Show Notes - Week of April 22, 2019

Longplayer Trust:
And by long, I mean long, as in a musical composition able to last an entire millennium. Longplayer has created exactly that, with a composition that will last through the entire 2xxx’s. From their overview on longplayer.org:

Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again.\


Picture	One of the cycles will take the full 1000 years to complete, while another repeats every 3.7 days. The math used in the creation of Longplayer is quite interesting. In addition, the thinking that Longplayer is inspiring is also interesting. How do you sustain something for 1000 years? How do you account for myriad technological changes in that time frame? It is an interesting concept for sure, and the composition is calming and hypnotic. I’ll be sure to return to the Longplayer stream for as long as I am around in its 1000 year cycle.

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One of the cycles will take the full 1000 years to complete, while another repeats every 3.7 days. The math used in the creation of Longplayer is quite interesting. In addition, the thinking that Longplayer is inspiring is also interesting. How do you sustain something for 1000 years? How do you account for myriad technological changes in that time frame? It is an interesting concept for sure, and the composition is calming and hypnotic. I’ll be sure to return to the Longplayer stream for as long as I am around in its 1000 year cycle.

Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz:
Not my line, but I wish it was. Hat tip to The Register for the bon mot for their coverage of how badly Accenture performed on a website redesign for Hertz.

The article quotes from the lawsuit Hertz filed, noting ignored specs, ignored standards, and ignored best practices. But let’s face it, the best part of the article was the headline.

Bring Your Dice To Work Day:
The latest section of the dungeon crawl that I am guest DM-ing in our weekly Wednesday lunch hour D&D session has a lot for the players to encounter:\

an NPC to join the group\
an ambush\
some grey ooze action\
a mass grave\
a couple more piercers and another mimic, \
and a handful of skeletons.

That’s probably at least two hours worth of gaming if the players decide to explore everything.

New words:

pro·pin·qui·ty
[prəˈpiNGkwədē]
NOUN

formal
the state of being close to someone or something; proximity.
“he kept his distance as though afraid propinquity might lead him into temptation”
synonyms:
proximity · closeness · nearness · adjacency · contiguity ·
[more]

grav·id
[ˈɡravəd]
ADJECTIVE

technical
pregnant; carrying eggs or young.
synonyms:
expecting a baby · having a baby · with a baby on the way
full of meaning or a specified quality.
“the scene is gravid with unease”

fe·cund
ADJECTIVE

producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile.
“a lush and fecund garden”

lim·i·nal
[ˈlimənl]
ADJECTIVE
technical

relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.
occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

Krav Ma·ga
[ˌkräv məˈɡä]
NOUN

a form of self-defense and physical training, first developed by the Israeli army in the 1940s, based on the use of reflexive responses to threatening situations.

ru·gose
[ˈro͞oˌɡōs]
ADJECTIVE
biology

wrinkled; corrugated.

New beers:
It was a quiet week on the beer front with only one entry. Buzzsaw Mead from Tamarack Jack’s was good, but not quite as good as their Sawyer Hopped Mead that I had last week. (3.5 / 5)