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02-18-2024, 09:44 PM
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Re: Miscellany
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1. My wife would kill me (justifiably) if I wore those to a wedding.
2. I think the wedding party would also hate me.
3. I'd hate myself, too.
I did go out and buy a pair of shoes, ones that Mrs. Reasons looked online for so they meet her approval. I didn't break the bank. They seem to be pretty nice, but maybe not Vimes' Boot Theory nice. They'll probably last 10 years because they'll get worn infrequently.
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02-20-2024, 12:10 AM
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That would have been my recommendation, if I hadn't just caught up on this thread - take the coward's way out and find some cheap dress shoes that can at least last the one day.
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02-25-2024, 11:44 PM
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EMERGENCY
We went to see Beethoven's 9th yesterday, and in the percussion section, there was aiant cylinder suspended on a frame so it could be turned with a large hand crank. It looked like it maybe had some kind of slats on the surface, but I can't be sure. The guy playing xylophone or glockenspiel or whatever was also playing this instrument during some parts where the music is swelling. I couldn't totally discern the exact sound it made, but it did seem to give it a kind of vaguely rumbling quality.
I have asked four people in person, I looked up the instruments played in Beethoven's ninth, the instruments listed by the Colorado Symphony, scanned through the whole list of percussion instruments listed on Wikipedia, read several threads from old music forums, and searched around a site called odd music or something that I already closed, tried a thousand different search terms, and am no closer. It is not a hurdy gurdy, of course. I know what a hurdy gurdy looks like because I am not a fool.
The closest thing I can think of is that it reminded me of this:
Except obviously it was smaller, like maybe 4 or 5 feet tall, with a hand crank instead of a fire, and possibly slats instead of horns. And I'm almost positive it was made of wood.
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02-26-2024, 12:06 AM
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Adequately Crumbulent
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Re: Miscellany
lisarea only comes by to exploit our obscure instrument knowledge: But I don't even know what a hurdy gurdy looks like.
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02-26-2024, 12:33 AM
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"Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy", he sang
We had a child-sized one when I was a kid, and I could even kind of play it.
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02-26-2024, 09:06 AM
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02-26-2024, 04:04 PM
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I must have missed that one. I don't think it had that fabric cover part on it, so it would have sounded different, but it's definitely what it looked like apart from that.
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02-26-2024, 06:10 PM
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But I don't even know what a hurdy gurdy looks like.
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God, man. Even if you're too young to have been subjected to Donovan, did Bugs Bunny cartoons teach you nothing?
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02-26-2024, 07:54 PM
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Sorry my Bugs lore is not up to snuff.
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02-26-2024, 09:29 PM
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The YouTubes don't have the full episode, but it's available here:
Bugs Bunny - Hurdy-Gurdy Hare - Dailymotion Video
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02-26-2024, 10:17 PM
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Re: Miscellany
The Bugs Bunny instrument, in that cartoon, is more like a barrel organ - it only has to be cranked and requires no musical ability by the player, other than cranking it at the correct speed.
A true hurdy-gurdy still has to be cranked, but also needs to be played, using a set of keys similar to those on a piano. Usually, the person playing a hurdy-gurdy cranks it with one hand while playing the notes using the other hand.
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02-27-2024, 06:54 AM
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02-28-2024, 03:43 PM
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02-29-2024, 01:57 PM
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03-04-2024, 10:47 PM
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Holy shit, I have to have this. But not from Amazon, and definitely not for that fucking price. But I will have it before I die, this I vow.
Before even steam-powered modems, in the Before Time, I only ever knew this movie as "Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster." 7-year-old me thought this was the greatest thing ever, even though I knew then that the non-animated cartoon montage of the monster changing form was a cheap copout. This even has the spheres Gojira pulls out of Hedorah's final form, AND OMG the flying form is a separate piece. I would have flat-out murdered somebody to have this set then, but this also pre-dated direct TV-to-merch tie-ins, at least pervasive and effective ones. Plus a faithful reproduction of the Big G's most adorable form, fuck the rest of you nerds, Showa Era forever.
Given a time machine, I would definitely give this set to my younger self, and then, y'know, kill Hitler or whatever.
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03-16-2024, 07:38 AM
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03-19-2024, 05:52 PM
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An economist is predicting recession and people don’t believe him.
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"I feel like I'm Christopher Columbus in 1492 standing in front of Isabella Ferdinand, trying to tell them: No, the world isn't flat," he told CNBC in an interview on Monday.
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Recession Outlook: Why a Recession Is More Likely Than a Boom This Year
This doesn’t engender confidence. I get that dude isn’t a historian, but the fact is that every educated person at the time knew the earth was round. They laughed at Columbus because he thought the earth was much smaller than accepted estimates(as if the Americas weren’t there)
By invoking Columbus, he is accidentally arguing that he might be accidentally correct.
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03-26-2024, 10:22 PM
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Dunking on the Tesla Cybertruck and Elon "Jews will not replace us" Musk definitely qualifies as picking the low-handing fruit, but it's pretty goddamn lulzy just the same.
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03-27-2024, 04:25 AM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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To be fair to Musk *one* Carrot isn't really that hard to... Hmmm, I see the only way to avoid arbitration is to physically mail in an opt out form within thirty days of purchase.
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04-03-2024, 08:53 AM
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04-04-2024, 09:10 AM
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Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor | Japan | The Guardian
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The study, led by Hiroshi Yoshida, a professor of economy at Tohoku University, projected that if Japan continues to insist that couples select a single surname, every single Japanese person will be known as “Sato-san” by 2531.
Yoshida conceded that his projections were based on several assumptions, but said the idea was to use numbers to explain the present system’s potential effects on Japanese society to draw attention to the issue.
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Bold of him to think people care about what will happen in 500 years. Or to think politicians will care about what happens beyond the next election.
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04-08-2024, 10:54 PM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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I found this interesting,
The new science of death: 'There's something happening in the brain that makes no sense' | Death and dying | The Guardian April 2024
Before I stopped I was working on the conjecture that serotonergenic hallucinogens were tapping a 'near death network' that evolved in part as a 'fuck let's never do that again' type of maker and breaker of loops and have gone so far as to argue that near death experiences should be studied as a type of 'non-consensual dosing.'
While this article doesn't really touch on that, it does talk about a patient who was taken off life support in an FMRI and appears to have had the brain activity of a near death experience (there's conjecture about what they might have experienced, but I find people often project a lot onto the dying based on their experience of being fully alive). With a study on Psilocybin currently looking for patients to take large doses while in an FMRI it will be interesting to compare.
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04-19-2024, 09:28 PM
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Re: Miscellany
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Dunking on the Tesla Cybertruck and Elon "Jews will not replace us" Musk definitely qualifies as picking the low-hanging fruit, but it's pretty goddamn lulzy just the same.
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The recall population includes all Model Year (“MY”) 2024 Cybertruck vehicles manufactured from November 13, 2023, to April 4, 2024.
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On affected vehicles, when high force is applied to the pad on the accelerator pedal, the pad may dislodge, which may cause the pedal to become trapped in the interior trim above the pedal.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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04-20-2024, 05:15 AM
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Re: Miscellany
All 3800(+) of them.
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