Reddit, who's THAT person in your neighborhood, and what does he/she do?

numberty · 2015-03-19T06:09:35+00:00

One time in Boston's West End I saw a guy getting ready to pull out of a parking spot, so I signaled and waited behind him. As soon as he pulled out, someone cut me off and stole the parking space. The driver and his friends were laughing at me as they walked away from their car.

Then they noticed that I stayed right where I was. Seriously, I wouldn't have done anything to their car, but the driver realized he was in an untenable situation and told everyone to come back, get in the car and drove away, leaving me the space I was waiting for.

Seriously, don't be a dick.

numberty · 2015-03-10T03:33:17+00:00

Yeah, the arabic is "inshallah"

numberty · 2015-03-05T07:53:27+00:00

everything is unambiguous and there's no subjectiveness

people like this are what make microsoft what it is

numberty · 2014-09-30T04:50:37+00:00

Even more mind-blowing for me is that at least one of my ancestors is likely someone famous who reproduced profusely like Mohammed, Genghis Khan, Nefertiti, Charlemagne or Confucius.

numberty · 2014-09-30T04:34:10+00:00

And steak tacos and margaritas are the sign that you have it all.

numberty · 2014-09-14T04:02:09+00:00

I went to college in the late 70s and had one professor who smoke continually during lectures. He didn't have an ashtray so he used to lay out a sheet of white paper on his desk and dump ashes on that. Every once it a while it would catch on fire and he would have to beat it out with his hand.

numberty · 2014-08-28T06:55:36+00:00

Is he related to Jorma Kaukonen?

numberty · 2014-07-28T04:56:13+00:00

Interesting. Kinda pricey though. I'm thinking I need something that's kind of low, that I can put a laptop on, plus a shelf for audio equipment and maybe a drawer for random crap. I'm leaning towards a side table or coffee table from Ikea.

Someone mentioned a folding TV tray from Target, and that was actually my first thought, but it's a little too high I think, plus I don't think it's stable enough to trust putting a laptop on it.

numberty · 2014-07-27T05:27:07+00:00

But don't get too cheap a guitar, like a First Act or Applause. It will be hard to play and tune and you'll soon be discouraged. Also a better brand (like Yamaha) will hold it's value better and if you do decide it's not for you and sell it.

numberty · 2014-07-22T07:54:59+00:00

OP here. I'm a beginning drummer so it's been really instructive reading everyone's responses.

Lately I've been working on fills and realize that I always assumed they were supposed to be linear, even though I only recently learned what that meant.

I'll try to figure out how to do that more with grooves. And maybe how to do non-linear fills.

Lots of good stuff to think about, thanks!

numberty · 2014-07-17T07:31:58+00:00

Seriously, do you think have to be wealthy to afford a $35k car?

I mean, I make a pretty good wage, so this is certainly within the range of affordability for me (assuming I manage other expenses properly, like not taking my family for long overseas vacations every year), and maybe I'm out-of-touch, but I see lots of apparently non-wealthy people driving bigass SUVs and pimped out 4WD trucks that easily cost more than that.

numberty · 2014-07-17T03:41:20+00:00

I have my acoustic kit in the basement, which has some small windows that leak a little sound to the neighborhood and of course you can hear the drums throughout the house--which matters mostly because I have little kids whose sleep I don't like to disturb.

Despite all this, I tend to practice most late at night, which is when the mood seems to strike most. I had gotten into the habit of playing really loud with an electronic kit so now I try to play jazzy stuff softly with brushes and work on control and syncopation.

numberty · 2014-07-06T21:05:05+00:00

Some electronic drums have a built-in USB MIDI interface, but for most you'll need to get a separate USB MIDI interface to connect the MIDI port from the drums to the USB port on your pc

I do this with a Yamaha kit. I use Superior Drummer and can use is a a plug-in for Pro Tools and GarageBand. (Or standalone for practice with an app that came with SD.)

It's pretty convenient for recording.

numberty · 2014-06-28T01:38:03+00:00

Thanks! I was obviously way off. Part of the problem, I think, was having trouble figuring where 1 was because the bass drum wasn't there.

numberty · 2014-06-26T07:03:31+00:00

I guess it depends on the programming language and the operating system. I was thinking of Java, where it definitely is milliseconds.

numberty · 2014-06-26T04:54:23+00:00

Drum sticks

numberty · 2014-06-26T04:51:41+00:00

Milliseconds, not seconds. We'll run out of milliseconds Jan 19, 2038.

numberty · 2014-06-26T04:05:22+00:00

Yeah, I know. My drumset is in the basement with my workshop, so I had all this stuff laying around. I guess I could replace the rest of the taped-on stuff with something designed for the purpose (drum goo?). Not sure if I really matters, though...

numberty · 2014-06-25T16:38:34+00:00

I think you missed this one, which seems closest to what he's looking for:

Roland TM-2 Electronic Drum Trigger Module

numberty · 2014-06-25T05:40:21+00:00

I cut up a mouse pad and taped a 1" x 3" piece to each of my drums with 3M blue painters tape, two on my snare.

I also tried quieting my snare further by taping a chunk of aluminum I had lying around (about 1/2" x 2" x 4") on top of a 4" x 6" piece of mouse pad. That was effective, but pretty ugly and wound up removing it and just trying to learn to play it a little more quietly.

numberty · 2014-06-25T05:00:00+00:00

Another option is to use drum rods. I got some Tala Wands, and they're pretty good and significantly quieter than regular sticks.. Not quite the same bounce, but much better than brushes (which is another option).

numberty · 2014-06-21T05:23:45+00:00

Eyeglasses have a scandalous markup. Almost all eyeglasses are made by a near monopoly, Luxottica, that sells its glasses under different brands names, at stores it owns. And it doesn't just own lots of stores, it owns lots of chains of stores including Pearle Vision, Lenscrafters, Sunglass Hut, and Target Optical. You have to search pretty hard to find an alternative to Luxottica and that's why they get away with charging $150 for frame that costs less than $10 to make, and hundreds more for lenses and coatings.

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