistry side of things...)


another thing that might complicate matters is the creation of palindromic numerals with more and more significant figures but not neccessarily much larger in total magnitiude, i..e symmetrical around a decimal, i.e. 321.123 ,  or 110.011 etc.  or what about any proofs that would show consistent properties of reducing these animals? i.e. adding up the digits and coming up with integers with another consistent set of peculiar properties, 321123 ->  3+2+1+2+3= 11 reduction of this larger palindrome yields a different smaller (but still palindrome) number!  
now randomnly putting them together doesn't quite work, you can get several 2 digit non palindromes, but i do wonder if we can put a set of constraints that would consistently yield it, i.e. all real non zero prime number integers, etc. or something like that....

[49410enrique]

May the 4th... be with you. 

and an an early happy

[oxy60]

Well, no one could say it didn't look pleasant at Weissensee.  I am left wondering what skeletons are hidden in the closet!

Even if there were, the war is over.

This is a good recording played in what appears to be very cold weather. Maybe that bright light behind him warmed his back. I would love to know how they kept the piano from loosing tuning. I did hear a few strings starting to change. 

I'd like to add that May 8th is VE day which we celebrate as the end of WW2 in Europe. The Dutch have already celebrated on the 5th.

It would be nice to hear from some Europeans what freedom means to them and are they happy with what their governments have done with it.

[Bob]

And a late May 4th.

[Bob]

[49410enrique]

i mean it's almost too much to really take in at once, the score, the set, costumes, and Miyako Yoshida, she is my absolute favorite for this role, she is stunning. this one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen. i do not tire of it.

[essynia]

I *was* thinking politics and writing an extracurricular paper on a few (lol) American foreign policy dilemmas, but now I'm watching this instead:

&sns=em

Thanks, Enrique! .

[49410enrique]

I *was* thinking politics and writing an extracurricular paper on a few (lol) American foreign policy dilemmas, but now I'm watching this instead:

&sns=em

Thanks, Enrique! .

we aim to please lol

seriously that was incredible. i've never seen anthing so intense, the precision was almost unbelievable, so quick and crisp was each movement you'd swear it wasn't in real time!  i couldn't stop watching, even when i myself should be reviewing my science notes....thanks for that discovery i don't think i ever would have come across that on my own.

[essynia]

I would agree. Haha, I adore the technique employed throughout that segment.

Here is the rest of the video. I wonder what you think after watching the second half?

[49410enrique]

I would agree. Haha, I adore the technique employed throughout that segment.

Here is the rest of the video. I wonder what you think after watching the second half?

stunning, mindblowingly beautiful, as a former athlete strength and conditioning coach i ahve always loved human movement, beautiful efficient strength power and etc. it's one of the reasons i love gymnastics, track and field, and olympic weightlifting so much, to me it's beautiful to watch at the highest levels of achievement. this is just as lovely in a very different but still familar way. wow

[iratior]

Thinking about prime quaruplets.  (Four primes of the form 10n+1, 10n+3,10n+7,10n+9).  Like 11,13,17,19.  Or 101,103,107,109.  Or 191,193,197,199.   Or 13001,13003,13007,13009.  There's no telling when they show up.  If somebody has a super-computer, they need to check to see if n=2 is not the only n for which 2 x 10ⁿ - 1, 2 x 10ⁿ -3, 2 x 10ⁿ - 7, and 2 x 10ⁿ - 9 are all prime.  n = 3 doesn't work because 1991 = 11 X 181.  n = 4 doesn't work because 19999 = 7 x 2857.  And if such an n were found, then what?  A hymn book with 2 x 10ⁿ hymns in it?  And if somebody's weight varied according to the number of the hymn being sung?  But if they stayed the same volume, that might make the church have a black hole in it, at times.  Because, people might very well come to weigh as much if not more than the earth, and I've heard it said that, if the earth could be reduced to the size of a golf ball, it would become a black hole.  Imagine:  just as the organist was doing the opening chords of the hymn, a black hole opened up!  And if the hymns for the service consisted precisely of numbers 191, 193, 197, 199, would anybody pick up on what a mystery that was?  And if the church got a new hymn book with the hymns numbered differently, wouldn't they be surprised if people's faith got shattered!  Even worse than evolution...  Old believers might be seeking refuge in hymn 739, after gulping down the communion wine, but having that nearly break the floor of the church, and somebody's having to be resigned to weighing 739 pounds for the rest of the week.  And 739 is a prime number, too.  Wild.

[essynia]

Belly dancing.

[49410enrique]

Belly dancing.

do you belly? it's an amazing art. i'm super intrigued by it..

on the topic of dancing thougth you'd think this sorta interesting, 1.1+ million views in 2-3 days?!? holy smokes!