David:
Its bad enough that if I try to write a list: (a) Item (b) Item (c) Item and it replaces my ($foo) with a smily with a halo, a beer, and a cup of tea ...
... but changing: "X can't make it, so it will be just the 7 (?) of us." into ...
"X can't make it, so it will be just the 7 ASL? of us." is not something I want to happen when talking to Jim!
azz:
I'm sure my housemates are now wondering why I'm laughing so hard.
Presumably it says something about the target market that they think people will need an abbreviation for "ASL?"...
David:
snigger
Anyone else get the reference to popular Internet meme?
azz: Sadly, I do.
azz:
Random comments, a la Us-Log's Live 8 coverage.
John Williams is a lot more fun when you can see him play -- I've heard recordings of him before and not been particularly impressed, but watching him do two parts at once is most entertaining.
"The Rio Grande" was very nice -- must buy a copy of that.
The taiko drummers along with bagpipes: interesting. I didn't know you could do guitar-style bends (or the various other tricks) with bagpipes. And I want a drum like that.
The annotated stream on 701 on digital TV is very useful -- but why's the audio only mono? Hrmph.
(Of course, if it weren't, I'd probably be complaining about how it were full of artefacts...)
"Scherzi" was brilliant -- "sales demo for symphony orchestra".
John Williams and Andreas Scholl doing a quick folk song? Curious.
Scholl's really the first German to perform on the LNotP? That seems a bit unlikely.
The star filters on the cameras were a good idea, whoever thought of that.
Nations songs: "Danny Boy" is winning so far.
ARGH! BBC, how can you interrupt "Rule Britannia" with a caption for the news?
David:
With perfect (ha!) timing, I manage to tune in just in time for Jerusalem
Looks like I can Listen Again though
azz:
Once again, the British people prove that they don't actually know the words to "Auld Lang Syne".
It seems a bit silly to put the correct words on the subtitles when they know nobody's going to be singing them...
David:
Last New Year we cunningly got hold of copies of the lyrics and tried to sing it at midnight
Such a shame that the two versions we found had the verses in different orders - that was very confusing
azz: Given that BBC1's already running late, did we really need the offensive TV Licensing commercial in there?
David: No idea, I was mplayer dvb://701ing it
azz: "In short, to call this novel formulaic is an insult to the beauty and diversity of formulae."
David: I wasn't that inclined to try Dan Brown's work before I read that.