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First Virtual Piano Competition
bluegreenone writes: "The New York Times has an article on what may be the first 'virtual' piano competition. One of the judges for the contest being held in St. Paul will actually be in Japan. He will evaluate the performances as relayed by Yamaha's Disklavier system. This has some interest from a technical standpoint, and also raises new questions about what a "live" performance is."
The Disclavier system actually passes a lot of demanding audio tests when compared with a real piano.
For example, on August 3, 1997, I decided to castrate myself. At 3:30 pm, I started to prepare my scrotum and testicles to be removed. I banded the scrotum at the top just below the penis. I used rubber bands. (I should have used an elastrator to band the scrotum but since I didn't have one I improvised.) Next I took ice and packed the scrotum and testicles so that I wouldn't be in pain as in prior experimenting with banding them it was extremely painful.
During the next 8 hour period I kept them well iced. While I had them iced I prepared the bathroom with the necessary instruments to remove them with. I got a sharp pair of scissors, bandages, leather shoelace, peroxide, neosporin, clean white towels, sterile needle, mercerized thread, a bowl (to put them in once removed), the telephone and made sure the front door was unlocked (in case of emergency).
At 11:15 pm, I entered the bathroom and prepared myself to remove the scrotum and testicles. I removed the ice packs, took the leather shoelace and wrapped it around the scrotum over the rubber bands to make sure it is extremely tight so as not to bleed excessively.
At 11:30 pm, I took the scissors and started from the left to the right (since I am left-handed) cutting straight across the scrotum. With my right hand I held the scrotum and testicles firmly so that I can cut straightly. When I had successfully removed them I put them in the bowl. I took the peroxide and cleaned the area where the scrotum and testicles once were. I left the area like that for about 45 minutes while I took photographs of what I did. I then went to start stitching the area up when I started to spurt blood due to the leather shoelace and rubber bands slipping. I immediately took the clean white towels and packed the area with them.
I didn't want to take a chance since I was by myself so I called 911 and told them what happened. Soon afterward the ambulance and police arrived. I explained to the EMT's what I did. They took sterile packing and repacked the area. I was then transported to the hospital. The police locked up the house for me since I wasn't able to. (BTW, nothing ever happened with the police department.) In the ambulance the EMT's put an IV in me. The EMT's by the way did take the scrotum and testicles to the hospital as well. Unfortunately they ended up staying at the hospital.
Upon arriving at the hospital, the emergency room doctor called a Urologist to see me after he made sure I wasn't bleeding further excessively. When the Urologist got there, he examined me, the scrotum and testicles. He told me that he wasn't going to reattach the scrotum and testicles. (Which I already knew since they had been dead for so long.) He said that all they were going to do is stop the bleeding and sew me up. He explained that they had to cut a 1" incision on both sides above the penis so they can close the blood vessels. Once they have done that they would removed the bands and shoelace to see what type of damage was done. I waited in the emergency room hallway for over an hour and a half since all the operating rooms were being used.
At 2:00 am on August 4th, I was wheeled into the operating room. At 4:30 am I was wheeled out into the recovery room. I was then moved to the surgical intensive care unit at 5:30 am where I was still hooked up to an IV. For the next 24 hours I was kept on antibiotics being put in my IV. Later, in the morning, the Urologist came in with the medical students. He told me that I almost cut into the urethra and that if I did I would leak urine for the rest of my life. I laughed at him and told him he was full of shit because when they do the sex change surgery they cut, shorten and relocate the urethra.
In the afternoon, a shrink was sent in to evaluate me. I thought fast and gave a rational explanation of why I did it. When I was finished He told me I was very much aware of what I did and not psychotic and knew what I was doing.
The next morning after the last antibiotic was finished in my IV, the IV was removed and all that I needed to do was urinate twice and each had to be a good amount. Later in the afternoon I was dismissed from the hospital.
When I got home my Master at the time took pictures of me. He was very upset as I had done the castration while He was out of town. He didn't want me castrated at all. I spent a month recouperating at home. At the end of the month I was pretty much healed up. My Master for the rest of the time I was with Him punished me for what I did.
I don't recommend anyone doing what I did especially by yourself. If you do decided to try it make sure someone else is with you and use an elastrator NOT rubber bands and leather shoelace like I did. I have a medical background which is why I did it by myself. Also research what you are going to do so that you know what you are doing for sure.
My next project will be getting the penis removed which is more complicated because of 8 blood vessels in the penis of which 6 are major ones where you can bleed to death if not careful. This is the true way a slave should be. Neither male nor female just an it.
Gary Debussy's dead? I knew he became a Christian zealot, but I didn't hear that he died.
You'd think it'd have been announced here by some troll.
I have been pwned because my
I CLAIM THIS FIRST POST FOR AC'S EVERYWHERE!
You will burn in hell.
-AC Jebus
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- An attacker crashed a bomb-laden vehicle into a guard post outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday, killing himself and at least six other people and injuring 45.
The massive blast incinerated a dozen cars, blew a 10-foot-wide hole in the compound wall, and sent debris flying a half-mile.
No Americans were believed killed, but one U.S. Marine and five Pakistani employees in the consulate were lightly injured.
Some of the victims were blown apart, making it difficult to determine exactly how many people were killed.
The Interior Ministry reported seven dead and 45 injured, but reporters said they saw two bodies and the scene and six at hospitals. The victims included four Pakistani police constables, a male passer-by and an unidentified woman, along with the bomber, police said.
Police said the bomb was concealed in a white vehicle, believed to be a Suzuki van, that the driver crashed into a police kiosk at the southern end of the consulate at 11:08 a.m. (1:08 a.m. EDT), leaving a crater five feet deep and a hole about 10 feet wide in the 10-foot-high perimeter wall.
It also damaged the nearby Marriott Hotel and shattered windows in the consulate and other buildings up to a block away.
Mark Wentworth, a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Islamabad, said six consulate employees -- one U.S. Marine security guard and five Pakistani employees -- suffered minor injuries when struck by flying debris.
He said the bomb exploded about 50 feet from the building and that it sustained some structural damage.
Sharif Ajnabi, a private security guard, was sitting in a park across the street from the consulate when the bomb went off.
``I heard a deafening explosion,'' he said. ``There was smoke everywhere.''
``Moments later, I saw a man's body flying in the air, and it fell near me. He was badly injured. Before we could give him water or medical help, he died. It was a horrifying scene.''
Witnesses said U.S. Marines took up protective positions around the consulate. They also reported seeing body parts scattered about the scene.
Ambulances shuttled the injured to nearby hospitals. What appeared to be wreckage from the car was stuck in a water fountain and in trees.
``This is sheer terrorism,'' said Javed Ashraf Hussein, the chief secretary of Sindh province, who visited the scene of carnage. ``We have put this area under high alert and heavy security, but the terrorists struck.''
He would not comment on who might be responsible.
Karachi Mayor Naimat Ullah offered sympathy for U.S. officials and vowed to arrest those behind the attack.
``The terrorists have no religion. They are not Muslim. They are not human. They are just terrorists,'' Ullah said.
Violence against foreigners by Islamic militants has increased since Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf threw his support behind the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted and murdered in Karachi in January while working on a story about Islamic militants.
Suicide attacks -- once unheard of here -- have occurred twice. Both were believed to have been carried out by al-Qaida.
On March 17, a suicide grenade attack at a church in Islamabad's diplomatic enclave killed five people, including two Americans.
Last month, 11 French engineers and three others were killed in a suicide bombing in front of a Karachi hotel less than a mile from Friday's blast.
The United States withdrew all nonessential personnel from Pakistan after the church bombing, and the British mission evacuated about 150 staff in late May after receiving ``credible'' information about a terrorist assault.
Also, in early June a diplomatic source said several hundred foreigners working for the United Nations in Pakistan were ordered to send their families home because of fears of a war between India and Pakistan.
You could write such a fancy article about Eurovision Song Contest as well, in which people from 24. different countries interactively select the best of the terrible songs -during the live broadcast-. For example in Finland, you could vote by sending a SMS. But now, that would not be as cool, as a "virtual piano contest". :)
First post succesfully reclaimed for to the AC's!!!!!!!
--AC Jebus
Yes. I really enjoyed this.
That was beautiful - bravo!
You have some real talent there, boy. Keep it up.
methinks its a lie...I couldn't find it anywhere either.