Think about this...........could be fun!!!
 

Here in the UK we have a radio show called "Desert Island Disks".

People go on the show and talk about bits of music and items that they would HAVE to have to survive alone on an island.

So..........

Let's start Aural Moons own version:

Sea of Tranquility Disks

You're going to be marooned on The Sea of Tranquility.

Give:

1) FIVE albums you would take.
2) A book you would HAVE to have to keep you sane. And...
3) One "Special" item you would want with you. This can be ANYTHING at all. For example, Peanut Butter or A painting by Dali or ANYTHING.

Happy thinking. :p

Sea of Tranquility Disks........
 

Albums:

1) Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes
2) Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
3) Darkside of the Moon - Pink Floyd
4) Pink Moon - Nick Drake
5) Symphony No. 9 "The Choral" - Beethoven

Jonathon Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach

Special object:

Earl Grey Tea.

Britney for the pictures...
 

I had done this more than two years ago on another forum, so I went looking and here's what I found:

Kansas-Leftoverture
Pat Metheny-First Circle
Maria Schneider-Allegresse
Sibelius-2nd Symphony
Sting-Dream of the Blue Turtles

I think I'll stick with those for now... :D

oy, forgot the book and special thing...

Lord of the Rings

an iBook with a solar panel. (or is that two things...) :p

5 CD's:

Illusions On A Double Dimple-Triumvirat
Thick As A Brick-Jethro Tull
Quadrophenia-The Who(my all-time Fav album)
Moontan-Golden Earring
Division Bell-Pink Floyd

Favorite Book:

an iBook with solar power and internet connection
(i know that's cheating, but hey it's my fantasy)

Special Object:

A never ending keg of Guinness (kept cold naturally)

Hmmm
 

Discs:
Yes - Going for the One
U2 - Achtung Baby!
King's X - Dogman
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
Yes - Relayer

Book:
Holy Bible

Other Random Thing:
Ergonomic Pillow



PS: since we did this a few years ago, I'm gonna dig up that thread and compare...

found it
 

Actually, it wasn't desert island; it was top five classic prog albums:

"1. Yes - Relayer
2. Yes - Going for the One
3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4. Pink Floyd - Meddle
5. Oldfield - Tubular Bells

That's not exactly definitive."

Albums:
Frank Mariano, Juggernaut
AC/DC, Black In Black
Rimsky Korsakov, Shahrazad
Gamalon, Gamalon
Photo

Book:
Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Special Item:
University Of Cambridge Library

1:
Rush-Hemispheres
Genesis-Seconds Out
Mike Oldfield-Voyager
Pain of Salvation-The Perfect Element 1
CD I am working on now

2:
George Orwell - 1984


3.
CD player of course. Guys, how do you want to listen to these 5 CD's? Using books, pillows or Guiness? ;)

teermin8r and I brought our iBooks... :cool:

D'oh!
Well, I've got some nice coasters for my non-existant soft-drink machine.:rolleyes:

I forgot to mention...........
 

The facility exists to play your CDs but there's nowhere to plug other electrical equipment in. Batteries won't work there either so iPods and other musical equipment won't work. Think again you smart arses. :D

blow the whistle...
 

oh sure, change the rules in the middle of the game... :rolleyes:

remember roger and I requested solar powered ibooks, which unless we're on the dark side of the moon, we ought to be OK.

Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Wind and Wuthering - Genesis
BBC Sessions 1971-73 - Sandy Denny
Voyage of the Acolyte - Steve Hackett
Turning, Turning Back - Alex de Grassi


Book: The Captain's Verses - Pablo Neruda

Thing/item: Fruit delivery service

oh what the hell
 

Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
Echolyn - As The World
XTC - Oranges and Lemons
Djam Karet - The Devouring
King Crimson - Discipline

Ask me tomorrow and you'll get a different answer.

Book - George Carlin "Braindroppings"

Item - picture of Keithie

Oh, why not.

My 5 albums:[list=1][*]Illusions on a Double Dimple - Triumvirat[*]Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull[*]California Screamin' - Dixie Dregs[*]Misplaced Childhood - Marillion[*]Tales from a Topographic Ocean - Yes[/list=1]

Book:

A PowerBook (I'd have said that anyway, regardless of whoever else said it)

Special Item:

A special magical black box that provided unlimited internet access for my powerbook. I'm assuming that I'd have some power source, since it'd be useless to take the albums without some way of playing them... :D

Roger -dot- Lee

Re: oh what the hell
 

I've heard of Moon Madness but that seems like Lunar Sea to me.

I'm flattered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a castaway
 

5 cd's
Yes - Close to the Edge
Eno - Music For Airports
Arlo Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
John Michael Talbot - Come to the Quiet

Book - the Bible

Special item - Family photo

I'm a guy of changing moods so I couldn't stick with all prog selections. There's a simple joy I get from hearing the folk songs sung on this Arlo Guthrie album. Likewise with the JMT album. Alone on an island, your bound to do some thinking about God and this one would be appropriate :)
And I suppose one wouldn't need a clean change of underwear since you could wash the pair you're wearing - and there would be no one there to share it with anyway. Ya - I will opt for no clean underwear as a non-choice
:cool:

What would I take to the Sea of Tranquility?

Yes - Tales of Topographic Oceans
Peter Gabriel - So
Genesis - Foxtrot
Anthony Phillips - 1984
Ralph Vaughan-Willimas - 5th SYmphony

Book: The Complete Scripts of Monty Pythons Flying Circus

What else: My reading glasses

:D

5 albums:

FM - Black Noise
Tears For Fears - Elemental
Counting Crows - August And Everything After
Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

(these may change at any time)

book:
Robert Heinlein "Time Enough For Love"

thing:
cell phone so I can call all of you and brag about how great it is on my island...:D

My 5 Albums:

1 Beatles: Abey Road
2 King Crimson: The Great Deciever
3 Frank Zappa: You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol.1
4 Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick
5 Yes: Relayer

Book:

Willt by Tom Sharpe

Thing:

A boat ...:)

what no Sugarloaf?
 

That's a neat choice!

The albums:
Rush - Presto
Rush - Signals
King's X - King's X
Led Zeppelin III
Kansas - Point of Know Return

The book:
The Days Are Just Packed - Bill Watterson

The thing:
My guitar

Now this is interesting. A Calvin and Hobbes book! The most stripped down acoustic Zep with the one of the most synthy Rush discs. And a King's X disc, although KX4 is not one of my favs. Finally, what are you gonna do when your guitar strings have had it? :p

I love this disc.

"Every time she sneezes I believe it's love and oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing."

Wow.

??????????????
 

Rick on Bob! A great record.

"Black Flag for my roaches"..........................

Yeah, it's great, but I don't think it stacks up to Faith Hope Love, Dogman, Tape Head, and Bulbous. I think it loses a little steam toward the end. Funny you should mention Black Flag, which I think is the weakest song on the album!!! I think Black Flag, Dream in My Life, and Silent Wind are just a half-step down from the first 8 on the disc.

I'm always amazed that people can love the same bands, but have totally different opinions on what the high-point of their output is. :D

and, that song in particular has lots of personal associations for me. Very intense...

a great choice - I may change my book choice!

I think I'd have to go with Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" .

things to take places....
 

Keithie .. this is a wicked hard question .. ;)

1 Gong - You
2 Caravan - Canterbury Tales
3 King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
4 Genesis - Seconds Out
5 Yes - Yessongs

... Waaaaiiillll and that leaves me short of so much ....

The book: much though I like Calvin my choice would, ironically, be the same as Jim's : Time Enough for Love (Robert A Heinlein). If I get busted for copying: "The Sandman (graphic novel) Neil Gaiman... unless I'm allowed a bound copy of the sheet music to all the pieces in my collection :D ...

The Object: A Steinway Grand & tuning kit (before Yesspaz points out the obvious).... if that gets me done for having two objects.. I'll settle for my flute.

[other possibilities include a lifetime supply of tranquillisers to deal with missing the rest of my albums....]

I was hoping I could make more from materials found in the environment.

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Albums:

- Ozric Tentacles: Erpland
- Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstasy
- Värttinä: Oi Dai
- Massive Attack: Mezzanine
- Hmm... probably something by Pelle Miljoona (a Finnish, somewhat punkish rock band/artist), the early 1980s production

(The early Santana, such as Abraxas and the Buddy Miles live stuff, would be great candidates as well. Among many others...)

Book: Recently I've been reading "Operating System Concepts" by Silberschatz and Galvin. Would that one help me to keep sane? Unlikely...

Let's say I would take Kalevala, the epic. :) I'm occasionally interested in mythology and old folklore, and I've never read that book, and I definitely should, some day. Looks like there would be plenty of time to read it in that island...

As for the special item, cannot think of any at the moment.


-Methem

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I'll have to look this up to see if you're actually reading something worthwhile.

I googled and found a series of PDFs. The definitions in the "clustered" section are already flawed. The definition is based on the braindamaged, flawed, and jejune capabilities of Weendoze and unix systems... True clustering is MORE than just a sharing of storage. This treatise also looks at clustering as either asymmetric or symmetric. Where's the shared everything model/view which VMS has? It's the clustering model all others wish to aspire to but cannot.

The treatment of virtual memory is pretty basic too. Page table translation is limitied to a single translation buffer lookaside in the discussions I've found. There isn't a single modern processor that is structured this way. There doesn't appear to be a discussion of multi-tiered page translation, translation buffer invalidation, granularity hints, huge paging, page protection mapping and myriad other virtual memory concepts.

Maybe you should consider another book for your desert island reading.

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Like "VAX: Less of an IT thing, more of a hoover" by William Portals :thumbsup: :rofl:

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I'd be looking for some freaking food, myself:bash:

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Can't say anything on that...

By the way, the book at least mentions VMS once in a while; probably more often than HP does... Be glad for that. :)

Well, the book, AFAIK, is used in various places such as colleges for teaching, so I guess it's relatively basic because of that. But don't worry: I'm not reading it for any exams or anything like that; just for the sake of curiosity.

Well, perhaps you could suggest something? Are, for example, Tanenbaum's books on the subject similar?

Thank you for these comments anyway.


-Methem

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On the other hand, the edition I've been reading is actually several years old. Perhaps that's the reason why VMS is still mentioned in it... :hrm:


-Methem

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WOW!! a 2 year thread boink! The new avatars keep threads looking
fresh if the date's missed.

Hmmmm... looks like I need to catchup on that Triumvirat cd,
w/ a x2 recommendation from Chris and the Dr.!

'Never known either to let me down, or waste my $$.

k

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Kirk,

If you've never heard 'Illusions on a Double Dimple' get ready. It's a classic. I turned the dear dr dot onto it when I was shocked he knew of Triumvirat but had never heard that cd. If you want to try a second one after that go for Spartucus by Triumvirat also. The Dr will confer with that prescription. :D