BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

I don't know NY at all, but on the face of it, in a city with a grid system, this seems eminently sensible: proper segregation.

 

[First Aspect]

I don't know NY at all, but on the face of it, in a city with a grid system, this seems eminently sensible: proper segregation.

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30 years ago Vancouver just created a load of no through roads with kerbs a Ross moat of one end of a block with a gap for cyclists, all in a straight line. As these were parallel to main routes motorists barely noticed, it created quieter streets for the people living on them and created a super fast and virtually traffic free bike corridor, because the furthest any car on any block would go would be one block (about 200m).

This sort of stuff isnt complicated or new.

 

[briantrumpet]

30 years ago Vancouver just created a load of no through roads with kerbs a Ross moat of one end of a block with a gap for cyclists, all in a straight line. As these were parallel to main routes motorists barely noticed, it created quieter streets for the people living on them and created a super fast and virtually traffic free bike corridor, because the furthest any car on any block would go would be one block (about 200m).

This sort of stuff isnt complicated or new.

Thanks. But 'War On Motorists', obvs...

 

[briantrumpet]

A few interesting engineering things about the Shap derailment and mitigation in the face of climate change.

https://www.imeche.org/news/news-ar...y-here's-how-engineers-are-tackling-the-issue

 

[All uphill]

Their genius goes right from the design through to quality control on what gets shipped out of the factories, hand-finishing and all. I'd hope that other large sprawling corporations would study how Yamaha do it and take note.

We have a Yamaha electric piano (white, naturally). After ten years it started playing up; we contacted Yamaha and they made an appointment for one of their guys to visit us and check it. He fixed it, said "No charge" and left. Amazing service.

Just one question he couldn't help with, the Yamaha is an epiano, what should we call the old Broadwood? Acoustic piano?

 

[First Aspect]

We have a Yamaha electric piano (white, naturally). After ten years it started playing up; we contacted Yamaha and they made an appointment for one of their guys to visit us and check it. He fixed it, said "No charge" and left. Amazing service.

Just one question he couldn't help with, the Yamaha is an epiano, what should we call the old Broadwood? Acoustic piano?

Analogue piano.

 

[Bazzer]

We have a Yamaha electric piano (white, naturally). After ten years it started playing up; we contacted Yamaha and they made an appointment for one of their guys to visit us and check it. He fixed it, said "No charge" and left. Amazing service.

Just one question he couldn't help with, the Yamaha is an epiano, what should we call the old Broadwood? Acoustic piano?

Our eldest daughter's was purchased over 25 years ago and continues to play faultlessly, despite some keyboard abuse by our grand daughter.

 

[briantrumpet]

Just one question he couldn't help with, the Yamaha is an epiano, what should we call the old Broadwood?

'Out of tune', if it's like the Broadwoods I've come across.

Joking aside, yes, 'acoustic' if you want to be clear it's not electric.

Where we were on our music residential last week, they had one 9ft Steinway concert grand (new cost about £130k) and a 6ft Bösendorfer (about the same) in the music department. Both glorious instruments, but you'd expect them to be, at that price.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Their guitars are the same. Even the bottom end £100 acoustics are decent. Cnc manufacturing has made it easier obviously but Yamaha finish quality has always been good.

 

[briantrumpet]

An interesting article on archive.today, in light of the FBI trying to find out who runs it.

Ironically, I used archive.today to be able to read the paywalled article.

https://archive.ph/OJoWm

 

[briantrumpet]

The most important news out of America this evening.

 

[briantrumpet]

"said the bus crashed into his shop".

Yeah, right. Give us evidence, man.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

The most important news out of America this evening.

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The best coverage was NBC "Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case".

 

[briantrumpet]

The best coverage was NBC "Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case".

It's been a punners' dream.

 

[Pross]

The most important news out of America this evening.

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That will probably lead to Trump deciding juries are BAD and CROOKED so deciding to do away with them in future cases.