I'm guessing this is the same incident. This could have been very bad.

Thanks for the vid. Are you at Dyess? I go to Abilene about once a month, and spend my free time at the park, smoking cigars and watching the show.

The man I'm speaking of is the late Ray Crisara. I studied with him at UT-Austin when I got my doctorate in trumpet performance. He had a remarkable gift for simply reframing something in a way that made it instantly easier to comprehend, and then play. Not so much physically, but mentally. "Organized thinking" was…

One look at the article that doodon2whls posted and you'll see just how much math would be required. Maybe you could link to it for those who would like a more thorough explanation. But my mind was blown, too.

So much of his teaching was simplifying the complex. If you were to conduct a 5/4 measure, you would do it as 3+2 or 2+3. If you had a septuplet run, you would group that as 2-2-3 (4-3) or 3-2-2 or 2-3-2. The statement, "If you can count to three..." is a bit simplistic, but it demonstrates that any complex rhythm…

For years, I sat next to one of the greatest trumpet teachers in the country and he kept saying, "If you can count to three, you can play music." All the while I thought to myself, "What about four?" And one day, he said, "Now, four is nothing more than two plus two, now isn't that right?" Meter is said to be…

Yes! In fact, the jugs from Costco used to have this indentation on the side. But a couple years ago, they changed their packaging/supplier or something and the indentation is no longer there. So, now I have to pour some off to allow for expansion.

With the way this idiotic Kinja auto-scrolling works, I missed your excellent discussion above Depeche Mode. I noticed the pilot in Chris's video moving the propeller. I'm not going to claim that I understand how it works, but I understand why it works. I think there's a subtle difference between the two.

First paragraph: "The blade being balanced by a suitable counterweight." Well, there you go. In the photo accompanying the article you posted, it's easier to see the slug of metal attached to the shorter end of the propeller. I also just noticed that the article is written by Mr. Everel himself.

As a musician, all I have to do is be able to count to three. But thanks. I'll give it a look.

Yeah, that's pretty much the formula.

because science.

We've been freezing milk for years. My wife learned it from her mother, who used to buy half gallon cartons from the Navy commissary. Now, with three growing boys and a dad who likes milk, we can go through a gallon in a little more than a day. So I buy 12 gallons a time at Costco and freeze them. Sometimes, the…

Out of date.

I've said it to other commenters, I think the "Sploid-ishness" you hear is just the Gawker tone. I think Chris has a better handle on it, and that's why Paul doesn't write here any more. Again, that is no indictment of his work. Far from it. I just don't think it was a fit for Gawker, or at least, the editors…

I'm fairly certain that this is his WordPress site. His name doesn't appear on it, though. And I know he posts on Twitter as well. I also think he writes for other publications.

If this were Sploid, you would have gotten the GIF and one sentence about how this stunt would melt your face or cause your brain to explode or rupture your spleen. This article is much more than that. There's an airplane, a movie, information about the plane itself and the history of the type. I'm really not sure…

Came here to say just that.

The only time I used Apple Maps it got me lost. Well, not really lost, but on the wrong side of a very large interstate junction. I have never had a problem with GM.

I'll just leave this here.