What's on your mind now?

[goldentone]

*Wonders if Bob ordered my special secret book from 1944*

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=48673.msg529612#msg529612

 

[Bob]

That would be a yes.  I know I looked at a copy of it at some point.

[Bob]

Hm.

I hope I'm not a Boltzmann brain.    That would suck.  Probably.

[Bob]

Oh.... Of course...

[m1469]

I find that I don't just fall head over heels into love with Haydn  :-, I am not done reading through book I (dover) of his sonatas yet (maybe I'll finish tonight?), and while I like his music generally well enough (and some better than others), I don't think it's going to happen.  It was difficult for me to adjust my mind from Bach to Haydn, but I'm there now.  I'm curious what kind of adjustment it will be when I get to Mozart?  Which I think is who I will play next.  We'll see!

[Bob]

If you're serious about hot dogs and the environment...

...and not too smart with your money...


Why not get a cheap, solar-powered hot dog cooker?



https://www.amazon.com/Pitsco-Banty-Roaster-Solar-Cooker/dp/B00854F0EY


If it's sunny enough, instead of nuking a hot dog for a minute, you could slowly roast it outside via the sun.



I can't even remember the last time I had a hot dog.  Yeuck.

[m1469]

I can't even remember the last time I had a hot dog.  Yeuck.

My guess:  last time you ate Kraft, Macaroni and Cheese.

[Bob]

Also a long time ago.  Mac and cheese sounds safer than a hot dog though.  Pink slime in wiener form.  Yum, yum.


With white bread.... which is more dangerous than nuclear radiation.  Haha.  



*Bob's thinking he hasn't had mac and cheese in a long time....*  Sounds kind of a good. Except I'd have to boil water.  Sounds like a lot of work.  I'd have to wash that pot first.  And actually find the pot before I could wash it.  This is turning into a giant project.

[fleetfingers]

Silly, you don't need a pot!





And, if you are too lazy to wash a bowl, try this:

[Bob]

Haha.   At first I thought you were suggesting boiling noodles in the box.

Hm.  Maybe.  I don't know if that would taste them.  I think I had one of those once. 
*Bob has discriminating tastes for mac and cheese.*   It's got to be Kraft for sure.  I tried the generic stuff a few times.  Not the same.

So that's...
carbs from the noodles
butter if you add that
milk, cholesterol....
Cheese powder....
Nothing healthy at all.   Salty, cheese flavored noodles.  Haha.

[Bob]

*Bob puts on some Whitney Houston music....*



Aw look... It's a little baby.... house centipede!....

 

 
"Come 'ere little guy... Come on....  Where are your parents?"

And how'd you get on my ceiling little bastard?


Thump!  





"And here's some cinnamon  to wash you down the vacuum cleaner with.... Enjoy...."





If there's one, there must be parents though....     I'm sure it crawled in from outside.  Surely they're not living...in here... with me.  

[Bob]

*sigh*  I lost some tortilla shells in my bed. 


But then I found them again, so it's ok. 


House centipedes don't eat tortilla shells.  They eat the things that eat tortilla shells.  And those middle bugs aren't present.

[Bob]

The price of a gold membership here is $7?  I remember when it used to be $3/month.

[Bob]

I'm getting old.  I saw two actors today.  Didn't quite recognize them.  It's probably ben 10-15 years since I saw them in something.  They've aged from what I remember.  Dang.

[fleetfingers]

Who? You saw them on TV or walking around?

[fleetfingers]

btw, it's your previous post about pricing that makes you sound old. 

[Bob]

In movies/tv, yes.

[perprocrastinate]

I just finished listening to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, and had the terrible urge for diarrhea.

Conclusion: Brahms is an excellent laxative. Or maybe I really need to check the expiration date on stuff before I eat it.

[Bob]

Cliffs/Sparks Notes on Youtube now... Dang. 

[Bob]

https://www.tinnitus.org.uk/musical-hallucination

[Bob]

What fat actually turns into...

C02 and water?  Plus energy.  Breath it out and expel it out? 

*Bob is amazified by breathing out pounds of gas.*

[Bob]

[Bob]

Cheers.

[Bob]

What fat actually turns into...

C02 and water?  Plus energy.  Breath it out and expel it out?  

*Bob is amazified by breathing out pounds of gas.*

Interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat

[Bob]

Whoa... I had the numbers backwards.  84% CO2 and 16% water.

So if I lost 20 pounds, I breathed out almost 8 pounds of CO2?  Dang....

[Bob]

I think I'd like a lock on a door somewhere with a retina scanner.  Then I'll carry some kind of marble eyeball on my keychain.  When I want to open the door, I'll just hold that up to the retina scanner.  Someday, someone me unlocking the door like that and think I ripped the eye out of the real "key holder" to get that eyeball.  

[Bob]

British/English culture question...

Do British people say "maths" or "math?"

[j_menz]

British/English culture question...

Do British people say "maths" or "math?"

Maths, though for some of what you yanks call "Math", they'd say Arithmetic.

[Bob]

I just heard the narrator on a British documentary say maths.  I thought that was an Asian thing.

[j_menz]

I just heard the narrator on a British documentary say maths.  I thought that was an Asian thing.

Nope, just a civilised thing.

[thalbergmad]

Maths, though for some of what you yanks call "Math", they'd say Arithmetic.

How would you know, you're a bloody Aussie

Thal

[ahinton]

How would you know, you're a bloody Aussie

Only when he's cut himself.

Arithmetic is just one branch of mathematics, anyway; the two terms are not synonymous.

Best,

Alistair

[j_menz]

How would you know, you're a bloody Aussie

Thal

We keep getting refugees from old blighty. 

[j_menz]

Arithmetic is just one branch of mathematics, anyway; the two terms are not synonymous.

Best,

Alistair

Which is why I said "part of".  I'm not sure Americans use "arithmetic" much - the word, not the actual doing sums bit.

[Bob]

It's just math here.  Arithmetic sounds old fashioned, like 'reckoning' something.  *Bob reckons for a second and then snaps out of it.*

"Doing sums" sounds odd too.  It's all just math, and we do math.  We add and subtract, etc.  I etc.  Nobody else i know of etc.'s.

[Bob]

$80+ CD soundtracks on Amazon for movies from the 1990s.  The DVD is $5-6.  Soundtrack?  Priceless apparently.

[Bob]

Free short stories...

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-fantastic-short-stories-can-read-online-free/

[Bob]

Language study.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/study-language-pc-phone-tablet-babbel/

[Bob]

Oi.... Scary, scary scary....

I uninstall software on one computer.   I get ads for it on another computer.

It *has* to be coincidence though.  The computer I uninstalled software on isn't connected to the internet.  It's just weird though.

[j_menz]

Oi.... Scary, scary scary....

I uninstall software on one computer.   I get ads for it on another computer.

It *has* to be coincidence though.  The computer I uninstalled software on isn't connected to the internet.  It's just weird though.

[Bob]

Not the greatest idea... Eating chocolates in bed... Then waking up and discovering a few unwrapped ones the next morning.... warmed up/melted from body heat, smashed in the blankets....


*Bob eats deformed Valentine's Day hearts.*

[Bob]

Those ads again...  They're spying on me... Possibly tracking my credit card or shopping habits....

I was just thinking, "Hm.  I'm running out of x-product.  Maybe I should get some more.  I should write that down so I don't forget it."  Boom!  Ad comes up for that product. 

That's at least three times something along these lines has happened now.

[goldentone]

The Goldentones look forward to a great summer including these Indian Blood Cling Peaches.  These from Monticello.

[outin]

So I finally got a digital yesterday to use here at the summer cottage. And planned to do some missed practice today... but a huge thunderstorm cut the electricity... seems to last unusually long...I so miss my acoustic 

[Bob]

Wondering what the point is where you start burning/using muscle instead of fat, regarding the amount of calories taken in during a day.  I know it's supposed to be harder to get that muscle back.  I'm just wondering what it takes to burn muscle away instead of fat.

Also thinking about faulty_damper's muscle/efficiency idea.... That idea is muscular forearms are a sign of inefficient piano technique.  I wonder if that applies to other things though. It would depend but... Are muscles developing in places where efficiency could be improved?

[visitor]

ha ha symphonic excerpts from the hood

[goldentone]

I'm searching for a context, certainly not the gilded symphonic stage. . . I hope.

[Bob]

If you had a pet chicken and it died... What would you do with it?

[outin]

If you had a pet chicken and it died... What would you do with it?

It depends on what it died from...whether it's still edible...

[Bob]

Hm.  Say something fell on it or it got hit by a car, just a tap but that killed it. 

So it's actually edible.

Would you eat it?