said in my best jamaican accent

when in fact music is a shitton of notes.

@RegDwigнt Mmmm turpentine with afternotes of napalm.

or is it moth balls?

pretty sure they're related.

It's a mothful of balls.

Like a bag o'dicks, except different.

where the hell are the Iranian chemists when they are sorely needed?

They are making nucular weppons.

ya gotta be smart to do that.

Those are more sorely needed. Even more than cowbell.

OK the tablature I'm sure is not particularly close to what is actually played.

Like the timing of each note is only suggested by the number of '-' that go with it.

Tablature is one step down from MuseScore, and MuseScore is hell already.

Also Bach was boring.

Do not descend below hell.

There's only turtles there.

All the way.

@Mitch he made quite a coin tho.

Hell is made up by mean old men and women who want to ruin everybody's fun.

Rich peeps are boring, whatamagonnadoo.

and by the people who had too much fun and want to keep people out.

and also reality.

I don't know about that. By the looks of it, women who want to ruin everybody's fun are not in hell but all in this world.

Maybe they're franchising.

@RegDwigнt Didja hear that that idiot guy who died without telling anyone his blockchain password?

Yeah.

I heard they checked his cold wallets and they were all empty.

Well, I'm gonna tell you about it anyway.

oh

So no point in getting the password. It protects nothing at all.

yeah, so now who's looking stupid

He took the password to the grave, but not before spending all the money.

Which I guess is the way to go out really. So kudos to him.

Or he was ripping off a lot of people and ran away from the bitcoin mafia (which is everybody on bitcoin

Cerberus isn't.

Cerberus is too stupid to be mafia.

Case in point: he has bitcoins.

I thought he said he sold it off a while ago. ell before last year's boom and bust

No respectable mafioso has bitcoins. They have spaghetti and guns.

spaghetti is not overrated

@Mitch of course. That's the thing you say when you didn't sell it before it went crushing down.

It's a common shorthand.

I've used it myself before.

@Færd Indeed. Why don't we rule the world?

@RegDwigнt Woof woof.

I had to sell my bitcoins ages ago.

@Cerberus Because your pseudo-money is worth nothing.

At around €250 or so.

It's "money makes the world go round", not "bitcoins".

Stupid people.

Bought them at €90.

Nice

And look at you now. Posting on ELU.

Congrats.

Party?

Maybe, if you put enough bitcoins on one location, the Earth will rotate.

Look at me now, indeed.

Maybe if you're Archimedes. In which case you're dead and nothing will rotate except yourself in your grave.

If I hadn't been so poor, I'd have kept my 'coins and be rich now.

You had to sell them? Bitcoin mafia at your door?

It was poverty knocking.

At least you have healthcare.

Yes.

I was taught a valuable life lesson by losing 20 grand within three minutes at the age of 17. And a better half of it wasn't even mine.

And education and everything.

That is when I decided that I was not into losing any money ever again.

Ouch! How did that happen?

and no need for a car

Indeed not.

@Cerberus Stock market.

I had invested €180 in my 'coins, so it wasn't a big deal anyway.

and reasonable housing

@RegDwigнt And where did you get that kind of money?

other than that, america is great.

@Mitch That's just because I'm lucky. An ordinary person moving to Amsterdam won't be able to afford anything.

I learned a lot at the age of 17. Like, to never get up early in the morning again.

@Cerberus well as I said half of it was not even mine. The other half was.

I learned that when I was around 5.

except for the great majority of people for whom america is great again.

@RegDwigнt I had like a few hundred euros at that age...

Well so did I, after said transaction.

@Cerberus Yeah, I keep seeing lists of 'most expensive cities of the world' and amsterdam is in the top ten.

@Mitch I think the great majority of people around the world don't view the country in that light...

I think there's some weird averaging going on.

@RegDwigнt But you got the initial investment from somewhere!

Well. It's called work.

I know you've not heard of it, my dear philosophist friend.

@Cerberus despite the news, people are still flocking here.

I had like three jobs at the time.

I was working like 18 hour days.

@RegDwigнt: What is this language.

The other six hours I spent biking and running.

@RegDwigнt slacker. what about the other 6.

oops. too late

@Robusto this language is participle-like.

How is "through the branches above" participle-like.

And how can "to through" become a verb.

It is not very participle-like, that's how participle-like it is.

@Robusto that guy.

Why are you asking such easy questions, gimme a challenge.

This guy, I hope he lives near you so you can slap some sense into him.

I am too busy slacking.

Call me in the next life.

Call up on me, even.

I flagged that as not an answer.

It's like he's thinking really fast, and so writing every third word.

@Mitch Rich is not the same as great...

and they were all wrong in the original

They would flock to Saudi Arabia too, if they could.

In fact, they do flock there.

Why is Rob working so much. On ELU of all places. What is this Sparta.

I dunno.

@RegDwigнt Fair enough, I was not working at that age. And certainly not enough to earn that much money!

My fingers are just running over the keyboard.

Don't you have your flute soundfont to program.

@Cerberus they see stupid TV shows and think that's what the US is like.

Mitch wants to write MIDIs now.

Help Mitch.

Not that guy who's all participle-like.

"If you could choose between eating tacos every day, or being skinny for the rest of your life, would you choose hard or soft tacos?" This is the question someone just asked on another venue.

@Cerberus So much so that few Saudis flock there

@Mitch No, the great majority of people around the world don't like the country, even in countries where people would migrate there if they could.

They're all in London

@Cerberus I had to work because I wanted to live. I had graduated from school so I had nothing. Had to pay for my first flat.

@RegDwigнt I no longer flute at all. I only piano. And now, with my gimp little finger, still poorly.

And the fucking Bianchi bikes, do you even know how much they cost.

@Cerberus Both SA and US

4000 bucks like, you know.

@Mitch Flock where?

I know how much bikes cost.

Too much.

I am talking at Cerberus.

He knows nothing.

@RegDwigнt At 17 already!

@Robusto Oh, dear, has it still not healed?

How come the taco question is getting zero traction?

@Cerberus well what do you suggest, that I stay in school for another five years?

@Cerberus I think I heard that there are fewer Saudis in Saudi Arabia than there are immigrants/ temp foreign workers

I kind of did. I went to university. Was a fun time.

@Robusto we should promote it.

maybe a bounty?

@Cerberus Somewhat. It just hurts now when I stretch it or use it to apply pressure on something, like a fff piano note. Well, also ff and f.

@RegDwigнt I don't know, you did go to university at some point?

@Robusto because it's not on the MC?

@Mitch Can I award a bounty in chat?

@Mitch That may very well be true. It's certainly true in the smaller Arabian states.

@RegDwigнt All good questions.

@Robusto That sucks!

@Robusto Technically, no. But we'll all know you tried.

Hmm.

@Cerberus maybe that's what I'm thinking. UAE, Dubai.

@Robusto don't sweat it. You know as good as I do that an fff piano note is basically just a p piano note but with everything else played ppp.

Who was it that was obsessed with pointing that out all the time? Rachmaninoff? Scriabin? Prokofieff? I'm getting those crazy russkies confused all the time.

Hmm, except sometimes it hurts at mf.

Hurts like a motherfucker.

@Mitch Yes.

@Robusto Have you talked to your doctor?

@RegDwigнt Understandable. I personally can't tell the difference between them.

Might there be exercises you could do to help it become a bit more flexible?

@Cerberus I did talk to an orthopedist, but they said give it more time. Basically, she thought it had decent range of motion and would eventually heal better than if I had surgery, which could make it unusable for months.

@Robusto Yeah, surgery sounds heavy. But exercises might help.

I've no idea.

JK Rowling is no Dan Brown

Playing piano is an exercise.

OK!

@Mitch No. Secretly she is Dan Brown. Now it can be told!

@Cerberus But it's an exercise that hurts.

@Robusto I can't make you feel less pain, all I can do is try and make you feel less miserable about it.

"Try to and make" what is this English.

The worst of both worlds.

@Robusto I trust your orthopedist!

For it is the Greek ped, not the Latin one.

Nobody in Europe wants to come to the US, because it doesn't have anything to offer them, except for maybe large house lots.

At least you have a digital instrument, so you can ramp up the volume by other means. It's a shitty workaround but an acoustic instrument wouldn't even give you that.

The rest of the world... foreigners are still enrolling in the universities here, ugrad and grad.

@Mitch Large house lots are large. /nod

Also it ain't as shitty as it sounds on paper. Like, even at Horowitz level you can only differentiate between ten to twelve dynamic levels for an individual note. And most of those lie in the piano range. So I'm guessing for you just the top four or so are cut off now.

@Mitch Quite a few people still do. But that doesn't mean they like the country as a whole.

@RegDwigнt I forget which pianist's argument against digital music reproduction was that "If digital has twenty-five dynamic levels, I have 26."

@Robusto probably the same pianist who likes to massage keys after having pressed them, thinking it somehow has an effect on anything.

If you let a total noob try to play a note at different volumes, they will manage 6 to 8 maybe. But even the most professional professional can only manage 10 to 12.

The rest is really down to what Prokofieff or Scriabin or whoever said.

Context.

What are these questions.

@Cerberus Also vacation days, parental leave much much less in the US

Fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes.

Let's all watch the birdy.

We both have ticks with lyme disease if you walk around in the woods.

There are worse things we could be watching.

@Mitch ... Republicans ...

@Robusto I watched the eagle. Then I thought it was string at me. Or maybe over my shoulder. Nothing was behind me so it must have been me.

Then it turned.

Stupid eagle.

So I watched '10 Funniest Commercials'.

That's all.

@Robusto why are there 3000 people watching this?

Some of them should go watch that instead.

@Mitch Right, you are your jobs.

Some people like that.