Tafelmusik – literally “table music” – is a light and airy style of classical music that was originally played at banquets and feasts. It’s also suitable, as it turns out, for post-rioting decompression. In the interests of relieving some of the pain, suffering and post-traumatic stress caused by having an officer raise his voice to you, or look at you the wrong way, or tell you that he doesn’t care what you think, tonight’s selection features a bit of soothing and peaceful tafelmusik written by 18th century Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann. Here are Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln playing the Sonata for oboe and continuo in G minor. Let the healing begin.
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Black Mamba (just in case you’re still checking this thread): after several instances, years ago, of head-on-table pounding, I’ve learned that it’s always best to write your comments in text-edit or “word” or “notepad” or whatever you’re using, and then cut-and-paste (or drop-and-drag) it into the comments here; that way, if it doesn’t go through, you’ve still have it.
Also, in the future, if your comment doesn’t appear (always refresh, btw; once every six or seven time my comment won’t appear after I hit “post,” but appears when I refresh the page) leave a quick note here, and I’ll release the comment (when I get to it) and delete the prompt.
Well,that is good news.I always thought some of my comments didn’t go through because of my A-hole factor.
EBD – I really appreciate the attention, but please remember you’re dealing with a moron. What you just wrote above read: blahbiddyblahbiddyOoooohShinyThing! to me.
I don’t even know cut-and-paste. I just type things out. “http://etc.” addresses and everything. I really am that dumb. C’est la vie.
Well, yeah, it’s true, Wally, you really do have the a-hole factor going on BIG-time – ah hoo ha ha ha ha – but seriously now, it’s nothing like that. I remember when I first saw the spam filter comment-list a couple of years ago, and saw the detailed and automatically-listed, i.e. not-human reasons for denial of particular comments, I suddenly realized – and it was news to me – that Kate wasn’t sitting there looking at every comment that comes through here and scratching her chin and saying “hmmm, should I let this one through or not…let’s see…nope, a little too much cowbell in that one…”
This site is occasionally overrun (especially recently) by spammers (oh, how I long for a cyber-fist) with activist political slants who post a repulsive litany of spanner-in-the-works non-comments, and by “non-comments”, I mean that literally, in that they’re not actual comments but just inane, automatically generated, non-human pieces of crap intended to gum up the works. The filter, alas, inadvertently catches a few legitimate commenters almost every day – including me, almost every day – but it’s absolutely necessary (trust me on that one) if the site is to keep functioning. I suspect that a lot more comments than usual haven’t been getting through lately because of an onslaught of spamming jackasses who oppose the views – on climate change, for example – expressed on this site.
The bottom line is that unless you are swearing like a PMS-ing lesbian sailor wearing one too many testosterone patches, or are serially responding to a troll, the odds of your comment (or Black Mamba’s, or batb’s, or…it’s an endless list, but basically 99 percent of commenters here) being *deleted* are close to zero.
Here’s the straightforward, entirely-reliable rule of thumb: If a comment shows up in the thread, and then subsequently disappears, it *has* been deleted by a human being, on the grounds that it has too much cowbell, or not enough, cowbell. But if a comment *doesn’t* appear on the page after you submit it, even after you refresh the page, it’s a – literally – one-hundred percent certainty that it’s been caught in the filter, and you can be assured that it hasn’t been juried (no one’s that quick or has that much free time) or deleted by anyone here.
It’s not like anyone is born with the knowledge, Black Mamba. I confess to sharing your dark secret: when I first went online about six or seven years ago, I used to type out URLs. Seriously. I didn’t know any better, because everyone assumed that I knew, so they didn’t explain, and I felt ashamed to ask.
Here’s the quick tipI learned – and this will save you a lot of time: when you see someone posting a link, like for example this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWEseP-ouk
Here’s what you do: put your cursor just before the first “h” of the “hhtp” in the above link. Right-click – well, actually, don’t click, just hold down your right finger, and while you’re holding down the right finger, drag your cursor, left to right, across the entire link. Once you’ve crossed the entire URL, you’ll see it blocked in blue. Now release you right finger. It’s still blocked in, right? Now place your cursor on the blocked-in part, right-click *and hold*, and drag the coloured-in block up to your tool-bar – it might say “small dead..” etc. Hold it there for a second until you see a change in brightness, and release; your browser will automatically load that link.
Welcome, Ms. Mamba, to the brother and sisterhood of Luddites. I’m the grand-pappy-moosehead-confrere deluxe…rub my head.
While we’re on the subject, if anyone comes late to this thread and has some good online resource for people who, like me a couple of years ago, (although g*d knows I could use further help) could use some basic instruction, please provide a link – live-linked if possible – to some *basic* instructional sites. I have enough elderly relatives to know that there’s more of a need for such sites than most people realize.
EDB
What Black Mamba said. I also could benefit from some tutelage in these dark interwebby arts.
I’m having a hell of a time finding the carburetor never mind the diff.
Syncro
oh man EBD, I thought we were supposed to rub your belly
Black Mamba, EBD, etc., I’m in good company! It’s refreshing to hear that others have the same Luddite/Moron Web Site handicaps that I have! Misery loves company.
What I do, after I’ve blocked out the http address and it turns blue, is right click on it and click “copy” from the menu that pops up. (I’m not big on dragging stuff; it always seems to end up in the wrong place.) Then I move my mouse up to the window where you put these addresses, right click again, then click on “paste.” That puts the site address where it needs to be and then I open that window.
And, Black Mamba, EBD’s advice about clicking on the “refresh” icon if your comment doesn’t show up, works every time for me. On my computer, the refresh icon is a blue, unclosed circle with an arrow head at the top (which when I rest my mouse on it says “reload current page”). Sometimes it’s a green icon. Just rest your mouse on all of the icons at the top of the page to see what its function is. (‘Problem is, sometimes, I don’t know what they’re talking about. Computerese IS a different language.)
Happy blogging!!
Cheers!
Black Mamba,not to worry,everyone has to learn most everything. I did not know how to do that ‘copy and paste’ thing until about 2 years ago. Even more recently though,maybe a month ago,was when I first learned how to make paragraphs. A commenter here,Snagglepuss,showed me the way.
For that I thank him/her and will bravely go on making unneccessary paragraphs forever.
I can highlight, but I can’t drag, and nothing uploads.
My computer nerd neighbor divorced his wife and moved to Croatia.
I’m still pleased with myself for having figured out how to do italics, though.
Wait! batb’s thing works! Who’s John Hiatt?
I don’t know italics,however a buddy from Milan speaks it well.
Black Mamba, I’m hoping you come back … please!
How do you bold and do italics? I’m always impressed when I see these features in your posts!!
‘Kay, it’s real simple. See the two keys (next to the M key) with the comma and the period; on those keys, above the , and the . are a “lesser than” and a “greater than” symbol respectively. These would not be visible in a comment (which is why I need to describe them), so I am here substituting the following bracket things for them: [ and ]
[i]italicized[/i]
[b]emboldened[/b]
And there are a bunch of others but I don’t know how to do those.