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  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016
    edited January 2019

    MS Paint is fun.

    Post edited by WinterMoon on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    MS paint probably is fun but I just used a canvas board and drawing pencils from amazon.  I drew while looking at a printed photo.  The printer is from amazon too.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TigerAnne said:

    A while ago, I read an article about why the Earth is flat, to try to get some kind of insight into why this is suddenly something people believe in again. Long story short, I didn't understand a thing, because the "evidence" was in the form of a whole lot of diagrams and explainations about physics far beyond my schooling. So I'm simply too uninformed to believe in the Flat Earth. indecision

     

    Hey, isn't this a Freebie Monday? I'm feeling greedy.

    The reason we have all these flat-earthers is that main stream entertainment especially on TV has glorified stupidity.  It's chic to be stupid these days.  And it's SOOO much easier to believe in nonsense than learn real facts. That, and the distressing facts that stupidity isn't as fatal as it used to be and you don't have to be smart to breed. indecision

    About eighteen years ago I started to notice that a lot of programs on what were supposed to be educational channels were having a decidedly stupid dramatic way of presenting their subjects... I think the one that sticks in my mind was one where the show was about finding the giant squid... the beginning of the show implied they had actually caught a live giant squid... the whole show kept on building up to the reveal and quickly diverting to some side nonsense about biologists with different opinions about the squids and then back to guy who wasn’t actually a but apparently caught one because he had a theory on where to find them... then a side bar on sea monsters... back to the hunt... another side story about the kraken and if giant squid are the source of that legend... back to the hunt... sidebar on whether giant squid could have attacked sailors in the past... back and forth until the last four minutes where they revealed the giant squid... a tiny larval form that could have actually have been a totally different species and because it came from a great depth it died fairly quickly... no friggin conclusion, just jerking the audience around for an hour.

    You had the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Nature channel, the Science channel and National Geographic channels...

    One by one they all sold out and became something else... I think the worst are the History channel, which is essentially the Bigfoot channel and Discovery which became mostly reality show nonsense and ghost chasing.

    Then on top of that you have this new trend in advertising called “Native Advertising” in which an ad is made to look and feel like an article native to the site, so basically if it’s news or information it looks like an actual article, but it has a tiny (usually in light grey lettering) disclaimer “Sponsored Content”... You’ll be reading science articles on a respectable website and see an article titled “A new program brings hope to future scientists”... the image suggests it’s some school program for middle schoolers... but the sponsorship turns out to be a bank that has of recent been found guilty of all sorts of fraud and deliberate misdeeds... and the article barely talks about the program which turns out to be at one school and tiny thing at best, but goes on to imply that one day there may be more of these sort of programs, maybe, but the bank is the most innovative and greatest bank ever and they love you, trust them and maybe they’ll donate a few more dollars to something like this, maybe...

    Between turning fiction and myth into faux science, dramatizing history, speculating on conspiracy theories, dramatizing proven hoaxes and pseudoscientific “theories” (“I’m not saying it was aliens- but it was aliens”), advertisements intended to look like news to fool people into reading them, and lots of other little tricks and deceptions it’s no wonder there is a great “dumbening” going on.

    I think it was Carl Sagan that refered to science and rational thought as a “candle in the wind” which can easily be extinguished... it’s a scary thought, because every day the wind of nonsense and deception grows stronger.

    ...yes.

    Yeah, , sensationalism and the "Reality" trend has ruined what were once interesting and informative networks (one's I actually paid extra to get when I had cable service two decades ago).

    Today I see television as nothing but a vast wasteland ,1,000 channels of the same crap.  After mine blew up 17 years ago, I really don't miss it any more. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    Mystarra said:
    Tjohn said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TigerAnne said:

    A while ago, I read an article about why the Earth is flat, to try to get some kind of insight into why this is suddenly something people believe in again. Long story short, I didn't understand a thing, because the "evidence" was in the form of a whole lot of diagrams and explainations about physics far beyond my schooling. So I'm simply too uninformed to believe in the Flat Earth. indecision

     

    Hey, isn't this a Freebie Monday? I'm feeling greedy.

    The reason we have all these flat-earthers is that main stream entertainment especially on TV has glorified stupidity.  It's chic to be stupid these days.  And it's SOOO much easier to believe in nonsense than learn real facts. That, and the distressing facts that stupidity isn't as fatal as it used to be and you don't have to be smart to breed. indecision

    About eighteen years ago I started to notice that a lot of programs on what were supposed to be educational channels were having a decidedly stupid dramatic way of presenting their subjects... I think the one that sticks in my mind was one where the show was about finding the giant squid... the beginning of the show implied they had actually caught a live giant squid... the whole show kept on building up to the reveal and quickly diverting to some side nonsense about biologists with different opinions about the squids and then back to guy who wasn’t actually a but apparently caught one because he had a theory on where to find them... then a side bar on sea monsters... back to the hunt... another side story about the kraken and if giant squid are the source of that legend... back to the hunt... sidebar on whether giant squid could have attacked sailors in the past... back and forth until the last four minutes where they revealed the giant squid... a tiny larval form that could have actually have been a totally different species and because it came from a great depth it died fairly quickly... no friggin conclusion, just jerking the audience around for an hour.

    You had the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Nature channel, the Science channel and National Geographic channels...

    One by one they all sold out and became something else... I think the worst are the History channel, which is essentially the Bigfoot channel and Discovery which became mostly reality show nonsense and ghost chasing.

    Then on top of that you have this new trend in advertising called “Native Advertising” in which an ad is made to look and feel like an article native to the site, so basically if it’s news or information it looks like an actual article, but it has a tiny (usually in light grey lettering) disclaimer “Sponsored Content”... You’ll be reading science articles on a respectable website and see an article titled “A new program brings hope to future scientists”... the image suggests it’s some school program for middle schoolers... but the sponsorship turns out to be a bank that has of recent been found guilty of all sorts of fraud and deliberate misdeeds... and the article barely talks about the program which turns out to be at one school and tiny thing at best, but goes on to imply that one day there may be more of these sort of programs, maybe, but the bank is the most innovative and greatest bank ever and they love you, trust them and maybe they’ll donate a few more dollars to something like this, maybe...

    Between turning fiction and myth into faux science, dramatizing history, speculating on conspiracy theories, dramatizing proven hoaxes and pseudoscientific “theories” (“I’m not saying it was aliens- but it was aliens”), advertisements intended to look like news to fool people into reading them, and lots of other little tricks and deceptions it’s no wonder there is a great “dumbening” going on.

    I think it was Carl Sagan that refered to science and rational thought as a “candle in the wind” which can easily be extinguished... it’s a scary thought, because every day the wind of nonsense and deception grows stronger.

    Here here! I've watched the ancient alien garbage shows a few times for giggles. I say "no" a lot during those because they insist on asking "Could this have been ancient aliens?" over and over and I feel obligated,as a man of science to answer truthfully.

    I actually attended a lecture by Von Daniken in my younger days. It was crap then and it's crap now...but entertaining crap. laugh

    remembers leanord nimoy narrating 'in search of' episodes, suggesting the pyraminds were built by aliens.   the mysery of mocha pee chuu

    ...Mocha Pikachu?

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    Mystarra said:

    i will refuse statin even if is my last breath

    I'm with you on this.  I finally had to resort to profanity to get it through my dr's skull.  Within 24 hrs of taking one dose, I start getting stabs in my liver/pancreas area.  

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint?:  Just got back from the Emergency Room where they poked and prodded me and X-ray'd me and Cat-scan'd me and charged me a hefty co-pay and shot me full of pain killer and said they found nothing wrong with me.  But that if I come back in two weeks still screaming they'll do an MRI scan. frown

    The last orthopedist I saw had a cartoon in his office.  The caption read:  "Don't do anything and eventually the patient will get well."

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,117
    edited January 2019
    kyoto kid said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TigerAnne said:

    A while ago, I read an article about why the Earth is flat, to try to get some kind of insight into why this is suddenly something people believe in again. Long story short, I didn't understand a thing, because the "evidence" was in the form of a whole lot of diagrams and explainations about physics far beyond my schooling. So I'm simply too uninformed to believe in the Flat Earth. indecision

     

    Hey, isn't this a Freebie Monday? I'm feeling greedy.

    The reason we have all these flat-earthers is that main stream entertainment especially on TV has glorified stupidity.  It's chic to be stupid these days.  And it's SOOO much easier to believe in nonsense than learn real facts. That, and the distressing facts that stupidity isn't as fatal as it used to be and you don't have to be smart to breed. indecision

    About eighteen years ago I started to notice that a lot of programs on what were supposed to be educational channels were having a decidedly stupid dramatic way of presenting their subjects... I think the one that sticks in my mind was one where the show was about finding the giant squid... the beginning of the show implied they had actually caught a live giant squid... the whole show kept on building up to the reveal and quickly diverting to some side nonsense about biologists with different opinions about the squids and then back to guy who wasn’t actually a but apparently caught one because he had a theory on where to find them... then a side bar on sea monsters... back to the hunt... another side story about the kraken and if giant squid are the source of that legend... back to the hunt... sidebar on whether giant squid could have attacked sailors in the past... back and forth until the last four minutes where they revealed the giant squid... a tiny larval form that could have actually have been a totally different species and because it came from a great depth it died fairly quickly... no friggin conclusion, just jerking the audience around for an hour.

    You had the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Nature channel, the Science channel and National Geographic channels...

    One by one they all sold out and became something else... I think the worst are the History channel, which is essentially the Bigfoot channel and Discovery which became mostly reality show nonsense and ghost chasing.

    Then on top of that you have this new trend in advertising called “Native Advertising” in which an ad is made to look and feel like an article native to the site, so basically if it’s news or information it looks like an actual article, but it has a tiny (usually in light grey lettering) disclaimer “Sponsored Content”... You’ll be reading science articles on a respectable website and see an article titled “A new program brings hope to future scientists”... the image suggests it’s some school program for middle schoolers... but the sponsorship turns out to be a bank that has of recent been found guilty of all sorts of fraud and deliberate misdeeds... and the article barely talks about the program which turns out to be at one school and tiny thing at best, but goes on to imply that one day there may be more of these sort of programs, maybe, but the bank is the most innovative and greatest bank ever and they love you, trust them and maybe they’ll donate a few more dollars to something like this, maybe...

    Between turning fiction and myth into faux science, dramatizing history, speculating on conspiracy theories, dramatizing proven hoaxes and pseudoscientific “theories” (“I’m not saying it was aliens- but it was aliens”), advertisements intended to look like news to fool people into reading them, and lots of other little tricks and deceptions it’s no wonder there is a great “dumbening” going on.

    I think it was Carl Sagan that refered to science and rational thought as a “candle in the wind” which can easily be extinguished... it’s a scary thought, because every day the wind of nonsense and deception grows stronger.

    ...yes.

    Yeah, , sensationalism and the "Reality" trend has ruined what were once interesting and informative networks (one's I actually paid extra to get when I had cable service two decades ago).

    Today I see television as nothing but a vast wasteland ,1,000 channels of the same crap.  After mine blew up 17 years ago, I really don't miss it any more. 

    I remember when 58 years ago: Newton N. Minnow said in his speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961  ...

    "When television is good, nothing--not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers--nothing is better.
    But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off.     I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland." --- From WikiQuote article: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Newton_N._Minow

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    This is why I like to 3D art.  I cannot draw.

    ...actually, not very bad.  Keep up at it as practise is what builds skill.  There are also good books on drawing technique (I still have a number of them in my library).

    Wish I could still daw like I used to, but almost impossible to hold pencil in my hand anymore as my grip and sensitivity are gone as well as it get's painful awfully quick.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298
    kyoto kid said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    This is why I like to 3D art.  I cannot draw.

    ...actually, not very bad.  Keep up at it as practise is what builds skill.  There are also good books on drawing technique (I still have a number of them in my library).

    Wish I could still daw like I used to, but almost impossible to hold pencil in my hand anymore as my grip and sensitivity are gone as well as it get's painful awfully quick.

    I know that my favorite artist is an art teacher.  She lives near me,but right out of the area my taxi serves. What did I do with that penguin painting she gave me for Christmas.  she Has taught me some art lessons.  I would not be able to draw or anything if it was not for her.  I call her by a special name (Mummy).

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    In April I will have known mummy for 36 years.  She knew about me 36 years ago.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925

    ...nice, to have creativity in the family. 

    For me cooking and baking was in the family bloodline (as well as Packer football). I was sort of the black sheep as I had a strong interest in art and music from early on.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    I hate waking up half an hour too early.  

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016

    I'm "moving into" a new computer. :) Can't wait to render some heavier stuffz.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    I hate using my notebook in the food court for two reasons.  One there are no outlets available in the food court.  Two if I have to go visist the lady's room or get a refill on my coffee I need to pack everything up and go to where I want to go.  I do not feel safe leaving my notebook in the food court unattended.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,117
    edited January 2019

    Complaint: It's still snowing and the accumulation on my porch is now about 10 inches. frown

    Non-complaint:  House is warm, food in cupboards and refrigerator, pipes not frozen, Internet still working so I have access to YouTube, Prime Video, and NetFlix via my TV, Not able to DAZ because I can't sit in this computer chair for very long because of my back but long enough to select some music with which to vegetate to.  Today I've picked Rachmaninoff again (yes, I like Rachmaninoff cheeky).  My Rachmaninoff playlist went through a few pieces then I happened to get captured by his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni".  All of it is beautiful but especially the famous "variation #18". heart

    What's a Rhapsody? 

    Definition:  Rhapsody  (basic)  "an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling."

    Definition: Rhapsody (music)  "A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations."

    Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni" is a set of variations on a theme by early 1800s Italian composer Niccolo Paganinni.  Rachmaninoff, in the 1930s, tinkered with the short theme and expressed it in many different moods.  But variation #18 has become very recognizable because of its use in many films including recently "Somewhere in Time", "Groundhog Day", "Ronin" and "The Good Wife".  Here is the complete two and a half minute, variation #18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJVXI8DNJQ  So beautiful. cryingyes

    In case you liked the theme, see how many times you can recognize it in the complete Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4 Happy hunting! smiley (piece begins at 4:10) (variation #18 begins at 20:20).  And typical of Rachmaninoff it has a wonderfully grand finish beginning at 26:20.

    Edited to add:  For some interesting information about the Rhapsody and especially about variation #18 and the legend about Rachmaninoff's habit when playing the finale, listen to the four minute discussion before the piece begins. enlightened

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    atticanne said:
    Mystarra said:

    i will refuse statin even if is my last breath

    I'm with you on this.  I finally had to resort to profanity to get it through my dr's skull.  Within 24 hrs of taking one dose, I start getting stabs in my liver/pancreas area.  

    can give statin myopathy - muscle pains.  no needs any extra pains.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint: It's still snowing and the accumulation on my porch is now about 10 inches. frown

    Non-complaint:  House is warm, food in cupboards and refrigerator, pipes not frozen, Internet still working so I have access to YouTube, Prime Video, and NetFlix via my TV, Not able to DAZ because I can't sit in this computer chair for very long because of my back but long enough to select some music with which to vegitate to.  Today I've picked Rachmaninoff again (yes, I like Rachmaninoff cheeky).  My Rachmaninoff playlist went through a few a few pieces then I happened to get captured by his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni".  All of it is beautiful but especially the famous "variation #18". heart

    What's a Rhapsody? 

    Definition:  Rhapsody  (basic)  "an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling."

    Definition: Rhapsody (music)  "A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations."

    Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni" is a set of variations on a theme by early 1800s Italian composer Niccolo Paganinni.  Rachmaninoff tinkered with the short theme and expressed it in many different moods.  But variation #18 has become very recognizable because of its use in many films including recently "Somewhere in Time", "Groundhog Day", "Ronin" and "The Good Wife".  Here is the complete two and a half minute, variation #18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJVXI8DNJQ  So beautiful. cryingyes

    In case you liked the theme, see how many times you can recognize it in the complete Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4 Happy hunting! smiley (piece begins at 4:10) (variation #18 begins at 20:20).  And typical of Rachmaninoff it has a wonderfully grand finish beginning at 26:20.

     

    heart rhapsodies. and raptures. 

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited January 2019

    Medical office center left me a voice mail.  She didn't state what department she was calling from.  Accounts/billing?  The physician's office?  Not again.

     

    edit: she did not leave an extension number for me to call.

    Post edited by starionwolf on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaint was on hold with social security over an hour.  mew zakks

    i called to report I returned to work. with my walker and Velma sized magnifying glass.  

    non-complaint  they said i could continue with disability app to receive retro monies for the time i was too sickly to earn the monies. i rant out of short term disability half way thru my 2nd hostpital stay.

    i left another message with the MHLS lawyers.  I see complaint worthy forms on the state attorney general's web page.  asking mhls advice on reporting any part of my case to the Attorney General.  and want to complain hospital emergency room used doctors outside of my insurance.  Talking to co workers about it, seems it's a common practice. turns out i not the only one got a whopping bill in bonus to the hospital bill, which lovely bc/bs paid for me.  was reading about a British Lady got stuck in American involuntary hospitalization, gave her a 16 thousand dollar debt..  lost the link to the article >.<    I can cash my ss checks from another country?? eh? eh?  i thinkin Canada, Galway Ireland, or Scotland, or someplace where the roos roam laugh

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    seeing a kewl rugged looking walker with all terrain wheels on Finland Store site, can't find it on amazon us. woes

    supposed to snow 4 inches this weekend.  i gonna be so screwed. will be lucky to make it to the mailbox and trash bins. basura

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Mystarra said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint: It's still snowing and the accumulation on my porch is now about 10 inches. frown

    Non-complaint:  House is warm, food in cupboards and refrigerator, pipes not frozen, Internet still working so I have access to YouTube, Prime Video, and NetFlix via my TV, Not able to DAZ because I can't sit in this computer chair for very long because of my back but long enough to select some music with which to vegitate to.  Today I've picked Rachmaninoff again (yes, I like Rachmaninoff cheeky).  My Rachmaninoff playlist went through a few a few pieces then I happened to get captured by his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni".  All of it is beautiful but especially the famous "variation #18". heart

    What's a Rhapsody? 

    Definition:  Rhapsody  (basic)  "an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling."

    Definition: Rhapsody (music)  "A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations."

    Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni" is a set of variations on a theme by early 1800s Italian composer Niccolo Paganinni.  Rachmaninoff tinkered with the short theme and expressed it in many different moods.  But variation #18 has become very recognizable because of its use in many films including recently "Somewhere in Time", "Groundhog Day", "Ronin" and "The Good Wife".  Here is the complete two and a half minute, variation #18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJVXI8DNJQ  So beautiful. cryingyes

    In case you liked the theme, see how many times you can recognize it in the complete Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4 Happy hunting! smiley (piece begins at 4:10) (variation #18 begins at 20:20).  And typical of Rachmaninoff it has a wonderfully grand finish beginning at 26:20.

     

    heart rhapsodies. and raptures. 

    Do you know the piece used beginning of 'a room with a view' ?  bibi something?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925

    ...'plaint.  One of the apartments on the floor is being redone,  Getting a strong aroma of something that smells like nail polish remover or model aeroplane dope.  Fortunately warm today, 55°, and no rain so at least can have the windows open.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Mystarra said:
    Mystarra said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint: It's still snowing and the accumulation on my porch is now about 10 inches. frown

    Non-complaint:  House is warm, food in cupboards and refrigerator, pipes not frozen, Internet still working so I have access to YouTube, Prime Video, and NetFlix via my TV, Not able to DAZ because I can't sit in this computer chair for very long because of my back but long enough to select some music with which to vegitate to.  Today I've picked Rachmaninoff again (yes, I like Rachmaninoff cheeky).  My Rachmaninoff playlist went through a few a few pieces then I happened to get captured by his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni".  All of it is beautiful but especially the famous "variation #18". heart

    What's a Rhapsody? 

    Definition:  Rhapsody  (basic)  "an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling."

    Definition: Rhapsody (music)  "A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations."

    Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni" is a set of variations on a theme by early 1800s Italian composer Niccolo Paganinni.  Rachmaninoff tinkered with the short theme and expressed it in many different moods.  But variation #18 has become very recognizable because of its use in many films including recently "Somewhere in Time", "Groundhog Day", "Ronin" and "The Good Wife".  Here is the complete two and a half minute, variation #18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJVXI8DNJQ  So beautiful. cryingyes

    In case you liked the theme, see how many times you can recognize it in the complete Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4 Happy hunting! smiley (piece begins at 4:10) (variation #18 begins at 20:20).  And typical of Rachmaninoff it has a wonderfully grand finish beginning at 26:20.

     

    heart rhapsodies. and raptures. 

    Do you know the piece used beginning of 'a room with a view' ?  bibi something?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    Mystarra said:
    Mystarra said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint: It's still snowing and the accumulation on my porch is now about 10 inches. frown

    Non-complaint:  House is warm, food in cupboards and refrigerator, pipes not frozen, Internet still working so I have access to YouTube, Prime Video, and NetFlix via my TV, Not able to DAZ because I can't sit in this computer chair for very long because of my back but long enough to select some music with which to vegitate to.  Today I've picked Rachmaninoff again (yes, I like Rachmaninoff cheeky).  My Rachmaninoff playlist went through a few a few pieces then I happened to get captured by his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni".  All of it is beautiful but especially the famous "variation #18". heart

    What's a Rhapsody? 

    Definition:  Rhapsody  (basic)  "an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling."

    Definition: Rhapsody (music)  "A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations."

    Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni" is a set of variations on a theme by early 1800s Italian composer Niccolo Paganinni.  Rachmaninoff tinkered with the short theme and expressed it in many different moods.  But variation #18 has become very recognizable because of its use in many films including recently "Somewhere in Time", "Groundhog Day", "Ronin" and "The Good Wife".  Here is the complete two and a half minute, variation #18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJVXI8DNJQ  So beautiful. cryingyes

    In case you liked the theme, see how many times you can recognize it in the complete Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4 Happy hunting! smiley (piece begins at 4:10) (variation #18 begins at 20:20).  And typical of Rachmaninoff it has a wonderfully grand finish beginning at 26:20.

     

    heart rhapsodies. and raptures. 

    Do you know the piece used beginning of 'a room with a view' ?  bibi something?

    ...O mio babbino caro from the comic opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    I was told today I blame everything on everyone else.   Huh?  I guess all the problems in my life is my fault.  Definitely not the one who thinks I blame everyone else.  I better shut up before I blame all the word’s problems on my existence and enter into political problems.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    I am not saying everything is 100% my fault but I am admiting to some part of everything that I influenced that went wrong.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,117
    kyoto kid said:
    Mystarra said:
    Mystarra said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint: It's still snowing and the accumulation on my porch is now about 10 inches. frown

    Non-complaint:  House is warm, food in cupboards and refrigerator, pipes not frozen, Internet still working so I have access to YouTube, Prime Video, and NetFlix via my TV, Not able to DAZ because I can't sit in this computer chair for very long because of my back but long enough to select some music with which to vegitate to.  Today I've picked Rachmaninoff again (yes, I like Rachmaninoff cheeky).  My Rachmaninoff playlist went through a few a few pieces then I happened to get captured by his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni".  All of it is beautiful but especially the famous "variation #18". heart

    What's a Rhapsody? 

    Definition:  Rhapsody  (basic)  "an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling."

    Definition: Rhapsody (music)  "A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations."

    Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinni" is a set of variations on a theme by early 1800s Italian composer Niccolo Paganinni.  Rachmaninoff tinkered with the short theme and expressed it in many different moods.  But variation #18 has become very recognizable because of its use in many films including recently "Somewhere in Time", "Groundhog Day", "Ronin" and "The Good Wife".  Here is the complete two and a half minute, variation #18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJVXI8DNJQ  So beautiful. cryingyes

    In case you liked the theme, see how many times you can recognize it in the complete Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4 Happy hunting! smiley (piece begins at 4:10) (variation #18 begins at 20:20).  And typical of Rachmaninoff it has a wonderfully grand finish beginning at 26:20.

     

    heart rhapsodies. and raptures. 

    Do you know the piece used beginning of 'a room with a view' ?  bibi something?

    ...O mio babbino caro from the comic opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini

    A friend & fellow employee at that think tank I worked for in Washington DC gave me two tickets for a production of "Gianni Schicchi" that he was producing at Georgetown University.  Meh, interesting but no cigar. indecision It was however one of the few operae (plural of opera) I've ever attended.  But to its credit, like many of the best operae, it had this one really great song. yes

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,117
    edited January 2019
    kyoto kid said:

    ...'plaint.  One of the apartments on the floor is being redone,  Getting a strong aroma of something that smells like nail polish remover or model aeroplane dope.  Fortunately warm today, 55°, and no rain so at least can have the windows open.

    The year I lived in Orlando I was working for a company that made Lasers.  Big ones, that when mounted on computer controlled robotic arms could carve ship propellers from solid blocks of metal.  My office and computer room was on the assembly floor on the other side of the wall of the painting room. Ugh!  Somedays I just had to avoid my office. sad

    I have another story surprise about those big Lasers, but that's for another time.  Remind me.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,342
    LeatherGryphon said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...'plaint.  One of the apartments on the floor is being redone,  Getting a strong aroma of something that smells like nail polish remover or model aeroplane dope.  Fortunately warm today, 55°, and no rain so at least can have the windows open.

    The year I lived in Orlando I was working for a company that made Lasers.  Big ones, that when mounted on computer controlled robotic arms could carve ship propellers from solid blocks of metal.  My office and computer room was on the assembly floor on the other side of the wall of the painting room. Ugh!  Somedays I just had to avoid my office. sad

    I have another story surprise about those big Lasers, but that's for another time.  Remind me.

    That other story...were they mounted on sharks?  laugh

    Dana

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    I take the blame and get accused of having a pity party.  I am utterly confused.

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