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Scarlet Stories - Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers[^]
A Dutch band this week.
I don't know much about them, except that I could've seen them live at a number of occasions and I didn't (because I didn't know (them) at the time) 
They're from Utrecht and just released their debut album.
It's this first single that got me into them.
The song is rather long (11 minutes), but because of the progressive character of the music it never gets boring.
So enjoy 
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 Nice one! It's the first time I've seen a female vocalist do progressive metal. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Just saw the new OneDrive icon appear in my start menu. Who the frick is designing (and approving) such dumb and ugly crapola? Back in Win3.1 days designers took GREAT PAINS to make the smallest possible block of pixels represent some physical abstraction that linked itself to the idea of what the program did. Even full-size, this doesn't look like 'storage' in any way, and I had to look at the full-sized version to recognize it was supposed to represent a 'cloud' (which it really doesn't).
I don't want my desktop to be rained on!!!
(Don't know why it took 5 months to reach my start menu, if it was really released April 26.)
Again,
< /rant>
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I see a dark desert highway. Sort of. Or maybe a turban. Or a scaled down version of the NBC peacock.
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After racking my brain, the only thing I can come up with is Mr. Creosote as a baby, in the only steel baby buggy design capable of supporting him, after being pushed under painters who dropped their blue cans after stating, "That's an ugly baby!"
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Tim Deveaux wrote: a dark desert highway
Cool wind in your hair?
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It's a cloud.
And it's blue because you don't like it. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's clearly an abstract cloud, because modern computing is all about abstract icons.
Anyway, it's rants like this that make Microsoft prioritize all these icon redesigns 
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Sander Rossel wrote: ...modern computing is all about abstract[ion]
So I can work for MS and get paid for whatever I want, because I've kinda abstractly performed the duties specified, no matter how little the end result represents the contract! Yoohoo!!! Didn't think of that before! Bring it on!
But no abstract payments accepted...
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That's not at all what I said... I said abstract icons!
So yeah, you can design abstract icons and get paid a decent wage (not whatever you want, no one said that), which is probably still lower than that of a developer 
And maybe, just maybe, they have enough designers as it is
They're replaced pretty much every icon they ever had in the past few years.
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Count your blessings it at least has some color to it. Clearly you've missed Windows 10's Settings screens. Now there's a bland, boring world...
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Seems like it all started with iOS7. Boo to John Ive. I, for one, liked the skeumorphic icons.
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HIDE?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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'HIDE' was my first thought as well. All I can come up with as an alternative is 'SHED' (as in snake skin)
Edit: pkfox's answer was not there when I started typing
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looks like a tie - they do happen 
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Shed ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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ya
modified 27-Sep-19 5:24am.
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So I was looking for some piano sheet music to play when I found a song from Laputa: Castle in the Sky[^], a classic anime movie from the great Miyazaki and Ghibli Studios.
Found the following discussion in the comments 
Some user in 2017:
"In your Laputa title, you should combine it to be Laputa without a space... because that means something completely different in Spanish..."
Author in 2017:
"Hahahaha gotcha will fix it thanks for the heads up"
[long silence]
Author in 2019:
"finally got around to fix it 2 years later lol"
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It shows that the Japanese are serious people that keep their promises 
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... signed in triplicate... lost... found... buried in soft peat...
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"Pajero" means something in Spanish as well, But Mitsubishi still call the "Shogun" that outside Europe ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And the name of this[^] gym in London has a fairly different meaning in Swedish.
Honda almost fell into the same trap.
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There are thousands of such cases.
You know the meaning of "Kodak"? Probably not, because when Eastman Co. were searching for a product name, they checked all the officially recognized languages of the world to make sure that this completely made up word would not have any offensive or negative meaning in any of the languages.
In the 100+ years since, many other companies have followed in Kodak's footsteps. Some have not. I have been told that when CCC entered the Chinese market, they wanted a name for the drink that would be pronounced as close to "Coca Cola" as possible, no matter its meaning. So when you ask for a coke in China, you ask for a four-eyed toad ...
I don't know a single word of Chinese, so I am not able to confirm the truth of this story. If any Chinese speaking person in this forum would care to either confirm or refute it, I'd be happy.
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