What's on your mind now?

[Bob]

Also wondering if we've had any true mental breakdowns on here so far.  There must have been some but...

[Bob]

   "Joe Momma...."
       /
_@/


               "Joe...! ...Joe GRAAAmomma....!"
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                                                           \@_

[Bob]

[thalbergmad]

Also wondering if we've had any true mental breakdowns on here so far.  There must have been some but...

Pianistimo probably. She was carted away to an asylum for incurable tambo bangers.

Thal

[kakeithewolf]

I wish I could sleep, yet it is only 2:47 PM. Bollocks.

[Bob]

Oh that's weird.  I know I saw Gigi the other day.  She disappeared.  Hm...  Ich werde bachen  sein...

[Bob]

Heh heh heh...

       
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*Bob has captured Gigi.* 



Must be some sort of pen. If it's glass... I didn't leave any air holes....

[Bob]

Time passes....



    Gigi!

      
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        \\   _@%    \\
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It's like a goldfish growing into a square jar.



*Bob wonders what a snail eats while leaving a container that would allow it to grow like that.*

[deidre]

How I can practice a piece for weeks, and everything is falling into place and then the last few practices, it feels like I've taken five steps backwards.

[Bob]

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/21/Good-News-9-Year-Old-Bullied-Brony-Will-Be-Allowed-to-Bring-His-My-Little-Pony-Backpack-to-School/#!AR7Nt

I see two things, regardless of the pony backpack.
1) The principal is off on banning the backpack.  Easy solution, but off. That wasn't the issue.
2) The immediately reversed their decision when people complained or called them out for the decision. Spineless.


Although I am wondering where the boarder of the school lies.  Haha... Once that kid gets off school property I would think he's on his own.  In that case, he might decide it's better to hide it, right or wrong.  But while he's on school grounds, the school should be going after the bullies, not the target.  Then again... bully problem?  Look at the type of decisions the person in charge is making.  Leaky roof?  Just don't go in that room.  Vehicle broke down?  Don't use it.  Unless people complain, in which case, do whatever they say to do if there are enough of them or they complain loud enough.  Or if they keep complaining.

[Bob]

Hm.  I never did get that email I sent to myself from 2004.  Sent in 2004 to myself in 2014.  So much for that service.

[Bob]

If you got a baby grand and took care of it, etc.... would it grow into an adult grand?

[visitor]

Enough w it already I feel the same way
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2574824/Let-Let-hear-one-time-Dad-fed-hit-Frozen-song-shares-parody-version.html

Suddenly realizes even here I can't escape that stupid song as it was recently uploaded to te audition room....

[Bob]

Obvious reply is obvious.


Haha...  I see Disney's not trying to break their female form track there.  The voice doesn't sound like it matches the animation.  *Bob pictures the character with green skin too.*

(Sorry visitor.  For reference...

)


No... Running up stairs and belting out a melody?  No.

Cold enough for ice, but no breath condensation?  

She must be wearing cleats too or have some magical power not to slip on ice... ice on stairs.  


I haven't seen it, don't know the story, but... *Bob hopes pyromaniacs don't watch it.*



[Frozen. (c) Disney.  Sponsored by Exlax. ] Scary how many lines are fitting this idea....

[kakeithewolf]

If you got a baby grand and took care of it, etc.... would it grow into an adult grand?

Yes, but the worst part about that is that you'd have a teenage grand at one point.

[Bob]

With the Malaysian missing airplane in mind, I wonder if it's actually possible for someone who's shipwrecked to actually get lost in that part of the world.  Shipwrecked or kicked off a boat, floating along on a little dingy. It doesn't sound like anyone's really paying attention to it. 
*Bob typed m1469sian the first time.* 

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-school-suspends-girl-shaved-head-support-friend-225301822.html;_ylt=AwrBJR.JWzNT71MATAzQtDMD

 

There's a track record of this stuff though.  It's not new or out of the blue. 

[Bob]

https://www.startribune.com/local/252263751.html

I'm still surprised when a school thinks they "have jurisdiction" in a place completely outside the school. 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

https://www.startribune.com/local/252263751.html

I'm still surprised when a school thinks they "have jurisdiction" in a place completely outside the school. 

This is one of the few times where I actually think the school is in the wrong.

[Bob]

I saw a couple interesting comments about it.

The school doesn't completely retract everything. They still say they have the right to go into a student's Facebook profile if they suspect something is wrong.  I'd think they should turn it over to the police if it's serious.  If it's breaking a school rule, so what?  School rules don't apply there, esp. if it's completely maintained outside school. 

Think of that... Even here, right?  Complain about your school or teacher on here... If they find out, they'll demand your password, etc.


And the second aspect -- Students aren't allowed to complain?  It's the school controlling what the student can say in this case.  If the school doesn't like it, just go in and delete it?


I've heard about ways around this with job interviews.  Fake profiles, disable the account, change the password, etc. 

[Bob]

[Bob]

Don't laugh....

[Bob]

Sweatshirt... or a trough?  Sweatshirt or a trough?  



Darnit. Won't link.

#6 on here...
https://www.collegehumor.com/post/6960893/12-life-hacks-nobody-should-be-using

[Bob]

105,000 views?  Ok...

[kakeithewolf]

One thing, beyond all other things about it, bothers me about MIDI format. There's no clavichord. There's a clavinet, but that's basically the unholy child of an electric guitar and a synthesizer. No clavichord, yet they have oodles of instruments pretty much no one uses.

[oxy60]

One thing, beyond all other things about it, bothers me about MIDI format. There's no clavichord. There's a clavinet, but that's basically the unholy child of an electric guitar and a synthesizer. No clavichord, yet they have oodles of instruments pretty much no one uses.

You can load other sound libraries with better instruments.

[ted]

What is on my mind now is how to preserve my temper through two weeks of my wife's Mozart Requiem rehearsals and performances. The Brahms Requiem was bad enough and this one seems even more of a dirge. Just load my iPad and bring headphones I suppose.

[Bob]

Here.  This is all you can handle. 




Is this a demo/model type of thing?  What is it?  What's the point?

[j_menz]

It's actually a sculpture.

Read all about it here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326147/The-piano-ANYBODY-play-Worlds-narrowest-upright-keys.html

[Bob]

Reading.


There's no way to actually establish tonality on that thing.  The best you could do is Re-Do or Mi-Re-Do, but that's still not 'it' for tonality.

[j_menz]

Reading.


There's no way to actually establish tonality on that thing.  The best you could do is Re-Do or Mi-Re-Do, but that's still not 'it' for tonality.

You appear to have missed the bit about it having no strings. Tonality is the least of it's issues.

[Bob]

Now I've read it.  Yes.  Still three keys....  You could mentally hear the pitches if you want.

I wonder if the "sculptor" knew at least a little about music since they started with C.  (Or if the sculptor is really thin.)


Kind of cool to have two of those on either side of a door. It doesn't look like a "sculpture" though to me.  More of a creation or adaptation.  This artist just shrunk the piano keyboard.  They didn't create it so much, except to create by reducing.

[Bob]

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/want-some-2000-gloves-that-turn-gestures-into-music/

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I can't find my ravel book I'm so sad!!!

[Bob]

Hoping that bastard spider I vacuumed off the ceiling this morning was the same one that woke me up, crawling across my arm, at 1:30am this morning.

[Bob]

Grr... I hate it when I see a performance and plan on going to it months ahead of time.  Then it gets close to the performance, I try to get tickets, but can't find the event anymore.  

Dang.  It must have been cancelled or the whole program changed.  I was going to hear one freaking piece live.... 

Oh well.  There's always borrowing it somewhere or Youtube. 

[Bob]

Dunning-Kruger effect... There's the 'teacher' side too.

Years later, it dawns on me.  It's the same thing.

Someone asks for my opinion on something I know about.  So I tell them.  Probably too much information for them though.  And then... I present the other side, some unknowns, etc.  I'm honest -- I'll say I don't know about a certain area.  But the bottom line is there's one result (or a range).  "This is what you could do, what direction you could go in, etc."  But it's their choice.

ie I'm presenting something I know, aware of my limits, and it comes off as not knowing it that well.

Contrast that with Joe-Know-Nothing who confidently tells them to do the wrong thing. 

What do they do?  Go with the Know-Nothing because his idea is simple and he's confident, although wrong, or they wait and think, but give Know-Nothing a lot of weight in their decision making processing.

[Bob]

https://redrabbit7.com/cityscape/

[goldentone]

I'm getting very close to Pacific Time.   

[Bob]

 

[Bob]

I got an ad for a food product I just bought at the grocery store.  Did they really just connect my internet browsing to my grocery purchasing?

[oxy60]

I got an ad for a food product I just bought at the grocery store.  Did they really just connect my internet browsing to my grocery purchasing?

Maybe but it seems backwards.

[j_menz]

Maybe but it seems backwards.

True. But, if you buy a box set of something on Amazon, your recommendations suddenly fill up with the individual components.

Perhaps marketing people think everything is like peanuts. If you have one, you'll need another right away.

[theholygideons]

sex

[outin]

I went to see a neurologist yesterday and he wanted me to listen to more Bach so that I'd learn to appreciate it 

There really is a conspiracy...

[Bob]

[Bob]

Cite reading?

[Bob]

https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_lewis_embrace_the_near_win

[Bob]

Interesting/potentially scary.

I remember posting about food ads or something recently.  This is making a little more sense now possibly.

Last night I searched for some software. On my computer.  Did a search looking for info about it.  >>>On my computer<<<  Not online.

This morning I see an ad for that software in some side-of-the-website ads.

Coincidence?  It doesn't seem like much of a stretch for something to be searching recent search history, except it's not from visiting a website or a google search.  It's from what I typed offline on my computer. 


Hm.  I suppose... The software communicated with something online that alerted ads.  That could make sense too.  It wants me to buy the next version....   Still a little disturbing. 

I guess it's very possible/easy to predict things too.  Even if I wiped out temp files...  Sign into the same computer, same internet connection, same browser... Some ad company would know I signed into email and did a search on software.  Later on they could throw up a targeted ad.  Worst case for them is missing the person for the ad I guess.

[Bob]

I was amused.  I know, I know.  I know what it is.