Heating things in MCRWV and Bass/Melody need answer fast

[Jaledin]

So a few months ago a Colombian friend of mine showed me a trick he had of saving some cooked rice in little Saran-type-wrap things and nuking them. Thought it was a good idea, and since I eat a lot of rice, so stored it in back of head.

So, I had a little piece of sole, of all things, in the freezer just now and it was wrapped in that kind of saran-wrap stuff. So I nuke it for about 2m and go to play some piano and hear all this sizzling.

Freaking shit practically melted. Not the fish, the wrap. Got it off there. I'm still going to eat it anyway, because it's good fish and I need to keep my palate cleansed.

So is that shit wrong or what?

And, second Q. I was just doing *The Green Leaves of Summer* which I hadn't played or heard in quite a while and was fucked with remembering how all the parts go. UNTIL. I just started plunking away at the root of each chord in LH and the melody in RH.

I suspect there is a band-stop kind of filter built into the ear. Or maybe it was because at that point the microwave was fucking up. But all those hip voicings with both hands right in the middle, couldn't remember the next one. But try it bass and mid-hi and the ear supplies the rest. Fucking amazing. Probably a psychotic trick.

[Jaglavak]

Don't eat that shit. Don't ever cook anything in plastic. Softer more flexible plastics are worse for leaching toxic shit into your food. I'll see if I can dig up a cite for you.

Some tones mask others to where you literally can't hear them. I don't recall the rules for how that works but I believe it's built into the ear, not your brain.

[Jaledin]

No, you're talking about the Fletcher-Munson, right? Higher frequencies appear to attenuate faster. Why the AO28 preamp in the Hammond's expression pedal seems to drop high frequencies, even though when I modeled it in SPICE it's a straight band-stop between (I can't remember, but nice curve).

Yeah, well fucking A I'm going to eat it. So it's like one meal and I'll chalk it up to the second dumbest thing I ever did with my pal. Well, it seemed like a good idea, and he's pretty smart.

If I keel over after eating some delicious freezer fish out of SaranWrap, you'll be the first to know.

What are you, a fucking insomniac? I find Xanax works well, but I limit it to only those nights I really need to be up early and rested. Most nights like this weekend I just do my thing and let nature take it's course.

[Jaglavak]

I took a nap. Sometimes I get away with it, sometimes I'm up half the night. It was a righteous nap though.

Here's a link that summarizes a Consumer Reports study on phthalates in plastic food wrap. I couldn't find the original from the CU website. But I did find this, which discusses phthalates in kid's toys. I am convinced that the stuff does more damage than we know about just yet. Don't be a lab rat, throw that shit out.

[Jaledin]

Don't be such a pussy. Besides I already ate like half it -- it's not likely to become a habit.

But, cross off my to-do-list package my rice in little baggies like Alfredo does. He has questionable judgment.

I guess now it's proved.

That's what you come in here to say? I want to hear more about Fletcher-Munson. I can't insert image from my SPICE AC simulation, but it's a passive RC filter controlled at the foot pedal by a variable cap and at 0, bass and high are passed. At max, everything is. There's an extra little resistor (I think 61k) that doesn't do anything -- a tiny part of the IIRC 5-tube preamp.

[Jaglavak]

I'm talking about spectral masking.

[Jaglavak]

What does a low Q bandpass filter have to do with the A weighted hearing curve? I don't know shit about Hammon organs.

BTW, if you want to be on the bleeding retro-edge, get yourself some cassette tapes. They're baaaack!

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

What does a low Q bandpass filter have to do with the A weighted hearing curve? I don't know shit about Hammon organs.

BTW, if you want to be on the bleeding retro-edge, get yourself some cassette tapes. They're baaaack!

No, they aren't. Come on. I just got done reading a whole thing about a proprietary process to take care of wow and flutter on actual tape. What kind of a mess would it be to have some little 1/8" tape sound like what big-bucks studios now I mean NOW pay many thousands to have their 2" 24 track stuff sound even remotely accessible.

Yeah, I love my two open-reel 1/4" machines but the Marantz is dead and the Sony is in sad shape and without miles of virgin stock it's no point even trying to clean and calibrate.

Yeah, I heard about cassettes but that's for some geektards who want to play it in their fancy Dart with Grandpa's sweet deck. Vinyl's always going to be around. Cassettes, not so much.

Oh, I don't know why you are confused about low Q -- we're sweeping the frequency from low C on the pedal to high C with all the drawbars out (plus the higher harmonics). I'm not an audio engineer but Q is basically not what is being narrow like a notch here. it's a band from maybe whatever 440Hz (if fed 120V mains @60Hz) way down two octaves can't do the math right now to maybe 1320Hz that is attenuated.

So the reason this little circuit was made (it's controlled by the right foot of the organist -- a lot of people call it the "swell pedal" but really just "expression pedal" is the standard) is to allow the organ player to drop mid frequencies while continuing to kick bass and thus drive their little group.

I think chopping off the high is not what this circuit does, but is a psychoacoustic affect that kind of makes it a bit groovier when Dr. Lonnie does one of his trademark "screams" on the very high end by modulating that circuit.

You dig? You don't have to know anything about Hammond organs, just what that little five or seven or how many caps and resistors do. And I just told you. And if I had pictures, I'd give you the Bode plots.

[Jaledin]

Eh, that didn't sound right -- well whatever low Q but I don't know what I was trying to say in the next hemiola.

[Jaglavak]

'Sokay, I'm fading fast. Tanks for de lime, rasta.

[Jaledin]

Kk. ThxBye.

[Mr. Classy]

Who the fuck freezes rice? Is your only pot dirty or something?

[Jaledin]

It's for convenience, you fucking idiot. And I don't do it -- I just thought it might be a neat idea.

Confer Zatarain and all that stuff at the Trader Joe's. So take it back a step and imagine using a ring mold to cook an egg or two and then making yr own powdered cheez whatever.

All about reproducing in controlled environment what the big machines do. The next stage in culinary warfare.

Bread? Feh, been done. So, make it and don't break it. The final whatever.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by Mr. Classy

Who the fuck freezes rice? Is your only pot dirty or something?

I just found out recently that freezing rice actually works. I had gotten frozen brown rice from the store, but I didn't think I could do it myself. I generally make half white/half brown rice. It actually does work!

I read a Robin Robertson cookbook, Vegan Planet, where she wrote that she froze rice to put in her soups later.

Microwaved frozen rice turns out better than I expected.

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Roo

Microwaved frozen rice turns out better than I expected.

No shit. Every time you talk to one of those troll socks they become more cumbersome in quantity.

Seriously, how'd you figure out about freezing par-cooked grains?

[frodger]

Can Saran ™ Plastic Wraps be used in the microwave?
Can Saran ™ Plastic Wraps be used in the microwave?

Yes, Saran ™ Wraps can be used in the microwave. For best results, you should allow a one-inch space between the food and the plastic wrap. It is important that you vent excess steam by turning back one corner of the wrap. To prevent the wrap from melting, food high in fat (like bacon) or sugar (like pastry) should not come into contact with the plastic wrap.

http://www.saranbrands.com/faq.asp#12

[Roo]

Originally Posted by frodger

Yes, Saran ™ Wraps can be used in the microwave. For best results, you should allow a one-inch space between the food and the plastic wrap. It is important that you vent excess steam by turning back one corner of the wrap. To prevent the wrap from melting, food high in fat (like bacon) or sugar (like pastry) should not come into contact with the plastic wrap.

http://www.saranbrands.com/faq.asp#12

But if you're not using the wrap to contain the food, wouldn't it be easier to cover the dish with a paper towel? That way, the plastic wrap can't melt into the food and the splatters, which is all the plastic wrap is catching that way, can fall into the paper towel for easy clean-up. Also, that way you wouldn't have to vent for excess steam since the steam can rise through the paper towel (I think but am not sure about that last part).

[Jaledin]

Eh, I think someone is either "thinking" too much or not enough.

Good job about the "paper towels" though. I'll buy a gross the next time I'm at rich person peopleMart. Eh. They don't freeze so hot, I heard.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by Jaledin

Eh, I think someone is either "thinking" too much or not enough.

Why can't it be both?

Originally Posted by Jaledin

Good job about the "paper towels" though. I'll buy a gross the next time I'm at rich person peopleMart. Eh. They don't freeze so hot, I heard.

They freeze wonderfully. They just don't protect the food from freezer burn.

Oh, that reminds me. I just got a free roll of that Dura towel paper towel. I haven't tried it out yet. Maybe that would work well.

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Roo

Oh, that reminds me. I just got a free roll of that Dura towel paper towel. I haven't tried it out yet. Maybe that would work well.

WTF is a Dura roll?

And what is a "towel paper towel," for that matter?

Eh, I had a nice little response to your very good line of questioning re moral luck, but it got erased. I meant to make up for being kind of a jerk in my initial response, but apparently it wasn't meant to be.

FWIW I talked w my little yellow lab partner just an hour ago -- we got 100/100 on our (ahem my, actually) little Hammond circuit analysis. But the catch is we have to for sure do a PPT this Tuesday. I actually like being on "stage," so my goal is to try to hand off as much of the presenting to my partner, so he can get some practice and maybe stop being such a whining little bitch. And of course I'll be there so if he forgets something I can step in.

There is one really annoying woman, mid 20s, who has a great set of tits. Fortunately, if I get a boner, I can just ask her to suck me off. Not really, just saying what goes through my mind when I perform in public.

[Jaledin]

Yeah so the pedagogical point is that people get used to presenting in an open forum, and since I'm used to talking in front of a class, I try to help McFly here who is about ten years younger get his practice in. And also, since I like chess, make sure that the professor knows that I'm trying to help the kid out. Unfortunately, I have to make all the slides, since this kid doesn't know wth I did to analyze the circuit and doesn't know what crosses over to an audience.

So I'm left with a raging boner and now I have to jerk off another few dozen times thinking about putting my hands on a girl's hips and now I'm also trying to get down the Prokofiev.

You all are fucking jerks.

[Jaglavak]

If the grub is in a bowl, put a plate over it. If the grub is on a plate, but a bowl over it. Don't cook in plastic unless you really enjoy a brisk case of ass cancer.

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

If the grub is in a bowl, put a plate over it. If the grub is on a plate, but a bowl over it. Don't cook in plastic unless you really enjoy a brisk case of ass cancer.

So, once in a while it's fine, is what you're is saying right now right?

If Roo ever got an ass cancer I would take care of it.

Eh. Be right back.

[Jaglavak]

It's a matter of statistics. The more you do it, the worse your odds.
The plastic, that is.

[boomerwang]

Originally Posted by Mr. Classy

Who the fuck freezes rice? Is your only pot dirty or something?

Some people freeze worse things than rice...

[boomerwang]

Jaledin, can you play Sous le Ciel de Paris? I reckon you'd do a bang up job of that tune.

[Jaledin]

Hey Charlie Chan. Look here real quick for a sec.

Too slow, bozo.

Now what did you chan brothers did with my girl:? I=am not looking for fight just weant rto get even and its either her or you, so pony up, wild riders.

[boomerwang]

You could increase the tempo, and that would make the song less slow. Do I have to explain every fucking thing to you???

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Chas

Jaledin, can you play Sous le Ciel de Paris? I reckon you'd do a bang up job of that tune.

Is that some kind of joke? What the hell tune is that anyway? I don't know it, but yeah I can play it depending on how picky you are. Who's paying, what's the tune, when do I get my money, and what do you want on it.

[Jaglavak]

I am so very outta here.

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Chas

You could increase the tempo, and that would make the song less slow. Do I have to explain every fucking thing to you???

OK for the Puerto Ricans in the house too slow Chano. Got the picture, big guy?

[boomerwang]

The tune is: *ahem*

Dah dah dah dah, dah dah, dah dah dah, dah dahhhh, dahhhhh, dahhhhhhhhh.... Your cheque's in the mail. Just play it!

[boomerwang]

I am not Puerto Rican. WTF???

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

I am so very outta here.

EH. Somebody estop heem. He might have a Roo's ass, which the boss wants everybody check in case of what he wants.

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Chas

The tune is: *ahem*

Dah dah dah dah, dah dah, dah dah dah, dah dahhhh, dahhhhh, dahhhhhhhhh.... Your cheque's in the mail. Just play it!

Jesus fucking christ you bloody pom i can't fucking read your fucking mind.

Gotta do better than that. I'm like a fucking rain man when it comes to playing retard shit but i'm not a bloody yuri gekker now am i?

[boomerwang]

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRNA2j2_I7E

And I'm not a fucking Pom, either Homie

[Jaledin]

OK fine I made it through five or six seconds of that thing. So you want to pay me to make it a non-fucked up tune? That's production and arrangement, and that's extra.

And, yes you are from Australia so wear a big pom hat.

You also listen to shite music and can't hold your beer before crying after your mum.

[boomerwang]

It was a subtle song dedication suggestion for your big night with Roo, you tinhead. No helping some people, honestly. Ah well.

[Jaledin]

Oh. Well. That was.

NO WTH DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING YOU LIAR LYING POMERANIAN.

Let's see. In Paris FR? Not me right now. Feeling gay? Kind of the opposite. Want to hear a bunch of morons singing? Yes, but later. WANT A FUCKING LOAF OF BREAD GODDAMMIT IT'S PARIS WHERE THE BEST BREAD IS BAKED ON THE PLANET AND I'M LISTENING TO SOME IDIOTS.

No, and where the fuck is Roo's shapely ass. Is it? And she is a woman, right?

I gotta say she makes me want to be a regular guy after all, and fuck if she wants some of that Paris shit I'll sing it for a long time.

[boomerwang]

Btw, you lazy fucker, the retarded way you spelt microwave in the title only spared you the horrendous burden of typing 4 extra characters. I'm surprised you haven't found a way to type in crayon yet.

[Jaledin]

Already did, you fucking asshole.

I saved a few chars and made my title look more flash, so why the hate, man?

Seriously, where's Roo.

You dont think she had a little woman problem and had to go into the mens room did you? About two hours ago? While she was not afraid of me and was free to leave at any time?

Yeah didnt think so.

[boomerwang]

ww, m pst lks s frsh nw...

[Jaledin]

No you're not. And I have proof that Roo is alive and smarter than ever, and totally doesn't reek of chloroform so you can forget about calling the cops on me.

[boomerwang]

But what about the pics? They're all over the 'net now

[Jaledin]

Eh???

Srsly if there are pics I might have to see them.

Srsly I need about 7 hrs sleep before tomorrow and it might help me to have some "pics." And Roo better not have a fucking dong or I will be pissed off.

[Jaledin]

Hey here's an old word that I remembered just now. Coprophagia. If Roo would touch my thing I would like to have her shit in my mouth.

But only if she touches it.

[Jaledin]

I will literally eat Roo's shit with a fucking spoon and fork if she will be my little buddy once or at least sit down with me and have a conversation (while I fuck the shit out of her).

[frodger]

Originally Posted by Jaledin

I will literally eat Roo's shit with a fucking spoon and fork if she will be my little buddy once or at least sit down with me and have a conversation (while I fuck the shit out of her).

I am embarrassed for Roo. You have turned into the JohnHinkleyJr of the Box.
Roo should put on her SylverTygerGirl mask and then see if that kills your pocketrocket.

[Glazer]

Is Roo SylverTygerGirl?

[Panacea]

No.