- I am currently away from my desk, beating my head against the wall. Your message will be replied to once I have reached a level of numbness sufficient to cloud my vision to the point I am able to formulate an a pp ropriate response to your request.
- I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood.
- You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn’t have received anything at all.
- I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return on April 1st. Please be patient and your Mail will be deleted in the order it was received.
- Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.
- The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again.***(***The beauty of this one is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-viduals did this over and over).
- Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in a pp roximately 19 weeks.
- I’ve run away to join a different circus.
- I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as “Marvin” instead of “Mary”.
January 31, 2007
A few ideas for your Out of Office message
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January 27, 2007
Making learning musical spellings fun
One of the problems that I found with the relative pitch ear training course was the monotonous exercises – especially learning the spellings of the intervals. The way that David Burge recommends learning how to spell the intervals correctly is to sing up and down a scale naming the notes, but I found this quite boring. For some reason I dont mind singing “la” to the notes though.
Being a great believer in making learning fun, I have written a page that tests the spelling of every interval (minor second to major seventh) which has helped me learn the spelling much more quickly. Each test presents ten random musical spellings based on the interval(s) that are selected at the start of the test.
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January 8, 2007
Panda paddle update
As an update to this, I have been contacted by Akira Fuji (the guy in the video):
Sorry.
That is only one handmade with panda.
Orignal is Mikky mouse design by Tenyo.
But Mikky paddle was finished products.
sometimes, you can see in yahoo auction in Japanese.
Akira
Looks like I will be trawling through the Japanese ebay in the next few weeks….
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January 2, 2007
What is this paddle effect called?
… and more importantly, where can I get it?
I found this effect being demonstrated on a video of what looks like a Japanese TV show – I’ve no idea what the show is called, but the effect is really cool.
If anyone knows what it’s called, or where I can get it please let me know 🙂
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