Thought or Rant of the day!!!

[Snickie]

I got 14/15 right, but it might have helped that I recently did a huge chart on religions of the classical era for history (which I was ranting about before on this very thread).

*sigh* I only got 12 out of 15. (80%)
But still:

I got a perfect score on both

I got 13/15 right.

Considering the fact that the average score was 50%, and the highest group score (post-college graduate) was 68%, this is evidence that Cantrians are much more knowledgeable than most people.

I'm still in high school. I am further proof of that statistic Joshua just mentioned.

[Doug R.]

15/15. I thought they were pretty easy also. I thought the question about Joseph Smith might be a trick, but I got it right anyway. (If he established Mormonism, then, presumably, he wasn't a Mormon before that, but something else).

[cantrlady]

15/15 - only because I took a religion class in college. There was so much that I didn't know before that as my 12 years of Catholic schooling taught me nothing of other religions.

[Addicted]

I also know a lot about religion, but not much about US Supreme Court Law. *shrugs* (Over-educated, white, female catholic)

[Chroma Key]

I have just received my advance signed copy of the 'Shine' CD by Kevin Moore, the amazing keyboardist(my idol)... Yes, -the- Kevin Moore (ex DT). I am having a total fangirl moment.... And I am not ashamed to share it here! Even my address on the packaging is in his handwriting... I just can't wait to listen to it! And I'd been waiting for this for 4 years! *runs upstairs to get on her laptop*

[Doug R.]

A Chevy Suburban (a tank) backed into car while I was stopped at a stop sign. I was not at all angry or frustrated through the entire process of talking to the other driver, the police, and the insurance company. I come home, and call the GAP to check a balance on a gift card. It's one of these retarded robots that they force you to talk to like it was a real person. I'm an articulate person when I need to be. The cop on the phone never asked me to repeat my self once, and between my driver's license number, insurance number, VIN number, and plate number, plus all my personal info, I had well over 50 digits to communicate. This $%&(## robot can't understand "Balance Information." I increase my volume. It still can't compute. I start screaming. Still nothing. Then the expletives start flying. I tell it that's it's retarded. All this in front of my wife and 5-year old son.

I hate those #&$(#* phone robots. One of my pet peeves (ask me to type numbers - there's no chance for misunderstandings). GAP customer service - worse than getting hit by a car.

[Comy]

Boyfriend made vegan brownies today because we didn't have any eggs and he randomly felt like making brownies. They...oh, gods, they were so bad. They were oily. Brownies are not supposed to taste oily.

I'm supposed to be writing a documented essay on Louis XVI's flight to Varennes and it really shouldn't be this difficult because it doesn't involve any research at all, but somehow it still is. I decided to try writing an outline (which may just be another way to procrastinate). In this outline, the phrase "clubs all up in this bitch" appears. Twice. I wanted to get this done tonight so I could print it at school tomorrow, but that's probably not going to happen. It's due Tuesday, but I don't know if any of the computer labs are open at seven and my class starts at eight. Professor is generally pretty awesome, so I'm hoping he'll let me dash to Derrick to print right after class and then run it up to his office. ETA: Nevermind, former roomie tells me that Derrick is 24 hours M-TH. You'd think I might've picked that up in the years I lived on campus since that's the only lab I'll use.

Bah. At least I'll have all of tomorrow to work on it since I'll be on campus all day but only have two classes and one usually involves me playing solitaire and browsing the Cantr forums instead of taking notes (and yet I have a 97 average after two tests). I work better with fluorescent lights anyway. And, y'know, tables. Trying to study or write a paper while lounging on this ridiculously comfortable couch is not conducive to anything.

(on an unrelated note, I use the phrase "you can't unfuck a pig" instead of "you can't uncook an egg" just because it weirds out former roomie and that makes me smile)

[Snickie]

RotD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLJTIHVXx8o

That flute solo at the end of the song....
My dad is irritating me to death saying that the guy is a genius and is actually playing the flute in that commercial. He knows it annoys me and that it's not really the guy playing it, that somebody recorded it and the producers set it to the commercial. But I decided to take it out on y'all anyway because I need a good rant.

In the video, he's holding the flute with his right hand.
THERE ARE ONLY TWO KEYS ON THE RIGHT HAND THAT CAN CHANGE THE TONE OF THE SOUND BEING PRODUCED WHEN NONE OF THE LEFT-HAND KEYS ARE PUSHED DOWN. These are the trill keys, and when used on their own to play a long note, sound terrible.
The only exception is octaves of those three notes. Yes, there are three notes that can be played with just the right hand: C#/Db, D, and D#/Eb. (Those with two names and slashes are the same note enharmonically.) Changing the octave does not change these notes.

On the left hand however (which he's not using to "play" the flute), you can play more different notes, although it's a pain to hold if you're not using your right hand.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCF3z-a1G9M

Also with this one. Seriously. Can't the person who wrote this at least make it consistent with the commercial? The music that is supposed to be the flute on the commercial is played by a piccolo in the studio. Granted, a piccolo is in the flute family and played very similar to a flute with the same fingerings and roughly the same embouchure. But the pitch is an octave higher than the average flute, and the tone is brighter, making it obvious that the studio version was on piccolo and NOT on flute.

Not to mention the guy's embouchure is almost utterly wrong, and his fingerings are nowhere near consistent with the background music. I'd appreciate the commercial a lot more if Burger King actually went through the effort to make it consistent between the studio music and the actual commercial. I'd even be okay with it if they used a piccolo on the commercial but called it a flute, considering they are in the same instrument family and I'm used to being referred to as a flute when I'm marching (I play piccolo in the marching band).




Yes, I'm known to dissect commercials. I do it to movies also. I find it immensely entertaining, even though it irritates the crap out of my parents.

[BrentW]

Just spent 50 bucks today! I had a good story this week it was a bonus. So What I Do? I buy Pot...cause I like it. Turned out to be bad shit..god damn cocksuckers! Got my money back though and more shitty pot but a lot more. And his money...Somehow. Well ok then bye.

[SekoETC]

Primitive people eating meat

This is completely random but last night I started thinking all of a sudden that probably when primitive humans discovered roasting meat, it probably didn't happen completely accidentally (like a piece of meat fallling into a fire or being randomly left too close to it for a long time. Predators tend to eat their prey right after killing when it's still warm. Most likely primitive humans did the same. Then they may have killed something that was too big to eat in one go and they had discovered that a fire can keep people warm, so they got the idea of holding the meat close to a fire to warm it up. Then the surface changed and they noticed it was better that way so they decided to cook it longer.

But an actual rant of the day... gotta hate waking up early after sleeping for only 4-5 hours on two nights in a row. So tired...

[Snickie]

I hate waking up early also. I have today off, which means I'm catching up on my sleep.
But seriously. Two weeks with sleep deprivation. Not fun.


TotD:
So yesterday I was staring at my FLVS Spanish work, and we're into conjugating AR verbs now, which I'm not liking so far. To help us some, my teacher had a thing on the page where it would say the verb, then the subject, and then the conjugated form of the verb to that subject. So I was watching that, zoned out, and suddenly I hear, "Cantar." I was like, "Cantr? What?" before I realised it was still the Spanish thing. Needless to say, I was not singing about it.

[Joshuamonkey]

So yesterday I was staring at my FLVS Spanish work, and we're into conjugating AR verbs now, which I'm not liking so far. To help us some, my teacher had a thing on the page where it would say the verb, then the subject, and then the conjugated form of the verb to that subject. So I was watching that, zoned out, and suddenly I hear, "Cantar." I was like, "Cantr? What?" before I realised it was still the Spanish thing. Needless to say, I was not singing about it.

I've thought about that a little in Spanish before, but since I pronounce Cantr "canter" I think more about the English word for horses walking.
Once in my Spanish class, we had free time and we were doing hangman, so I used the word "Cantr." Lol, good way to get the word out..

[Alladinsane]

Argh...I had such a time conjugating those verbs! Our requirement was 3 semesters of spanish so I rammed it through and got it out in my sophmore year. The first two classes were pretty easy, but the verbs kicked my tail.

I worked with alot of spanish speakers (c'mon, its florida!) and they were actually flattered that I was making an honest effort to learn their language. Once I retired, it pretty much went down the tubes since I didn't have anyone to converse with anymore. Just stick it is all I can say and try to speak it as often as possible. I think that once you reach a point where you are thinking in Spanish you are okay, though I did slip up and only got a B in my third semester, I was just over it. Just thinking back that far makes me want to start ranting (in English). Good luck!

Be well

[raspberrytea]

I miss you, Cantr.

Time to go bike up the hill of death to school.

[Snickie]

So yesterday I was staring at my FLVS Spanish work, and we're into conjugating AR verbs now, which I'm not liking so far. To help us some, my teacher had a thing on the page where it would say the verb, then the subject, and then the conjugated form of the verb to that subject. So I was watching that, zoned out, and suddenly I hear, "Cantar." I was like, "Cantr? What?" before I realised it was still the Spanish thing. Needless to say, I was not singing about it.

I've thought about that a little in Spanish before, but since I pronounce Cantr "canter" I think more about the English word for horses walking.

That's also how I think of it, like "Canter", but the voice on the recording thing pronounced it similar to "Canter" even though the verb was "cantar".

Speaking of pronunciation, how do you pronounce "Klojt"? When I saw it the first time, I was like, "kloyt?", and since then it's somehow evolved into "Klo-jit" and I have no idea which is right. lol.....