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diff --git a/docs/music/img/radiohead_discog_review/happy_baby.jpg b/docs/music/img/radiohead_discog_review/happy_baby.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa6751d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/music/img/radiohead_discog_review/happy_baby.jpg diff --git a/docs/music/index.md b/docs/music/index.md index 7fe2efc..51389b2 100644 --- a/docs/music/index.md +++ b/docs/music/index.md @@ -45,3 +45,4 @@ is an acoustic cover of "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville". - [Playlist to put on on my deathbed](deathbed_playlist.md) - [How I Discover a Band](band_discovery.md) - [Review of _Clancy_](clancy_review.md) +- [Review of Radiohead discography](radiohead_discog_review.md) diff --git a/docs/music/radiohead_discog_review.md b/docs/music/radiohead_discog_review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba4b011 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/music/radiohead_discog_review.md @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +# Review of Radiohead Discography + +I got into Radiohead, a band with three decades of history, this January, +due to a shitpost youtube video, as discussed in [How I Discover +a Band](./band_discovery.md). + +In this post I will review every Radiohead album I listened to, in the +order of discovery. + +## The Bends + +Guitar album, excellent dynamics. The energy pulses up and down throughout +the album to keep you from boredom or fatigue. + +Compared to other guitar acts I listen to such as MCR or Linkin Park, +Radiohead wins in music theory, most notably in the use of unconventional +chords, while still being accessible to the average music enjoyer. + +Fav tracks: Planet Telex, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, My Iron Lung, Street +Spirit + +Trivia: the opening tracks remind me of that one afternoon I put on The +Bends and took a nap on the couch on 2F of Duderstadt until the 482 +lecture. + +Misheard lyrics: "Ah — this is killing me" sounds to me like "Cool — she's +gay" + +## Kid A + +So electronic you wouldn't believe it's the same Radiohead. Hardly any +guitar. Known as the "greatest left turn in music history". The opener has +got an entrancing vibe (and is also in 10/4), and everything after that is +just so esoteric. + +- Kid A: vocoded vocals +- The National Anthem: J A Z Z +- How to Disappear Completely: polyrhythm bassline, is about dissociation +- Treefingers: instrumental, sounds synth-ish but is actually guitar +- Optimistic: the least esoteric song on the record, but still +- In Limbo: listening to the song makes me in limbo +- Idioteque: samples early computer music "Mild und Leise" +- Morning Bell: 5/4 +- Motion Picture Soundtrack: harp +- Hidden track: whatever it is + +It's an album best listened to alone on headphones. + +Fav tracks: Everything, Anthem, Disappear, Idioteque + +Least fav: In Limbo + +## OK Computer + +Middle ground between The Bends and Kid A. Guitar and electronic. +Definitely great, but I didn't like it (as an album) as much as either. +First off, the album cover is whack. Iconic but not something I want to +decorate my room with. + +Also, personally, the second half of the album (Fitter Happer — The +Tourist) is not exciting. It's just sad. But "No Surprises" is good. + +Tracks worth attention: + +- Airbag: fat bass +- Paranoid Android: Three keys, two time signatures. Magnum opus of music + theory. +- Let Down: underrated. Happens to be my fav song to sing in showers when + I was let down by life and logistics in the US. + +Fav: Paranoid Android, Let Down + +Trivia: whenever Thom sings "interstellar burst, I'm back to save the +universe", this image pops into my head for some reason: + + + +## OKNOTOK + +Kind of a B side compilation reissued in 2017. + +Fav: Lift + +## Amnesiac + +Sequel to Kid A, somehow being more and less accessible at the same time. + +Fav: Pyramid Song, Life In a Glasshouse + +## In Rainbows + +Really mature in terms of everything. My only complaint is "House Of +Cards" is too long. It's not even the best song on the album. + +Remarkable things: + +- 15 Step: 5/4 +- Bodysnatchers: clipping guitar at the beginning, but it's satire on the + loudness war +- Nude: one-octave-apart style bassline, angelic singing +- Weird Fishes: just chill in general +- Jigsaw Falling Into Place: probably Radiohead's happiest song to date +- Videotape: nvm, we sad again + +Overall it's solid as a rock. Not a single bad song made it in here. +I don't even need to skip the "meh" songs. + +Fav: 15 Step, Nude, Weird Fishes, Videotape + +## Hail To The Thief + +Political album. Personally not a fan, because nothing's changed in 20 +years. Musically, I'll be brutal: it's just a bunch of noise. Except +a select few tracks: 2+2=5, Sail To The Moon, "There, There", +Scatterbrain, A Wolf At The Door. + +In other words, HTTT is still growing on me. + +Thom seems to be doing the thing where he repeatedly sings a line along +the chords, using his voice as an instrument. Examples: + +- 2+2=5: "Paying attention" +- Sit Down. Stand up: "The raindrops" +- Where I End And You Begin: "I will eat you alive" +- The Gloaming: "They should be ringing" + +First time it's novel, second time it's acceptable, third time it's +boring. Not a fan. It also drags the album slow (56 minutes). Radiohead +learned the mistake and shortened their followup (In Rainbows). + +Fav: 2+2=5, Scatterbrain, Wolf + +## A Moon Shaped Pool + +The heartbreak album. I listen to it when I want to feel miserable. + +Still growing on me. + +Fav: Daydreaming + +## The King Of Limbs + +Growing. + +- The instrumentation and chord progression on "Codex" sound like twenty + one pilots on MTV Unplugged. They should cover it. + +Fav: Codex + +## Pablo Honey + +Notorious for "Creep" and the MTV Beach House incident. Still good. Opener +surprised me with a 6+6+6+5/8 time signature. + +Growing. diff --git a/docs/shitpost/fedi_shitpost.md b/docs/shitpost/fedi_shitpost.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38da7ff --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/shitpost/fedi_shitpost.md @@ -0,0 +1,582 @@ +# Fedi Shitpost Compilation + +As you may know, I occasionally engage in a recreational activity known as +Shitposting, on the Federated Universe (Fedi). Here are some notable +cases: + +(Typesetting notes: if the first line is __bold__, then it is a mastodon +feature called "content warning"; clicking it expands the rest of the +post.) + +## 2022-10-29 + +1. predict the stock market +2. ??? +3. prophet! + +## 2022-11-03 + +evil polya be like + +how not to solve it + +## 2023-01-25 + +panic! at the disbanding + +## 2023-03-23 + +funnels imply the existence of painnels + +## 2023-04-08 + +__being an electronic engineer be like__ + +BOM: + +- LEDs, 0603, white, $0.096 +- Resistor pack, 4x1k, 0603, $0.024 +- ObscureSemi® OutOfStockMega™ 52M40L0PX181D, QFN32, $62 +- Capacitor, 22uF, 0805, $0.003 + +## 2023-05-19 + +__satire__ + +kde is for furries. real MEN use xmonad + +## 2023-05-23 + +SI be like: + +6*10^27 grams is so confusing let's give it a name. an intuitive name. one +that is easily distinguishable. how about + +6 ronnagrams + +oh also 6*10^-27 is 6 rontograms because fuck you + +## 2023-05-24 + +yeah im into hi-fi + +highly +intelligent +furry +individuals + +## 2023-06-15 + +watching board of ceos talk about ai regulation be like + +🤡 🤡 🤡 ☝️🤓 🤡 🤡 + +## 2023-06-17 + +it's ok to ask for quotes from infinite companies to install a well in +your farm, because there will always be a cheapest one. this is known as +the well ordering principle + +## 2023-07-24 + +your are intj. i am fsck. we are not the same + +## 2023-07-24 + +\> buy expensive mountain bicycle + +\> park with all the other bikes + +\> kickstand keeps bike upright at 89.999 degrees + +\> tips over at slightest push + +\> damaged + +"why would people do this?!!?1?" + +## 2023-07-26 + +web integriteez nuts + +## 2023-07-26 + +my fav moment of the wandering earth is when earth said "its wanderin +time" then yeeted itself out of the galaxy + +## 2023-07-30 + +gonna treat myself and buy a Gibson Les Bian + +## 2023-07-31 + +there's no such thing as Dijkstra's algorithm. he just looks at your graph +real fast and says "yeah this one's shortest take it or leave it" + +## 2023-07-31 + +everyone agrees sugar is the soul of any dessert, but my german friend +thinks i should add a little weniger. + +## 2023-08-08 + +__emo embedded engineers be like__ + +my qemucal romance + +## 2023-08-16 + +__chatgpt bullshit__ + +[on a forum] +person 1: hey how can i do XYZ +person 2: idk shit about this topic but here's an answer by chatgpt +person 1: thanks + +narrator: the answer is, of course, wrong. + +## 2023-08-22 + +__dream, birdsite__ + +i had a dream that Unicode made a feature that you can combine any two +characters into a single glyph ligature, but turns out it's recursive and +that's how a random dude uploaded the entire Bible to Twitter in two +characters (not one due to some artificial limit) and it crashed half of +the clients + +## 2023-09-06 + +why don't German people call it Ümläut + +## 2023-09-15 + +__misinfo__ + +trans people have colorful hair because electron orbital transitions emit +photons of certain frequencies + +## 2023-09-17 + +shop clerk: hey could you push your cart back with all the other carts + +me: why + +shop clerk: because `std::vector<ShoppingCart>` is stored in contiguous +memory and if you don't put them back you're breaking the ADT's +representational invariant + +## 2023-09-21 + +explaining a math proof in sign language is challenging. it involves a lot +of hand-waving. + +## 2023-09-21 + +__typical piazza® experience__ + +me: \*posts a question over discrepancy in instructor materials, with +exact sources\* + +56 views, 0 answers + +9 consecutive posts literally titled "AG" or "autograder" about the +autograder being unreachable: each gets answered in minutes + +## 2023-09-26 + +german was invented in 1858 when the printing press ran out of space characters + +## 2023-09-30 + +fedizens when a piece of software is c++ (it #includes \<algorithm\> +without the user's consent) + +## 2023-10-01 + +__bad__ + +proctober (proctology october) + +## 2023-10-11 + +__not screen reader friendly__ + +listening to prog rock until they do a time change + +00:00 ▫️------------ 00:08 📶🔁 + +## 2023-10-15 + +medieval programmers be like "sure let me open my cmyk movable type box +and wear my programming leggings" + +## 2023-10-18 + +iupac: but it lasted only one femtosecond +me: i don't care, if it exists it exists. now name my element with 588 protons +iupac: Pentoctoctium +me: make it shorter +iupac: (\*sigh\*) Poo + +## 2023-10-20 + +girls install debian +to become more lesbian +boys run void +to kiss more boys + +## 2023-10-23 + +__germans when they have pizza for dinner__ + +Gluten Abend + +## 2023-10-28 + +ancient Chinese stories about someone doing something stupid often begin +with their initial followed by their country of origin like "Liang, from +the Qi kingdom" and i think that's a rudimentary form of "Florida man" + +## 2023-10-29 + +__not screen reader friendly__ + +german wordle be like + +🟥🟥🟨🟥🟨🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟨🟥🟥 +🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟥🟥🟨🟥🟥🟥🟩🟥🟥🟥 +🟥🟥🟥🟩🟥🟥🟩🟩🟥🟨🟥🟩🟩🟩🟩 +🟩🟥🟥🟩🟨🟥🟩🟩🟥🟥🟥🟩🟩🟩🟩 +🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥🟩🟩🟩🟥🟥🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 +🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 + +## 2023-10-30 + +__if unix was invented in europe__ + +cd ,, +echo €PATH + +## 2023-10-31 + +furries have an unfair advantage at halloween costumes. fursuits should +not count unless its a bat + +## 2023-10-31 + +why did they name it "Michigan pride"and not Michigay + +## 2023-11-03 + +__long__ + +americans stop normalizing state codes + +especially on the internet when the context is unclear + +"I love Tulsa, OK" ← kthx but no need to be passive aggressive about it + +ask a non american what "IA" means. IowA? IndianA? group 1 alkali metal? + +"everyone should know this, it's common knowledge!" + +lmao literally no one outside of the states are responsible for knowing +that + +how about we go in reverse? which province is gàn (赣)? which one is qián +(黔)? this is what non-americans feel when we see shit like MA, MD, ME, +MI, MN, MO, MS, and MT + +## 2023-11-05 + +why isnt uc berkeley's furry club called uc barkley ugh i wanna screem + +## 2023-11-11 + +__very important sentence from book i am reading__ + +"Cats are equivalent in that they are to be petted, but gently, so that +they do not claw. (Brown 1965, pp. 318-19)" + +## 2023-11-12 + +football, the successor to the less popular variant, inchball + +## 2023-11-15 + +Thus, if the child thinks a leopard says "meow", he or she may classify +leopards as 𝘬𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. + +## 2023-11-24 + +💬 linguistic knowledge of the day 🔤 + +the chinese word 祭司 (priest, not necessarily christian) can be taken +apart as: + +- 祭 (jì) ceremony of sacrifice +- 司 (sī) person in control + +therefore we can conclude that, at some point in ancient chinese folk +religion, an emcee dropped a sick beat + +## 2023-11-23 + +__why was the 40W light bulb arrested?__ + +public incandescency + +## 2023-11-28 + +__book quote out of context__ + +Let us take a situation […] in which there are […] no priests, no gays, no +Moslems with only three wives, no Tarzans. + +## 2023-12-06 + +when machine gun kelly dropped rap devil would you call that an ad eminem +attack + +## 2023-12-11 + +the three types of piazza posts the evening before exam: + +- need help for question 9.3 from fall '21 + +- what's the difference between [pair of obscure concepts that are just up + to experience really] + +- hi can someone explain to me [the entirety of lecture 12-25] if it's not + [assumption that shows they haven't been to a single lecture in the past + two months] + +## 2023-12-19 + +zeichne mit TikZ, um Till Tantau anzupissen + +## 2023-12-20 + +__book quote out of context__ + +a bike should no more have a carburetor than the pope should have a wife. + +## 2023-12-24 + +*zufällig einen Mann küsst* entschwuldigung + +## 2023-12-24 + +transcoders? yes I've seen a few + +## 2023-12-30 + +rust is just a cargo cult + +this explains everything + +## 2024-01-18 + +groceries imply the existence of shrinkceries + +## 2024-01-22 + +me: so how does this "downtime-proof" power supply work? + +salesperson: it comes with serj protection + +## 2024-01-23 + +me: i have a computer engineering debris. +interviewer: don't you mean degree? +me: no. +[four kilograms of leftover pcbs fall from the ceiling vent, killing interviewer instantly] + +## 2024-01-24 + +- paranoid android +- despotess iOS +- lydian symbian +- sucrose windows +- voodoo ubuntu +- comparted postmarket + +## 2024-01-26 + +when the drummer misses a beat they're fired but when the whole band miss +a beat it's called "progressive rock" + +## 2024-01-31 + +me: I have deicided to become an atheist. +angel: don't you mean decided? +me: [throws bloodstained shovel over the cloud] no + +## 2024-02-05 + +__misinfo__ + +donald knuth invented computer modern to replace the badly kerned font on +his computer modem + +## 2024-02-16 + +[ in a cleanroom ] +tsmc employee: hey you can't just take these MOSFETs! +me: you said they were complimentary + +## 2024-02-19 + +move at a medium pace and preserve current state of things + +## 2024-02-24 + +department chair: sorry professor jones, publish or parish + +jones: that's - wait, don't you mean perish? + +chair: no. the campus chapel is now yours + +## 2024-02-26 + +Kinderkennzeichnungs- und +Kindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz + +__Erratum: Blyfh pointed out that the correct spelling for "child meat" is +"Kinderfleisch", not "Kindfleisch".__ + +## 2024-02-27 + +if POSIX was so good how come there's no POSEVEN + +## 2024-03-02 + +if i had a nickel every time my program integer overflowed i would have +-2147483648 nickels + +## 2024-03-04 + +__why does it take longer to bury a tarantula than a human?__ + +the grave is eight feet underground + +## 2024-03-04 + +page table base register was invented by a computer architect with +a correct horse battery staple password generator + +## 2024-03-05 + +__what do you call a touhou-themed german spa town?__ + +Bad Apfel + +## 2024-03-06 + +__what did the principal tell the student who was plagiarizing from +chatgpt?__ + +detention is all you need + +## 2024-03-08 + +__what do you call switzerland in a war between diamond and graphite__ + +carbon neutral + +## 2024-03-09 + +[lunchbreak at popl] +me: I'm a rutaceae +unsuspecting person: oh cool have you checked out their new trait system- wait, what did you say again? +me: [takes off trenchcoat, revealing tree branches bearing grapefruit] + +## 2024-03-09 + +__what killed the dragon electrician?__ + +scale current + +## 2024-03-22 + +__why are vinyl records not RoHS compliant?__ + +there's a lead single on them + +## 2024-03-25 + +__brain noise__ + +oo wee oo i look just like bloody mary +oh oh and you're mirror on the wall + +## 2024-04-02 + +interviewer: what's your name? +me: my name is Sirius Wright Não. +interviewer: \*inspects closer upon my resume\* you cannot be serious right now + +## 2024-04-19 + +do you think the first person to invent music was rejected for being "too +experimental" and "bird-esque" + +## 2024-04-24 + +Ten Costliest Bugs Caused By Dangling Pointers - #48216913015 will surprise you + +## 2024-04-25 + +electric engineers be like + +the capacitor is 0.000047 farads + +this is close enough to infinity + +## 2024-04-27 + +__what do you call it when you contemplate the meaning of life for 15 +minutes?__ + +a quarter ponder + +## 2024-06-13 + +__why do ao3 writers make great HVAC mechanics?__ + +they're good at fan fix + +## 2024-06-22 + +Portugal. The Idea + +## 2024-06-24 + +graduate texts in mathematics? no idea where you heard that bro, i know +three of them and they all text in english + +## 2024-07-05 + +__the most difficult German word is "Apfel".__ + +once you've learned that, the rest is Apfel grabs. + +## 2024-07-10 + +__kernel "developers" who only ever comment on other people's code and +never write any be like__ + +SIGVIRTUE + +## 2024-07-10 + +__midwest emo? i find it__ + +missourable + +## 2024-07-11 + +__buenos aires if argentina was colonized by zoomers__ + +chill vibes diff --git a/docs/shitpost/if_academia_worked_like_music.md b/docs/shitpost/if_academia_worked_like_music.md index 9a8054d..506903f 100644 --- a/docs/shitpost/if_academia_worked_like_music.md +++ b/docs/shitpost/if_academia_worked_like_music.md @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ # If Academia Worked Like Music +2024-07-06 + You are an associate professor at the Fakeland University of Common Knowledge (FUCK). After years of hard work with your best friends Ethan and Albert (they go by Et and Al), you have 12 manuscripts you call diff --git a/docs/shitpost/index.md b/docs/shitpost/index.md index 6f4e299..bac4a2c 100644 --- a/docs/shitpost/index.md +++ b/docs/shitpost/index.md @@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ precious time you could've spent more wisely elsewhere: - [Writing A Blogpost Without Using Backspace](no_backspace.md) - [Cringiest song I've ever heard](cringiest_song.md) - [If Academia Worked Like Music](if_academia_worked_like_music.md) +- [Fedi Shitpost Compilation](./fedi_shitpost.md) |
