Why are we watch geeks like this? Waiting for a specific second on a specific day that I can take a pic with elevens all the way. Do I need a life? Do I need friends? At least I have a very cool vintage Casio that not only tells the time but also how poor I am. :D

One thing I miss from twätter is polls. So tell me what's your fave minimalist classic? a) Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians b) Terry Riley Music in C c) Morton Feldman Piano and String Quartet d) other/tell me yours? I'd vote C) but sometimes I just crave this style so tell me yours!

Selittäkäähän meikämamulle yks asia: miten pysyä liukkailla jäisillä teillä pystyssä? Nyt joulukuussa tulee kuluneeksi 30 vuotta Suomessa ja en edelleenkään osaa tätä taitoa, mikä näemmä on natiivisuomalaisilla ihan geeneissä. Mun nastakenkien mekanismi on jumissa, joten nastoistakaan ei oo apua. 🙁

What some fun excessive trumpetry pieces out there? I love Janáček's sinfonietta with 14 trumpets. I have no idea if I even like the sheer madness of Khachaturian's 3rd symphony with its 15 trumpets but it's fun on occasion? I know I don't like the current US with one very loud orange Trumpet.

What do geologists say when they see the number 69? "Gneiss!"

Nyt on iskävitsien aatelia. 👏

Miks mä aina haluan lukea tämän "Colet lihana"? :D

This means I've done exactly 3900 kilometers this year. I will be FURIOUS if Hellsinki freezes over before I can get 100km more. I need this year's bicycling to break 4k because our weird monkey brains likes round numbers. :D

CD11 is piano music from Schumann. Her hubby Bobby was a pretty gifted composer - for a man. Yes, I'm still trying to get everyone to think Clara when I just post her surname. Not because Bobby's music was bad but feminism reasons and that I seem to listen more of Schumann than her hubby. This CD...

Hahaha! I just managed to scare a customer with some Janáček. They were just casually browsing some books when the super intense tremolos of the finale of the 2nd quartet came on (I linked to spot) and they literally jumped back and asked "what the fuck is that music?" :D youtu.be/UE_5GOjO6pA?...

I think it would only be fair that we get to have an anarcho-communist revolution - just a little one as a treat - BEFORE the world get its first trillionaire. What do you say? Let's have a tiny little an-com revolution treato before the Muskrat bullies his way into trillionairedom? ✊

Kuuntele noi klipit ja kerro arvasitko oikein? Mä sain vain kaks ekaa oikein. Niissä musta Sibbe oli tosi helppo kuulla. Kolmas klippi meni multa väärin. Pitäis varmaan Sibbe-fanina nolostua, mut en mää jaksa. Ihan kivan kuuloisia nää Ida Mobergin klipit. Pitääkin kuunnella enemmän.

Today's choice of music while enjoying my after lunch coffee is the Cherry Duet from L'Amico Fritz. I always enjoy Tito Schipa. I know such a fach doesn't exist but he was a featherweight tenor. Lighter even than a lyric tenor but so elegant and pretty. I love his singing. Favero ain't bad either. 💚

Didn't Adrian Tchaikovsky write this book? :D Seriously fascinating though since T. domestica isn't really a social spider (don't know the other one mentioned) so this seems really weird behaviour.

Hei helsinkiläinen, espoolainen, vantaalainen! Allekirjoita HSL:n hintojen laskemista vaativa kuntalaisaloite! www.halvempihsl.fi

🤬 Tässä teille sumerinkielinen kirosana: 𒆪. Ai mitä? Et osaa lukea? Pffft piloilla olevat nykynuorisolaiset ei edes osaa näitä wanhoja sivistyskieliä. Noh, teille lukutaidottomille: toi lausutaan "šed" ja se tarkoittaa paskaa. Mikä on hauskaa, koska se on melkein kuin enkun sana "shit".

I'm in a poetic mood so I wrote a Haiku about what it feels like to be middle-aged. I am so tired. Where did all my money go? My back hurts so bad. My new life plan: sit back, relax and win the Nobel prize for lit for this poem and live off the prize money.

Heh. Posti vihdoin toi mun sateenkaarirannekkeen. Onks nyt riittävän kväärii?

Alkoipas tekeen kauheesti mieli tofua mustapapukastikkeessa. Mutta mikä on paras mustapapukastike, mitä saa helposti ostettua tyyliin Hakiksen/Itiksen aasiakaupoista? Kauheita eroja noissa ollut. Kertokaahan suosikkinne?

Janáček was a bit of a creep. He sent unwanted love letters to a woman 40 years his junior and the 2nd of these quartets is basically those letters but in abstract music. Jesus this is passionate music. Amazing music. Janáček is long dead so I feel ok listening to this creep's music now. :D

CD7 is the famous violin concerto with Pekka Kuusisto as soloist. I moved to Finland in 1995 just when Kuusisto won the Sibelius competition - 1st Finn to win it IIRC - so he was big in the news all the time and this recording from a year later was a huge thing. Listening to it 30 years later I...

Friends, please, when a public figure like Dick Cheney dies and you're about to post something mean about them online, just take a deep breath, count to ten and think of something even meaner.

Cheap and easy pseudo-palak chana: Chop big onion and into oil. Add garam masala and garlic. Then add one jar of ready to eat chick peas and one jar of crushed tomatoes and one packet of frozen spinach. Let it boil for a bit. Serve on rice. Yummy, tastes vaguely like the real dish, fast, healthy.

I'm not usually one to complain about wokeness, but this time it's gone too far. I was having the most interesting, fascinating dream ever and then wokeness ended it. I guess I have to become a right wing conservative now.

Hämmentävä näky kun avasin duunipaikan (kirjadivari) oven: joku oli laittanut 1 markan ja 5 markan setelit vuodelta 1963 mun postilaatikosta. Noh, kai tääkin on paperille painettua tekstiä. Keksimme varmasti seteleille jotain käyttöä, joka ei nosta bruttokansantuotetta lainkaan! Että kiitoksia vaan!

Tästä tulee hyvä työpäivä. Oli mukavan lämmin syksyinen päivä ajaa fillarilla duuniin. Ja muistin ottaa tärkeimmän asian, ettei päivä mee pilalle: KAHVIMYLLY! Aaah saa hyvää kahvia tänään eikä ärrän kitkeränlaihaa närästäjää.

I can't just listen to Sib and Shosty all the time. Ok, time to listen to something completely new to me. Joly Braga Santos. Oh wow, that slow movement is so pretty. That oboe theme! Fun music. Much recommended. Gotta do a Braga Santos deep dive now. :D Anyone a fan? What are his best works?

Aiheutin kauheasti hupia piloilla oleville nykynuorisolaisille, jotka oli uffin edessä ikkunaostoksilla, kun vein kasan pölyisiä kirjoja ulos ja puhalsin niistä pölyt pois. Niinku ihan hysteeristä naurua. Hämmentävää, mutta oli ilo tuottaa noin paljon iloa. 😃

It’s Monday, so it’s spider! Heliophanus kochii, a stunning jumper I found on a public beach in Piraeus, Greece. #jumpingspider #salticidae #spidermacro #spidersky

Unohdin ottaa töihin mukaan mun kahvimyllyn. En saa kahvia ellen tyyliin jauha sitä hampaillani. Perkules. Nyt on koko päivä pilalla. Haittaakohan firman sikariporrasta jos laitan viideks minsaks kii ja haen kaffen kadun toiselta puolelta raflasta?

Míks süömí twíttèrïn käĩkkî tÿỹpĩt käyttää űmlaûttejä vökäälïén päällä?

I love that for once the advertised "The LARGEST DESERT IN THE WORLD isn't what you think" was exactly the desert I did think of. :D

CD6 is one of the best Lemminkäinens I've heard. Though I also love Petri Sakari's recording from Iceland. With the Swan of Tuonela 3rd it really does kinda sound like a symphony when played through; I get why some people like to call it a symphony. Some astonishingly beautiful bits in the quiet...

Now that I'm listening to Segerstam's amazing Lemminkäinen, I wanna know everyone's ranking of Sib symphonies (in the large sense containing Kullervo and Lemminkäinen)? On this particular nanosecond from fave to least fave mine are: 1. 3 2. 7 3. 5 4. 4 5. Kullervo 6. 6 7. 1 8. Lemminkäinen 9. 2

I was today years old when I learned the lyrics of the famous Bellini aria: "cast a diva aside and put a kinder singer on the stage" and I fully endorse the message. True story. Muzio was dying when she made this recording but she is still in so much better voice than almost anyone. <3

"How many light bulbs does it take to change a person?" is the question that makers of lamps to treat SAD ask themselves.

I hate online stores. Why can I only see it for 12€ in Finland? I already have this in the dead tree format but for ease of carrying around I'd totally get it on kobo too for 0,99.

Olipas niin mukava olo pizzan, kaverin ja saunan jälkeen, että pyöräilinkin vähän pidempää reittiä takas himaan - oli niin lämmin syysilta, että oli ihan mukavaa. Tulikin siis 38 kilsaa tänään eikä 34. Ja meni 3700 tältä vuodelta rikki. Olen siis pahasti viime vuotta jäljessä kun tuli 4200! :O

Tästä tulee kiva päivä. 17km pyöräily kaverin luo. Sit vähän pizzaa ja saunaa ja länkyttämistä ja nörtteilyä. Sit 17km pyöräilyä takas himaan. Monta kivaa asiaa siis tiedossa: pyöräily, pizzaa, kaveri, sauna, kielitiedenörtteilyä, lisää pyöräilyä. Jee.

I saw a white middle-aged guy in a business suit. I told him wow that's a scary Halloween costume. He was not amused.

Okei, mä meinaan tulla hulluks. Mun keittiöstä kuuluu kova "squeak-squeak" epämääräisesti aina silloin tällöin. En keksi mistä tarkalleen ottaen se ääni tulee. Mut se on aina samat kaksi squeakkausta. Mitä ihmettä toi voi olla? Voiks esim. patterista lähtee tommoinen ääni?

Spooky #arachtober pic with a Euathlus truculentus. And a Soviet watch on a rainbow NATO strap. Why do I find it so funny to put a Soviet watch on a strap called NATO. In rainbows? I need to get me a better sense of humour.

Ah finally some rest, a three day weekend begins! So what is a wild evening of fun to celebrate the start of the weekend? Sibelius, a dictionary of an obscure language and a dram of 17yo whisky. I lead such an exciting life don't I? Do I need more friends? 🤔

CD5 is a wonderful Kullervo. The point where the male choir enters after half an hour of instrumental music must be one of the most impactful moments in ALL of music. Two very good soloists - especially Soile Isokoski is stupendous. Brilliant choir. Yeah, this is among the best Kullervos I've hears.

Now that I got around to it, here's something I've been thinking about for quite some time: why #sustainable #civilization has to be a relatively #egalitarian #democracy . jmkorhonen.net/2025/10/30/w...

Ööö maksoin Paytrailin kautta pizzatilauksen joka keskeytyi. Pizzapaikka ei näe mitään, joten piti tehdä tilaus uusiks. Mitä täs nyt pitää tehdä, etten maksa kaks kertaa yhdestä pizzasta? Onks tämmöistä sattunut kenellekään? Otanko suoraan Paytrailiin yhteyttä?

When linguistics and music geekery combine: I just heard a YouTuber say Lenny's surname as /ˈbɝnstiːn/ (burn-steen) instead of /ˈbɝnstaɪn/ (burn-styne). Now I get that the Germanic sh-sound of burn-shtyne has become a simple s but has the diphthong also been lost? Is it really pronounced burn-steen?

What an insane read. Also Janne owes me a new keyboard because I had coffee in my mouth when I read "Tory exposed its insanity to the world, without any protection whatsoever. (Similarities to political parties may be coincidental.)"

A good news spider story from the BBC today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Tunteisiimme vetoava musiikki on usein peräisin teinivuosilta. Sitä on kuunneltu noin 17-vuotiaina." Tällä siis pystyy kohtuu tarkkaan määrittelemään ihmisten iän. Mun diggaaman musan perusteella olen siis 1720-luvun lapsia.