What's on your mind now?

[outin]

This is two person job. Your friend plays the offending note and you put your ear close to the source.

I just found the source...it's the silent box under the keyboard. Noise stops when I hold it. Need to tighten some screws...

[j_menz]

Just being amused that a "silent box" is the source of unwanted noise. 

[awesom_o]

JAZZ IS ON MY MIND ALWAYS!!!!

[Bob]

Georgia?

Yuck, yuck, yuck.    Someone must have already said this.

[Bob]

Also amusing... Reading a post on here, feeling just a twinge of insultedness for some reason (Why is this person referring to me?  How dare they...)   Then realizing I wrote that post.


*Bob has confusified himselfness.*

[Bob]

Interesting related to teaching...

https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-08/12/why-we-dont-learn-from-our-mistakes

[Bob]

Friday the 13th

[mikeowski]

How?

[oxy60]

How?

And they won't tell you! Google even knows me so well that I only need to type one letter...

[Bob]

Amazon's audio clip samples.

I'm listening to some.  They've got these random "slices" of noise injected into them I think.  Really annoying sound, but quick.  I don't know why anyone would bother trying to 'steal' their audio clips, but this method seems effective.  Really annoying too.  It's like a quick 'fingernails on chalkboard' effect. 

The downside is I'm training myself to be annoyed by the CD now.  I'm cringing while I'm listening to it.  Slow, melodic music.... Wait, wait... It's going to happen, don't relax... asdkfaksdf;kj!!!!!...  There it is.  I knew it....   Wait for another one....

Some white noise would be ok.  This is just annoying.

[Bob]

!

!!

!!!!!



 

[Bob]

Nothing really seems to beat scheduling things by time.

You can always break projects down to smaller pieces.

You can always schedule more time.


Problems are too much work, too little time.  But those can't be overcome.  The only answer to schedule things out.  Or work more, work harder, but with scheduling that could be lessened.  If there's no deadline it can all be scheduled and worked out eventually.

[oxy60]

Nothing really seems to beat scheduling things by time.

You can always break projects down to smaller pieces.

You can always schedule more time.


Problems are too much work, too little time.  But those can't be overcome.  The only answer to schedule things out.  Or work more, work harder, but with scheduling that could be lessened.  If there's no deadline it can all be scheduled and worked out eventually.

Good idea! On huge public projects that's how we do it. The trick is to keep the project going in spite of supply glitches. Always have another track available to put the crew on.

[Bob]

Supply glitches for the individual being time, motivation, energy/wear-and-tear.

[Bob]

It's fall now.  At least in the northern half.

[ale_ius]

[Bob]

Wow....  I've been here almost ten years.

Almost ten years ago I sent myself an email.  I doubt the email will come through, but I'm on the other freaking side of that timeline now.  Dang.... I emailed myself what my current situation was, what I was thinking, and I was wondering what the next ten years would be.  Now I know.  Kind of disappointing too.  I wouldn't having skipped it.

[Bob]

Along the scheduling idea again...

One of the biggest hurdles is just getting started.


And it's surprising how much you can get done in five minutes. And then you want/need to do more....  I remember a presentation by a pianist who said he got a lot of practicing done in five minute sessions throughout the day.  Lots of five minutes timeslots available.


And I remember a TED talk recently that mentioned just doing some small part of the project if the whole thing can't be done.  Similar idea.

[ethure]

i'm in a big 'wow'-status mind as i haven't gotten back for ages!  it's very nice to see some interesting posts and ideas here again   

[Bob]

Watching the news.....

Blah, blah, blah... Yacht race... Most advanced yacht, very fast....

Cost....?

100......    I'm thinking $100,000.  And wow it's that expensive.  $100,000 for a flat little boat.



What it actually cost?  $100,000,000.   100 million dollars.  For a boat.


https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57598453/oracle-ceo-ellison-on-americas-cup-racing-it-has-to-be-a-little-bit-risky/


$100,000,000 for a boat?  For a race?  Million?  100 million?

[oxy60]

Watching the news.....

Blah, blah, blah... Yacht race... Most advanced yacht, very fast....

Cost....?

100......    I'm thinking $100,000.  And wow it's that expensive.  $100,000 for a flat little boat.



What it actually cost?  $100,000,000.   100 million dollars.  For a boat.


https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57598453/oracle-ceo-ellison-on-americas-cup-racing-it-has-to-be-a-little-bit-risky/


$100,000,000 for a boat?  For a race?  Million?  100 million?

And every time you use a Java device you help pay for it.

[Bob]

Speaking of junk food....

Who engineered tortilla chips so they're not quite strong enough to scoop salsa?




I think that's more of a 'middle class problem' than a First World problem.  Don't you?




*Bob wonders if wondering about the difference is a an issue for either side too.*

[the_fervid_pig]

Today is National Poetry Day, well it is where I am anyway

Sing a song of madness,
A pocket full of glee,
Four and twenty imbeciles,
Never will agree.

Meredith Kinmont.

[j_menz]

Today is National Poetry Day, well it is where I am anyway

I'm reminded of this one:

The farmer's daughter had long brown hair
Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese
And I met a poem, I can't say where
That wholly consisted of lines like these

[theholygideons]

It's mah birthday !!

[perprocrastinate]

I've entered the 'need for solitude' phase in my adolescence and am choosing to sit alone in a nice shaded spot at lunch at school. I've began to meet the first of the hordes of people who feel the need to ask me if I'm okay. No, I do not want to become your "friend". No, I do not want to 'come over and sit by you sometime'. No, my life is not unhappy.

I apologize for what I am about to do, but I feel the need to do so.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IS IT A CRIME TO NOT WANT TO SPEND EVERY WAKING SECOND OF MY DAY IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER PEOPLE?

Jeez, I mean, I have friends and all..Why are people so quickly judgmental?

Whatever. Suck it up.

[j_menz]

Why are people so quickly judgmental?

You're not wearing the T-Shirt.

[oxy60]

I've entered the 'need for solitude' phase in my adolescence and am choosing to sit alone in a nice shaded spot at lunch at school. I've began to meet the first of the hordes of people who feel the need to ask me if I'm okay. No, I do not want to become your "friend". No, I do not want to 'come over and sit by you sometime'. No, my life is not unhappy.

I apologize for what I am about to do, but I feel the need to do so.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IS IT A CRIME TO NOT WANT TO SPEND EVERY WAKING SECOND OF MY DAY IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER PEOPLE?

Jeez, I mean, I have friends and all..Why are people so quickly judgmental?

Whatever. Suck it up.

You are not alone is this desire to have some time alone. Demand it because people will not leave you be out of their need to make contact. You need that time to recharge.

We have become a society of pre or post members of AA where everything is on the table; even the most intimate details. It seems that no one has any secrets. I don't want to hear about it! The 13th step in a 12 step program should be to shut up about it!

[Bob]

I actually had a dream about someone on here.  In the dream I either saw the real person online (on their website or youtube videos) or met them live in the dream.  Then it dawned on me that the person I saw was actually So-and-So from PianoStreet.  I noticed something in the background of the real person video was the same as pics on here.  

Just out of the blue.  I have no idea where that dream came from.

[oxy60]

Hey Bob, your quote is not grammatically correct. You're mixing expressions. A sort of "Franglais" approach. Is that hip somewhere?

[Bob]

Il est hanche à Bobland.

[j_menz]

Il est hanche à Bobland.

Bobland? 

Or

Bobland?   

[Bob]

Interesting.  I didn't realize I already have real estate.

I'm kind of liking the second one, although it kind of looks like a kid's drawing of the U.S.  I'm not a cow, for the first one.

[Bob]

Actually the first one sounds slightly like this forum -- Obsessive, odd nicknames, short attention spans, bad spelling, anime, junk food.


" BobLand 


A world inhabited by otakus with animal forms and odd nicknames ruled over by a cow named Bob. Most inhabitants of this realm can be characterized by their extremely short attention spans, the inability to spell, an obsessive love of anime/manga, and a healthily unhealthy sugar addiction.

What's weird in your world is normal in BobLand."

[Bob]

A little random My Little Pony psychology....

[the_fervid_pig]

Off to see Nikolai Demidenko tonight, really looking forward to it!

[perprocrastinate]

*friend listening in on my piano practice because I left a Skype call on*

"You suck."

And me in response (more or less), "No, any musical opinion you could possibly have is invalid because you don't even play an instrument."

Apparently anything deviating from the kitschy pop piano music they hold as their standard for "good piano music" is bad. Learn to tolerate dissonance, fool. I was only practicing Chopin's 10/3; how bad could it be?

Okay, maybe I'm a pretty bad pianist in general, but I wonder if non-musicians can actually tell between good and bad performances.

[oxy60]

*friend listening in on my piano practice because I left a Skype call on*

"You suck."

And me in response (more or less), "No, any musical opinion you could possibly have is invalid because you don't even play an instrument."

Apparently anything deviating from the kitschy pop piano music they hold as their standard for "good piano music" is bad. Learn to tolerate dissonance, fool. I was only practicing Chopin's 10/3; how bad could it be?

Okay, maybe I'm a pretty bad pianist in general, but I wonder if non-musicians can actually tell between good and bad performances.

No they can't. All you need to is listen to "featured" pop performances on major shows eg., Leno, Fallon, SNL. 80% stink. Guitars out of tume, drummers hitting the heads with a stroke from behind their own head and less we forget half the guest band went "upside down" on a recent Leno show! (1+3, 2+4 reversed.)

[j_menz]

I was only practicing Chopin's 10/3; how bad could it be?

If it's anything like my practicing, the depths of awfulness can be pretty low indeed.

[Bob]

...any musical opinion you could possibly have is invalid because you don't even play an instrument.

....I wonder if non-musicians can actually tell between good and bad performances.

I disagree.  Anyone can have some idea about the quality of music.  You don't have to be able to do something to know if it seems 'good' to you or not.

Non-musicians can tell.  They don't know how to describe it.  They don't know the terminology.  There are things they'll focus on more that trained musicians wouldn't and vice-versa.

[oxy60]

I disagree.  Anyone can have some idea about the quality of music.  You don't have to be able to do something to know if it seems 'good' to you or not.

Non-musicians can tell.  They don't know how to describe it.  They don't know the terminology.  There are things they'll focus on more that trained musicians wouldn't and vice-versa.

Now you're branching out into how music communicates with the general public. We know it's true that certain chords in certain inversions evoke pleasant feelings. For example, I would never play Stravinsky's harmonization of the Doxology in  church, even though musicians think it is just great. The general public likes harmonizations in root and fifth inversions, like country music, rock and roll, and hymns.   

[Bob]

Most people can tell if the rhythm is steady, if things are in tune, etc.  Or if a performance is mechanical or shaped.

[oxy60]

Full moon tonight. Is there an app for that?

[senanserat]

It's said that if a Pianist  woman ever kissed a Bassist, she would become a fairy and he a stone. On an unrelated note, it's been chronicled that over several hundred Gossip Stones exist all across the country. Fairies are nearly uncountable in number.
- Pianoian Mythology

[Bob]

I thought there was a big issue about women having eating disorders...  Wouldn't you think there would be lots of women walking around looking like skeletons?  Eating disorder, a little messed up mentally, not eating... Skeleton look.  Maybe they don't survive into adulthood and we don't hear about it.  Or, maybe they get a reverse on that eating disorder.  I'm just noticing if there's a big eating disorder crisis going on, I'm seeing the opposite in real life.  Overcompensating for anorexia maybe.

[Bob]

Probably staged.

Be warned -- Contains swearing.   


[ Invalid YouTube link ]

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Probably staged.

Be warned -- Contains swearing.   


[ Invalid YouTube link ]

lol

[Bob]

https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_technology_will_transform_us.html

Interesting stuff.  Fills in a little more realism than just the 2029 number. 

I don't know when it's from.  If those are Mac laptops in the back, they look a little thick.

[j_menz]

I don't know when it's from. 

Doubt it matters, really. Ray's been saying the same thing for 30 years now, at least.

[Bob]

 

Wait, wait.    If you don't play guitar, you can't criticize her.  


Oops.  I didn't really preview that much.  *Bob realizes he was focusing on the guitar too much.*   If you wear pants, you can't criticize her either.