I don’t have a problem with there being some sort of dress code. If they wanted to keep her from playing in her unshowered and pajamaed condition, that’s okay with me. However, I can’t imagine why they would let her play and only then ask me to disqualify her. Thus, I voted to “Award her first prize.”
That’s why I voted “other”. I know, I’m probably fighting the hypothetical, but I can’t imagine why they would let her get on stage dressed like that in the first place.
You’d think someone with that combination of talent and mental illness would have someone to help make them presentable.
I realize now that I was making the not-unwarranted assumption that a “prestigious piano competition” was about who could play the piano the best. But I suppose, hypothetically, that the competition could have been at least partly about appearance or fashion or who could play the part of a pianist the best.
But if it really is about whose best at playing the piano, a dress code, if any, would be about a requirement to participate, not a requirement to win if one was already a participant.
I found the music question about Maynard James Keenan the most difficult to answer. I liked Tool and A Perfect Circle back in the day, and I discovered Puscifer around 2 years ago and really dig them now.
I ultimately picked Tool, but ask me again in a couple of years and my answer might change, especially if Carina Round remains involved with Puscifer.
Yes. I would just ask some stagehands to take her aside and a costumer get her into the right gear.
Right- if you let her play, then give her first prize. If the costume is so critical, dont let her play in the first place.
The transit question doesn’t have quite enough options: I would have said
On foot (including wheelchairs for those whose feet aren’t going to serve: land, local)
On horseback (or equivalent animal, land, medium distances)
Rail (light or heavy, I don’t care, medium & long distances)
Boat (water)
but that’s four at a minimum.
This reminds me of an episode of “The Andy Griffith Show.”
mmm
Yeah, I don’t think only three works in practice. Even if we posit, as I think we’re positing, that any of them will work over water as well as over land.
But I can’t imagine* telling everybody they can’t walk or bicycle. And if railroad were the only other option, I’m presuming there would then be massively better and more available passenger rail service.
*OK, I can imagine it. But it’s a pretty unpleasant imagination.
Yup. Chaotic good here. Maybe neutral good.
That’s a good point, too.
These answers along with @puzzlegal’s and other are good, but IMHO are fighting the implicit hypothetical of the poll. Somehow everyone let this happen and all I get to do is judge. 
Really, as many have said this was a problem that was easier to fix before it happened.
And if all i get to do is judge, i give her the prize, because she was the best pianist. And I’m not really into rules.
Coming in very late, and it was my own poll question, but re glasses? I have two pair. A set of progressives - my “social” pair that I really don’t care for. There’s sunglass inserts that snap into them. They’re for driving and socializing, and well suited. Around the house? Computer glasses with a bifocal cutout. I love them. I can see about 12 feet in focus, no stupid messed up progressive head tiltiing and blur zones. No nonsense. And the D-shaped bifocal cutout lets me view things like small parts or stamps or coins or whatever while I’m mostly wearing single vision. It’s awesome.
It’s a system. But you can see how this might be problematic if I get absent-minded some morning. and have to fall back on my blasted hated progressives. Until I figure out what went wrong and find my fave optics wherever they’ve gotten to.
I have two sets of progressives. You really have to - you can’t drive or see the stars or really anything with w/o a set of progressives, your life is over if they get misplaced, a second set isn’t even an option… I really must get a spare set of bifocals. Except the optician won’t email me my own prescription . Snail mail only! Rent-seeking jerks.
For real! I can now get my prescription in my patient portal, although it’s in a hard-to-find area.
I think I voted “yes” in both. But really, my answer should be “Yes, now, but it never did until I read Unca Cecil’s column on the subject some decades ago - so I blame him for the problem!”.
The same logic suggests that my mother is responsible for my getting motion sickness when reading in a car or on a train. Never a problem until she said “Don’t read in the car, you’ll get sick”.
And if you try to order spares from, say, Zenni, they ask for “pupillary distance”, which is never written down on an eye glasses prescription.
FWIW I think I answered “an hour or less” for whether I’d lost my glasses. My computer glasses, which are prescription, live on my computer desk; they go nowhere else unless we are travelling. OK, I do have a bunch of cheap reading glasses from Costco, that are scattered around the house, and I might not lay hands on them quite so easily.
Before I got my eyes bionicized, I couldn’t function well without them, so at worst, I might have knocked them off the nightstand and had to fumble for a few minutes. This was my “room distance progressive” pair - that was good for everything but driving. The distance glasses, at that point, lived in the car and nowhere else, so I never lost them either.
My daughter was recently trying to get her prescription for some ADHD medication filled, and running into shortages, and kept forgetting to follow up with the pharmacy (the pharmacy wouldn’t do a “backorder and call you when it’s in stock” because… reasons). I likened this to someone nearsighted who cannot find their glasses - you need to tool to be able to find / acquire the tool.
It’s not too hard to measure interpupillary distance yourself, although it’s better to do with a second person reading the ruler so you can focus your eyes at a distance while the reading is taken. Even better, there are now phone apps that can measure it. Glasses On is a good one, which I’ve used, and it gave a very accurate number.
I asked my optician. She gave me a lecture on how lousy the cheap mail order glasses are, but she also gave me my pupillary distance. It was close to what I’d measured myself, but I’m guessing she’s more accurate than i was.
Um, what? PRK? SMILE? LASEK? IOL? RLE? Multifocal replacements? Just curious - this stuff seems way invasive for me, but I’m interested in your experience. Also was it elective, or did you win the cataract lotto? I’m only 62 and have crap vision, i don’t know what’s going to happen to me.
Yabbut, for the spare “I have pretty bad astigmatism and can’t locate the good pair” atm, any port in a storm. Can you rundown how this works? I’ve got the 8 numbers in the prescrip, I know I want bifocals with the small D cutout. No idea about pupils? Help? Thanks in advance.
Ugh, missed the edit -
My 25yo son pointed me at eyebuydirect. He seemed happy but he got single visions. But he said he paid like <$50! Lots of moving parts here, if you go beyond the basics. I’ve been buying from optician boutique nonsense and frankly getting ripped off for years. Like $1000 for a pair of glasses with good VSP insurance. Screw this, I just want a spare pair of specs!