Tales of a Computational Ethnomusicologist

war speech

until the philosophy that holds the new york yankees superior and all other teams inferior is finally and permanently discredited. and until the way of the salary cap is fully and completely explained by gaussian mixture models…

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observation du nuit

billy idol must have slipped someone a $50 to come up with the “hey mf get laid get f'd” part for ‘mony mony’.  i can see how that might have been the tactic after a relatively poor showing for ‘white…

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it's deceptive

a few songs i'm really struck by today at the piano:

something

here comes the flood

kiss

black blue jay

what if cypress hill made a comeback and went to bali?  they could put out “hits from the gong”.

eiffel hour

just checking out the 2011 debut album “start fresh” by the french band chlorine free.  deep funky bass and sick clav parts.  their second 2014 album “le fish” might be even better

two out of mind

when is the last time anyone listened to graham parker, squeezing out sparks?  or husker du, candy apple grey?

fen graf

A great idea for Ikea. What about a graph that has time of day along the x axis and average wait time along the y axis. They could put this graph prominently on their web site, and that way the…

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the kea

it is now later in the afternoon, I call back Ikea and there is now a wait of 20 minutes to talk to a live representative.  And it occurs to me, we don't need AI, we need that call back…

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the weight

i have just called Ikea this afternoon regarding returning an item, and what they are saying is “We would really appreciate your feedback”.  If that is the case, I have 3 pieces of feedback: i. The wait time for my…

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yellow submarine

what was the barenaked ladies coming out song?  you can be my john