gabrielmoshe

Tuning typically follows a little ritual, where (1) the concertmaster stands to indicate that tuning should begin, (2) the oboe gives the 440 Hz A tone, which by the way, they normally have an electronic tuner these days to help them nail that pitch, (3) the brass and winds tune off the oboe, (4) the concertmaster tunes her violin off the oboe, (5) the concertmaster plays the A for the strings, who tune their open A string off that note, (6) the strings tune their other three strings to their A, usually by ear.

Source: Me, playing in amateur orchestras for twenty-plus years.

Sidenote: I find the sound of an orchestra tuning to be a deep joy! All those instruments sliding into place is just delightful

I've found that traveling is distinctly different (within the United States) because the sun is still coming up at approximately the same local hour. Of course this can vary by more than an hour if you travel between opposite edges of a time zone, but somehow traveling is also less jarring to me than the DST shift.

What a wonderful treatment of a particularly stressful job.

I'm a classically trained musician, but have little experience playing piano, yet I've been recruited to turn pages not infrequently. Somehow there seems to be more pressure as a page-turner than as a performer. I always felt extremely conscious of my place beside the musician, while as a performer, it is much easier to lose ones self in the muscle-memory and flow of a piece. Page-turning requires, as the essay describes, a special kind of focus.

This is certainly not the first article of its kind, and the legality of such action seems to be upheld in court (at least the use of search without a warrant at the border).

So, the selfish question then is: How do I protect myself from such unwarranted searches? Is there a way I can present my phone such that it drops into a mode that contains no data? Do I need to back my phone up before traveling, wipe it for the border crossing, and then restore once I feel safe?

It feels crazy to ask this question, as an American citizen, but HN, what do you do to protect your data at the American border?

As a regular commuter and recreational cyclist in the South Bay, I have to say how impressed I am that he occasionally cycles to work going up route 9. That's a serious climb that takes you up a couple thousand feet over 6ish miles.

One of the reasons I love commuting by bike in this part of the country is how flat my route is. I ride in normal gym shorts during the week, but I always break out my bike shorts for a climb like that. I don't think they're necessary in the majority of bike commuting circumstances.