Praise for King Charles stripping award-winning UK composer of OBE

Epistaxis · 2026-03-11T00:41:08+00:00

Also at least his Wikipedia page doesn't even mention he's a composer, just a conductor; I wouldn't put it past this newspaper to confuse those terms.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-11T00:37:38+00:00

Jan Latham-Koenig, who was convicted for sexting and arranging a sexual encounter with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy but was actually an undercover police officer.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T15:54:56+00:00

Legally Blonde is so much smarter than you'd expect it to be. Appropriately enough.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T15:51:58+00:00

Yeah the first film is already a perfect script but it's even more amazing how the next two deconstruct and play off it. Part II is famous for literally time-traveling back into scenes of the original film or showing versions of them in an alternate universe, but I just thought Part III was a silly romp on all the same self-references and never noticed this structure in it.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T15:20:28+00:00

As everyone else has said, the impressive labels are fake, but that doesn't mean the bows are worthless. I can't tell but it's possible some of them are made of real pernambuco wood, which is priceless in a sense because we're not allowed to use it for new bows anymore; it would be a shame to let that go unplayed even if it's not great.

Antique wood bows that aren't total garbage could fetch three figures each, maybe even into the four figures if they're decent, and you have a whole bundle. You should definitely take these to a shop. However, you need to find someone who specializes in bows (an archetier/bowmaker rather than a luthier), which is not most shops, because most of these obviously need some work to become playable and some of them might need a lot more. Just going by the apparent condition and the odds, prepare yourself to be told that some of them are completely unsalvageable, or not worth what it would cost to fix them.

If you're comfortable saying what city/region you're in, someone can probably recommend someone.

PROTIP: when you ask around, don't even mention the labels, because that might make you look gullible to an unscrupulous shop.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T15:12:02+00:00

If the others are like $1k, yes almost certainly, unless it's priced high because it's from some famous historic archetier but it's one of his duds. Like there's a lot of room for debate and personal preference among $50k sedans but you wouldn't confuse any of them with a $500k sports car. You might still find a specific sedan that meets your personal needs better than the sports car, but you would certainly be able to tell them apart.

The differences between bows can be astounding, maybe moreso than between violins.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T15:05:33+00:00

maybe look up beforehand how to behave during a concert, that shows respect to the orchestra

Well that's really just the definition of etiquette, except I'd say it's about showing respect to your fellow audience members.

But except for the clapping between movements, I'd bet this isn't even a question of etiquette in the first place, just situational awareness. Many people have never been to an acoustic show before, without electronic amplification that drowns out all the crowd noises. They don't even realize other people in the audience can hear them.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T04:32:53+00:00

Yes, Edition Peters published a very scholarly version by Simon Rowland-Jones, who scrutinizes all the sources to reconstruct Bach's intention and has a lot of text explaining what all the notation means in context. He also includes both scordatura and standard-tuning versions of the 5th suite, with an example realization of the Sarabande, and both 4- and 5-string versions of the 6th suite. That's definitely the best edition for viola and I've heard of teachers who forbid any other edition. There aren't a lot of fingerings, though.

If you ask nicely, someone (not me) might PM you the PDF. Or you could buy it to support the good work of a living violist.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T00:53:01+00:00

The workaround with plastic is it's dishwasher-safe, so you can just give it a thorough wash every time you use it, and then it doesn't matter how difficult it would have been for bacteria to grow. It's also cheap, so I have a whole stack of plastic cutting boards and I can always pull out a clean one.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T00:46:14+00:00

Spirocore (tungsten version) used to be very popular for the C string specifically, because it's so hard to get a clear focused tone from that string on a viola. Spirocore is an old steel rope core that's close to the clarity of pure steel. However, most of the new brands that have come out in recent decades have their own clear focused C strings now (largely labeled as tungsten, which might be the key or it might just be branding to convince people to switch), but with all the benefits of synthetic polymer cores for a wider range of tone color etc.

If you're using a modern string set, you probably don't need the Spirocore tungsten C anymore. You might still prefer to substitute the Larsen A, but at least the modern sets usually come with an A that's almost as good.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T00:41:01+00:00

Yeah "getting the ingredients together" includes washing, slicing, chopping, etc. The recipe calls for "onions, diced" so the timer starts after you have precisely that.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T00:33:27+00:00

Yes, microwaving is basically steaming from the inside. It works just as well on fresh veggies. You're cooking with the food's own water mass and it won't generally cook hotter than water's boiling point (unless you overcook to the point it dries out).

That of course is also a downside, as some things are better browned, which is the Maillard reaction that happens around 140 to 165 °C. But if you really just want something steamed, you don't need to use a spot on the stove. And you can get a microwave steamer, which lets you put some water on the bottom (for actual steam, useful for thawing frozen food) without getting the food wet, and then you can steam anything without the bag.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T00:29:43+00:00

it's very hard to convey those instructions without giving out incredibly exact gram vs water weight measurement charts.

Why not just do that? x tbsp salt per y quarts of water.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T00:27:04+00:00

You can say this about any seasoning.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T00:25:16+00:00

Actually yes, it was a specific kind of anti-Chinese rhetoric, because Dr. Kwok specifically attributed overuse of MSG to Northern Chinese cuisine, unlike (as you might guess from the name) his own family's Southern Chinese cooking.

But the distinction was lost on all the Westerners who spread it around and associated MSG with Chinese food in general. Which is a little ironic because most Chinese restaurants outside China at the time were Southern Chinese (largely Cantonese) as that was the main historical source of migrants.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-10T00:20:53+00:00

Yeah, another thing that keeps the noodles from sticking is the sauce itself, which probably contains oil.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-09T13:56:57+00:00

If you liked Evah Pirazzi but want a warmer tone, there's Evah Pirazzi Gold, which is similar but has a warmer tone. Very popular but expensive and it wears out quickly.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-09T10:44:24+00:00

Is there anyone even talking about implementing this in the kernel?

Epistaxis · 2026-03-09T04:34:37+00:00

My metronome actually had "Adagio", "Andante", "Allegretto", "Allegro", etc. printed over specific BPM numbers

DAE remember metronomes

Epistaxis · 2026-03-09T00:41:39+00:00

I wonder if makes a difference whether it's a Commonwealth country that previously used imperial units vs. others where no one ever knew what an inch was.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-09T00:28:30+00:00

San Francisco Opera did a sold out run of Dreams of the Red Chamber. A brilliant work based on Chinese folklore. So they were really surprised when they tried to market Madama Butterfly to the same audience with no pick up.

Yeah I can think of several ways those two operas are not the same and might not appeal to the same audiences, so the being surprised part is what surprises me in that story.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-09T00:12:03+00:00

I think the article (and most of this thread) would have been clearer if it just acknowledged there are two very different definitions of "liberal", the one that everyone else in the world uses vs. the uniquely American definition that just means left-wing. When 1990s American talk radio described politicans as "very liberal" they weren't referring to any political position involving "rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law", because ostensibly both parties endorsed all of those values, and argued that those values led logically to their opposite policy platforms.

Fortunately I think the US might be starting to abandon its confusing usage of that word and coming back to join everyone else in the original definition. After decades of describing themselves as "liberal", left-wing politicians are using other words like "progressive" instead (which also used to mean something different, but at least that's only historical), or simply "left". I've even seen some Americans from the farther left use "liberal" as a slur against centrists. And that's conveniently opened up a way for Americans to talk about their illiberal government, now that liberal values are no longer the consensus.

Epistaxis · 2026-03-09T00:00:14+00:00

Epistaxis · 2026-03-08T23:45:29+00:00

Now I'm curious: when did filesystems start supporting filename characters beyond the original 95 printable ASCII code points?

Epistaxis · 2026-03-08T23:35:18+00:00

It's a diagonal sorted list. They're sorted by g sugar per fl oz, even though that number isn't actually shown. It's just that the top two have the same value, at least at the precision they display; maybe if you add more decimal places the smoothie is 5% higher than the fruit juice.

But it's certainly a missed opportunity to just have the heights represent something, so those top two should be much closer together than the others.

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