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| The Douchiest Phone Message In History - Dmitri |
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The back story on this is that a girl named
Olga was out with her friends in the Marina
district of San Francisco (known for being a
popular hang out for douches), and she talked
to this guy named Dmitri for all of two
minutes. Then she gave him her card and said
"give me a call." The above is the messages
he left. Listen to the whole thing, it just
keeps getting better and better. I won't even
tell you my favorite parts because i don't
want to ruin anything. Just listen.
Recently we posted the phone messages that
knucklehead "Dimitri" left for a girl named
Olga. (I've listened to it in awe three
times. The best part is the next day Gary
Cooper-like high noon ultimatum.) The
messages have spread on the web like
influenza.
I was curious and did a little digging. It
turns he is a "disgraced former doctor" named
James Sears from Toronto. He calls himself
"Dimitri the Lover." And the wheels are
coming of the wagon quickly. His comeuppance
is coming. Swift and sure.
He has been selling a "seduction manual" to
losers in Toronto on how to seduce woman. And
has held seminars -- at $40 bucks a pop -- to
"teach" men tricks of the pick-up artist
trade. Toronto newspaper The Sun wrote an
expose on the guy last week.
James had his medical license stripped for
"repeated sexual misconduct" sixteen years
ago. His website has a radio interview where
he uses the catchphrases "elegant" and
"couldn't take my eyes of you" repeatedly.
Just ridiculous.
Ladies, especially those of you in the Loyal
77 that read my columns, please be wary of
any man that says, "You look so elegant. I
just couldn't take my eyes off you." Kick
that guy in the grapes.
http://torontorealmen.com/
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| jQuery |
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Google Tech Talks
April, 3 2008
ABSTRACT
jQuery is a JavaScript library that stands
out among its competitors
because it is faster, focuses on writing less
code, and is very
extensible. In this talk, I will explore
jQuery and how to use it. I
will start off talking about the basics of
using jQuery. Then, I will
talk about building plugins. Finally, time
permitting, I will take
apart some plugins and talk about how they
work, and I will show the
nitty gritty details of the library.
Speaker: Dmitri Gaskin
Dmitri Gaskin drinks code with his cereal for
breakfast every
morning. He's a jQuery whiz and a Drupal
know-it-all. He
contributes patches for both Open Source
projects. In the Drupal
world, he maintains many modules, is on the
security team, and is
involved in the upcoming Summer of Code as a
mentor and
administrator. Dmitri has given many talks on
Drupal and jQuery, in
such places as Logitech, Drupalcon and live
on a radio show out of
L.A. When Dmitri isn't coding, a very rare
occurrence, he is playing
and composing contemporary music. And
attending classes in the 6th
grade. (He's only 12.)
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| RARE: Young Shostakovich Playing end of op.35 (1934?) |
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Facts established about this video so far:
Pianist: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Trumpeter: Leonid Yuriev (1913-1971)
Conductor: Looks very much like Nikolai
Golovanov (1891-1953)
Orchestra: Probably the "Old" Moscow
Philharmonic
Venue: Moscow Conservatory "Great Hall"
Date: Some time after 1933, October 15th,
and, most likely, before the "official ban"
of early 1936. So, 1934-1935.
Piano: Bechstein, E270. Year Built: ?
(Thanks to everyone whose comments helped in
establishing some of these facts. Please,
keep them coming.)
Original Note:
This is the famous surviving video of young
Shostakovich playing his first piano
concerto. Footage is from 1934 or 1935 (I
don't know for sure (I remember hearing about
those years, but if anyone knows for sure,
please let me know) -- definitely not on or
before this concerto's premiere on October
15th, 1933, which happened at the Leningrad
Philharmonic Hall). This performance is from
Moscow Conservatory's Bol'shoi Zal.
We get to hear the very end of that
performance (starting with the piano cadenza)
- the only footage that, supposedly,
survives.
Video and audio was taken from a DVD of a
movie called "Sonata for Viola".
In that movie (and most likely the way the
original footage was put together) most of
concerto video doesn't coincide with audio
and audio is played too fast (resulting in a
raised pitch).
So, I corrected as much as I could.
(The frame rate of this video is 28.534 fps,
and it seems to work fine after upload).
There is even one place (towards the end of
the final "stride" cadenza) where the video
footage seems to have come from a different
performance! (maybe a rehearsal). He hits
(wrong) notes that cannot be heard on the
audio. (So I tweaked it a bit there).
Either way, enjoy it.
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