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BillWoodruff wrote: I owe you an apology for ragging on your song choices too much. So, there, I apologize
No need Bill, everyone is entitled to their opinion, although I much appreciate it 
BillWoodruff wrote: years of the 1960's in California,and to hear, in person, some of the greats
Some great ones indeed! I listen to some of them on regular basis! The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix...
BillWoodruff wrote: By the way, I love Barber's Adagio, and I've always felt it was "near in spirit" to Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor.
Didn't know that song. Looked it up and it sounded familiar. Apparently Sarah Brightman's Anytime, Anywhere[^] is based on it. It's been used quite a lot by other artists too. And according to Wikipedia and the song I found on YouTube it's wasn't actually composed by Albinoni, but by his biographer Remo Giazotti who found some scribbles from Albinoni and used them to compose this song.
Nevertheless I see the resemblance in spirit with Barber's Adagio.
And Albinoni/Giazotto's Adagio reminds of other great baroque pieces like Vivaldi's seasons, Bach's Air, and Pachelbel's Canon in D. For some reason it also reminded me of Holt's Planets suite, Venus in particular.
Good one 
BillWoodruff wrote: Cerik Erdogan playing a maqqam on fretless guitar: [^].
To me this sounds like random notes being randomly plucked on a guitar. They do this in rock too and I really can't hear anything in it except complete randomness... So this certainly won't be my song of the week.
BillWoodruff wrote: I really enjoy the music of the Norwegian composer Oystein Sevag, and his often frequent collaboration with guitarist Lakki Pattey, as on this track: [^].
Now this I like! It's very new age and soothing. And his solo work is also quite synth-y. I'm guessing this guy also really likes Enigma and Vangelis and, to a lesser extent, Enya, Yanni, Era... Which is a good thing 
BillWoodruff wrote: And, I like listening to "ecstatic music" from the "middle-east:" like this concert by Hossein Alizadeh & Hamavayan 92 [^].
This is well out of my comfort zone. The most Middle-Eastern music I've heard is from The Beatles and some psychedelic trance DJ's 
Instrumental I'm really liking it. I'm not always happy about the singing though. The part at around 50 minutes is really awesome even with the singing!
BillWoodruff wrote: My favorite music "to program to" is the album by American composer David Parsons, "Ngaio Gamelan," very influenced by his deep immersion in Balinese music [^].
Also pretty new age and soothing. I think I've heard of David Parsons before (and I'm not confusing him with Alan Parsons).
Did you pick up this taste in music in Thailand?
BillWoodruff wrote: So, you may see, now, why I don't post a "song of the week,"
No I don't, this stuff is at least as interesting as your literary ramblings! You should post about it more often 
BillWoodruff wrote: and I will shut-up about yours
If you don't have anything nice to say it's best to say nothing at all, otherwise I'm as much interested in your opinion as everyone else's
I'm going to leave you with some Norwegian sami by Mari Boine, something I picked up while I was on vacation there.
You might like it: Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Mu[^]
Thanks for sharing!
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BillWoodruff wrote: visual titillation
In view of the apparent absence of the requisite ... er ... accoutrements, I'm not sure that's really the word for it!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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OK, I guess a static monochrome picture of an old guy might be someone's idea of "visual titillation", but I don't hear any loops. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hi Richard, I wonder if we saw the same video. Sander's link took me to a YouTube video which attempted (but failed, imho) to be erotic complete with close-ups of certain nether "zones."
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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You missed the joke icon; I was referring to the Adagio video. Your message made it look like you were claiming that was the video which was "nothing but visual titillation and a bunch of loops". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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A VERY simple one for a Friday.
ḊṏḉṭṏṟJḉṔḝḝ (11)
Is it really that difficult or is nobody bothered enough to solve it, or does nobody want to set another one on Monday? 
modified 15-Jan-16 7:53am.
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But urologist only has 9 letters! 
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Answer please ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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pkfox wrote: Answer please ?
See the other thread started yesterday.
The answer is CodeProject see if you can work it out now you know the answer.
I thought it was an easy one. 
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Men are attracted to flawed women too of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. They just want to be entertained. The truth about women is that you can do anything to them except bore them.
Which movie?
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Rambo V : The bored AK47
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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This is my rifle, there are many like it, but this one is mine... 
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did you look it up?
You dó know the goal is not to guess correct, right?
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The idea isn't to give the right answer - anyone with access to Google can do that - but to give a wrong answer for entertaining reasons! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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V's Angels
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Come on group, everyone knows this
One Night in Paris
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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It essentially consists of a wizard with the following instructions
- Are you connected to the network through a modem?
yes - restart it and press continue
no - continue to next step - Are you connected through a router?
yes - restart it and press continue
no - continue to next step - Are you connected through a switch, hub or any other network device?
yes - restart it and press continue, returns to this step if still disconnected from internet
no - unable to fix the problem
At each step, you are asked to refer to the device's manual if you don't know how to restart or configure it. So basically the fault is always someone else's. Oh the arrogance! 
(BTW, deleting and reconnecting the Wi-Fi connection fixed the problem)
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Just burn it
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Indivara wrote: deleting and reconnecting the Wi-Fi connection fixed the problem
Isn't that some kind of restart?
So there should be a fourth option:
- Are you using a Mac?
yes - restart it
no - wrong wizard
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That's the point, it never asks you to do anything to the Mac. Which I did anyway (actually that's the first thing I did. Long time Windows user's automatic reflex), but it didn't help any.
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