The Chat Thread

[DavidW]

I feel like they're a weight around my neck, stopping me from being able to move somewhere more exciting at a moment's notice. 

Is there some place you'd rather be?

[Benji]

Is there some place you'd rather be?

Edinburgh is an amazing, beautiful place to live and my home in this country as long as i'm here.... but yeah, I want to live somewhere else for a time. I've visited Hong Kong for 10 days in 2008 and New York for a week last year. Those are just two places i'd love to spend a whole year at least. I want to experience a place, not just visit, and that takes time.

I'm looking at teaching English as a foreign language abroad. That might allow me to live somewhere interesting for an extended period, maybe even HK!

[DavidW]

That would be neat!

[Benji]

That would be neat!

First step: learn English

[DavidW]

First step: learn English

Nah not needed, just make it up as you go along!  That's what I do when I teach:

"alright students, today we will learn Newton's 4th law: how to time travel..."

[karlhenning]

First step: learn English

That explains the current absorption with Copland songs, je-je-je! ; )

[greg]

You know what's cool? Depressing the sustain pedal of a piano forcefully (without hitting a note), which lets out a very quiet, distant-sounding gigantic tone cluster while at the same time playing an innocent-sounding, one-voice melodic line in C Lydian in a high register. Very ethereal.

[Benji]

That explains the current absorption with Copland songs, je-je-je! ; )

[Benji]

You know what's cool? Depressing the sustain pedal of a piano forcefully (without hitting a note), which lets out a very quiet, distant-sounding gigantic tone cluster while at the same time playing an innocent-sounding, one-voice melodic line in C Lydian in a high register. Very ethereal.

Record it? 

[greg]

Record it? 

I don't exactly have anything to record with.

[Benji]

I don't exactly have anything to record with.

In this day and age?! My smartphone (cell phone!) has a record function, as did every phone i've had for the last ten years come to think of it.

I'm sure you can find something 

[DavidW]

Well my cheap as dirt prepaid phone can't record so there!

[Benji]

Well my cheap as dirt prepaid phone can't record so there!

But I imagined you to have some ultra-modded smartphone running some obscure custom build of symbian or android

[DavidW]

But I imagined you to have some ultra-modded smartphone running some obscure custom build of symbian or android

I'm always the last person to jump on new tech!   I didn't even start using cell phones until 2007.

[greg]

I'm always the last person to jump on new tech!   I didn't even start using cell phones until 2007.

Me, too.
My mp3 players might work (can't figure out how to do it on my phone)... of course, I'd be surprised if it even picks up such a subtle sound...

[Scarpia]

Me, too.
My mp3 players might work (can't figure out how to do it on my phone)... of course, I'd be surprised if it even picks up such a subtle sound...

What's the purpose of recording it, anyone who has had contact with a piano has heard it already.

[Benji]

What's the purpose of recording it, anyone who has had contact with a piano has heard it already.

*Raises hand meekly* 

...well, not in a long time anyway.

[PaulR]

I can't wait until applications are done.....then I can start worrying about things that are out of my control.

[greg]

I just contacted a friend who I haven't seen in over 6 years on facebook and he just replied. 
Really, really strange... and I'm thinking about contacting someone I haven't spoken to in 10 years! 

For some reason, I feel nervous thinking about it. Probably looking at my old friends' profiles without talking to them doesn't help. I feel like a stalker. 

[greg]

Today, I had a little girl who appeared to be only about 9 years old tell me I was cute. That was embarrassing...