@matigo Oh, it's not that important. I was just wondering if I ever sent @streakmachine my PayPal address.
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@matigo Were there ever private messages though, e.g. sometime in 2018? I would swear @streakmachine sent me something back then and I'm sure it could only have been via 10C.
@matigo Remind me how to access private messages again? Can't remember any of the URLs now apart from nice.social.
Intermittent fasting is rough after a night of celebrations. Only 5 hours of sleep (so as not to screw up my sleeping schedule) and Anki flashcards in the morning.
Hadn't had a triple-shot of vodka in 7 years…
@matigo There's really very little preventing you from also choosing a spot under a tree, if you'd like to have that problem.
@variablepulserate Cello is somewhat similar to bass viol, though sounds completely different, but the whole viol family is huge — and the modern double bass is the last surviving member of the viol family for a typical Western classical orchestra. Evidence is in the standard guitar-like tuning of fourths (versus fifths for the violin family), the underhand ("German") bow hold, the viol-style shoulders (though many basses now have a cello-like shape), and the flat back (the violin family has an arched back).
The naming convention can be confusing but it helps to note that "viol" is synonymous with "viola da gamba" ("leg viol"). The "-in" ending for "violin" is a diminutive, so literally "small viola".
"Cello" is itself a very confusingly shortened diminutive: "violone" ("viol" + "one" -> "big viol") -> "violoncello" ("small big viol") -> "cello".
It turns out my suspicions (since childhood) have been right all along: cello really is, overall, more comfortable than violin.
But this is working a whole new set of muscles in my right arm. Ouch.