u/DulcetTone

Slumping in my current listen, as they've trotted out a psychic. It got me curious if anyone could cite any instances where a psychic provided concrete and fruitful assistance,?

Every year, I get Peewits (Northern Lapwings) at my farm, and they perch on the spine of my roof.

Now, after 9 years, I hear them all about me (I abut a marsh), but not one has visited the roofs. Has anyone noted any changes in bird behaviors this season?

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I have a Spark 2 and dislike the reliance on a tiny phone app, feature glut, and lack of a user feedback channel that might suggest improvements were possible. I am hoping that the Lava Studio addresses some of these faults (the screen is promising).

Does anyone have a perspective from which they can offer a fair comparison review of these two amps? How do the two compare in output volume, tone quality, sturdiness, etc? Thanks in advance.

There is no indication what dynamics (mp, ppp, fff, etc) are in force at the selected cursor position. This should be added to the bottom-left status fields. Probably the same for arco/pizz/etc ... the sticky conditions.

In addition to the above, when you are editing a score and select "Dynamics", the default offered you should be the one presently in force. Left/Right/Up/Down arrow keys should alter the value to be added down/up/up/down accordingly. To illustrate: if you arrive at a point in the score where you feel two more pips of OOMPH (to use the Italian) should be added, you'd select "Dynamics" and hit Up, Up, Enter. DONE. You don't even need to know where you were - you only need to express where you want to go from (wherever).

I have a score for which the bassline shows no stems at all.

If I select a measure within and select Properties->Notation->Note->Stem, "Stemless" is unchecked.

What might be amiss?

I would like to repair an exquisite display model. It is a 1:192 USS Arizona from Fine Art Models. I'd like to do a full-assed job, as this is museum-grade.

https://fineartmodels.com/arizona/

The items to be reattached (searchlights) fell free after 30 years. I understand that they, and the platform they must be glued to are both painted brass. The paint is, as you would expect, a haze gray with a slight texture.

Any advice as to epoxy brand and tips for a novice (I used to build models, but 45 years ago!) would be helpful. Do check out the link, and also read about their 1:48 builder's model of Titanic, which has 3M individual rivets, folding deck chairs, etc

A few years ago, I was toying with the idea of making a phone app where players would be challenged to demonstrate their knowledge of song lyrics.

I got distracted and never made an app, but not before writing some code to digest and profile lyrics on a song-by-song basis. I started with the Beatles (of course). I thought one easy, and perhaps illuminating view of the songs would be a histogram of words, and how many songs they appeared in. I think I used lyrics.com as my input.

Caveats:

1. there's gonna be slop room on "oh", "ooh" and "you're", "yer" etc.
2. with fade outs, there will be doubt as to what is the last audible word
3. I only did 184 songs written by the Beatles that they released on Beatles albums
4. various verb forms and singular/plural are treated separately. That is "love" and "loves" are separate entries
5. probably a lot more

There were 2291 distinct words used in those 184 songs. 1309 of the 2291 words appear in one song only. 293 appeared in two songs only.

Here are the top ten (the numbers given reflect how many songs each word appears in... not the number of times the word appears - this helps dampen out the fudge).

• 161 "the"
• 160 "to"
• 151 "you"
• 151 "and"
• 142 "i"
• 135 "a"
• 123 "me"
• 108 "that"
• 107 "in"
• 97 "my"

A good question is "What Beatles songs do NOT have the word 'the' or 'to' in them?" ;)

The basis of my never-made game would have centered on the more interesting words, and asking players to name songs that contained a given word in a timed trial and see who came up with more.

For instance:

• Which songs contain "kitchen"? (there are 2)
• Which contain "everywhere"? (8)
• "bag"? (7! WTF?)
• "point"? (3?!)

etc etc.

LMK if there is some other analysis that would intrigue you. If you like, I could post the entire list of how many songs each word appears in.

He wouldn't commit to the bit.

I sing much better when I have good monitoring, but play a lot of open mikes where such can't be assured. Does anyone make a wearable headset that has a stem mike that (locally) feeds a single ear a good signal obtained at the mike?

It's a bonus if the mike's output could go to a sound system, and nice if the monitor signal could come back from the board (as is convention), but I am focused on an entirely local (mike -> ear) system that I could rely on while singing into a house mike or without amplification at all.

Thanks in advance!