![]() Here are some expert tips on how to make the best decision-without regretting it later on. Selecting the musical instrument might affect your future music career. How much time do you have to practice? How much money are you willing to spend on your education? Taking our quiz allows you to take all the said factors into account. You wonder, “What instrument should I play?” But that is not the only issue here. It has questions and choices that expose the skill set you have to suggest the best option. The instrument quiz is designed for beginner, amateur, and advanced or professional music enthusiasts. Not many of the participants are musicians. Our test reminds you of such interests to answer the big question, “What instrument should I play?” Your Skills Your InterestsĮveryone has a favorite musical tool-even if that is your beloved singer’s voice. The first couple of questions on the test expose the way you approach the music industry and the art of playing an instrument. Your music taste, mood, and traits help us identify the best instrument for you. And finally, you let us know how much money and time you have to play a new instrument. The test on this page lends a hand to the process of choosing the right instrument for yourself. But it is not always an easy task to discover your favorite music genre or instrument to get started. Most people tell you to follow your dreams, which is true. Questions like, “What instrument should I play?” might be hard to answer for the beginners. We have a 20-question test that reveals the best tool to become an instrumentalist. Take a Quiz to Find Out What Instrument You Should Play If portability is not a concern, you can go with a piano, harp, and other big musical tools. Decide on Portabilityĭo you want to travel with your instrument? If yes, you need a portable one such as Ukulele or Recorder. So, you should have a plan to practice it without bothering others. Some tools like Trumpet are extremely loud. But you have to consider others around you-especially if you are living with your family or partner. “What instrument should I play?” sounds like an innocent question. According to the My Music Workshop website, “learning guitar, piano, drums, ukulele, violin, and others can cost between $120 and $240 per month.” Think About the Noise Level. ![]() Tunning, buying new strings, taking courses and classes will cost you money as well. Consider the Costs.īuying an instrument is not the only expense. Each of the said types has its unique playstyle, cost, and challenges. Choose the Typeĭo you want a string, woodwind, percussion, or brass one? That is one of the first things to consider when getting a new musical tool. However, the following factors allow making the best decision according to your skill, interest, time, and money. Here is a simple 4-step guide on making up your mind and choosing what to play. ![]() “What instrument should I play?” “How do I start playing?” “What courses should I take?” And it is completely understandable. Starting a career in music or even doing it for fun always comes with lots of questions. Start Quiz A Guide to Choosing the Instrument You Should Play
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![]() Share any text-based browser we left out or your experience accessing the web using the command. Terminal-based web browsers can provide additional features and are good adjunct tools to add to your Linux collection. In some scenarios, tools like curl and wget can come in handy when downloading files from the command line. If you are getting started, check out ELinks or w3m. Text-based web browsers have a niche following from seasoned Linux terminal users who do almost everything from the command line or system administrators who work from a terminal window. Installing Netrik $ sudo apt-get install netrik ![]() However, it has limited functionality compared to other text-mode browsers like w3m or Lynx. It allows you to start browsing the web page or even a local HTML page or repository. ![]() When you run it with the desired URL, the requested resource is loaded and displayed in the interactive mode in your terminal. Installing Lynx $ sudo apt-get install lynx The download process also runs in the foreground, which blocks you from doing anything else on the browser until the download completes. Moreover, Lynx does not support multiple downloads. This configuration is not enabled by default. Cloud Shell provides command-line access to the virtual machine instance in a terminal window that opens in the Google Cloud console. However, you can configure it to open an external program to manage videos. One caveat is that Lynx cannot display images, videos, Flash, or JavaScript objects. You can use the ‘lynx -help’ command to get a list of more than 200+ configurable options to get the best out of your browser. If you are already intrigued, you will like that Lynx is highly configurable. For example, to open the file (foss.tx), you can type lynx foss.txt. You have to provide a name as an argument to the Lynx command. Close elinks Run elinks -auto-submit The latter command should perform the automatic login without further user interaction. Choose to remember name and password for later use. Moreover, it can act as a text-to-speech application, or you can use it to view files and directories on your local system. Open the login page in elinks, fill the forms and submit them. It supports cookies but prompts you to allow or deny a cookie every time it loads a website. It does not track user information and doesn’t contain embedded tracking elements hidden in many web pages. Lynx is also conscious of users’ privacy. You can open a website by typing lynx in the command line. It can come in handy in a situation when you have to do with a low-bandwidth Internet connection. The command-line utility loads fast and take less time to load a website than any GUI browser. For example, the ordinary text is displayed in white or violet, bold text in red, italic text in blue, hyperlinks in green, whereas currently highlighted hyperlinks in yellow. To get started, type the command lynx on a terminal prompt that displays different types of information and web content in different colors. As such, you can use it to test a website for any search-engine crawling problems. In essence, Web content is shown in the same way as seen by a search engine bot. Lynx displays only the text part of a Web page and ignores images, video, etc. ![]() ![]() It is becoming too burdensome for many connected product and service companies to deliver software that can anticipate use cases and integration points of thousands of new connected products coming to market. “Ubiquitous (or pervasive) computing” has become the norm as microprocessors, sensors, and cloud services made their way into almost everything in our homes, cars, offices, and beyond. 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![]() The key for me to get a good result was to lay my contact paper down on the floor with the backing removed then place the outer corner (most visible) of the leg in the middle and smooth from the center to the outer edges with a gift card to remove air bubbles. I realized I need to be able to wrap the entire leg with one piece and try to hide the seam along the inner corner of the leg. 36 X 197 Inch Wide Contact Paper for Countertops Desk Cover Table Top Removable Pattern: Wide Marble Paper Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No Coverage: 48.4. I first tried to wrap the legs and tabletop base while the table was assembled and it turned out horrible. The self-adhesive plastic book covers protector can line all sorts of soft and hard cover books, posters, papers and even shelves for extra protection. Soooooo.I had an idea while at Walmart the other day-what about removable white contact paper? Ding-Ding-Ding! I had to give it a try! But hubby quickly vetoed that (could it be because I've already painted the dining room table twice in the past four months and still am not happy with it?) My first inclination was to paint the legs white. ![]() I liked the clean lines but to be honest all that dark wood looked much heavier than I thought when I first created my inspiration mood board: Yeah, that was what I was working with for my work surface in the new office. See that table there, all disassembled on the floor. Do you remember when I shared my original plan for my office/craft space and I showed you the bare bones picture of the room after I moved my four year old's things to his big brother's room? Who might that "anyone else" be? Basically anyone who is responsible for backing up multiple drives-which don't all have to be on the same LAN (there are Retrospect users doing backups across multiple time zones)-onto physical media (disk or tape) and wants tight centralized control. I'll spell out in another post the problems I ran into, for the benefit of anyone else who may want to follow in my footsteps. ![]() I've generally been quite happy with it, and got it all working satisfactorily within a month. Those requirements led me last July to install the $119 "Desktop" version of Retrospect 12 (updated in September to Retrospect 12.5). Given that-per item (3) above-I am stuck with a physical-backup-drive offsite solution, and that the offsite drive needs to be rotated weekly, changing scripts weekly to refer to partitions on the rotated-in backup drive-or wiping out sparse bundles-would be messy and error-prone. (4) SuperDuper requires a separate backup-drive partition for each drive to be backed up, and all variants of over-the-LAN Time Machine (including Airport Extreme) at least setup a separate sparse bundle for each drive to be backed up. The corresponding slow download speed would also make recovery of even 30GB drive contents take at least 1.5 days-which is no faster than I could retrieve a physical drive stored offsite. However cloud backup is impractical for my installation, because of the slow upload speed of the only available and reliable internet connection method. (3) Per item (2) above, I also need to have reasonably-up-to-date backups stored offsite. This rules out backup drive(s) directly attached to the computers where the 4 drives are installed. That is because of a very real danger of flooding from an apartment two floors above mine. (2) The backups must be to a device that is in a room that happens to be separated by 15-20 feet-but 40 cable-length feet-from the one where all of my 4 drives now/soon requiring daily backup are located. If I add to that the drive on my Retrospect "backup server", that makes 6 drives total. (1) I have 5 drives that must be backed up one daily, three more currently weekly but soon to be daily, and one more weekly. If they don't apply to you, kindly skip the rest of this thread : Let me start out by briefly recapping my home installation's special requirements, which are no longer up for discussion. Therefore I would like to gently re-propose the alternative I implemented more than 6 months ago, which is Retrospect 12 running "pull-to-server" backups of multiple drives over a LAN. ![]() ![]() Starting with this post in the Airport Extreme thread, I detect a certain Ach disenchantment with offsite backup via a cloud service such as Crashplan or Backblaze-as well as with the current state of the Airport Extreme itself. Retrospect 13, released 1 March 2016, also does cloud backup-described starting with this post. Retrospect 12 only did non-cloud backup, as described starting with this OP. ![]() The final software will convert Musicxml files, or via a separate plugin, Sibelius files, into our extended Braille Music Markup Language (BMML) format (originally created, developed and copyrighted by Veia Progetti s.r.l., Italy, as free software. This is a detailed framework of BrailleOrch, braille music transcription software for advanced formatting and publishing purpose. Last update on Github, removed all GPL license information, so that either open source or commercial type of development (including making it as a reference of the development of a current existing free or commercial software) can be accepted. ![]() 3.4: Improved description of "Ensemble score cutoff".1.1: Improved description of "versioning" function. ![]() 6.5: Improved notes about interval doublings.7.2: Added a "nudge" function to manage misplaced objects.6.5: Added an important note to tremolos with tuplet.I’ll think these carefully, and discuss in the coming London Meeting in October. This meets the needs of libraries who produce braille textbooks with musical examples or music scores with lots of preliminary text information. Should we integrate literary braille transcription into the software or make it a module of an existing braille textbook production software. Whether to make a software from scratch or integrate some of this proposal into an existing software to save time and money 07-24-2018Īfter attending an open and a private meeting of braille music (the open meeting is the Daisy Music Braille Roundtable Meeting in Leipzig), we should consider two things: (full price) Pro version: contains full transcription, editing and integration functions, to fulfill the requirements of libraries for the blind who produce music braille according different formatting standards, integrating music with other text information to produce professional textbooks.Īt last, a bit cleaning of HTML code.Suitable for individual braille music transcribers, professional blind readers and composers. (lower price) Standard version: Contains full transcription and editing functions, without complicated re-formatting ability.Suitable for end-users who want to read and learn braille music scores using existing music resources. THe main use is to convert and read scores. (Free) Lite version: Contains essential transcription functions, with basic correction abilities to produce better results.If the software is developed as a commercial project, we can design it in three levels: This is decided no matter how my framework is used.Ħ.4: Change this to a section for collecting ideas about MNX related transcription implementations. We must start to think about working with W3C Music Notation Community Group to implement the developing MNX format, the next generation of XML-based music interchangeable format, to make it more friendly for producing accessible formats. 6.5: Corrected implementations of nested tuplets.6.5: Added possible implementation of measure repeats (slashed repeats on the staff).7.7: include more elements for defining new symbols.A Standard or Pro license key will unlock the appropriate features, to ease the update process. As a way of promotion, we can even include the evaluation function for lower-levelled versions, to encourage the lite and Standard users to taste the full featured Pro version for 30 days. To ease the development, we can make the three versions in one installer, but with different levels of functions when used as free or licensed as Standard or Pro. Renamed the three versions of the software of the August Changelog, from Free, Pro and Business to Lite, Standard and Pro. Added "show irregular beamings", and also added a contextual menu item of this to 7.3.2.Added "transpose according to clef" option.Added dynamics to show and hide in the "signs to be transcribed" dialog.The following are all related to Section 3.2. This is the first update after the London meeting of DAISY Music Braille Project. 3.2: Added option to abbreviate crescendo text.2.5: Add system text to the "Treat text as" option.Changes made to items in specific sections will be referenced. For needs of revision, I created this section before the whole content. The framework was first put on a Github repository, and is now moved to my project website for further updates. 7.2 Entering And Marking Items, Transcription Related.Chapter 7: Braille Music Editing, Correction And Other Advanced Features.Chapter 6: Braille Music Transcription Specified Points.Part II: General References Of Important Points Chapter 2: Deeper View Of Transcription Functions.Braille Music Notation Codebooks Used In This Development If I say a hen dips snuff, you can look under her wing for the can. If they run to you concerned, you’re getting old. If they laugh at you, you’re still young. One way to find out if you’re old is to fall down in front of a crowd. If it requires fake smiling, I’m not going. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can’t see. ![]() Have you ever wondered why you can’t taste your tongue? It is not my fault that I never learned to accept responsibility! I walk around as though everything is fine, but deep down, on my right calf, my sock is sliding down. Now he’s 97 years old and we have no clue where he is. My granddad started walking a few miles a day when he was 60. I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.Ī wise man once told me to always listen carefully because…um…I can’t remember. If pro is the opposite of con, what would then be the opposite of progress? If you can’t see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. I would like to thank my arms for always being by my side, my legs for always supporting me, and my fingers because I can always count on them. Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door. There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can’t. The people who need it most never use it. They’re not meant to educate or enlighten, though, only to make people laugh.Įveryone has the right to do stupid things, but you’re abusing that privilege.Ĭommon sense is like deodorant. They’ll have you wondering if there’s not a little truth to them. These stupid sayings won’t just have you laughing. ![]() As the Irish proverb says, “a good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” This blog post contains dumb quotes, good quotes, and several dozen silly sayings that I hope will bring you great pleasure! Stupid Funny One-Liners The best things in life aren’t only free they’re stupid and funny. Whether you need a laugh now or want to keep a few funny phrases handy, these stupid funny sayings are just what the doctor ordered. Laughter is the best medicine (especially in the 2020s!). ![]() (A) The financial consequences of using Crashplan for this period have been significant. Having used and troubleshot Crashplan extensively for the last 18 months I have one word for anyone considering signing up: DON’T. I’m simply passing on the results and opinions from my own experimentations to help you guys make an informed decision. I make no $ if you decide to try it too, and they haven’t paid me to do this. So far, I’m very impressed, and please note that I am not an affiliate for CrashPlan in any way. It seems like a real bargain to me!Ĭurrently the CrashPlan helper app is telling me that my initial upload will be completed in about 5 days, and I’ll keep you guys updated on how it goes. All my important files on my computer are also synced to Google Drive, so I was never worried about losing important documents, but this solution adds another layer of protection, and frankly I hadn’t appreciated quite how cheap these solutions were. For only $59.99 a year, it’s worth doing just so that I don’t have to think about other solutions too much. Currently my offsite backup is only a mirror of my photo archive, so there was definitely a small gap in my backup solution that can be filled by CrashPlan. If there was a fire or theft, I might lose my Time Machine as well. In my office I have Time Machine running to make backups of my computer files, but these are only locally stored. The price difference between the two is negligible. ![]() It’s a much simpler service to set up, but if you’re like me and you like to really dig into settings and optimize things, you’ll appreciate what CrashPlan has to offer. If you are just a hobbyist photographer, it’s very probable that Backblaze will be a better option for you. For now, I’ve also set it to exclude my 12TB of photos in the main archive, because I’m not yet sure if I’ll use something like this for offsite photo protection. ![]() I set it to only run the backup uploads between 1am and 8am for example, so I know it won’t get in the way of any of the work I might be doing.
![]() This is the first time we’re getting a look at her in a situation where she’s not either running away from people, or fighting people, and from the looks of it, there’s a wistfulness about her. Not only do the ruins look very believable to my non-expert eyes, I like the glimpse that it gives us, into her character. I liked the opening scenes of Seo Hae in a post-apocalyptic Seoul. Or is that an area of concern at all, with this story?Į4. I just wonder what kind of ripple effects might occur, with her changing the winner like that. The fact that he’s desperately dependent on medication just to get through each day, really undercuts his surface flippancy, and makes him much more sympathetic than I’d first imagined. On the other hand, there’s a deep sense of pathos about him, as we learn that he regularly hallucinates that his dead older brother Tae San (Heo Joon Seok) is around him, talking to him, and he’s deeply torn up and traumatized by the fact that he hadn’t been kind to his older brother, the last time they’d seen each other, before his death. That’s some superhero level of offhanded badassery. ![]() On top of that, he actually succeeds in pulling everything together and enabling the co-pilot to safely land the plane, thus saving everyone on board. On the one hand, he projects the type of casual, devil-may-care sort of confidence that makes him feel almost unreal, like when he’s struggling to fix the plane while it’s on its way to crashing.Įven with very little time on the clock, he starts his conversation on the phone with Manager Kim (Tae In Ho) in such a casual, everyday sort of manner, where most other people would be freaking out and imploring the other person to call for help. I mean, if Show wasn’t going to take the emotional pain of our characters seriously, then why delve into it so deeply in the first place? This just didn’t work for me. What this means is that the emotional pain of our characters goes ignored, and this decision tainted the ending for me in a very significant way. ![]() I will talk more about this in my comments on the ending, but essentially, without getting into specific spoilers, the problem for me with this show, is that in the end, Show prioritizes the comic book treatment of its story, over the emotional journey of our protagonists. I wanted to root for their success, and I wanted them to be spared the obvious emotional pain, that the journey of saving the world entailed. How can you reconcile treating a character’s trials and tribulations lightly (an almost defining factor in a comic book world), with serving up emotional beats that are stirring?įor most of my watch, I felt that Show does a reasonably solid job of this, and I did become invested in our characters’ quest. |