One of my programming students wrote a wah pedal in Python.

There is grandeur in this view of life.

( little comrade annie )

Philadelphia peeps: would anyone be interested in out-hanging on this most anti-colonial of weekends, or in suggesting some spaces or curios of your fair city one ought to see?

• Descending figures ending on the sixth scale degree supported by IV, especially with an escaping tone.
• Descending lines at large, and general indifference to melodic arches.
• The place-holding Isus2-I, IVsus2-IV, Vsus4-V and iisus2- or ii7-ii tics that guitar lends itself to.
• 5 as an inverted pedal. This is another guitar-centric thing.
• The IV to ( Read more... )

I know that I have dumb intuitions about celebrity. I tend to dramatically overestimate the popularity of people like Tim Gowers or Paul Baribeau, and to underestimate the popularity of people that people have actually heard of. So you might think that the celebrity function is a measure of how good someone is at math and how punk rock they are ( Read more... )

Brahms to Clara Schumann:On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind.

Viktoria Mullova ( ( Read more... )

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The Battle of Gallipoli.

Now that I have the free time to justify it, I've been working through Project Euler in Lisp. It has been exquisite.

( attention conservation notice: thinking aloud about things you might find dull or unparsable )

( self-absorbed anecdote-like-objects about my dog )

Per this blog's policy of discussing trivial fake news stories even more trivially, there are some pretty interesting linguistic issues surrounding Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren's mention of Chuck Schumer as "that Jew." What strikes me as even more fascinating than his sulky apology for having been caught Anti-Semitizing it up is his initial ( Read more... )