Serious geek humor from xkcd. First I had to Google OEIS to find out that it stands for On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Then I had to wrap my mind around the fact that there is such a thing. Then I looked at the comic again.
My favorite is definitely “All integers, in descending order”. If you don’t understand why that’s funny, you are not a geek.
![SUB[59]: The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order](https://fish1964.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/oeis_submissions_2x.png?w=720&h=838)
Made me chuckle…
Google Maps apparently has a new feature where it will recommend things in the area. I turned it on for Brooklyn and just got this recommendation. And yes, I am interested in pizza, thanks for noticing…
Yankee Aaron Judge sees a kid in the bleachers wearing his All Star jersey. So what does he do? He plays catch with the kid in between innings (letting the kid keep the ball of course).
Given how crazy the world seems these days, I’ve wondered what The Onion finds to write about. But they seem to be managing fine. Some of the tips:
Avoid unkind generalizations like equating the jailing of ethnic minorities with some malevolent form of fascism.
Recall that violently rejecting a tyrannical government goes against everything our forefathers believed in.
Make sure any protests are peaceful, silent, and completely out of sight of anyone who could actually affect government policy.
Give your political opponents the benefit of the doubt by letting this play out for 20 years and seeing if it gets any better on its own.
Avoid painting with a broad brush. Not everyone in favor of zero-tolerance immigration wants to see children in cages—it’s more likely that they just don’t care.
The NYC Pride March was yesterday. It’s a big deal in New York and even stuffy bureaucracies like the MTA join in, with seriously amusing subway Service Notifications
Reminder: It’s 2018
Travel Alternative: Sashay away
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I am a huge RSS feed guy, I don’t understand how anyone follows many different topics without it. I started following The Lefsetz Letter because I follow The Big Picture, which often linked to it. The Big Picture is intelligent finance and The Lefsetz Letter is quirky personal music/pop culture. Both are classic blogs in that they have a personal voice.
Lefsetz on Stern:
Netflix is a club.
Just like Howard Stern’s radio show. Occasionally Howard makes news, mostly while interviewing celebrities, the gossip columns go wild, but mostly if you don’t listen, you’ve got no idea what’s going on.
But those who do…
Kind of like Netflix.
Now some news outlets noted that Howard’s appearance was going live last week. But I saw no reviews. It wasn’t deemed NEWS! That’s right, despite all the hype about the internet, the Long Tail, the major and the minor, the truth is something different. We’ve returned to the sixties. There’s a burgeoning underground, even though those in control of the major media outlets deny this.
Kind of like network television. Kind of like Fox. Kind of like Disney.
If you read the so-called news outlets, Howard Stern’s radio show doesn’t exist. And despite the appearance of Obama on Letterman’s Netflix debut, the follow-up episodes had no fallout in the culture.
Unless you were a member of the club.
That was a while back and I’m a fan of the Letterman Netflix show so I noted it. Today he posted something on The Greatest Showman. My youngest daughter plays the soundtrack constantly on Spotify, but I don’t normally think of her as part of a global trend. Maybe I should…
I was clueless until my buddy Jeff Laufer hipped me to it, singling out the track “This Is Me,” an empowering anthem straight out of the “Fame” playbook, Why is this phenomenon getting no ink, despite hiding in plain sight for six months, the flick having been released back in December 2017.
And then, today’s “Record of the Day” informed me that in the U.K. the soundtrack was number one for the nineteenth time in twenty three weeks.
But we never hear about it!
Five out of the eleven cuts on “Greatest Showman” have triple digit million streams on Spotify. And the remaining tracks are deep into double digits.
Not a single cut on “Hamilton” breaks triple digits.
As for the iTunes Store, “The Greatest Showman” is number three right now.
So what we’ve learned is despite the lauding of hip-hop, it’s not the only game in town.
Anyway, he’s good for about a post a week. Silly to not check it out (RSS link).
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