@Jasper Did you eat both dinners at the same time?
or did you eat one at dinner time, and then another meal of roughly the same size much later?
Before you answer, note that breakfast can be eaten at any time of day, but lunch can only be eaten in the middle of the day and dinner cannot be eaten in the morning, no matter when you wake up.
@Mitch I was just comparing the Macbook, non-Retina Macbook Air, Retina Macbook Air, and Macbook Pro. Right now, I think that the Retina Macbook Air might be the best for most people. That is, the new Macbook Air might really be Apple's best laptop so far, where best is a combination of cost, design, and computing power. Maybe you wanna get the new Macbook Air to replace your old one at 1199 USD. Disclaimer: I don't work for Apple.
You: How many miles do you have on your new bike? Me: IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!
(Metric translation hasn't the same ring to it: IT'S OVER 14484.1!!!!!)
I've come to the conclusion that there is stupid, really stupid, totally fucking stupid, and then there's flat-earther stupid. It just doesn't get any dumber than that.
I mean, think about it: would it even be possible to engineer a flat earth if that was your intention? That much matter would collapse in on itself and form ... yep, a ball.
@Robusto Hm...that's a genre I hadn't considered. Sounds like it is made with clubs hitting people's heads and the screams of people sticking their hands into fire.
> You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought a disease like your daughter’s was caused by demonic possession or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her stomach.
@tchrist the 1st one might well be Barenboim. For unlike everyone else he actually sees it for the funeral march that it is, rather than the moonlit-night-on-the-Vierwaldstädter-lake nonsense that that Relstab guy invented.
@RegDwigнt I just took the first clip on YouTube. But since I saw your reaction I looked her up. Was unaware of her political controversy, but to sum up: I don't care. I don't hear politics when someone plays, I hear music. I mean, Chick Corea is a scientologist, and if that were all he had going for him I'd avoid him like the plague. But he turns out stuff like this:
I've heard Lisitsa before. For my taste her playing is a bit too fast, and her Liszt planes off some important nuances, but overall not bad. I'd certainly not invite her to a dinner party, but wevs.
@Robusto what politics? I am not aware of her political controversy, either.
I don't watch the news. I make music.
She is a spectacular technician. She can press them keys like no robot can.
And yes she plays too fast.
I've watched every single one of her videos. I was touched by none. Chopin, Beethoven, you name it.
There's a bunch of people like that. What's that other guy, I think from Russia or Ukraine as well. Name begins with an M I believe. Great achievements in robotics. Not so much in music.
It boggles the mind quite frankly that you would think for a moment I give a fuck what ology someone is part of or isn't. Half my favorite actors and directors are scientologists.
@RegDwigнt I thought there was a control to set on electronic keyboards on auto-play that introduces small bits of randomness, like milliseconds off on beats or miniscule changes in intensity to give it a 'human' feel.
@Mitch In other news my reduction of James Horner was met with much excitement indeed from my teacher. Sheet music is online now, if you ever decide to pick up the violin. Or two violins, rather.
And now I'm sitting through Céline Dion videos. Who's as insufferable as ever. Jesus.
It's a good song actually. Horner knew what he was doing.
Her, on the other hand...
It's generic because it defined the genre.
Kind of like if you watch Cameron's Aliens today, it's trope after trope after trope. Thing is, he invented all those tropes with that movie. Which is why it works. And its copycats don't.
I once read a kitschy scifi piece, can't remember details now, where a murder was described as "John had several critical pieces of his anatomy involuntarily randomized"
Reminds me how I wrote my first murder mistery at the age of like five. I couldn't come up with a good description of the suspect, so I just wrote "by looking at his face you could tell he was a murderer".
> As the sun dropped below the horizon, the safari guide confirmed the approaching cape buffaloes were herbivores, which calmed everyone in the group, except for Herb, of course.
I'm trying to find other stacks to supplement my SE diet, but nothing is really grabbing me. There's a good question in my area of interest on SO now and then. But that's about it.
Like, last week I genuinely wondered if it was me or someone else who even proposed ELL back in the day. And I couldn't remember. That's how little I care.
I mean anyone in this room could be top dog in a year -- and that latency only due to rep cap throttling - by copy/pasting dictionary entries to every damn question on the site
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