"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/01/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo, wingspan
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/01/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo, wingspan | 8
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In celebration of TriStar Tuesday, here’s the first L-1011. And I solemnly declare that I accepted no bribes to post this photo.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 09:12 |
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Pre-frisbee fairing.
Just Jeepin'
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 09:13 |
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TriStar m ay be one of the most overloaded corporate names ever.
Firearms, logistics, construction, finances, insurance, and of course films.
facw
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 09:13 |
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You really have to wonder what sort of sicko would need a bribe to like the TriS tar...
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 09:21 |
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Feeling better today? How did the lesson go yesterday?
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/01/2020 at 09:25 |
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T he shock has worn off a bit, but certainly not the sadness.
Teaching was fine. The beginners are always so gong ho to make noise. It’s just so difficult to teach a beginner through a computer screen. You really have to play with them. And you can’t do that on Zoom.
Thanks.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 09:30 |
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Audio is always difficult over conference calls. The system tries to restrict the noise to one person at a time. I wonder if you could video the things you need the student to play, then have the student play along with the video as you listened on your end.
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/01/2020 at 09:33 |
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After the first lessons last week, I made a video that recapped everything we did in the first lesson—how to hold the instrument, how to make an embouchure, how to buzz—and then made separate recordings of individual notes for them to play along with at home. I’ve got some more videos to make this morning, since some of my beginners are playing more notes than others. I also need to write out some simple tunes for them to play, like Mary Had a Little Lamb.
There are people out there saying that teachers who teach from home should be paid half their salary since they aren’t going in to work. I would bet that the teachers who are teaching well online have put in twice the work or more to prepare for this fall. I know I’m doing more than I would have otherwise to prepare online content.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 09:45 |
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That’s awesome!
One of the contributing factors to me leaving academia was the dean’s perspective on online teaching. There was one assistant professor who took one of his courses and turned it into a video-on-demand class with standardized, web-based evaluations. It was an easy class to convert since the material and methodologies haven’t changed in a hundred years. Feedback needed from an instructor was minimal.
The dean had it in his head that ALL classes could be converted this way. He was w rong, of course, but that didn’t matter. He couldn’t even understand that I had to re-write my curriculum every time the software changed so that the information I provided to my students would reflect the latest software revision. We just didn’t see eye-to-eye on it.
The latest articles I’ve read suggest that working from h ome is more productive and people who are working from home are putting more time into their job than they would have if they had gone to the office. People who are calling for salary reductions either have no experience with working from home, are less productive working from home themselves, or are just ignorant bastards spouting their opinions without any understanding of what they are talking about.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 09:46 |
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For sure. Do you know about the “original audio” setting on Zoom? It won’t fix latency but it makes music come through a little better
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 09:56 |
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Sonos the l1011 the first true wide body? Boeing’s 707 was a 4 across IIRC.
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/01/2020 at 09:58 |
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I know my wife is working harder from home, even with the distractions of home school. She works late just about every day, doesn’t take a full hour at lunch (she often worked through lunch anyway), and is more likely to put in time on the weekend. Now, this is a busy time for her office with new hires and promotions and all that academic stuff, but since we brought her work computer home it’s that much easier to log in during some down time on the weekend when she would usually be reading a magazine.
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ttyymmnn
> MiniGTI - now with XJ6
09/01/2020 at 10:00 |
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I do, and I’m using it. Also, you have to make sure you turn off the setting that tries to keep levels constant. I have heard that some prominent musicians, including one of my former teachers who is now principal trumpet in Philadelphia, are working with Zoom to improve the way the app handles music. That would be really cool. But yes, it’s the latency that is the killer.
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ttyymmnn
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
09/01/2020 at 10:03 |
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The 747 was the first wide body.
WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 10:16 |
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So, you swear that Miss Mercedes did not bribe you to post this?
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ttyymmnn
> WilliamsSW
09/01/2020 at 10:18 |
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Hah! No, there was no outside influence. Though I can be bribed post facto .
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> facw
09/01/2020 at 11:01 |
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Was there more than one? Or does bribing only count for purchases?
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facw
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/01/2020 at 11:05 |
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I think it was just ANA for the TriStar. Several others involving the F-104: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
RooseveltDad
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 11:15 |
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Educator-adjacent, here - my partner teaches at the college level. She’s putting in significantly more time prepping for her classes, and is in Zoom meetings all day, almost every day. All of those interactions - with colleagues, with students, with TAs... it’s all Zoom now.
f86sabre
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 13:43 |
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The last commercial flight of the L10 with Delta. We flew the airplane so long that we signed a deal with Lockheed to absolve them of their support obligations in exchange for all the structural load data. Other operators had to come to us if they wanted concurrence on major repairs and alterations. We still hav e the docs stashed away.
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
09/01/2020 at 14:45 |
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I guess you guys like ‘em?
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f86sabre
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 16:56 |
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We did. We did a lot of work to get them to work right.
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
09/01/2020 at 17:05 |
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“get them to work right”
LOL
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MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> ttyymmnn
09/01/2020 at 19:40 |
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Cool and good to know. Afraid there’s probably nothing they can do about the latency, it’s just a fact of life with digital audio.