What's on your mind now?

[Bob]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

[Bob]

*Bob checks the weather and ponders...*

Yes, it looks like it's about that time of the year... Time to wash the dishes again.

[j_menz]

*Bob checks the weather and ponders...*

Yes, it looks like it's about that time of the year... Time to wash the dishes again.

It must be that time of the decade for your bath, too.

[Bob]

There's probably a joke about the distance vs. smell. 

That's daily at least.

Plastic silverware, paper plate, and plastic cups mean there's not much to wash ever.

[stoat_king]

Not happy.
Have spent hours of agonising pain - all afternoon - trying to work out why weeks of work has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Thought i would lose days and days of work.
But then I found what the problem was.
A simple typo - i put a '1' where there should have been an 'i'.
Ffs. Time to go to the pub. I may be some time lol

[goldentone]

Things are simmering.

[Bob]

Nils.... He's going to bring the hammer down I think....




(Swedish hammer in case anyone was wondering.)

[Bob]

The possibility that someone trolls online and points their troll identity at a real, innocent, unaware person.

And why someone would invest so much time trolling.  

It's probably the attention and reaction of people that's the reward though.



Several forums for this stuff?  I would think Nils can ban the ip address.  He'll have to step in at some point...

[diomedes]

Beer. Lots of beer. I'm on k125 of my Scarlatti survey.

Scott Ross on (stylistic approach of) Glen Gould : (despite great credit to artistic ability) "Glen Gould is so far off the mark that you need a 747 to bring him back"

[Bob]

The internet age.

https://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2393584/The_Fake_&quot%3BPandora_Sel.html

The lengths someone(s) will go to... I can understand a little joke, but the investment of time... The end result doesn't seem to justify the work involved.

Although, it's always the same idea... You don't find rational in irrational. 

[Bob]

Remembering someone refilling a Damp Chaser thing in a piano right before a performance, commenting on that it had gone bone dry again... and probably had been for a while.  So it would have adjusting the humidity all during that performance.

[visitor]

RIP
We lost a great musician
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/15/entertainment/bb-king-dead/index.html

[Bob]

https://medium.com/cuepoint/do-we-stop-caring-about-popular-music-in-our-30s-372b87cf9fd7

[compline]

Is it mostly pop stuff?

[goldentone]

The translation of Mhm.

The winds are the most lively today.

[Bob]

Is it mostly pop stuff?

Yeah, I was disappointed when I glanced through it.  Gave up reading it.  Looks like pop.  And I'm guessing it doesn't quite apply to us (music people).  I think we'd be more likely to listen to more and to keep listening to things once we find them.  But... I bet there's a trend for everyone of easing back and just listening to the same area of music.

[Bob]

Saw a video of an author.  If I had only read the ideas, I would have been more interested, but I saw the person first.  I wasn't impressed.  Looked like an ordinary person, spouting out something they heard somewhere. 

Interesting effect.  Lots of that online I'm sure.  Lots around before the internet I'm sure.

I may even be doing that here....

[Bob]

Oo, spooky.... I get this sometimes.

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


I thought someone was playing a trick at first.

[goldentone]

It is much sunnier than yesterday.

[stevensk]

My piano pupil is comming soon. Im already irritated 

[compline]

My piano pupil is comming soon. Im already irritated 

Why is that ?

[stevensk]

Why is that ?

He seldom bring his sheets, he expects me to copying all sheet for him. He plays too fast and slow down in the difficult parts, he rejects my proposals, he want to play way too difficult pieces and work on them instead of my suggestions, he doesnt talk. He just say "hello", and "no" -nothing more. I talk cheerfully to him as soon as we meet, but afterwards Im sooo irritated 

[compline]

I'm not a music tutor, I don't know how old your pupil is but he comes across as a bit shambolic and therefore this will show in his music and practice, etc.   If I were a tutor I would encourage more discipline.   

[Bob]

There's definitely something with getting the heart rate up to 80+% max heart rate.  That and stretching.  Very relaxing.  It's capturing the good stuff from the push part.  Upgrades...

[Bob]

He seldom bring his sheets, he expects me to copying all sheet for him. He plays too fast and slow down in the difficult parts, he rejects my proposals, he want to play way too difficult pieces and work on them instead of my suggestions, he doesnt talk. He just say "hello", and "no" -nothing more. I talk cheerfully to him as soon as we meet, but afterwards Im sooo irritated 

That might be one to let him discover his playing is kind of crappy.  Listening or demonstrating somehow, so it dawns on him...

[Bob]

I'm getting really sick of the repeating pattern or guitar background music in cutesy ads or NPR-ish documentaries. 

[visitor]

The truth behind dinosaurs 

[Bob]

Sad world...  Saw a lady at the store today.  Couldn't tell if she was pregnant or just overweight her abs were protruding that much.

And then I kept wondering.  I was waiting in line and she was in front of me.  I couldn't tell by the products she was buying, although she did have something like four dozen eggs.

[Bob]

Someday... 

https://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-08-16/news/1996229137_1_northwest-territories-bob-deadline-for-submitting

[compline]

Someday... 

https://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-08-16/news/1996229137_1_northwest-territories-bob-deadline-for-submitting

Oh great!  On the link you provided it says you can learn languages for free,  unfortunately it doesn't have the language I want to learn.   

[Bob]

All my ads are in Spanish for some reason today.

[Bob]

Bought some yogurt  (or... yogur).  Left it sitting out on the counter.  Now I actually feel bad for it because I left it out and forgot about it.

[Bob]

[Bob]

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

And I'm too lazy to open another browser that supports lossless audio...

[goldentone]

My second self's way of clearing things up.

[michael_sayers]

Does anyone here know who runs the musicbanter website?


Mvh,
Michael

[compline]

The Music Banter website doesn't seem to have Classical music thread.  Are you a member Michael?

Just did a search and found the site is run by someone going by the name of Rockafella Skank  as (the management ).   If you click on the name you may be able to  message that person.

Not my scene though.    


https://www.musicbanter.com/introductions/87-member-picture-gallery.html

[michael_sayers]

Hi Compline,

Thanks for find that!  The legal name of the person who is responsible for the website is what I am looking for.

The website has a classical music section.


Mvh,
Michael

[compline]

Hi Compline,

Thanks for find that!  The legal name of the person who is responsible for the website is what I am looking for.

The website has a classical music section.


Mvh,
Michael

Thanks Michael , I noticed the classical thread after looking again.   
There are ways of finding the managements  real name. 

[michael_sayers]

Thanks Michael , I noticed the classical thread after looking again.  
There are ways of finding the managements  real name.

Hi Compline,

The registrant is the C.E.O. of Advameg, Inc. - and probably this is not the owner of the musicbanter website.


Mvh,
Michael

[compline]

 Not sure if this is any help, Michael. 

https://rockafella-skank.deviantart.com/

[michael_sayers]

Not sure if this is any help, Michael. 

https://rockafella-skank.deviantart.com/

Hi Compline,

Thanks for that!  I should do my own searching and see what I can come up with, shouldn't I?

It could be a popular username online, there are some which are like that.


Mvh,
Michael

[compline]

Hi Compline,

Thanks for that!  I should do my own searching and see what I can come up with, shouldn't I?

It could be a popular username online, there are some which are like that.


Mvh,
Michael

I'm resting my eyes now . 
Let me know if you have any luck with your search. 

[michael_sayers]

I'm resting my eyes now . 
Let me know if you have any luck with your search. 

Thanks for the help, Compline.


Mvh,
Michael

[Bob]

I wonder if one website has ever hired (or just gotten) people to be trolls on another competition website....

[goldentone]

Translating that delicate imagery.

[Bob]

Interesting....

https://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/

So, I'm thinking, even if I've cleared everything from my computer for cookies, etc. there's still going to be some kind of signature from the computer info, ip address, etc... And then someone else could have info that includes me... And I end up with targeted advertising based on that.  As soon as something thinks it's close enough to me, it starts tailoring ads for me.

[Bob]

Mind slightly blown... People who say they're reading a book, but then I discover they're just listening to the audio book version.  That's not reading.  It's listening through a book.

[Bob]

https://sploid.gizmodo.com/meet-the-master-saxophone-maker-whos-so-good-hes-consid-1710208420

[Bob]

Overweight people in diabetes and cholesterol drug commercials.  Sure, maybe the drug "solved" some reading, but I'm still thinking if they're overweight/out-of-whack... A drug that changes one piece of the puzzle isn't going to solve it really.