Various completely unrelated matters:
Jan. 7th, 2010 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessI can't remember if I've linked to this before, so here it is, possibly again, Geoffrey Chaucer Has A Blog, partly because I insist on linking to anything that correctly calls John Gower out as a wanker, partly because this is yet another marvelous example of What the Internet can bring us, and partly because this is, as far as I know, the sole attempt on the entire World Wide Web to discuss the frightening similarities between the Pearl poet and Brokeback Mountain. (Also, medievalling Paris Hilton. Also, the cheery description of an MLA conference. Also, specifically for call_me_robert. That's enough Alsos.)
“I WOLDE I KNEWE HOW OF THEE I MIGHT BE QUITTEN!”
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If those links were too much for you, wait! Wait! Look! MANDELBULB!
(In theory, this has something to do with fractals. In reality...oh, just go click and look.)
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Meanwhile, Central Florida is in a tizzy after a report that we may – we MAY – have – wait for it – ACTUAL SNOW this weekend. (By "tizzy" I mean three emails in my inbox with variations on WTF?) I don't – I can't – quite trust this report. But I do think I should try to invest in batteries for the camera, just in case.
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Finally...is it wrong to me to feel bothered that the State of the Union address might preempt Lost? Especially since I can't watch Lost live anyway? (ABC is the one broadcast channel that we absolutely cannot get.)
I mean, they have the State of the Union address every year. Since, you know, the 18th century, even! The last season of Lost comes but once!
(Er. Yes, I can be shallow. Have you not noticed this?)
call_me_robert. That's enough Alsos.)“I WOLDE I KNEWE HOW OF THEE I MIGHT BE QUITTEN!”
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If those links were too much for you, wait! Wait! Look! MANDELBULB!
(In theory, this has something to do with fractals. In reality...oh, just go click and look.)
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Meanwhile, Central Florida is in a tizzy after a report that we may – we MAY – have – wait for it – ACTUAL SNOW this weekend. (By "tizzy" I mean three emails in my inbox with variations on WTF?) I don't – I can't – quite trust this report. But I do think I should try to invest in batteries for the camera, just in case.
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Finally...is it wrong to me to feel bothered that the State of the Union address might preempt Lost? Especially since I can't watch Lost live anyway? (ABC is the one broadcast channel that we absolutely cannot get.)
I mean, they have the State of the Union address every year. Since, you know, the 18th century, even! The last season of Lost comes but once!
(Er. Yes, I can be shallow. Have you not noticed this?)
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Date: 2010-01-07 03:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-01-07 03:28 pm (UTC)one badass fucking fractal...
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Date: 2010-01-07 03:34 pm (UTC)Actually I know only a couple of Jonathon Coulton's songs - enough to know I wanted to see him in concert. I don't know the fractal song.
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Date: 2010-01-07 03:41 pm (UTC)(Or not, if you don't wanna be spoiled...)
But, yeah, Mandelbrot Set is definitely in his top five of awesomeness. Not many songwriters can set complex math to rock music and make it work.... I know at least one other, but they're rare.
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Date: 2010-01-07 03:51 pm (UTC)He's part of the overall expanding my musical horizons that I've been engaged in during the past five years - and especially the last year. Yay internet for helping with this.
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Date: 2010-01-08 01:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-08 03:59 am (UTC)