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21 Jun 2024, 8:28 am

Harmonie wrote:

@auntblabby I wish I could tell you. It's been over a decade since I played it. The biggest thing I remember is that the contrabassoon I played on was a larger than standard model and boy... it was so clunky. And I had to carry it up stairs to get to orchestra rehearsals. D: lol
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At least they didnt make you play it in the marching band! :lol:

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25 Jul 2024, 4:56 am

As I've said many a time, old-timey newspapers, which I have a wide variety of, from various places in the U.S., and even two or three from Canada (they cost a pretty penny from EBay [where I got most of them], but I would much rather pay that for an interesting, intriguing and involving old-timey daily or Sunday paper than to pay the high actual cover prices demanded for practically nothing these days).

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25 Jul 2024, 6:00 am

I enjoy making things...

Have not made much at all the last few years though due to burnout/breakdown BUT I am now on the mend so am now slowly doing things!

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25 Jul 2024, 7:36 am

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No, it does not equal that unfortunately. However it does explain the process for which properties of matter are born from. If it can be proven correct, it could be used to violate the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle under certain conditions. I have a particular application for that process: being able to “read” quantum entanglement data without affecting the outcome either way during encryption by an outside source.

[ . . . ]

Well, I am a bit of a Dr. Frankenstein.

But, where will I dig up a nice set of eyes from?

I am trying to come up with a joke about cats eyes, Scrodinger’s cat, Heisenberg, observation, and Frankenstein’s monster but I can’t get it to work. Imagine I figured it out. Imagine you liked the joke. Imagine you laughed.

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25 Jul 2024, 8:05 am

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I really want to know why Paul McCartney stopped looking like, acting like, or singing like Paul McCartney immediately after Revolver in late 1966. I swear it's not him anymore after that. I try to convince myself it is, but it's just not.

I'm not into conspiracy theories and I don't believe he died or anything like that. I'm not going there. I just can't understand why it's blatantly NOT HIM imo, starting at Sgt Pepper's. I can't even look at him. Consciously I compare his facial features and they kind of match but when I put it all together NO, it's not him, and the later Paul makes me cringe.

He even appears to be 2-3" taller than before.

It's major cognitive dissonance and it bugs me, so I keep trying to figure it out.

* I still like the music post-Revolver. I just can't look at him.

Mark Hammil had a car accident and the reconstruction surgery changed his face, made him look older. This happened between movies and in the second (made) Star Wars movie they added a scene where Luke Skywalker is attacked by a monster and even show him with bandages on his face, same place where the surgery had been for the car accident. His later career emphasized voice acting.

Frank Santra blew his voice out but he was such a big star by that time he could still draw a crowd. He worked hard to come up with a new musical style that emphasized rhythm and timing over tone. His later work is easily distinguishable from his earlier.

If you read biographical articles on John Lenon you can see the tension and desire to evolve the sound and style after the Beatles hit their peak. Yoko was influencing John to be more postmodern in his political and artistic thinking and Paul was still more traditional by comparison. They often conflicted over it.
And the world was changing.

People’s height can be hard to judge from photos and can really change with footwear. Some combination of these factors could explain all the changes.

Or it could be (insert conspiracy theory here).

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26 Jul 2024, 9:11 am

One niche I have spent many hours on is "esoteric programming languages" (yes, that's a "thing").

Here is a "Hello, World!" program in "Ook!" (which is Turing complete):

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26 Jul 2024, 11:48 pm

how quietly and smoothly vehicles ride over bumpy rough roadways.

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27 Jul 2024, 7:31 am

English Medieval History from 900 to 1347. I think that's pretty specific.

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27 Jul 2024, 5:24 pm

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27 Jul 2024, 10:05 pm

mgurak wrote:

English Medieval History from 900 to 1347. I think that's pretty specific.

I took a Medieval England History class in college that covered that era (and more). It's been over a decade ago now, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! A year ago or so I also listened to an audiobook which went over the same time period. I can't say it's my special interest specifically but I am fascinated by it! (I think having ADHD also makes special interests scattered for me like that lol)

Also, the music is a jam.

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28 Jul 2024, 7:36 am

Fenn wrote:

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But, where will I dig up a nice set of eyes from?

I will do that. The probabilities are there that the joke can be done if looking in the right perspective. You might need to borrow that viewpoint to see it though. Remember Scrodinger’s cat only sees the darkness of the box once inside, but only if it is alive at the time.

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28 Jul 2024, 9:56 am

Perhaps I simply lack the correct reference frame.

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28 Jul 2024, 10:04 am

Really, my most specific special interest IS boxes.

As in, just collecting them.
No more, no less.

No name and fact hoarding, therefore no 'calculations and categories/history of cartons and containers', no expanding it through practical use like using them all for an efficient item arrangement, no play pretend with it, not even as a visualization model for drawings or prop...

Not even bleeding through or merging with my other special interests in crafting (which is a very flexible, diverse and intricate special interest of mine that did web itself through several domains including physics, maths, programming, culture and business).

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28 Jul 2024, 11:11 am

One of my intermittant interests is the history of board games from around the world. Not so much the games you can buy in shops as the real traditional games, most of them pretty obscure nowadays. There are entire design families of games, each spanning several continents, centuries or even millennia, and dozens of known variants. For example, "Nine Men's Morris" is a staple of museum gift-shops in Britain. Its distinctive boards have been found in the ruins of Troy, and related games with altered boards or rules have been described everywhere from Mongolia to South Africa to New Mexico. I keep toying with the idea of a series of very long, detailed blog posts collecting everything that is known about Morris games, but I doubt anyone would actually read that. They're fun to make as well as read about, but sadly I don't have many people to play against.

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28 Jul 2024, 11:15 am

QuantumChemist wrote:

Fenn wrote:

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But, where will I dig up a nice set of eyes from?

Why did Frankenstein's genetic chimera black cat with three eyes become the world's greatest, and shortest lived physicist?

Because with one eye, he observed the particle's speed, with the second eye, he observed its mass, and with the third eye, he used spooky entanglement to always know where he was... until you looked at him, of course. Then his probability waveform collapsed!

(see ... it doesn't really work)

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28 Jul 2024, 3:01 pm

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