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inyourpanorama ha detto:
Oh, it's all right! We won't criticize your English (it's fine, by the way), and really, the best way to learn a language is by practicing—I do the same with French—so keep on posting!

I agree with you, I will take your advice...

frequency71988 said:
IMCollective said:

I do listen to alot of music in the car because I spend so much time in it as part of my job.



... a lot is definitely two words. But hey, at least you like Eric Dolphy.


Thanks. Noted. I appreciate it a lot.

Hey there, Evan! Nice to see another freshman on here—everyone else is either still in high school, an upperclassman or way out of college.

I'm Cat, I go to Cornell and I hang out here far too often. And I think you have fantastic taste! I envy you for living in a big music-centric town, though; I've always wanted to go to Austin properly (I only went there briefly as a young child), particularly if it were to go to SXSW.

inyourpanorama said:
I envy you for living in a big music-centric town, though; I've always wanted to go to Austin properly (I only went there briefly as a young child), particularly if it were to go to SXSW.
Austin is a great place to live but I can't really think of any reasons other than SXSW why someone would want to visit here from New York. SXSW is ridiculous by the way. I just rode my bike around all day and night seeing free shows and ogling at all the hipsters that descend from out of town. The Japanese ones are crazy.

I almost went to school in Texas, actually, but Rice's climate didn't suit me, and neither did its distinct bent towards math and science. And that still would've been a fair bit away from Austin. I've always wished that Rice and UT would switch cities if such a thing were possible.

I do love it up here, though.

theperfectchair said:
beelzbubba said:
theperfectchair said:
inyourpanorama said:
I envy you for living in a big music-centric town, though; I've always wanted to go to Austin properly (I only went there briefly as a young child), particularly if it were to go to SXSW.
Austin is a great place to live but I can't really think of any reasons other than SXSW why someone would want to visit here from New York.

Evan, Ithaca ain't NYC. It's a small city of about 30,000 about 3-1/2 hours from Philadelphia or NYC. It's a pretty town and a pretty area, but there are plenty of reasons (not the least of which the upcoming winter season) why someone in Ithaca would want to go see Austin.

Fair enough, our winters usually vary somewhere between mild and nonexistent, and I suppose there are some neat nature-ish things to see.

Cat, I think I like UT right where it is actually. I do sympathize with not wanting to live in Houston though. That place is kind of awful.

I'm going to a conference in Houston next week, right after the hurricane comes through, I guess. Not much of a Houston fan.

I do like Ithaca, though, and the whole Finger Lakes, and Syracuse & Rochester, too. Terribly underrated area and the winters thin out the weak.

inyourpanorama said:
Are they really that much worse than Illinois winters? Because I've lived through some pretty nasty ones in my day.

It's a matter of degree. The nastiest winter I ever remember was the winter of 1976/1977 in Chicago (and I guess the next year was even worse--a snowfall even got killed a Chicago mayor's bid for reelection, but I was in Milwaukee by then).

But Chicago has no hills to speak of, and the snowfall of 1978 was an anomaly. That same amount is nearly the monthly average for December, January, and February in Ithaca, and the wind comes howling off of the Cayuga with little to stop it from Stewart park to Cornell's campus. (edit: I mean to say that 27" snowfall in Chicago is close to how much falls every month in Ithaca, if I wasn't clear.) Chicago's average yearly snow amount is around 38 inches (nearly 1 meter for those playing our game anywhere else in the free world) and Ithaca's is close to twice that (well, ok, 1.75 times that).

So, winters, by sheer physical force, are more intense in Ithaca, but I found them less dreary than the continual gray slogging slime that passes for snow about 2 hours after it falls in Chicago. And the wind off of Lake MIchigan is no slouch either.

A little further north of Ithaca, about 80 miles, is Oswego, NY. That area off of Lake Ontario is a NOAA "permanent snow squall" area in the winter, meaning you never know if a forecast of snow is going to mean 2" or 2 feet. One winter there, it started snowing on December 27th and snowed for some part of every day for 44 days. We thought about building a Snow Ark for apres le deluge. But again, Ithaca has those hills, which makes navigating all the more interesting.

But Ithaca also has the Moosewood Cafe, where, if it hasn't succumbed to its national reputation, a delicious hot bowl of soup will take off the chill and make you feel like you are home.

It snowed about 5 times last winter. That may have been about 2 inches total. Was very exciting.

hah, saw that coming!

welcome and have a good time here

Some do. Apparently "he" made some great music. Dramas are king here. Infinity challenge is worth the youtube space though. Korea is an interesting place. yeah...

Hello! My name is Yulia and Juliet is my nickname!:) (and I like it more) I am a college attender, going to be a teacher;P (but might be working somewhere else besides school) Not married and have no kids yet:) Being a person who is in love with music, i'm in love with this site. I can speak English rather fluently, with occasional grammar mistakes and terriblle accent :( (it's improving all the time) Honestly, i'm lucking of vocabulary, so forgive me my poor English!

Welcome Dustin, Juliet.