Bad apple

A person will take the bad apple if it’s the last one in the fruit basket and they really want fruit for lunch. I know, I did this morning. I felt a little sorry for it, too. I have this thing for underdogs.

Gamma got the remains of some olive bread, sliced, with broiled turkey breast inside, and a banana with something written on it (note to parents: don’t get started with the banana notes, it seems nice at first and kids (etc.) like it, but eventually you run out of clever things to write and have a banana crisis every morning, standing there with a writing implement in one hand (in my case, a fork, I bruise the notes into the banana skin with the tine) and the banana in the other, a look of concentration on your face) and three cherry tomatoes. Alpha got similar turkey between two slices of a triangular loaf of whole wheat sort of bread, a banana with something else written on it and tomatoes. I took two pears and the apple. The pears are longish, yellowish-brownish. The apple is gravensteiny-looking, and is bad on one side where something got poked into it a few days ago and it’s been going soft since then. On the other side is a bare spot where I peeled off the sticker (Great Idea! Let’s put apple-shaped logos on all our apples, so when customers think of our product, they think of apples!).

The rest of the bunch was unspoiled.

Link

After reading this about a supposed link between pessimism, depression and dementia, I realized I had been just about to write the exact same thing myself, using the same words in exactly that order, but he beat me to it.

Coats of paint

I painted half the office at home then ran out of paint.
I painted white over white. You feel like going blind, try doing that, checking if you missed a spot or not.
I masked everything off, painted half the office, then ran out of paint.

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gmail

Anyone else getting sick of those numbers on the gmail login page, counting counting counting, ticking away the nanoseconds of your life, ticking ticking ticking, incessantly?

Pushing the cello envelope

  1. Went with TH, if you want a real review ask him.

  2. He’s a really nice guy, BTW.
  3. The opening act got the most applause at the end of their last song.
  4. They weren’t kidding when they told me, “wear earplugs”.
  5. In fact, it was the loudest concert I’ve been to since seeing The Who in Portland, Oregon in 1976 or 1977 or so. Even louder, I think.
  6. Seriously, loudest cellos you’re ever going to hear, pal. And the bass drum felt like a fricking heart massage. Fine place to have a heart attack, you wouldn’t know until the music stopped. A big acoustic pacemaker.
  7. Perttu can play his cello behind his head.
  8. And I now understand how he could break a bow.
  9. I kept thinking, “no wonder they sound so fucking hot, they use double bass rosin.”
  10. And also, “needs more Led Zeppelin.”

Cello advisory: avoid Schiphol airport

“The carbon fiber cello. Yes, well,” says Perttu Kivilaakso. “I no longer play that one.”
Paavo L

Contest

Guess who I just met on my lunch break?
(Those of you I have recently pestered in this connection ineligible).
Answer tomorrow, with pictures.