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I believe the Boston Globe is considered mainstream. Only the last 2 days are available, so this will vanish soon, and older articles are not accessible for free. I suspect that there have been other articles that are now archived in the subscription only section, but no, I cannot prove it without s...

ChrisA What do you put in your wineglasse's? Just curious... Err... wine? ;) Often a high-production california white zinfandel, but not always. I recently had a wine from 'Bundu Star' that I thought was remarkably good. Beowulf, that sounds like a great episode. Too bad I missed that one. (The roc...

She's a girl! (I'm wondering which whistle got sacrificed to the cause--I have a Clarke D which I let a little nephew play when it becomes politically necessary.) He's a girl? Sorry! The 'joey' in the link name fooled me. I've known girls that go by 'Jo' and by 'Josey' but never by 'Joey', but why ...

Heh. But from his preferred grip, I'm afraid he's going to grow up to be a tabor piper...

See, but you'll be a rising star in whistledom, it's an investment in the future!

Or at least an investment in an enjoyable retirement!

Hope you enjoy the new whistle.

--Chris

There are all sorts of things that resonate around me. In particular, there's a mirror in the dining room (we use an old dresser as if it were a hutch... ) which resonates on E. In other rooms, other items will resonate on different notes. I think some of the windows are in A. When I was at a sessio...

Unseen122 wrote:assuming that PVC has pores at all

It doesn't. That's why plastic, metal, and glass are called 'non-porous' materials.

Before ebay, there was no such thing as 'Mint' condition unless you obtained your item directly from the manufacturer, though it was sometimes used casually (but not in any serious ad or auction description) to mean 'Near Mint'. 'Near Mint' meant it wasn't coming hot off the press / out of the mold ...

Actually, the idea that minorities are incapable of persecuting is -exactly- what I was taught in my college's diversity appreciation class or whatever it was actually called. The theory is that because only the majority has the power, only the majority can -persecute- or -oppress-. Power does NOT ...

I generally don't read any thread with an overtly political topic ('New evidence in the middle east', 'A politician revealed as a liar', 'New study shows tax dollars better spent another way' ... ) The level of ad hominem and strawman attacks is simply too much for me to stomach without getting abso...

If you're not after volume, a flute can be played with as little air as a high whistle... when others are in bed, I often strive for the lowest-volume in-tune sound I can manage, which requires (or at least can be achieved with) a very tight embouchure, a substantially covered embouchure hole, and v...

Personally, I dislike the tone of my Walton's Mellow D, never found the C natural or C sharp to sound quite right, or anything in the upper octave. I think it was the Cs that drove me to try other whistles. I still have it because, well, it was my first whistle. And if I pick it up now after some ye...

That members of once persecuted minorities are themselves capable of persecuting? Surely not. Did anybody seriously doubt this? If they did, they must hold those minority groups to be vastly morally superior to mainstream America which has a record of hundreds of years of persecution. So why did th...

As a matter of fact, with oily timbers, like blackwood, the oil you put on the surface probably ends up floating on the surface of the water droplets that form on the wood. ... I personally occasionally oil with almond or olive oil, neither of which is a drying oil. I think another poster put almon...

At http://www.realarcade.com they have a lot of free web-playable games. (from the main page, click game guide, then click web games...) This wouldn't be connected with Real Player would it? Because that's cruel and evil. Huh? It doesn't have anything to do with RealPlayer technically. I don't know...