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Reply #35840 on: April 20, 2017, 10:43:12 PM

Heh, was watching The Road Warrior and noticed something I hadn't seen before despite watching that movie probably 20 times.  At the very end when the tanker veers off the road and crashes, there is a wide shot before it switches to a ground level medium shot. In that, maybe 2 second, shot there are dismembered arms and legs attached to the cow catcher of the tanker that are obviously Wez's.  In the medium shot they then fly off as well as an unidentifiable hunk of bloody flesh tumbling forward in the carnage.  Went back and watched it at 1/15th speed just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. I never noticed any of this before as it goes by in a flash, but is just shows that George Miller is savage and goonballs as fuck.

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Reply #35841 on: April 21, 2017, 07:28:19 AM

Have you played other instruments before? Can you read musical notation?

Edit: also what kind of piano is it?
I can read treble cleff -- or could, 20 years ago. (8ish years of saxaphone). Can't read bass, so that's something I need to work on.

It's my son's very, very, very nice heavily researched digital piano that I got him a few years ago. 88 keys, weighted action, etc. It's living at my house for awhile. Long enough for me to put effort in and decide if I really want to learn (enough to buy my own), as he probably won't be taking it back for a good year or so.
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Reply #35842 on: April 21, 2017, 09:51:03 AM

Have you seen Groundhog Day?

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Reply #35843 on: April 21, 2017, 10:21:32 AM

Have you seen Groundhog Day?
I'd start with German if I were bored in a time loop. :)
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Reply #35844 on: April 22, 2017, 12:40:04 AM

I played the trumpet for a year in 5th grade. I have long since forgotten how to read sheet music, which I regret deeply. Hoping my kids get interested in playing something when they get old enough.

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Reply #35845 on: April 22, 2017, 06:47:46 AM

I'm sure someone mentioned a piano-based system for learning to read music years ago. Raph maybe?

I'm actually chipping away a bit at it, I can read standard notation very poorly. Currently transcribing Segovia's notation for The Old Castle by Mussorgsky into tablature for guitar.

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Reply #35846 on: April 22, 2017, 09:01:54 AM

I'm sure someone mentioned a piano-based system for learning to read music years ago. Raph maybe?

I'm actually chipping away a bit at it, I can read standard notation very poorly. Currently transcribing Segovia's notation for The Old Castle by Mussorgsky into tablature for guitar.
I might brave the search system then. There's some interesting stuff on YouTube to boot.
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Reply #35847 on: April 22, 2017, 09:41:53 AM

I'm sure someone mentioned a piano-based system for learning to read music years ago. Raph maybe?

I'm actually chipping away a bit at it, I can read standard notation very poorly. Currently transcribing Segovia's notation for The Old Castle by Mussorgsky into tablature for guitar.

This provoked me to go back and listen to the somewhat free adaptation by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, which I'd not heard in years.

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Reply #35848 on: April 22, 2017, 10:16:14 AM

I'm sure someone mentioned a piano-based system for learning to read music years ago. Raph maybe?

I'm actually chipping away a bit at it, I can read standard notation very poorly. Currently transcribing Segovia's notation for The Old Castle by Mussorgsky into tablature for guitar.

I joined an a capella group a few months ago and it's surprising how much better I've gotten at standard notation (after a lifetime of being scared of it) just by following along with sheet music while singing.  I still can't sight-read from a cold start but once I sort of figure out the scale I can hit most of the notes without having to hear them first.

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Reply #35849 on: April 24, 2017, 07:32:39 AM

Yeah, that's how I was reading The Old Castle. Being familiar with scales and the piece (it's my alarm clock tone), I was just following along for the up and down parts and voicings. Actually transcribing let me work out Segovia's fingerings, which are slightly different than mine and always a great lesson on how to approach the guitar. I need to get back to another project, transcribing his scale workbook. Stephane Wrembel told me he warms up with Segovia scales every day and that it would help me with notation and of course learning by transcription is one of the best ways.

I'm still 100% a believer that guitar should be written in both notation and tablature :)
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Reply #35850 on: April 24, 2017, 03:27:57 PM

Have you played other instruments before? Can you read musical notation?

Edit: also what kind of piano is it?
I can read treble cleff -- or could, 20 years ago. (8ish years of saxaphone). Can't read bass, so that's something I need to work on.

It's my son's very, very, very nice heavily researched digital piano that I got him a few years ago. 88 keys, weighted action, etc. It's living at my house for awhile. Long enough for me to put effort in and decide if I really want to learn (enough to buy my own), as he probably won't be taking it back for a good year or so.
I like method # 2 "Learning Basic Piano Knowledge" from here: http://www.wikihow.com/Teach-Yourself-to-Play-the-Piano

Unfortunately I can't point you at any specific resources at this time.
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Reply #35851 on: April 25, 2017, 09:42:33 PM

As I type this, Jeff Goldblum is handing out sausages at a railway station in the middle of Sydney, Australia, from a truck called "Chef Goldblum's". Nobody knows why.
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Reply #35852 on: April 25, 2017, 10:47:11 PM

Sitting here wondering how many people need to die on Facebook Live before someone realizes that maybe it's not such a good idea and closes that shit down.  Just another reason for me to hate Facebook, I suppose!

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Reply #35853 on: April 25, 2017, 11:09:54 PM

Sitting here wondering how many people need to die on Facebook Live before someone realizes that maybe it's not such a good idea and closes that shit down.  Just another reason for me to hate Facebook, I suppose!

Going by Zuckerberg's history of tone deafness, probably millions of people will need to be snuffed.

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Reply #35854 on: April 26, 2017, 01:19:55 AM

Have I missed something ?  I don't even know what Facebook Live is.  Is this a young thing ??

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Reply #35855 on: April 26, 2017, 03:44:22 AM

I think it's only something that certain people can do, 'verified' or VIP users or something. It's live streaming directly to Facebook.

I stopped using Facebook 2-3 months ago and haven't missed it in the slightest.

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Reply #35856 on: April 26, 2017, 03:49:51 AM

Have I missed something ?  I don't even know what Facebook Live is.  Is this a young thing ??

Facebook live is just turning Facebook into a streaming platform via your phone. It makes it simple to "go live" and creates stream of any banal thing. Anyone can do it.

Some guy in Cleveland livestreamed himself murdering an old man two weeks ago because he was a mentally ill fucker. Yesterday a Thai man hanged his daughter. Last year 4 kids streamed themselves brutally beating someone.

So because evil is in the world technology should be stopped. Never mind that it's a Pandora's box.

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Reply #35857 on: April 26, 2017, 04:15:14 AM

Holy fucking shite.

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Reply #35858 on: April 26, 2017, 04:33:56 AM

There also was a group rape in Facebook live in Sweden.
The stream ended when police, alerted by people watching it, busted into the flat.

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(Reuters) - A Swedish court jailed three men on Tuesday for up to two and a half years for the rape of a woman that was broadcast live on Facebook.

The rape, which shocked Sweden, took place earlier this year in the city of Uppsala, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Stockholm. Viewers of the live broadcast alerted police who swooped on an apartment in the city and detained the men.

Two of the men were convicted of rape and the third, who received a six-month sentence, of failing to report the crime and defamation for broadcasting it. The court did not give their ages but said they were born between 1992 and 1998.

The men had denied the charges, saying the woman had given consent to having sex with them. However, the court said the woman had been heavily intoxicated by alcohol and drugs and was in a very vulnerable situation
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https://www.google.at/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN17R1S8
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Reply #35859 on: April 26, 2017, 08:02:17 AM

A teenaged girl was brutally raped in Chicago on said platform a few months ago and her family has had to go into hiding because of the death threats they are getting. All while the police have yet to get people to come forward and help them find the perpetrators.

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Reply #35860 on: April 26, 2017, 08:59:25 AM

Sitting here wondering how many people need to die on Facebook Live before someone realizes that maybe it's not such a good idea and closes that shit down.  Just another reason for me to hate Facebook, I suppose!
I don't know, I would think the police love when criminals record and broadcast their crimes.

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Reply #35861 on: April 26, 2017, 12:28:05 PM

I hope there is not some assumption that these crimes did not exist prior to this platform's existence.

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Reply #35862 on: April 26, 2017, 12:29:26 PM

We could more comfortably ignore them seems to be the common complaint.

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Reply #35863 on: April 26, 2017, 11:53:37 PM

A teenaged girl was brutally raped in Chicago on said platform a few months ago and her family has had to go into hiding because of the death threats they are getting. All while the police have yet to get people to come forward and help them find the perpetrators.

Wait, HER family is in hiding ?  What ?

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Reply #35864 on: April 27, 2017, 12:14:26 AM

Yes.

The victim and her family have had to go underground to avoid the harassment.

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Reply #35865 on: April 27, 2017, 12:47:00 AM

I fucking hate this planet.

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Reply #35866 on: April 27, 2017, 04:55:06 AM

Yes.

The victim and her family have had to go underground to avoid the harassment.

And this is why we shouldn't just hand wave it away.

More to the point, I was thinking more along the lines of how Facebook risks the impact to their brand by keeping this open.  I'm under no illusion that these crimes might just as likely still happen anyway.

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Reply #35867 on: April 27, 2017, 07:38:06 AM

I've sat in Tony DiTerlizzi's studio with him while he sketches out ideas for his new book, watched friends paint, sat in on an exclusive concert a top gypsy jazz band did (in someone's living room, dog included). It's been an amazing, convenient platform for creators to share.

Google hangouts seems to be the more collaborative/group stream platform and can be pretty amazing when you get a room full of painters going and sharing ideas.

I personally love all these streaming and sharing platforms, it's a huge boon for creators to share directly with each other and their fans.

Of course, most of the world is not creators.
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Reply #35868 on: April 27, 2017, 08:16:59 AM

Bamboo tablet by Wacom. Costs about $100.

Found one for just under $70 on Amazon.  So tired of computers, I hope I don't give up on this one.

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Reply #35869 on: April 27, 2017, 08:46:37 AM

I have the bamboo stylus and like it for use with my ancient samsung tablet.
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Reply #35870 on: April 29, 2017, 02:41:13 PM

It's like a freaking bee party outside my house. They're swarming all over a corner, under my soffit, crawling up underneath it and back out.

Pretty sure, given the time of year and mild winter, they're looking for a new home. Given there's at least thirty or forty of the buggers crawling the walls and buzzing around, and they're clearly swarming that area, I can't imagine they're doing regular hive business (also, I've not seen honeybees around my house in like...8 years?).

I lack any sort of poison, or I'd just happily dose the area to make sure they look elsewhere. I suppose I'll have to have an exterminator out next week to zap the area, just in case.  I don't want those things in my attic or walls, especially because it's the far corner of the garage -- if they set up, it might be years before it's noticed...
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Reply #35871 on: April 29, 2017, 02:50:33 PM

If they're honeybees and are actually swarming, try calling any local beekeepers--they may come and collect them for you. No need for poisons, and it'd help from further depleting the already-crashing bee population.
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Reply #35872 on: April 29, 2017, 02:56:55 PM

If they're honeybees and are actually swarming, try calling any local beekeepers--they may come and collect them for you. No need for poisons, and it'd help from further depleting the already-crashing bee population.
Might do that on Monday. Depends on if they try to set up shop. I think they're scouting from elsewhere. The bee swarms in Houston are really bad right now -- mild winter and warm spring, so a lot of new queens looking for homes.

If they had a hive there, I think I'd have see the odd bee around before. I'd prefer to discourage them from settling in the first place.
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Reply #35873 on: April 29, 2017, 03:05:50 PM

Usually when they swarm they will find a place to just hang out and chill until they find a new place to live, then they will all leave to go to their new home.

If they are active, then it's possible they think your soffit is their new home - though it seems odd they would hang out outside it. But yes, a bee keeper should be willing to remove them, often for free!

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Reply #35874 on: April 29, 2017, 04:29:17 PM

Really all depends on the where the queen wants to set up shop. Women always get the last word.

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