Yes, in my endeavor to actually focus and make real, tangible progress on homework, I got sucked in by YouTube again. It should be illegal for me to have internet access on a weekend that is supposed to be devoted to study.
Every song in this video I enjoyed on its own, never realizing how musically similar they all are. I had noticed several soundtracks, usually by the same composer, that used similar snippets of melody, but never had I noticed that the basic chord pattern was the same! Further searching turned up a slew of other, popular music, non-soundtrack songs (which, lets face it, tend to borrow endlessly from each other anyway) that feature THE SAME chord pattern. There are some trivial things that, albeit pointless in the grand scheme of things, absolutely blow my mind. This is one.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Let the Weekend Begin!
Well, school has been in for three full weeks, and this is the first weekend I'm spending here. My poor horse will be devastated, no doubt, and the family cat may just develop an ulcer because she can't find all of "her" people, but it has to happen. This semester my courses are all pretty frontloaded as far as projects and deadlines go, so I really do need to spend some time making real progress on some of this research and writing. One project that I'm really enthused about working on is a paper for my Early American History course, on the Whiskey Rebellion. I've already cleared out the school library's stock of books on the subject. XD
A friend recently sent me a list of words that don't exist in the English language. How many times have you wished that you had a word for something that you encounter, and English fails you?
L'esprit de escalier (French): The feeling that you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things that you should have said. Translated it means "spirit of the staircase".
Waldeinsamkeit (German): The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki (Greek): Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
Gheegle (Filipino): The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Pochemuchka (Russian): A person who asks a lot of questions.
Pena Ajena (Mexican Spanish): The embarrassment that you feel watching someone else's humiliation.
Cualacino (Italian): The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
A friend recently sent me a list of words that don't exist in the English language. How many times have you wished that you had a word for something that you encounter, and English fails you?
L'esprit de escalier (French): The feeling that you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things that you should have said. Translated it means "spirit of the staircase".
Waldeinsamkeit (German): The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki (Greek): Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
Gheegle (Filipino): The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Pochemuchka (Russian): A person who asks a lot of questions.
Pena Ajena (Mexican Spanish): The embarrassment that you feel watching someone else's humiliation.
Cualacino (Italian): The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Resuscitation Time
Wow, I just realized how long it's been since I've posted. My summer has been kind of insane, between work, family, and horses. I'm back at school now, and hopefully can devote more time to the blog.
Recently I've been reading (and watching Discovery Channel specials) on dark matter, and the notion that, for the universe to exist as it does, there ought to be an incomprehensible amount of matter "out there" exerting gravitational force. All of that "stuff", science is unable to directly detect! Astrophysics isn't exactly my field in any sense of the term, but I still find the topics and theories absolutely fascinating. If anyone else out there is interested, here's a link to the Wikipedia entry on dark matter. Makes me wish I could comprehend the mathematical subtleties along with the broad concepts. My home satellite TV service recently upgraded, so now I get to watch the Science Channel and have my mind blown to my heart's content, at least on weekends that I'm not up to my eyeballs in homework and research projects!
Starting the school year with a change of blog scenery! I think it looks pretty good, personally!
Recently I've been reading (and watching Discovery Channel specials) on dark matter, and the notion that, for the universe to exist as it does, there ought to be an incomprehensible amount of matter "out there" exerting gravitational force. All of that "stuff", science is unable to directly detect! Astrophysics isn't exactly my field in any sense of the term, but I still find the topics and theories absolutely fascinating. If anyone else out there is interested, here's a link to the Wikipedia entry on dark matter. Makes me wish I could comprehend the mathematical subtleties along with the broad concepts. My home satellite TV service recently upgraded, so now I get to watch the Science Channel and have my mind blown to my heart's content, at least on weekends that I'm not up to my eyeballs in homework and research projects!
Starting the school year with a change of blog scenery! I think it looks pretty good, personally!
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