I heard a Tom Jones song yesterday, and resolved to spend some time listening to his catalog today while I worked. This lead me to discover two really great albums on Rhapsody that I probably never would have found otherwise. The first is called James Bond 007 13 Original Themes which is exactly what it sounds like. The second is called The Mod Scene, which is this sensational collection of British Invasion Modsound from the 60s that, unlike most compilations, doesn't seem to have a single lousy track on it (provided, of course, that you enjoy the Mod sound of the 60s as much as I do.) The two Tom Jones tracks which lead me to these albums, for the sake of completeness, were the theme to Thunderball and Dr. Love.
This reminds me of the time I saw a Tom Jones billboard on the way down to San Diego for Book and a Beer this summer, which prompted me to say to Anne (in what I decided is my Tom Jones voice): "I may be old enough to be your grandfather, but I'll still eat your panties for breakfast and lunch, baby!" It was, as most things are, much funnier in context and more amusing to me than it ever will be to anyone else. Oh well.
I can't record a Memories of the Futurecast today, because there's fifteen thousand pounds of giant crane parked in front of my house, making thirty thousand pounds of noise. When it goes away, though, I'll get to recording, and the Futurecast will post sometime tonight.
The good news, though, is that I'm able to make good progress on Memories Volume Two. I'm already behind schedule (because I stupidly gave myself a deadline last week, forgetting about Thanksgiving) but I think I'll be able to catch up by the end of this week. So far, it's been a lot of fun and tremendously amusing, which is always a good sign.
Speaking of things that are fun and tremendously amusing, here's a Twitter exchange that made me laugh quite a bit:
theelkmechanic: I love living in the future. Sitting in Charlotte airport using my machine in Troy to update 4 servers in Phoenix. Beat that, @wilw
wilw: @theelkmechanic I drove the Starship Enterprise. [::dramatic pause::] Your move.
theelkmechanic: @wilw <tips king over>
I'm not going to lie to you, Marge, that made me gigglesnort, and I was relieved that @theelkmechanic took my joke in the spirit it was intended.
Well, the power just went out, so it's time for me to pack up my Mac and head out to a cafe with WiFi where I can work on my novel in front of people and get this posted. The weird thing is, while it's likely going to take an hour at least from the time I finish writing this paragraph until it actually posts on the internet, there is no perceived delay from whoever reads this, because as far as you're concerned, the post didn't exist until it was published, though it already existed for me.
Um. Yeah. I'm sure someone who's actually studied physics is going to knock me around for that, but since my knowledge of the field is limited to what I've picked up on my own, it's a fun thought exercise.
Okay, little post, go sit in an eigenstate for the nice people.
ok now your gonna make me listen to Tom Jones ( I hate when that happens LOL) I know you have to hate all the work going on in front of your home. That driver me nuts.
Interesting. If I’m around ANYONE else, I find writing to be nigh impossible…it’s really weird. I do require some form of noise to be able to write however, be it a TV show, movie, or music.
I want to know how it happened that Tom Jones sings the Duck Dodgers In The 24th And One Half Century theme song. I searched intensively a while ago with no luck–GoogleFu fail. Does anyone know?
Your analogy is reasonable. The post existed on your laptop while you drove to the coffee shop, in a state such that it was stable but not portable. Once you got to the coffee shop, by connecting to the internet, you promoted it to an energy state where it could slide easily through the intertubes to our screens.
Since quantum mechanics describes ONLY the behavior of the very small, it has problems when extended directly to the macroscopic (which the idea of Shroedinger’s cat is an illustration). You extended the notion as well as it could be.
The eigenvalue then is just a scalar logical value indicating if the post is visible to the world. Every eigenvalue has to have a corresponding operator; the operator is a complicated set of tests of whether or not if you point our browser at wilwheaton.typepad.com, you get a certain character string that’s in the post.
Why yes, I am procrastinating, why do you ask? 😀
/me on the button, noting that Wil has called the All-In, takes off the sunglasses Caruso style
Nor am I. [::dramatic pause::] I’ve played poker with Jesus. Your move.
New mug idea…
“Well I drove the Starship Enterprise, Bitch”
Sure, it’s not an exact quote, thought it needed a little more Dark Wil in it. Maybe use the 8 bit picture, or whatever cover image Part 2 will have.
I also had this album on cassette man! Driving around in my 1978 Datsun 510 station wagon. WITH an 8-Track cassette adapter!
Yep. And never was able to call his bluff.
I know I’m a little late to the game here, but today, December 7, is Werner Heisenberg’s birthday (observed).
So…very late response, but your logic is sound. Wil the cat, indeed.