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Comment on How do you shave? in ~life.men
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Comment on Harmony in ~music
toshi LinkSing! Day of song - Bobby McFerrin - Improvisation - A large crowd provides accompaniment for one of the finest vocal masters of popular music. Jacob Collier Harmonises The Audience [Toronto] -...Sing! Day of song - Bobby McFerrin - Improvisation - A large crowd provides accompaniment for one of the finest vocal masters of popular music.
Jacob Collier Harmonises The Audience [Toronto] - Collier takes this idea further by harmonizing the crowd in 3 parts. Simple, but large scale and spontaneous.
Jacob Collier - Moon River - 4725 part harmony /hyp
Lizzy McAlpine: Tiny Desk Concert - The backing band here, Tiny Habits, has some of the tightest harmonies I've ever heard in popular music. Lots more available on Youtube etc.
Choral - Solo accordion, but lush chords and amazing gravitas. The ultimate track of a superb album.
Ryuichi Sakamoto - "andata" (from "async") - Another instrumental track, gravitas out the nose here.
MICROTONAL TETRIS - Magical harmonies and modulations that you may not have experienced before.
Vicentino: Madonna il poco dolce - Speaking of microtonal music, Vicentino's microtonal works may be of interest if you like Renaissance music.Try these on for size, I'm curious which ones align with your request.
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Comment on What is a simple tech tip that changed how you use your computer or other devices in a significant way? in ~tech
toshi LinkOn Youtube, Shift + > speeds up a video (and Shift + < will slow it back down). With a little practice it becomes easy to follow along with many videos at 2x speed. A UCLA study shows that...On Youtube,
Shift + >speeds up a video (andShift + <will slow it back down). With a little practice it becomes easy to follow along with many videos at 2x speed. A UCLA study shows that information retention can stay high even at high playback speeds. This can save an incredible amount of time. I like it so much that I've installed a browser plugin to be able to watch videos at speeds beyond 2x.
My routine might be controversial, I’ve never heard of anyone else doing this. I’ll take a cartridge (I import Gillette Guard from India - just a simple single razor blade with no gross aloe vera strip) or a DE razor and just shave with it dry. No shaving cream, no rinsing of the face after, nothing. No water is involved at any step of the process, I don’t like the sensation of getting wet. I don’t find shaving dry like this any more irritating than using shaving creams and the like, and the cleanup is super easy. The hairs fall right off the blade. The process is obviously faster than the normal routine, and blades seem to last forever. Since my face is dry I can just hold the cartridge in my fingers instead of attaching it to the handle, which I find gives me better control.
To trim my goatee I’ll use a small comb as a guard and hack at the excess with a cartridge. I used to use a naked DE blade but I kept getting small cuts in my fingers holding it.