profandyfield.com
The stats book guy. Metal fan masquerading as Prof of Quantitative Methods. Learn R with the discovr package. (http://discovr.rocks/discovr/).
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Although verbally (rather than text) it’d be doc marten.
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Danger mouse for me too
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I’ll try, just for you.
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Ps was that photo taken at his much discussed birthday party?
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We will miss you, but it gives me a chance to catch up with my correspondence. Hope you’re feeling better ❤️
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That’s a belter of a show. I remember - not long after it came out - being in HMV (or similar) and they had it playing on a massive vid screen. I thought, if I’d never heard or seen maiden before I would instantly buy this dvd … I had chills even though I’d already watched it multiple times!
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Assuming trains don’t thwart me ( they tried fucking hard yesterday, let me tell you!) London stadium.
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I think that’s a decent point …
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Pretty sure it’s 48 … a mere novice compared to some!
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I’ve only seen them in bercy - agreed it’s great!
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Same. It’s really hard!
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Nice - I’ve seen them in Paris a few times and the crowd are always great! You’ll have an awesome time.
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Where are you going?
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I thought the same. Maidens live sound in recent years is mush, so goodness knows what he’s hearing in his in ears!
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I was talking about Bruce missing cues. Sorry my replies were a bit scattergun!
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Yeah, I’m not even convinced it’s about geling musically, I think he just wants someone he gets on with and won’t ruin the tour bus dynamic. It is what is is, but it makes you appreciate Nicko had a certain swing to his playing. Dawson feels a bit more ‘straight rock’
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Yeah, they’ve gone video screen crazy so it completely changes throughout the show.
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I thought he took a backseat to Murray/smith because of the setlist and did it like a pro. Respect.
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I’ll add that I thought it was a nice touch that H dusted off his 80s guitars for the occasion. I don’t thing he’s used the Lado and Ibinez destroyer since 1985. I loved that he used them! I also loved that janick didn’t get involved in the smith/Murray solos other than harmony to Dave.
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He also just outright missed his cues a couple of times. I won’t mention the songs, but he did!
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Murray was on fire!! You really realise how much work he does on those early songs. Fucking hell!
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I spend the first half of the set thinking he was pretty bad, but I warmed to him. He did a brilliant job of a certain song from everyone’s favourite album. Drum sound was awful where I was so I’ll see hold judgement and see if I can hear him better tonight.
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I’ll be honest, I really missed the old school vibe, especially inflatable Eddie. I sort of don’t want Eddie bought to life as a hyper real animation, it doesn’t fit the aesthetic of the classic artwork IMO.
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I was there too (but not at the front)!
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If you zoom in you can see the price tag says £3.99, because that’s what a record cost in 1977!
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This is in fact the exact copy I found, which I stole off my dad and still have 48 years (approx) after I found it. Set me on a musical path that changed my life.
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Interesting, they have the reverse effect on me: the more I think about logarithms the less I feel I know.
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Out of interest, what are the other 2?
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Great album …
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I love all quo, although late 80s/early 90s I have to in the right mood. The run of albums from 1977 to 1982 is *staggeringly good* though … it’s banger after banger on those 6 albums.
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What about the FiiO JM21? Under £200 and FiiO usually get good reviews.
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Well … check these out: www.astellnkern.com
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The Astell and kern is great though!
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I have an Astell and kern, but honestly, these days I use my iPhone and Qobuz (hi res streaming service) 90% of the time because it’s more convenient.
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Whatever way you look at it, ac/dc disprove your thesis😉
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Of course, also by ac/dc there’s rock n roll damnation and it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock n roll, both crackers but inferior to noise pollution IMI
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And my trump card, @darrenhayman.bsky.social, is rock n roll ain’t noise pollution. youtu.be/X_IWlPHMziU?...
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God gave rock n roll to you? youtu.be/qrn6GcDMHBY?...
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Deadline was 2022😂
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It also has a lot of psychological baggage in that it's the one I had reached during the 2017-2022 re-write of the book, so it feels like 'the chapter that caused me to fail to finish the book'. I think I'm also just seriously burnt out from the past 5 years.
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Repeated measures. I have the examples because it's 'just' converting the SPSS chapter to R .... except, for RM there's lots of ways to approach it in R (multilevel, afex etc etc) and every decision has knock on effects for how the chapter plays out, and I'm just going around in circles with it.
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be my guest .... shouldn't take you long.
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We use discord on all our stats/methods modules, works really well because lots of students are on there anyway. We also have a server for the methods team, which gets used daily for therapy and general sociability!