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In 1183 the Welsh historian, Giraldus Cambrensis, visited Ireland for two years and wrote his book Topographica Hibernaie . He scathingly described the 'barbarians' he encountered there, criticizing their apparent lack of industry, disinterest in urban life, and love of liberty and leisure. Despite...

One time I was talking to someone about what kind of metronome they should buy, and they said they need it for playing Chopin (we were talking about piano). I was like "Oh, my goodness! What in the world?, you don't play Chopin with a metronome" and they were like "right, but you shou...

From an internet point of view "downloading" and "listening" are the same thing.

scheky wrote:However, if you have Delrin melting in your car, you must live on the Sun. The Melting Temp of Delrin is 335F/168C. If your car is getting that hot, wow.....

It doesn't have to be hot enough to melt into a puddle, just enough to soften and distort a little. Which is still pretty hot though.

I left Illinois at the wrong time.

I've carried on a plastic M&E (with a tuning slide) and security (Oakland and Midway) didn't blink an eye.

Woiuroti Kriwokjbowklklk to you too.

Withak, I think you will find that open holes cause antinodes, not nodes - as you rightly say, the areas of least density or pressure..... True, I'm used to thinking of waves in solids where you can have tension. :) In air you control where the minimum point on the wave is, not where the zero is.

edit: This is not the double-post you are looking for.

The node is where the sine wave is zero, i.e. where the squiggly line on an oscilloscope crosses from positive to negative or vise versa. For wind instruments, an open hole makes a node by forcing the air pressure inside the tube at that point to be close to zero (relative to the pressure outside th...

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johnkerr wrote:rumors are that he plays or played the pipes as well

I seem to recall a minor credit to that effect on the first Solas album.

In an Ed Reavy tunebook the introduction (I think that's where I remember reading it) mentions him playing the pipes at Reavy's funeral.

"Swindler" is a pretty unfortunate name for any kind of product. :-/

Hi Withak, Nice link, but is there a way of getting DownThemAll to recurse into a set of links to find the individual mp3 files? I.e. how to download this particular set of MP3s in a lazy fashion? I don't think so. Wget can do that though. :) Just don't ask me how because I can't remember how all t...

Is there a way of downloading all the MP3s in one batch without having to click on them singly? I've noticed trying to buy the CDs sends you off to a US web site and I'd rather not go through the hassles of customs etc either. And paying for the DRM version seems a bit strange if the files are avai...

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withak wrote:Not everyone is a colossal nerd who chooses media formats based on politics or inaudible technical differences.

What an ignorant opinion you have. I can easily hear the definition of a 96kbps OGG file over the same music encoded in even 160kbps mp3.

160 kbps mp3 is so 1997.