Saturday, January 27, 2024

Pure Imagination Piano Solo

I can't imagine having the skill to play so many notes so accurately.   I would have to do it by wrote because my brain doesn't understand music very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMqwsPM1gcc

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Saturday, November 25, 2023

The mysterious case of the "lost positive"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7TfjCIbtng

English is a mess and probably always will be.  It combines West Germanic languages, Latin, Old Norse, and French.  This gives us more words that mean the same thing.

At one time English had grammatical gender just like many languages do today, but dropped it.  I'm grateful for this simplification.

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Why Do Americans Write the Date Like This?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HS-KmLnkyhY

The International ISO standard for dates is YYYY-MM-DD.  I've been using this format for the simple reason that I like it.

Friday, November 3, 2023

The Mind

"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."

Ralph Waldo Emerson