[Munki Bhoy]

This is making me laugh today. It's an article from a bloke who does not like *any* type of music. And he explains why it's 'the biggest lie ever told'.
He must be fun at dinner parties.
http://shii.org/knows/Why_I_Am_Amusical

I like the bit about "proof of the delusion". There's no difference between a scale (do re mi) and monotone (do do do) according to science.

Wrong, science says that the noise is produced by vibration. The "note" produced depends on the frequency. You transmit more information with the scale due to the variance in frequency than you do with the monotone sounds.

As for visual information, I could go into a long spiel about Shannon Entropy and the fact that the 1s and 0s it takes to convey the two strings on his web page vary enough for there to be more information in the first string than the second. Indeed, the second is easier to compress than the first due to the repetition. But quite frankly I've bored myself already.

[DannyBoy]

Off to New York tomorrow morning - so no work for a week is the first of many good things that will make me smile!

Enjoy New York mate!

[Zoot]

This is making me laugh today. It's an article from a bloke who does not like *any* type of music. And he explains why it's 'the biggest lie ever told'.
He must be fun at dinner parties.
http://shii.org/knows/Why_I_Am_Amusical

I like the bit about "proof of the delusion". There's no difference between a scale (do re mi) and monotone (do do do) according to science.

Wrong, science says that the noise is produced by vibration. The "note" produced depends on the frequency. You transmit more information with the scale due to the variance in frequency than you do with the monotone sounds.

As for visual information, I could go into a long spiel about Shannon Entropy and the fact that the 1s and 0s it takes to convey the two strings on his web page vary enough for there to be more information in the first string than the second. Indeed, the second is easier to compress than the first due to the repetition. But quite frankly I've bored myself already.

The first string of letters requires that the frequency of the sound as well as the syllable is specified (it's not directly specified here but people know the musical scale and so infer the changing frequencies; to fully specify those sounds the frequencies must also be stated); the second string does not.

[rustybike]

Many things are making me happy today:

1) Did a spot of gardening; which is something I never thought I'd do; but if I do say so myself, I did a pretty good job! The garden looks fantastic.
2) I put some more memory in the computer which I thought would be a mission as I have vista. But funnily enough I don't even need to configure anything or tell the computer that it's there like I had to with XP. It just accepted it. Computer is working much better now.
3) England did a good job in the rugger. We actually won through skill rather than the other team giving us penalties.
4) The woman had just made me butterscotch angel delight! Yay!

[Blinko Glick]

De sun - it shines.

[MK Chris]

Two clips are making me laugh:

[Blinko Glick]

Ha ha ha!!! funny dog, funny forest gump thing.

[dbbelme]

8 more days holidays!

[foot-loose]

That dog is fantastic.

[Sunny So Cal]

The poor dog. How humiliating. And I thought mine looked foolish when she slept.

[Blinko Glick]

Ages ago one of my colleagues was surveying a house and a siamese cat was annoting the hell out of him. So he got his laser measurer and made the cat very dizzy.
Watch:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.Channel&ChannelID=80707179

[Andy B]

Re-discovering The Maxx on you tube....it was awesome back then and it still is now!

[DannyBoy]

Went on the The London eye today WOW

this is crazy also....

[Blinko Glick]

Proving that idiots can have brass balls too.
You wouldn't catch me doing that malarky, no siree.

[DannyBoy]

Just bought myself some U2 Tickets on pre-sale Ohhhhh yesss.

[Sunny So Cal]

NOTHING is making me smile today. Not one damn thing.

[Zoot]

NOTHING is making me smile today. Not one damn thing.

Would like like me to tell you the story of me burning my bum on the radiator again?

[Zoot]

Finally finishing the revision notes on evolutionary explanations of reproductive behaviours in human. My god it was boring.

Did you have to do any practical exercises?

[Zoot]

Sadly no. Then again that may not be a bad thing since the textbook goes on a lot about peacocks and sparrows, which is odd seeing it's supposed to be about humans.

The birds and the bees Lottie, the birds and the bees.

[Zoot]

There was no bees.

*there WERE no bees.
Tut tut young Lottie.

[Sunny So Cal]

NOTHING is making me smile today. Not one damn thing.

It's pissing "Groundhog Day".........

Would like like me to tell you the story of me burning my bum on the radiator again?

You're so cute. I would, yes, Zoot. I would dearly love it if I could hear more about your bum burn - oh, and those heated floors, too.

[TIAL]

Making me smile today - Dom presenting Dragon's Den.

[MK Chris]

Are you saying Dom is now taking Evan Davis' playce on Dragons' Den?! Or is that just a one-off Comic Relief thing?

[TIAL]

He's presenting the web-only version of Dragon's Den. I'm pretty sure Evan Davis will keep presenting the normal series.

[Boboff]

go dom !