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I like that one.
... Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
The OMG category: One Terabyte on a micro-SD card!
The first small card I worked with would store only 120 bytes. (80 column punch card in binary mode. 12 bits per column.)
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B07P9W5HJV?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_D_d1bcaccf_68&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Non-complaint: Good morning DAZland. Wakey, wakey! Nice gentle begining, but it's not long (at 5:33) before you're wiggling and cavorting with the music.
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2 (And no. Neither Bugs Bunny nor Daffy Duck is a soloist in this performance.)
'Nother non-complaint: Wheee... I had my new DAZing machine on the workbench this morning and noticed that there was an unused USB-C port on the motherboard itself. Cool!
It's intended for attaching a cable from a front panel mounted USB-C socket but my case doesn't have a USB-C socket on the front panel, nor does it have a DVD cage where I could mount a 5.5" insert. So, I browsed through the Amazon catalog and found a back-panel slot USB-C mount with a cable & plug that would fit into the motherboard socket. And I have an empty backpanel slot to mount it in. Wheee... something else, cheap, to add to my DAZing computer.
I hate to waste motherboard features.
So now I'll have a total of two USB-C sockets. (one provided by the motherboard's rear plug area, and this new one added by the rear slot insert. It would have been nice to have had a USB-C port on the front of the machine, but... next time.
Oh...
OK
Still, beware the radon.
Can I interest you in a radon flusher?
Fs dropped to the 40s today. too cold to sit out in the sun. wind blew my dor open a couple times. huffing and puffing bad wolf.
need a hot butterscotvh shnapps. and a bakery fresh coconut custard pie. is end or march on my 2nd bottle of jamiesaons this year. how many bottles do you go through a year?
i think today may be monday. internal calendar is off. feels like sundae.
on the day the earth stood still, does that mean it wasnt spinning?
Complaint: Laptop prices. What a scam.
BestBuy sent me an email advertising their big sale on laptops today. Yeah right!
A couple years ago the marketplace was pushing everybody to go to laptops and clearing their shelves of desktops. Now, laptop prices have zoomed while desktops for casual users can still be had for reasonable prices if you like scant selections.
They used to be able to sell a nice laptop for $450. Now, you can't open a catalog without running into a forest of $1200-$2000 laptops. And of course the students all want one of those. All this effort to make them thinner and lighter and impossible to repair yourself, and driving down manufacturing costs has given excuse for these scary prices so they can make out like bandits.
I've got a 10+ year old laptop that still works but it's been talking to me about retirement. I've replaced its battery, memory, and hard drive. I've been inside cleaning and inspecting, and it comes completely apart with screws without having to pry open any glued pieces. It would be nice to have a modern zippy laptop but not when it's going to cost as much (or more) as my wonderful custom built DAZing desktop machine even with its 2K monitor and GTX-1660 graphics card. 
Suggestion, give your student a reaonably priced desktop and a roll-around cart to take it to class with.
Better yet, make them buy their own computer.
...my old Toshiba Satellite cast 649$. When I purchased it in December 2006. At the time it was considered powerful with a 1.6 GHz duo core CPU, 4 GB of memory 80 GB HDD multiple USB ports, and was set up for multimedia use with a more capable video chipset for the day and Xp Media Edition. The cost seemed like a lot but I needed something I could take along with me so when I was away from home I could still work on story/game scenario writing and at the time, 2D art & photomanips. It was also te system I cut my 3D rendering teeth on.
I agree today notebooks have become ridiculously expensive, and after moving to a desktop, the cost for such a limited system in regards to upgrading and customisation. The main attraction to notebooks is portability and for that convenience you trade off power and in particular, expandability. Unless you are a trained technician, customising or even performing maintenance on a notebook is a rather delicate process due to the size of most the components and how tightly they are crammed together. I wouldn't really rtecommend one for serious 3D work as cooling is only air based usually with a single hamster wheel fan that serves both as intake and exhaust. The more expensive gaming laptops tend to have dual fans with "flow through" ventrilation, which helps a bit more.
Actually a mini PC desktop with keyboard and 19" flat display is probably lighter than one of those old CPM portables were.
...so what does a concert pianist do wile the time away after she misses her train to Paris?
Granted Hungarian Rhapsody #12 not #2 but still an amazing performance. This old piano at St Pancras Station has probably never sounded quite like this.
Mrs Lisitsa actually put on an entire recital that day (not sure if she missed her next train)
Complaint: The husband is sick. Looks like he has strep throat and that he got it at his friend's house. I swear, that place is a vector for disease. Normally, I'd blame the kids. But it's more likely to be their cop neighbor friend who comes over a lot. Who knows what that guy gets exposed to on a daily basis? That's the problem with befriending the people who live next door. They will always be wanting to come over without notice. And who knows what you're going to be wearing when they knock, if you're even wearing anything.
Non-complaint: The grocery store had my favorite energy drinks for once, and they were even on sale!!! I am going to be so wired.
Complaint: Impossible to find a GPU.
Silver Lining: Decided to upgrade other stuff this time instead.
Complaint: Computer prices are ass in canada. Dropped 1400 to get a new 570 mobo and a AMD Ryzen 9 3900X.
Silver Lining: Will have two times as many cores some time in the next 2 weeks, and should be good for a few years on PC upgrades. Maybe upgrade my 2 remaining 8x2 RAM stics to 16x2 or 32x2 at some point. Hopefully I remember to do a before and after benchmark this time, it should be a mild improvement.
I love when professionals deign to play for free, in public, unannounced. I liked the trend a few years ago when choral goups or orchestras would set up spontaneously in a mall or square and play some heady classical music. I think it worked better in Europe than here. I'm afraid that here if the music doesn't vibrate your genitals or remind you how miserable your life is, then few pay any attention to it. However, thankfully, some people do appreciate it.
I never played professionally but for a while I played quite well as a frustrated amateur. One late fall in the Washington DC area I was walking through some shopping center region and the piano store in the mall had several pianos on display outside the store in the open air. I was dressed in heavy leather motorcycle pants, jacket & boots, and a leather cowboy hat but I sat at one of the new upright pianos and played the first 11 minutes of the 2nd(final) movement* of Saint-Saëns' 4th Piano concerto that I had been working on for several months. While I was playing I was pleased to see people gathering around and then realized that it had started snowing. Not heavy, but definitely snowing. So, there I was, bundled up in bulky leather, playing Saint-Saëns in the snow and people were standing around, in the snow, listening. At the time I thought it was a silly situation. I now pass on that vision to you.
I just simply stopped playing when I got past the part that I could play confidently, shook the little bit of snow off my hat and walked away. I often wondered how long those pianos stayed out in the snow that day.
*The Saint-Saëns 4th piano concerto only has two movements instead of the typical 3 for a concerto.
2nd(final) movement of Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto #4
Beautiful memory.
I'm on my fourth cup of coffee already
...wonderful story. playing in the snow, I don't think my hands would have done well in the cold even back I was still able to play (though I probably would have been tempted to play the transcription Troika from Prokfiev's Lt. KIje Suite).
When I lived in Seattle back int eh early 80s there was this atrium with a mall at the base of the old Rainer Bank Tower where they had a lovely old 9' 1930s Steinway available for anyone to sit down and play. A number of times when I was downtown I'd stop and perform a short recital usualy of works by Chopin, Debussy, Brahms, Liszt, Beethoven, Ravel and others (including a Joplin rag now and then performed like Joshua Rifkin would). Received lots of smiles and was even encouraged be some of the merchants in the mall there to come and play whenever I could. One year when I walked in, I noticed the Steinway was gone, and in it's was a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial (the one with an extra 9 keys in the bass that went down to CCCC [or C₀] which vibrates at 16 Hz).
At first I thought it was probably there for some upcoming social occasion but saw it was not roped off or locked. So I sat down, curious about how those extra lower notes sounded and even to that low C it was a very resonant musical tone not a dull "thud". I then performed Debussy's La Cathédrale engloutie and those extra strings added to the depth of the entire piece even playing the work as originally scored. I played it again, this time in the some of low passages moved my left hand down an octave and the sensation was spine tingling to say least. After that I performed one of my own compositions from a set I was writing which actually made use of the that low C (a piece similar in style to "La Cathédrale") and almost felt overwhelmed with the depth an breadth that extra 3/4 octave gave (later I actually notated on the score as to which left hand passages were to be to played an octave lower if performing on one of these instruments). One of the things I noticed in the lower register I could actually sense the vibration of the strings through the keys, almost eeire.
As I learned the Imperial was a "loner" from one of the more prestigious piano dealers in the city while the original Stienway was undergoing maintenance and restoration.. Normally in such a case, one would have expected an upright or at best a "parlour" grand as the stand in, not the "Rolls Royce" of concert hall pianos (at the time the price tag on one of these was something like 80,000$ - 90,000$). It remained there for a couple months and definitely was quite the experience.
Yeah was a little spoiled after that but having that lovely Steinway back was defintely not a "step down" at all as there was something incomparable about pre war Steinways as they had such a beautiful round, rich, and deep sound and the action was not as "stiff" as the newer ones.
Ah, "Lt. Kije"* very old Russian story. A poignant story of bureaucracy run amok. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Kijé
One of my favorite stories and music. Especially the "Troika" very exciting music.
"Troika" three horses abreast drawing a sleigh or cart. Reminds me of the scene in "War and Peace" where the two families have a troika race across the snowy fields on their way to a party.
Troika from Lt. Kije: (Sometimes spelled "Kizh" or "Kijh" pronounced perhaps almost like the egg preparation "quiche")
And Debussy's "Engulfed Cathedral" or "Sunken Cathedral", also one of my favorites to play. I would have loved a chance at one of those extended Bösendorfers.
Complaint: Weird win10 explorer bug or quirk. Trying to rename a duf and matching folder to "blabla 8.1" and windows keeps deleting the .1 off the name @.@ I had to rename it "blabla 8 1" for it to finally work. Not ideal, but it gets the idea across that I was trying to convey I guess.
Lol judging by your wish list, you must be a insomniac too :P
The first "portable" computer I'd ever seen was an Osbourne I. The first wireless, portable computer I ever saw was a UNIX workstation & monitor on a roll-around equipment cart along with a couple of car batteries, and a black box and some open electronics being wheeled down the halls of a Mitre Corporation building in Tyson's Corners, Virginia during the late '80s or early '90s. I knew the guy wheeling it and questioned him on it and got the explanation that it was connected to the building's LAN via wireless. He demonstrated downloading a file from the systems that I maintained. Cool I said! But it will never catch on.
I had so little vision... I'd said the same things about computer games 20 years earlier.
Welp, with PC games I can see why you thought it. The first PC games were like text based nonsense like ballyhoo. The only thing I could figure out how to do in that game was to type swears at it, so it would repeat back something like "Do not understand 'string of obscenities I typed'"
A few years later I got to play oregon trail, which was a lot cooler. Although everyt trip I would end up dead of disease or bear attacks and stuff lol.
complaint I didn't get real butter when I asked for butter. The sour cream was light not regular oh well.