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  • … reactive NPCs. Even though in both cases you’re struggling to solve a series of mechanical tasks, the impression of dealing with a big puzzle box is much less, and I find that makes me more patient and more able to enjoy the process.

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  • … “Doll On A Music Box/Truly Scrumptious”, and it appears near the end of the musical. In the story, the children Jeremy and Jemima were kidnapped by the Child-catcher and imprisoned in Baron Bomburst’s castle. Caractacus Potts and Truly Scrumptious, with the help of the Toy-maker, disguised …

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  • … you what a strange experience it is to talk to these people. She has three kids. One is a writer. Another is a mechanical engineer. Another sings in the chorus of a major orchestra; her husband was in the horn section before he retired. The writer does metalworking and restores cars. The ME …

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  • (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) (Via Blip. Music is Sew My Name by Josh Pyke.) The next day we drove for an exceptionally long time. All told, according to Google, De Soto, Iowa, to Boulder Colorado, is a shade …

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  • … the Bavarian Blue Beauty: Dislikes Fan - After a half-hour or so of driving around, a fan located behind the glove box turns on and produces a very quite, but still audible white noise. The noise can only be heard when the stereo is off, so it is not that big a deal, just an annoyance. I have been told …

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  • … Not only was harmonics missing but there was little vibrato in the background vocals which sounded very mechanical. My point is that the idea was good but the performance was poorly produced. Now every artist is using singing synthesis technology, with harmonics, vibrato and clarity and Discipline …

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  • … opened her toy. She didn’t actually open it on the fourth night because she had previously opened it while we were trapped on Interstate 70 with nothing to do. I thought it might keep her entertained for a bit. Anyway, it is the little mechanical part of a music box; it comes with blank sheets so you …

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  • … projects from well-produced ones, I’ve probably not given as much attention to the audio side of things as I should have. For instance, in the past, if I needed a soundtrack, I found it quicker and easier to get permission to use a song by musician friends, or artists whose music I liked on a music …

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  • … teasing was a part of life. My second cousins and their mother always played a few marimba solos. To me they were rock stars. We would repair to my grandma’s for cookies, always plentiful, and unwrap the gifts, which we did on Christmas Eve. My uncle always gave me a box of chocolate-covered …

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  • … run. It had the voice of an angel, something like an old mechanical music box when he played it softly but it rang like a bell when he strummed it hard. I took it home and played the strings off it, never tiring of the beautiful tone of it. It was around this time that my love of bicycles began. I …