Sometimes it makes me feel like this
I have a lot of things I need to do, and some of them I really want to do because they are either:
A Important (Postdoc Association website)
B Interesting (…actually drawing a blanck on this one…)
C Monotonous (convert 44 page list of URLs into expandable table in HTML)
I want C right now. My head is going to burst if I don’t get some down time/numb time. It would be great just to turn on the iPod and play with code for a couple of hours…
But I’m getting more and more chores dumped on me (which is OK… but….), And my office AC won’t cool the space. I have broken entropy apparently. the laws of thermodynamics don’t work in Room 411.
So, I’m getting hot and bothered and starting to get fretful, and need to cool off but have chores to do and maybe that last pot of coffee just a little bit too strong.
MT4
please
MT4
I think you need to move to Mallorca – apparently it;s the place to be.
You’re twisting my melon, man
I shall be working more on coloured noise (temporally correlated stochastic variation), metacommunities (spatially structured interspecific assemblages) and integrating theory with data collected from seabird populations.
I can’t even begin to understand, or even guess, what on earth he’s on about. I think I shall in Memphis, drink less coffee and try putting elastic bands round my head to reduce the swelling…
MORE COFFEE! MOOOOORE COOOOFFFEEEEEE!!!!!
I had 3.5 coffees today. COFFEE!
IATEABUNCHOFLEFTOVERHALLOWEENCANDYTOOANDTHENIHADMORECOFFEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
and now i have massive headache and still can’t concentrate on coding hahahaaa
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Does no-one remember Henry’s poem ?
I’m almost a bit jealous over the broken AC. I so wish they’d turn up the heat in our office…I might have another coffee, to get a bit warmer :)
Gosh. I wrote poetry once. Must have some coffee.
Less coffee. More sleep.
I remember the poem, must have had the ample amount of cAMP floating around up there to write to long-term hippocampal memory.
I can’t imagine being anywhere that needs A/C right now.
Coffee in Portugal is a great experience – a bica in Lisbon at a stand-up counter is something like 15-20 mL of molasses-like coffee essence. And apparently some folks ingest up to dozens of them during the day. So you have a lot to work up to. ;-)
Your AC isn’t working? I have a solution. Move here.
Coffee – yes please more please. Thankyou please.
In the winter the sun shines on the (ample) windows to my office. Because the building is
older then Henryreally oldknocking on a bit, it’s single glazed, so it acts like a bloody convection oven. The AC Is blasting, the ar coming out of the AC unit is cool (65F is as low as I can get it), but the room is not cooling.As for temp, well, Memphis is unpredicatble and fluctuates. So I’m not trying not to complain too much. 13C outside and 28C inside…, but it’ll be 23C by lunch and down to 5C by midnight…
Is that a Max Blanck? And is that where the Tefal man in the image at the top works?
Perhaps someday I’ll be able to explain environmental stochasticity and metacommunity dynamics to a lay audience. But this is almost certainly better done over a nutritious beer too many, rather than a manic coffee too far.
Deal! Next time I’m pootling round the Med you can by me a point we’ll chat! You practice environmental stochasticity and metacommunity dynamics, and I’ll counter with either the molecular dynamics of quantal synaptic events (past life) or models of clinical database management (current life).
It’s a fine balance, that beer thing. One minute, we’ll be discussing the costs and benefits of local stability analyses to structured dynamical systems, the next we’ll be asking why Lars Ulrich kept getting voted “Greatest Drummer of the year” in the 90’s, when Vinnie Colaiuta could fart better rhythms than the Danish sell-out. Ahhh, happy days!
Not only had I forgotten Henry’s poem about coffee, I forgot those entire weeks in which he only spoke in rhyme.
I met Vinnie Colaiuta when he was playing with Sting, back in the 90s. Once of my favourite drummers, and a real inspiration. but, IRL, a really weird guy. Really…odd.
I’d go for more coffee. Where I am at the moment there is none. I’m haveing withdrawl symptoms (head ache). I blame it on that since I stared at the photo and thought “don’t I recognize that face?!” and started thinking about Area 51 and aliens. Then it hit me, it’s because you are an alien*! :)
*don’t you just love the American word for immigrant ;)
I’m a legal alien, I’m an Englishman in… Memphis….
The cadence is all wrong :p
Dennis Chambers. No contest.
Excellent henry!.
Gentleben, I give you the Future
Wow. Victor Wootten, the bassist with the Flecktones, is just about the best bassist ever.
Lemmegesummorecoffeeandthenillcomeplayinthepostingmusicclipsthreadfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfuuuuuuuh*
Henry – here’s a vote for Jaco Pastorius.
It’s a fine balance, that beer thing. One minute, we’ll be discussing the costs and benefits of local stability analyses to structured dynamical systems, the next we’ll be asking why Lars Ulrich kept getting voted “Greatest Drummer of the year” in the 90’s, when Vinnie Colaiuta could fart better rhythms than the Danish sell-out. Ahhh, happy days!
Oo, is it time to talk about the infamous Jethro Tull grammy now?
Listen this best As I roved out
“I suppose we should be glad Steely Dan didn’t release an album this year”
mucho Lolz
@Alejandro: That’s pretty cool stuff. I always wondered what a hurdy gurdy was!
Ian – Is very well planxty. The champions of Irish folk.
A big personal fave of mine: Danny Carey of Tool. Technically brilliant, offbeat and weird, he is incredibly inventive with his beats and cross-rhythms. I love it. Makes my hair stand up on end listening to him…
I travelled down to see BF and the F-tones in London when I was a poor postgrad in Glasgow. Well worth the money and the mad 5am dash through the city the next morning after sleeping through the alarm to catch my flight north next morning. One of the funnest, most enthralling gigs I’ve ever seen.
We can avoid the unending debate of who would win in a slapping contest between Vic and Jaco by stating that Vic is probably one of the greatest living bassists.
But I have to say, on the record, that Steely Dan have some of the smoothest production on any records you might listen to. I’m rather partial to their creepy lyrics and tightly reined in licks.
Now I have to choose between watching youtoobs and Autumn Watch on the auntie beeb. Tough one. Youtoobs will wait though.
This very nice Rush
and Peart Drum
OMG, that first video/animation is amazing! That’s WHY computers were invented right there!
I remember hearing Rush for the first time in 1998, when I moved to the States. I’d heard of them when I lived in the UK, but hadn’t actually them, nor knew anyone who listed to “that” type of music. Of course, as soo nas I heard it, I realised what I’d been missing seeing I’m a massive (early) Marillion fan.
Hearing Neil Peart play I was struck dumb. I didn’t even know you could make a drum kit sound like that!
Rush I can take or leave, but I once played football in Edinburgh with Fish. The terrestrial based human, not the aquatic based tasty morsels. He’s a big lad, but lacks the finer touch. Not even very good in the air, as I remember. Probably should’ve stuck to the progrock.
But while we’re at it, I think Tim Herb Alexander deserves an honourable mention.
What happens with Marillion (is nice), I get the impression that imitate Genesis 70´. Very good Genesis with Peter Gabriel.
First I’ve heard Herb.
Marillion are very much like Gabriel’s Genesis. I’ve always thought so anyway.
Prog rock FTW.
On the other hand …
Conjunto = combining the most annoying elements of several extremely irritating music genres. Especially at 7:00 AM on a Saturday. >:-(
I saw Rush on the
Three Red DotsHold Your Fire tour – Peart was very impressive I must say.One vote for Bill Bruford, if we’re talking about drummers. :)
Do you know Dream Theater? That is some technical prog right there. And the drummer…oooh… speehcless!
Checked out DT on the YT. I often like a bit of technical w@nkery, and DT fulfills both categories, but something there just doesn’t do it for me. It’s right good stuff, but somehow lacks a bit of soul. Mibbe I need a beer of few inside me to get excited about it.
A beer of few can work. But TBH I don’t own any of their stuff. I borrow and burn from time to time, but it’s too twiddly for me…
Dream Theater I just know of because Keyboard magazine keeps yammering on about them (Jordan Rudess, et al.). Never heard ’em though.
For technical w@nkery, I can also
recommendsuggest Praxis. Loud and insane.