u/mysteryofthefieryeye

clarification: I can select the folders, right click and click “move to trash“, these folders will not go anywhere, they will not delete.

Drivin' me nuts, even if I'm not supposed to see them. I even tried compressing them into a file to delete that, but that didn't work )(i deleted the zip file but the folders still remain)

I also have zero idea where some of these came from, like Thafknar and NaturalReader.

(p. 577 from Walker Halliday 12th ed.)

I found this interesting that Jearl Walker/Halliday seem convinced the ice skating works due to the friction of melted ice water floating the skate, instead of making the remark that it's still a mystery (which would have been more fun to read).

I remember in a StarTalk live episode, Neil Tyson proffered this explanation and comedian co-host Jason Sudeikis hotly countered (paraphrase), "Then why can I 'skate' in just tennis shoes?" or something similar.

I read an interesting discussion on this sub here where someone posits that as temperature lowers, ice potentially becomes rougher. But what isn't mentioned is why ice skating rinks need to be polished—does polishing create this quasi-liquid layer that is mentioned?

Reading about the quasi-liquid layer reminds me immensely of the conduction band in metals—a sea of free electrons that will happily allow pressure waves (electricity) to travel through them as they themselves amble about slowly. Could polished ice be something like this?

What I've discovered accidentally that isn't mentioned often is the shape of the ice skating blade, which is a concave shape: ice skaters essentially travel on two blades with a relatively small hollowed out shape between them. Google it!

Then this would imply instantly melted ice (or quasi-layer) pushed into this slim concaved metal baguette (sorry I can't think of a better word and no one reads posts this far anyway lmao) could lift the skate up, wouldn't you think?

I love that this is such a mystery, so close to home.

Watching a take-off video and every so often, on either side of the throttles, a fidget spinner goes into action.

It delights me lol. What is it, please, and what is it for and what if someone's knee or hand gets in the way and interferes with it?

Old stills taken from A Trip Down Market Street, which was filmed four days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Old stills taken from A Trip Down Market Street, which was filmed four days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

This is *not* anything remotely exciting, but it's the only thing that exists from this episode's monologue (there's no footage after this that I can find), and Conan was in a good mood

Sincere question, I haven't done a scientific study or anything on how many songs are like this. But back in the 90s, I used to sit and listen through an entire CD of music straight through, reading the lyrics if I could, and it doesn't matter how good a song is, I was often disappointed if new lyrics seemed to sort of stop after about verse 2, or a bridge.

Lines, phrases, words, just repeated over and over after that.

I would idolize Billy Joel, Axl Rose, maybe Stephen Tyler, who all seemed to put in effort to write lyrics that you could read like a book. Their songs would have maybe 3, 4, 5 verses.

Today, I listen to a lot of black metal, and sometimes they go on and on with lyrics; they have a lot to say lol. But then I'll tune in to a good ol' country song (I like that genre too) and it's back to half-song lyrics.

I've always wondered since then, and I just don't know how to ask, do most songwriters just feel like "two verses, a chorus, and a bridge" are all you have to write, even if the song goes on far longer than that?

Is it a time-saving technique? Is it to help with memorization when performing live?

I know that the brain loves repetition and patterns. Repeating lines of lyrics becomes part of the flow of the music and now the listener can disregard any message or moral and the chanting becomes the vibe.

But I'm guessing this isn't how most songwriters work. I sincerely wonder why people don't write more.

Can someone explain to me who Beethoven was out to get, and how to play this assuming his wicked candlelit grin isn't directed at me?

Piano Sonata No. 6, second movement

Youtube channels load differently and incorrectly depending how you access it.

[Apologies, I swear I edited the images to be in correct order.]

SECOND image: if I begin typing in a keyword to access a URL in my history (specifically the ...ChannelName/videos URL), then the top row of videos are blocked by a hovering upper portion. Not sure how to describe it. But you can see the thumbnails are blocked, and some features are missing or difficult to access.

FIRST image: the exact same URL, except I go through youtube's search field, access the channel, then click on Videos, it's the same page but loaded correctly. You can see the thumbnails in full, and options for sorting.

If I reload the page (no change to the URL), then the bug re-appears and the thumbnails are covered over again. As you scroll, the different layers are very bouncy, it's weird.