I just realized something today that is the most significant discovery in mathematics since Zero was invented by the Aztec who realized he didn't have anything and it is this: zero is only zero when you can also have negative numbers; at all other times it is not zero but "no" or "absent". For example, if you are measuring temperature zero degrees means something only because it is not the absence of degrees or of temperature - ZERO IS A NUMBER!. But if you are measuring something that cannot be negative, zero is not a number but a discrete condition. Zero apples is not zero apples but "no apples" or the absence of apples - IT IS NOT A NUMBER! If you want to know the average temperature go ahead and throw all the zeros in because that makes sense but if you have 1,5,3,0 and then 6 apples you DO NOT have an average amount of 3 apples (15/5) know matter who you are, you in fact have an average amount of 3.75 apples (15/4) because you CANNOT mathematically average the condition of absence with numbers no more than you can average letters with numbers and that is a fucking fact. Now I'm not saying that knowing that you had 0 apples is useless information because if you want to know how frequently you have apples that is when you use the zero (4 out of 5 times or 80% of the time you had apples). So you had apples 80% of the time and that 80% of the time the average amount was 3.75 apples and that is what you had and not anything else. This means when you go back to the apple basket each day 20% of the time you will have no apples, and 80% of the time you'll have about 3.75 apples and this is simply NOT that same as having about 3 apples 100% of the time which is how averages are currently calculated. It is simply two separate kinds of information. Therefore, I propose we retain the present term and symbol for zero when it is truly a numeric value while we use the term "Corgan" in place of zero when it is discrete and only means the condition of absence.
So we totally won best constumed team: Diane Haas, Jasmine Fry, Ben Perlman, and I
I play(ed) viola since like 2nd grade well into college and then kind of put it away for awhile. What is viola you say. Its kind of like the taint ("it ain't your balls and it ain't your ass, its just your taint") of the orchestra world ("it ain't the cello and it ain't the violin, its just the viola"). Yes, its that fleshy fun bridge between the cello and violin section in the orchestra. I never really liked playing in orchestra because i couldn't hear myself as the viola is kind of a retarded instrument acoustically. What i did enjoy was playing in the smaller quartets because I had like a decent part and could hear myself playing.
Here is the thing about the viola. It doesn't sound good next to a violin or cello, but it sounds great with other violas. It's like putting up your kids drawing next to a Picasso when it belongs on the refrigerator. Lucky for all of you viola fans (and Simon fans) I discovered Garage Band on my new Mac book and decided to record myself playing. So here is an original 3-track I recorded on Garage Band that is 100% viola + 100% Simon = %200 good listenin'. I think I might write this one down and work on it some more and maybe I'll have written the first full length viola trio... EVER!
Check out my new tasty jam I made on garage band. Its a tribute to the hypnotoad from Futurama. If you're Matt Groening - this ones for you.
Then I realized, I work for myself!
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The band I play in, Peel, is trying to take advantage of a Google Checkout promotion.
This sums it up well:
Buy Peel's CD for $10 get $10 from Google = Free CD.
Edit: The post after this one is AWESOME.
The happy clouds and the happy Vox logo and ripping Andre off (For what? Can't talk about it).
There's a Toast 7 Ad with a 20 dollar mail-in garebage. A mail-in rebate. On the Internet. Makes no sense to me. I've never used Toast. I've never thought I needed to. Am I doing something wrong?
I mean, I didn't graduate from Exeter at the top of my class with a degree in Cornish Studies for this. I didn't do that for anything. But I do like their tiny hens.
There are way too many buttons up there, and I see a couple of drop down menus and another typing box. And this giant, unfriendly Toast ad. I don't care how many freedom-from-choice [this is good]'s you throw around, this ad makes me feel like I'm not cared about. That really, for all the gradients and large fonts, I'm still just supposed to click on that... I don't know what you'd call it. It's a f'n skyscraper (site raper) to me.
save $20 NOW!
spend $100, first!
dffdffdffdf. I really shouldn't have screwed with the font sizes. And I'm very frightened by not having a save-as-draft button. I see this Recover
button thing, but I don't know what it does. When I hear recover or recovering, I think of alcoholics.
My previous employer (I just resigned, myself) pulled a fantastic trick in one of the last meetings I held with them, the HR Manager comparing my relationship with the company to the troubles she had in her relationship with her father, an alcoholic. Wow.
How do we end it. Uh... spooks aren't letting me upload images, to dakotasmith.org
Single party consent lets you record any conversation you have in Texas (as long as you don't plan to break the law w/ the recording),
Peel has been out of the studio for months, and now the album is squared away and will fly away to Colorado to be mastered. Boss n. Employer, supervisor. [Dutch baas, master.] Weee! Man, I need to do something about that website.
I think I read that thing about boss > baas > master somewhere else on the internet. Six Apart, if you're going to put Andre's great ideas into action, go with making advertisements less useless.
And Blender Magazine, your 50 Worst Things to Ever Happen to Music, was bad, until we got to this part.
15. CDs
First, record companies made everyone re-buy their entire collections on newfangled “compact discs,” promising sonic superiority and virtual indestructibility. Despite obvious drawbacks — ever try to separate seeds and stems on a jewel case? — everyone ponied up anyway. Then, once this digital format became the very means by which music could be ripped and distributed for free, these same companies cried poor.
Kurt Loder first said that in "Playboy" (USA). July 1995, Vol. 42, Iss. 7, pg. 128-134, by: Warren Kalbacker, "20 Questions." Shame. He's like 50 years old. Which means he's really probably 60.
And Playboy in July, why, that's America's Birthday Porn! Don't TAINT it!
Dispute flares over rods-or-nets question
This is what a Google Alert for Aomori gets me.
Last month, groups from both sides reached an agreement to set a limit for this year's squid catches by net fishing to 12,500 tons, the same as last year. But their views on the method of catching squid remain at odds and a ban on encircling net fishing is set to be lifted Sunday.
SUNDAY! See BOATS go IN CIRCLES with NETS and catch TONS OF SQUID! TONS OF SQUID! TONS OF SQUID!!!!
—Catches of surumeika squid at the Hachinohe fishing port total 59,033 tons--the highest amount in the country—
Holy shit. Tons of squid.
Then the guys without nets say, "The guys with nets are going to catch all the squid." The guys with nets protest, "No we won't." They ask the government who says:
Citing reports compiled by the Fisheries Research Agency that marine resource levels are expected to remain stable, officials at the federation dismissed depletion fears and instead called for increased quotas for squids.
CATCH MORE SQUID. DON'T WORRY!!! IT'LL BE OK! SHIT. DON'T SWEAT THAT!
Sigh.
This is why it's hard for me to keep up with the news
My dog is the top. They're both bitches, though.
Dog brain cells in a petri dish, playing Quake 3 Arena is faked, but it's faked well. I was looking forward to playing Quake against my dog's brain.
