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Comment on Suggest nonfiction that can be understood/enjoyed by nonspecialists in ~books
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Comment on What are your favourite genre-bending bands/artists? in ~music
FastFishLooseFish LinkThey’re not active any more, but Mother Falcon is a good listen for chamber orchestra rock. Maybe try some African musicians? Mdou Moctar plays a mean guitar, for example. If you prefer a more...They’re not active any more, but Mother Falcon is a good listen for chamber orchestra rock.
Maybe try some African musicians? Mdou Moctar plays a mean guitar, for example. If you prefer a more stripped-down sound, Gasper Nali plays a giant self-made one-string slide guitar drum instrument called a babatoni.
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Comment on Two sentences on every UFA signing of note during free agent frenzy in ~sports.hockey
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentRe: Blackwood This is a two-year tank contract. They have no need for good goaltending right now, but if the change of scenery helps, maybe he becomes a useful piece at the trade deadline. (With...Re: Blackwood
This is a two-year tank contract. They have no need for good goaltending right now, but if the change of scenery helps, maybe he becomes a useful piece at the trade deadline. (With any luck they learned their lesson from not trading Reimer two years ago, when he wasn't terrible.) If Blackwood is bad, it's Celebrini time in San Jose. Plus it buys some time to see if Mäkiniemi or a wild card like Chrona pans out.
I think Grier has done a decent job considering how hamstrung he was by a barren prospect pool plus a bunch of big contracts with term. Doug Wilson did a great job of keeping the team in the mix for a long, long time, but needed to pull the trigger on a rebuild. Last year was pretty much Grier in "get through this" mode. He's only now getting to cupboard-stalking and longer-term thinking. At least, I hope that's what's been happening.
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Comment on Have you or anyone in your family ever won anything? in ~talk
FastFishLooseFish LinkWhen I was somewhere around 8-10 years old, I won a ~$10 gift certificate to a tobacco shop during a basketball exhibition with some of the UNC players, which sounds like the most North Carolina...When I was somewhere around 8-10 years old, I won a ~$10 gift certificate to a tobacco shop during a basketball exhibition with some of the UNC players, which sounds like the most North Carolina thing ever. I actually used it for some pipe tobacco that we sent to my uncle, so it wasn't completely useless.
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Comment on Without saying where you live, where do you live? in ~talk
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentDid you ever see Rob Beckett's "Things you wouldn't hear in a hospital" Mock the Week scenes we'd like to see? What's your blood type? About 50 words a minute init bruv.Did you ever see Rob Beckett's "Things you wouldn't hear in a hospital" Mock the Week scenes we'd like to see?
What's your blood type? About 50 words a minute init bruv.
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Comment on What are your favourite dad jokes? in ~talk
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentDid you hear about the tanker carrying blue paint that collided with a tanker carrying red paint? Both crews were marooned.Did you hear about the tanker carrying blue paint that collided with a tanker carrying red paint? Both crews were marooned.
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Comment on What are your favourite dad jokes? in ~talk
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentWhat is a pirate's favorite branch of the military? The Navy.What is a pirate's favorite branch of the military?
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Comment on What are your favourite dad jokes? in ~talk
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentKnock knock Who's there? To To who? <as condescendingly as possible> To whom.Knock knock
Who's there?
To
To who?
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Comment on What’s the one item you make for get togethers that everyone loves that is secretly super easy to prepare? in ~food
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentYou can one-up them by adding some chorizo; makes them doubleplusgood.You can one-up them by adding some chorizo; makes them doubleplusgood.
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Comment on What is your favorite internet radio station? in ~music
FastFishLooseFish LinkMaybe not 100% on-topic, but you might get a kick out of Radio Garden, a geographical view of radio stations. Imagine Google Earth showing radio stations with the ability to play their streams....Maybe not 100% on-topic, but you might get a kick out of Radio Garden, a geographical view of radio stations. Imagine Google Earth showing radio stations with the ability to play their streams. Includes at least some internet stations (soma.fm and bff.fm are both listed under San Francisco, for example). ATC also pops up - NORCAL approach is one of the San Francisco stations.
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Comment on Let's add (and rearrange?) some groups + a few notes about other short-term plans in ~tildes.official
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentWouldn't the optimal solution be to make it switchable in real time? From any page, I can choose to see everything or only anything at that level or lower that I'm subscribed to. I don't mind...Wouldn't the optimal solution be to make it switchable in real time? From any page, I can choose to see everything or only anything at that level or lower that I'm subscribed to. I don't mind reading about sports other than the ones I'm most interested in, so having a version of ~sports that's everything would be a nice option. And if I want to focus on what I'm following, I load the subscribed-only view.
Of course, I can say that since I'm not actually going to be coding anything - I have no idea if it's actually reasonable.
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Comment on Let's add (and rearrange?) some groups + a few notes about other short-term plans in ~tildes.official
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentYou better believe it's more football.You better believe it's more football.
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Comment on Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (2023) in ~music
FastFishLooseFish (edited )LinkPat Finnerty (of What Makes This Song Stink fame) had to do an emergency livestream to handle this dross. Not sure if available outside Patreon yet, but no, the song is not good.Pat Finnerty (of What Makes This Song Stink fame) had to do an emergency livestream to handle this dross. Not sure if available outside Patreon yet, but no, the song is not good.
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Comment on Film soundtrack discussion in ~music
FastFishLooseFish LinkI don’t listen to soundtracks that often, but I do like Patrick Doyle’s for the Branagh Henry V. Wings of Desire has a great soundtrack, but with a combination of spoken parts (in German),...I don’t listen to soundtracks that often, but I do like Patrick Doyle’s for the Branagh Henry V. Wings of Desire has a great soundtrack, but with a combination of spoken parts (in German), soundtrack pieces, and a couple of rock songs, it’s not great background music.
For collection-of-songs soundtracks, you can’t beat A Matter of Degrees or Repo Man. And if just want a collection of movie songs, Stay Awake is a must-listen.
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Comment on I, like many of you came from Reddit. But what brought you to Reddit? in ~tech
FastFishLooseFish LinkI kicked around a fair amount on sites like Modern Humorist and suck.com, so I followed what was going on at plastic.com for pretty much its entire life. Then Fark was there and all was good. I...I kicked around a fair amount on sites like Modern Humorist and suck.com, so I followed what was going on at plastic.com for pretty much its entire life. Then Fark was there and all was good. I first heard about Reddit when Gawker ran the Violentacrez story, although it wasn’t until 9 years ago that I created an ID and posted anything.
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Comment on What weird food combo did you not realise was weird? in ~food
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentI have a bowl of this almost every day with breakfast. Picked it up from my wife and passed it along to my sister-in-law. It might be the best sounds weird, is actually great food combo out there.I have a bowl of this almost every day with breakfast. Picked it up from my wife and passed it along to my sister-in-law. It might be the best sounds weird, is actually great food combo out there.
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Comment on Any RSS feed recommendations that aren't news? in ~tech
FastFishLooseFish LinkA little late to respond, but.... My Newsblur account is over 300 feeds, but many are no longer active, so I'm guessing ~100 active ones. I've been using it since the Google Reader Massacre, so...A little late to respond, but....
My Newsblur account is over 300 feeds, but many are no longer active, so I'm guessing ~100 active ones. I've been using it since the Google Reader Massacre, so plenty of time for cruft to accrue.
A sampling (links to sites, not feeds)
- Kevin Drum, fka CalPundit Political commentary, plus some pictures
- Digby's Hullabaloo Political commentary, not plus some pitctures
- Uni Watch Honestly, more than you ever wanted to know about sports uniforms
- gCaptain Honestly, more than you ever wanted to know about the maritime industry
- Leeham News Honestly, more than you ever wanted to know about the airline industry
- The Big Picture Economics commentary
- 1945 War, guns and politics. I have to admit I follow purely for the miliary-related stuff
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Just what it says
- 3eanuts Peanuts strips with the last panel removed, resulting in a brutally bitter view of childhood and personal relationships. If Pinter wrote a comic strip, this would be it
- Garfield Minus Garfield Way better than Garfield with Garfield. If Becket wrote a comic strip, this would be it
- XKCD I assume you're already familiar with this given you're on Tildes
- Lowering the Bar Legal follies
- Resticted Data A slow-moving blog about US nuclear secrecy? God I love the internet sometimes
- Tedium Here, learn about some random thing
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry More learning about random things
Newsblur also provides an email address I can forward newsletters to, so I have a few things showing up that way, plus some subscriptions using Kill The Newsletter. It also supports Twitter user streams as a feed, although I've found those hard to follow since it strips what's being replied to or re-tweeted.
If you go to Newsblur's site, there should be a option like "try it out." That page has a few popular feeds showing up, you might find some interesting stuff there.
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Comment on Can you help recommend books and documentaries? in ~books
FastFishLooseFish Link ParentYou might as well add any of Kelly Link's short story collections. Not so much fantasy as off-beat magical realism, or maybe real magicalism, but you might get a kick out of them. Plus, they're...You might as well add any of Kelly Link's short story collections. Not so much fantasy as off-beat magical realism, or maybe real magicalism, but you might get a kick out of them. Plus, they're stories, so you can dip in and out without committing to a full read-through.
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Comment on Best of all time book lists can get repetitive, I'm asking for your top five to ten in ~books
FastFishLooseFish LinkI'm not sure I could even have a single favorite book, but these always seem to be bumping around when I try to think of one: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence...I'm not sure I could even have a single favorite book, but these always seem to be bumping around when I try to think of one:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Moby Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
Any of the Mulliner or Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse may have been the single greatest prose stylist of the English language. He doesn't get the respect he deserves because he wasn't a literary writer, "only" a popular writer.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
FastFishLooseFish LinkDoes a semi-technical role count? I'm in a data management role where I'm more or less a human ODBC layer between the operational data we produce how it's packaged in a way that matches the mental...Does a semi-technical role count? I'm in a data management role where I'm more or less a human ODBC layer between the operational data we produce how it's packaged in a way that matches the mental models of our business that a bunch of VPs have. A much-delayed but still open-ended project to restructure a bunch of inputs without changing the output by a byte received a "this must happen right now" deadline a couple of weeks ago. After having the SQL kicking around in my head over the last year, I came up with a simple solution that I'm not allowed to tell anyone. My managemers think it's better to work on a riskier, more time-consuming solution that includes a second team because that gives us someone to blame if it goes tits up. /vent
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe is one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read. He frames the story of the Troubles around the kidnapping and murder of a single mother of 10 while placing her story and that of several IRA members within (mostly) the overall context of the Republican movement. Plus it has a twist at the end that's worthy of any great thriller. Unverified, to be sure, but a true shock to the system when you read it.
The Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson. A (the?) comprehensive history of the American Armed Forces in World War II, with one volume each for North Africa, Italy, and Western Europe. Covers pretty much everything you might want to know about the US's role in the Atlantic Theater. Atkinson's scope ranges from the individuals struggle to survive moment-to-moment to the biggest decisions made at the highest level. A lot of pages, but worth it if you're at all interested in military history.
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad. The story of every band that mattered, at least for some of us. Mission of Burma, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, the Replacements and, of course, Minutemen. If 80s indie mattered to you or someone you love, this is the book for you. Or read it as a companion to Girl in a Band, recommended by @TheDiabeetle