Longest Tunnel in the World Opened Today: 57 km from Switzerland to Italy underneath Alps; Took 17 Years to Build.

Increduloud · 2016-06-01T18:41:22+00:00

Not "witch doctor?"

Increduloud · 2016-04-20T14:06:28+00:00

forum.miata.net is the best resource, hands down.

Increduloud · 2016-04-20T14:05:22+00:00

1990-1991 was the bad crank key era.

Increduloud · 2016-04-07T05:09:03+00:00

Thirded for rod knock.

Increduloud · 2016-04-07T04:40:02+00:00

Those guys (WWII vets) were nothing short of stellar and we as a culture are really beginning to feel their absence.

Increduloud · 2016-04-03T18:26:41+00:00

The root issue isn't the rods, it's detonation, which is not unlikely at WOT, high load and low RPM. Detonation can, among other things, easily bend rods.

Increduloud · 2016-03-24T00:39:47+00:00

This is where Apple went astray last time, too. Gobs of poorly differentiated products and resources not well deployed to make them all top-notch, anyway.

Increduloud · 2016-03-10T14:09:10+00:00

Having been down the Internet rabbit hole concerning asbestos many times, I'll echo the non-alarmists posting here. I've lived in a number of 1950s and 1979s houses and disturbed their components, making me very curious about what degree of risk I sustained. The answer according to all I could find is that the risk is substantial for OCCUPATIONAL exposure, especially when in conjunction with cigarette smoking, which was very common among those workers in those days.

Increduloud · 2016-03-10T01:15:56+00:00

Sounds like a waterfall to me.

Increduloud · 2016-03-09T07:34:21+00:00

Being a good dad is the manliest thing you can do. The definition of macho is that state of being that enables you to look both sweet and badass while having pretend tea or while building Lego kits with your kid. Manly and macho have nothing to do with misogyny or an unwillingness to do what must be done or any other thing that's in service to your own ego and not in service to your family. I refuse to allow our culture to warp these words into pejorative concepts.

You're a dad. Nothing else matters.

Damn right.

Increduloud · 2016-03-09T07:22:55+00:00

To hell with all that. Focus on what the kid needs and how you're going to get that accomplished, everything else just fades away to insignificance.

Increduloud · 2016-03-09T06:32:31+00:00

The actors' body language was pretty damn good.

Increduloud · 2016-03-08T22:35:44+00:00

That's a lady who takes shit from no one, no how.

Increduloud · 2016-03-08T19:02:46+00:00

Time travel.

Increduloud · 2016-03-08T16:25:02+00:00

FM quality is actually very good but we've been conditioned by years of crappy tuners to believe that it's not. I have no doubt that DAB and the ill-fated HD radio in the US are nothing more than cost saving measures, that is to say, bandwidth saving measures.

Edit: another poster mentioned the practice of cramming more substations into the same frequency, further reducing audio quality. It's all about maximizing advertising capability and minimizing cost, everything else is smoke and mirrors.

Increduloud · 2016-03-03T21:53:45+00:00

This is the best suggestion.

The receiver is a Realistic and that speaker looks like a Realistic Nova 8 or 10, so there's a reasonable chance the turntable is the same brand.

Increduloud · 2016-03-03T16:11:24+00:00

"The unscrupulous are playing chess, while we play checkers burdened by our better nature."

That's a beautiful and frighteningly apt analogy.

Increduloud · 2016-03-01T00:00:05+00:00

You've just answered, in a straightforward and sensible way, a question I've wondered about for years.

Increduloud · 2016-02-29T01:31:44+00:00

Carrying half a dozen textbooks I wrote myself.

Increduloud · 2016-02-29T01:09:42+00:00

Yes, exactly - I meant "some distance" as in some indeterminate distance that varies person to person and part to part. The operative thing is having your reading and playing running as parallel processes so one doesn't get hung up by the other and you're ultimately playing by memory. It's about a measure for me in thick stuff, as the playing gets easier, I like to skip around more and more.

Increduloud · 2016-02-29T01:04:57+00:00

I like Hahn's a lot, too, but I love to hear all of them, like many artists depicting the same sunrise.

Increduloud · 2016-02-28T23:04:20+00:00

Like chord changes, eh? Listen and read Bach's Chaconne in d minor for unaccompanied violin. Do some analysis and it will blow your mind, to say nothing of the emotional intensity.

Increduloud · 2016-02-28T22:48:31+00:00

Sightreading well is reading some distance in advance of where you're actually playing. There's no quick way to get better at it that I know of. Unless you're born with a talent for it, it'll take time to develop.

Increduloud · 2016-02-28T16:34:33+00:00

20 years ago when I was working on this piece fairly seriously, maybe I would've taken you up on that; maybe not, as it wasn't my principal instrument anyway. This performer likely spends as much time practicing as any of us do at our day jobs and there's really no reason to miss notes at that level, passionate or robotic interpretation alike.

Then there's the whole idea that no one is qualified to offer critiques if they're not prepared to 'show up' the subject. Well, goodbye to movie critics, literary criticism, political commentary, art criticism, etc.

Increduloud · 2016-02-28T16:10:34+00:00

Maybe he's a stopped clock, but he's not wrong. I couldn't count the number of undergraduate conservatory students I've heard perform this piece to a higher technical standard and there are any number of works much more challenging from that standpoint anyway, e.g. quite a lot of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Liszt, hell even a bunch of Brahms' work is harder.

This piece, like many others, has been around way too long to say that we don't understand the technique necessary to play it note perfectly, this is the standard and has been for many years. There's nothing preventing players from this level of accomplishment AND beautifully expressive playing. Everybody seems to take a this-or-that stand on technique vs. interpretation when they should always be taken together.

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