It appears that my time in Exhibit B is over-- and much later than I ever expected. Gotta say that I was greatly surprised and, truly, honored to have made it into the final 8-ish; still hard to believe. My very sincere and humble thanks to everyone who made that possible at one point or another, for whatever reason they decided to do so (hopefully ( Read more... )

I know you're surely tired of long, detailed, linear-reading-required entries. Everyone's attention span is so much shorter nowadays ( Read more... )

This entry has been an intersection with an INTENDED intersection with agirlnamedluna**. We originally had much bigger and more obviously collaborative plans... which were sadly dashed altogether by outsized ambitions, inflexible / unforgiving entry deadlines, and the globally-sized time zone difference between us (and some other distant parties I'd planned to ( Read more... )

Originally, I had a different plan for my Week 13 entry, but I quickly figured out that it would get too weird and/or would not have the desired result.
( moar anyway )

( stop me if you think that you've heard this one before )

I was probably 13 when I first heard the phrase, "Never trust anyone over 30." "Wow, that's cool," dumb / impressionable 13-year-old-me said to himself.
( never trust a word count over 30 )

It's been my growing feeling that nostalgia is a form of serious mental illness. And, unfortunately, it's one that nearly everyone in the Western world seems to have "caught," myself included.

( yesterdayyyyy )

EXPERIMENT ONE: 63.6% of the polled sample reported that the version of the Moonlight played in D minor was sadder than the original in C# minor. These results were not statistically significant, and may have been a result of the chronologically-linear souring of emotions as, due to poor experimental design, each listener was required to listen to ( Read more... )

This entry is an incredibly loose intersection (mostly, bidirectional idea-bouncing in rather disparate time zones) with alexpgp, whose entry is here. Sorry, buddy. Really sorry.

edit 8/2/13: Results and discussions of the experiments here. Thanks again to all who participated.

HYPOTHESIS: While musicians and even laypeople have associated "happy" ( Read more... )

Today, 7/22/13, is Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev's 20th birthday! I'm sure he's having a great one, wherever he's being detained and most likely viciously beaten and tortured at every possible opportunity.


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