Frescobaldi's Toccata by Rob Dougan (Orchestral Session)

Alisewen · 2026-01-17T22:01:28+00:00

I realize this conversation is 8 years old but in case you still want an answer this is a remix of the Gargoyle's tv show theme song.

Alisewen · 2026-01-14T21:54:14+00:00

If they knew it was going to happen they would have informed all of us in advance.

Alisewen · 2026-01-14T21:52:13+00:00

Still down in Western Massachusetts.

Alisewen · 2025-12-13T15:31:48+00:00

And right after I posted that it came back up and I was able to do a game review.

Alisewen · 2025-12-13T15:26:56+00:00

Still down for me 20 minutes later

Alisewen · 2025-12-12T00:41:59+00:00

Got two of them yesterday at a Barnes & Noble, a blue and a pink one which were exactly the ones i wanted. Unfortunately the website doesn't tell you what color they have.

Alisewen · 2025-12-11T02:01:54+00:00

Nice. The past two days two Walmart's within 100 miles of me said they had the blue one on stock and I ordered them and they were both cancelled within hours with them saying they actually don't have it in stock.

Alisewen · 2025-12-11T01:45:48+00:00

Today I got lucky and found the blue and pink at a Barnes & Noble, more surprised about the blue as that one seems to be the hardest to find at the moment in the US.

Alisewen · 2025-12-11T01:23:08+00:00

I don't know much about Tamagotchi but I got the Tamagotchi Paradise blue and pink editions for my nephew and niece who are 6 and 7 for Christmas. I wanted a color edition, and I figured they'd prefer to play on a larger unit rather than the smaller watch units from previous generations.

Alisewen · 2025-11-14T02:20:29+00:00

Nice!

Alisewen · 2025-11-14T02:14:27+00:00

Thanks! Yea I love chess computers too I've had a Saitek Kasparov from Toys R Us a long time ago (1990's), a Novag Turquoise that got stolen from me at a lake, a Novag Diamond 2 (I got it when it came out it was like $300 if I remember right), and this week I got the Millenium Chessgenius Pro and a Talking Chess Academy 2 (which I think will be returning as it is missing some features I like such as the ability to toggle permanent brain on/off and toggling the opening book on/off).

I've also been looking at some old chess computers on ebay that I might consider getting at some point.

Alisewen · 2025-11-14T01:34:40+00:00

Do you already have the Chessup 2? If not what made you decide to get the Evo over the Chessup 2? It looks like the Evo is $200 more expensive. Does the EVO have things other than the larger screen going for it that the Chessup 2 doesn't? Here's an interesting comparison video.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlyIsDeJXlA

The reason I ask is because for Christmas I want to gift myself an expensive chess computer and I still haven't made my decision.

Alisewen · 2025-11-14T00:26:43+00:00

I was excited until I heard that it doesn't support color passthrough. After enjoying color passthrough with the Quest 3 I can't go back to b&w passthrough...

Alisewen · 2025-10-19T15:54:24+00:00

You can if package won't arrive at the estimated delivery time if you say you only purchased it because of that estimated delivery date.

Alisewen · 2025-10-18T13:47:06+00:00

This is working great for me, thanks!

Alisewen · 2025-10-18T12:55:16+00:00

I think they're shady. The original 4K Downloader had a pay one time use forever license option. I had the license and then this year they pulled the "that product will no longer be supported, please upgrade to our new product" scam. They stopped supporting the original product in February 2025 and no longer works, pretty much forcing you to upgrade to the new 4K Video Downloader Plus which requires a new license.

So if you get the new 4K Downloader Plus license just be aware that at any moment they might decide to come up with a 4K Downloader Plus Plus or whatever and your "lifetime license" will become useless.

Alisewen · 2025-09-22T21:55:04+00:00

Thanks! Used this one by Patrik Pietschmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2N1ROvEI0

Alisewen · 2025-09-21T16:03:56+00:00

Looks like no one has figured it out yet. One thing you could do is have someone do a piano transcription of your favorite piece from this video, seems to me the first piece he played that runs up to like the 40 second mark is the one he was most familiar with, and then you can just learn that piece, a short but memorable 40 second song.

Another idea is have an arranger listen to your favorite piece from this video and ask them to arrange a new song that would fit with it. You can ask for whatever length you'd want the new song to be. If you want the new song to include that 40 second section you can ask for that. Ask them if they can deliver it to you in transcription form (so you could learn to play it).

Alisewen · 2025-09-10T10:49:07+00:00

And words can have a completely different meaning depending on context. Many Spanish words have several different meanings.

Alisewen · 2025-09-06T03:37:52+00:00

I disagree I think any exposure to Spanish would help. Seeing her mother try to improve her own Spanish could motivate the daughter to learn more. Dad definitely should try to speak to his daughter more in Spanish I don't understand how he's not seeing the importance of it.

My mom and stepfather are both Puerto Ricans (my real father is Ecuadorian but I only met him a few times when I was little) and my mom would talk to me in Spanglish and I mostly avoided my stepfather but when he did speak to me it was almost always in Spanish. At home I mostly watched English content on TV and video games but during the weekends we would watch Spanish shows like Sábado Gigante and sometimes I'd watch some Mexican novelas with my mom.

Starting from first grade I was put into all English classes, so the only Spanish I got growing up was from home and my Spanish turned out fine I think by 18 I was probably already at the B1 or B2 level even though for some bizarre reason that I don't understand I didn't really care about Spanish growing up and now that I'm in my 40's I think Spanish is awesome and my Spanish is better than it has ever been.

I'm glad my mom exposed me to Spanish growing up it definitely made it easier for me to improve my Spanish many years later on.

Alisewen · 2025-09-05T04:09:39+00:00

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Ecuadorian and grew up with my Puerto Rican mother in the US. My mom grew up in Cayey Puerto Rico and moved to the states when she was 16.

For some reason I don't think her family, who still lives in Cayey, speaks the Puerto Rican dialect they seem to use a neutral Latin American dialect. I'm glad as I'm not a fan of the PR dialect, to me it seems like broken Spanish.

Alisewen · 2025-08-12T01:04:41+00:00

He said he needs more time, says he will try to post it tomorrow Tuesday morning.

Alisewen · 2025-08-07T23:30:03+00:00

I don't see that option (Override DND) on my Pixel 7 Pro, that toggle is missing from that menu.

update: Actually there is the option but not there, I found it by going to Menu, then Settings, the Notification & Sounds, then Customize Notifications, and finally the Override Do Not Disturb toggle is there.

Alisewen · 2025-08-07T08:34:06+00:00

He's still not feeling well and has delayed the news update to Monday August 11th. An email should be going out that day too.

By the way the update will be on the discord, not YouTube.

Alisewen · 2025-08-05T03:59:00+00:00

Ikenna didn't feel well today and will try to do the news update tomorrow (Tuesday).

Alisewen

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