What’s on your mind?

[rm5]

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I only want to know one thing: why?

That's precisely my thought, too. I will never be able to unsee that now

 

[xJustxMegx]

That's precisely my thought, too. I will never be able to unsee that now

So I am not alone.

 

[EllieCat]

My iPad and iPhone typing cursor goes in the middle of letters. It's infuriating especially with fixing spelling mistakes.

 

[rm5]

Hadn’t practiced piano in like a month until today, and my hands and fingers were ridiculously stiff. Probably the worst shape I’ve been in in a LONG time.

Did scales, arpeggios, and my two pentatonic exercises in all keys for over an hour. Then walked left hand bass lines on blues at various tempos. Practiced my right hand bebop lines against left hand comping, and then walking bass plus bebop lines. Then finally bebop lines in octaves (both spread apart one octave and spread apart two, like Phineas Newborn).

So I should be all set for jazz combo. But my voice is in AWFUL shape after being sick, so hopefully it improves before choir on Tuesday.

 

[rm5]

So I am not alone.

Not at all!

My iPad and iPhone typing cursor goes in the middle of letters. It's infuriating especially with fixing spelling mistakes.

Weird! Never had that issue. The one I had a few days ago was where I’d be typing something on my phone (grrr! I absolutely hate typing on a phone), and it’d just skip to some random place as I typed. Sometimes a line above, or in the middle of a word. Only experienced that a few times though.

 

[jedimasterkyle]

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I only want to know one thing: why?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Not at all!

.....The one I had a few days ago was where I’d be typing something on my phone (grrr! I absolutely hate typing on a phone),

Amen to that.

As do I - I loathe typing on a phone.

and it’d just skip to some random place as I typed. Sometimes a line above, or in the middle of a word. Only experienced that a few times though.

Yes, this has happened to me, as well.

 

[xJustxMegx]

My mind be like: Can birds be afraid of heights?

 

[goldmac2006]

Actually, here, there is no distinct "English" or "History" requirement. Just one, single humanities requirement. So the options are very open. I just happened to take both an English and History class. Actually, the options are very open in every major and program. Everything is pretty much player's choice. I love this, but it also makes things EXTREMELY confusing on paper.

Though things get very weird with the foreign language, natural science, math, and social science requirements. Most students have to do these, but not everybody. For instance, I am actually exempt from all four (though I've still taken political science classes). It depends on the program you're in. The College and Conservatory, despite being on the same campus, are treated as two separate entities in the course catalog—so if you are in the Con, you have very different requirements. But then there's also ambiguity around what constitutes "being in the Conservatory." Ultimately, it's just a question for your advisor. Hardly anyone really understands it. It's confusing but I've figured it out.

Weirdly some universities for engineering majors and high unit majors they let you opt out to take the second level of college language arts class. But I still got both of them done in case I transfer to a different school.

 

[EllieCat]

Not at all!

Weird! Never had that issue. The one I had a few days ago was where I’d be typing something on my phone (grrr! I absolutely hate typing on a phone), and it’d just skip to some random place as I typed. Sometimes a line above, or in the middle of a word. Only experienced that a few times though.

It’s iOS 16.2 raggghh

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

My mind be like: Can birds be afraid of heights?

Yes, cassowaries.

A friend of mine was a passenger in a small plane in Papua New Guinea.
For some reason, there was a trussed-up, and very much alive, cassowary at the back of the plane.
Partway through the flight, it decided that, being a flightless bird, it didn't like flying, no way, no how, at all, and decided to try and remove itself from the plane.
My friend asked the pilot what should they do.
Pilot responded by saying that he was flying the plane, it was up to my friend and the other passengers to fix the problem. Which they were able to do by sitting on the bird (1.8 metres tall, 70kg) and re-tying it up.

You did ask...

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Yes, cassowaries.

A friend of mine was a passenger in a small plane in Papua New Guinea.
For some reason, there was a trussed-up, and very much alive, cassowary at the back of the plane.
Partway through the flight, it decided that, being a flightless bird, it didn't like flying, no way, no how, at all, and decided to try and remove itself from the plane.
My friend asked the pilot what should they do.
Pilot responded by saying that he was flying the plane, it was up to my friend and the other passengers to fix the problem. Which they were able to do by sitting on the bird (1.8 metres tall, 70kg) and re-tying it up.

You did ask...

This is a brilliant post (and response).

Wow.

According to what I have read, cassowaries are not especially benign or pacific by temperament, rather, they are large, powerful, aggressive birds; I cannot imagine the idiocy of attempting to transport one in a small aircraft.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

This is a brilliant post (and response).

Wow.

According to what I have read, cassowaries are not especially benign or pacific by temperament, rather, they are large, powerful, aggressive birds; I cannot imagine the idiocy of attempting to transport one in a small aircraft.

It depends on the cassowary, and how it has been brought up. Some villagers collect eggs and hatch them, imprinting the babies on humans. It is not uncommon to see a small child a metre high leading around a 2 metre high cassowary as though it was a ginormous puppy.

Wild ones are, well, wild...

 

[Scepticalscribe]

It depends on the cassowary, and how it has been brought up. Some villagers collect eggs and hatch them, imprinting the babies on humans. It is not uncommon to see a small child a metre high leading around a 2 metre high cassowary as though it was a ginormous puppy.

Wild ones are, well, wild...

Fascinating.

I confess that my knowledge of cassowaries is limited to what I had initially seen (and subsequently, read), in David Attenborough's (brilliant) original Life on Earth TV series (entranced, I bought the book) - and what I have read since from other sources, although I am by no means any sort of expert on this subject.

However, I had no idea that they could imprint on humans if hatched around humans and raised by them, although, I suppose that it stands to reason that this may be the case.

 

[AVBeatMan]

1000%. We do three at home, two in the office. But the open plan office is just grim. Nobody talks to anyone. Just all sit there listening to their headphones. If I could switch to 100% remote I’d do it in a heartbeat.

Me too. We also do 2 days in the office then 3 at home. The days change every week over a 5 week period, so 1 week it's Monday & Tuesday, 2nd week Tuesday & Wednesday and so on. Days in the office people work less hours. I get it at 7.30 and then leave at 15.00 to avoid the traffic. (can make the time up when WFH)

I always sleep poorly the night before the office. I have to get up earlier at 6 then have a 45 minute drive to the office. People spend the first 30 minutes to an hour talking about TV and other things and the office empties from 15.00 onwards. I'd also WFH full time if I were able to. So much more productive at home.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Me too. We also do 2 days in the office then 3 at home. The days change every week over a 5 week period, so 1 week it's Monday & Tuesday, 2nd week Tuesday & Wednesday and so on. Days in the office people work less hours. I get it at 7.30 and then leave at 15.00 to avoid the traffic. (can make the time up when WFH)

I always sleep poorly the night before the office. I have to get up earlier at 6 then have a 45 minute drive to the office. People spend the first 30 minutes to an hour talking about TV and other things and the office empties from 15.00 onwards. I'd also WFH full time if I were able to. So much more productive at home.

We can at least (mostly) pick our own days. I usually go in when the least amount of people are in (or certain individuals for sure!).
But probably not going in at all this week as I have a trade show Friday and Saturday.

 

[AVBeatMan]

We can at least (mostly) pick our own days. I usually go in when the least amount of people are in (or certain individuals for sure!).
But probably not going in at all this week as I have a trade show Friday and Saturday.

Our worst days are when it's Thursday & Friday, followed by Monday & Tuesday!!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Our worst days are when it's Thursday & Friday, followed by Monday & Tuesday!!

I can imagine. I usually don’t do two days in a row for that reason.

 

[The Clark]

Happy Tuesday all.
I am buried in auditing reports and Nessus vulnerability results. Now would sure be a great time to be a billionaire.

 

[The Clark]

Me too. We also do 2 days in the office then 3 at home. The days change every week over a 5 week period, so 1 week it's Monday & Tuesday, 2nd week Tuesday & Wednesday and so on. Days in the office people work less hours. I get it at 7.30 and then leave at 15.00 to avoid the traffic. (can make the time up when WFH)

I always sleep poorly the night before the office. I have to get up earlier at 6 then have a 45 minute drive to the office. People spend the first 30 minutes to an hour talking about TV and other things and the office empties from 15.00 onwards. I'd also WFH full time if I were able to. So much more productive at home.

After Covid one thing became clear to me. Employees should be compensated for travel time.
I'm full remote now, but I remember being so pissed off in traffic thinking that this is ANYTHING but MY time. This is the companies time, even if I'm not on premise yet.

 

[The Clark]

Hadn’t practiced piano in like a month until today, and my hands and fingers were ridiculously stiff. Probably the worst shape I’ve been in in a LONG time.

Did scales, arpeggios, and my two pentatonic exercises in all keys for over an hour. Then walked left hand bass lines on blues at various tempos. Practiced my right hand bebop lines against left hand comping, and then walking bass plus bebop lines. Then finally bebop lines in octaves (both spread apart one octave and spread apart two, like Phineas Newborn).

So I should be all set for jazz combo. But my voice is in AWFUL shape after being sick, so hopefully it improves before choir on Tuesday.

Whenever I go months away from Piano, I instinctively start with no. 16 in C Major - such a great way to get the hands going again.

I believe it was a piece composed specifically for warmup, similar to how thunderstruck by ACDC was a warmup for Angus Young.

Edit: I was wrong, no 16 was NOT composed specifically for a warmup (verified via chatGPT). Not sure where or even if I heard that before, but thought it was the case. Anyway, my hands jump to that one right away.

 

[The Clark]

Does anybody have any exciting apple purchases coming up?
I myself am on a tight budget lately due to some larger purchases BUT if I could I would buy the M4 Pro Mac Mini in a heartbeat. My M3 Air (16gb Ram + 512gb SSD) is sluggish when it comes to pentesting labs/VMs.

 

[The Clark]

Hadn’t practiced piano in like a month until today, and my hands and fingers were ridiculously stiff. Probably the worst shape I’ve been in in a LONG time.

Did scales, arpeggios, and my two pentatonic exercises in all keys for over an hour. Then walked left hand bass lines on blues at various tempos. Practiced my right hand bebop lines against left hand comping, and then walking bass plus bebop lines. Then finally bebop lines in octaves (both spread apart one octave and spread apart two, like Phineas Newborn).

So I should be all set for jazz combo. But my voice is in AWFUL shape after being sick, so hopefully it improves before choir on Tuesday.

Do you play any classical or are you primarily Jazz focused?

 

[goldmac2006]

Does anybody have any exciting apple purchases coming up?
I myself am on a tight budget lately due to some larger purchases BUT if I could I would buy the M4 Pro Mac Mini in a heartbeat. My M3 Air (16gb Ram + 512gb SSD) is sluggish when it comes to pentesting labs/VMs.

Debating whether to get iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro. Need to check out deals on it under $800 for 256gb for 15 Pro or under $900 for the 16.

 

[The Clark]

Debating whether to get iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro. Need to check out deals on it under $800 for 256gb for 15 Pro or under $900 for the 16.

Can't go wrong either way. Probably best to save some money and grad the 15p, especially considering the implementation of Apple Intelligence so far.