Ani

Dacă tot încep acum a vedea valoarea şi frumuseţea unui musical pe ici-colo, o să împărtăşesc ce mă gîdilă foarte plăcut azi. Tomorrow, din Annie. O să ignor faptul că l-am găsit descris şi ca "gayest song ever".

The sun'll come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There'll be sun
Just thinking about tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow
Till there's none


When I'm stuck with a day
That's gray and lonely
I just stick out my chin
And grin and say, ohh


The sun'll come out tomorrow
So you gotta hang on till tomorrow
Come what may...!


 Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya, tomorrow!
You're always a day away!
 Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya, tomorrow!
You're always a day away!

O privire pierdută pe Youtube mi-a dat două videoclipuri. Primul e melodia din film, fresupun, iar al doilea e dintr-un spectacol pe Broadway. Adorabilă fetiţa.

Mai departe... De unde am aflat eu de melodie. Am ascultat-o de multe ori fără să fiu mişcat deloc, iar astăzi dintr-o dată... am luat o decizie. Mă gîndeam ca unul dintre obiectivele personale pe 2014 să fie a-mi comanda un vinil cu Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, o trupă de cover-uri. Aveam de ales între un album al lor live -preferatul meu-, unul cu melodii din anii '60 şi unul cu melodii din musical-uri. Înclinam spre ultimul, dar acum sunt sigur că acesta e cel pe care-l doresc.

Come taste the wine

Uneori parcă ne comportăm asemenea lui Dumezeu cu cei dragi.

"Ştii... o să-ţi îngreunez viaţa. Voi crea momente în care te vei simţi neiubit şi nefericit de-ţi va veni să-ţi iei cîmpii. Dar nu uita că te iubesc!"

Start by admitting from cradle to tomb
It's such a long, long stay
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret!

Heart of Glass

So, you know, if you play the wrong chord at some point...
That just means more notes.

Which is kind of... a better value?

--Spike Slawson

(Simon Singh) Speaking of Simpsons and their mathematics...

“Homer^3 ”  was  written  by  David  S.  Cohen,  who  has  an  undergraduate  degree  in  physics  and  a master’s  degree  in  computer  science.  These  are  very  impressive qualifications,  particularly  for someone working in the television industry, but many of Cohen’s colleagues on the writing team of The  Simpsons  have  equally  remarkable  backgrounds  in mathematical  subjects.  In  fact,  some  have PhDs and have even held senior research positions in academia and industry. We will meet Cohen and his colleagues during the course of the book. In the meantime, here is a list of degrees for five of the nerdiest writers:
 

J. STEWART BURNS  
  BS Mathematics, Harvard University
  MS Mathematics, UC Berkeley
 

DAVID S. COHEN
  BS Physics, Harvard University
  MS Computer Science, UC Berkeley
 

AL JEAN
  BS Mathematics, Harvard University
 

KEN KEELER
  BS Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
  PhD Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
 

JEFF WESTBROOK
  BS Physics, Harvard University
  PhD Computer Science, Princeton University
 

In  1999,  some  of  these  writers  helped  create  a  sister  series  titled Futurama,  which  is  set  one thousand years in the future. Not surprisingly, this science fiction scenario allowed them to explore mathematical themes in even greater depth.

... Let us get into further discussions.

The Hobbit is quite different, as you all will have noticed, from The Silmarillion. There are very few more jarring transitions available to you in the body of Tolkien's fiction than moving from one to the other.

The tone could hardly be more different between the two, as well as the register and the vocabulary. Notice what he does with names? We've been talking about names, and of course many of you have been very understandably labouring with the number and complexity of the names in The Silmarillion. It's one of the things that makes that text so challenging. How do the names work in The Hobbit? 

Other than the personal names of the major characters almost every name in The Hobbit is a simple description of the thing. The Hill, The Water... what's the town called? by Water, 'cause it's by the water. Hobbiton, the town of the hobbits. Eventually they're going to go to The Lonely Mountain, which is by The Long Lake and they're connected by the River Running, cause it runs down from the mountain to the lake. On the lake you'll be able to find a city called?... 

- Dale.

- No, Laketown. Dale is the city that's under the mountain, cause it's in a little valley, the dale that's in front of The Lonely Mountain... Even Beorn has a name like this. Beorn means "bear" in anglo-saxon. Who's the king of the goblins? The Great Goblin, of course.

In this way it couldn't even be more different than The Silmarillion although... in some ways there are still similarities. He's still being very careful with names.  One of the primary differences is that these names are English names instead of Elvish names. In fact he sometimes still gives us the Elvish names. Laketown, we're told, used to be called Esgaroth too. But he doesn't lean on that.

...

--Corey Olsen

Greu, bă, greu

Printre lucrurile pe care le afli căutînd o poză decentă cu tine care să devină de "profil" pe un site serios sau pe unul neserios.

1. Nu ai sau ai una de acum 5 ani în care pari de 14 ani.

2. Ar trebui să te bărbiereşti ceva mai des. Măcar cu maşina. Nu ai nici barbă, nu eşti nici spîn. Ce ai pe faţă e descris cel mai bine de cuvîntul "chestie".

3. Nu prea ai poze... În general! Dat fiind deceniul - eşti sigur că exişti?

3. Nu ai nicio ppză decentă, normală cu tine, dar deja intrăm pe un fir circular.

(scris acum 2 zile)

Depunere în bancă

Hmmm... conţinut stomacal: cafea, vinete cu ceapă, o jumate de ceapă ca topping, cîrnaţi grasi şi Eros Pista. Două bucată felie pîine. Firimitură de nu-ştiu-ce cozonac italian... Pantone?

Deci doare.