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by eszed 2y ago
I'd push back on that. If you're performing a script, then your job is to interpret those words . You've got to be humble enough to presume that the words on the page are as the author intended, and then do them the best jus
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by eszed 2y ago
I don't speak music (like, at all), but I've hung out with a lot of musicians at various points in my life, and it's so cool how we're able to relate to performance in the same way. I had a legit emotional reaction to
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by eszed 2y ago
That makes sense. Someone else down-thread says Meisner isn't something they'd use after the beginner stage. I think, by that point in my career, I'd internalized enough of those lessons in other ways that it was kinda pointl
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by eszed 2y ago
Huh! That's my experience of performing, for sure, but Meisner wasn't presented to me that way. One of the teachers of a workshop I was in had studied with Meisner, and had led (I think?) the London Meisner Institute, so I figured
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by eszed 2y ago
It goes as far as you want to take it, because every detail counts. I've done some long, long runs, and the ~300th performance is more interesting than the first. You get down to where you're working at the syllable level - notici
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by eszed 2y ago
It's absolutely true, in the sense that everyone on stage / screen needs a strong internal logic for why they're doing what they're doing in order for that world to come to life. It's a basically satirical trope in
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by eszed 2y ago
Oh, God. I can't stand Meisner work! I had to do a fair bit of it in graduate school, and it never, ever clicked with me. I could see it working for other actors, so I don't discount it, but I find it tedious in the extreme. Can y
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by eszed 2y ago
Yes, exactly! What's really exciting is that you will have trained yourself to think your way through the material in the same way that Wilde - or Shakespeare, or Beckett, or whoever - did. It's mind-expanding, in the best possibl
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Those are the most revealing moments! When my brain goes to a synonym it tells me that I understand the scene , but not the character . There's something different about their perspective and mine: why did I think this , but they th
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If I won the lottery (I don't buy lottery tickets, but roll with me here), I'd go to graduate school. Multiple graduate schools, in multiple subjects. There's so much to learn , and so many beautiful places in the world in w
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by eszed 2y ago
>land/homes should never be inheritable Eh, nah. But , there should be inheritance taxes set at a level which prevents the formation of a "landed gentry". Unfortunately, the issue has been demogogued to the point that mid
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by eszed 2y ago
I don't know if this will comfort you or not, but it has me. I experienced "death" a few years ago (I got better!), and it was no big deal. I had a small stroke, made it to the emergency room, and had another (larger) one whi
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by eszed 2y ago
For a cooking apple, the texture is everything! McIntosh and Northern Spy are heritage breeds sold in the US that have good texture, though not so good as a Bramley. They can be hard to find, though, and usually expensive, whereas Bramleys
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by eszed 2y ago
Thanks. I knew about the Old Testament reference, but not the Diogenes one. New Testament references to extra-scriptural texts are fascinating , and (in my experience, at least) mostly ignored in exegeses by biblical scholars within religi
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by eszed 2y ago
Fair point. I'll definitely consider co-primes the next time I deploy a system with complicated scheduling.
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by eszed 2y ago
Thanks for that. It's been decades since I took Biblical Greek, but I still recognize a couple of words! I don't see the justification for the NIV's addition of "all kinds". The translation process would have gone:
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by eszed 2y ago
"Scripture" can be proverb. There's a whole bit of the Christian Bible helpfully labeled "Proverbs", is there not? I was intrigued by the idea (elsewhere in the thread) that the root difference is translation from t
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by eszed 2y ago
If it's in your control use co-prime scheduling. If it's not in your control, um... Hope they didn't use co-primes? Or a multiple of your co-primes? Er, yeah. I see the justification for doing it, but it's not exactly
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by eszed 2y ago
My uncle gifted me a copy of this book when I took a job in academia. (How he knew of it I have no idea; he was no academic.) It's written in a very arch manner - it doesn't telegraph its jokes, like, at all - but it's hila
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by eszed 2y ago
I agree with the sibling posts about escalation and so forth, but your numbers also don't capture customer recruitment. I'm fortunate enough to live within Sonic's catchment area in the Bay Area, and have just moved the compa
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by eszed 2y ago
> It would never have been enough, not for Williams nor the board, for Sierra to have levelled out as, say, a boutique producer of high-quality adventure games. Why not?!? It seems like everyone in this story - Roberta, people who love g
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by eszed 2y ago
I can corroborate. I grew up somewhere where we heard cougars regularly (for those of you who don't know, they scream at night - it's a distinctive, spooky sound), and spent a lot of time in the woods. My ambition was to spot one,
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by eszed 2y ago
Indeed. Many things we know about learning and scholarship are rendered academic by the university system.
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Who are some indie journalists you've found to be worth paying? I'd like to find some more work that's worth supporting.
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All true. There are things teachers can do that help, but nothing is a silver bullet. One thing that I seldom hear discussed is classroom design . Lecture halls (the clue is in the name!) with fixed seating are death to seminar / &quo
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by eszed 2y ago
++Bramleys. One of the things I miss about the UK.
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Aye. And, as the sibling post points out, demonstrating that your benchmarking project qualifies for a Research Exemption could devolve into a lawyer-up situation.
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Oh, thank you! I just turned all of those off, and am looking forward to fewer emails and push notifications.
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You're dead on with all of this. To add to your point, the worst and most regrettable software product my company uses would have been immediately exposed as non-viable had I been allowed to get my hands dirty and run a couple of test
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I recently ordered some parts for my car. It was a complex schedule of repairs between my main mechanic, the tire shop, some of my own work, and another guy - and with a hard deadline at the end, so I paid for rapid shipping from one compan

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