@benwerd probably time for an ear irrigation! They’re super fun and afterwards you can hear EVERYTHING.
@benwerd probably time for an ear irrigation! They’re super fun and afterwards you can hear EVERYTHING.
@aaronpk so are you still planning to blog about the process?
Hello Steffen! Hopefully this reply will show up…
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Thanks to everyone who came to the workshop on Saturday! It was great fun to dance with you all, and to get some international perspectives on polka traditions :) I hope you all had as good a time as I did!
If you missed it, didn’t hear about it or want to do it all over again, we’ll be running a similar workshop at this year’s Vaka festival in Akureyri (15th-18th June), and there’ll be all sorts of other nice stuff going on too.
Until then, keep up the nice music and dancing in Reykjavík, I’m looking forward to being back :)
P.S. if anyone took photos, it’d be great to have copies — posted here is fine, emailed in high resolution to barnaby@waterpigs.co.uk is even better!
Woohoo, die beste Drehleierspieler und Schalmeispielerin werden in Hamburg spielen! Verpass das nicht, Norddeutsche freunde :)
@realscientists I always thought those were ankles, and their anatomical “knees” are buried inside what appears to be their bodies?
@veganstraightedge additionally: when all watched in order (prequels, Clone Wars, OT), the most emotional scene in the entire thing is in A New Hope when R2 runs into Obi Wan and he says “hello, little friend” and you think “OMG they’ve been through so much together and now they’re totally going to pretend they don’t know each other for some reason actually what’s up with that?”
@veganstraightedge my headcannon: R2’s memory was never wiped after the clone wars, so he(it/they?) spent the entire original trilogy trolling EVERYONE. I keep meaning to pick out a bunch of scenes where R2 is making bleeping noises and add subtitles implying that he’s actually trying to tell everyone what’s going on (“vader’s your father”, etc) and everyone’s just ignoring him.
@tommorris I’m hardly a blockchain enthusiast but it might still be possible to read my site at barnabywalters.bit if you have a namecoin DNS resolver set up. I experimented with namecoin a bit purely for the experience. Results: it does actually work, and isn’t a terrible experience (terrible being relative to the current system for buying and managing domain names) but whether or not using a blockchain for DNS is actually scalable or at all feasible for the entire web I have no idea.
@mallelis my dad genuinely, unapologetically enjoys listening to Chaz and Dave. Perhaps you have not come across this uniquely British act in the states. Here is a sample of their work, listen at your own risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1fOZjiDaw4
@briansuda THIS IS THE BEST THING SINCE SEEING ACTUAL CUNEIFORM TABLETS IN THE MUSEUM IN ISTANBUL
@t sounds about right, see also https://takingsenseaway.wordpress.com/ blog written by a former TSA employee, debunks a lot of TSA practise as nonsense. I’ve found European airports to vary, e.g. some want shoes off, every electronic device in it’s own tray, some don’t care. When traveling with the gurdy I’ve had reactions ranging from highly suspicious with swabs being taken, to people not caring, or wanting to hear it played purely out of curiosity.
@roopagulati German apples aren’t too bad either — there was recently a mobile apple press in town, so we collected ~100kg of apples and pears from the region and had them pressed into 80 litres of delicious apple juice!
Hey cool, there’s an API for the IUCN Red List https://www.assembla.com/spaces/sis/wiki/Red_List_API — perhaps I shall make a twitter bot which replies to @_everybird_ when it tweets about EN/CR/EW/EX species…
@w03_ hávamál or drunk poetry?
They’re pretty awesome, right!
@solarference thanks :) Right now I’m most curious about the lyrics — are they from a source, or arranged? I can find many songs with similar structures or names, but none quite the same as yours.
@solarference beat slicing sampler, divides the recording up into n chunks and plays them back randomly. There were some bugs in the version I screenshotted (e.g. mistaking sample number for millisecond delay) which are now fixed. I’m currently working on reproducing as much of The Three Sisters as I can figure out from the recording.