alaithea

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by alaithea 16y ago
This is the first I've heard of actually being able to get a 2.x series OS on my MyTouch 3G. T-Mobile has promised it, but we've been waiting for months.
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by alaithea 16y ago
My grandparents and other elders were "food pushers," too, and I sometimes wonder whether it all stemmed from them spending their formative years in the Great Depression. It seems like those of us raised by them, unless we reject it, could
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by alaithea 16y ago
> I'd wager their free healthcare doesn't contribute as much as their free education, ext. Germany's healthcare system is universal, but not free. Standard insurance is funded by a combination of employee contributions, employer contri
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by alaithea 16y ago
I do this, too. Great computers, great Linux support. It's a win-win.
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by alaithea 16y ago
I wonder how many of us it would take to start affecting change (no pun intended) among our local retailers by getting dollar coins this way and proceeding to use them around town on a consistent basis.
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by alaithea 16y ago
I wouldn't want to get hit by a car on my bike no matter who was going to pay for it.
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by alaithea 16y ago
From a legal and personal responsibility standpoint, the law is lopsided, but it may act as a deterrent to driving in the first place, thereby encouraging bike use . I think that's what the OP of this thread was trying to get at.
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by alaithea 16y ago
Which is exactly my point. One size fits all doesn't work. The scale or notation system should be appropriate to the music. AFAIK, Indian classical has its own way of doing things, and most blues and jazz isn't notated the same way as class
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by alaithea 16y ago
Your point about the "white keys" is well taken, which is why I mentioned moveable do solfege. The absolute pitch of "C" takes on a different name in every key, which respects its relationship within that key. However, there's a reason that
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by alaithea 16y ago
If you really enjoy getting to the heart of "what sounds good," you would probably enjoy adding more music theory to your study. Make sure not to stop at scales, and move on to intervals, chords, and the circle of fifths. :) Eventually, ins
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by alaithea 16y ago
Without first-hand knowledge of the benefit you could get from playing scales, I'm not sure what you're attesting to. You've managed to get along without them. That's fine. It might not make a noticeable difference after a few years of play
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by alaithea 16y ago
This completely ignores the fact that the chromatic note relationships in different keys are not the same. F# is not the same pitch as Gb. In fact, I find thinking about notes in terms of a moveable do solfege (not as static names at all) t
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by alaithea 16y ago
During my second winter in Portland, OR, I started to feel chronically tired and nearly unable to wake up each morning, no matter how much sleep I had had. Once I realized something was wrong, I started Vitamin D supplements and within a da
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by alaithea 16y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, slowing down that much isn't practical for most working adults in this country, many of whom are lucky to get a week of vacation per year. Four to six days of travel per vacation instead of two won't work f
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by alaithea 16y ago
Local transport isn't any more of an issue than it is with air travel. If there's not sufficient public transportation, taxis and car rental companies will pop up to fill the void. Even if it were an issue, people in this country are gettin
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by alaithea 16y ago
The front page gives me no idea of what I will get by registering, so it's hard to commit to getting an account. (Maybe that would have been remedied by the demo people seem to be mentioning.) It also does nothing to explain what the site d
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by alaithea 16y ago
This makes me think of how small countries can (potentially) have the ability to be so much more progressive than huge countries like the U.S. We can't even get on the frickin' metric system.
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by alaithea 16y ago
I think it would be best to do that sort of thing when you can prepare a good chunk of your populace to really try it out. "Hey everyone, start driving on the left on your morning commute tomorrow!" That way, you have a concerted effort to
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by alaithea 16y ago
Shouldn't you be enjoying the summer in Sweden, then, and taking vacation in the winter?
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by alaithea 16y ago
There's http://curiousreef.com/ (formerly Crunch Course).
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by alaithea 16y ago
What if it's not to help follow the line for reading, but to "feel" the page as you read it? A proxy for dealing with immaterial bits on a screen instead of holding and feeling the paper of a book or magazine? Showing you have some sort of
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by alaithea 16y ago
I think it's just that highlighting is neat. Some portion of my brain is pleased by the flashing/changing colors (different than a flashing ad, etc., since I'm controlling the action).
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by alaithea 16y ago
Not everybody highlights text in a functional way. In fact, what I'm highlighting usually has nothing to do with what I'm reading at the moment, and is more of a nervous habit/tic than anything else.
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by alaithea 16y ago
I haven't looked at their script. I'm curious whether they transmit selected text, as Daring Fireball seems to suggest, or only copied text. If the former, they're going to get a lot of false positives from those of us who neurotically sele
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by alaithea 16y ago
A few times, my husband and I got panhandled coming back from a nice restaurant, and happened to have a doggie bag with us. Offering that never went over well and either got outright rejected or grudgingly accepted and quite likely not ea
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by alaithea 16y ago
In Portland, OR, which has a similar homeless problem to SF's, I learned to always include "sorry" when I turned them down, as when I did so, they almost never were rude to me in response. When I didn't say "sorry," I could never be sure wh
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by alaithea 16y ago
The cost analyses that came out around the N1's release convinced me to go with an unlocked phone once my contract runs out. Like you, I was waiting (another year and a half to go). Although the N1 will no doubt be eclipsed by newer models
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by alaithea 16y ago
Sometimes, I come within earshot of a parent talking to their kid, and I happen to notice that the parent is talking as though the kid is an adult. This always surprises me a little, and the fact that it is surprising makes me sad, if I thi
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by alaithea 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib#Adverse_cardiovascula...
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by alaithea 16y ago
I'm not sure if your comment was intended as sarcasm, but you can pretty much do this in Ruby. myarray.each {|x| func_a(x); func_b(x); puts x } is equivalent to myarray.each do |x| func_a(x) func_b(x)

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