You know you're getting old when you have a talk archive... I have two, no, three. I'm virtually geriatric.
Queries, praise, criticism, requests, all welcomed. Rants tolerated. I might reply here, I might reply on your talk page - it depends on whether I think you'll be interested in the reply, on the direction of the wind, on how many cups of coffee I've had that day, on many other factors.
FYI: I left User:Vancouverguy and User:Dunshi notes asking them not to declare that people are banned who haven't been.Vicki Rosenzweig 02:59, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks very much - I should have done that myself really. --Camembert
I'm not the one who announced that. Vancouverguy 02:59, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Indeed. Anyway, it's wrong whoever said it. --Camembert
Oh, it added something, all right: a sense of disorientation and nausea as the blue links seemed to split into two and drift apart and the whole screen took on an otherworldly shimmer. ... Don't try this in a dark room, or sitting close. ;-) Koyaanis Qatsi 00:36, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Heh - I already tried switiching the light off with it. I am typing this from a horizontal position on the floor. I expect I'll recover shortly ;-) --Camembert
- I'll pray to Bob. Koyaanis Qatsi 01:00, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Your prayers are welcome at this testing time. --Camembert (who always quite fancied taking up pipe-smoking, but doesn't think he could pull it off)
You're right about just intonation limits, they are prime numbers. Hyacinth
Thanks!Hyacinth
I've just put more information about sopranistas in - see the talk page also. -- David Martland 21:55, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hey, in the course of doing an E. Power Biggs page, I just noticed we don't have anthing about tracker organs. Should I make that a separate page, or a section of the general organ page? Noel 01:26, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Jesus, who invented Patrol Chess? It looks tortuous.
re:anechoic chamber "song" is a funny word - replacing with "composition"
Good choice! I knew something was awkward when I wrote that, but had a bit of brain fog and couldn't quite figure out what it was. Thanks. -- Tlotoxl 00:38, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hi, given that you are a chess contributor, I would be glad if you would express your opinion about National chess champions, which is marked for deletion and nobody except me is saying anything about it. If you support the deletion I will agree with it. Thanks in advance. Jmartinezot 10:18, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I wouldn't support deletion, but possibly it should be moved to List of national chess championships. I'm a bit short of time at the moment, but I'll have a proper look at it later tonight. --Camembert
I think you are right and that List of national chess championships is a better title. Thanks. -- Jmartinezot
Fun with German
On Mozart, Austria, and Germany, see this report of an ambassadorial complaint. It's sort of a senseless issue, since some will conceptualize "German" as an ethnicity, others as a nationality, etc., and will argue for their choice from vast resources of amour-propre. Maybe we'll wind up having to call him a "European" composer <G>. -- Someone else 02:12, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- A noble and no doubt thankless task you have set for yourself. I myself have always preferred Shakespeare in the original German.... -- Someone else 02:32, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Hm, not sure I like the idea of being noble - Elgar was always being noble, and I never much liked Elgar. But, as the Bard of the Oder said: Ganze Welt ist eine, er, Bühne, und alle, erm, Menschen or something, und... ah well, you get the idea. --Camembert
Bon mot (possibly) of interest
There's a bon mot of sorts on William Shatner's version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, which I fear you'll miss unless specifically directed there (and to read to the end<G>!) -- Someone else 02:05, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Heh - thanks for pointing it out, I would indeed have missed it otherwise :) --Camembert
Hello Camembert
This is about the 'Safavid': Seeing everything back to what it was so quickly was much unexpected. As about 'Safavies' I made it from 'Safavi' according to English language. The count for 'Safavi' in Google is 8230 and for 'Safavid' is 10800. I appreciate what you are saying but you have to understand that there is no pronunciation of ’d’ in the word. I guess the mistake comes from the foreign writers which have not been familiar with Farsi. Anyway as we all trying to develop the encyclopedia it's better to teach people the proper spell and pronunciation of the word. As I said before there is no need to delete 'Safavid' we can have that in the 'safavi' page as an alternative spell so people can get to the page with both spells but they learn the right one.
If you want to discuss this matter please leave your note on Safavid or this page. Thank you
- Thanks for your note: I've repsonded at Talk:Safavid. --Camembert
Scribble away, by all means. If you could tie in Evolution Control Committee with The Bran Flakes and DJ Shadow that would be great; if not, that's the way of wikipedia. :-) Koyaanis Qatsi 01:26, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- That's a great start you made. I made a few minor expansions and corrected some typos (there was another which I didn't find again--I guess someone else will). :-) Anyway, the only change I thought you might not like was to remove "edited and/or" from "edited and/or altered": it seems to me that altering encompasses editing but editing doesn't include recontextualizing an entire work (a la the Whipped Cream Remixes and many DJ mixes). What do you think? Koyaanis Qatsi 13:25, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC) P.S. on reading the article, it seems that citing sources is a requirement to qualify as plunderphonics. Is that the case? If so, I've made a bad recommendation: DJ Shadow either cites some but not all of his sources or makes some of his own (at least on Private Press), and The Bran Flakes don't cite any (at least on Bounces!).
- Bounces! has enough energy in it to power a small town for a week. ... Dictionaraoke sounds intriguing; I'll have to look into that. Koyaanis Qatsi 12:10, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Given your conversation with User:JoeM, you may be interested in helping to improve common sense conservative.
- I think I'd better stay away from that one, thanks (by the way, I'm not sure I had a conversation with JoeM - I think I just had a conversation with an anon user on his talk page). --Camembert
Oh, wow, how did we both miss that? :-) Koyaanis Qatsi 00:08, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)