Piano Ponderer Gifts

School of Music. If you need perseverance to be a musician, what's all this I hear about unfinished symphonies?

"I appreciate you have a real passion for music Mr Hibberd. . . but I can see you're going to struggle with the piano."

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"Exactly how undecided would you say you were at this precise moment?"

'The organizational structure is pretty simple: We do the work; they take the credit.'

'At least I don't have his life.'

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

"Of course you can't put your finger on it. It's a hypothetical particle."

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

Thinking and thinking backwards.

"What's with kids nowadays? Walking upright's not good enough for you?"

"Sure, but what have you invented lately?"

Time, Temp, Today's Neutrino Mass

Are you aware? The Higgs Boson was thought to exist even through no one had seen it!

Mega Studios. Ideas for new movies dept. Stop goofing off and watch some television!

'It's a real conundrum. Not sure if I should open it, or beat it.'

Answers to last week's brain-teasers

'The hippiest dryads were often farouche.'

Planetary Science. What do we call the study of gas giants in space? Gastronomy.

"Big deal! My digital picture frame can hold a thousand pictures!"

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

'As is the fashion these days, it's about nothing.'

"Is there a God?"

"Well, for starters, Matt has been showing definite improvement in risk-taking."

'Though we must innovate, and though we must grow, we must never lose sight of our core mediocrities.'

'That's from the last year the data was available.'

He's very disciplined about his writing, three hours staring at a blank screen every morning and five in the afternoon.

Dorothy finds the Yellow brick road is now a 6-lane expressway.

Dr. McPhee discovers the Embarrassment Particle.

The Big Four debate banking ethics

Bizarre sights.

"It's almost as if you can get lost in it, Timmy. Timmy?"