Max @max@smeap.com

I feel like this fantastic rendition of the Avengers theme by Mariachi Entertainment System is refutation enough that the films have more soundtrack power than people credit them for. How do you not get chills that you've just hit that "Hero Teamup Moment" at even the opening few bars of Mr. Silvestri's theme here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwyYouf5lY&t=0s

Tonight the strings finished much faster than the woodwinds and brass, which was unusual in my experience of the work.

Terry Riley's In C, a beautiful composition where there are often nearly as many folks on stage as in the listening audience when performed live. Fascinating chance to see it performed live for a second time this year. (In an extremely different venue from the last time.)

There were four pig trucks lined up for cleaning at the truck wash near the slaughterhouse I pass in my morning commute. A reminder it's busy season in the pig murdering business.

Meat recall: Pull the following lot numbers from shelves, make a small footnote in the next ad circular.

Vegetable recall: All Romaine is Deadly Now! Never Order It Again! Vegetables are Deadly! Stop Eating Salads!

Something seems amiss here.

It was not a dependency issue of that sort, it was use copy and pastes and I retype, so copy & pasted numbers in some parts of the app were getting saved as strings, so some equations worked (because implicit JS type coercion, boo) and the others didn't because the dependency just ignore strings because WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT STRINGS TO BE NUMBERS?! 😿

Playing that dependency bingo where the CI build version is returning weird results compared to "works on my machine". 🙀🔥🔥🔥

"The President of the University found it easier to ram initiatives through the student legislature than the faculty/board or state legislature, and students are just as good at passive-aggressive protests as the next body, so that's why I was briefly the Vice President of the Department of Dave Matthews Studies."

Is it weird that I think I think this special finally explained to me why I think Ryan Gosling's acting is so uncanny valley weird? Listen to this native Ottawa accent and of course he struggles so much with that goofy American accent he uses in movies 🤣: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fa0sR-I3e8

Here we have a K-Pop group dropping a Spanglish single that sounds like they mashed unreleased Pitbull lyrics and Childish Gambino beats. Is this some sort of commentary on cultural appropriation?

Also, is Disney finally admitting Mickey should be public domain?? This thing really is all over the place with presumably (?) unintended subtext.

Street artists are painting this set to talk about Mickey's influence on art, and uh, that's several wrong messages: hey kids, graffiti Mickey everywhere its cool; hey kids, this special cost a ton of money but we still didn't finish all the sets in time

Okay, serenading Mickey and Minnie to celebrate their love with _Color of the Wind_ is dripping with anti-capitalist subtext, or is that just me?

(Hulu talked me into watching this Mickey's 90th Birthday special, and I can't look away. It is corny and ridiculous, and some of these choices make no sense.)

It's only the 6th of November. It's far too early to be playing Xmas music, you monsters. 😱

I blogged about pirates, because it's been on the mind lately.

http://blog.worldmaker.net/2018/11/02/philosophy-pirates/

Had a dream this morning that I was invited back to help localize in multiple languages a project I had worked on [an amalgam of them], but wasn't even published in English at the time I was working on it. I was excited to see the localization support I included by habit actually put to use, and the project actually go on sale worldwide. Slightly sad that no such thing exists in the waking world.

Talking dolphins when?

Reminder: SeaQuest DSV was originally said to be set in 2018 (before hedging to 2032).

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/satya-nadella-the-cloud-is-going-to-move-underwater/

Why did past me schedule a dentist appointment on Halloween? I'm not sure if I haunted myself this way today on purpose or not. Spooky. 👻