Somehow, I’ve overlooked this EP until now. It was recorded at the same time as The Creek Drank the Cradle and definitely fits right in with that material.
I definitely prefer the this to the more complicated arrangements on some of his more recent albums.
I hate it when people say advanced math is useless. This video goes to show that just because something might “look” like it’s converging doesn’t mean that it actually is - which is really important when you consider how many algorithms rely on some sort of iterative process.
Fred Wesley killing it. From the early 90s.
http://digdown.bandcamp.com/releases
Over in the Gloryland. mmm. Also, the Jackson Five cover.
I was really disappointed that I couldn’t figure this out when I first saw it. If you can’t sight sing:
Poncho Sanchez is the man. I’ve just barely scratched the surface of his material, but here’s a video that I thought was pretty good.
I’ve heard people say that when soloing on a Salsa/Latin tune, horn players need to think more like drummers (rhythmically), and drummers need to think more like horns (melodically). I really like ponchos solo in the video because there’s definitely a melody there. The sax player’s solo is not as effective in my opinion. Most of the time, he seems to be going with the standard Jazz approach of complex harmonic content, but with mostly even eighth notes or triplets. Save it for Giant Steps.
The madison area is an awesome place for biking and hills. A list of climbs in wisconsin that I’ve done:
Bascom
100 vert ft
0.2 mi
Zwettler Road
200 vert ft
0.6 mi
Devil’s Lake
300 vert ft
1 mile
Shefelbine
375 vert ft
1 mile
Blue Mounds (south side)
420 vert ft
1.4 mile
Blue Mounds (north side)
850 vert ft
3.5 miles
Although the south side of blue mounds probably shouldn’t count because I had to walk. Also, there may or may not have been some intense weaving after running out of gears when I did the north side of blue mounds. Distances were approximated using bikely.
For those not familiar with the debate, there is a movement to replace the constant π with τ where τ = 2π. For more information, see Pi is (still) wrong or the Tau Manifesto. It seems like a bit of stretch to me to say that π is “wrong”, but τ certainly seems more natural.
I just read the Pi Manifesto, and I have to say I’m thoroughly unimpressed. There are certainly advantages to π, and maybe there are even circumstances where it would be more convenient to use π, but seriously, τ is better overall.
One of the arguments in the Pi Manifesto is based on the area of the unit circle, but seriously who cares about the area of the unit circle? Angles on the unit circle are so much more important, and are the main reason I think τ is superior. It just makes so much more sense (especially to someone first learning about radians) to have a full rotation be just τ instead of 2π.
Another one of the arguments in the Pi Manifesto involves cherry picking a bunch of random formulas and fairly obscure integrals with a single π in them. Personally, I deal with a lot more formulas with 2π in them, but this really isn’t a very strong argument for either side anyway.
HIs last argument is that τ is already used in engineering for shear stress. This completely misses the point, we could easily have a different symbol for shear stress or τ! In fact, the original paper “π Is Wrong!” by Bob Palais doesn’t even use τ as the symbol. It uses two superimposed π symbols:
