The last week I have been busy with music projects and computer projects and at least one project that combines the two. Some time ago I made a historical synopsis for my current music collection and its predecessors. First I collected vinyl, then cassettes with random music which I didn't have in my LP collection (and along the way I transferred all my LP items to cassettes), and in 91-92 I made a second cassette collection using all the sources I could access at the time, this time with cassettes named after major composers, but because of the fixed tape lengths I had to accept some compromises. About five years ago when I retired from my job I decided to transfer the lot to WAW and MP3 files with Audacity, and since then I have spent literally
thousands of hours moving the items around and replacing the worst ones with better material - and everything has been meticulously documented. I now basically have the collection I always have wanted. I should be content but ...
Some months ago I decided that it would be nice to have a simple historical overview that showed
when each item appeared in my collection, and whether the musicians had been replaced during the process. Unfortunately I hadn't planned this properly: I first combined the first stages using a principle where an item got a mark if it was replaced later. OK, I reached the end, but the result was full of errors and hard to interpret. Buggers! So now I'm midway through a remake where items are marked if they
themselves are replacements of something different. So here "ny" (=new) means that an item has appeared for the first time, "x" means that it is played by other musicians than in the precedent generation, and "o" means that it has been extended - for instance by acquiring a suite where I beforejust had one movement.
I have also tried to become familiar with the first smartphone in my life - partly because I need it to show covid passes, partly because some homepages refuse to work on my old PC which still runs Win 7, and I expect that tendency to become more and more prevalent (my trusted old world is falling apart!). And on top of that I have been working on a project for my old workplace.
Luckily I can listen to both music and speech while working on my computer, so while my intensive studies have been at a historical low I have listened to TV programs and Youtube lectures and documentaries in a number of languages - although for obvious reasons only those I understand fluently since I have to work with my projects at the same time.
FR: J'ai déjà mentionné les videos sur la paléontologie de monsieur Simplex Paléo, mais de là j'ai passé à autres videos, tels ceux sur l'astronomie de monsieur Astronogeek - comme par example un vidéo où il a fait remarqué que le feu proprement dit n'est pas tellement commun dans l'univers. Certes, il y beaucoup de matières extrement chaudes ici et ailleurs, mais si on regarde le problème de plus près, presque tout qui
brûle sur notre planète a été produit par des organismes vivants. Et l'oxygène de l'atmosphère de Terra a été produit par des plantes. Boff- c'est vrai, mais l'idée m'avait échappé jusqu'à ce que ce bonhomme me l'a expliqué. Après ça il m'a aussi convaincu que la lune Phobos de Mars n'est pas une sphère artificielle creuse produite par des aliens (comme l'aurait proposé certains 'théoriciens' sur certains chaines inférieurs de television).
IT: Ma questa sera ho ascoltato soltanto dei video italiani. Perché il motore di richerche di Youtube (al contrario di quello di Google Search) non ha un modo semplice per limitarsi ad una sola lingua, bisogna prima trovare un video in una lingua desiderata, e poi forse si può trovare riferimenti ad altri video rilevanti nella lingua.
Io cercai all'inizio video di "Paleontologia" e trovai prevalentemente video inglesi, dunque ho aggiunto la parola "feroce" e ricevetti molti suggestioni in francese, ma anche alcuni in italiano. Ho ascoltato inizialmente un documentario lungo lungo sui dinosauri, ma sotto il doppiaggio in italiano si sentiva parlare in inglese. Non ho potuto sopportarlo e il borbottare ha seriamente disturbato il mio lavoro - quindì dovetti trovare altra cosa, e nell'elenco a destra ho trovato un video di signor ZooSparkle, che si può dire essere la controparte italiana di Simplex P - parla almeno altrettanto velocemente, e preferibilmente sugli animali antichi, ma anche su alcuni animal viventi o recentemente estinti - come per esempio l'imposante
Elasmotherium, il quale ho menzionato in gennaio quest'anno qui.
Nel suo video sulla fauna
Harrypotterianesca comenta sulla ragionevolezza e probabilità di sopravvivenza di per ragni enormi come Aragog, e poiché questi ottengono la loro aria a traverrso minuscoli pori nella pelle, i conti non stanno buoni per il povero Aragog - va morir! Discute anche di che tipo di ragno sia, ma potrebbe importa meno quando sia morte (come anche Shelob nel Signore degli Anelli e la cupa Ungoliant del Silmarillon). D'altra parte, discute in dettagli tecnici approfonditi come gli
uccelli si adattano al gruppo di dinosauri predatori, e quindi ci sono anche video piuttosto seri nel suo programma.
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