Certain someone has moved away not long ago but I still have quite a few charts in my iRealPro list in the key she would sing them in...
[As in, because in the usual key, I remember their changes well enough and wouldn't need a chart]
[#]music #jazz
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“Of course no one ever thought of embedding the object pronoun between a verb and its prefix. What would they do with verbs that have no prefixes — invent a meaningless prefix just to be able to do that? It was just a bad dream, go back to bed, sweetie”.
[#]linguistics #MastoDaoine Sean#Gaeilge
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I wonder if anyone thought, "oh yes, I'll open a PR whose title ends mid-word with an ellipsis."
[#]GitHub
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I have played bass in a drumless band the whole night with people who are good players but has a tendency to speed up a lot, so I had to make conscious effort to hold it down and had to play quite aggressively to draw their attention to the tempo.
Yet again I find myself dreaming of someone holding my sore hands, but with any of the instruments I play, there’s no hope for that. ;)
[#]music #bass
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Seen https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/book-reviews/2016/0307/773124-tadhg-mac-dhonnagain-mise-raiftearai-an-fiodoir/
and one feature caught my eye in that excerpt (the literal translation is mine):
‘Mise Raiftearaí an file, [I'm Raiftearaí the poet]
Lán dóchais agus grádh’, [Full of hope and love]
Le súilibh gan solus [With eyes without light]
Ciúineas gan chrádh’ [Calmness without trouble]
The unusual form "le suilibh" seems to be there mainly for the meter, instead of the more common "súile".
What's interesting is that in Old Irish, "la" ("with", "le" in Modern Irish) was only used with the accusative case, while "súilibh" is a historical dative/prepositional plural form.
I wonder how that poetic usage relates to the more general pattern of dative forms replacing historical nominative forms (like oí(dh)che < aid(h)chi (dat. < ad(h)aig(h)).
[#]MastoDaoine #Gaeilge
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When I'm playing the horn, I always implicitly remember the infamous story about Trane claiming to Miles Davis that he took overly long solos because he didn't know how to end them (and Davis asked him "have you tried to take the horn out of your mouth?").
I'm pretty good at taking the horn out of my mouth, and I also have some patterns for marking the end of my solo to help the next soloist prepare to take their turn (usually do a diminuendo or quote the last phrase of the head, or both).
But in the worst case, simply taking the horn out of my mouth is sufficient to end the solo.
But when I'm on the bass, it's a whole different problem. I can't stop playing because I'm the time keeper — I need to make it clear where the solo ends and cleanly transition back to comping. That's a whole different skill to practice — quite a bit more involved than taking my horn out of my mouth. ;)
[#]music #jazz
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If anyone is using #virtualbox here's the right pointer to fixing it on Fedora 41 and other distros with kernels >=6.12: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=112580
On the meta-level, though... VirtualBox is pretty much the only program that routinely breaks for me on upgrades. It's also still my favorite frontend for desktop virtualization — not that other solutions are bad, but for running VMs on my desktop rather than connecting to hypervisor servers, I really like the UX of VirtualBox.
And I kinda can see why neither distro maintainers nor kernel developers care if it breaks: it's still seen as Oracle's scheme to get businesses to pay for licenses when employees install the proprietary extension pack.
I have no idea how successful is that insidious business model — especially now that running non-native applications on desktops is a very niche use case, and enterprise Windows comes with its own virtualization built-in. But nothing seems to be changing.
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If your job is soul-crushing and low-paying, all your friends will suggest to quit it.
If you are in a bad relationship, all your friends will tell you to break up or divorce.
But if your life is difficult to bear because of who you are they tell you not to commit suicide.
It’s pretty odd, now that I think of it.
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Over time, I learnt to recognize two facial expressions (a task that my social skill problems make more difficult): "the person I'm speaking to is struggling to understand my speech" and "the person I'm speaking two cannot understand any single word but pretends everything is fine".
The pain of failing at basic human abilities and having to watch your basic functions slowly break down is a pain I wish no one had to experience.
But I want people to understand that such a pain exists, and that the desire to end that pain is valid.
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In Matthew 8:5, Jesus heals the paralyzed servant remotely and praises the centurion who believes that remote work can be as productive.
Therefore, any return-to-office order goes against the teachings of Jesus and managers who issue those need to repent.
[#]theology
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In a rare case where #MastoDaoine and #Morrowind tags are equally fitting:
The yesterday storm couldn't wake me.
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Bhíos i mo sheasamh le cupán caife amuigh agus chuala mé, "Tá aithne agam ort, nach bhfuil?".
Bhí iontas orm nuair a chuala mé duine ag labhairt #Gaeilge liom, ach ní raibh sé an t-iontas amháin a bhí ann: bhí sí cailín a bhuail mé léi uair amháin míosa ó shin, i samhradh, ach bhí cuimhne aici orm.
[#]MastoDaoine
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Saw the big crush riding her bike past me. In a dark-green raincoat, black helmet, and dark glasses, she looked like a secret agent on a mission — perhaps, a mission to track down people who neglect ear training and forgot to practice their piano skills.
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I did some practice on the clarinet first time this week because I'm finally not sneezing non-stop and my nose is almost not congested.
The ordinary common cold is a very annoying disease for wind players.
[#]music #woodwind #clarinet
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I'm still not convinced that the probability to catch a cold correlates with exertion and stress, but whenever I happen to catch a cold after a stretch of trying to do too many things at once, I start wondering if there may be some correlation.
In the music school, I was one of the "honor before reason" types who would never miss anything — not least because for performance majors, honor is their reason. Miss an orchestra rehearsal and you are already in trouble with the conductor. Miss a few chamber rehearsals, and the chamber group is ready to replace you with someone else.
But one musicology major kept telling me that if I keep doing what I was doing (working full time and taking classes with them instead of easier versions for performance majors). I'd fall ill and skip them against my will. Maybe there was some truth in her words after all.
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I finally put flatwound strings on my new bass — exact same model as I always used on guitar back then. It feels... like home, in a sense.
[#]music #bass
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One thing that gives me hope for the soon collapse of the "AI" bubble is that companies have to shove "AI" functionality down people's throats.
If any people were happy to use that, there wouldn't be any need to.
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I’m certainly not having a #SilentSunday. But I swear I didn’t crank my amp up to eleven, either!
[#]music
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It took me a while to realize that quite a few modern instrument amplifier manufacturers (in particular, Mark Bass — one of my most loved amp companies) actively advertise their amps' small size.
The idealized arena rock/hair metal era band image was always of people with large combo amps, or a huge head and an massive wall of cabinets, if they were real rock stars.
Now even my pawn shop amp I got for playing in dive bars is a lot more powerful than the feeble practice amp of the same weight I had in the 2010 before I took a break from amplified instruments; and having a small amp with a big sound is seen as cool.
But I wonder if the real cause of that change is that even undeniable stars are often their own roadies now.
[#]music
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I was testing recent OpenMW builds, decided to do the main quest of Morrowind and had a thought about the uneven complexity of different parts of that quest that never occurred to me before.
For one faction (House Hlaalu), you need to locate a secretive council member in his hidden dwelling; choose between bribing a perverted councilor or allowing him to sexually exploit you; and either blackmail or murder a crime boss who controls two corrupt councilors.
For another faction (House Redoran), you need to help a councilor whose son was kidnapped by the faction leader and duel the conservative leader who refuses to grant your request due to his xenophobia.
For the third faction (House Telvanni)... you need to talk to a bunch of characters and murder one of them because he never gives anyone any definite answers and settling disputes by murder is customary in that faction.
I suspect that the game designers either ran out inspiration or ran into time constraints between writing quests for those factions. ;)
[#]tes
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