>>409
Wow, I have no idea. Probably the last time I went to a family restaurant, but I have no idea when that was either. They always have a tin of cheap crayons and disposable placemats with cereal box-esque puzzles on them at that kind of place, you know what I mean?
>>411
In the folk tune John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, for the second, shouted reiteration of his (your?) name, just before the da's, is it better to sing "Jacob" with a rhythm of straight eighths or a dotted eighth and sixteenth? How do the Germans do it?
And while we're on the subject, how do you feel about syncopating "his name is" so that "name" is off the beat?
also, and I know this is really pushing it, but are "name" and "too" supposed to be a half-step or a full step apart?
>>410
I don't know how the Germans do it, but it's not really a German song anyway. Given that it's a folk song of unknown origin, there's no way that it's supposed to be. Sing it however you want. Make up your own variations.
In my personal opinion, dotted rhythm is much better, same goes for syncopating "his name." A syncopated rhythm gives the song more energy and fits the song's joyfully silly nature.
In terms of a major scale numbered 1 to 7, the first "name" is on 4, the second "name" is on 2, and "too" is on 3. So, "too" is a half-step apart from the first "name" and a whole step apart from the second "name." However, some people might sharpen the second "name" to give it more pull toward the resolution, which is perfectly acceptable. In this case it would be a half-step apart. Do what suits you.
>>412
How often do you use drinking straws?
>>414 Yes, when I was a kid. Nowadays it'd be alright but I can imagine myself just staying inside playing my crappy videogames while people judge me for not training my pokémon like a normal person.
>>416 You are able to make anything you want socially acceptable, but just one thing. What would it be?
>>417
Fluid dynamics is a strange and terrifying place. Some knowledge is not meant for us mere mortals.
>>419
Due to being half-nocturnal, I usually end up having meals around midday, evening, and in the middle of the night. The first two are clearly lunch and dinner, but what am I supposed to call the last one?
>>421
Power-Man, of course. https://imgur.com/H5pyVBv
>>423
How long more do you think we have until war breaks out in the Asia-Pacific region?
>>426
Well just tonight my roommate threw and ice cube into hot oil causing it to smoke and splash everywhere. With that, my friend and our guests had to grab fabric items and wave them in front of the smoke detector. While this was happening, my roommate thought it was a good idea to just spill all the oil on the kitchen floor which I almost slipped on when returning a towel. Then the girls living downstairs below us got mad at the noise. I began telling them what happened and they immediately felt sympathetic and apologized to us. We all sat around for a couple hours chit chatting about really strange shit while my roommate clumsily cleaned up. I didn't even get to make a cup of tea.
There was this other time where me and a friend independently saw and heard a bird in my room. I didn't say anything then because I thought it was just me, but he later brought up that he saw and heard a bird in the same location as I did.
>>428
Do you enjoy train rides?
>>427
Yes, absolutely! I love watching the scenery pass by out the window, and I've always found it a much more civilised way to travel than flying or driving. The best train journey I've been on was a twelve hour trip from Italy to Hungary, via Austria. Lots of scenic mountains and picturesque vineyards and so on.
>>429
On a similar note, do you enjoy plane journeys?
>>432
People who would "deserve" violent premature death for the sake of humanity fall into at least one of three categories, as I see it:
• People whose atrocities were bad enough to change history reactively for the better (i.e. Hitler). Generally speaking, these people should be left completely alone because they catalyzed important positive developments for humanity equal to or greater than their atrocities. Even in the best-case scenario where the developments we can identify would have happened anyway, these people were pivotal enough that changing their lives could cause very significant and unpredictable changes to history as we know it. How lucky do you feel?
• People who simply happened to be "in charge" of a larger organization and whose death would most likely result in someone else seizing power and continuing the same thing (i.e. anyone in the Kim Dynasty) because the culture clearly supported it. I would classify assassins of major figures here too, even if they weren't leaders, because their roles would probably just be filled by someone else if they weren't there. Which is to say, these people are more an artifact/symptom of a larger systemic problem\though in carefully and strategically considered cases some of their deaths may be the wisest choices.
• People who acted largely or wholly on their own and whose atrocities were more or less insignificant in the grand scheme of things (i.e. any of many serial killers). For instance, I wouldn't argue against killing Ted Bundy, but realistically a few dozen murders don't matter in a world of billions.
I'm not ready to choose a victim; I'd prefer to take knowledge back than death. Or make a backup of the contents of the Library of Alexandria, or something along those lines.
>>434
If you didn't have to worry about affording bills, food, or healthcare, what would your ideal lifestyle consist of?
>>433 While I did quite like my NEET period, I would like a job that makes me happy, a creative job, something that wouldn't make me feel I'd wasted all those years studying and working hard at school and university. It would be a fulfilling job but I'd still have time for my hobbies and stuff.
>>435 Would you rather have terrifying paranoid delusions or excruciating heartache for lost love?
>>442
A little bit of both. My last birthday came and went without any fanfare, but I did get a little money from my family and I made a point of treating myself to whatever I wanted on that day. However, I also experienced moments of vague existential dread. I'm already 24 and I haven't accomplished anything! I think I'll get progressively more depressed about my birthday every year until around 30, when I will learn to stop caring about my failed dreams and just use my birthday as an excuse to binge.
>>444
What's your favorite user interface?
>>444
Oh, gosh, there are so many to choose from. Anything smug and unconfigurable, so the obvious choice for recent times is Gnome 3. However, for personal hatred I have to choose the GUI interface to Rational's ClearCase. Using it is like walking through a museum of terrible interface choices from various decades and paradigms.
>>446
What is an experience that you've had that everyone else on the planet should undergo?
>>451
Well, I've figured out an okay way of tracking focus in a user interface, so now I just have to shove that in and add some more widgets, and then I can carry on with the music part of this music program.
>>453
Do I bother trying to write an iOS version? All the cool musicians use Apple products and like paying a lot for software.
>>458
Taken as a whole, staying much the same. In some countries, living conditions are getting worse because of overpopulation, disease, famine, war, exploitation and so on. But this has always happened. There is less slavery but just as much suffering. In other countries, the quality of life is improving, but this has led to more existential and mental suffering. There are happy people in poor countries and unhappy people in rich countries. There is nothing new under the sun.
>>460
What's your favourite candy?
>>463
Going with the wikipedia definition of natural cause (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_natural_causes), and judging by the WHO projections of mortality (http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/projections/en/), I'd say about 93%.
>>465
If you could choose how you died, what would you choose?
>>493
A few years back I got an original Xbox at a rummage sale and it had maybe a dozen games with it. I didn't play any of the sports ones, and I probably never will. I don't remember how many games exactly, but I think everything else I've owned in the past I've at least tried. So let's say 4-5.
>>495
Which pizza topping is your favorite?