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Points intact!
(28 Feb at 23:59) |
Ha! I avoided losing 1,000 points by remembering at two minutes to midnight, during a heated round of Call-olostomy Doodie Oops 6, which game I am still suffering, that February has 28 days and that I "need" to write a blog post. The way this thing works, when I start the draft it gets timestamped, and that is forevermore the time of the post. This also means that in a pinch, unfinished drafts like "Unexpectedly pleasant discoveries in listenquest 2008–2009" which I started and abandoned almost in AD 2009 while I was in the process of listening through every single CD in my collection (again) can be posted more than 15 years after the fact, and show up in the blog's calendar and keep the grid tidy. For this reason, you can never really be sure if I have lost 1,000 points, even if the next month comes 'round.
Speaking of unexpectedly pleasant discoveries, maybe this post I will tell you about some music I have been listening to recently instead of only telling you boring things. First on my mind is Aesop Rock, who I was listening to exactly at the same moment I saw an article comparing the size of the vocabularies for various rappers. (It's the count of distinct words in the first 35,000 words of their lyrics. Perhaps entropy would have been a little better?) And lo and behold, he easily "won" the chart with 7,879. (I am not a huge rap fan, but there are some artists I like, and I was not surprised to find that this scale was pretty correlated with my taste. For example, Blackalicious was at 5,741). Anyway, I would like to recommend Aesop's album Spirit World Field Guide the most, but I also like Skelethon (especially the opening track Leisureforce) and Integrated Tech Solutions (especially Aggressive Steven) and probably will find that I like others. I also recently enjoyed Allie Goertz's Nine Inch Nails cover album Peeled Back (more than I expected). Rosie Tucker's UTOPIA NOW! would probably also score highly on a language entropy scale and their album has several gems on it (especially Unending Bliss). Then there's this person who does Nintendo 64 covers of beloved Radiohead songs (etc.) called on4word, and their Aphex Twin cover album Selected Aphex Works N64 seems like a joke that should not be good, but yet...!
I have been trying to finish this programming/math project, I guess for a SIGBOVIK paper but also a video. I keep getting distracted by relaxing aspects of the problem (including e.g. spending most of my vacation implementing exact constructive solid geometry so that I could make really accurate figures) but the deadlines are coming up fast so I'm hoping that will induce me to wrap that bad boy up. Speaking of which: There has not been an official call for papers yet for SIGBOVIK, but from activity on the organizers list it seems very likely to occur. You can write a paper! |  |
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| Aesop Rock is one of my favorites. I'd also recommend checking out some other duos that he's been a part of, like Hail Mary Mallon and The Uncluded. :) |
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