Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[David Carroll]

I mean where C should be seen on the sheet, you see a B-flat instead.

Well, it takes a lot of discipline...and tuning.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I like music too, I am always amazed as to how a melody in modern concerts could be played by multiple musical instruments, each of which produces different sounds and is played with a unique musical manuscript for the same song (cellists look at their own scripts, violinists play their own scripts too, so do pianists, guitarists, etc )

You'd think that an orchestral conductor has it easy, not actually having to play anything. But having to read a full score and knowing what to expect from all those different instruments during rehearsal can be extremely challenging. (I've done a bit of conducting over the years, and my own worst headaches come from trying to identify unexpected notes in the French Horns, which are frequently written with different transpositions for different parts; quite often the player's part is transposed at a different pitch from the part in the score, and even the publishers sometimes get it wrong when they transpose the part to a more commonly encountered instrument pitch). Fortunately, by the time of the concert the players usually know what to expect and conducting in concert is mostly a matter of reminding the players about timing, tempi and other stuff previously prepared in rehearsal.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The mail just came and I thought I'd gotten an actual, old fashioned letter from someone: my name and address were handwritten on the front and there was no return address. On closer inspection it was just a particularly realistic 'handwritten' font some advertiser was using.

 

[David Carroll]

The mail just came and I thought I'd gotten an actual, old fashioned letter from someone: my name and address were handwritten on the front and there was no return address. On closer inspection it was just a particularly realistic 'handwritten' font some advertiser was using.

Oh, gawwwwwd! Boo hiss.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Oh, gawwwwwd! Boo hiss.

They'll stoop to anything.

 

[nuuskur]

Got a mail with the details of medical screening in spring. Probably have to serve time in the military from next autumn :< Do. Not. Want. Boo Hissssss

 

[David Carroll]

Where are you from, nuuskur? Estonia?

 

[nuuskur]

Where are you from, nuuskur? Estonia?

Correct you are.

 

[David Carroll]

I got it right!

 

[Astronuc]

Wisconsin High School Runner Carries Competitor to the Finish Line
https://gma.yahoo.com/wisconsin-high-school-runner-carries-competitor-finish-line-192034046.html

True sportsmanship! More power to her!

 

[Medicol]

My friend used to work as a senior web engineer, now he wants to work as an iOS mobile application developer. If you have a mobile development company, at what seniority level will you agree to hire him ?
My answer is simply don't hire anyone like him. Because I am serious about my contracts with customers although I am a greedy businessman. It takes a lot of time for such people to learn objective-C and usage of related applications or IDEs to handle the assigned tasks and the whole development process in general. Such a duration will reduce my business profit and their produced code might not be as optimized and bug-free as those written by experienced developers. Coaching or mentoring them is a pain in the neck especially when most of them are no longer as young as fresh college graduates; they always have ideas and act stubbornly; sometimes they may attack us back. :D Any more ideas can be enlisted to fill up my imagination.

 

[OmCheeto]

Yesterday, I saw a series of three random posts on Facebook, which kind of fit together:

The first was just an article about an illegal pot growing farm in an old abandoned train station in North Wales. I was sorry I wasted my time reading that.

The second, was a video of some people laughing on a train. I decided that they'd all just pulled out of the above train station. But the laughing all started with one lady looking at her smart phone. I was curious what it was she had just seen.

The third post, was just a sciencey looking kind of meme.

Which had me laughing for 15 minutes. I like to imagine that that is what the lady on the train had seen.

After I shared the sciencey looking meme, someone said I shouldn't do that, because people would believe it.
I then laughed for another 15 minutes, because I knew it was true.

 

[nuuskur]

Human imagination knows no bounds :D

 

[Enigman]

Human imagination knows no bounds :D

Yeah, it does. Its called the writer's block.

 

[nuuskur]

clever :D

 

[WWGD]

Human imagination knows no bounds :D

And still many choose to remain within the confines of the familiar, maybe because it is scary to
let your imagination fly away and not know where it will lead you. I like a statement in Metallica's
Eye of the Beholder : " ...limit your imagination, keep you where they must.." imagination is a ticket
out, the possibility of more, different options.

 

[Borek]

I decided that they'd all just pulled out of the above train station. But the laughing all started with one lady looking at her smart phone. I was curious what it was she had just seen.

I believe her laughing was staged. Whatever happened then was just a natural reaction of other people around.

 

[OmCheeto]

I believe her laughing was staged. Whatever happened then was just a natural reaction of other people around.

I had a dream about you yesterday. Probably inspired by your post about "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter".

It was very segmented, and totally incomprehensible.

hmmm...

Is the concept of, and our allure to, video games, based on the human fascination with dreams?

Sorry if this has come up a million times before, but, I'm a bit slow.

 

[Borek]

Is the concept of, and our allure to, video games, based on the human fascination with dreams?

What about books, movies, plays, paintings?

Good computer game is either 'just' a product of a good craftsmanship, or a piece of art.

 

[OmCheeto]

What about books, movies, plays, paintings?

Good computer game is either 'just' a product of a good craftsmanship, or a piece of art.

hmmm... After some googling, regarding dreams: "What Dreams May Come", and the ending line of "A.I." , and some analyses by different folk, I think I like the following answer the best:

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[Enigman]

I forgot what I was going to post so have a fractal:

 

[Medicol]

No dream ever comes true via playing a game.

 

[OmCheeto]

I forgot what I was going to post so have a fractal:

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Fractals sure have come a long way since when I first saw them.

In your fractal, I see a mind numbed angel, making a very boring piece of pottery.

It took my first computer, 24 hours to render the following:

hmmm... Not sure why I was impressed with it back then. Maybe, I saw, a butt.



I love the Minions. :)

 

[RonL]

No dream ever comes true via playing a game.

I love your profile picture, but I have to say that it and a serious comment just don't belong on the same page (I do enjoy most of your post):D

 

[Medicol]

So LIKE please...

 

[RonL]

So LIKE please...

Feel better ??;):D

 

[lisab]

Note to the squeamish: move along, nothing to see here.

On my last backpacking trip several weeks ago, I got a pretty bad blister coming down the mountain. It was under my left toenail! I've never seen (or even heard of) that before. It hurt pretty bad. It got infected, I went to the doc and got some antibiotics. By now, as you would expect, the infection is all cleared.

Meanwhile that toenail is, erm...detaching, checking out, separating, paring ways with the rest of my body. No pain at all, though.

I remember many years ago jtbell had this happen in a sudden incident. I have to think that's the preferable way for it to go, if it has to go...sigh.

 

[RonL]

Note to the squeamish: move along, nothing to see here.

On my last backpacking trip several weeks ago, I got a pretty bad blister coming down the mountain. It was under my left toenail! I've never seen (or even heard of) that before. It hurt pretty bad. It got infected, I went to the doc and got some antibiotics. By now, as you would expect, the infection is all cleared.

Meanwhile that toenail is, erm...detaching, checking out, separating, paring ways with the rest of my body. No pain at all, though.

I remember many years ago jtbell had this happen in a sudden incident. I have to think that's the preferable way for it to go, if it has to go...sigh.

I hope you don't lose the nail for good
I did have a brother-in-law that had problems with his toe nails, he had them all removed, I was surprised his toes did not look that bad or funny at all.:)

 

[lisab]

I hope you don't lose the nail for good
I did have a brother-in-law that had problems with his toe nails, he had them all removed, I was surprised his toes did not look that bad or funny at all.:)

There's no turning back at this point - it's a "dead toenail walking", so to speak.

I've seen pics on the innerwebs of toes without toenails. I completely agree, it's not a bad look at all! It's not the aesthetics that bother me. It's just the deed itself I have to get through now.

What happened to your b-i-l that necesitated his nails be removed?

 

[RonL]

There's no turning back at this point - it's a "dead toenail walking", so to speak.

I've seen pics on the innerwebs of toes without toenails. I completely agree, it's not a bad look at all! It's not the aesthetics that bother me. It's just the deed itself I have to get through now.

What happened to your b-i-l that necesitated his nails be removed?

I think it was diabetes related, he was in pretty bad health for several years before his death last year.