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Cross-promotion
No, I am not promoting “the cross”. Not everything is a pun, goddamnit. I’m a buddhist. Sub-buddhist at best, maybe. So what.
I have another blog for my musical endeavors. I think I hate it. I don’t think blogging and art mix that well anymore. Maybe blogging and life in general don’t mix that well anymore. Not how I’m doing it anyway. Well, it was all an experiment. Fine.
So I have this post on politics now. Please note that this post is “Uncategorized”. Every other post is under the “music” category, presumably because every post is about music that I have made or am involved in making, unlike “Music Ja Nai“, which is not about that.
Got all that? OK, so I don’t think music or art in general mix with politics. The subject of art can be political, but the making of it can’t, at least within anything close to any “normal” kind of ideal. Take Komar and Melamid’s Most Wanted/Unwanted Song, democracy in action. Extremely well-done, but not making anyone’s heavy rotation. (Pretty sure FMU has played the Most Unwanted song at least a dozen times, but that doesn’t count.)
A lot of people don’t like politics because it’s boring. Yes! It should be boring. When politics gets exciting, there’s a serious problem. We all vote on what we’re trading for something else and that’s about it. Civil rights and religion should not even be political issues. I might sound like a conservative sometimes but I hate conservatives as much as nutso utopians. Really they are almost the same thing; Conservatives just think that utopia was achieved at some point in the past. (Altho I am picking FDR as my favorite president…what can you do.) Objectively speaking a progressively taxed democracy benefits the most people. (Also, objectively speaking Ayn Rand was a terrible writer.) It’s not socialism, but it’s half-way. So it’s also half-fascist? Does that make any sense? If it’s not all the way it’s not either, it’s democracy. Boring shit, the way it should be. Does your water meter have TV in it? No. It’s not there to entertain you. It just has it’s job, in the background. “Oh shit, we used a lot of water this month. Could use less or I could FUCK YOU, WATER METER!!!” Not the meter’s fault, dude. Could protest for free water, how do you know the water’s clean? Who fixes the pipes? Shit costs money.
This is where things break down: music is not clean water. Art is not civil rights. Since I don’t have extreme beliefs, I have no need to speak in code. The idea that current Republicans (since Reagan) are ruining the country is the moderate position. I tried to make it clever because stating the obvious is not an interesting topic. Maybe you’re a closet Republican! Ever thought of that?
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Goodbye, Glennie
I love Evelyn Glennie and I love this video, but what is it doing in the sidebar? It’s a bit much.
It was really a complement to the first post, which sat there while, while I was deciding what this blog was going to be about. Oh, those times. Whatever. There doesn’t need to be a youtube playlist at all, I just thought it was cool you could do that. Saw some people doing it, said “hey, that’s cool.”, looked around to see if there was anybody home because I try not to get caught taking to myself. Seems crazy. Nothing crazy about this video, tho. But it’s way more about live performance than records.
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Anki for September
Not even screencapping this time. Thought about cramming for a few hours and then doing it but then realized I am a complete asshole for even thinking that and really even for people that read this blog these entries are of almost no value to anyone but me, so one day I can look back and think, “remember when you kinda cheated on your own blog? awesome times.”
The only way I could impress someone with my language studies at this point is in a similar way you might be impressed by the guy who finishes the marathon three days after it’s over. “Wow, he just wouldn’t quit. Why didn’t he quit exactly? Three days? Does that even make sense?” Besides, the screen numbers don’t tell you much, over than I’m really good at screencapping. I think I’ve proved that point. We’re over it.
Couldn’t stick to the 2hrs/day this month, so I had to decide to concentrate on the first 5 of the 2000 series. Then I’ve got the 1st and 5th of the 6000 at the bottom of that list there, mocking me…once I finish the first 5 I can start the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of 6000. I guess. At most. There’s no way there should be more than 10 decks with new cards going at the same time.
You can follow Anki on twitter, btw. They’re trying to improve the system. Maybe they read whenever someone blogs about them (probably do). If any of my feedback is useful and helps other people that’s great. But I also think the system is good enough for me. I just need something to tell me everyday that I’m fucked if I don’t study more. Because if it’s a book, or even a class with weekly quizzes, on a day-to-day basis, without a constant outside reminder I’m just checking my own brain to see if I’m fucked, and the answer will always come back, “nope! doin’ fine.” Which is rarely the case. Then suddenly it’s the day of the test. But there was nothing sudden about it, I just couldn’t prioritize it until it was too late. Don’t think I’m that special in this regard, so keep that in mind, Anki people. It might bum some people out to see the the stuff pile up like that, but you can’t make it too easy. No matter how good a system is, you really tend to learn when things overlap. That’s why immersion works, you’re getting many, many sources of the same words. That’s when the repetition kicks in and it becomes long-term memory. The best system can only try to give the widest circle possible for other exposure to overlap onto. (The great thing about a free open source program is that is doesn’t have to pretend it’s the One and Only Thing You Need.) That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
The List:
- 2000 step 01 – 0 (-497)
- 2000 step 02 – 0 (-373)
- 2000 step 03 – 440 (-100)
- 2000 step 09 – 540 (-81)
- 2000 step 06 – 541 (-59)
- 2000 step 04 – 560 (-103)
- 2000 step 08 – 566 (-50)
- 2000 step 10 – 584 (-52)
- 2000 step 05 – 594 (-46)
- 2000 step 07 – 701 (-43)
August:
- 2000 step 02 – 373 (-240)
- 2000 step 01 – 497 (-298)
- 2000 step 03 – 550 (-181)
- 2000 step 09 – 621 (-185)
- 2000 step 08 – 616 (-200)
- 2000 step 06 – 600 (-240)
- 2000 step 10 – 636 (-208)
- 2000 step 05 – 640 (-220)
- 2000 step 04 – 663 (-217)
- 2000 step 07 – 744 (-169)
Damn, I’m glad I’m doing this. (ATTN Anki: maybe add something like this to the thing.] Cleared out a lot more in those first two than I thought. Plus I had no idea I’ve been consistently skipping step 7. The rest are not as bad as I thought either, all below 600. I think I had the math wrong before, I’m not reading through the old entries right now, but 600 can be done in a month if you hit every day. I was more depressed about this before I checked on it. I’m going to concentrate on finishing them and keeping them all up to date, and checking out the sample tests. Then, suddenly, the test is in the beginning of December. I got in application in and approved so I just gotta show up and all this will have to be enough. Then I’ll go for the harder stuff through 2012. Hopefully the world holds together long enough for a trip. And I should get some actual novels. Probably more useful vocab than I lot of business terms I will not likely need. Or maybe I could get a real job with all that, who knows. I’m a believer in free will, but when you don’t decide, at some point the decision is made for you. So I better decide something.
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Maybe it’s time time for me to play less Tetris.
I know, I know…hear me out. I think it’s just been a little much. The way they’re changing things on facebook now, I don’t like that you have to turn off secure browsing each time. It’s a small thing, but once you do it so many times you realize how often you often you’re doing it. So I go over to the Tetris Friends site, which I joined before there was a facebook app. Somehow the app works a little better for me, it’s slightly faster on there. But the site has more games. Depends if you’re just killing time or trying to win. It also has these video ads you can’t block. So that’s much worse now than than the facebook warning that stops me for half a second. I can play the game for an hour or two but a 30 second pause makes me feel like I’m wasting my life all of a sudden. I try to justify the whole thing, like it’s keeping my brain and reflexes sharp. I think it’s an anxiety thing. Or a procrastination thing. I’m supposed to be writing or studying, I just get into the game the game the game the game the game
—sorry. Internet. Anyway.
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LivingSocial: Dead
Hey guys, I just got an idea for the most boring blog post ever, but instead I’ll just tell you I’m on Goodreads.
And I guess if I could still afford to drink I would join some beer site. That beer thing was my favorite non-Tetris part of facebook. But how can I ever trust a 3rd-party site again with my precious drinking info? Maybe one day I’ll make a section for it. Looks like I’m going to have to make one for movies too cause I’ve been paying the minimum amount at Netflix just to keep my damn list of movies to watch. They might never get this copy of Paprika back as it is, I got no time to watch anything.
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