What's on your mind now?

[j_menz]

I have to go to freaking bed.

What? Before midnight. 

Oh, the humanity!!!!

[49410enrique]

i googled 'the best picture on the internet' and this is the top image for the search

[outin]

Cute...

I just don't get it how you manage to be so good at piano when you spend so much time with Mr. Google and digging up all those toilets in the internet? 

[perprocrastinate]

Cute...

I just don't get it how you manage to be so good at piano when you spend so much time with Mr. Google and digging up all those toilets in the internet? 

Enrique is a god of time management.

[49410enrique]

Enrique is a god of time management.

wow, well, what can i say?

...but meh; i'm still a young padowan. an underling. i can only dream of reaching demigod status someday.


*returns to training....

hiyaaahh!


banzai!!

[Bob]

Show some class. 

[ajspiano]

Enrique is a god of time management.

Or he can Google as fast as he can play.

[49410enrique]

Show some class. 

i will see your tuba, and raise you:

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Yes, I FINALLY get my wooden bowtie tomorrow!

Just in time for my little recital.

[Bob]

Wooden bow ties are so last week.  Everyone has golden toilets now. At least the cool people do.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Wooden bow ties are so last week.  Everyone has golden toilets now. At least the cool people do.

Did you know that the toilets in the girls washrooms are the cleanest places in schools all the way up to high school?

I don't know about toilets in college.

[Bob]

Did you know that the toilets in the girls washrooms are the cleanest places in schools all the way up to high school?

I don't know about toilets in college.

That's always true.  It's one of the laws of nature I think.



Cool.
https://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Health-Q--A--Are-Sweet-Red-Wines-Healthy_4434

[Bob]

Continuing the swaggish toilet theme.....


I'll wait.

[oxy60]

Did you know that the toilets in the girls washrooms are the cleanest places in schools all the way up to high school?

I don't know about toilets in college.

My wife reports a despicable level of cleanliness in adult women's restrooms. Especially bad are the ones in night clubs...

[49410enrique]

unicorns.

monacle gentlecat rides a killer nazi zombie unicorn with flaming hair that breathes fire rainbows while its bretheren destroy mushroom houses and reak all sorts of havoc with flying nukes.


and this beauty of an oil painting based on the ture historical photograph
robocop and a unicorn



oh and if you're just not into the golden toilet, they have you covered

[Bob]

I wonder where I can get 1.21 gigawatts.

[oxy60]

I wonder where I can get 1.21 gigawatts.

To use for what?

[Bob]

To power my flux capacitor of course.  

[chopin2015]

I wonder where I can get 1.21 gigawatts.

So u mean jiggawatts

[Bob]

I'm not sure. 

These say giga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt#Gigawatt

[chopin2015]

Haha all the nerds got excited because u started talking about watts.

[Bob]

Someone's already looked into it.  Oi...

"The power required is pronounced in the film as "one point twenty-one jiggawatts."[1] While the closed-captioning in home video versions spells the word as it appears in the script, jigowatt,[4] the actual spelling matches the standard prefix and the term for power of "one billion watts": gigawatt. Though obscure, the "j" sound at the beginning of the SI prefix giga- is an acceptable pronunciation for "gigawatt."[5][6] In the DVD commentary for Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis states that he had thought it was pronounced this way because this was how the scientific advisor that he had for the film pronounced it.[7]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine

So it is 'giga' with the alternate pronunciation.


The Delorean gets a full article but I bet there are real issues out there without any coverage.

[chopin2015]

Someone's already looked into it.  Oi...

"The power required is pronounced in the film as "one point twenty-one jiggawatts."[1] While the closed-captioning in home video versions spells the word as it appears in the script, jigowatt,[4] the actual spelling matches the standard prefix and the term for power of "one billion watts": gigawatt. Though obscure, the "j" sound at the beginning of the SI prefix giga- is an acceptable pronunciation for "gigawatt."[5][6] In the DVD commentary for Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis states that he had thought it was pronounced this way because this was how the scientific advisor that he had for the film pronounced it.[7]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine

So it is 'giga' with the alternate pronunciation.


The Delorean gets a full article but I bet there are real issues out there without any coverage.

Ah makes sense, i am dissapointed in myself and life.

[Bob]

I blame Doc Brown.

[Bob]

Just noticing the position of the seats in the toilets above.  One has an attendant so that doesn't really count.  I'm thinking guys don't use those though.

[chopin2015]

I blame Doc Brown.

I'm thinking about pronouncing gig that way, including I have a gig I am playing at tonight. I will let you know if anyone slaps me...:PPP

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I'm thinking about pronouncing gig that way, including I have a gig I am playing at tonight.

Professional pianist...

[49410enrique]

Professional pianist...

am thinking you need to do a video like this and post it. mad skillz!

[ Invalid YouTube link ]

[Bob]

2012:  The year memes invaded Piano Street.

[49410enrique]

2012:  The year memes invaded Piano Street.

*flies off....

[oxy60]

I blame Doc Brown.

When I saw the original film in the theater I didn't give one thought to what the Doc said. There were already enough time episode mistakes (not depicting the eras correctly) that the remark about ??watts was just as wrong. If you recall the scene you will notice that while he wanted watts all he really got was volts!

[chopin2015]

When I saw the original film in the theater I didn't give one thought to what the Doc said. There were already enough time episode mistakes (not depicting the eras correctly) that the remark about ??watts was just as wrong. If you recall the scene you will notice that while he wanted watts all he really got was volts!

Lmao

[Bob]

The song White Christmas is going to take on a different meaning if things warm up and there's just not or as much snow around during the winter in some places in the country.

Or the opposite, the snow becomes more extreme.

[vsrinivasa]

The song White Christmas is going to take on a different meaning if things warm up and there's just not or as much snow around during the winter in some places in the country.

Or the opposite, the snow becomes more extreme.

We don't get snow here anyway. Although I've never heard White Christmas (I don't celebrate Christmas; I'm Hindu).

[Bob]

You might with global warming.  Strange topsy-turvy things can happen with the weather.  And with the snow Santa might come too.  And then the White Christmas song will have a different meaning.

*Bob's cognitive dissonance is resolved.*  Whew....

[vsrinivasa]

You might with global warming.  Strange topsy-turvy things can happen with the weather.  And with the snow Santa might come too.  And then the White Christmas song will have a different meaning.

*Bob's cognitive dissonance is resolved.*  Whew....

Yeah, I really doubt it. If we can get 90-degree days in December, we won't ever get snow.

[chopin2015]

How was your lesson with your new student?

J

[vsrinivasa]

How was your lesson with your new student?

J

She's really nice. We did reasonably well. She is really talented, and good at sightreading too. I gave her a couple of my well-devised "tests" (just so I can see how she learns, what she's good at, etc.), which included sightreading of a four-line composition I wrote at about TG Grade 6 standard, a quick performance of her latest piece that she learned from her old teacher (Prelude from Pour le Piano by Debussy), and a runthrough of how she would like her lessons to be set up. Overall she did very well, and I have a good foundation to build on. Oh, and she liked my Bosendorfer! 

[chopin2015]

That's great! Glad to hear it. I have a lesson tomorrow and my teacher is probably going to ask me what I want to play LOL I just dont know because I am not ready to play anything I have been working on.

[vsrinivasa]

I think my student heard me practicing Gaspard because she was hinting that I need more practice!  I can play everything else I'm practicing reasonably well, except the Prokofiev Toccata and the Waldstein. Why did she have to hear me practicing Gaspard? But to be fair, she knew it was a really difficult piece.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

am thinking you need to do a video like this and post it. mad skillz!

[ Invalid YouTube link ]

Come on, that video is old, they tore down that skatepark and built a new one somewhere else in LA like a few days ago.

Get with the program!

No but yeah, that's pretty sick, I can't do any of that lol.

[chopin2015]

I think my student heard me practicing Gaspard because she was hinting that I need more practice!  I can play everything else I'm practicing reasonably well, except the Prokofiev Toccata and the Waldstein. Why did she have to hear me practicing Gaspard? But to be fair, she knew it was a really difficult piece.

haha I hate when people walk in or hear when you are just barely grasping what is going on here.

[vsrinivasa]

haha I hate when people walk in or hear when you are just barely grasping what is going on here.

I know, it's so annoying! Especially when you know you can play better, but they don't because they just heard you fail miserably in the opening bars of Scarbo.

[49410enrique]

I wonder where I can get 1.21 gigawatts.

i wonder if this is bob....

[Bob]

Well, they did a get couple details right in that pic.

[Bob]

I can't tell whether that's real or a joke. 

[j_menz]

I can't tell whether that's real or a joke. 

Ooh.. I want one (except I'm not planning on ever having the need of one).

At 24,500 euro, who says you can't take it with you.

I'll pass on the "have your loved ones add songs to your playlist" feature, though. I'm not spending eternity putting up with potentially awful taste.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Ooh.. I want one (except I'm not planning on ever having the need of one).

At 24,500 euro, who says you can't take it with you.

I'll pass on the "have your loved ones add songs to your playlist" feature, though. I'm not spending eternity putting up with potentially awful taste.

Yeah, I wouldn't want you adding Bach to my playlist.

[j_menz]

Yeah, I wouldn't want you adding Bach to my playlist.

I seem to recall that you already have Bach on your playlist, without my intervention.

[Bob]

What if the volume is too high or low?  Or the speakers are crappy? 


If they bury that, the wires are goingto get moisture.  The moisture will run down.  And it wil short out the system.   If it's wireless, it's going to run out of batteries eventually.  "Yes, yes, we'll bury you with your music playing.  Don't worry."  Then a few days later the batteries stop working. You're down there for all eternity without music after that.  Or until your ears deteriorate. Or brain.  Which all of course wouldn't be working anyway.  I suppose the volume could be cranked up in that case. The louder, the better.