GG Wallpaper

["Anne M. Marble" <amarble@abs.net>]

From: Anne Smith <smithqa@nexicom.net>
To: <neil@thump.org>; <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: this was on rec.music.classical.recordings and wallpaper


> Is this funny or disgusting?
> When I first checked out this page I laughed.  After reading other
people's
> comments I went back and wondered why anyone would go to the expense
and
> bother of producing such a stupid web-site.   I guess it depends on
your
> mood.

I've thought that about many Web sites! Then again, they can be so
fun. Have you seen this one?
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/

Go to this Web site, select a dialect (for example, Cockney), enter
the URL of any site, and translate that site into the selected
dialect. The F-Minor page looks great in Swedish Chef dialect! (Bork
bork bork!)

> The other day my daughter replaced my computer wallpaper of my horse
with
> red bricks.  The child has no taste.  I replaced the bricks with GG.
I used
> the picture on the LP cover of W.T.C. Volume 2.  It really looks
good. Has
> anyone else wallpapered with GG? Anne

But of course! :-> Not right now, however -- although that might
change once I get sick of the "Mystery" wallpaper that came with
Windows 98 Plus. (That's a picture of a library.) I wouldn't mind
going back to GG wallpaper.

At one point, I had a "wallpaper flipper" so that every time I turned
on the computer, I had a different picture of Glenn Gould as my
wallpaper. That doesn't work as well in Windows 98 because some
pictures obscure the icons. Especially when tiled. So when I switched
to Windows 98, I used a single picture. I, uhm, borrowed one of the
black & white drawings of Glenn Gould available at the National
Library site. (Shh, don't tell!) This was a picture of Glenn in the
woods. (In this case, the "Glenn" part of the picture was very small
because he was so far away.)
The link for the drawings and paintings is at:
http://www.gould.nlc-bnc.ca/phase3/exavier.htm

I also found a way to "incorporate" Glenn into the software program
"Catz II." That's one of those programs where I can have animated
"petz" living on my computer. They eat, meow, play, etc. One of the
"toyz" is a music box. I had some .WAV files from the Sony site, so I
changed the default tunes that the music box plays. Whenever my Catz
start up the music box, they get to listen to Glenn Gould excerpts.
Lucky animals, aren't they? It's so cute when they dance to the music.

I just got back from my parents. While I was there, I watched "Glenn
Gould the Conductor" again. I got both my parents watching the
Cantata, even my father. They were both amazed by Russell Oberlin's
singing, mostly because they had never heard a man sing like that
before.