@rk @brooke wait, is that...not what it is?

@vaurora @brianbilston with a relevant poem: https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston/117211862792354239

@koos I mean, some mics sure...ever held an SM58 in your hand though? There's a reason for it having a reputation as a dual-purpose microphone/hammer.

@venya @GeoffWozniak Neat -- yeah, the one time I tried a Dingwall years ago I was surprised at how natural it felt to play; I was expecting it to need more adaptation on my part but it felt pretty much like playing a normal bass.

@venya @GeoffWozniak My bass still has the strings it came with on it...and this is making me realize that's now 20 years old! (They're nylon tapewounds on a fretless semihollow, so zing isn't really the goal.)

Also, I've been out of the loop on bass gear for so long, I didn't realize Ibanez was making fan-frets now -- my dim recollection was that that was a Dingwall patent, but I guess it's been long enough that maybe that expired...

@mxshift We had a solar panel contractor who (a) was very difficult to schedule an appointment with, and then after finally getting the work done, also (b) I think may never have actually sent us an invoice at all? When I received an email from them not long afterward informing us that they were ceasing operations it was...not hugely surprising, I guess.

@arj I initially read this as that it had physically taken a dive off of a large (possibly moving) transit vehicle...probably similar odds of salvageability either way though. :/

@mattblaze @scottmiller42 @ai6yr Though also, "works" (as it pertains to software) is...both a pretty seriously low bar, and widely over-valued -- not in the sense of its necessity, but in people taking it as far more of a signal of quality than it actually is.

@benjojo @kasperd I wouldn't dispute the latter, but how is it not also compression? Seems like it must inevitably reduce the number of bits needed to encode it, much less entropy both intra-frame and inter-frame.

@th Ol' W.B. decided not to include the "tail of a rat" part though.

@th Looks like it could have been a source of inspiration for Yeats:

A shape with [feline] body and the head of a man
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun