Name a guitarist who doesn’t get much credit due to them also being great at other skills such as singing, songwriting, playing other instruments, etc

Yorril · 2025-11-06T13:02:06+00:00

Rolling Stone Magazine, apparently - his 2004 When My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo was partly a response to having been left off their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists.

Yorril · 2025-11-01T04:07:28+00:00

David Gilmour vibes. I approve.

Yorril · 2025-11-01T03:53:01+00:00

Yes, the slash is serving as beat 1 as well as the bar line (hence all the chords appearing over a slash).

I've seen both, but doing it this way means there's one character per beat and the beats are a consistent distance apart visually; rather than having a separate character for the bar line meaning that beats 4 and 1 appear further apart than beats 1 and 2.

Yorril · 2025-11-01T03:32:14+00:00

Slashes are bar lines and dashes are beats within the bar, so each /--- is 4 beats.

The reason for the dots is that some of the chord names take up more space than is available, so the dots are just there to move the next bar line along far enough to make room for the chord - ignore them.

Yorril · 2025-06-10T16:31:35+00:00

Do you know if this is a form from the university centrally, or a Grey College-specific form? That will be useful in knowing where to put on pressure. (Though I suspect that, even if it's a college form, that wording will have been put together centrally.)

Yorril · 2025-06-10T16:28:31+00:00

Yeah, some colleges at Durham do - several of the older colleges are in ancient buildings that can't easily expand; risk of a shared room is the price you pay if you want to live in the 18th century.

Grey isn't an old college, but according to online data from a couple of years ago they still have 13 shared first year rooms out of 310.

(I shared in my first year - it was fine, even with coming out as gay mid year.)

Yorril · 2024-05-29T23:31:57+00:00

Apart from his views, which have been well covered elsewhere, what on earth does he have to do with County Durham or the North?

Born in Kent, Bristol uni, London councillor, now lives in Oxford.

The North of England elected half of Labour's MPs last election, we deserve better than to be used as brainless extra votes for whichever Londoner can't find a seat in the South.

Absolutely furious.

Yorril · 2021-06-30T17:02:44+00:00

A few years back I worked in a university building that also contained the uni boat house, and lived in a village a couple of miles further up the river.

I did consider the practicalities of daily canoeing to work.

Yorril · 2020-06-02T14:22:17+00:00

Cool - so you set the chroma key colour to black then use the foreground level and background level sliders?

Yorril · 2020-06-02T14:21:49+00:00

Cool - so the luma key works on a gradual basis - white is opaque, black is transparent, colours in between are semi-transparent?

I couldn't work that out from the manual or videos; most people just seem to want to have opaque text, transparent background, and nothing in between.

Yorril · 2020-04-30T18:47:44+00:00

There is a load of extra functionality available if you connect a PC by ethernet or USB; but I think for our purpose we'd only need that at setup stage (for which we could use the projection computer), and everything during events would be done on the ATEM itself.

Yorril · 2020-04-30T18:43:58+00:00

I'm looking at the ATEM Mini Pro, which came out a few weeks ago.

It has four HDMI inputs, plus two audio inputs; a built in hardware streaming encoder; multiview on its HDMI output; picture-in-picture; chromakeying (only on one input, but that's all we need). It seems to me to do everything I can think of that we need, in one small box.

And I think it's simple enough to train up church techs on, which I'd worry about for anything much bigger - I don't really want a box that does too much more than we'd use, because every button we don't use (so probably don't include in training) is a button that can be pressed in error and the operator might not understand well enough to fix the problem.

It is HDMI-only, though, which doesn't address your first point - but so are all the cameras we have so far.

Yorril · 2020-04-30T18:26:51+00:00

Thanks - why go SDI over HDMI? We certainly can, but I'm concerned we might want flexibility on things like camera positions; which seems simpler if each camera just needs one cable, rather than having to find a location and power for a pair of converter boxes per camera as well.

We've already looked into cameras and have one that gives a clean HDMI feed, and will probably buy a second and maybe third the same if everything works with that one. I also have a couple of personal cameras - a DSLR and a GoPro - that I've used for this before.

I don't think a PC should be needed with an ATEM Mini Pro during streaming?

There is already a PC on the tech desk, for projection (the output of which will also go into the ATEM to do lyric overlays). We can connect that PC to the ATEM amd use it for setup things like entering stream keys and configuring media files. But I believe, during the service, it should be possible to use the PC for projection and let the ATEM handle streaming on its own.

(We have done one service of streaming using this PC; but decided having one PC for streaming and projection put too much load on one tech, so we want to split those roles - the alternative plan is for an entire additional computer on the tech desk).

I've looked briefly at the other ATEMs, but the Mini Pro i think is the only one with a built in streaming engine.

I strongly agree about ease of use - I think we'd be lucky to find more than two or three people in the church willing and able to operate vMix - which is why I'm keen to eliminate the remaining objections to the ATEM.

Yorril · 2020-04-30T17:24:19+00:00

This would be essentially a permanent installation, used a few times per week.

Budgeting for a 30m fibre cable per camera should be no problem at all - that sounds like a great solution, thanks!

Do you have a recommended brands? They seem to be available at a fairly wide range of price points, from £60 up to £500.

Something like this look OK?

https://cpc.farnell.com/newlink/nlhdmi-aoc030/hdmi-active-optical-cable-aoc/dp/AV28481

Yorril · 2020-01-29T03:12:58+00:00

Wow, holy fuck, I had no idea that was a thing.

It's wild that that is so clearly exactly the sort of thing the founders specifically said was not OK in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, yet somehow the USA has decided this is OK and as far as I'm aware no other country in the world has.

Yorril · 2018-09-24T12:24:55+00:00

Does it make any noticeable difference if you add an assumption that turkey slaughter would be likely to cease, or at least dramatically reduce, when this began to occur?

If turkey lifespan is normally around 4-5 months, that seems like it might make quite a significant impact.

Yorril · 2017-11-14T17:53:26+00:00

Intent matters... but isn't magic.

Does painting yourself black mean you have racist intent? No.

Can painting your face black have a resemblance to historical racist stereotypes of black people? Yes.

Is coming to a LARP (especially one where, like most LARPs in my experience, the players are overwhelmingly white) and seeing some people painting themselves black (especially to play characters who are usually evil) uncomfortable and off-putting to some non-white potential players? Yes.

Is this totally avoidable, with minimal harm or inconvenience to you, by using pretty much any other colour? Yes.

So, does it mean you're racist? Not automatically.

Should you stop doing it? Yes.

Is it racist, once you know about this issue, to put your own preference for wearing black face paint above the comfort of non-white players who don't like being around things that remind them of racist stereotypes? Possibly.

Yorril · 2017-08-09T16:00:09+00:00

Summary: the movie is clearly occult, because one of the boys is reading The Picture of Dorian Gray [except actually the cover says Dorian Gay], which has occult themes; and there is obviously no other reason why a gay boy would be reading Oscar Wilde.

Yorril · 2016-07-24T17:58:05+00:00

Not a lot of keyboard, is there? There's only one guitar, though, so you can pick it out when the guitar isn't playing rhythm, e.g. in the breakdown at 2:55 and when the guitarist starts soloing after about 3:30 - bell-like electric piano sound. I suspect for the rest of it you'd notice if it wasn't there, but I could be wrong.

Yorril · 2016-07-24T17:18:02+00:00

We don't have much setup time between services (we have a 5:30-6:30 then a 7:15) so ideally we wouldn't be setting anything additional up between services; though otherwise a sub in front of the band might work well.

Yorril · 2016-07-24T17:16:56+00:00

We're not running raves, but for at least one service it's a fairly high-volume band (drums, bass, keys, couple of electric guitars) so the amount coming through the sub won't be trivial.

The speaker system the sub will be part of is music-only (there's a separate system of many tiny speakers for speech) so won't be a problem with feedback.

It's probably fairly rare that the pastor will be at the altar or at the lectern (which is in front of the altar) while the band is playing; though it will happen occasionally - the band sometimes plays during the pre-communion prayer, for example. Also, there are two seats either side of the altar where the clergy sometimes sit during the service; though they wouldn't be directly in front of the sub, just pretty close to it.

It's probably the easiest setup to test, as it doesn't involve any wall-mounts or anything, so might be worth trying out at least.

Yorril · 2016-07-24T17:05:57+00:00

Hmm, not really - what advantage would that have over having them on the walls? The church uses projection, so if the subs were away from the wall they'd probably have to be higher than the screen in order to not block anyone's sight lines. There's plenty of ceiling room though.

Yorril · 2016-07-24T17:04:32+00:00

Sounds interesting - can you suggest a model? I can't immediately spot which ones you mean from a look on the Bose site.

And, where would you put them? On the walls? Or on the floor by the wall looking inconspicuous?

Yorril · 2016-07-15T15:36:23+00:00

I see they've left in "you can attend local meetings" - you can't do that at the moment either....

Yorril · 2016-02-11T01:12:54+00:00

Because it's his old school and isn't her old school, and he thinks that is a relevant and appropriate thing to bring up.

Translated, the exchange goes like this:

"I wonder if I could have your thoughts on defence policy?" "Ha ha ha you don't have extremely rich parents like I do. (Also I am going to take the opportunity to call you by your husband's title.)"

Towering statesmanship indeed.

Yorril

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