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Re: Our 20 Best Midwestern Recipes to Capture the American Heartland

Saga — Mon, 01 May 2017 12:51:45 -0000

I was born in Wisconsin of Yooper extraction. I've also lived in Chicago and Minnesota. I've heard of maybe a quarter of these. The rest sound like what hipsters from NYC and San Francisco would imagine "authentic" Midwestern food is.

Also, Kansas City is not the Midwest. It's the Great Plains.

Re: Woman Found Dead, With Slashed Neck, On Red Hook Bench

Saga — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:21:42 -0000

I hope not: that means they got into the building somehow. :(

Re: Woman Found Dead, With Slashed Neck, On Red Hook Bench

Saga — Thu, 19 May 2016 11:46:47 -0000

I live on this block. I guess that explains why there were helicopters overhead all morning. And now I think whomever rang my doorbell at 6 AM must've been the cops.

Re: Rumor Roundup: Kings, Rangers, Red Wings face tough decisions in off-season

Saga — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:08:21 -0000

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Re: Rumor Roundup: Kings, Rangers, Red Wings face tough decisions in off-season

Saga — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:44:46 -0000

"somewhat"

Re: Rumor Roundup: Kings, Rangers, Red Wings face tough decisions in off-season

Saga — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:14:59 -0000

In my faded memory – so, you know, grain of salt – Bertuzzi wasn't quite the dirty player with a bad attitude that Lucic is. Bertuzzi also redeemed himself somewhat in his Detroit years. Even if Lucic doesn't have the one awful act that Bertuzzi does, he still seems like he has a lot farther to go to redemption in my eyes.

Re: Rumor Roundup: Kings, Rangers, Red Wings face tough decisions in off-season

Saga — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:08:01 -0000

The Wings have been #1 in my heart for 25 years now, but if they sign Lucic, they are no longer my favorite team. I am 1000% serious. I would return when he leaves, but not before then.

Re: How to Enter Flow State and Lose Yourself in the Moment

Saga — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:07:34 -0000

I tried reading this book close to 15 years ago when I was first taking making music seriously. I knew there was a time when, about a third of the way through making a track, I could suddenly "feel" everything that needed to happen with the track through its end and then the work was like my hands were guided by an unknown force: so easy, so smooth, trancelike. My girlfriend had had the book recommended to her some years prior and so she had it on her shelf and recommended I give reading it a go. Well, the book was so dense and seemingly counter-intuitive to me that I never entered into a flow state with it. The guy's ideas are valuable and interesting, but I can't help think that he is not the best one to explain them.

Re: Pitch shift: 10 records that sound incredible at the wrong speed

Saga — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:38:16 -0000

No mention of A Split Second's "Flesh," the only record that launched a genre by being played at the wrong speed? Weak.

Re: New and Improved xScore

Saga — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:01:07 -0000

So, higher ABV = higher ratings? Ugh.

Re: Little Pork Chop coming back

Saga — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:36:23 -0000

Hey, I'd like to use this. Please set me up. Thanks. http://twitter.com/laerm

Re: Ranking every MLB team's top three rivals.

Saga — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:29:11 -0000

I agree, Brandon, also from a life as a Tigers fan. The A's serieses (?) lately have all been super-intense. I think they are our main rival outside of the division (I'd take the Yankess off Will's list and call it done).

Re: Fork this Chant: GitHub Goes Gregorian, with Open Source Notation

Saga — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 11:46:27 -0000

Yeah, Oxygen seems to be the best. I haven't used it in a while, but something about it bugged me...maybe it's improved recently.

Re: Fork this Chant: GitHub Goes Gregorian, with Open Source Notation

Saga — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:05:41 -0000

It's not just about merging changes from a collaborator (which I think would be very handy), but also about forking versions of the same track. "Oh, v4 had a good bit, I want to add that to v5.2."

Re: Fork this Chant: GitHub Goes Gregorian, with Open Source Notation

Saga — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:04:13 -0000

XML-aware diffing has always appeared to be hard to handle in most software. I think I've tried all the Mac options. (If anyone's found one that works, let me know, cuz my job would be so much easier.)

Re: Fork this Chant: GitHub Goes Gregorian, with Open Source Notation

Saga — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:02:49 -0000

Oh, well, that's something. Thanks for the tip, dunno why that never occurred to me...

Re: Fork this Chant: GitHub Goes Gregorian, with Open Source Notation

Saga — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:22:56 -0000

I've yearned for a music format that's diffable for a long time now... At one time, I thought the Ableton gang might be able to do it, after Max was added to Live, but it doesn't look like that'll happen now. A few years ago, I played around with something that did it for MIDI files, but not quite good enough.

Re: Are Sours Under-Rated?

Saga — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:44:48 -0000

I wrote a much longer comment about replacement level and obscure styles making for weird results that can be manipulated but I deleted it because it got way off-topic and navel-gaze-y so instead I'll say:

I hope that someday you will be able to add beeradvocate ratings and mash the two together, much like ZIPS+Fans.

Re: Fantasy Beer League Signup

Saga — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:17:15 -0000

I had the same thought...tips on adding up total BAR for breweries that aren't cut-n-paste math?

Re: Best of 2013 music: Flawed contenders

Saga — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:31:29 -0000

Hm, odd to think that a "comeback" would be mailed-in. It's somewhat monochrome, which gives credence to your complaint about it lacking an entrance point – "monochrome" apparently was my main complaint on albums this year – but it's still catchy. I do agree that he needs to do a pop album, though. This one almost feels like an alternate history, perhaps something he would have done an album after PHM had he not gone harder with Broken. All the Prince and Depeche and, shit, even Level 42 that he used as a basis on PHM is still unassimilated into his style. Maybe he still has room to grow...

Re: <em>Lone Survivor</em>'s Takeaway: Every War Movie is a Pro-War Movie

Saga — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:30:34 -0000

I came here to comment the same thing, so good job.

Re: Damn The Torpedoes - BeerGraphs

Saga — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:35:29 -0000

New Glarus is well worth tracking down. I'd call them the best brewery in the upper Midwest (as long as we don't consider Michigan the upper Midwest).

Re: Download 45GB worth of cult rapper Lil B, including all his albums and mixtapes, documentaries, lectures and more – FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.

Saga — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 20:48:24 -0000

There are also discographies of Led Zeppelin, Dream Theater, the Beatles, Sade, Whitney Houston, and others on TPB. I didn't see any news stories on those, so I take it you only direct readers to download the entire careers of artists you like.

Re: The Replacement Level Pale Ale for the Upper Midwest

Saga — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:23:14 -0000

Interesting. I wonder if that Bell's is less common than others...? I have never seen it in MN, but I have had it in MI, nearly always on tap. I have thought in the past that Bell's distributes their more specialty offerings to further distances than their more run-of-the-mill stuff. I wonder if that win is skewed by a proportionally larger number of checkins for that beer in MI as compared to their others across the board.

Re: Do We Really Need to Shorten the Word 'The'?

Saga — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:01:51 -0000

Dude spent 65K to "develop" a letter that already exists in Serbian? Smooth.

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