1. What are you good at?
2. How would you change Hubski?
3. What's your message?
Thank you coffeesp00ns I enjoyed working on this!
The songs used:
My Voice by Brian Lillie and the Squirrel Mountain Band
Allegreto -Beethoven 7th symphony
Billy Joel -Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Augus - Universal -This is a French friend of mine's music. Can't find a link online.
The fact that you are a very accomplished musician who is not totally confident in your ability shows that you do not suffer from the Dunning–Kruger effect and so are probably pretty damn good. :) Thanks coffeesp00ns! p.s. This post also reminded me of how great the theme song from Barney Miller was:
I may not be suffering from the dunning-Kruger effect, I might suffer from impostor syndrome. Well, if I thought i was good enough to suffer from it, anyways.
I don't know how I forgot about Imposter Syndrome. I have certainly felt it. When I got to law school I thought for sure that I would probably be pretty horrible. But it turned out a lot of people were even worse than me. :) (But certainly many who were simply brilliant.) Then I got into my LL.M. program and I thought, OK, now for sure. But nope. Did you even feel that way towards the end of your Masters?
I felt it towards the end of my Masters, I felt it when I got accepted into the Cleveland Institute of Music with the best scholarship that my teacher had heard of for a bassist (and she worked in the scholarship office for a while early in her career), I feel it every day. I know one guy who I consider to be the best bassist in North America, if not the world, and he has routinely considered quitting because he can't live up to his own expectations. I studied with him at a summer camp over two summers. I'd say it rubs off, and maybe it does, but I was like that beforehand, too.
Apparently Eric Clapton seriously considered quitting the guitar after he heard Jimi Hendrix.
Thanks, sp00ns. I enjoyed it. It's funny how widely opinions vary on how Hubski looks. I've head plenty of people tell me that it is ugly in its current state. Many time by Redditors, no less. My goal has been to let the text dominate, since that is what we are here for. Perhaps we should make the ugly style the default? Or d20?
Too timid. Randomly generate a text color. Set the background to its compliment (easy in HSV space). Set link text to the text color shifted towards either black or white, whichever is further away. Set the visited link color to the compliment of the link color.Or d20?
My university uses some crappy open source solution for email, and the single best feature it has is selecting random themes upon each login. I'd like to meet the person who created those themes one day, because they are without fail the most ugly combinations of colour you can find. Two thirds of them aren't even readable!
I never said hubski was pretty - though I do love how clean everything is without it seeming clinical . Thank you and your team for making this site.
Neat. But apparently mk didn't design this site with obscure text browsers in mind. I can't load more threads when I hit the bottom of the list on global. Also, I'm going through the options section right now and I think I need a dictionary on me. I don't understand even a fraction of the settings this thing has. But I did disable cookies, so I have that going for me. Edit: Not that I actually expect you to fix this mk, I'm just goofing around here. Though, I'm trying to figure out why for the life of me it won't let me fill in any fields. I can't log into the site using w3m to save my life. Second Edit: Okay. I'm logged in and typing from w3m now. No I gotta figure out how to choose which websites I will and will not accept cookies from. This is a cool little toy. I'm kind of digging it. Third Edit: Apparently everything I type in w3m to post on Hubski gets saved somewhere on my drive. Interesting. I'm writing the file path/directory/thingy to try to find out where it's saved and what it does. Maybe I'll bork my computer. Maybe not. Either way, I have my Linux Mint install disk next to me just in case. Here goes nothing. Weee! Fourth Edit: Some temp files stay. Some disappear. I have no idea which is which. I'll look into it later. I have a bud over for movie night now. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT BITCHES! YEAAAAAAH!!!
The great thing about testing against text browsers are that they encourage accessibility and progressive enhancement. Much of the web looks silly in w3m unfortunately.
I'm actually a bit ignorant when it comes to text based browsers. I've heard two things though, maybe you know if they're true? I hear that they're used for checking websites for some types of malicious codes, as you can't hide anything from them. I've also heard that they're used in combination with Text to Speech programs for the visually impaired. Is that true?
coffeesp00ns, the way you described your endeavors with classical music sounds very Sisyphean. How do you break that circle? My guess is simply creating your own music on your own terms outside of that framework and enjoying the fact that you're that much better at it because of the skill and training that informs you...but maybe it's something else?
That UI needs more MS Paint. How do I break the cycle? I think it's less about breaking the cycle, and more about embracing the your imperfections while striving for better each time. Even when it comes to my own music, or playing in rock bands with others, the mindset remains- "How can I do better?" It's a dangerous balance though. Arts students and Med students always end being the people in the counselling offices the most - Or at least, that's what I've been told about the demographics when I've asked at my own appointments. I don't think it necessarily has anything to do with us being "delicate", it has more to do with the fact that any time someone critiques what you do, it reinforces your own thoughts and critiques - you didn't get away with that wrong note this time, or you didn't get away with that imperfect phrase. - and that can lead to a downward spiral of confidence. Listening to a recording of yourself from a year before, or your old high school recital or whatever, can be a good confidence booster - It shows you how much you have grown, even though you still have so much to learn. You have to keep in mind that even though you will never reach perfection, you are always getting better.
Hey Hubski! Hey thenewgreen! It's uh, it's coffeesp00ns here! It's kind of weird to actually hear my own voice because one of the things they don't tell you about being a trans person is that you have to kind of re-learn how to speak and I'm still kind of in the process of doing that. So my voice is kind of sort of half of boy voice and half of girl voice and it kind of depends on how much I'm focusing. So we'll see. I'm sure you'll get a range of coffeesp00ns. So here are the questions. First question is: What is something I do well? As someone who is incredibly self-critical this is pretty difficult to answer but I like to think of myself as a pretty good bass player. I have my Master's in bass now and I've done relatively well and I'm you know I tend to get a lot of compliments on my playing but I always think of the things I need to do to get better because those are the things that have kind of been drilled into me over time. Just because that's kind of how it is in classical music. No one, it's very rare that you have someone say "Good job." You mostly just get, "Ok, well, that was okay but this is wrong. Or this is wrong now. All right, that was a little bit better but now think about this instead because you need to work on this." There's no blanket positive, or at least very rarely there is. It's uh, I don't know, ingrained at this point. I'm also a pretty good cook. I've gotten into cooking since I started working in a restaurant though thankfully I don't work there anymore. Second question is: What would I change about hubski if I could? I think I would make it uglier. Just to make it a total turn-off to the people who aren't going to care about the community. I know that that's probably like a stupid thing to say. But, I find that it would almost get rid of a whole bunch of people who aren't here for the content. Maybe it would prevent some people from being here even though they would be good contributors. But I don't know. It just seems like an interesting thing to do. And the third question is: What is my message? Well, in the wake of the things that have just happened as I record this, it happened on Friday and it's now Sunday. There was the attack in Paris and previously there was also an attack in Beirut and also in Kenya. And I think the thing, the message that I would like to give people is that giving into fear and painting others with broad strokes and allowing yourself to be controlled by someone else's message are all really dangerous things. It's easy to say that all Muslim people are bad or that all people from the Middle East are bad or what have you. But it ruins, and completely eliminates so much of the complexity of the situations and the frank realities of the situation. Take the Islamic state for example. There's maybe 1000 people who are active members of IS. Considering the amount of Muslim people there are, that's like .1 or maybe even .01 of the amount of Muslims in the world. And thinking all Muslims are like that is like thinking that all Christians are like the Westboro Baptist Church. It's just insanity. So love each other. Be critical. And don't forget to be awesome. Thanks for having me.
Love each other, be critical, and don't forget to be awesome. Love it!
My exact words to Steve when I emailed this to him were:Re; the recording - There’s lots of open air. It’s just kind of how I speak. I think it makes me sound profound, but I may be spending too much time with my head up my butt.
I'm not sure if you noticed or not, but I eliminated about 90% of the pauses :)
OBVIOUSLY you just didn't realize how profound I was being. ;) I was 100% okay with it. I remember hearing a story about someone interviewing Pope John Paul II on live radio. They were talking, and then the Pope was asked a question that he either didn't 100% expect, or was a "big" question, and he sat there - Red light flashing - in silence for 30 seconds while he mulled over the question in his head, then answered it. The interview was rebroadcast later, and they cut that silence because, y'know, time constraints. For some reason that really resonated with me, and resulted in two things: One, I do my best to really think about a question before I answer it. Two, I mistrust people who answer questions too quickly.
I think there's a big difference between thoughtful deliberation and contrived silence. I'm not suggesting you fall in the contrived bucket, but some of those pauses.... Damn dude :) you make John Paul seem like Chatty Mcgee.
I did exactly as you said and didn't reveal the questions until I was recording. I'm a slow thinker, 'kay? lol. thanks again for doing such a great job with this.
I'm calling you John Paul from now on :) YOU did a great job. Thanks again sp00ns! (One of my favorite Hubski usernames btw)
coffeesp00ns - thank you again for doing this. I hope you're happy with how it turned out. I have a question for you as a follow up. You mentioned your love of cooking, but it sounds like you didn't enjoy working at the restaurant. Why is that?
Thank YOU, tng, for inviting me to do this. I love how it turned out, and I really liked your musical highlight of my voice discussion. I didn't like working at the restaurant because it was a.) A health code violation waiting to happen b.) under the direction of an owner/manager who was both draconian and incompetent c.) not making any money, so the cheques started to bounce. I was always reimbursed, but it wasn't exactly an inspiring situation. But it did give me confidence in my cooking skills.
your voice is adorable btw u3u. it actually really matches your "speaking" mannerisms from IRC and i really like it. and you.