infundibulum

I usually skip these sorts of memes, but this one is pretty interesting:

How many languages in your music collection? (kottke.org)

Here’s what I came up with:

More than five
• tons of Brazilian Portuguese: Chico Buarque, bossa nova stuff, Caetano Veloso Marisa Monte…
• tons of Welsh: SFA, Gorky’s, Datblygu…
• a fair amount of Japanese: Cornelius, Shonen Knife, Takako Minekawa…
• French: Françoise Hardy, Gainsbourg…
• Cape Verde Creole: Cesaria Evora, Simentera

Just a few
• Hopi: The soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi (does that count?)
• Tuvan: some throat-singing stuff
• Amharic: Asnaqetch Werqu, Gigi, a couple other cds from the Ethiopiques series
• Malagasy: a band called Tarika
• Hungarian: Muszikas

(Don’t even get me started on the mp3s…)

Thank you for visiting my post full of indulgence and have a nice day.

You know why people like Costco?

I’m going to tell you, right now.

BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT TWO MILLION KINDS OF TOOTHPASTE JUST ONE THANKS NOW I CAN GO HOME.

That’s why.

Sometimes I get this annoying suspicion that the COMPUTER SCIENCE obsession with “validation” and “parsing” is completely misguided, and that it would be much more sensible to deal with probabilities from the ground up.

No, I have no idea what I’m talking about. It just seems incredibly wrong that one misplaced semicolon can make a million lines of code come crashing down.

DNA works, after all.

Is it just me or is U+062A ARABIC LETTER TEH a happy-looking letter?

Sigh.

Blog crush.