Favoriting Bryce: Playlist from November 13, 2020 Favoriting

I never miscue a record. I am punctual, well-prepared, and dislike clutter. Outgoing and helpful, I'm always appropriately dressed. I do not behave erratically and have excellent penmanship. My CD's never skip, and I am in good health. I like all the notes, in any order.

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Masahiko Satoh  Metempsychosis   Favoriting Metempsychosis  with:
Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd
+ Stomu Yamash'ta, percussion
 
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André Almuro  Avec   Favoriting Avec  Colette Magny, vox 
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Morris Knight  The Origin of Prophecy   Favoriting After Guernica   
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Bruno Menny  Orbite autour de la planète 3   Favoriting Cosmographie   
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Brunhild Ferrari & Jim O'Rourke  Tranquilles impatiences   Favoriting Le Piano Englouti   
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Paul Bradley, Jonathan Coleclough, Hitoshi Kojo, Colin Potter  Fata Morgana   Favoriting Water Mountain   
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Frances-Marie Uitti  Ukksir   Favoriting The Second Bow   
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Musikautomatika  [side A]   Favoriting Musikautomatika   
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AMP2  Results   Favoriting Hopeful Monster   
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Listener comments!

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Honeybear:

so are we at war with russia yet?
  12:02pm
David in London:

Evening Brycicles.
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Handy Haversack:

Punctual? Close enough for JAzz, I guess!

Bryce and all the Marmelizers! Hello!

Hey there, David, happy Friday.
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Jason from Houston:

꒰。•‿•。꒱
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Bryce:

helloooo!!
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Krys O.:

Halloooooooo!
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Chop Scott:

Bryce!!!!
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

where my lentils at
  12:05pm
David in London:

Hey Handy. How’s it going pal?
Evening Krys.
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Handy Haversack:

(OK, I'll say it:

— Metempsychosis?

— Yes. Who's he when he's at home?

)
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Deborah:

Good Noon!
  12:05pm
David in London:

Reverend.
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KenW:

Hello Bryce, and Fellow Marblers>>> WOWOWOW, LOVING this Satoh piece!!!!!!
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Krys O.:

Hey, y'all!
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Andrew_in_WI:

Is Joe McG around? This sounds like steel pan-demonium!
  12:10pm
WM:

@Handy Haversack: I got the James Joyce quote.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Hey Bryce and folks!
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tim from champaign (now washington):

This is pretty friggin great. What year is this from?
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YETI BOB:

Also something from David Foster Wallace about Madame Psychosis, who was a late-night radio DJ if I recall correctly?
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Handy Haversack:

At WYYY, YB.
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mariano:

Hey Bryce, all! Don't forget Madame Sosostris.
  12:16pm
egould310:

It’s like walking into the drum room at Guitar Center on a Saturday afternoon.
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Bryce:

@tim, 1971!
  12:18pm
David in London:

Also an ending of an episode of Inspector Morse which ends with Ian ‘The Emperor’ McDiarmid waxing lyrical about metempsychosis.

Hey CYB!
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Handy Haversack:

The famous clairvoyante, Mariano? Who could?
  12:19pm
David in London:

Yo Mariano.
  12:21pm
donna b:

EL BRYCÉ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bryce:

ma'am!!!!
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Bryce:

:)
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Mister Dobalina:

Today's NY/NJ weather goes perfect with the Bryce soundtrack.
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mariano:

Handy and David, what's up me old Runzas?
  12:25pm
adrian elaine:

happy to stumble in to this glorious racket
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YETI BOB:

Hey David, what's new in jolly old London? Any good plans for the weekend?
  12:27pm
David in London:

Mariano, someone dissed the Runzas, so Handy’s halberd separated him from his troublesome head. Just disposing of the body in the Thames now...
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mariano:

Ah yes, the Thames swallows all secrets, David. Nicely done, Handy.
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BeNowB:

Sounding amazing in my headphones <3 TY
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Carmichael:

David, I vaguely heard something about alcohol sales in England stopping. I was aghast, but the news moved on.
Avatar 12:32pm
BeNowB:

if they close liquor store hospitals would be overrun with people withdrawing... but dont take pot ha
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BeNowB:

Pot is bad Mkay
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Handy Haversack:

Have halberd, will travel, Mariano. Up the Runzas!
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chresti:

Hi Bryce and Brycelanders!
Avatar 12:37pm
Mister Dobalina:

Oh big baby jesus, those poor geese.
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mariano:

When the Count Basie Orchestra decided to drop acid at the same time... (meant as a compliment).
Avatar 12:38pm
Carmichael:

Bryceland is green, but Greenland is Brycey.
  12:39pm
David in London:

Carmichael, Scotland has sneaked in anti alcohol measures under the cover of Covid, but not here yet. Pubs are shut, but one can still buy booze.

Yeti Bob, options limited at present, but we’re working on a new EP so will be spending time chipping at the music face.
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mariano:

What the eff, Scotland?
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Bryce:

whoopsie, corrupted file. :( sorry about that!
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Mister Dobalina:

Corruption is an evil thing.
  12:43pm
donna b:

covering myself in black sesame paste. thanks for the soundtrack.
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YETI BOB:

@David: Cool, I look forward to hearing it. On Saturday I get my first beer-brewing lesson - I am doing a sort of apprenticeship at this brewing club some friends of mine started. And I have a few music/art projects that are keeping me busy too. Gardening season is over so I'm spending a lot more time in the lab/studio/yeti cave.
  12:43pm
ami ad:

Hello DJ. Hello all.Had to go to the well,got the cleanest beer cans this side of the Hudson river.
  12:44pm
ami ad:

BeNowB:Hi.
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BeNowB:

hey Ami Cheers
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Bryce:

hey, ami et al.!
  12:46pm
David in London:

Hey ami ad.
YB, the Yeti Cave is the ideal place to be at this time of year.
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Bryce:

@donna, i just cracked mine open last night. amazing. kind of bitter!
  12:47pm
mischi:

@ami ad
ha...we keep our beer in the stream which runs by the house.
it has definately become warmer the last few years....oh, and cheers.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@YETI BOB: I used to brew. You'll love it. Darker beers/stouts/porters are quite easy and rewarding, even for a beginner.
  12:49pm
ami ad:

mmm,beers,pot,corrupt files.
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YETI BOB:

@Woods: Fortunately I will have a lot of guidance, there are some really good brewers at this club.
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TDK60:

Hi Bryce.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

One time I got an idea to make my own tahini. I was really proud of myself. I toasted the seeds and blended the hell out of it but the tahini was black in color and really bitter. Then I realized I used sunflower seeds instead of sesami seeds.
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YETI BOB:

@tim: sunflower tahini sounds pretty good to me, actually
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Solo:

Bring on the Bryce!
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Handy Haversack:

So did I, Woods. I miss it. But my buddy who, well, could afford a larger space moved away. If I were to try it here, I'd have to get an FDA waiver for the cat snot levels that the brews would be sure to have.
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YETI BOB:

@HH: That's why my buddies got together and rented this space, everyone can do their brewing without having to take over their kitchen etc. And it doubles as a clubhouse/private bar. (Of course not so much during COVID, right now they are just letting people in one or two at a time).
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@Handy I do miss it but man, there are SO many great local breweries right now that I find no reason to start back up. Maine is overflowing with great beer. Current local favorite, Foggtown: www.fogtownbrewing.com
  12:54pm
David in London:

Yo TDK.
Hey Solo.
  12:54pm
David in London:

Tim, excellent recipe chaos there.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@Yeti - once I realized my mistake it was alright. It was easy enough to make.
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YETI BOB:

@tim: sunflower seeds shouldn't
really be bitter either, unless they are old/rancid (or have weevil larvae in them, yuk!)
  12:56pm
ami ad:

@David in London:Hi.
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Handy Haversack:

It sure was cheaper to make one's own, though! But yeah, good scene in Maine.

The prices for anything other than PBR in my part of Brooklyn are completely deranged. And the selection is pretty bleak. I save the money for weird ciders.

Yo, Solo! Back in the Blender Clubhouse!
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YETI BOB:

@tim: One time I picked up a jar of raw Quinoa and I thought it was sesame seeds, I sprinkled it (raw) as a garnish all over some dish I made.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

@Yeti - now that you mention it, I might have been motivated to up the sunflowers in the cupboard that had been hanging around a while. That might explain why it was so bitter.
  12:58pm
David in London:

Don’t knock it Yeti Bob, weevil larvae fuelled The Royal Navy for centuries...
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Solo:

I love weevil tahini. Almost as good as earwig hummus.
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YETI BOB:

Really we should all eat bugs because it's the answer to the world food crisis - readily available, cheap protein. But I can't quite go there. That's for the next generation. (I'm looking at you, Solo!)
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Handy Haversack:

Silverfish and chips with mushy bees.
  1:02pm
donna b:

next slab of toast will feature a schmear of coffee spread under the black sesame paste. bryce, saving a slab for you.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

We eat a lot of different beans that are grown locally. Bugs? I can't do it.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@Bryce The Wife has forbidden me to clicky star this.
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TDK60:

I've had crickets, greasy fried, good. If starving, your regular tastes/wants go bye-bye.
  1:03pm
WM:

Bryce, do you speak French? If not why did you chose to play this track?
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Solo:

YB - Yes, I'm really looking forward to it. I do remember trying something like mealworms once. I can't recommend them.
Handy - I prefer unmushed garden bees. It's a bit tricky with them buzzing off the plate but you can get them down you if you try not to worry about the sting too much.
  1:05pm
David in London:

I’ve never quite forgotten or recovered from the scene in Papillon when Steve McQueen realises he has to supplement his meagre prison diet by eating the insects from his cell if he’s to survive. Millipede surprise anyone..?
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

This is like a French, less angry Diamanda Galas.
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YETI BOB:

@tim from all over the place: it's really best to keep all nuts and seeds in airtight containers (glass jar) in the refrigerator. oils oxidize and cause rancidity. i think i'm particularly sensitive to this, just the other day i threw away a bunch of peanuts that everyone else though were "fine". i really like walnuts & brazil nuts, which go "off" pretty quickly unless properly stored.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@YETI BOB - I recently found a cool recipe that used walnuts as a substitute (for beef) in quesadillas. Basically, chopped walnuts heated in a pan with cajun(ish) spice, then put in the tortillas w/cheese. It was actually really, really good.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

I'm nutz for brazil nuts too!
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TDK60:

That was a good movie as I recall (long time ago), David; Papillon.
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Handy Haversack:

Woods: huh! How long do you heat 'em.

Not NEARLY enough Papillon references on WFMU -- thank you, David.
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Honeybear:

some day when I have time to dust off my french -- I want to try to understand that poem
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chresti:

I know avec means with.
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mariano:

David: Wow, there's one I haven't seen in ages. Can't count the number of times I watched it as a kid; it always seemed to be on a cable channel during the day. Great adventure flick. That nightmare scene ("You're dead!") used to give me the chills. And part of it takes place in Honduras, always a plus in my house. Except they filmed somewhere with snow-peaked mountains, which Honduras doesn't have. But it's the mention that counts.
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YETI BOB:

Papillon is a GREAT movie, one of my all-time favorites. But I get it mixed up with The Great Escape, which was also great.
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TDK60:

I don't have any French to dust off; well, 'merci,' 'avec' and 'rendezvous.'
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YETI BOB:

@Solo: You made me think of this record cover: en.wikipedia.org...
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chresti:

My french is piled up and dusty, avec was on the top of the pile.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

I watched Klute not too long ago. I'd never seen it. Jane Fonda was excellent in it.
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Bryce:

@Wm, i don't (speak french)! but i the composition & sound design is enough to make me happy! plus, colette magny is a fave crooner. i love her voice, whatever she's going on about. :)
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Deborah:

@YETI BOB At this point, almost a lifetime vegetarian! Not eating insects.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

I wish I hadn't dropped French in high school. Had it for two years but was freaked out at the idea of having to have the intense, conversational class. Would be nice to read stuff like Rimbaud in the original language.
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TDK60:

'Liberté' another French word.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

The Bryceteria is open!
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YETI BOB:

I learned just enough French to read math papers, so I can talk about les espaces topologiques, but not much else. My German is a lot better and I can read Kafka for yuks.
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chresti:

*some french words were eaten by silverfish.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

It's like they have a different word for everything!
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Solo:

Having only dropped french very recently, yes I regret it too. Trying to keep it up by watching french films. This method did help me on my listening exam.
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Krys O.:

I studied French for 8 years including 2 college-level courses. I'm rusty though and need to listen to that recording with the volume up instead of low here at work.
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Handy Haversack:

I am still pretty good at conversational French but writing it is hard! I get too worried about spelling things right. I *think* I could still get back into the swing of it without completely stuffing bees in my head.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

I have to bounce so thanks for the tunes Bryce! Adios amigos!
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YETI BOB:

@Bryce: Have you heard any of Kenneth Patchen's poetry recordings? Or better yet John Hollenbeck's settings of Patchen's poetry to music ("What is the beautiful")? It's a gorgeous and haunting record. This Morris Knight track made me think of it.
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Handy Haversack:

Tsk, Morris Knight! "Comprised of"? We shoulda stuck with French!
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Krys O.:

Immersion is the key to blasting through the clogged synapses of language. It wasn't until I was taking a course while living in Paris that I really learned the most.
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Handy Haversack:

We went to Paris in 2016, Krys (damn, so long ago already!), and being there brought so much syntax and vocabulary back to the foreparts of my brain.

Later, tim!
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Bryce:

@yeti bob, oh yeah, i can hear that! i only have "city wears a slouch hat," i think it's called? great stuff. i think cage mighta done the sounds on that one too.
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chresti:

Handy, when Canada opens up to us visitors, you're not too far from Quebec..
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YETI BOB:

@Bryce: Check out John Hollenbecks' "Claudia Quintet" if you don't know them, and his Patchen tribute (with Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann on vocals)
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TDK60:

..also, French is spoken in parts of New England, especially north Maine.
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YETI BOB:

www.allaboutjazz.com...
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chresti:

I haven't been to France since '98, used to go there every other year or so, since '80.
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fred:

Well, I just watched a PhD defense in composition, and my supposed native fluency didn't help much
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Honeybear:

@WoodsOfNH it's actually a sekret project of mine, to write software help us do exactly that - read Rimbaud, Pessoa, Akhmatova, etc, and watch all those films we like to brag about being aware of in their original versions (provided we have done at least some of the serious legwork already to learn those languages).
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YETI BOB:

i used to spend time in germany and switzerland for my work but that was a long time ago
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I saw French's mustard for sale in the grocery store yesterday.
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Bryce:

@yeti bob, thanks, i'll hunt it down!

@fred, hahaaaaaa
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@Honeybear You're a software person??
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Handy Haversack:

It's true, chresti, though whether I'd be able to understand Quebeçois French is anyone's guess. We do want to go there someday, though!
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

Hello! have you summoned The French? :)
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Honeybear:

That is to say - to help close that "last mile" in language learning (which us ultimately about vocaulary, colocations, contextual meanings, etc). So if this might be of interest to you, LMK
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Handy Haversack:

Sylvia est venue! Et bienvenue aussi!
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YETI BOB:

@Sylvia: There was a long French poem earlier in the show - if you didn't hear it you might want to check the archives later, it was pretty interesting.
  1:30pm
WM:

Bryce: I don't speak German but I enjoy listening to Bach and Wagner. It just seemed to me that the Andre Almuro track you played was an exceptionally long example of  Sprechgsang that didn't make much sense if you don't understand French. According to Google Colette Magny has also recorded in English. Thanks for tolerating my gadfly comments. 
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@Handy!
@Yeti Bob I heard bits of it, I was on the phone
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Krys O.:

I was in Paris in 1981 because I won a scholarship to study at Alliance Francaise. I was 17 going on 18 on my own for the first time. Would get myself lost on the streets to familarize myself and listen to conversations. By the end of the six-week course, I was able to fool the natives and not give away my 'merican self.
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chresti:

That French's mustard is an imposter!
Quebecois French is easier to understand, I think. Slower with less liaison.
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fred:

@Bryce: On the other hand, Fausto Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip isn't language dependent. There's a performance available here, I think until Monday: www.ircam.fr...
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BeNowB:

Krys-o that sounds lovely
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

Dang, I don't even like to travel and I miss traveling.
  1:33pm
David in London:

Hey Sylvia.
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Krys O.:

@BeNowB: It was, but it was a loooooong time ago. I looked at the neighborhood I lived in on Google street maps and it was almost unrecognizable.
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Honeybear:

@WoodsOfNH - I'm kind of bored with the industry these days (the way it has devolved), and would rather do something useful and important (like music). but yeah that's what I do :)
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chresti:

Woods, same here.
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

Quebecois French has a mix of French and English words I think, and also French words that aren't used in France (old French, or regional variations)
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Krys O.:

My best friend has travelled for work for the last 20 years and the pandemic has really done a number on her life and livelihood.
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

Hello David!
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fred:

@Krys O.: Then I'm afraid it was in one of the cool places that were gentrified to death, not the touristy ones kept in amber
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@HoneyBear I've been in it since 1984. It definitely has changed. Lots of specialization...meaning that if you don't have X number of years in a particular toolset you're not even considered.

Yeah, I'd rather be reading...or painting...or cooking.
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Bryce:

tabarnak!
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Krys O.:

I lived in Levallois on the edge of Paris. It looked like an upscale mall.
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fred:

@Sylvia: Quebecois French is much more reluctant to adopt English words than our language here. Old French, yes, but English, much less than France French
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Honeybear:

@Woods - on top of that - it's also (sadly) become very nutty and pretentious and bro-ish. The industry really is full of an incredible amount of BS right now. Sometimes I'd almost rather just set up a tahini bar somewhere than take up another programming job.
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@Fred I didn't know that! I'm afraid at the moment my only knowledge about Quebecois Fr are the Youtube people my children are watching :D
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Honeybear:

At least when you're serving up food - you get to deal directly with customers, and you'll find out right away if they like your product.
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fred:

@Krys O.: Levallos is, well, special. Extremely corrupt place by now, a pay-to-play place. I know it used to be different once, but now it is indeed upscale and, well again, corrupt. With armed local cops to boot
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Honeybear:

BTW an example of that BS is that stuff about "years of experience with toolset X" really isn't true. Sometimes it is of course... but around half the time it isn't. It's just something they write to sound puffy and important to themselves.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@Honeybear I've also found what has happened with the hiring process to be ridiculous. Put you in a room with 4 other people and then make you code something on a whiteboard. I won't even put myself through that anymore.
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Honeybear:

(I'm not just speculating about that. I've been in shops and seen ads posted that I know for a fact do not describe that actual work that people end up doing).
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Honeybear:

@Woods - exactly - it's just hazing basically. They do it because they think all the other shops are doing it.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@Honeybear I had one where there were interviews...then they wanted a skills challenge. This was at home. I spent 6 hours on it, got it working...and then they didn't bring me in because they wanted somebody with "more base web experence." It was pure ageism. They saw my resume beforehand. I should have billed them for the time! Ha!!
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TDK60:

I was in France once and politely tried to use my tourist book French with train tellers, cops, etc. Everyone said, "Please use English." Hee!
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YETI BOB:

@Honeybear: I hear you, I've been coding since the 80s and its not as fun as it used to be - both because the field has changed, and I have too. But it pays the bills and lets me keep sending money to WFMU, which is the most important thing. I haven't done one of those awful whiteboard interviews in a long long time. The last time was around 2008 when Google was trying to recruit me (I flew out to California, did the interview, then told them I wasn't interested). I'm hoping to retire in a few years and spend time tutoring kids in math/physics/computers/making cool stuff.
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Honeybear:

Yup - have had many variations on that experience. If it happens once in a while, you think "okay maybe I need to do better". But it happens -a lot-. And when you do get in the door, you realize most or the other slouches in there are no better or worse than you - just differently specialized.
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fred:

@WoodsOfNH: Nope, it's not ageism, it's pure exploitation. They don't care what your age is, what they care about is that you worked for them for free. I once worked at a company that used "open source" this way, and met guys who made a lot of money by doing this kind of "job interviews" (in a shock to nobody, Spotify liked their business model enough to buy them out)
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mariano:

YETI BOB: "Reading Kafka in German for Yuks" needs to be the title of your book!

Sylvia: When I lived in Montpellier there were quite a few Francophone Canadians studying there, that is quite a different accent. I was worried about the state of my French, but in 2016 I was in Quebec City and managed to order poutine for delivery from a very noisy place on a Friday night, without having to ask the woman to repeat herself. I think I collapsed after like someone who'd just run a race.
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Honeybear:

So in the end, it's all just BS designed to make us feel bad about ourselves. So we don't have time to notice what those at top are doing - raking in all that dough from all our hard work.
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YETI BOB:

(the Google people got back to me and told me I had shown "flashes of brilliance" in my interview. I thought that was so condescending - I mean, I was brilliant the whole damn time!)
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Handy Haversack:

Ha, I know exactly what you mean, Mariano.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@fred In this case, I think it was. I was probably 20 years older than everybody else on the team. When they asked me about what i'd worked on, I'd mentioned a control system that employed several state machines....they had NO idea what I was talking about. These were all web guys.
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Honeybear:

"flashes or brilliance... but still, just not good enough for us"
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YETI BOB:

@Honeybear: No, I turned them down (and it felt great).
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Bryce:

osti de tabarnak de sacrament de câlice de ciboire de criss de marde !!!
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nic:

love this!!!
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David in London:

I can picture that Mariano, you toppling over like Baby Yoda in The Mandalorian.
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Honeybear:

@yeti - I'm sure it did. I love tutoring and may end up doing that for a while, too.
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βrian:

It was such a relief to leave front-end development behind, for me. I just don't find it interesting.
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Stanley:

Can I just pop my head round to say I'm much enjoying this track
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fred:

@WoodsOfNH: Not malice, just stupidity. The people "evaluating" you had not clue, they were just checking boxes. I once had to conduct job interviews, and the best rating I'd give to an applicant about a C function was to answer 'man <function>". I wasn't asked to screen applicants again
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theia:

a quick thank you to DJ and krewe :)
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David in London:

Evening Stanley.
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Bryce:

glad youssss are here!! :)
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WFMU listener john:

Hello fellow listeners learning a lot about coding on this board, love the interesting chats that i see on this board at times
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Greg from ZONE 5:

BRYCE!
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Stanley:

Hi David. I'm settling in with an excellent beer, dinner's ready and all's well. I hope it's the same by you.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

Just back from meeting. GOD, that Ferrari & O'Rourke rekkid. Also, superb cover photo/design by Lasse M.
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YETI BOB:

@fred: when I was a young Yeti I got a summer job at Bell Labs in NJ (birthplace of Unix). They sat me down in front of a VT-100, gave me a login, told me to type "man man" and left me alone for the rest of the day :)
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fred:

@WFMU listener john: if that's the best you get from here, your marbles are not blended enough
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TDK60:

I remain ignorant of coding, French. Oh well..
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YETI BOB:

Decades later I saw a band called "Man Man" (featuring lead singer Honus Honus) and never made the connection until today!
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fred:

@YETI BOB: Is your alias a Subgenius reference?
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Solo:

Time for me to sign off for today. GoodBryce everyone.
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Honeybear:

@yeti - at least they had a sense of humor. and back then, that would have been kind of funny. but these days - if someone did that I would just walk out
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

I usually have a nice beer at 3 when Sheila B kicks in. Instead...a Zoom meeting. Argh and a half.
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YETI BOB:

(in Unix "man" is the abbreviation for "manual", it's how you get help. so "man man" gives you info on how to get help)
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Honeybear:

Though getting back to music - Man Man was a great band back in the day! Wonder what happened to them
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mariano:

David: if you're expecting Baby Yoda, you're gonna be awfully disappointed when we meet ;)
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David in London:

Stanley, yes indeed. Cracking open the Leffe at this end whilst the paella simmers.
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YETI BOB:

@Honeybear: It actually worked, I got hooked on Unix and here I am 35 years later still typing those same cryptic commands! grep, lsof, zcat, etc ...
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David in London:

Hey listener john.
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WFMU listener john:

@Fred the chats on here can give me a lot of knowledge and i do learn a lot so i have all my marbles
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YETI BOB:

Man Man moved from Philly to L.A. but are still rockin' it.
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chresti:

TDK60, it's polite to try first.
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YETI BOB:

@fred: it would be fair to say there's a bit of a subgenius influence. i grew up listening to this station.
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WFMU listener john:

@Dave in London how are things there besides everything shutting down again
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Bryce:

seeya, solo!
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fred:

@YETI BOB: I'm a vi user, so don't try and get cryptic on me, ask my fingers
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

"Don't just eat a hamburger, eat the HELL out of it."
--CotS
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WFMU listener john:

@Chestri howdy
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Ken From Hyde Park:

So long, Solo.
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chresti:

Howdy john
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YETI BOB:

@fred: I use Emacs. My wife (who used to do computers but got out of it) uses vi. Somehow we manage to make the marriage work.
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Bryce:

would it change things between us if i admit to nano?
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YETI BOB:

I think nano is really cool!
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chresti:

It's all Greek to me.
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Bryce:

:)
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YETI BOB:

minimal, efficient, gets the job done
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WFMU listener john:

@KFHP howdy
@YETI BOB howdy and what is VI?
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@fred @YETI BOB - Oh boy, can we have an emacs vs. vi war?!!! (I'm an emacs guy too). Ha!
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Krys O.:

@Rev. Turnip Druid: LOL! EIEIEIEI!
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YETI BOB:

emacs, nano, and vi are all text editors - ways to enter text into the computer. users of different systems used to spend a lot of time arguing that theirs was the best, the so-called "editor wars".
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fred:

@YETI BOB: most common error when I have to use a fancy editor: illegal label. It starts with <ESC> doing something weird instead of going out of edit mode, distracting me, then :w getting into the code. I'm weird enough to even set my shell into vi mode, lots of fun when someone attempts to take over my keyboard
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Krys O.:

This will reveal my ignorance, but I was seriously considering a Raspberry Pi KB unit last week.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

[SYSOP breaking in to chat...]
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βrian:

Who would want to use an editor invented by a guy named Kill Joy?

I grew up on emacs, but BBEdit is my current editor.
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WFMU listener john:

@YETI BOB thanks fir the information
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Bonjour, John.
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βrian:

Time for some pandemic ratatouille.
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WFMU listener john:

@KFHP bonjour back atca
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fred:

@WoodsOfNH: Can't we instead waste time about proper indentation and placement of braces, when Python settled all that for good?
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Kikhos ba-Midhbar:

This is some beautiful sound to make the workday flow. Reminds me a bit of Djinnestan's Rain.
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nic:

love this!!!
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YETI BOB:

@fred: it's not even a choice for me any more, my fingers just do emacs stuff so if i try to use anything else i fill up the window with ctrl-x, ctrl-s, etc. emacs was forced on me under great duress at the beginning of my career and now i can't do anything else. i have a browser plugin called "Edit with Emacs" that lets you use Emacs for web-forms (like this one)
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

I actually use emacs outside of programming. I wrote music reviews/essays for a number of years. Typed the text (html and all) straight in instead of using Wordpress. Also wrote out the review longhand with a pencil before taking that next step.
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David in London:

Listener John, I confess it’s rather tedious by this point, but we’re getting through it. Just started going back to cinema, and then they all shut again. Sigh.
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Bryce:

@greg, hello! just saw ya up there
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

I clicky starred this extra hard.
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YETI BOB:

@Woods: yeah, and you can use it to play Tetris too :)
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WFMU listener john:

@David in London that sucks, think north jersey will shut down soon too
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

this thing i'm hearing.
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TDK60:

Hang in there David. Stiff upper and all that. Been a difficult year..
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fred:

@YETI BOB: I could use a vi version of that plugin. But who would do such a thing. And, fatal flaw, who would use it?
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@Mariano @1:49 Poutine, yum!

love the ref @DIL it's to be called The Child, not baby Yoda
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YETI BOB:

@fred: Of course, Emacs can emulate Vi (using the package called "VILE", vi-like-emacs). So use the emacs web plugin them emulate VI in emacs - what could go wrong?
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fred:

@YETI BOB: If vi doesn't work, use ed; if ed doesn't work, your machine is toast. Using vi in a browser looks like pointless geekery
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YETI BOB:

it's like the Old Hacker's Club here today.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

The funny thing is that I have zero computer interests outside of work. Music, reading, painting., cooking. No video games.
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David in London:

Thanks TDK. I’ve set myself some creative goals so that I have something positive to look back on when we reach the other side.

Sorry Sylvia, yes, The Child...
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

sorry too David, I was a bit abrupt! trying to do too many things at the same time
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Honeybear:

tech is a virus - it really just hijacks our brains to trick us into helping it replicate, replicate, replicate. music like what we're hearing now is great vaccine for it
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David in London:

Don’t worry Sylvia, I took that with the humour it was intended.
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fred:

@YETI BOB: My computer is a regular fave in pictures taken by high schoolers on a field trip: iMac with just text windows with vi running. Makes them laugh, and that makes my day
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Handy Haversack:

I for one am celebrating the advent of the weekend with an egg salad sandwich.
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YETI BOB:

@Woods: I'm with you on the video games, no time for that. I do a bit of computer-generated art and music but after spending all day on the computer for work I like to just strum on my guitar sometimes. This is part of why I want to retire from programming as a day-job - so I can do more immersive interactive audiovisual projects.
@fred: yeah younger people are really impressed by terminals :)
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@David :)
@Handy with mayo?
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Handy Haversack:

Mais oui! Mayo, Dijon mustard, onion, bell pepper, cayenne, and garlic. On sourdough with spinach and shredded carrots.
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Sannie:

Hellooouuuu!
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@Handy wow, that's a sandwich!
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Bryce:

sannie, go be nice to boops
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Carmichael:

I'm about to have leftover pizza.
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WFMU listener john:

@Handy howdy
@Sylvia howdy
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Phillippe Bastille:

Howdy.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@YETI BOB: I just in general don't like games (or any kind competition). I did though, start to look at that Chuck music language. Have a lot of ideas about that. Ah, I do also play the guitar.

@Handy - making salmon rachels tonight. Salmon, homemade sauerkraut, 1000 island. Dang it , now I'm hungry.
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@WFMU listener john hello to you too!
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Handy Haversack:

There wasn't enough spinach left for a salad, and I figured, screw it. I had salads all week!

Hey, WFMULJohn!
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David in London:

Hey Phillippe.
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Phillippe Bastille:

@Handy you had me 'til carrots
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

I'm a bit all over the place, our new album is out today :)
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WFMU listener john:

@Phillippe howdy back
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Phillippe Bastille:

Hey David!
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Phillippe Bastille:

Hey WFMU Listener John
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WFMU listener john:

&Sylvia hope TPTB at WFMU play it soon
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Handy Haversack:

Phillippe, special orders don't upset us!

Sylvia, I am so excited for the album's arrival -- I guess I can also now DL the full version!
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Threemoons:

Greets all. Just tuning in now...slept in late, tummy trouble yesterday; hope it's not COVID.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

@Yeti: being a child of the '70s I dug all video-games like crazy. But haven't touched any of that nonsense since then. .. until COVID. That first lockdown destroyed my brain & ended up with a bloody Switch machine.
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@WFMU listener john thanks! we've had a warm welcome so far on the station, so no complain :)

@Handy you sure can!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

This song is good. It made the sun come out.
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Phillippe Bastille:

hey sylvia, can I get a link to your bandcamp page?
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fred:

@RTD: You should tell the CDC about this new symptom
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Ike:

@Handy, I’m not much of a drinker but I had a dream about a nice sweet peach cider. Or maybe it was persimmon. Something orange-ish but not orange.
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WFMU listener john:

@stlvia cool
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Honeybear:

@syvia - parle-nous do ton nouvel album, s'il te plaît
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@Philippe of course bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
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Honeybear:

et voilà!
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chresti:

Hope you're feeling better threemoons.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

Much prefer games with no plot and no point..... wandering around and doing nothing, but strangely.

Strangely doing nothing. That's the life.
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@HoneyBear oh, well it's a double album, 30 tracks, more than 2h30 of music and sounds and ambient and spoken word and experimental. There's a special minisite with pix and a little bit of the background story deuxanges.sluggrecords.com
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@Sylvia On my wishlist!! (for after the annoying late afternoon Zoom meeting)
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

thank you @WoodsOfNH
on a scale of 1 to 10, how bad is Zoom, really? It sounds awful tbh
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Phillippe Bastille:

Thanks Sylvia! CDs soon to be on their way to Annapolis!
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fred:

@RTD: That's also how I like dance, which I miss a lot (I managed to see 3 shows between lockdowns though, yeah?)
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WFMU listener john:

WoodsofNH hope your zoom meeting is not too boring
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@Sylvie I don't really find it that bad. I mean, we never use video, so it's like being on a conference call. I just object to them at 3pm on Fridays!
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Honeybear:

@sylvia - sounds heavenly, I'll have a look!
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WFMU listener john:

@WoodsifNH nobody gets between me and sophisticated boom boom at three
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@Phillippe Oh my, thank you so much
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Threemoons:

@Chresti thank you.
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

@WoodsofNH I read that some schools had forbidden children to stay in their pjs during zoom classes, *eye roll*
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Jason from Houston:

♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
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TDK60:

I've never "zoomed" and I don't "tweet." Getting ready for a mid-day nap. Thanks/merci Bryce of the sounds.
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

@WFMU listener john - EXACTLY my point!

@Slyvia I know...double eye roll.
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Handy Haversack:

@WFMULJohn, I'm afraid someone is *this* week. Sheila has a fill-in today: DJ Samantha.
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Threemoons:

@RevTurnip as a child of the 70's and 80's I started playing video games on my TelStar at age 6 or so...and never stopped. Trying to scrape up money for a PS5; have done full wireframe alpha and beta testing...at least it keeps me busy between gigs.
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WFMU listener john:

@Habdy oh hell I forgot guess i will listen to an archive then
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Krys O.:

I never played video games (unless you count that Pong game in 1972) until 8 years ago. I've actually won 9 matches on Fortnite.
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WFMU listener john:

I mean handy. Sorry
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Jason from Houston:

Niiiiiiiiiiiice sounds...
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Krys O.:

Thanks, Bryce & everyone! Stay safe and sonorous.
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mariano:

Oh wow, Sylvia, thanks for the links. I forgot that you're Bipolar Explorer, I think we might have had this conversation already ;) And oh yeah, Threemoons, hope all's well with your tooth. Rev Turnip: that's exactly the kind of game I like, open world, non-linear. I can spend hours riding through the countryside in Red Dead 2.

And wow, that was a very fast three hours, thanks so much, Bryce. Thanks and love to the Skeleton Crew, hope to see everyone at Sheila B's!
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ami ad:

Thank you DJ,Crew. Stay safe out there.
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fred:

Asking for myself, not a friend: does anyone has a Jandek House pic suitable as a zoom background?
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Sylvia (France-NYC):

thanks Bryce and all

haha @mariano maybe we have!
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chresti:

Thanks Bryce!
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Handy Haversack:

Wait, no fair! Bryce, I thought you said if I stopped paying the time bill, good things wouldn't come to an end!

Thanks for today, as always. Thanks, Skeleton.

Be well, all the Marbles!
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Bryce:

hahaa, thanks, everyone!!! :)

hoo boy, be safe out there......
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WoodsOfNH (now Maine):

Have a great weekend everybody. Zoooooooooooom...................
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David in London:

Thanks Bryce.
See y’all.
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Reggy:

She's napping nearby. Have a great day Bryce and all!!!
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Ike:

Great show. Thanks!
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Jason from Houston:

♡˖ꉂꉂ꒰•̤ ᴗ •̤ ꒱
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Phillippe Bastille:

Thanks Bryce!
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Threemoons:

Thanks for this show, see everyone on the flip side in a few minutes! Hopefully tummy will behave today.
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Jason from Houston:

Stay safe and sweet, folks.
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stefica:

Thank you, Bryce, for some afternoon loveliness.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks for being embryceable you, DJ.
On Sunday mornings, Carol plays Bipolar Explorer occasionally.
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