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@Steve-Miller I love the idea of a canvas tv for artwork!!

@Axtremus Thank you!!! Seeing that site, now I remember it!

I love your version! I just played your recording for my friend who teaches Chinese in my dept. He started singing!

Maybe I'll learn it and have him sing it with me.

He said they teach that to the first year Chinese students in the fall semester.

@big-john thanks for posting that! I love hearing that version! Although I want to hear even more of the 二胡 (two stringed instrument, I don’t know the English name). P.S. Big John - welcome back!

@axtremus i still have the score you gave me for this! I never got it to playability back then, but maybe now I can.

Do you have the link to your recording or video? I’d love to hear your version again!

@Steve-Miller said in What do you think of this house?:

Last project at Kim’s house

Yay!! Congratulations!

Also, notice how the article's conclusion is encourage readers to pay for subscriptions to AI services....

Yes, this is a word that's used in Japan, maybe not like the example sentence you suggest, but more like "I'll add this book to my tsundoku pile"

I just started reading this book that I bought while we were in Japan last summer: Yakuza Sometimes Piano

It’s about a writer whose main reporting area is yakuza (i.e., he primarily writes about the yakuza underworld), and he (the writer, a man in his 50s) starts learning piano.

I literally bought it because the cover caught my eye. It would probably be more interesting if the person learning the piano were actually a yakuza, instead of someone who writes about yakuza... But it’s interesting enough so far. I’m not very far along, so we’ll see.

I always love watching figure skating during the Olympics! But unfortunately this year (because of how busy work is) I doubt I’ll be able to watch much of any of the events. unless I want to give up my piano time, which I don’t.

We never watch TV. When we lived in Japan, we always watched a morning show together at breakfast, probably not unlike those shows that play in the US (although I don’t know bc we don’t watch the U.S. ones, mostly bc Mr SK can’t keep up with the English) but the Japanese ones are a mix of news and entertainment. And that was always an easy way to keep up with events like the Olympics.

I really miss that.

Sorry for the thread drift!

@andyd that must have been so much work! Not like for just a square room! So are all your renovations done, or do you have another project going on?

Looks fantastic!

@Mik said in Let's talk miso:

Shiroley you jest.

@Mik said in Let's talk miso:

I have tried using miso a couple time with less than stellar results. I think it's a lot like umami powder, a fancy name for a salty taste.

As the recipient of miso cooking (as opposed to the cook himself), all I can say to this is, it's probably your fault!

Ok, kidding!

But in my experience, miso is a lot more than just salty. And it doesn't have to be, and isn't, primarily salty. If that's all it was, we can just use salt.

@Steve-Miller said in Let's talk miso:

SK, any suggestions for a newbie?

Unfortunately not really! My only expertise in miso is in eating it

Mr SK cooks with it all the time, but the recipes he has are in Japanese. I’ll ask him if he has any links though, maybe you could use an AI translator.

A few days ago he made something he makes often, it uses chicken (white meat, he used breast), yogurt, miso (white), mirin, garlic… it is super good. I’ll ask him for the recipe for that one.

Re white, red, mixed (I assume that’s what they mean by yellow, but we don’t call it that), it was always my understanding that those differences come from regional food differences. Mr SK said he usually buys white or mixed, but sometimes red. He doesn’t really like red for miso soup, but he said that for other kinds of uses, he doesn’t think it makes all that much difference. I think he’s just happy that it’s common enough now that it’s easier to buy!

@wtg said in NIPSCO:

$1,447 for one month

OMG!!!!!!!

Yikes! What @piano-dad said!

@Piano-Dad Wow!

Also, not the most important criticism, but it's just tacky. If you want to release a documentary like this, at least do it after you're no longer the current first lady. It's like everything they do, tacky, self-serving, profit driven.... Gross.

@wtg said in Melania, the movie isn't doing too well:

I'm not a fan of the stuff makes sexual references about her.

Agreed. There's more than enough to poke fun at here without that.

No comment. -_-

@wtg that judge is great! More like him please!!