I use the tellers anyway, especially since I like going in the branch to check for any $2 bill stockpiles. And is more convenient to ask a proper bank for change (if I'm there already), instead of $dinky_convenience_store
My current main account is less than 90 days old, so even though the date-range function on their site is open-ended and you can download the search results as CSVs, I thus can't tell you much. Or go low-tech and stockpile the paper statements.:) If you want to go low-tech and high-tech at the same time, play around with OCR?
Yeah, I've noticed (when looking at the file in Audacity) that the higher and lower portions of the range aren't used, with the waveform just showing up in the middle. I don't have much of a sample size, though.
Yes, studying Socrates, in addition to the thing itself, presents interesting challenges of historical provenance and perspective.
Plato and Xenophon both admirers, Aristophanes a comic playwright (my analogy there was to try to understand modern historical figures, with only the aid of Stewart and Colbert scripts)
I'd like stem tracks (hell, even just a cappella / instrumental splits) more readily available, but a standard audio CD isn't the way to do it due to space concerns. Data CDs with the stems in FLAC form, maybe. Stems seem to compress somewhat better than whole tracks do, evne though the sum of stems takes up more space overall.
I get the Disco Stu quote, but here's what a classic American humorist (Mark Twain) had to say about absurd extrapolation:
“In the space of one hundred and seventy six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over a mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-pole. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo [Illinois] and New Orleans will have joined their streets together and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
I rip my CDs (to FLAC) as soon as I get them, so they aren't worn out by use before they get put on the computer. And with the convenient stockpile of music on the computer, I don't play the physical discs often, keeping them safer that way.
one of the local coffee shops has one of the main walls covered in a grid of LP cases. Some random albums, but also some goodstuff such as Abbey Road and Houses of the Holy.
one of the local music clubs has a smaller-scale version of this concept at work: a few of them, and plaques bearing reproductions of the case art rather than the case itself.
The array looks really cool.
My version of music wall art, however, consists of various musicians' logos built as a LEGO mosaic.
I've seen listings for a lot of major-label stuff on vinyl. I'm guessing that many indies don't have enough of a demand to justify setting up a separate vinyl production run, especially considering the fixed costs of settign up the pressing.
IMHO, buying new stuff on vinyl seems even sillier than dragging out the equipment to play pre-CD-era records. (A lot of that classic stuff has been re-released on CD anyways) Probably a lot of cool stuff never popular enough to get a transfer; that's the big use I see for vinyl. Dad's record collection is still in great shape; I've been meaning for years to look through ti for material like that. (The difficulties in ripping have already been discussed.)
That was my first thought - so much ancient literature burned in the Great Library. Guessing that helps explain the relative paucity of source son Socrates, amongst other things.
Snooki, The Situation, Pauly D et al often seem to be out on appearance tours; the dispersed distribution could also serve disaster-recovery purposes for them.
It'd be nice if the various foo-modes' syntax highlighting updated immediately. I get a little bit of anxiety everytime I open a quote, since if I don't close it immediately, the whole subsequent buffer will stay pink for up to 10 seconds after I close it.
I don't do any real coding, but I do use Notepad++ when editing my HTML files; if you type the opening tag, the entire rest of the document is colorcoded that way until you get to typing the closing tag. That sounds kinda like that.
In a previous comment, I named Great Big Sea positively; I forgot these guys.
I haven't personally gotten into Rush that much like some people do, but I do recognize it as sounding cool. Outside of Canadian music, I feel similarly about Pink Floyd and Incubus.
The Band? Yep, no wonder they worked with Dylan.
Arcade Fire is a big new name that I'm well aware of but haven't checked out yet. (Saw Soundgarden instead at Lolla 2010, for instance)
I feel similarly about Justin Bieber and Celine Dion as well. *
Great Big Sea reminds us that Canadians *can* produce good music (I was primed for such jokes because those guys are playing a show locally next week.:P)
* I don't have any Avril Lavigne albums either, but I do like her cover of Imagine from the Instant Karma! Lennon tribute album.
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come on, it's not brain surgery...
Perhaps he's thinking of murderers who get off on what's technically reduced to a manslaughter charge?
Perhaps we could at least try rehabilitating prisoners on Monday nights. :P
With parents (yers, I'm a Mom's basement /.er), I don't mind the chores so much as the specific timescale and method in which to do them.
Reminds me of an RL version of JezzBall - my, the Windows Entertainment Pack games were/are addictive little buggers. :)
I use the tellers anyway, especially since I like going in the branch to check for any $2 bill stockpiles. And is more convenient to ask a proper bank for change (if I'm there already), instead of $dinky_convenience_store
My current main account is less than 90 days old, so even though the date-range function on their site is open-ended and you can download the search results as CSVs, I thus can't tell you much. :)
Or go low-tech and stockpile the paper statements.
If you want to go low-tech and high-tech at the same time, play around with OCR?
Don't /.'ers often talk about comparing what the user says he wants to what the user actually wants/needs?
Yeah, I've noticed (when looking at the file in Audacity) that the higher and lower portions of the range aren't used, with the waveform just showing up in the middle. I don't have much of a sample size, though.
Yes, studying Socrates, in addition to the thing itself, presents interesting challenges of historical provenance and perspective.
Plato and Xenophon both admirers, Aristophanes a comic playwright (my analogy there was to try to understand modern historical figures, with only the aid of Stewart and Colbert scripts)
whether professionally released or amateur, yes, some remixes seem to add nothing to the song besides random sound effects.
while few make me think "omg! better than the original", many take the song in an interesting new direction.
I'd like stem tracks (hell, even just a cappella / instrumental splits) more readily available, but a standard audio CD isn't the way to do it due to space concerns.
Data CDs with the stems in FLAC form, maybe. Stems seem to compress somewhat better than whole tracks do, evne though the sum of stems takes up more space overall.
I get the Disco Stu quote, but here's what a classic American humorist (Mark Twain) had to say about absurd extrapolation:
“In the space of one hundred and seventy six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over a mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-pole. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo [Illinois] and New Orleans will have joined their streets together and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
I rip my CDs (to FLAC) as soon as I get them, so they aren't worn out by use before they get put on the computer. And with the convenient stockpile of music on the computer, I don't play the physical discs often, keeping them safer that way.
one of the local coffee shops has one of the main walls covered in a grid of LP cases. Some random albums, but also some goodstuff such as Abbey Road and Houses of the Holy.
one of the local music clubs has a smaller-scale version of this concept at work: a few of them, and plaques bearing reproductions of the case art rather than the case itself.
The array looks really cool.
My version of music wall art, however, consists of various musicians' logos built as a LEGO mosaic.
I've seen listings for a lot of major-label stuff on vinyl.
I'm guessing that many indies don't have enough of a demand to justify setting up a separate vinyl production run, especially considering the fixed costs of settign up the pressing.
IMHO, buying new stuff on vinyl seems even sillier than dragging out the equipment to play pre-CD-era records. (A lot of that classic stuff has been re-released on CD anyways)
Probably a lot of cool stuff never popular enough to get a transfer; that's the big use I see for vinyl. Dad's record collection is still in great shape; I've been meaning for years to look through ti for material like that.
(The difficulties in ripping have already been discussed.)
That was my first thought - so much ancient literature burned in the Great Library.
Guessing that helps explain the relative paucity of source son Socrates, amongst other things.
Hidden erection ... hurr hurr hurr
I'd take fiscal conservatism over social conservatism if I had to pick between the two. :)
Snooki, The Situation, Pauly D et al often seem to be out on appearance tours; the dispersed distribution could also serve disaster-recovery purposes for them.
Ick. Yeah, I can visualize what you mena, especially if it's your job and/or major hobby to do this on a regular basis.
It'd be nice if the various foo-modes' syntax highlighting updated immediately. I get a little bit of anxiety everytime I open a quote, since if I don't close it immediately, the whole subsequent buffer will stay pink for up to 10 seconds after I close it.
I don't do any real coding, but I do use Notepad++ when editing my HTML files; if you type the opening tag, the entire rest of the document is colorcoded that way until you get to typing the closing tag. That sounds kinda like that.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582
Greasemonkey script with analogous function.
Despite the name, it works for things in addition to TinyURL.
In a previous comment, I named Great Big Sea positively; I forgot these guys.
I haven't personally gotten into Rush that much like some people do, but I do recognize it as sounding cool. Outside of Canadian music, I feel similarly about Pink Floyd and Incubus.
The Band? Yep, no wonder they worked with Dylan.
Arcade Fire is a big new name that I'm well aware of but haven't checked out yet. (Saw Soundgarden instead at Lolla 2010, for instance)
I feel similarly about Justin Bieber and Celine Dion as well. *
Great Big Sea reminds us that Canadians *can* produce good music (I was primed for such jokes because those guys are playing a show locally next week. :P)
* I don't have any Avril Lavigne albums either, but I do like her cover of Imagine from the Instant Karma! Lennon tribute album.