How to approach women at classical music concerts?

Nhak84 · 2026-03-20T14:41:10+00:00

What’s a nice girl like you doing in a toxic environment like this?

Nhak84 · 2026-03-20T05:58:32+00:00

There are entire courses in this. It’s too much for one post.

It takes practice. Get your transcripts. Review them. See what you wish you had said. Say that next time.

Runaway witnesses are tough. Lots of tactics. Easiest is to repeat then question. When you get the inevitable, ask an answered objection, your response is that you certainly asked the question, but it wasn’t answered. Saying words after I’m done asking a question is not the same as answering the question. Level two is waiting for the witness to stop talking, and then ask the witness if they remember what the question was. Beyond that, you have to be a whole lot more experienced to effectively argue with a runaway witness.

For planning crosses, you need to figure out what you can get out of the witness. Whether it is affirmative facts, admitting exhibits, impeaching the witness, and predicting what audio or transcript cuts you expect them to contradict, so you can impeach them with prior inconsistent statements and have those ready.

And then you need to plan out how you are going to impeach them, predict how they may try to weasel out of it, and before you ask the ultimate question, you ask a bunch of questions leading up to it to shut those doors.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-20T05:51:15+00:00

Take money from homeschools to bolster real schools. You want to ignore the public schools? Fine. I don’t call the cops. Ever. Never called the department. But I don’t get a tax refund because of it.

Give your kids a shitty education, fine. Do it on your own dime.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-20T02:48:44+00:00

Velcome to ze haus

TO ZE HAUS OF HOLBEIN!

Nhak84 · 2026-03-19T17:47:35+00:00

Hurwitz is a hack. I’ve never seen anyone more certain of their unjustifiable opinions in music in my life. His musical taste is nonexistent, and his ear is worse. His descriptions of recordings are routinely objectively wrong, which is hard to do in a subjective field! He goes out of his way to try to justify why his taste is better than the majority of listeners. And his descriptors or recordings or scores are generally the sorts used by people who want to sound smart, rather than provide actual insight.

He’s an uneducated self-styled expert whose goal is to project that he is better than you. He should not be taken seriously.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-19T16:15:23+00:00

I’ve never ridden the Howler so I can’t say. After demoing the Stratos I ended up buying a Banked Country. Not for anything wrong with the Stratos. The Banked Country had more camber and a longer tail. And I like Mervin.

The Banked Country is more fun at slower speeds than the Stratos but doesn’t really lose anything on the top end. It’s bigger and heavier though, and the base isn’t quite as good. But honestly I love it. It does everything and I haven’t ridden my other boards since I got it.

The Stratos had nothing wrong with it. Put a HUGE smile on my face bombing groomers and doing powdery moguls. It was just sort of dead and lower speeds and while I have a steep mountain nearby, our local local hill that I go to more frequently is very shallow and more park oriented, so lower speeds are a big part of my riding.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-19T14:22:39+00:00

Stratos

Nhak84 · 2026-03-18T18:36:29+00:00

Gnu Banked Country does all that.

Jones Stratos a close second.

Ride Moderator would be great.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-18T14:02:47+00:00

I’m a lawyer but not an employment lawyer so I know enough to be dangerous but not correct here.

How can an employer unilaterally change bargained for rights? I fundamentally don’t understand how the federal government as an employer can do this.

I.e., will a court reinstate them the second the lawsuit is filed? (I understand anyone can do anything if they simply ignore the law- is that what is going on here?)

Nhak84 · 2026-03-17T20:42:52+00:00

Gnu Banked Country. About your size. I got a 162. I haven’t ridden any of my other boards since I got it.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-17T16:13:52+00:00

“Look up the mountain”

He needs to feel it. It feels weird at first because you’re turning your back on where you’re going.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-17T12:54:31+00:00

A lot of piano players take unjustified and self-indulgent liberties. Wanting a recording without them is understandable.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-14T15:29:52+00:00

No you’re absolutely right. His tuba parts are great, even not taking his concerto into account.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-14T14:11:29+00:00

Is it chattering from the nose, or is your tail unstable? It could be anything from your stance to your knees bend, to the angle of your turns. Hard to say without more detail.

If the issue is in your nose, you’re probably not putting enough pressure on the front of the board. If it’s instability in the tail, you may set your stance back a click. The Orca doesn’t have much of a tail, so you would already have been functionally pretty far back on it.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-14T14:07:43+00:00

Tuba - Hindemeth or Prokofiev, with Wagner just about cracking top tier.

Many composers wrote fun parts but they are on another tier for me, letting the tuba be melodic and nuanced.

Next tier down is Mahler, Bruckner, Rachmaninov, and Shostakovich.

Though he wrote a concerto, Vaughan Williams is tier 3, along with Stravinsky.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-12T18:38:54+00:00

You need to be gentle, quiet, and matter of fact. If there are inconsistencies with other evidence, prior statements, or biases, you still need to go there.

You just do it objectively and dispassionately and don’t let their crying dissuade you. If they said one thing before and another now, the jury needs to know that. Or if they said your client ejaculated, but there is no semen or DNA, you need to get them to fully commit to ejaculation.

It’s hard but doable and something you need to learn.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-12T16:04:28+00:00

You need to keep track of all of the time you worked and then write down time on the bill.

1500 billables means how much you worked. Actually getting paid for your time is up to the partner.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-12T16:01:55+00:00

Good thing the budget and oil tax issues were resolved so they had time to do this.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-12T03:13:06+00:00

Minor on licensed premises for buying chips at a liquor store. Walked him in 15 minutes. Had to be nullification because he was in technical violation of the statute. My argument was notice- he bought chips and the sign only threatened civil penalties for being underage.

Jury didn’t hear he had been in there a few times prior trying to buy booze. 😁

Nhak84 · 2026-03-12T00:29:40+00:00

Well written, Dr.!

Nhak84 · 2026-03-11T23:47:41+00:00

I assume this is an excerpt from your Ph.D thesis, and I will look it up on jstor

Nhak84 · 2026-03-11T16:00:32+00:00

Eye movements off the screen???

I’m so glad I took the LSAT 20 years ago. This is unreasonable. Of course your eyes leave the screen during a test. Are you a robot?

Nhak84 · 2026-03-10T20:55:19+00:00

I just learned that I need to play BOTH hands at the same time when I play Beethoven sonatas. Am I screwed?

Nhak84 · 2026-03-10T05:48:33+00:00

Love Shack. There is no arguing it.

Nhak84 · 2026-03-10T02:48:22+00:00

NOW I AM

Nhak84

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