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Also on the topic of music on trains...
I normally carry around a pair of over-priced Bose headphones but rarely put them on. But on the packed train this morning some Bohemian looking type started 'sodcasting' next to me, so I put them on and was escorted to Cannon Street to the sound of Music Box Opera by Delerium - a truly excellent album if you like it. I think I've been missing out.
Music used to be my life and now I hardly listen to it - the metamorphosis of age perhaps. But my conclusion is that we should all listen more. I demand it.
No boy bands however.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Hi Rob, I'm the same I've been playing guitar for forty years but hardly pick it up now, I've got approximately 2000 CD's which I've digitised to flac format so I can stream them through my hi-fi but I don't very often ( took me a couple of years spare time to rip them ) Ah well.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I envy some here, I have the musical talent of a door knob, I enjoy listening but creating/playing is not a talent I have.
I do the headphone thing at lunch, scoff my stinky cheese sandwiches to the sound of 80s rock music. Some of the children (under 30s) have trouble dealing with the old fart toe tapping away in the corner.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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So someone on your train had loud music blasting out of their headphones, and you countered by blasting yet more loud music out of your headphones?
I bet the other people on your carriage were happy!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Absolutely not! These headphones are noise cancelling and my music was inaudible outside the confines of my head.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: Music Box Opera by Delerium
A bit too cheesy for my taste.
You also might like "You once told me[^]" by Andain
I'd rather be phishing!
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Delerium in general or just that album?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I stopped listening to Delerium after their "Semantic Space" album; I drifter towards more experimental and ambient electronic music.
I got into them from "Front Line Assembly"; at that point Delerium was a lot more "dark" and "sombre" than the releases after Delerium (IMO).
I'd rather be phishing!
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Yes, they get criticised a lot for moving more 'mainstream', although most people seem to think they peaked at Karma. For me, I actually prefer their more recent efforts finding some of the early stuff a little inaccessible. Have you listened to any Balligomingo? Although that may be too much like modern Delerium.
I've heard a bit of Front Line Assembly - good but different. In fact it's hard to believe it's the same talent!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I have trained myself to enjoy various rhythms generated by making "Tsss, tsss, tsss" noises between my teeth. This way I can now travel on busses and trains in perfect contentment with the background "music".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So for the last year and a half I've finding myself with a ridiculously amount of traveling time upon my hands, at least an hour in each direction. I've tried listening to audio books, podcasts and "How to Learn Spanish" in order to atleast make the travel time worth while, the audio books, specifically the Brain Tracy stuff (my recent man crush), is actually quite good and motivating.
However I have found another free source of education, in which I can easily mix together in playlists to help learn and improve, my developer mixtapes are now on YouTube. I started them this week so they're slowly progressing but I'm very impressed with the amount of material on YouTube, some of it is absolutely crap however there are one or two gems out there.
My Developer Playlists[^]
Any YouTube recommendations for software development? (and not cats)
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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What was the time when you posted this?
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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it's 11:30 AM
Warm Regards
Be Creative
"..CODING IS A POETRY & DESIGNING IS WORDINGS.."
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And do we get to see the masterpiece that inspired this thread?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Actually i have been assigned the task to design a newsletter mail to send every relatives and known persons so i was working on that since about for 3 weeks specially for our Indian Occasion Navratri[^] so i had tried a lot for but could not get to exact result but suddently at night without a single thought in mind i had design this[^] and it was appreciated and also nice.
i had design the same this at every year for this but this was a nice of all of them.
Warm Regards
Be Creative
"..CODING IS A POETRY & DESIGNING IS WORDINGS.."
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I thought so.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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About 11.45 in the morning, if he's in India.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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A. Nobody disturbs you so you can concentrate on your job.
B. Your mind is tired and you are not tied to normal thinking methods... Here we call it "ask it to your pillow"...
C. 3 o'clock is the limit time when you should go to sleep... it is well known that at this time witches, monsters, demons and other nice creatures go out to punish who is awake. It is clear that your concentration loss is a safety guard self protection developed system that you have implemented in your DNA.
Oh, and at the end I have the best solution to your problem[^], your productivity will be the same at any time...
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Your mind doesn't stop working when you're tired; it just stops caring about little details (i.e. the trees that stop you seeing the wood).
So if you need a big idea, wait until you're falling asleep, and force yourself to stay awake and work on it.
Wait until you're wide awake to implement it, though, because that's when little details become little bugs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Rubbish, I'm either asleep or pissed at 1am, never thinking about "creating"
3 weeks to design a newsletter, now I know why I want NOTHING to do with designing (it is an art I have not)!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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