I fiddled with these hitherto unused apps with alarming dedication.
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Recall that Rome burned while a distracted Nero famously fiddled.
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You know, here it is — Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
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He fiddled with the remote until the light went out.
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Suarez idly fiddled with the fake bomb in Omar's car.
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There are indications that Liaoning's statisticians also fiddled with investment figures.
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"No one got in there and fiddled with anything," Simmons said.
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A makeup artist hired for the occasion fiddled with her phone.
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Psychiatrists would ask it as I fiddled with a legless Barbie.
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He fiddled with a piece of paper, folding it into a rectangle.
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Instead he took the Fifth, fiddled with his pencil and rolled his eyes.
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Benkler fiddled with a laptop to show me how this looked in practice.
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A minister fiddled with an expensive-looking watch, then went back to clapping.
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Then David somehow popped it open and fiddled with it and fixed it.
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She fiddled with Netflix on the shared house television and was introduced to YouTube.
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The national statistics institute fiddled its figures to conceal inflation of more than 40%.
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The charge is that her government had fiddled government accounts, concealing their parlous state.
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Bochy fiddled all season, a casting director holding tryouts for the role of closer.
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The canon's always changing and it's always being fiddled with and revised and challenged.
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Water companies fiddled their pollution targets; Britain's rivers and beaches became the dirtiest in Europe.
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In the demo room I fiddled around with the very sharp-looking matte Black finish.
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Moreover, it has fiddled with gas supplies to the country and slapped on trade sanctions.
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I fiddled with the proportions of baking powder and baking soda, of flour and cornstarch.
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Mr. Stiefel, who cultivates a wry, even dandyish attitude, occasionally fiddled with his handlebar mustache.
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Halfway through, he was slurring his words, while Zhang watched and fiddled with his phone.
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Gamboa had fiddled with a knuckleball since he learned it from his father at age 12.
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When the economy overheated, her government imposed price and exchange controls and fiddled the inflation numbers.
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If inflation appeared manageable, it was only because the government fiddled the figures and capped prices.
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Finally, I fiddled with my seat's control panel until it eventually folded all the way back.
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The man with a ponytail fiddled on his phone and then got into a livery cab.
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I had fiddled with MEET IN THE MIDDLE early in my search and didn't love it.
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"When you're younger, you're closer to chaos," Mr. Lang answered, as technicians fiddled with the sound.
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On the other bright side, Donnie Darko also features an un-fiddled-with Tears for Fears song.
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Now her legacy is doomed to be far worse: the leader who fiddled while Hong Kong burned.
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So I've read self-help books, sought counseling, fiddled with meditation, mantras, positive visualization, and relaxation exercises.
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So he and his colleagues fiddled with the method until only tiny scrapings of cave walls were needed.
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At our town hall, I fiddled around by the front door while my mother exchanged pleasantries with Mrs.
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For the duration of the seemingly endless Syrian civil war she has figuratively fiddled while that country burns.
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Juliet fiddled with her phone; she was eager to keep video-chatting with a friend already in Miami.
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The grasshopper fiddled away the summer months, while the ants toiled to ready their grain stores for winter.
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While he spoke, he fiddled with the dozens of knobs on the control panel as multicolored lights blinked.
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"Once on This Island" is, after all, a sad story already, and Mr. Arden hasn't fiddled with that.
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Looper fiddled with the time-traveling sci-fi movie, while Brothers Bloom took on the con-man comedy.
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Here are a few additional "pay for" taxes that are good for the economy as well: Tax carbon emissions Just as Roman Emperor Nero allegedly fiddled while the city of Rome was burning, President Trump may well go down in history as the president who fiddled while the earth's climate burned.
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I would read a book about Bill Nye's house, and how he fiddled with everything to be more sustainable.
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Google was testing solar-powered drones as recently as January and Facebook has fiddled with the idea since 2014.
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As the crew fiddled with the set, the cast gathered around Elliott's table, where she kept a thick binder.
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Chor Charoenying fiddled with the shin guards tucked inside her yellow socks, her eyes still locked on the grass.
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I fiddled with his recipe just a bit, changing the spices and adding honey to the cream cheese frosting.
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The White House has had to endure a barrage of criticism as the conservative majority has fiddled over Obamacare repeal.
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Few mentioned the specific charge against Ms Rousseff: that she had fiddled government accounts to disguise a big budget deficit.
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Living in a soup bowl will do it to you, like Romans dancing while Nero fiddled and the city burned.
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No matter how Google's engineers fiddled with their coding, they couldn't stop the elf from appearing as the top link.
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Frustrated, he fiddled around with the machine, doing things he definitely wasn't supposed to do, and still it wouldn't stop.
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On Tuesday, Manafort's attorney argued that Gates abused his boss's trust and fiddled with the firm's books behind his back.
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Amazon has already fiddled with prices at Whole Foods to refashion its image as wallet-busting seller of healthy foods.
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She fiddled with a few switches, and "I Will Survive"—her mother's favorite song—began to play from the speakers.
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A growing number of device makers have fiddled with screen size and resolution to try to offer a better viewing experience.
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"We can skip this part," Fitzgerald said as he fiddled with some fried chicken in the Cardinals' cafeteria, in Tempe, Ariz.
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A young man, wearing a black leather jacket and chomping on gum, leaned against the engraving and fiddled with his cellphone.
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I downed mine and enjoyed the slightly herb-y aftertaste as Anne fiddled around with her laptop for a few seconds.
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And then, later on, went in and fiddled with it a little bit more, just to make it a little bit bigger.
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Ultimately, fiddling with the News Feed results in nothing more than a fiddled-with News Feed, not something fundamentally different and better.
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As Stormi fiddled with one of her mom's shiny makeup packages, Jenner slowly repeated, "Kylie Cosmetics" — but Stormi just babbled in response.
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The central bank has fiddled monetary settings to get things moving, trimming the medium-term lending facility last week by 43 bps.
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They leaned in for gentle, perfectly blended harmonies from their debut album, "See You Around"; they fingerpicked and fiddled in lapidary counterpoint.
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It's not that these games are inviolable, but that if they're going to be fiddled with, we'd like to see it done properly.
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If you've ever fiddled with a camera (even the one on your phone in most cases), you recognize the importance of white balance.
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Then, their innocent young daughter got hold of the remote, fiddled with the controls and got Sheena's hair further caught into the device.
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One big criticism then was that he fiddled too much with his team choices, a trait that earned him the nickname "The Tinkerman".
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While Power has fiddled, Putin has also extended his tentacles into nations that had been staunch US allies before Obama turned on them.
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In the early 2000s, he fiddled around with a variety of internet-driven businesses and eventually landed at eSwarm, a precursor to Groupon.
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We made for the hot pools, and Petry positioned herself in front of a jet of water, while Biedermann fiddled with the controls.
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My demo was piloted by a human on the side of the road who fiddled with joysticks in a bag slung around his neck.
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"If anything was electronically fiddled with, there is a way to go back and absolutely ascertain what happened in the polling station," he said.
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Few mentioned the abstruse charge against Ms Rousseff: that she had fiddled with government accounts to hide the true size of the budget deficit.
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Opinion Columnist At least Emperor Nero supposedly only fiddled while Rome burned; he didn't tell the Romans that the fire was no big deal.
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Among the other special effects that the mother-son pair fiddled with included an aging man as well as a pizza and heart crown filter.
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Walter White fiddled between his two realities of being a cold-hearted drug dealer and a family man struggling to cope with a grim diagnosis.
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I tested the Nt mini using the HDMI output, and every game I tried looked crisp and bright — even before I fiddled with the settings.
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The penalties—some $260 billion and counting for big American and European banks—have fallen mainly on commercial and investment bankers who have fiddled markets.
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Emperor Nero, who according to legend fiddled while Rome burned, imposed new requirements designed to reduce future risk, including new height restrictions for all buildings.
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" Morrissey concluded his statement by saying, "Our requests to Der Speigel for an unchopped, un-fiddled-with audio of their interview with me has been refused.
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Together, they fiddled and prototyped and messed around with all kinds of different designs, trying to figure out how to make the cups easier to use.
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A father and his two young children fiddled with Rubik's Cubes while Wang Chung blasted over a sound system, telling us about their dance hall days.
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Orlando described moments of surreal quiet as the siege went on and the killer fiddled with his weapon and used the sink and the hand dryer.
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Last year, the Guardian reported that Lime scooters in Oakland were programmed to shout, "Unlock to ride me, or I'll call the police," when fiddled with.
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It turns out that last summer, the governor's office fiddled with statistics on the reasons for transit delays, as Dan Rivoli reported in The Daily News.
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They were sitting in front of an oversize computer monitor as Sanders fiddled with a clip of Stackhouse's pregame pep talk during the D-League finals.
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The annual summit kicked off on Monday with a call from U.N. chief Antonio Guterres not to be the "generation ... that fiddled while the planet burned".
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"We're going to put this new one in today," Green said on a recent morning as he fiddled with a short video clip on his iPhone.
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The only issue I had when I fiddled with Waze back then was that the experience was a little buggy, which is not surprising for a beta.
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One of the girls came over to me and put her arm around me while I withdrew funds, and she fiddled with the jukebox next to us.
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It means that Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, but you play golf and post stupid memes while many Americans are at risk of contracting the coronavirus.
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According to Reilly, he fiddled with his during proceedings and then took it out of his pocket on the floor as the night came to a close.
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Image: Shriram Rajagopalan/WikimediaAround 50,000 residents of Zambia's Western province were without electricity on Sunday, after a baboon wandered into a power station and fiddled with the equipment.
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Anyone who's fiddled with the small sensor on the back of the otherwise-similar OnePlus 6 would find it hard to go back after using the Vivo X21.
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"I'm just blessed to be here, so blessed," Denise Bradshaw of Omaha said as she adjusted her lawn chair and fiddled with the Trump pins on her chest.
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When it was time for "Honey," she turned the volume up even higher and fiddled at the mixer for a bit, then sat down on a gold chair.
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In the middle of his sentence, seated in a studio in a Capitol Hill press gallery, Hickenlooper took his phone out, fiddled with it and turned it around.
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But that looks harder than it did even a week ago, after the public auditor revealed that the previous government fiddled its figures, hiding an €8bn shortfall this year.
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You can already see exactly who viewed your Instagram Story, and who took a screenshot, so of course you can see how your friends fiddled with that emoji knob.
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In college, they fiddled around on guitar, bass, and keyboard, and made music together in what they describe as "crappy indie rock bands" that no one came to see.
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But she felt removed from the creative process of making the song, which was written in a songwriting camp; she only fiddled with the bridge at the very end.
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A hash is a cryptographic representation of a file or piece of data―if someone has fiddled with the data, the hash will change too, setting off alarm bells.
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The network fiddled with the formula and focused its targeting over the next decade, dropping the "TV" from its name and trying out new logos in 2006 and 2015.
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The Americans then stumbled to a frustrating tie against Colombia, a game in which Coach Jill Ellis, assured of advancing, fiddled with her lineup and rested several key players.
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A recent report by the agency, seen by the New York Times, reveals that testers in Moscow had fiddled with their records again in late 22011 or early 21.
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In the restaurant, Piazza fiddled with the patterned scarf around his neck, joking that he accessorized like this only in Italy, where he felt sartorially inadequate alongside the locals.
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He directed his ire at the "speculators" who had sent Greek bond yields soaring, more than at the successive governments that had overspent, under-reformed and fiddled the national accounts.
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Election machines in Ghana in 2012 failed more often where no observers were present, suggesting tampering with the intention of forcing a fallback onto the more easily fiddled manual system.
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These have been around for a little while — they're funny — and I appreciated how when you fiddled with the strings, static electricity (I presume) kept them clinging to the fabric.
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Maybe StartRocket's homepage picture of people sitting on a hill above a city, a fiddled-with Coke logo (it looks like "Loca Cola") beaming over the buildings, to be too dystopian.
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For much of the visit I saw only half her head, and neither of us could look each other in the eye, no matter how much I fiddled with my setup.
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She fiddled with a brooch she wore, a loop of tiny stones, chips of sapphire and washed-out ruby they might have been, the only decoration on a pale-cream dress.
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Ms. Kelly peppered Mr. Putin with the kind of direct, simple questions about whether Russia fiddled with the election that a guilty or innocent man would deny exactly the same way.
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I fiddled with my umbrella, struggling to hold the phone and get out my notebook at the same time, but I didn't need to look at it — I'd memorized the words.
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I had panned around the section of earth I was given, fiddled curiously with the Stargate-like portal and the various tools and baubles laid out on the mat where I started.
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Investors rushed to dump Argentine assets, fearing that Mr Fernández will return to the reckless policies pursued by Ms Fernández (under whom inflation soared so high that the government fiddled the data).
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"Look, being a dad is my top priority now," said Bob Bryan, whose second child, 2-year-old Bobby Jr., squirmed in his arms and fiddled with the microphones during Sunday's postmatch interview.
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While Ali fiddled around with his Rolleiflex camera, we talked about his dislike for genres within photography, his son's involvement in "Reflections" and dealing with the people he pissed off along the way.
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"Get your nine hours of sleep!" receiver Doug Baldwin shouted to Trevone Boykin, the backup quarterback, as Boykin fiddled with his band, a motion-sensing monitor designed to ensure he does just that.
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The prince, who has been having a blast during the opening days of the two week tour of the region, didn't reply, winced a little and fiddled with his shirt to avoid eye contact.
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I surrender myself to my sweet medicines only when I can lock a door, because I hate the thought of being fiddled with when I've brought on elective paralysis and can't exactly fiddle back.
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It seems someone had previously fiddled with the concept and invented crab toasties — unbeknown to me, a well-known, all-American, homey snack made with mayonnaise-dabbed crab meat, Cheddar cheese and English muffins.
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The protest coincides with Madrid hosting the annual U.N. climate summit, which opened last Monday with a call from U.N. chief Antonio Guterres not to be the "generation ... that fiddled while the planet burned".
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The prince, who has been having a blast during the opening days of the two week tour of the region, didn't reply — instead wincing a little and fiddled with his shirt to avoid eye contact.
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Advertising For almost two years, the United States Soccer Federation fiddled with the redesign of its most conspicuous symbol: the red, white and blue crest adorning the jerseys of the men's and women's national teams.
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His charge that Mr Blair encouraged Labour ministers to connive in turning a blind eye to a broken system and then fiddled the numbers by giving so-called "bogus" asylum seekers work permits unfortunately sticks.
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As he had for much of the trial, Ghomeshi wore a dark blue suit and fiddled with his pen as he waited with his defense attorney Marie Henein for the judge to enter the courtroom.
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Far enough from the stage not to be made an example of, a woman toward the back of the orchestra section fiddled with her iPhone, its overly bright screen permeating the near darkness of her row.
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She fiddled some more, and Hill's picture was replaced by Christine Blasey Ford swearing to tell the truth at a recent Senate hearing; she has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teen-agers.
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Although the team had fiddled around with originals fairly early on, "it really started, in all fairness, when we hired Sam," Abramson says of Reich, who joined the company in 93 as director of original content.
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Bolton adjusted his glasses and fiddled with a pen as the commander in chief attacked his attorney general, deputy attorney general and special counsel in a blistering partisan broadside that stood out, even by Trump's standards.
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However, that is assuming that the ball was not surreptitiously fiddled with, such as by replacing the NFC transmitter with a near visually identical device of Russian origin, somehow modifying it, or just creating a fake ball.
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I went up to the maximum allowable word count for a 16x15, used extra black squares liberally and fiddled around with the ordering of the theme answers until I'd squelched as many short stinkers as I could.
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The company has temporarily fiddled with the signage in the central Westminster Tube station ("alight for Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament"), changing the name on maps and roundels in the station to read "Webminster" instead.
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Although others have fiddled around with Tesla drive units in combination with Volt batteries, few have had the audacity to throw it all together in a Honda Accord, which was never meant to handle this much power.
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Levy fiddled with his tortoiseshell glasses and showed a photo from his fourth-grade class play, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe"; the picture usually hangs in the downtown apartment of his mother, who is a hundred and one.
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Nonetheless, it's clear that Taylor and others on the same political team as the president – including Shultz, who fiddled with Fed independence nearly half a century ago – know that a politicized Federal Reserve is a bad idea.
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"Those who are very strong continue their studies at university, but there is more discrimination there - so they leave university as well," she added, revealing tattoos on her arms as she fiddled with her long, blonde hair.
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It's been a death by a million cuts as the company has fiddled with its pricing structure and moved the goal posts of movie access, while experiencing the occasional outage in order to address on-going money concerns.
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If you're feeling fancy, you can even open your scan in a browser and download it in a file format (OBJ, PLY, or GLTF) that's ready to be fiddled with in your desktop 3D modeling software of choice.
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The company has improved the legibility of the text on Kindle screens to make it nearly indistinguishable from print, and fiddled with the ergonomics of the new Kindle Oasis to make using it feel more like holding a book.
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Usually, their conversations pass me by—I've missed years of ambient commentary, overheard plans—but this time little fragments of dialogue sing out, as though someone has fiddled with the volume knob on the background music to our life.
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A few hours later, at the trailer near Tuscaloosa where he was living with his mother, he fiddled with the wiring of the stereo in his room, and said he was thinking about going to trade school for electrical work.
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But a good test of its values came last year, when the government sued it, claiming it had fiddled data on mortgages for poorer house-buyers backed by the government, which caused the government losses when the loans went bad.
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She did not invent the technique (Bruce Nauman, the subject of a massive retrospective opening this month at the Museum of Modern Art, cast the underside of a chair in 1965), and she has modified and fiddled with it at times.
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Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... 59-year-old Ronald Eugene Griffin first showed up at an L.A. property owned by the actress in January and allegedly fiddled with the locks, but took off when he was approached by Halle's gardener.
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These include accusations that Samsung BioLogics, an affiliate, fiddled its accounts to ease Mr Lee's succession, and that executives from Samsung Electronics, the group's crown jewel, were complicit in destroying evidence, possibly at Mr Lee's behest (Mr Lee and Samsung deny the charges).
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Rousseff's impeachment — rooted in allegations that she fiddled the national accounts to hide the size of the deficit after her reelection in 2014 — has nothing to do with Lava Jato, though many mistakenly assume it does and she was head of Petrobras.
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I said that this was nonsense; we had evidence that the iPod was in Hany's building immediately after the theft, and he must have fiddled with one of the stolen cameras on the same day, because it contained a short video taken inside his apartment.
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Many of the greatest Hollywood directors — including Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, and Clint Eastwood, in whose company Soderbergh is often placed — made their most successful films (critically and financially) when they fiddled with a genre just enough for it to feel like a revelation.
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No need to put a 20-second clock on him; out there on his mound he was pure business and if a batter fiddled around too much he just might sneak a hard fastball under the batter's chin by way of a reminder to buckle down.
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Before him, Kanye West and Lil Wayne had fiddled around with melodic rapping — T-Pain, too, of course — but Drake made it a whole worldview, and by the time of his 2010 debut album "Thank Me Later," he'd quickly become the most popular figure in the genre.
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That determination did not end with his capture: Mr. Bakr, judged by a jail psychologist not to be a suicide risk, was on a hunger strike and had ripped a ceiling lamp from its socket in his cell and fiddled with a plug 24 hours before he killed himself.
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As someone who put hours into these games, who fiddled with emulators and guides and unofficial patches in order to play, it feels just a tiny bit tragic to finally have official access to them in English without that beautifully crunchy original artwork, or even the option to toggle between the two styles.
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In his dry, disaffected drawl, Spade read from a script in which he called himself the winner of an Ellen DeGeneres look-alike contest; he fiddled with a "Bachelor"-esque rose and said his new show will "make you thorny"; and he did a generally poor job of trying to hide his disdain for the ritual.
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For example, log entries might say:• Scratched nose with finger, felt itch, while at my desk• Fiddled with eyeglasses, hands tingled, frustrated• Rested chin on palm, neck sore, while reading• Bit fingernail, nail caught on pants, watching TVSelf-monitoring is more effective if people share their outcomes publicly, so consider sharing your results with friends or post it on social media.
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Boston manager John Farrell fiddled with the lineup throughout the first month in an effort to coax a better response from an offense that averaged 113 runs and failed to reach double figures in the first 29 games, and he finally found the right mix while watching his team put up 28 runs in back-to-back wins at Minnesota on Saturday and Sunday.
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