Among the things I learned this week:
* There are less than 10 full-time classical critics on the staffs of US newspapers. (Courtesy: Alex Ross/New Yorker)
* Orson Welles was a fan of Taxi. (Courtesy: Boing Boing)
* A conversation between William F. Buckley and Grouch Marx is not nearly as interesting as expected. (Courtesy: Personal Experience)
1—–>3—–>5
Terrible—>Fantastic
5
Tribe Called Quest, A – We got it from here…Thank You 4 Your Service
4
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
MIA – MAYA
MIA – Matangi
Robinson, Frederic – Flea Waltz
Lamar, Kendrick – untitled unmastered
Lamar, Kendrick – To Pimp a Butterfly
3
Weeknd, The – Starboy
Sey, Seinabo – Pretend
Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors
2
Banks & Steelz – Anything but Words
1
Among the things I learned this week:
* UC Davis has a coffee center and engineering class (Courtesy: ZS). Grades are dependent on the quality of the cup of coffee students produce and the amount of energy used (pdf) to make that cup. Scoring the quality of the cup is done using this scale: “The coffee will be judged in a blind taste test by a panel of your peers on a scale of -10 to 55 (where -10 is the worst cup of coffee in the history of mankind, and 55 is nirvana in a cup.)”
* I’m capable of missing an entire season of Ft. Reno. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Blue Bottle is selling pre-ground coffee, and in a very software way. (Courtesy: Personal experience)