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Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1[^]
This week I was just listening to some Satie and his gymnopédies and gnossienes are just really nice.
Very relaxed and perhaps a bit nostalgic as my dad used to play them on the piano (over and over and over for about 30 years until he retired and took up piano lessons again).
So I just wondered what the words gymnopedie and gnossiene meant...
Gymnopedie, apparently, comes from the Greek words for "naked" and "youth" and in ancient Sparta there was The Gymnopaedia which was a celebration where youths would dance naked war dances.
If Satie wrote this piece naked when he was young I don't know, and I really don't want to know either.
Gnossiene is just a made up word used by Satie to indicatie a new type of composition.
My choice this week could've been Satie's first, third or fourth gnossiene as well, but I went with his first gymnopédie as it's just slightly more relaxed.
It's also probably his most popular work, with Wikipedia stating that "Gymnopédies have been heard in numerous movies and television shows" and then gives some examples of the first.
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Love Gymnopedie. Simple and beautiful. And as you say, very relaxed.
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Never heard of them, but they sound nice!
Too bad they're not on Spotify (well, only three short songs) 
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I never trust any streaming service claiming that a video or sound clip will be available "permanently" or "always". I have got a disk full of video and music that I have permanently available - not because the website claimed that they would be, but because I ripped the contents and saved it on my local disc.
Disc storage is cheap nowadays. If you think a piece of music is good enough to hear again, or a movie is good enough to watch again - possibly because you want to show it to your friends - then you preserve it, so that the day it disappear from you streaming service provider, you still have access to it from your local hard disc.
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You're preaching to the choir.
I still buy CDs, to people's surprise, and I'm currently in the process of (re-)digitalizing them all to high quality.
Unfortunately, I found some CDs that didn't work anymore, either because of some weird fungus or scratches (and I'm very careful with my CDs)
That said, there's no way I'm going to get any physical Sadistik Mika Band album anytime soon and Spotify is the first place I look.
Also, I can't buy everything I listen to as I'd be out of money (and space) very soon, so Spotify is a very welcome addition, and I admit, mostly replacement, of my physical collection.
Don't get me started on movies though.
At least Spotify has all the music (well, almost).
For Disney or Marvel I'll need Disney+, for GoT or the upcoming LOTR series I need Amazon Prime, for other stuff I need Netflix, older movies often aren't on any streaming services...
And just when you want to watch part two of whatever they pulled it from their service.
It's absolutely horrible
Needless to say, my movie physical movie collection is pretty big as well.
My latest additions (got them in the mail today) are Contact, Gattaca and The Moonrise Kingdom 
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Nostalgic rank or teir directed backwards (10)
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Time is flowing backwards ... lets catch up 
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pu hctac stel ... sdrawkcab gniwolf si emiT
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Nostalgic RETRO
rank or teir GRADE
directed backwards
RETROGRADE
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I though for a second you might have been beaten by Sandeep, but it wasn't to be.
You win! 
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I am pretty sure OG would have figured this in minutes. It was just that when did he saw this.
I will be away from internet on Monday probably - will be getting a new connection that day, hence refrained from answering. My next comment though would had about the retro/grade game 
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I looked for an anagram, couldn't see one and then it was obvious!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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For me @Randor 's approach gave me what it could be.
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: I will be away from internet on Monday probably
They say: you are never more than 3 feet away from an internet.
Or is that spiders... yeah that's it... spiders are never more than 3 feet away from an internet.
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The world witnessed the Challenger Disaster (28 Jan 1986)[^]. I got to know about it on the next day, from my newspaper in India. Sad day indeed.
This was the first space disaster which I got to know after I became mature enough to understand the world outside, and it revealed the perils of space flight.
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I watched it on TV and the disaster was certainly not expected. That was a very sad day.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I remember seeing it on the evening news in Israel.
It was the first item - ahead of the theme that usually started the program - and they showed the last few seconds of the launch. The picture of the explosion was left on the screen for just long enough for it to sink in, and then they segued to the program theme.
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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A huge tragedy caused by management objectives overriding engineering wisdom.
'Twas ever thus. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Nelek wrote: And the problem is... that management didn't learn the lesson ride the rocket
FIFY
If you consider that figuratively, much of what's wrong with the world becomes clear
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Fair enough...
And that could be a nice incentive for them too: Congratulations, You are going to test the products You are managing
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In a whole other lifetime, I was an engineering student and one of my instructors had previously worked for an airplane manufacturer. He was one of the engineers and they had a policy that the engineer had to go on the first test flight with the crew.
Makes you double triple quadruple check the math.
I was in an engineering lab alone when it happened. I turned on the TV in the room and watched it for hours it seems. They just kept replaying the same footage. One of the 'Where were you' questions, I'll always recall.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I have programmed machines for aerospace, automotive, pharma and other branches...
In almost every project I worked, there was a "downgrade" request at some point in the project, when they realize that the required specifications are not realistic and an obstacle for the serie production. Many of them I had no seconds thoughts about it and did the changes, but I had to face some situations where I denied / rejected to do some modifications. One thing is "quality" of the product, another is security.
I even had a customer low-manager that wanted some changes without a written change request. When I blocked and told "no way" he started threatening me to include me in a black list. I told him to go and ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) himself, closed my laptop, put everything back in my bag and left the factory.
I was called before reaching the car to please come back and finish the project.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It turned out to be Richard_Feynmans last job investigating it
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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