The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLII

[EgonSpengler]

See, dancing is the devil's work!

I was trying to impress a lady

Sometimes you gotta cut loose, footloose, kick off your Sunday shoes.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I don't think it's about sharing components, I think it's about sharing desk space. The computer I use at work has all of its internal components behind the monitor; there's no tower case. The speakers are built into the monitor, too. As for propriety applications, yeah, those suck. My office's IT guy returned a new printer he'd gotten for me just because it had some software he refused to deal with. It wasn't like he couldn't, it just made him mad.

Heh. Funny typo. Obviously I meant proprietary applications. Propriety applications would be something else entirely.

 

[Farm Boy]

No swimwear pictures for you! But they're only a problem if somebody thinks your looking at them was pleasant.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Syd Barrett or Roger Waters?

Spoiler :

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[Birdjaguar]

Syd Barrett or Roger Waters?

IIRC that looks like their very first album cover. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn I bought it when it first came out. I was not too impressed.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Is it true that, generally speaking, a drummer uses the kick drum to just lay down a steady, almost metronomic beat?

And then other of the drums to make more complex rhythms on top of that.

Also, does articulatory phonetics have a term for cases where you have to do a lot of motion with your mouth to make a particular second syllable vs a first syllable that slides easily into the next in terms of the musculature involved in the two?

 

[Farm Boy]

Is it true that, generally speaking, a drummer uses the kick drum to just lay down a steady, almost metronomic beat?

And then other of the drums to make more complex rhythms on top of that.

No? The beat of the song itself will often be a sort of harmonizing of the rhythm elements. I mean. It can, but rhythms that are right on the nose of the beat are marchy.

 

[Kyriakos]

I was watching a couple of scouting ants in my bathroom floor. They rarely moved in a straight-ish line for more than a couple of steps, so I wonder if it is known if those ants move like that for reasons related to the mathematical principle behind that snake game (cover as much ground as you can, without falling onto your own pheromone trail). It would be a possible explanation, since it'd be far less economical to have long straight lines of pheromone trail you'd then need to move beyond to establish if other straight lines of the same are there (lines you already covered).

 

[Birdjaguar]

Ants can detect food "smells" with their antennae from up to 10 feet away. They can then follow the smells to the source.

 

[RobS]

Is there a thread somewhere where players list the music they listen to while playing, assuming they're not listening to the in-game music?

 

[Kyriakos]

Since no one wished to respond to my simpler question, here's another one ^_^

Why did Britain deter Denmark from coming to a war-agreement with France in the start of the Franco-Prussian war? (the french could land troops, but german heavy installed artillery meant that a danish army would also be needed to storm the positions before the fleet approached).

 

[EgonSpengler]

Is it true that, generally speaking, a drummer uses the kick drum to just lay down a steady, almost metronomic beat?

And then other of the drums to make more complex rhythms on top of that.

Sometimes, sure, but not necessarily.

John Bonham on "Moby Dick" for example, uses the kick drums as part of the overall performance, not just to keep time. Of course he's playing a solo for a big part of that song, but you can hear in the last 20 seconds, when the rest of the band comes back in, that he's not using his pedals to keep time.

And of course keeping a backbeat doesn't have to be boring, if that's what you meant by "metronomic." Alex Van Halen on "Hot for Teacher" creates the sound of a motorcycle starting up in the intro by mixing his foot pedals with his toms (one of the few instances of the drummer doing the intro, btw). Then when Eddie starts with the guitar, he does switch to a steady beat - the engine is idling - but it's a complicated rhythm. When the song takes off, the drums kind of give you the sensation of sticking your head out the window of a car speeding down the highway. There's a moment at 1:41-1:44 where the drummer kind of "downshifts" while the guitarist does a descending scale, and I think he's using his kick drums as part of that.

 

[EgonSpengler]

More drumming. Some modern jazz, this time. Sarah Thawer sitting in with Ghost Note in a "live-in-studio" performance, so you can kinda-sorta see what she's doing. Obviously it's harder to see her feet than her hands. She switches back and forth between keeping time with her feet while letting her hands go, and keeping time with one or both hands - on the cymbals, for instance - and playing around with her feet.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is there a thread somewhere where players list the music they listen to while playing, assuming they're not listening to the in-game music?

We do have a "What music are you listening to" thread where folks can post music links. If you want to have a thread where members just list music without links, then you can start one. If you do that, just say in the OP that you want written lists and no links.

Music thread

 

[Sofista]

Syd Barrett or Roger Waters?

Spoiler :

Spoiler :

I believe Dave Gilmour delivered the better solo on the former.

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

Why do "Oil Change" services exist in isolation in the USA? I mean, they literally only do that to your car quickly? Is it because everyone does such high mileage? Here in the UK, oil change is so infrequent noone could run a business on doing that alone.

 

[Farm Boy]

You don't need to schedule ahead for those. I find it cheaper to schedule with my regular mechanic- so that's what I do. Tend to replace filters and check tires, then, too.

I never bought nice enough jacks to enjoy working on something that would suffocate me if it fell off.

 

[Samson]

Why do "Oil Change" services exist in isolation in the USA? I mean, they literally only do that to your car quickly? Is it because everyone does such high mileage? Here in the UK, oil change is so infrequent noone could run a business on doing that alone.

I cannot speak for America, but it is the main maintenance thing I get done, except I have got more lazy in recent years and got a more expensive but easier bloke to do it. Kwikfit used to charge less than buying the stuff yourself and it is such a hastle getting rid of the oil. It is also the only preventative maintenance that I consider worth doing.

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

I've always just done it along side MOT, never specifically.

 

[Farm Boy]

Mot is what? Some sort of mandatory government testing? We had that in Cook County. I used to need to unplug my dash fuses because they wouldn't test the emissions if a sensor had gone out and put the check engine light stuck on.