movies Arrival & Linguistic Relativity The movie "Arrival" explores a concept I've loved since my first trip to Europe as a young man; Linguistic Relativity. Immediately the new world I dropped into felt different in ways I couldn't explain. Sure things were "different." Architecture, the "age&
music (Timeless?) Music Today I've been meaning to write this post for awhile. A conversation with my brother today finally motivated me to do it. He has two kids (9 and 5); mine are 14 and 11. A few nights ago our family spent the evening with another family. Drinks were had
music Rant On Music Listening: Library Bifurcation, Offline Listening, and Bitrates Listening to music is hard again. Library Bifurcation To listen to all the songs I like, I have to have some of my music in iTunes, and some of it in Rdio (I pay the $15/mo and always have). Once I decide which music I want to listen to,
music Flagstaff Amphitheater == Montalvo Amphitheater? Years ago I was lucky enough to see a show (Amiee Mann) at the Montalvo Amphitheater [http://montalvoarts.org/] in Saratoga, CA. The small outdoor venue was ideal (as was the music). Not having ready geographic access to it anymore is a bummer. I wonder if Boulder, in conjunction with
music "Making a tape" I'm "making a tape." Well, not really, rather I'm building a playlist in iTunes, but it feels like I'm making a tape; something I used to do when I was a kid. The thing to do was build a compilation of music
music Excessive obsession: music. While sitting down to do some work, I fired up iTunes and dug up some music. I noticed the play count for a particular song I wanted to listen to; it was really high (in the hundreds). Seeing this reminded me of other play counts for other songs I hammer