I’ve linked to it before but here it is again. One of my favorite performances of all time:
And one of my favorite guitar solos, too. That’s not something you can teach, that kind of soul. You just have it or you don’t. And damn does she ever.
Month: October 2020
Doin’ Crimes
My ideal of free speech definitely clashes with my notion that every single person who works for Fox News should be arrested for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
Scoot Out
If we had an easy way to permanently leave the US, we’d’ve been gone long ago. I know I’ve said it already, but I’ll say it again and again probably.
Jeffrey’s Tube
this is not defense in depth https://t.co/RwFj9hgvlD
— Yael Grauer (@yaelwrites) October 19, 2020
Maybe he was hoping for defense in length?
Fade to Lèr
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Ross
This keeps getting scrubbed, but it's a prescient prediction by Ross Perot of how globalization would work in practice, from 1992.https://t.co/NYNY7ZJWwn
— Rudy Havenstein, smiling politely. (@RudyHavenstein) November 19, 2019
Perot was 100% right. Remember how much he got made fun of for this? It’s all been memory-holed now, both by liberals and conservatives. But he was completely correct.
He was kind of a right-ish Bernie Sanders, and for that he was torpedoed.
Cinema
CJ Analysis: The Number of COVID-19 Outbreaks Traced to Cinemas is Zero.
Not too surprising. Huge air volume, not a lot of talking, decent air circulation. Restaurants (indoors) would be far riskier.
Samantha’s Stuff
Samantha Fish talking about her instruments and pedals. She has the best tone on her rigs. So glad I got to see her play once. She was amazing.
She plays that cigar box guitar so dirty even Potter Stewart knows it when he sees it.
Not Hip To Be
Y'all… Come look at this pic.twitter.com/gABWC9Jptm
— RebekaDawn✨ (@RebekaDawn) October 18, 2020
These people are not just square. They are square in the 11th dimension.
Exroom
I've been playing around on Zillow and I honestly want to understand what single homeowners do with all this space. Do you have… bedrooms that are just empty or something?
— Spooky👻OnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) October 17, 2020
If you want any significant amount of exercise equipment at home you need a lot of space. Barbell equipment, squat rack, dip bar, and two or three machines can easily take up 600+ square feet. And you need more even if you are doing snatches or clean and jerks.
And if you ask, as some dipshits do, “Why not just got to the gym?” Have you noticed there is a huge fucking pandemic around? So glad I have my own equipment. And second, even during non-pandemic times, I wouldn’t go the gym because I am not social enough.
Apart from that, it’s nice to have an office. And plenty of other hobbies take up lots of space.
Polymath No Math
I know last week was “hate on polymaths” week for some oddball reason, but why I outperform so many of you fuckers in prediction and risk assessment is that I am somewhat of a polymath. Or at least I attempt to be and mostly succeed.
I think a lot of the polymath hate is just envy/jealousy. And there are certainly a lot of bullshit artists out there, too. But it’s mostly the former.
Fine. I’ll still rock the mic like a vandal. Your anger doesn’t make me less awesome. It just makes you have high blood pressure and die sooner.
Donot
Today I'm a little homesick, and for someone from Sicily, missing home means missing its wonderful desserts.
Buckle up for a wondrous thread of Sicilian pastries: 1/
— Laura Ingallinella (@lauraingalli) October 17, 2020
OMG. I feel faint.
American food culture sucks so fucking much. Donuts? Donuts? Why would you eat nasty-ass donuts when you could have this.
I’ve had granita. Once. And it was amazing. I want everything in this thread.
I am so angry about American food culture now. Fucking donuts. Fuckkkkkkk.
Paronomasia
I somewhat routinely do things like make puns between three different languages. Absolutely no one gets these puns. Ever. But I still do it.
To paraphrase the Japanese pandemic directive, at least I laugh inside my heart.
Pathic
The *whole point* about technology, the digital economy, automation and AI is to free you from bondage. Everything is secondary to that. All of it needs to be filtered through freedom – is it making you more free or more trapped?
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) October 18, 2020
I am not primarily interested in the “freedom” framing of tech advances, but this is a valid way of thinking about it. Myself, I’m more interested in the “conquering the fucking galaxy” framing, but increased freedom could be a good path.
The one we’re on now is probably the worst possible, though. Good job.
Pales
Damn I love Palestrina. Everyone should listen to more of old Giovanni. I hope to see a live performance of his works one day, after the pandemic.