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OriginalGriff wrote: or preferably, a less "muddy" version, where you can hear the singers properly
There are no singers in that song 
And I'm pretty sure Grieg has been SOTW at some point (although I can't find it).
My favorite Grieg piece is a little less well known though... Grieg Lyric Pieces Book VIII, Op.65 - 6. Wedding-day - YouTube[^]
I find it quite calming, like a flower field on a nice spring day 
OriginalGriff wrote: Trans Siberian Orchestra Carmina Burana - YouTube[^]
I prefer the original[^] or the techno version[^]
Fun fact, that piece is O Fortuna, which is the opening of Carmina Burana, a cantata written around 23 medieval poems that aren't all as majestic (they also deal with booze, gluttony and lust).
O Fortuna is so well known and popular, and the rest isn't, that Carmina Burana is now mostly used interchangeably with O Fortuna.
OriginalGriff wrote: why isn't that SOTW?
There's classical music in the SOTW from time to time 
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I visited Grieg's house in Norway, does that count too ?
Strange thing was that I was immediately unmasked as being Dutch, the guy that did the tour turned out to be a Dutchman too 
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RickZeeland wrote: I visited Grieg's house in Norway, does that count too ?
Cool, must've been nice!
We Dutch are usually unmasked pretty quickly... "Kijkeh kijkeh nie kopeh" is a phrase mockingly said throughout the world
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free bird (that was captured in the cage on your way to the Hall of the Mountain King)
The bird drives the snake away.
You are in the Hall of the Mountain King.
I still remember N-N-N-U-D to escape one of the mazes.
(Search for Colossal Cave Adventure on your phone's app store)
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To date both it and me, I used to have the FORTRAN source code for the game on microfiche. 
I used far, far too much processing time on a Prime 400 playing that, to the point I got complaints from the operators.
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the export * import settings doesn't do that for you?
I've imported my exported settings into a few VM's (including from 2013 to 2017) and the panes came out the same after that.
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No, like a fool I used "Window ... Save Window Layout" and gave it a name.
Then I looked for a file with that name, or that name in the settings file, or ... As I said, I hate the VS Settings dialog. 
Thank you for that, it worked.
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Quote: Why do fools fall in love?
Why do birds sing so gay
And lovers await the break of the day
Why do they fall in love?
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I was in my double digits, yet not quite a teen, and 8000 miles away from Bethel, NY. Saw glimpses of Woodstock in Life magazine (my lifeline to a world half a planet away), and felt a magical connection that I couldn't express to most people at the time. About a year later, watching the film by the same name on the silver screen, I knew some day, one day, somehow, I would find myself in the land of CSNY and Apollo 11. That didn't happen until I turned 20. Making music (and writing code) have brought me so much joy, I sometimes have to pinch myself.
Assuming you existed at the time, where were you, pray tell?
/ravi
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I was about 4, in the Boston, MA area.
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I was a thought in my parents' mind.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I was a thought in my parents' mind.
I was a thought in my parents' mind, too, but I was also in a canoe on an unnamed lake near Dryden, Ontario. We were on an island in the middle of a forest fire.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I was in NZ, nothing much happened there then happens there ever.
although [perhaps in response to Woodstock???] they did lower the voting age from 21 to 20 !!!
I'm sure, allowing such young children to vote would have upset more than a few decent peoples' sensibilities.
Me though, too young to remember, only 2 years ahead of PIEBALD.
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Is it time to wish you Happy Birthday ?
On that date, I was almost 26 years old, working for the Recreation Center for the Handicapped in San Francisco, organizing community services for groups including those returned from the closing of the large rural mental hospitals to the "community," for isolated senior citizens, for disabled young adults.
I enjoyed long runs on Ocean Beach, and swam, alone at night, without wet-suit (a crazy thing to do given the rip-tides) in the icy water after warming up with pranayama. Long walks in Golden Gate Park. Trips to China town to study Tai Chi Quan with Master Choy, followed by cheap Chinese at the restaurant with the famously insulting waiter Edsel Fong Ford [^].
Music at the Fillmore, Winterland, poetry readings at 'Minnie's Can-Do' bar [^].
those were the daze, my friend ...
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: those were the daze, my friend ...
Indeed, sir. I'm convinced I was born 10 years too late, Bill-ji. If the stars were otherwise aligned, I'd have jammed at the Troubadour and likely been an early employee at Apple. But don't get me wrong, I'm (immensely) grateful for what I have, an in particular, my (reasonably) good health.
/ravi
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After single-handedly holding off the massed Russian hordes on the East/West German border for several years, I had just handed back to the quartermaster my sword, spurs, sidearm and several small nuclear devices, and was on terminal leave from Her Majesty's employ.
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I was almost a decade away from being born
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I was only 10 years old and didn't have a clue about computers, my interests were kiting and photography. Even won a prize at a kiting contest in Belgium with a Scott sled[^] type kite !
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My ingredients hadn't hadn't been put in a bowl yet, not for another couple of years.
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I was ten, and lived on the moon.
In my imagination, at least. In practice, I lived in the local library, nose buried in science fiction books ...
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Wales does have a few industries other than sheep farming...
Economy of Wales
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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