It was your thread in the workshop that made me aware and put me on a google journey. Homer, the enlightener of the peasants.
I just realized why you don't seem to see as many women working in the post as you used to. It's because the post is a mail-dominated industry. I'll see myself out ...
I was telling my wife, who grew up in China years back, about a comic scene in a Vonnegut book where a woman who purported to love classical music was playing Beethoven at 78 RPM when it was a 33 RPM record. Wife had no idea what I was talking about. Neither, I'm afraid, would my adult daughters, who never grew up around turntables. Another of those subtle cultural references that make me old-fashioned.
I'm nowhere near old enough to remember 33 RPM records (launched in 1948), but I've used records and turntables before, and I know that RPM = Revolutions per Minute. So ... I suppose if you did that, the record would be played more than twice as fast as it should? And you wouldn't enjoy it at all? *crosses fingers*
Youtube uses a pitch shifter so you can slow/speed video without losing the pitch. We use it in music classes all the time now. You can really hear all the recording gaffs and mistake notes on the old jazz records, which were almost all recorded live in one take.
Here's something I just thought of: doctors and white coats. I've worked in hospitals for years, and never seen a doctor wear a white coat ... well, not in the operating theatre, anyway. (White scrubs are a different story, and they've been changed into green or blue ones now. The only place I saw doctors wearing white scrubs is on the TV show M*A*S*H*). Anyway, I've never seen any doctor wear a white coat, not even in a consulting room. Is it just something they do on TV shows, or what?
33 RPM records are just normal LPs. They're really popular these days, having nudged out CDs as the primary physical media for music; most serious music fans have digital media for listening on the move and a record player at home, so there's no need for the worst-of-both-worlds CD.
I've actually heard of a few being released, but they're pretty damned rare. Most players don't even have a 78 setting.
Off the cuff, yes, but in very well-defined harmonic paths. I was learning one song the other day that hit 4 different modes in one measure... and all on upbeats to make it even tougher to follow. I wanted to reach into the screen and slap the bass player, but he probably died 30 years ago.
Green is the afterimage of red. Operatory uniforms are green so that seeing the green afterimages of red blood are not obvious and potentially distracting.
maybe it depends? All the doctors i know wear/wore white coats. My mom worked for a medical clinic my whole life. I was very familiar with the doctors there. i dont think i ever saw them in scrubs. they always wore business professional clothes and a white coat overtop
Went for a walk in the woods at dawn. Just as we arrived one flock of turkeys began dropping down from the tree in which they roosted overnight. One big tom -- who unfolded his tail and strutted around -- and six hens. He seemed very proud, but as the clucking started I thought of Jim's comment in Huck Finn about a Biblical harem -- "I'd rather live in a boiler factory than with a lot of wives. At least you can shut down the boiler factory at night."
This reminds me of a heading I saw once in a book by Lynne Truss. She was quoting a headline from a porn magazine: "NUDE READER'S WIVES". She pointed out that, of course, the magazine wanted men to send in pictures of their wives in the all-together. But the heading, of course, conjured up images of -- ahem -- a nude reader being attended upon by middle-aged women in bathrobes and slippers. As for why anyone would do this, I wouldn't have a clue ...
Here's something that made me smile -- this piece of serendipity: Watch all of it, it is glorious. Be especially on the lookout for about 1:01 in, where a young tough is clearly not happy about being filmed. Take that, camera-man. This is believed to be the first time the V-sign was flashed on camera. And, for a film this old, I'm amazed it survived this long -- or at all! -- and in such good condition, too!
Wife is out of town. Out of the country. Out of the continent in fact. There are some fallen branches on the roof -- no damage but annoying. Should I climb up and clean up? Arguments against: (1) I'm well into my allotted 3 score and 10 (2) my balance is a bit off sometimes, and (3) the ladder doesn't quite reach all the way up. Arguments for: (1) hiring someone would be expensive; (2) it's only one story high (what could possibly happen?); (3) I've done it before and not fallen; and the biggie, (4) wife's not here to tell me how stupid it would be to go up there. Final answer: I went up and cleaned up and came down safely. Which of course means that was the smart choice, right?
Chapter 2 of my episode of Home Alone. I am responsible this week and next for feeding my son and I, and have realized how time-consuming it is to plan and prepare a decent evening meal (without ordering in a pizza or going out). I guess I'm spoiled because wife is a talented cook who loves to do it. But I am a good eater.
