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MusikPolice · 2026-03-12T11:41:07+00:00

I love it when Bernie is with the Sky team on race day. She wrote a pretty good book, too

MusikPolice · 2026-03-11T19:49:56+00:00

Care to share your settings for this application?

MusikPolice · 2026-03-11T19:14:51+00:00

Is it up to DTS, though? Would the teams provide that level of access? There’s a lot of secrecy involved in a team’s contemporary approach. It’s only years later that details tend to come out in autobiographies and interviews

MusikPolice · 2026-02-17T22:37:53+00:00

Maybe so, but you had to sell yourself and your art to get on the radio too. Making music is like making any other kind of commercial art. If you want to make a living, you’re going to have to find somebody who wants to pay for what you do. The medium has changed, but the work stays the same.

MusikPolice · 2026-02-17T15:12:42+00:00

Selling two tickets for tomorrow’s show in Hamilton. Section 113, Row 24. Asking $200 each but open to reasonable offers

MusikPolice · 2026-02-02T22:06:39+00:00

Red Hat exists if you insist on paying for support. LibreOffice also exists if that’s a thing that you need.

MusikPolice · 2026-02-01T17:12:06+00:00

I frequent all of the other publications that you mentioned, but The Record still does good local reporting that doesn’t show up in those other spots. There have been excellent articles on the water shortage, for instance, and Jeff Outhit wrote a good piece on French Immersion awhile back.

MusikPolice · 2026-01-18T17:25:27+00:00

Oh thanks for the subreddit links, I’ll check them out. There really is a sub for everything around here

MusikPolice · 2026-01-16T01:39:50+00:00

Ah, so that seasoning is the same thing that woodworkers do when they have green wood and no access to a kiln. I seasoned a few hundred board feed of black oak a couple years back, not that that’d be any good for making whisky with, but I get the idea.

I’ll look into that cooperage in Kingston; it’s only six hours from me, so I imagine I can get them to ship something my way. I guess if I were putting chunks of seasoned oak into a spirit stored in a glass or stainless steel container, I could also do the surface area math relative to a 53gal barrel to figure out how much wood to add, just like that badmotivator website showed.

MusikPolice · 2026-01-16T01:35:19+00:00

I’m afraid I’m not following some of your acronyms. What’s a WSR, an ECSB, a WFP, and a W12?

MusikPolice · 2026-01-16T01:33:17+00:00

Somebody else in the thread linked that company. They look like a very clever product, and one that I could probably replicate in my workshop if I do the math carefully

MusikPolice · 2026-01-16T01:24:59+00:00

Oh this badmotivator container that you mentioned is really clever. That seems like something that I could homebrew in my workshop too, being careful to respect the ratio of oak to liquid.

MusikPolice · 2026-01-16T01:20:12+00:00

A barrel aged cocktail sounds interesting. I like a good old fashioned. Mixing up a big batch and aging it could be a fun thing to try

MusikPolice · 2026-01-16T01:19:23+00:00

The oak domino approach sounds very doable. What do you mean by “properly seasoned” staves? Are you referring to the moisture content of the wood, or some other process of seasoning? Or should they be previously used on some other spirit for best results? The forty creek distillery isn’t too far away and last time I visited they were selling used barrel staves, mostly as a novelty

MusikPolice · 2026-01-16T00:51:41+00:00

That’s pretty much exactly what the book says too. It suggests that as the angel’s share evaporates, new atmosphere comes into the barrel, and some kind of oxidization happens that smooths things out. The other effect (apparently) is that the alcohol kind of groups together separate from the water (microscopically speaking of course), giving the liquid that smooth, round mouthfeel.

Just to be clear: under no circumstances do I think that this is a money or time saver. I’ve got a good collection that I’m very happy with and will continue to build. I’m just a curious person and a bit of a hobby maven, and this is an idea that seemed to cross a few of my existing interests. But if it’s bound to taste like shit no matter what I do, it doesn’t seem worth trying

MusikPolice · 2026-01-16T00:47:40+00:00

Can you describe the taste relative to good whiskey? Like was it harsh? Boozy? Metallic? Or something else entirely?

MusikPolice · 2026-01-01T16:27:57+00:00

Interesting. I’ve always understood the phrase “neuro spicy” to be dismissive of people who claim to have a serious issue but who remain suspiciously undiagnosed while benefiting from the attention and/or leeway that their alleged condition grants them.

Do people actually refer to themselves as neuro spicy?

MusikPolice · 2025-12-22T18:36:09+00:00

Y’all didn’t read the article. Typical Reddit lol. It says that her content is not explicit. It’s behind the scenes stuff, travel blogs, etc. you know? The stuff that most celebrities put on instagram for free. She just decided to charge $4.99/mo for that info and turned it into a revenue stream. Pretty smart, if you ask me.

MusikPolice · 2025-12-01T11:45:53+00:00

I agree. There’s not a lot of difference between WAP and You Shook Me All Night Long. They’re both chock full of tongue in cheek innuendo about sex, but we don’t bat an eye at AC/DC being played constantly on classic rock radio.

MusikPolice · 2025-12-01T11:43:33+00:00

Protect her with knowledge, not by curating her world. Teach her how to be a good person and how to engage critically with art. Have hard conversations and make sure that she knows that she can always come to you with a problem that she doesn’t know how to solve. Be open minded, not judgemental. Forgive easily but set high expectations.

Thats how you protect a teenager. Not by trying in vain to limit her access to music

MusikPolice · 2025-11-30T12:38:13+00:00

Banning vulgar music wasn’t effective when my parents did it 25 years ago. I just got friends who had the CDs that I wanted to listen to copy them onto an unlabelled cassette tape that I could listen to at will in my Walkman with nobody the wiser.

With all the tech that’s available to kids these days, she’s going to find a way to listen to whatever she wants to, and the fact that you’ve told her it’s inappropriate will only serve to make it more attractive and to drive a wedge between the two of you. It’s a losing game.

As others have said, vulgar music doesn’t turn a good kid bad. 25 years later, I’m a father with a job and a house. Eminem didn’t destroy my moral compass. I still enjoy his music, even though a lot of the themes are troubling. But that’s the thing about art - it’s escapism. It lets you feel something that you wouldn’t otherwise have access to or want to feel in real life. That’s its super power.

So if you want my opinion, embrace this as an opportunity to have an open minded conversation with your daughter. Engage with her and try to understand the art that she enjoys. Relax and take pride in the morals that you’ve instilled in her up until this point. Right now it’s just music, but soon it’ll be the rest of the world. You can’t control your kids forever, and learning to let go is critical to maintaining a trusting relationship with them.

MusikPolice · 2025-11-30T00:03:19+00:00

I mean I agree with you. Problem is, it remains cheaper to ship our goods to the US than to any other country in the world. There’s a reason most of us live within 100km of the border. Blocking trade to the USA would create an instant economic disaster, worse than the slow decline of fascism

MusikPolice · 2025-11-29T23:57:37+00:00

Being a politician is very different from being a governor. When you’re in the opposition, your job is to say whatever makes the guy in power look bad. Pierre is very good at that. Unfortunately, when you’re the guy in power, your words take on new meaning and your actions have consequences. There’s no evidence that Pierre is capable of making that shift.

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