May 14th, 2008
The Brooke White Reboot: How Big a Sin?
To stop or not to stop?
The American Idol judges couldn't agree if Brooke White did the right—or wrong—thing last night by rebooting her performance of "You Must Love Me."
And there's not quite a consensus among outside singing experts, either.
"Unless it's a total trainwreck, I think you try to make it through," James Lugo, a record producer and vocal coach, said today. "Personally, I think starting and stopping is kind of hack."
To Gina Eckstine, a singer and vocal teacher, going forward is the only way to go. Most of the time.
"If there's no more, and you can't move ahead, sometimes you just have to admit it," said Eckstine.
White opted for the latter route on Tuesday. Some 13 seconds into her performance, she turned to the house band and said, "I'm sorry." Taking the hint, the band restarted the song. White made it through the number, introduced by Madonna in the movie version of Evita, without further incident.
After the song ended, Paula Abdul, the nice Idol judge, looked pained as she considered her words. Firmly but gently, she offered White the following edict: "You must never start and stop."
In a twist, Simon Cowell, the non-nice Idol judge, gave White a pass on the do-over, apparently because it entertained him. "This is why I love live TV," he said. "It was so dramatic—the beginning, you know."
Under questioning from host Ryan Seacrest, White said she restarted because "I lost the lyric."
Cowell claimed he would have done the same thing, and called White's decision "brave." Abdul persisted, telling White she should have vamped until she found the words. Cowell and Randy Jackson, the wild-card Idol judge, disagreed.
On the matter of to vamp or not to vamp, Abdul offered the best advice, the singing experts said.
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16 Responses to “The Brooke White Reboot: How Big a Sin?”
Real, real big.
So the turtle shell theory still stands?
someone should tell these guys about rsync -var *
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infinite. end of story. If you count the ‘universe’ as not only the volume occupied by the big bang, but also the area it’s expanding into. if there is a limit, what’s beyond that? nothing? in that case, nothing counts as something. the universe to me is everything (including nothing). infinite. since, infinity is part of everything too.
Sorry, I am far too sleepy. Can I try again tomorrow?
I think we all know the answer to that!(Begin obligatory Douglas Adams quotes)
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Notes is the client. Domino is the server.Domino databases are massively easier to back up and restore than Exchange, especially for single user accounts.Not that Exchange’s crappy backup behaviour is any excuse in this case. There are plenty of third-party solutions to fix Exchange’s flaws.
There’s two misconceptions you fell prey to:Space being finite does not imply it having boundaries. Take the surface of a ball, for example: it isn’t infinite in size, but it has no egde.From the Wikipedia article on expansion In the metric expansion of space, rather than objects in a fixed “space” moving apart into “emptiness”, it is the space that contains the objects which is itself changing.permalinkparentrook2pawn (0 children) [+]rook2pawn 4 points 7 months ago [-]Heathen scientist begone! Jesus knows you are trying to play God by trying to know his almight plan! The edge of the universe is ruled by Satan! VOTE RUDY GIULIANI!
Yea, cause it takes 8 years to make a backup.
Seems to me that they’re going through all the motions of trying to do something while at the same time making sure nothing concrete materializes. Years and years for an email archive system? Cmon…
i hate lotus notes… we use it at work, makes me feel like i’m in 1998
I agree. I’m pretty sure that behavior like this by anyone outside of the Bush administration would be met with more than pointed words if not a criminal charge. The fact that the office of the highest authority and the most resources can’t do something as simple as keep track of its email is an indictment on the leadership of this country. Is it any wonder why our economy is in the toilet and why we’re stuck in state sponsored cluster fuck in Iraq when the White House can’t save it’s own fucking emails? Shit I bet they have a whole hard drive full of mine sitting around somewhere.I know this is kind of making a mountain out of a mole hill but it’s the stupid little shit like this that truly illustrates how this administration has had nothing but contempt for the offices in which they sit. We had to put up with the whole Clinton investigation because he got a blowjob while at work and then lied about it but we can’t even get a special prosecutor to look at the vast number of things Bush has done to subvert the very protections put in place to ensure that the President isn’t acting outside the scope of his job?I think the worst part of this Administration are the fucks in Congress (Democrat and Republican) who are letting this happen. I hope every single one of them gets voted out ASAP.
I wonder what would happen if the White House were forced to show what data-recovery centers they have utilized in their attempts to recover their data.