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From College Humour

Computer: Monitor, display this document, ok?

Monitor: No prob, boss.

Computer: OK, now it looks like Mouse is moving around so, Monitor, will you move the pointer icon accordingly?

Monitor: Anything you ask, boss.

Computer: Great, great. OK, Mouse, where are you going now?

Mouse: Over to the icon panel, sir.

Computer: Hmm, Let me know if he clicks anything, OK?

Mouse: Of course.

Keyboard: Sir, he’s pressed control and P simultaneously.

Monitor: Oh God, here we go.

Computer: *sighs* Printer, are you there?

Printer: No.

Computer: Please, Printer. I know you’re there.

Printer: NO! I’m not here! Leave me alone!

Computer: Jesus. OK look, you really ne…

Mouse: Sir, he’s clicked on the printer icon.

Computer: Printer, now you have to print it twice.

Printer: NO! NO! NO! I don’t want to! I hate you! I hate printing! I’m turning off!

Computer: Printer, you know you can’t turn yourself off. Just print the document twice and we’ll leave you alone.

Printer: NO! That’s what you always say! I hate you! I’m out of ink!

Computer: You’re not out of in…

Printer: I’M OUT OF INK!

Computer: *Sighs* Monitor, please show a low ink level alert.

Monitor: But sir, he has plen…

Computer: Just do it, damn it!

Monitor: Yes sir.

Keyboard: AHHH! He’s hitting me!

Computer: Stay calm, he’ll stop soon. Stay calm, old friend.

Keyboard: He’s pressing everything. Oh god, I don’t know, he’s just pressing everything!

Computer: PRINTER! Are you happy now?! Do you see what you’ve done?!

Printer: HA! that’s what you get for trying to get me to do work. Next time he…hey…HEY! He’s trying to open me! HELP! HELP! Oh my god! He’s torn out my cartridge! HELP! Please! ERROR!

Monitor: Sir, maybe we should help him?

Computer: No. He did this to himself.

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Paulo Coelho offers three books for free in pdf, SonyReader, Kindle, and iPhone formats. The download page will be on line until the first week of January, so hurry up.

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Non voglio sembrare inutilmente polemico, però un francollo dedicato a Mino Reitano nella Giornata della Musica 2009 mi sembra eccessivo.

E proprio nel 2009 ci sarà un bis per la musica leggera italiana con un francobollo che sarà dedicato a un altro brano di popolarità indiscussa: la canzone di Mina «Tintarella di luna». La Consulta ha dato l’ok a vari francobolli aggiuntivi tra i quali quelli destinati a celebrare il centenario del Corriere dei piccoli, la storica moto italiana «Ducati», il terremoto di Messina del 1908, il centenario della morte di Edmondo De Amicis. La Consulta ha pure integrato il Programma delle emissioni 2009 con francobolli dedicati a Indro Montanelli e Norberto Bobbio, nel centenario della nascita, e a padre Agostino Gemelli, nel cinquantenario della morte.

[Corriere della Sera, 3/1/2008]

Immagino che quello dedicato a Mike Bongiorno sia in preparazione…

Nello stesso giorno, ne hanno emessi atri due dedicati a Nino Rota e Pavarotti. In entrambi i casi anche la grafica fa un po’ pena.

Oltre a quello già citato, un altro francobollo legato alla musica leggera è quello che ricorda il 50mo anniversario di Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu).

La gerontocrazia commemora sé stessa. Come tale, non è in grado di celebrare non dico il futuro, ma nemmeno la contemporaneità.

Cfr. la serie delle poste inglesi Classic Album Covers - 7 January 2010.

Ecco i dati del francobollo:

Data di emissione: 24 ottobre 2009
Valore: € 1,00
Tiratura: tre milioni di esemplari
Vignetta: il valore di € 1,00 raffigura il cantante Mino Reitano durante un’esibizione;
Su ogni francobollo è riprodotto, in basso al centro, il logo della manifestazione “ITALIA 2009”.
Completano ciascun francobollo le leggende “GIORNATA DELLA MUSICA” e “FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DELLA FILATELIA”, la scritta “ITALIA”, il nome e la data “MINO REITANO 1944 - 2009”,e il valore “€ 1,00”
Bozzettista: Rita Fantini
Stampa: Officina Carte Valori dell’Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato S.p.A., in rotocalcografia
Colori: sei
Carta: fluorescente, non filigranata
Formato carta: mm 30 x 40
Formato stampa: mm 26 x 36
Dentellatura: 13¼ x 13
Foglio: cinquanta esemplari, valore “€ 50,00”

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The orchestral transcription of Modest Moussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is so well known that most people are surprised to find out that Moussorgsky originally wrote it for solo piano. Yet the orchestral arrangements are certainly better known to the general public. While the Ravel transcription is the most popular, this transcription by Leopold Stokowski is quite excellent and perhaps a bit more on the “rowdy” side..

Here is the original 78rpm recording of Stokowski’s version conducted by Stokowski and performed by The All-American Orchestra. Download from the Internet Archive or listen here:

From Free Albums Galore

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On November 19, 2009 the grave monument which Stockhausen had designed in 1997 was finally finished (click to enlarge).

Reported by Ermes

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I already post this song, but that file has disappeared from the internet and it was audio only. In addition the video is really funny. It’s also X-rated, so don’t let the children watch

I know the message is far from politically correct, but semel in anno licet insanire or, if you prefer, dulce est desipere in loco.

Anyway, anywhere, have a good xmas.

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Last week the Conservatorium (the public school of music here in Italy) where I work in Trento, bought a new mixer for the electronic music studio. It’s a Mackie 1640i with ADC/DAC included, so you can connect 16 in and 16 out to your computer through a single firewire cable (no more wires, wow!).

Looking at the box, I saw the usual set of icons (this side up, fragile, keep dry, etc), but there was one more. A single icon featuring the Jarod face and saying ALIEN SAFE.

ALIEN SAFE???

Here it is. Click the images to enlarge.

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What kind of feeling puts together the barren solitude of Sergio Leone’s western spaghetti and the ultra heavy suspense of David Lynch’s complex dramas? Living in Alentejo [a south-central region of Portugal] may have something to do with it, but Daniel Catarino’s (aka Long Desert Cowboy) own life experiences and close contact with a deserted inland are most likely the paint in the canvas, or the roll in the camera, if you wish.

Catarino’s sounds are miles away from the common western soundtracks, but his works create a mood that reminds me both the deserted plains of Ry Cooder and the suspense of Twin Peaks (are you old enough?).

Published by Test Tube netlabel. Free download here.

Excerpts:

• Echoes from Sunshine Valley
• Blues for the burning sun

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A melancholic EP inspired by this beautiful image, realized by the polish artist Slept.

‘Slept. EP’ was inspired by the cover photo - taken by a friend of the artist - and contains the first tracks made as Slept.. No samples were used. It’s all original sounds.

A little easy for me, but enjoyable.

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• P. II

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