- Lizzo ft Missy Elliott - "Tempo"
- Bonaparte - "Melody X" (as featured in "Dark")
- Bonaparte - "Fuck Your Accent"
Friday, 28 June 2019
random songs
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Haruki Murakami - "The Elephant Vanishes"
Though I'm Murakami'd out, I thought I'd give this a try. There's the usual boring stories, but a few stand out.
"On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning" is amazing. A short story version of "Voices of a distant star"
(halfway)
Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not unusually handsome, and she was not especially beautiful. There were just an ordinary lonely boy and an ordinary lonely girl, like all the others. But they believed with their whole hearts that somewhere in the world there lived the 100% perfect boy and the 100% perfect girl for them. Yes, they believed in a miracle. And that miracle actually happened.
One day the two came upon each other on the corner of a street.
"This is amazing," he said. "I've been looking for you all my life. You may not believe this, but you're the 100% perfect girl for me."
"And you," she said to him, "are the 100% perfect boy for me, exactly as I'd pictured you in every detail. It's like a dream."
They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.
As they sat and talked, however, a tiny, tiny sliver of doubt took root in their hearts: Was it really all right for one's dream to come true so easily?
And so, when there came a momentary lull in their conversation, the boy said to the girl, "Let's test ourselves-just once. If we really are each other's 100% perfect lovers, then sometime, somewhere, we will meet again without fail. And when that happens, and we know that we are the 100% perfect ones, we'll marry then and there. What do you think?"
"Yes," she said, "that is exactly what we should do."
And so they parted, he to the east, she to the west.
"little green monster" - love the repetition and the short focused stab of its story.
"On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning" is amazing. A short story version of "Voices of a distant star"
(halfway)
Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not unusually handsome, and she was not especially beautiful. There were just an ordinary lonely boy and an ordinary lonely girl, like all the others. But they believed with their whole hearts that somewhere in the world there lived the 100% perfect boy and the 100% perfect girl for them. Yes, they believed in a miracle. And that miracle actually happened.
One day the two came upon each other on the corner of a street.
"This is amazing," he said. "I've been looking for you all my life. You may not believe this, but you're the 100% perfect girl for me."
"And you," she said to him, "are the 100% perfect boy for me, exactly as I'd pictured you in every detail. It's like a dream."
They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.
As they sat and talked, however, a tiny, tiny sliver of doubt took root in their hearts: Was it really all right for one's dream to come true so easily?
And so, when there came a momentary lull in their conversation, the boy said to the girl, "Let's test ourselves-just once. If we really are each other's 100% perfect lovers, then sometime, somewhere, we will meet again without fail. And when that happens, and we know that we are the 100% perfect ones, we'll marry then and there. What do you think?"
"Yes," she said, "that is exactly what we should do."
And so they parted, he to the east, she to the west.
"little green monster" - love the repetition and the short focused stab of its story.
I want to lead a general existence and yet be a distinctive, separate entity.
Yesterday could have been the day before yesterday, or vice versa. I'd sometimes wonder what kind of life this was. Which is not to say that I found it empty. I was - very simply - amazed. At the lack of demarcation between the days. At the fact that I was part of such a life, a life that had swallowed me up so completely. At the fact that my footprints were being blown away before I even had a chance to turn and look at them.
If sleep is nothing more thann a periodic repairing of the parts of me that are being worn away, I don't want it anymore. I don't need it anymore. My flesh may have to be consumed, but my mind belongs to me. I'm keeping it for myself. I will not hand it over to anyone. I don't want to be "repaired." I will not sleep.
[...] so rich with the genuine sense of daily living.
Good Omens (mini series)
Kinda enjoyable, but not very good. Too Neil Gaiman ish. Anti-christ boy defeats his father, the Devil, by simply saying "you were never my father." The whole Good of Intent always winning of the baddies. David Tennant is okay but his snakey devil is becoming a boring character. Also, of course no real drama, nobody really dies, and the usual Gaiman jokes. Only watch when you're hungover.
Dark (season 2)
Second season of the confusing German time-travel series, where a God Particle allows people to jump back and forth by 33 years. Basically it's a bit of an incestuous time-travel, because everyone at the end turns out to be someone's aunt and grand daughter at the same time. A bit too confusing to properly follow, but the dark mood is enjoyable. Also, some good songs (used in the typical slow-motion final-minutes montage of everything dreadful happening simultaneously.)
Agnes Obel - "It's happening again"
Bonaparte - "Melody X"
Agnes Obel - "It's happening again"
Bonaparte - "Melody X"
Cognitive load in services and teams
https://www.instapaper.com/read/1205617145
Interesting article on how to scale services; not by technology but by load that a team can take. Reduce intrinsic cognitive load ("how to create a class in Java") and extraneaous cognitive load ("how do I deploy this?") to maximize germane cognitive load: the part that actually adds value.
Interesting article on how to scale services; not by technology but by load that a team can take. Reduce intrinsic cognitive load ("how to create a class in Java") and extraneaous cognitive load ("how do I deploy this?") to maximize germane cognitive load: the part that actually adds value.
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