Sam

I've played guitar for about 8 years, can figure out a lot of songs on piano by ear, and can read music for voice. I know chords and scales pretty well, I'm just trying to learn more about classical-style composing and I feel like getting better at piano will help me a lot.

My favorite contemporary artists include Radiohead, Bjork, Sigur Ros, The Beatles, Vampire Weekend, The Shins, The Beach Boys, The Divine Comedy and Sufjan Stevens. My favorite composers include Jonny Greenwood, Thomas Newman, Hans Zimmer, Jan Sandstrom, Brahms, Purcell, Handel, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and many others especially choral music composers.

1) True or False: The SEsum (Standard of Error) is how big the chance error is likely to be in computing the expected value of the SUM. Explain.

2) A baseball team plays 162 games in a season and has a 50-50 chance of winning any game. What is the probability the team will win more than 100 games in a season?

I just love that piece so much. I'm looking for something similar not so much lyrically but melodically and rhythmically.

So I'm 20 and finally going on a date on with a girl tonight. I met her a few months ago through this secular club at my college. She's really cute, sweet, intelligent and has a lot of respect for herself. She's kind of feminist but not the really in-your-face type (no disrespect to any feminists). I've only gone to a few of the weekly meetings for the group but we ran into each other at a party on Halloween and smoked a bowl and had a lot of fun. And when I did go to the meetings we got along great and really have a lot in common. We're going to a concert at a bar for this really good indie band that's influenced by The National and Sufjan Stevens (both whom she loves). I asked her if she wanted to go with me a few nights ago and she said yes and when we've been texting about the plans she's sent quite a few smiley faces. I have bad anxiety, especially when it comes to this kind of thing, and I'm worried that I'll just get friend-zoned if I don't give her a kiss at the end of the night. So what I need to know is how to tell if I should go for it or not and how I should do it. I would appreciate it some help. Thank you.

I'm 20 and I first started playing guitar when I was about 13. I know basic chords (major, minor, 7 chords, etc.), a fair amount about scales, arpeggios, intervals and all that. However, I haven't played as much since I've started college and I'm trying to get back into playing. I really wanna develop a better ear so I can become a better songwriter and improviser. I wanna write good, interesting and melodic songs and put on a good live show with my improv. I can improvise decently in major, minor, dorian, mixolydian but I feel like I haven't developed my ear and vocabulary enough.

My biggest influences in music include Radiohead, Phish, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, David Bowie, Bon Iver, Sigur Ros. My favorite guitarists are Trey Anastasio and Jonny Greenwood who are both influenced by classical and jazz. What's the best approach to take if I wanna get into those genres and make interesting contemporary music influenced by them like some of those I mentioned above? Any good books you'd recommend?

I'm 20 now and about to be a junior in college. I sadly have not lost my virginity yet and I know when I do I'm not gonna last long at all especially considering I recently got off my Zoloft and can only last about 2 min when masturbating to porn. If I finally get lucky this year, what should I do? Should I eat her out? When I ejaculate should just continue fingering her until she orgasms?

I'm about to be a junior in college and started taking Zoloft for anxiety and depression my sophomore year of high school. I eventually started taking it at night because my Adderall was causing trouble sleeping. My life got better eventually. The summer after freshman year of college I didn't take my Zoloft because I would forget about it since I wasn't taking my Adderall. That summer I started working out for the first time in four years and felt like I had a lot more energy. A few months after being in school sophomore year I felt like my anxiety was coming back and causing me to procrastinate on everything so I started taking it again only to lose a lot of my motivation to do things like study, play guitar and work out. I was very sociable but I found myself just sitting on my computer for hours even though truly inside I wanted to do all of those other things I mentioned. My psychologist at school recommended Wellbutrin because it also inhibits dopamine and epinephrin and thus helps my fight-or-flight response. I weened off the Zoloft and got home for the summer about a month ago and saw a doctor today who prescribed me Lexapro.

I've been reading a lot reviews about people losing motivation, gaining weight, etc. on Lexapro. WHAT THE HELL? I just signed up at the YMCA and started working out again! This is exactly what I don't want! What do you think I should do?

I'm trying to get a tattoo on my upper arm but I'm not sure what to get. I'll try to describe the kind of person I am the best I can:

- I'm a huge proponent of free thought and expression (very against organized religion but I do consider myself spiritual)

- I'm all about love, peace, unity, friendship, family

- I consider myself a left-libertarian who is very against commercialization, corporate greed

- Some personal heroes include Bill Hicks, Noam Chomsky, Thom Yorke, Trey Anastasio, John Lennon, Maynard James Keenan, Galileo, Darwin, Thomas Paine

Thanks

Okay, so I'm from Wisconsin and I did an online course about a year ago for bartending. For a while after that I thought that I had to do a training course through the city for about $70. I work at a hotel and I was talking to a guy who works at the bar there and he said that I don't need to the course through the city. My problem is that I have no idea how to access my certificate from the online course. I don't remember my login or anything. Is there anyway I can?

I'm in college and I'm in the university chorus. Every time I walk into class this girl and I always kind of smile at each other. She's really cute. We have a concert tonight and there's usually a lot of time before the concert where we just warm up and watch the other groups before we go on. I'm terrible with girls, can anybody give me a way to strike a conversation with her?

I started working out again two months ago (after four years of not) and I used the Couch to 5K program for running. I have gained a pretty good amount of muscle (I was skinny before) but throughout August I skipped cardio a lot and now I am starting get kinda chubby around my waist. I know, shame on me for doing so. On the treadmill today I warmed up walking for 5 minutes, then jogged for 5 minutes, walked for 3, then ran for 8. I ran at 7.5 speed most of the time then for a few minutes during the last 8 I was at 8 speed. I really wasn't that tired after.

So can I do cardio every day without injuring myself or anything? If so, what should I do each day?

Okay, so here's what happened:

My mom's Yahoo e-mail got hacked so that an e-mail got sent to her contacts saying that she and her family had been arrested in London and needed money and blah blah blah you might have already heard of it. So I changed her password for her and she hasn't been able to receive any e-mails. I tried sending her one from mine and she still didn't get it. So I call AT&T and they give me this number to get help. I call and end up talking to an Indian guy and he told me to go onto logmein123.com. I went on the site and entered a 6-digit code and he looked into my computer for a couple minutes. My Facebook and mom's e-mail were up in Firefox. He told me he'd get a computer technician to help me out but a minute or so later I realized my call was ended. I thought I accidentally pressed the end button on my phone so I called the number back a few minutes later and talked to a different guy who did the same thing. He then talked to my mom saying it would cost $350 for them to fix it. So after that we immediately hung up and now I just found out they may have gotten a bunch of my information.

How do I find out if they did get a bunch of my information or not? What should I do? I turned off my computer and turned it back on again but that was like 10 to 20 minutes later. I have a MacBook Pro. I'm scared to death right now so please, please help me.

I was going to make these homemade protein bars but I found out that you absolutely need protein powder, which I don't have the money for right now. Here's what I already spent money on:

- Rolled oats

- Flaxseed meal

- Honey

- Natural peanut butter

- Skim milk

Is there anything else I could still make? It can even be separate recipes, I don't care.

Or are there any REALLY in-depth reviews of it? What exactly was said in the text messages between Benoit and Gregory Helms?

Even as a progressive myself, it seems to make a lot of sense to me; people will be more able to actively participate and have a voice in how their state/city is run. And if their state/city is run by oppressive, bigoted people they can find another state/city that isn't. And we can still have the federal government to protect basic rights. I'm looking for honest answers because I wanna see both sides of the equation.

About a month ago I started having a lot of mucous build up in my throat and was coughing up yellow crap. I went to see my doctor and he told me it wasn't a sinus infection but just sinus congestion. He give me that Neilmed sinus rinse stuff and I tried it a couple of times. Lately I've been taking nasal spray every morning and taking mucous relief tablets. I'm not coughing up the yellow crap anymore but my throat still feels really tight and it's hard for me to sing. Please help me out because I love singing and hope to play in a band sometime soon!

About a month ago I started having a lot of mucous build up in my throat and was coughing up yellow crap. I went to see my doctor and he told me it wasn't a sinus infection but just sinus congestion. He give me that Neilmed sinus rinse stuff and I tried it a couple of times. Lately I've been taking nasal spray every morning and taking mucous relief tablets. I'm not coughing up the yellow crap anymore but my throat still feels really tight and it's hard for me to sing. Please help me out because I love singing and hope to play in a band sometime soon!

About a month ago I started having a lot of mucous build up in my throat and was coughing up yellow crap. I went to see my doctor and he told me it wasn't a sinus infection but just sinus congestion. He give me that Neilmed sinus rinse stuff and I tried it a couple of times. Lately I've been taking nasal spray every morning and taking mucous relief tablets. I'm not coughing up the yellow crap anymore but my throat still feels really tight and it's hard for me to sing. Please help me out because I love singing and hope to play in a band sometime soon!

It doesn't smell or seem to be rotting. I forgot I had it and I don't wanna waste it!!