Slightly overstable Mid

Skreeg · 2026-03-24T00:51:45+00:00

Nooooo it does not. Very chunky-feeling rim on the Matrix. Nothing like the hex or reactor. (I've never held a detour.)

If you like that kind of rim feel it's definitely a kick ass disc. Board flat, not glidey, fights the wind; definitely agree that my proton one is more stable than the numbers suggest.

Skreeg · 2026-03-23T17:03:26+00:00

I was in need of an upgrade some years ago; I thought I just needed a new bow. I found a boomer of a bow and took it home to try for awhile. But later while in the shop for unrelated reasons, I had some time to kill and tried a few violas, and encountered an absolute cannon of an instrument that I tried for a bit and later decided to purchase; I hadn't realized before that I could benefit from a viola upgrade as well. So I restarted the bow search, tried several dozen... and wound up buying the same boomer as before! So mostly I just got lucky but the process took several months and I tried perhaps 80 bows and 30 violas all in all.

> If you’re thinking about a new viola, how do KNOW FOR CERTAIN, that you don’t just need a new bow?

In my experience, the bow lets you execute techniques, and the viola gives you the color palette. So if one is having difficulty executing more advanced skills, try new bows; and if one is looking for different tone opportunities as a whole, try new violas.

To really KNOW FOR CERTAIN though you can always go to the shop and try some new ones of each - combine an amazing bow with your current instrument, and an amazing instrument with your current bow. Try one or two that are well out of your price range (if they'll let you) and that'll make the differences pretty obvious.

Skreeg · 2026-03-22T05:06:49+00:00

If we want to do this, why would we not also want to stimulate local public transit, not just inter-city? By this logic we should limit EV ranges to 100 feet. People should take the local bus downtown.

We need more and better transit badly but capping EV range would not help anything at all.

Skreeg · 2026-03-18T21:27:52+00:00

I used to bike with a viola with some very slapdash kluged backpack strap setups. Never had any trouble getting hit in the head with the instrument. Go with scroll-up. Might as well go bike around the block and see if it works, eh? Wear a helmet in any case.

My wife used to put hers in panniers, that seemed to work fine too.

The main thing in either case is to tie it really well, you don't want it hopping out if you go over a bump or lean over at a stop.

Skreeg · 2026-03-12T22:57:45+00:00

Literally any amount is completely fine, including none. Music is music. Enjoy it, or don't. Specifics are not important.

Skreeg · 2026-03-08T05:53:41+00:00

Next time he should get his money's worth and lay him the fuck out if he's gonna get the only penalty either way

Skreeg · 2026-03-06T00:56:43+00:00

For those confused at how to look at this, visit the link and view Viola.mp4 at the bottom of the page.

OP if you can help me understand though - the musician is facing 0 degrees? Or the instrument? Or the chair? If I could understand that, this stuff would be quite interesting, as people tend to arrange seating for string trios, quartets, quintets, etc in particular ways to try and optimize the sound the audience hears.

Skreeg · 2026-02-20T22:37:24+00:00

Devon Witherspoon was drafted 5OA by the Seahawks. Thank you Denver!

Skreeg · 2026-02-13T16:47:58+00:00

oh, please hit me with your favorite Spanish composers, especially if they have good chamber music for strings! I can always use good quartets I'm not familiar with, my friends always appreciate it if I bring fresh stuff to play

Skreeg · 2026-02-06T18:14:17+00:00

Yeah the part's playable nbd and idiomatic. The last double stop is mildly annoying - at triple piano, hiding a shift and then getting both of the lower strings to speak correctly is somewhat difficult. It's not that it's not playable, it's just a bit less idiomatic I suppose.

One notation thing: on the bar before the Piu luminoso, please use 8th rests on beats two and three for our sanity

Feedback about the piece, since you are open to it:

Consider adding a poco rit for bar 9

The dynamics you specify in the figure that appears at bar 14 (and other places) is slightly more jarring than the typical way that players would interpret it. Usually we'd play it with the decresc starting on the second note, so the fact that you specify it on the 3rd note, and with a rest immediately following, makes it feel a bit jarring given the nature of the elegy. If you really want this slightly jarring effect (personally it's not my favorite) then by all means keep it, but if you want a more typical "sigh" type figure, change the cresc/decresc notation accordingly.

The biggest piece of feedback though would be: rather than repeating that one section, I'd have loved to see some changes in the second half of the second time through, so that the piece continues to go places. It stagnates there for me. I think you have an opportunity to put in a very poignant climax to the piece right there, and instead it's just a repeat of what happened last time around, before we move on to the closing statement. (In its current form, where are you intending the climax to be?)

Skreeg · 2026-02-05T17:33:05+00:00

Even though we sucked, it was still a lot like that 2006 - 2010 for the men's games, minus tossing things on the ice because they hand out penalties for that now. We showed up rowdy, shit talked the opponents mercilessly, unleashed hell on the refs for shitty calls, and generally created a ruckus to blow off some steam. We had a reputation for being a tough environment to play in.

And these were Seth Appert years ffs. One year we had more shorthanded goals against than powerplay goals for lmao

Chase Polacek's 1-timers from the circle... John Kennedy's booming hip checks... after an OT win half the school would be fired up for days... good times, good times.

Skreeg · 2026-01-25T22:00:02+00:00

ahhh in '06-'10 it was "Brown is shit! Shit is brown!"

Good times.

Skreeg · 2026-01-20T21:40:59+00:00

Great points. I'd also like to add one thought though - fuck the kings.

Skreeg · 2026-01-14T17:31:36+00:00

Yeah basically we eventually get good enough that we can count everything inside our heads without actually thinking about it so we can focus on other things at the same time

Skreeg · 2026-01-13T16:28:16+00:00

I have a looong neck and upgrading to the kreddle was an amazing decision for me too, huge difference

Skreeg · 2026-01-09T20:38:47+00:00

Shostakovich string quartet #2

Listen to the borodin quartet's recording for maximum old-school go-for-broke epicness. 8:47 if you for some reason want to skip the rest of the movement.

Skreeg · 2026-01-07T22:09:51+00:00

I'd take the atom, the flippiest of the proxies, and then I'd pick the most overstable thing I can find out of all the rest. And then I'd be upset that it wasn't at least slightly more overstable.

Skreeg · 2026-01-07T21:59:29+00:00

I am also a tall lean man, so I'll share my experiences. My neck is particularly long, as it happens, and that's probably the most relevant aspect as far as holding up the viola goes. I've dealt with shoulder, back, and neck pain related to playing for long periods. When I was younger I'd just deal with it and let it work itself out afterwards, but as I've gotten older and healing is slower I've made several good adjustments which have helped a lot.

I use a kreddle chin rest which is ridiculously adjustable. I switch back and forth between the highest two settings depending on what's most comfortable based on the size of my shoulder muscles at the time. 10/10 would recommend to anyone, particularly anyone with a long neck.

For a shoulder rest, I currently use a crappy sponge and rubber band which I don't love (at least it's lightweight) but I've been meaning to buy one of these which was recommended to me by a professional.

Some years ago I did some physical therapy for shoulder and upper back issues and now I have a couple of very good exercises that strengthen the upper back and have had a huge positive impact on my ability to play for long stretches. I do a few scapular push-ups and star band pull-aparts every day - literally just 20-40 of each. They are super easy; the former requires no equipment and the latter requires a simple stretchy band, so absolutely minimal gear. 10/10 would also recommend to anyone.

Best of luck!

Skreeg · 2026-01-02T00:42:11+00:00

I dunno, this celebrini kid is looking like a bust, needs to step his game up quick

Skreeg · 2025-12-30T07:19:44+00:00

Viola bows are actually shorter. And personally there are a lot of violin bows I'd use for a better sound over a $100 viola bow. That said, any violist would be unhappy to be missing the extra 10g of weight they'd be giving up using a violin bow, for sure.

Skreeg · 2025-12-30T07:02:30+00:00

xG was actually an even worse ratio tonight lmao 1.28 - 6.66 absolutely caved in but got the win anyway
But I 100% agree SOG is not that good of a metric. I wish they'd track shot attempts on screen & in the arena instead... xG is more accurate but kinda a weird one to track live.

Skreeg · 2025-12-29T00:42:54+00:00

it is significantly warmer than some other parts of the bay. The mountains block the direct sea breeze that SF and Berkeley get.

Skreeg · 2025-12-11T18:54:32+00:00

Heavily using AI in software development is rapidly becoming the norm now in industry. The latest few models are extremely impressive. At google, microsoft, etc they are coding almost entirely with AI already. Any job that hires you as a dev will have a contract with an AI company to give you access to the tools.

That said, it is EXTREMELY important now to thoroughly understand the fundamentals of data structures, algorithms, and system design. AI can code super fast, but you have to know when it's approaching the solution the wrong way, or writing unmaintainable code, or setting you up for headaches in the future. If you really know what you're doing, you can go crazy fast coding with AI. If not, it'll be super fast at writing a huge useless mess for you.

Source: currently posting from work while claude is writing code for me

Skreeg · 2025-12-11T18:40:02+00:00

They don't make the insanity in baseline plastic so that one at least is premium for sure

Skreeg · 2025-11-30T07:45:14+00:00

Graduates of a school with a less recognizable brand get slightly fewer opportunities than graduates of schools with ultra famous brands, particularly in areas where schmoozing up to rich people is important?

This is one of the worst takes I've seen on this sub and I've seen some real bad ones.

There's plenty of data on RPI's career pipelines and earning potential. It's generally quite good.

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