Funk Babblings

Every geek who knows what the title refers to will appreciate this song by Jonathan Coulton called "Mandelbrot Set".

It's better if you listen before reading the lyrics, but somehow the line that really cracked me up was "You're one badass fucking fractal".

Last time I was this amused at a song was when I heard Me First And The Gimme Gimmes doing "Rainbow Connection".


BTW, this is one of my new discoveries via the IndieFeed Alternative/Modern Rock podcast.

I do most of my reading in bed, right before going to sleep. Regardless of whether I like the book, sometimes this makes it easier to get to sleep (Tolkien), and sometimes this makes it harder for me to get to sleep because I can't put the book down (Douglas Adams). Either way, any thoughts I have when I put down the book tend to be gone by the time I have a chance to record them.

However, I keep meaning to write my thoughts on the last two books I finished, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and then William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.

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By the way, my friends with literary aspirations should take a look at this recent post from Neil Gaiman about the publishing industry.