Steve Hewitt

You see this comparison in bluegrass vs European (mostly Irish) music as well as blues and Harlem jazz vs big band swing (à la Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman). In fact, the more you look for it, the more easily you notice it.

But a conservatory-trained performer will hit the pitch dead center and only use rubato as a conscious choice. For the person who’s more native to the genre, the stylistic interpretation is second nature. The more classically-trained musicians tend toward has to consciously work to perform that way.

Classically-trained musicians tend toward a more precise pitch control and technical strictness with rhythm. The performance tends toward less “error,” kind of like how an old-school blues musician will bend pitches and tempos and slide into notes as a characteristic of the style.

And again!

I am unreasonably proud of this.

The CIA World Factbook is/was an amazing public resource and shuttering it seems astoundingly awful.

I have FOIAd the CIA World Factbook and the reasons for its removal

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

I miss the CIA World Factbook…Already.
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cia world factbook had been on the ropes for years but surprised to discover that the CIA has announced it is officially shutting down, with no stated explanation, with no warning.

The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.

Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.

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The State Department wiped out most of the resources on their "Countries and Areas" site, which I regularly used in my teaching. Now all you get is "Highlights" and press releases. If you look at archived info from previous admin, they still have relevant Dept reports and statements, econ data, etc.

It'd be ironic if it was because of this (which is actually really bad!)

CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual. The agency announced the decision Wednesday but gave no reason for it.

I’m a single issue voter, and that issue is bringing back the single most authoritative resource that exists for learning about the nations of the world: The CIA World Factbook. (No, I’m not really a single-issue voter. But I am mad as hell about this being taken offline.) apnews.com/article/cia-...

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

I guess if I get to go back, it’ll be solo or with friends. She said the flavors were too strong. The cucumber yogurt sauce was fantastic, too.

Tried a Mediterranean place for the first time. Or Kansas’s version of Mediterranean, anyway. Had Greek before, but this was a bit different. Chicken shawarma with falafel on the side. I loved it, but the missus not so much.

I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be

Metric Tip

xkcd.com/3164/

I am digging the creative dunking by the Dems

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

Marking this one on my calendar...

Sounded like my Monday! Couldn’t get to sleep. Power went out. Woke up when it came back on. Got up at 5:30. No A/C in my classroom. Then go-go-go all day. Got home from work and then realized I was late for the dentist. Now, I’m sitting here in the waiting room. Hope your evening improves!

Gave Sword of the Sea a try. Beautiful visuals and music. Fun traversal. Boring gameplay. Gave me motion sickness. Played about 2 hours and now I'm done. (In the game's defense, I've been a bit under the weather for most of a week and am particularly susceptible to motion sickness right now.)

I have taken
the pamphlets
that were in
the plum box

and which
you were probably
saving
to give with plums

Forgive me
they were fascinating
so radicalizing
and I'm allergic to plums

Water. Wet.

100 percent agreed.

Welcome to public education. We are both glad and sorry that you’re here! It’s a wild ride.