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"February 3rd" can make your day...
...maybe your night...
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Libraries
Weeknote 37, 2023
§1 Lunar Days “As the summer turns / I seem to fall away / Gaps in the light / The Lunar Days…” §2 The Lion Sleeps Tonight Which cover version is better? Anne Reburn's five-part self-a capella? Or They Might Be Giants' rock re-intepretation (featuring Laura Cantrell)? §3 What'
Music
Weeknote 36, 2023
§1 So much for that... A headline in the February 9, 2020 New York Times: “Oregon Learns to Love a Rivalry,” about the Ducks’ new rivalry in women’s basketball with Oregon State. A headline in the August 5, 2023 New York Times: “Ever-Shrinking Pac-12 Loses Oregon and Washington to
Music
Weeknote 35, 2023
§1 A basic question “Does learning that something you have read or heard about this topic is wrong make you reassess the rest of your understanding? If not, why not?”—Unknown §2 “...I daresay a lot of other blokes felt likewise” Every now and then, something reminds me of the
Music
Take on Meh
An AI song simulation (of "Paul McCartney" singing "Take on Me") worth a second listen! The wait is over, much sooner than I had expected. Unlike many other song simulations, this one picks a song that the singer might actually sing, and renders the performance close
Music
Weeknote 34, 2023
§1 Spain 1, England 0 “Send a message to the fleet, they'll search for us in vain / We won't be there among the reaches of the Spanish Main...”—Al Stewart §2 Don't Speak Like Pomplamoose, PostmodernJukebox gets its transformations so very right from time
California
Weeknote 33, 2023
§1 Dance like Fosse / Dance, dance like Fosse... “Talk to Daddy” from Season 2 of Schmigadoon! is a brilliant piece of jewelry, and Dove Cameron's facial expressions are the gem at its center. §2 A pleasant throwback The new track “Tioga Pass” by Yussef Dayes (featuring Rocco Palladino)
Books
Weeknote 32, 2023
§1 Rock and metal genres Becoming a Rate Your Music member is a great way to learn about the multitude of genres that people have imagined for sub-dividing rock and metal music, and this video (unrelated to RYM) can serve as a quick introduction. §2 Book David Orr had enough
Music
Weeknote 30, 2023
§1 Pomplamoose Pomplamoose and friends show their chops on “Shotgun.” §2 Hot Hot Heat In the 2000s, I thought of this album as “Get In or Get Out” and nine tracks of filler. Listening to it again now, I'm less impressed by “Get In or Get Out,” but
Music
Weeknote 29, 2023
§1 Life's unexpected turns If a fortune teller had told awkward and unpopular high school student Janis Joplin that someday a famous French fashion firm would use songs she would sing to advertise their wares, what would she have thought? §2 Lyric “You might not like it now
Music
Weeknote 28, 2023
§1 Python A habit I'm working on breaking as I learn Python: Skimming lightly through the introductory material because “I already know that.” No harm is done by remaining open to the possibility that I don't. §2 “Skilljacking” “Will Truman” is the pseudonym of an ordinary
Economics
Weeknote 26, 2023
Copying an idea from Mita Williams... §1 Python At 12, I taught myself BASIC programming. Can I repeat the trick at 52 with Python? My plan: Work through Allen B. Downey's Think Python, letting each section sink in before moving on. Once I've finished that book,