Balls and Wheels: October 2023

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-american-graffiti-invented-classic

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/i-answer-questions-from-readers music, is rock dead?, the horror of archives
"I suspect that the fear that we have exhausted melodies is actually a disguised concern that commercial music today is embracing very simple formulas. If we expanded our musical palette, many of these apparent limitations would disappear. "

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/12-predictions-on-the-future-of-song

"I realized, early on in my consulting work, that the single biggest mistake large corporations make is investing too much to keep their old business units alive—when they would be wiser putting that cash to work in new opportunities. The major record labels in the current moment are poster children for exactly this mistaken sense of priorities. They will support the ‘old songs’ business model at all costs—it’s a core part of their self image—but return on investment will be dismal."

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/were-living-in-a-scroll-and-swipe

Skinner box heaven

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/did-music-create-human-rights

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-do-young-people-keep-telling the death of romance

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-brilliant-bad-decisions-of-john

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-secret-music-technology-of-raymond

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-man-who-put-out-fires-with-music

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-magical-and-musical-research vg

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-neuroscience-confirms-the-most

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/can-songs-really-replace-philosophy

verra verra interesting

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-1787/

https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/1327511170190864384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

http://www.cymaticsource.com/ sus but whatev

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/death-a-literary-guide

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-i-disintermediated-my-writing vg

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/when-a-single-person-controlled-the

But the most extreme case of music copyright comes from Elizabethan England. Here the Queen gave William Byrd and Thomas Tallis a patent covering all music publishing for a period of 21 years. Not only did the two composers secure a monopoly over English music, but they also could prevent retailers or other entrepreneurs in the country from selling “songs made and printed in any foreign country.”

If anybody violated this patent, the fine was 40 shillings. And the music itself was seized and given to Tallis and Byrd. They probably had quite a nice private library of scores by the time the patent expired.

But that’s not all. Byrd and Tallis’s stranglehold on music was so extreme it even covered the printing of blank music paper. That meant that other composers had to pay Tallis and Byrd even before they had written down a single note.
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/8-pieces-of-advice-for-struggling

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/thomas-pynchons-gravitys-rainbow

https://thomaspynchon.com/professor-irwin-coreys-acceptance-of-pynchons-national-book-award/

Blues Brothers and John Belushi

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/making-of-blues-brothers-budget-for-cocaine

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Carlos Bauer address?

https://radaris.com/p/Carlos/Bauer/

Bill Weiss - minor league statistician

https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/1948734

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Ritalin

Peanuts with only the first three panels

https://3eanuts.com/

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Leisure

https://prufrock.substack.com/p/leisure-and-the-liberal-arts

Leisure is not just contemplation - it can be physical creation

Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/22105/833.pdf

Excel

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/import-data-from-the-web-b13eed81-33fe-410d-9247-1747269c28e4

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sumif-function-169b8c99-c05c-4483-a712-1697a653039b#:~:text=If%20you%20want%2C%20you%20can,%3AB5%20equal%20%22John.%22

https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/eji3gd/repeating_two_alternating_formulas_down_a_column/

https://www.mrexcel.com/board/threads/formula-to-find-the-value-of-the-closest-non-blank-cell-to-the-left.1011122/

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-replace-value-with-0-in-Excel

To stop an operation: click 'escape'

https://excelchamps.com/formulas/remove-parentheses/#:~:text=First%2C%20select%20the%20range%20of,and%20then%20click%20Replace%20All.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/excelgeneral/combine-data-from-2-columns-into-1-column/242822 = B2& " " & C2 - quotation marks for space

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/remove-spaces-before-and-after-the-word-in-cell/ae11ab52-0a12-4ae0-9fca-11b396c2d8af
=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A22,CHAR(160),"")) https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/capitalize-first-letter-excel/ Capitalize first letter in cell and make others lower-case =REPLACE(LOWER(C2),1,1,UPPER(LEFT(C2,1))) To make first letter of each word upper case: =PROPER(A2) 4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50155395/split-one-column-into-two-columns-based-on-the-row-is-odd-or-even

=INDEX(A:A,2*ROW()-1) =INDEX(A:A,2*ROW()) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/211062/copy-every-nth-line-from-one-sheet-to-another

=OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,(ROW()-1)*7,0)

How to repeat each row four times:

=INDEX(A:A,CEILING(ROWS(C$1:C1)/4,1))

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45637400/excel-merge-two-columns-into-one-column-with-alternating-values
=TOCOL(A1:B3) https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-do-i-remove-preceding-zeros-from-a-number-like/47332443-5937-4552-af47-16dbc3d03de3 =VALUE(A1)

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Music forum

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/

Site w/ cards for sale

https://baseballcardresource.com/

Monday, October 2, 2023

Porcupine Tree: In Absentia documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Eoq-xTsV98&t=4584s

Cities

Pictures:
https://www.londonslostrivers.com/ vg

https://www.undercity.org/ vg

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/02/132482428/into-the-tunnels-exploring-the-underside-of-nyc

https://www.kuriositas.com/2011/07/fleet-londons-underground-river.html vg

https://www.gettyimages.ca/search/2/image?family=editorial&phrase=sewer

https://wearesouthdevon.com/the-fleet-torquays-subterranean-river/

https://victorianweb.org/technology/bridges/32.html

"Where Fleet ditch, with disemboguing streams,
Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames."

https://www.kuriositas.com/2013/10/the-red-menace-anti-communist.html int. 50s contemp posters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris 6M+ buried - a wall made of bones

"Arrête! C'est ici l'empire de la Mort"

built directly under the streets so can't build tall buildings there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX charged in court for restoring the Pantheon clock '

https://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2014/08/20/london-corners-underground-waters/

gold fish in the river Tyburn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_people live in the tunnels and subways

https://archive.org/details/historicalguidet00citya/page/240/mode/2up NYC - 1914

https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/nyhs/pr062_reuel_smith_springs_wells/
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Springs_and_Wells_of_Manhattan_and_the_B/Z4BAAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
xiii: "The bringing of Croton water to the town was celebrated as far back as the 14th of October, 1842, and it soon thereafter superseded almost exclusively the use of springs, wells, and pumps."
xv: "[As of 1916 there are] many springs still running, but they are out of sight in cellars and subcellars of buildings..."
xvii: "The springs on Manhattan Island have generally fallen to the care of the careless, and their housings have been allowed to go to ruin."

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/6g2oy5/warsaw_at_the_end_of_19th_century_circa_18901900/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Spring,_Warsaw Drinking water had to be paid for
https://culture.pl/en/article/here-come-the-waterworks-warsaws-19th-century-engineering-gem Built in 1870s to improve sanitation. The waterworks were well-built. Its water comes from the Vistula River. Seen from above ground, the reservoirs are grassy fields.

https://londonist.com/london/features/london-s-water-pump The survivors

https://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/04/historic-elaborate-water-pumps.html
The village water pump once stood at the centre of rural life in the United Kingdom, with most communities having pumps on the village green or in the town centre. Once piped water mains appeared in the nineteenth century, the old style water pumps quickly fell out of use. Many were simply discarded and sadly, few of these pumps now survive, but here’s a look at some of the examples that have stood the test of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szczecin_water_pumps

https://backinthedayof.co.uk/the-state-of-the-water-in-victorian-england
"As more and more of London’s marshland was built on and the small rivers were built over, residents became to rely upon pumps in the street to provide their water. These pumps were installed by various different water companies and they drew the water from the Thames, or the little rivers which flowed into the Thames. In better areas, one pump served 3 houses but in the poorer areas, one pump could serve up to 20 houses. This meant endless queueing at the pump at the best of times. But to top it all off, it was decided that the pumps should only be turned on for a few hours a day. In some areas, the pump was turned on every other day. Households had to use every tub and bowl they owned to hold the water they needed for up to 48 hours. This rationing of water meant that each household had to carefully work out how much to use for washing, cooking, cleaning, laundry, and drinking. If the residents were at work when the pump was turned on, then they missed out completely."
From a comment, quoting a forgotten article (so of iffy provenance):

By the mid-1800s most middle-class homes had running water. The water comes into the scullery where the primary use is for kitchen work and the laundry. By the 1870s, pipes were being installed to bring water to the upper floors to furnish water for the water closet. Water usage is estimated at 22 gallons per day per person.

Domestic use, excluding laundry 9 gallons
Water Closet 5 gallons
Baths, once a week 5 gallons

Washing clothes 3 gallons

https://construccion.uv.cl/docs/textos/coleccion03/TEXTO.06.TheHistLondonWater.pdf
"The amount of water English people employ is inconceivable, especially for the cleansing of their houses. Though they are not slaves to cleanliness, like the Dutch, still they are very remarkable for this virtue. Not a week passes by but well kept houses are washed twice in the seven days, and that from top to bottom; and even every morning most kitchens, staircase, and entrance are scrubbed. All furniture, and especially all kitchen utensils, are kept with the greatest cleanliness. Even the large hammers and the locks on the door are rubbed and shine brightly. Would you believe it, though water is to be had in abundance in London, and of fairly good quality, absolutely none is drunk? The lower classes, even the paupers, do not know what it is to quench their thirst with water. In this country nothing but beer is drunk, and it is made in several qualities" - Cesar de Saussure, A Foreign View of England, 1726

"The quantity of water provided to each house was not measured directly. Meters were not introduced until the late nineteenth century, and so no direct measure of the water served to the average house is available. However, commentators, such as Richard Castle in his calculations on the water supply for Dublin, or Samuel Hearne is his LBWW report, frequently reckoned 1 tun (955 L) per house daily.12 Since houses were mostly served every second day, the average daily use was half that (500 L per day). Both Lowthorp and Sorocold used approximately the half-tun figure in their calculations.13 Furthermore, some figures were reported for the total volume of water served by the New River at various times (1723, 1726, 1780, 1786, 1808), and they give an amount per house of 0.8 to 1.3 tuns (750 L to 1250 L) over two days, corroborating the reckoning given by the other accounts.14 This was a significant quantity when considered in a contemporary context. In modern developed countries, water usage can be around 250 liters per person per day.15 Assuming households with eight people, the average water consumption per person would have been around 60–70 liters daily over the course of the eighteenth century."

"In homes, the water was used for a variety of purposes, including for drinking, laundry, washing, preparing foods, watering stables, bathing, and even ornamentation in gardens of the wealthiest houses."

https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/11/1757/2007/hess-11-1757-2007.pdf
Paris suburbanites consumed 94 liters/capita/day (around 25 gallons.)
https://delibra.bg.polsl.pl/Content/23927/BCPS_25751_1938_Wodociagi-i-kanaliza.pdf

Under City

https://www.undercity.org/

Sunday, October 1, 2023

NFL streaming

https://vpnoverview.com/unblocking/sports/watch-nfl-online/#h-7-streamnfl-streaming-site-dedicated-to-pro-football-streams

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