LOCAL NODE 2011-04-21

Government Transparency

The class I'm T/Aing goes off-topic a lot, so I started recording OTs after a couple weeks. The class isn't through, but we're doing focused wrap-up stuff now so OTs would probably continue to trend down, with maybe just one or two short OTs until the class ends on 5 May.

Notice spikes in short OTs a week before spring break (1 March) and a week before we started working on final projects (7 April). The sudden drop in long OTs after Spring Break is interesting, but I feel like if I worked it out that drop wouldn't be very significant, mathematically. This recording system didn't prove ideal; it's just what I came up with in 10 seconds on 27 January. More qualification would be a big benefit; >20s OTs occasionally mean "took up the entire rest of class," which is very different than the common two-minute discussions of hamburgers. Generally, I think a more qualified OT-rating system would have resulted in a graph that reflected when breaks were much more clearly. Consider the OT totals for each day, and you already start to see that.

LOCAL NODE 2011-03-25

How Last.fm Must Work

In my opinion as a professional, there is an entire desert world populated with these—possibly the second planet in the Kolibri binary system. Each creature catches the falling records and secretes the resulting info-fluid into the last.fm datalink on its back.

LOCAL NODE 2011-03-25

Samlibar H. Wagers

I was playing games, and R. Monkeys OBE bet me that a chiptune version of Bohemian Rhapsody was uncreatable; such beeps are inadequate, tonally-speaking. The result of that wager!:

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Such beeps are, indeed, partially-inadequate. The middle of the song is a little thin because I found that if I copied it exactly, the result was really atonal. Which might be a limitation of the sound libraries I am using, because shifting it didn't help.

LOCAL NODE 2011-03-13

Recordings of Robonians

The nom de probe "ProBot-1" doesn't have anything to do with ProBot's drill-arm, but instead refers to his professional status as a dilithium prospector, although of course he is now retired. But we can accept a lack of fortitude; he is a Regulan.
Although fellow passengers were confused as I drew his portrait on my phone. "I thought those had better graphics," Ronaldiñho said. I chided him for inadvertently mocking my congenital tiny square fingertips.