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  5. Buying viola strings at justmusic.de in Berlin is a weird process. You choose the strings at the desk on the top floor, who give you a piece of paper and tell you to go to the ground floor. By the time you’ve got there, the strings have arrived in a little vacuum tube thing, and you pay for them.

    I’m not entirely sure how this works for the pianos and do not intend on buying one to find out, unless they have a vacuum-tube to Iceland as well.

  6. ↪ Kyle Mahan: I’m confused, isn’t that exactly what the method you linked to (request.data) provides?

    @kylewm only if the data isn’t in a “format understood by Flask” (a list of which is not given). Apparently it’s empty if the data has been processed by Flask.

  10. This week’s illness, measured in XP:

    Sunday: 50, Monday: 24, Tuesday: 0, Wednesday: 25, Thursday: 7, Friday: 10, Saturday: 57.

    (Context: when feeling more like a human than a sack of flu germs, I usually get between 60 and 100 duolingo “XP” per day. Thank goodness for streak freeze.)

  13. Drehleierwiki has a very comprehensive list of string suggestions, and is excellent reference if you’re not sure where to get strings, what to get, or simply want to try something new.

    I’m currently using a Thomastik Infeld Dominant Viola a1 medium, (synth core, aluminium wound) as my g, some unbranded roundwound violin G (turns out roundwound doesn’t sit nicely with my gurdy) and a Violin D for the D. Planning on replacing the D with another low G set up for harmony playing, and maybe trying some gut strings for my trompettes after I’ve made new chiens.

  15. Rewatching Star Wars IV for the first time in years (not counting the Uncut) is a hilarious reminder of all the mondegreens my 10 year old ears heard amongst the dialog, such as threepio exclaiming that for droids to suffer is “our Latin life”

  16. that “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” was appropriated by Pete Seeger (and then further sanitized by George Weiss) from a song written by Solomon Linda, who died in poverty. His family only received royalties for the song’s widespread Disney use after a lawsuit in 2006 — 44 years later.

    There’s an archive of the in-depth three part write-up of the whole thing from Rolling Stone by Rian Malan here.