This is so cool!
And yes: I can. Even with the big cymbals (:
–jeroen
There is another one with timpani:
And of course there is the live version (9 minutes!)
Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
It’s Crash-Along Cymbals! Can you keep up with the bonkers finale of Tchaikovsky 4? – London Philharmonic Orchestra
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15
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What happens when a huge number of people share a single grocery store loyalty card? – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
[WayBack] What happens when a huge number of people share a single grocery store loyalty card? – The Old New Thing
An interesting discussion in the comments besides this interesting article observation:
What messes up their data analysis is when two people with different lifestyles swap cards. The system sees that somebody who used to buy yogurt and bulk brewer’s yeast is now buying potato chips and frozen pizzas, and it can’t figure out what is going on.
–jeroen
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.— . .-. — . -.
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/11
Happy “Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day”
–jeroen
Audio via [WayBack] https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html
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Happy new Year everyone! 🤣😂
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/01
A new year, a new start for our guest network: it is now called “Disconnected”.
Best wishes for 2018!
May your confusion be infinite (:
–jeroen
PS: Thanks Thomas Mueller for referring me to the idea: 🤣😂
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I dunno, It works on my machine. Ship it.
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/01
Happy new year!
I dunno, It works on my machine. Ship it.
Operations: how the fuck did this ever work
O’RLY? – Damn Time Zones – Names Are Impossible – Off by One Errors
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] #devops #sysadmin #IT #life – Lars Fosdal – Google+
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In case you are still curious on “It’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand. ‘Dinner for one’ on New Year’s eve.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31
Via: [WayBack] It’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand. „Dinner for one“ am 31.12 … 12 mal… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
In case you are still interested (I think it is an hilarious sketch):
- [WayBack] Das in Deutschland so beliebte Stück Dinner for one beruht auf einer wahren Geschichte, die in Gotha stattfand. – Lutz Donnerhacke – Google+
- [WayBack] Dinner for One – Geschichte: ‘Dinner for One’, der beliebte Silvestersketch mit Miss Sophie und ihrem Butler James, kommt ursprünglich aus Gotha! Alljührlich gibt es dort das wahre Original des Kultklassikers beim gröten ‘Dinner’-Theaterabend Deutschlands live zu erleben.
- Dinner for One – Wikipedia
- Original (black and white): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVd_VLO9xcc
- Original (recoloured): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn9vPG8s4ss
- Dutch (featuring Joop Dooderer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lcX3irVws
- Parody (Merkel and Sarkozy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECjz5Y7Antk
–jeroen
Sorry this post became victim to the “Missed Schedule” issue (I finally found out there is a ridiculous limit of 100 scheduled posts over which scheduling becomes unreliable; this limit used to be much much larger in the past).
[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.
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cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of…
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/29
cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of the word to follow should only be construed in the context of vaguely imminent threats and the need for more federal funding. (2) Something “computery.”
via: [WayBack] cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of…
Many more words are here:
The New Devil’s Dictionary: 249 words for the end of the world
–jeroen
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What is thread safety anyway?
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/13
A nice article [Archive.is] What is thread safety anyway? with a kind reference to the Deadlock Empire translation from C# to Delphi that I made.
In any language, multi-threading is hard, so I really love the quote below:
[WayBack] Multithreading can be hard to do right. The most common point of failure is assuming some code is thread safe when it actually is not... – Dalija Prasnikar – Google+
It reminded me of an old one:
A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, “I know, I’ll solve it with threads!”. has Now problems. two he
–jeroen
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(52) You Give REST a Bad Name – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/02
(Usually the “state transfer” in Representational state transfer fails)
Video via +Kristian Köhntopp “Die 90er haben angerufen und wollen ihre Amiga Videos und ihre Corba Specs zurück haben.” (the 90s called wanting their Amiga Videos and Corba Specs back)
[WayBack] https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/58D9BisX5Dj
–jeroen
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Argumate — program languages “What if …”
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/02
Quoted in full because even 2.5 years later, it’s just too funny:
- Python: What if everything was a dict?
- Java: What if everything was an object?
- JavaScript: What if everything was a dict *and* an object?
- C: What if everything was a pointer?
- APL: What if everything was an array?
- Tcl: What if everything was a string?
- Prolog: What if everything was a term?
- LISP: What if everything was a pair?
- Scheme: What if everything was a function?
- Haskell: What if everything was a monad?
- Assembly: What if everything was a register?
- Coq: What if everything was a type/proposition?
- COBOL: WHAT IF EVERYTHING WAS UPPERCASE?
- C#: What if everything was like Java, but different?
- Ruby: What if everything was monkey patched?
- Pascal: BEGIN What if everything was structured? END
- C++: What if we added everything to the language?
- C++11: What if we forgot to stop adding stuff?
- Rust: What if garbage collection didn’t exist?
- Go: What if we tried designing C a second time?
- Perl: What if shell, sed, and awk were one language?
- Perl6: What if we took the joke too far?
- PHP: What if we wanted to make SQL injection easier?
- VB: What if we wanted to allow anyone to program?
- VB.NET: What if we wanted to stop them again?
- Forth: What if everything was a stack?
- ColorForth: What if the stack was green?
- PostScript: What if everything was printed at 600dpi?
- XSLT: What if everything was an XML element?
- Make: What if everything was a dependency?
- m4: What if everything was incomprehensibly quoted?
- Scala: What if Haskell ran on the JVM?
- Clojure: What if LISP ran on the JVM?
- Lua: What if game developers got tired of C++?
- Mathematica: What if Stephen Wolfram invented everything?
- Malbolge: What if there is no god?
–jeroen
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