The Swinger takes any song and turns straight eighth notes into swing. Examples include "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Sweet Child O' Mine." My brain hurts now.

"I can get no satisfaction"

"It doesn't mean a thing if it hasn't got that swing"

"We need no education; we need no thought control"

"One's got to fight for one's right to party"

"You and I, baby, are nothing but mammals, so let's do it as they do on the Discovery Channel"

"When the pimp's in the crib, ma, drop it as if it were hot"

Not important, but during my literature search I found an entertaining sequence of papers. Here they are, in chronological order:

• Morel and Renvoise. "Global Optimization by Suppression of Partial Redundancies." 1979. It's about optimizing computer code by removing redundant computation. The "partial" means you can do this even if the code is ( Read more... )

I was at my brother's wedding this weekend. It was a great time ( Read more... )

digitalemur, you will like this: Dolly Parton's cover of Collective Soul's "Shine." It works really well as a country/bluegrass tune.

"There's a divinity that shaped your end."

Who's got more?

(Yes, this is what my brain does when I'm tearing my hair out about dissertation work.)

Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is in town this weekend! I would have gone to see it live, but they are (a) way too pricey and (b) completely sold out. Darn. I'm still looking forward to their Current Location Shout Out at the beginning of the show.

From Justice Stevens's dissent:

"While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics."

Great Rose Bowl. Go Buckeyes!

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Different version of Hang On Sloopy. Bonus: rocking steel drum solo. Bonus number two: MARIMBA.

It's snowing in Houston!

It's actually sticking! Woo!

...crap, I'm going to have to drive in this among the crazies.