What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[brewer]

Not the colors I'm seeing. I'll ask the guy tomorrow.

I'm interested, too. PVC is white. Like I said, I'm not used to seeing PVC in supply plumbing, but I'm a hard core copper plumbing kind of guy. Copper is in the "buy once, cry once" category. I hope what you're getting is a decent, lasting repair. Maybe take a pic and post it before the wall is closed up? If you don't want to post it on the open internet, I can give you an email. One thing I really don't like is people getting ripped off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorinate...l_chloride

The color looks like a good case of jaundice.

[Fireball]

I'm interested, too. PVC is white. Like I said, I'm not used to seeing PVC in supply plumbing, but I'm a hard core copper plumbing kind of guy. Copper is in the "buy once, cry once" category. I hope what you're getting is a decent, lasting repair. Maybe take a pic and post it before the wall is closed up? If you don't want to post it on the open internet, I can give you an email. One thing I really don't like is people getting ripped off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorinate...l_chloride

The color looks like a good case of jaundice.

OK, that's acceptable stuff. I'm not familiar with it because I will only use copper, and can do it myself. That's expensive enough, as it is.

[Rev. Rye]

So, a couple months ago, I read DisneyWar and one passage stuck out to me. In a typical bit of creative impulsiveness, inspired by his son's high school graduation, he decided to put Edward Elgar's "Pomp And Circumstance" marches into the film that would later become Fantasia 2000. And the story he cooked up for that was just weird... apparently it was going to be a "put every fucking character in this" short like Once Upon a Studio turned out to be. But the framing story was that, apparently, the Disney princesses up to that point (read: up until Aladdin) would all be in this mass wedding ceremony, and at the end of it they'd be presented with their babies, and, of course, apparently, all the Disney villains would attack because they were pissed that they didn't get invited. If this all seems extremely weird and convoluted, that was basically the reaction of everyone but Eisner. But Eisner was the boss, so they had to try.

It reached the point where they made a storyboard animation, and they showed it to the four surviving members of the Nine Old Men (a group of core animators who worked on most of the studio's projects), in hopes of getting them out of retirement to animate some short segments. Eventually, Ward Kimball would respond: “That’s the stupidest f*cking idea I’ve ever heard.” And so, they retooled it into the incongruous Noah's Ark scene from the final film.

What I didn't know is that it survived to this day and has been leaked:

[Rev. Rye]

So, while listening to Nina Simone’s version of “Black is the Colour”, I got interested in the song. Apparently, her version has a tuning made by folk singer John Jacob Niles





The weird thing is looking into the instrument he’s using, everything makes less and less sense. Apparently, the thing that looks like a renaissance lute is actually a self-built Appalachian dulcimer.



What truly puts this into “giving up on logic” territory is that someone apparently managed to study that damn thing, and the tuning is just legitimately baffling. It’s easy enough to comprehend at first, but then you find out that the strings range in tuning from the A string on a bass to an extremely high A string (equivalent to fretting the first string of a guitar on the fifth fret.) The scale length is 25 1/2”, which is normal scale length for a guitar. Strings skinny enough to accommodate such a high A at such a length are barely possible even these days.





Apparently, you might have luck if you go as low as 0.007 inches, but even that has mixed results. And someone managed to get strings as skinny as 0.00625”, but I can’t find them.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Once of those cases where a cover can be better than the original:





Boru

[Nanny]

I purchased a hybrid Honda Accord today. I learned that I am officially old now. Wake me up for meals.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I purchased a hybrid Honda Accord today. I learned that I am officially old now. Wake me up for meals.

Our 73 year old neighbour recently bought himself a Mustang Mach E. Says that with eight kids, he didn’t have time for a mid-life crisis, so he’s catching up.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

I purchased a hybrid Honda Accord today. I learned that I am officially old now. Wake me up for meals.

Our 73 year old neighbour recently bought himself a Mustang Mach E. Says that with eight kids, he didn’t have time for a mid-life crisis, so he’s catching up.

Boru

My manager has a Mustang Mach E.  Last year she was rear-ended on the highway and it took nearly 6 months to get the damn thing fixed.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Before her split from Sonny Bono, Cher rang up Lucille Ball and asked for advice, as she was worried what would happen to her career. According to Cher herself, Lucy told her, 'Fuck him - YOU'RE the one with the talent.'

Boru

[brewer]

Japan has a bear attack problem due to lack of hunters.