Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Would the sound still be infinitely richer with a spinet piano, Corwood?
I think so. I use a decent synthetic piano sound for recording, but it still sounds boxed on a good pair of headphones. And the naked ear is more sensitive in an acoustic setting.
My brother and SIL had a Yamaha electronic piano setup in the basement for the kids when they started music lessons, and when my niece showed real talent and enthusiasm for the instrument, they ended up getting a spinet piano for the living room and selling the Yamaha. She's still playing it five years later, as well as her cello and voice lessons, so it was a good investment.
I think I'm a post-adult. I felt kinda adult when I had a wife, a 3 bedroom house in the burbs, a 3 hour commute, my career was going somewhere and we had Sunday dinner with my parents. Now I live alone, have a condo up the street from my office, a job that pays the bills and my parents live two thousands miles away. I go to live music, thai food, drinking sessions or movies on five minutes notice and I don't even have house plants. It's like being in college without the learning anything interesting part.
I guess I was acting more like my notion of adult when I was married and working for a big company, but I always felt like an imposter adult. Even owning a house that young was kind of a lark, in that the downpayment on our first house was a second mortgage secured by our cars. Now I live alone and stay out late drinking and listening to live music, something I never did when I was younger.
I guess she took that picture back in 1994 as well. Also, the fact that you can get her program as a podcast makes me laugh and laugh.
In 1994, I began to study Internet addiction and over the years realized the growing impact of cyberspace on children and families.
In 1994? She was ahead of her time....
I don't have time to look through the site - is it a Christian thing?
Nah, doesn't look like. Seems bordering on sane, actually. Though I did find this gem in the "addictivity quiz":
10. How often do you block out disturbing thoughts about your life with soothing thoughts of the Internet?
Sooothing thoughts of the internet. I'ma have to keep that one, for sure.
I can't take anyone who doesn't know the difference between discrete sessions and discreet sessions seriously. Also, isn't online counseling for internet addition like having an AA meeting in a bar?
10. How often do you block out disturbing thoughts about your life with soothing thoughts of the Internet?
Heh. Replace one word of that and it shows we're all addicted to chocolate....