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"A really good way to get an introduction to classical styles, to be honest, is to listen to classical radio stations. You won't hear all that much modern stuff on such stations, but you should get a good feel for which composers and which styles you..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by holgate, Dizzy
2 weeks ago
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"What is this thing? I mean, it serves no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy, crushy things in the middle of a hallway. No, I mean we shouldn't have to do this, it makes no logical sense, why is it here?..." [
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3 months ago
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"The Greeks knew that rubbing amber and fur together causes an electric attraction between the objects, and that you can even get a spark if you rub them together long enough. In fact, the word "electricity" comes from the Greek elektron,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by thebrokedown, monkeyx-uk, bingo
3 months ago
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"From 2010:Held there by curiosity, and a growing fear of the long loneliness that lay before him, that which had once been David Bowman, Commander of the United States spacecraft Discovery, watched as [its] hull boiled stubbornly away. For a long..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kittens for breakfast, teraflop
3 months ago
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"Sorry, I'm skipping down to comment having only read half the thread. What'd I miss?
Not much. Just a bunch of guys who can't be arsed to shave every morning...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, juv3nal
3 months ago
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"Oh, and speaking of Stravinsky: if you want to hear an example of the "restlessly shifting time signatures" that Wolfdog alluded to, the best-known example by far is The Rite of Spring. Don't even try to follow the meters in this piece..." [
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4 months ago
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"you can surely understand how I am feeling at this present time?
I sure as hell can't understand it. Suck it up and write the apology. While her first e-mail was a little over-the-top, she has a valid concern which you flippantly—and insultingly,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by marble, jeanmari, stavx, DevilsAdvocate
4 months ago
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"I think we probably already missed the 500th Leap Day. Under the Julian Calendar, every year that was divisible by 4 was a leap year; it wasn't until the establishment of the Gregorian calendar that the..." [
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4 months ago
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"If you're not afraid of a little coding, MUP is pretty good. It works along the same lines as LaTeX does for typesetting, in that it takes a coded list of notes and outputs sheet music (and MIDI output as well.) It's full-featured and, best of all,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pallas Athena
4 months ago
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"I split a 12-week share from Angelic Organics with another couple last year. I was a little disappointed with the yield of a few things (carrots, tomatoes, and cukes specifically); but this was partly a combination of the heavy rains last summer..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Work to Live
4 months ago
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"It's too bad the pixies got deleted. Although it's pretty amusing this way too." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
5 months ago
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"A little silly, but here's what sprang to mind:
When Humanity joined the Gallimaufry, the first impressions of established idea sifters were rather disappointing. Yes, they were entertainingly crazy, but their quirks were mere amplifications of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lekvar
5 months ago
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"Count me as dubious as well. While a few medieval Christian theologians believed that the Earth was flat, most of them didn't; the debate about whether Columbus' voyage would succeed primarily concerned whether the Earth's circumference was small..." [
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6 months ago
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"You're actually touching on one of the main unresolved problems of quantum physics, namely what is the role of the "observer" in wave-function collapse. It's certainly true that the idea of an "observer" in the standard..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lalochezia, grahamwell
6 months ago
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"ThemeFinder. It's a little weird from time to time (for example, it treats grace notes as part of the melody), but generally very helpful. And even if you're not familiar with musical notation, the "Gross Contour" tool can probably still..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BobsterLobster
6 months ago
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"I'm a grad student in physics at one of the "top programs" you mentioned, and I sat on the admissions committee for said program a few years ago.
I'll be honest: a low GPA *and* a low subject GRE is a big horkin' red flag. If this is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wyzewoman
7 months ago
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"Hey, at least he's not running for president." [
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7 months ago
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""If only it were that simple! If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil runs through every..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rapscallion
7 months ago
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"Any thread involving weird bird behaviour has to include a link to the Supreme Lyrebird." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
7 months ago
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""abstemious" is only on the list so they know a word with all the vowels in alphabetical order. You'd be surprised how often that comes up, and you don't want to look like a fool without a quick answer.
You're being facetious, right?..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by chrisamiller, raxast, Dillonlikescookies, louche mustachio, bluishorange, kjs4, 0xFCAF, mckenney, Richard Daly, shmegegge, sparkletone, Bugg, sebastienbailard, reventlov, imperium, phatkitten, bonecrusher, yhbc
9 months ago
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""Aronofsky probably couldn’t videotape a nephew’s sixth birthday party without transforming it into a visually stunning, viscerally intense exploration of obsession and madness...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mek
9 months ago
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"I don't know a damn thing about LyX, but in straight LaTeX you would normally use nested enumerate environments to get a result like the one you want; the code would look something like this:\begin{enumerate}..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JaySunSee, virga, Blazecock Pileon
9 months ago
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"I think the number you used in the title is a couple of orders of magnitude too small." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
10 months ago
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"And "anyone who can get 'HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY' out of 'Happy Birthday' has got to be a great drug connection, if nothing else...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
11 months ago
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"I love that our curiosity is so powerful, that we could see a switch labeled 'Do not touch, kills everything!' and we would seriously consider seeing exactly what it did.
"I wonder if that happens every time...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ztdavis
11 months ago
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"I'm not the only person I've talked to who has remarked on the almost-daily 3+ obit posts on the blue.
Either you're wildly exaggerating or some posts were deleted: before today, the most recent obituary I was able to find in the archives was..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, amberglow
11 months ago
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"A knight-errant, looking quite pale,
Was asked, "Sir, from what do you ail?"
"I've been duped by," said he,
"La belle dame sans merci,
And I fear I shall soon kick the pail."
Rhyming "pail" with..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Firas, Pallas Athena, JHarris
11 months ago
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"Is the the first for a flame-out in a thread not actually started by the flamee? Or would that be flamer? Flame-out-er?
Oh, hell no." [
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Last year
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"From here:The bending airstream creates a low pressure just outside the front window. When you crack that window open, you don't change the pattern of air much, but you do allow car air to accelerate toward that window and the low pressure outside it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by solipsophistocracy
Last year
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"Darth Vader is Luke's father. The woman in the "Crying Game" is really a man. Ole Yeller dies. In "Murder on the Orient Express" they all did it. Captain Kirk isn't really dead, he's in the Nexus; but then he dies for real..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brownpau, brundlefly
Last year
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"From the article: Alter’s misdiagnosis resulted from the use of a heuristic called “availability,” which refers to the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event by the ease with which relevant examples come to mind. ... For example, a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Aidan Kehoe, zixyer
Last year
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"I haven't read such a load of pseudo-scientific philosophical claptrap since someone linked to that "Tenth Dimension" Flash site a few months back. And at least that one got to the point fairly quickly.
His central thesis seems to be..." [
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