I might have a pena going!

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Escribano

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Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy

I might have a pena going!

Well, I went for a meal at a Spanish resturant in Reading, Berks (my nearest town) last night with my old au-pair and and a nice Italian lady - they only speak Spanish together, so it was good for my ear. The manager is from Jerez and yet he hadn't heard of Melchor Diaz! He had heard of Moraito, though. He played Jeronimo Maya and Tomatito CDs all night just, for me. I also got some free fina

Anyway, he is starting flamenco dance classes on a Monday with a teacher from Madrid soon but she has no guitarist. The manager knows of a local guitarist, graduated in flamenco apparently. So I might have found a new, and local, teacher, yes!

I will be able to do second guitar on various palos for dance (when I am good enough) and he wants to set up a pena on certain nights, they have a nice downstairs section, with wooden floors, Spanish chef and San Miguel on draft. The motherload or what?

See, you never know.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 16 2004 19:05:13

Jim Opfer

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From: Glasgow, Scotland.

RE: I might have a pena going! (in reply to Escribano)

That's great news Simon, sounds like you've discovered somethin really exciting there, and a teacher! where exactly is Berks, how long from Glasgow?
Cheers
Jim.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 16 2004 19:16:51

Ron.M

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RE: I might have a pena going! (in reply to Jim Opfer)

Jim,
It's in the deep South!

Only businessmen go there.

cheers

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 16 2004 19:46:31

Escribano

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From: England, living in Italy

RE: I might have a pena going! (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

It's in the deep South!
Only businessmen go there.

Oh, for Goodness Sake! if I recall, you actually visited Reading as a tourist!

Boy, we must have heard you were coming.

As a Glaswegian/New Yorker on my Great-Grandfather's side (as our American cousins might say), "See you, Ronnie!" Rioja hic

You're right, though - I was brung up here and it's only Microsoft that keeps me hanging about, such is life's rich tapestry.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 16 2004 20:30:55

Escribano

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From: England, living in Italy

RE: I might have a pena going! (in reply to Jim Opfer)

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ORIGINAL: Jim Opfer

That's great news Simon, sounds like you've discovered somethin really exciting there, and a teacher! where exactly is Berks, how long from Glasgow?
Cheers
Jim.

I'm pumped (as they say). We're about 10 hours by road from Glasgow and about 4 hours by plane, give or take security checks. So I guess every Monday is out?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 16 2004 20:32:51

Thomas Whiteley

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From: San Francisco Bay Area

RE: I might have a pena going! (in reply to Escribano)

You can get anywhere in the world within 15 minutes using an ICBM. However, those sudden stops from landing due to impact can be painful!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 16 2004 21:13:42

Escribano

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RE: I might have a pena going! (in reply to Thomas Whiteley)

I would stop taking that stuff, Tom.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 16 2004 21:17:41

Ron.M

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From: Scotland

RE: I might have a pena going! (in reply to Escribano)

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Boy, we must have heard you were coming.

Hmm, come to think of it, that was the first time I'd ever actually seen mounted riot Police in action except for the news on TV! (It was a Saturday and I think there was some football trouble). Pretty scary though as we had just been shopping in the town centre and walked round the corner straight into it!
(We Glasgwegians aren't used to that sort of stuff

)
Apart from that Reading was rather jolly though.

cheers

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 16 2004 21:30:09

Jim Opfer

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From: Glasgow, Scotland.

RE: I might have a pena going! (in reply to Escribano)

Hey Simon, It's about time you guys at Microsoft gave some serious thought about Teleportation, I mean, It's got to be just a matter of a few processors and some software away.
See you in a minute or so. Jeez! what a thougth, it goes wrong and I'm half man, half guitar?
Cheers
jim.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 17 2004 11:39:51

Escribano

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RE: I might have a pena going! - OT (in reply to Jim Opfer)

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Hey Simon, It's about time you guys at Microsoft gave some serious thought about Teleportation

Funny you should mention that

I did a kind of thesis on it in the States - turns out it could be done but there is not enough storage in the universe to store all information of one human in digital form, ready for transmission or reconstruction at your destination.

So I developed an idea for a serial access laser store based on chaos theory. Plotting random events produces a graph where no line (in three dimensions) will ever occupy the same point in space (called the strange attractor), therefore it cannot interfere with itself or data carried on it. Bounce that around inside a box and you have massive storage.

I am still waiting for my Nobel prize. If anyone is interested, try the book "Chaos" by James Gleick.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 17 2004 18:16:44

Billyboy

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RE: I might have a pena going! - OT (in reply to Escribano)

A great book on the that deals with Teleportation amongst other things is one called "Hyperspace" by Micho Kaku, all about the 10 dimensions, as we know the 3 spatial dimensions, length, breadth, and height, plus the extra dimension of time, he convincingly states there are another 7 that we can't see, its the only way to explain gravity which is caused by something happening in one of those invisible dimensions. The problem with teleportation is that if you could recreate someone atom by atom, you would be able to do it lots of times, and create lots of you's, but how could you be in two places at once.?
Dave

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 18 2004 0:03:14