1st derivative of position with respect to time is velocity. 2nd derivative is acceleration, the change of velocity. 3rd is jerk, change of acceleration. 4th is snap, 5th is crackle, 6th is pop. Something to consider next time you eat your cereal 😂

Day two: more fun at Roland

Day 2 trip to visit Roland…

Tokyo pics day 2: trip to Hamamatsu

Tokyo pics: first day in Akihabara

If you're in Tokyo the first week in June, I think there are still some tickets remaining for the Audio Developer Conference. I'll be doing a fresh version of the spiel I've been doing for the past 8-9 years. Super fresh! adcjapan26.sched.com/event/2OQmV/...

Spending a cold rainy day prepping for my Tokyo trip this week. It would be nice if I could trust that seat pitch on my flights will be enough to get my laptop open, but I definitely do NOT trust that.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! • Benny Goodman • Ella Fitzgerald • Miles Davis • Pierre Boulez • John Cage • Laurie Anderson • Duran Duran • Ornette Coleman • Jon Hassell • Buckethead

I get what he's saying here, but I've only lived in Philly for a year and 100% of the politics here is screwy and odd. I thought that seeing 35 years of Jersey machine politics had inoculated me.

We saw this in the Star Trek TOS episode "Miri" -- they are grupps who have been infected. It spreads quickly and then the children all chant "Lovey Dovey! Bonk bonk on the head!" McCoy tries the experimental antidote on himself, it works, everyone is cured.

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

Reporting from night 2 of They Might Be Giants in Philly: John Henry feature. Bonus tonight: VIP by proxy.

Reporting from the They Might Be Giants show in Philly night 1.

I am forever grateful to Rex Reed. Flipping channels in college, I came across an in-progress vitriolic screed. It was JUST not what HE thought THEY should make a MOVIE about... Waited for him to take a breath and give the title, then zoomed to the next showing of Lynch's Blue Velvet. Thanks!

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

Ever since I started working from home in 1997 (!) I have made it a strict policy to get out of the house and walk at lunchtime. Today, I stumbled into doing a man-on-the-street interview with the local Fox station about the World Cup Fan Fest that's taking over my neighborhood next month.

And now the scat portion of our program: Skoo diedle doo diedle diedle skopple dwey

Bluesky is good many things. But it’s pretty bad at sharing pieces of writing that are not about political anger but it’s worth your time to take a few minutes – more than a few minutes honestly but it’s worth it – and read this. And then share it. Like I’m doing now.

California Tumbles into the sea That'll be the day I go Back to Annandale

I've only lived in Philly for a year and I do NOT care at all about sports, but I'm beginning to think that Gritty is my pope of chaos and a roast pork sandwich is one of my sacraments.

Cuban sandwich at Versailles Calle Ocho, Miami Sept. 15 1988

There's a new car on the horizon. It's coming very slowly. It makes a noise. It has kittens painted all over it ...with a new kind of fur. Cleaner... but with a unique smell.

The Artemis crew returning tomorrow made me remember the last successful moon landing. Not Apollo 17 in 1972, the mission in 1998. I remember it like it was yesterday. My son was 2, and every morning I'd get up early and doze while he watched (amongst other things) Sesame Street.

I've only lived in Philadelphia for a year now, and that's long enough to know how long these would last on the streets here if they tried to deploy them.

Don't bother to call this room There's nobody here who can pick up

By rocket to the moon By airplane to the rocket By taxi to the airport By front door to the taxi

Thanks again to my uncle who left Philip K Dick and Robert Sheckley books laying around my grandparents' house.

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness. #filmsky #moviesky

"You're just jealous of my...my...ascertainment!" www.reddit.com/r/kidsintheh...

My top record of the last decade. It snuck up on me.

In a Lyft home after seeing some music and I forgot how much I hate the radio. It’s been a solid 8 minutes of commercials straight out hollering.

First we take art that is dead And bring it to life with electric shocks

This is very good

I’ll be in my office.

What a fucking ghoul.

So: A year ago today, we bought this rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown neighborhood. https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/annual-report/

Forrest Gump filled me with seething rage. My favorite part of it was when lightning struck nearby and the power went out for 10 minutes.

What's the John Barth novel that's layers and layers of frame stories and the different layers start talking to each other? Am I imagining that's a thing?

This talk at XOXO last year is one of my favorite things ever, and the rest of the story only makes it better.

“Twin Peaks” pilot on a huge screen at the Miami Film Festival a year before it aired on ABC.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Embarrassed that I'd never heard of this band until yesterday and have seen a dozen links to them in the last 24 hours. Microtonal math rock is (to no one's surprise) 100% my thing.

Post a banger not in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yS1...

A quadrennial reminder that snowboarding tricks should be measured in radians and not degrees.

it's like one of those small family-owned circuses we took the kids to when they were little. The tightrope walker would run backstage, change hats, and return as the lion tamer.

A serious regret in my life: back in the 80s, the Arkestra was hired in Syracuse to play all night on New Year's Eve (a set every other hour from 8pm to 8am). I was home from college, but didn't want to go by myself. Dumb dumb dumb.

What you need is someone who can dig your scene completely Not another planless schmuck who's out to make bucks easily

My mantra:

I'm unable to watch this without hearing "Yakety Sax" and imagining it played at 1.5x

This thread is the best refutation of social-media doomerism that I have seen.