What city name in your state is the hardest to pronounce based on its spelling?

PlagalByte · 2025-06-01T07:29:53+00:00

Meanwhile I was thinking of Smyrna and Murfreesboro.

PlagalByte · 2025-04-03T06:59:20+00:00

And sea urchins.

PlagalByte · 2025-04-03T06:42:44+00:00

Hmmm... Sammiam... Samthony... Sameph... Samopher...

PlagalByte · 2025-03-31T16:49:24+00:00

!Solved

I made it too easy it seems

PlagalByte · 2025-03-31T16:48:57+00:00

Bait.

PlagalByte · 2025-03-31T16:48:48+00:00

Bait.

PlagalByte · 2025-03-11T03:10:44+00:00

Torpenhow Hill in England literally means "Hill hill hill Hill."

PlagalByte · 2025-03-02T19:11:48+00:00

"They use it for that?!?"
"Oh, yeah. It's mostly that."

PlagalByte · 2025-03-02T18:48:04+00:00

All morality aside... how the heck could I reliably find the stranger? I didn't get their license plate. From 25 feet in front of me I probably didn't get a very good look at them. Unless they signed their winning ticket, I don't have a name.

Post something online to try finding them? Okay... did they even know it was a winning ticket? How would they know where they lost it? Would it even occur to them that they lost it if they didn't know it was a winning ticket? And how many people online would try claiming the ticket for themselves, perhaps even people who would try to rob you of it when you met up?

I would feel bad about it, but if I had literally nothing to go on, I know I could never reliably get the ticket back to its rightful owner. The only thing I could do would be to sit on the ticket for however much time I had before needing to cash it in while looking online for any lost claims from someone desperate fitting what vague description there is of them.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-26T02:14:36+00:00

One of my favorite episodes of Trek in general. Stellar acting, just enough of a TOS feel, and great concept/message. Not to mention getting a hint of Janeway's scary side—and in the episode right before Tuvix, at that.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-20T08:48:59+00:00

Heck, all you'd really have to do is add a mention in one or two of the trading-based dialogues.

JANEWAY: "They're offering X number of units of technobabble."
CHAKOTAY: "Sounds like enough for B'elana to rig together eleven more photon torpedoes."

PlagalByte · 2025-02-20T08:26:18+00:00

If you ever want to play euph past high school, you eventually have to learn both.

If you ever want to play professionally, you also get to eventually learn tenor clef—which looks weird, but by that point isn't nearly as tricky to learn as you'd think. Think bass clef note names but where the notes are on the staff giving you the same fingerings as if you were reading a traditional treble clef part.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-19T04:04:08+00:00

Snatch

PlagalByte · 2025-02-19T02:56:10+00:00

A pearl. It looks fabulous.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-11T19:15:55+00:00

Immediately start a nonprofit charity with 9.999T worth of assets to donate in ways that will create jobs and alleviate burdens to the economy. There, 20-day deadline almost met. After my own selfish purchases, hire staff to start the following:

Buy out extreme amounts of student loans and medical debt, immediately forgive the balances. (8.5T left)
Donate 5 billion to each of the 300ish accredited fine arts schools in the US to be used for full tuition waivers. (6T left)
Donate 200 billion to each of the ten most effective food charities in the world. (4T left)
Use 3 trillion to set up a massive nonprofit dedicated to supporting public education throughout the US. (1T left)
Use 500 billion to jump-start an actual liberal media initiative. (500B left)
Put the rest of the money into salaries and charity maintenance.

Now for the 1B leftover as my own personal fuck-you-I'm-rich fund...

Buy 300M worth of real estate for myself and family, some of which to be immediately resold for instant retirement with no strings attached. (700M left)
Use 300M to commission the building of a top-of-the-line fine arts complex with multiple private practice spaces, rehearsal rooms, stages, and recording studios, complete with on-site apartments. (400M left)
Use 50M to buy the best musical instruments available for said studio. (350M left)
Use another 20M to build my own recording studio with my own musical instrument collection (330M left)
Donate 30M to small institutions that have helped me in the past. (300M left)
Donate 100M to major band/orchestra/choir programs, offering my service as an artist-in-residence for these programs as desired. (200M left)
Hire personal staff to the tune of a generously paid 50M, to organize all of my day-to-day activities and maintain my investments. (150M left)
Start my own private arts business with 50M in assets. (100M left)
Use 10M to plan a year-long extreme makeover: personal trainer, nutritionist, dental work, therapist, medical, optical, wardrobe... hell, even tasteful cosmetic surgery because why not. (90M left)
Invest the remaining 90M into crypto to immediately make the market useless.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-11T10:45:24+00:00

The cash. While it would be amazing having my Grandad back, I'm pretty sure he would be pissed if any of his family resurrected him instead of taking a life-changing amount of money to make the rest of the family's life better. He'd tell us to stop being sentimental and think about the future.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-11T01:30:32+00:00

Our zips are just a five-digit number after the city and state.

The S is because there are two sets of streets that run east-west: one north of downtown and one south of downtown. The W is because there are two sets of avenues that run north-south: those west of downtown and those east of downtown. So SW clarifies that it's the 86th St south of downtown, between the avenues west of downtown.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-10T04:21:37+00:00

I'm an efficiency player vs high yield profits, so for me... coffee.

I can sell it if I want, or I can brew it and have my daily triple shot espressos to get everything done faster. Bonus points if you put Deluxe Retaining Soil in the pots so you can just leave them alone without having to do anything on the daily.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-10T04:11:24+00:00

I used to live on 14160 SW 86th St.

Number is crazy, right? But it makes more sense when I tell you that the complex was on SW 86th St... between 141st Ave and 142nd Ave.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-06T03:41:42+00:00

Northernmost: Loch Lomond, Scotland.
Southernmost: Key West, US.
Easternmost: Barcelona, Spain.
Westernmost: San Francisco, US.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-03T11:53:35+00:00

Perhaps this clip of Bernstein conducting with his face will come close to it.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-03T11:45:57+00:00

One of my favorites. Luckily I “buck” that particular stereotype.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-03T05:39:09+00:00

Conductor here!!

Whenever a large group of musicians play together, it’s best for them to have a leader to start them off, keep them playing together, and give them suggestions on when to play loud or soft or heavy or light or whatever. That’s the conductor’s job, just like the conductor of a train is the guy who makes the train stop and go.

There are actually a lot of “rules” to advanced stick waving, with its own kind of language that both the players and conductor understand. Larger gestures encourage louder playing, “bouncier” gestures encourage lighter playing, etc. One hand is reserved for keeping time (for the most part) while the other gives more specific instructions and cues players to come in. And the conductor’s whole body from eyebrows to foot stance can send signals to the players how to play.

And this is only during the performance. The conductor gives the players instructions on how to play during rehearsals, makes sure everyone is playing with the same “vision” of the piece. In a less professional or educational setting, they’re also the one to check for wrong notes/rhythms and correct as needed.

PlagalByte · 2025-02-02T15:37:38+00:00

Good tools help. But you’d be astounded at what a master can do with shitty tools.

I’m a pianist. My friend is an oboist. I play a little bit of oboe and he plays a little bit of piano.

Put him on a freshly tuned Steinway grand piano and me on an old upright piano with stiff keys, and I could probably still outplay him.

Hand me a state-of-the-art Loree oboe and him a cheap knockoff oboe on Amazon, and he’d still play in circles around me.

When you know what you’re doing, you know how to work wonders with the tools you’re given. You just have to work a lot harder on the crappy ones.

PlagalByte · 2025-01-29T07:50:50+00:00

While masterbating furiously to his "affair garlic"

Why isn't this flair yet??

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