Recent content by ogreboy88

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    Help me understand this mentality

    If no one else takes you up on this, I would be super excited to hear about it. Please do tell!
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    Help me understand this mentality

    Cool, maybe we can zero in on this difference a little. My impression is that, from OP's perspective, ghoster asking for a letter of reference with no explanation of ghosting IS waltzing back into a professional relationship, expecting it to be unchanged by the ghosting. Is it what's being...
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    Help me understand this mentality

    Okay, Seanto and MordBass, you two seem to have taken up the banner of "ghosting and coming back from it to ask for something as though it never happened is reasonable," so I have some follow-up questions. I hope you won't take them as aggressive or judgmental. I'm totally just curious. You...
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    Help me understand this mentality

    ...Actually I can offer a second thing, which I'm always thinking in relation to my students: Why don't they just lie? In my day, when you didn't hand in your paper on time, you told your prof that your Grandma just died, or your car broke down, or your house caught on fire. If they let you...
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    Help me understand this mentality

    As a prof with students who do this (and other equally baffling things) with some frequency, I am super interested in this question. I understand this: And I understand this: But they don't really go together do they? If you're confrontation/shame averse, why put yourself in the situation...
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    You press the random button on your playlist, what are the first 5 songs that come up?

    I feel like getting Taylor Swift and Slayer together is a Yahtzee. :D
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    You press the random button on your playlist, what are the first 5 songs that come up?

    Sycamore Trees (Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me OST) - Angelo Badalamenti Modern World - The Bad Light All Night Long (Instrumental version) - Junior Kimbrough New Orleans Heavy Swamp Blues (mp3 rip from youtube) - Justin Johnson Tired Old Dog - The Devil and the Almighty Blues ...I thought I was...
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    Music Genres for Dummies

    Doom is basically rehashing Black Sabbath with various twists (tuned down, slowed down, more fuzz...). Death is usually faster, less melodic, and less attached to blues riffs. It's also broader and vaguer as a category. (Sorry. At least I kept it short?)
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    Slipknot fan club (the band not the literal knot)

    ...also, I vote prusik.
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    Slipknot fan club (the band not the literal knot)

    I've listened to my fair share of Slipknot. They're really good at writing riffs that feel asymmetrical, as though accumulating potential energy with every repetition. I drifted away several years ago, but I continue to go back again and again for one song: Iowa. I can't think of another song...
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    Can I call myself a musician?

    Not to beat a dead horse, but this is about professional organizations and state regulations that attempt to guarantee a level of quality and expertise. This doesn't mean there aren't people without professional credentials who might be just as good or better than a lisenced professional, nor...
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    Guitar stands vs toilet

    No wait... The dead fish goes in the toilet, the guitar goes on eBay! Whew. That was close.
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    Genres of music

    I mostly listen to wicked sweet awesome good music and occasionally I dabble in terrific amazing awesome good music, but I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone listens to fantastic fabulous terrific good music or superior outstanding great good music or anything like that. I...
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    Modeling D.I. boxes

    Correct sound custom beta? Correct Sound Custom tube beta hybrid Mk-II
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    A very pointy bass

    Luthier: "Do you think maybe racing stripes would be overdoing it a little?" Unhelpful friend: "No WAY bro! So far this bass is BOooRING!"