PSA: a whole boiled crab is not airplane food. It should not be placed on a tray table, wafting its fishy scent throughout the aisles, while you slowly dissect and eat it.
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
PSA: a whole boiled crab is not airplane food. It should not be placed on a tray table, wafting its fishy scent throughout the aisles, while you slowly dissect and eat it.
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Thanks NPR Music
clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Thanks NPR Music
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I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms!
In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here:
salexanderreed.com/backbeats
In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here:
salexanderreed.com/backbeats
Backbeats — 1458 Possible Rhythms — ⠀
salexanderreed.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms!
In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here:
salexanderreed.com/backbeats
In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here:
salexanderreed.com/backbeats
Rapture? I hardly know her!
September 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Rapture? I hardly know her!
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
"Baton Rouge depressed me terribly. So, having the money to go away, I went." —Langston Hughes
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Baton Rouge depressed me terribly. So, having the money to go away, I went." —Langston Hughes
TIL that Laverne Cox's twin performs post-Diamanda-Galás experimental music under the name M. Lamar. Incredible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGr...
Re-Memberments/The Demon Rising- M. Lamar with Hunter Hunt-Hendrix & James Ilgenfritz
YouTube video by M Lamar
www.youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
TIL that Laverne Cox's twin performs post-Diamanda-Galás experimental music under the name M. Lamar. Incredible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGr...
My household's loved-to-bindinglessness Tom Lehrer songbook, inherited from my spouse's late father.
It's incredible to contemplate that there was a time when a dual arts and mathematics career was a possibility in academia. RIP
It's incredible to contemplate that there was a time when a dual arts and mathematics career was a possibility in academia. RIP
July 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My household's loved-to-bindinglessness Tom Lehrer songbook, inherited from my spouse's late father.
It's incredible to contemplate that there was a time when a dual arts and mathematics career was a possibility in academia. RIP
It's incredible to contemplate that there was a time when a dual arts and mathematics career was a possibility in academia. RIP
A certain bat has been waiting 43 years for this moment.
July 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A certain bat has been waiting 43 years for this moment.
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Nirvana: “The Spirit of People Aged Twenty and Older Is Odorless”
The Cure: “I’m Not in Love, Which Is How I Know Today Isn’t Friday”
Bruce Springsteen: “Do You Know What It’s Like to Be Someone Who Isn’t on Fire? Because I Don’t”
The Cure: “I’m Not in Love, Which Is How I Know Today Isn’t Friday”
Bruce Springsteen: “Do You Know What It’s Like to Be Someone Who Isn’t on Fire? Because I Don’t”
Pop Music Contrapositives
Nirvana “The Spirit of People Aged Twenty and Older Is Odorless” The Cure “I’m Not in Love, Which Is How I Know Today Isn’t Friday” Bruce Springste...
buff.ly
July 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Nirvana: “The Spirit of People Aged Twenty and Older Is Odorless”
The Cure: “I’m Not in Love, Which Is How I Know Today Isn’t Friday”
Bruce Springsteen: “Do You Know What It’s Like to Be Someone Who Isn’t on Fire? Because I Don’t”
The Cure: “I’m Not in Love, Which Is How I Know Today Isn’t Friday”
Bruce Springsteen: “Do You Know What It’s Like to Be Someone Who Isn’t on Fire? Because I Don’t”
If you're a parent and you haven't yet downloaded/screenshot the childhood vaccine schedule, now is a good time, and here is an easy way to do so:
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If you're a parent and you haven't yet downloaded/screenshot the childhood vaccine schedule, now is a good time, and here is an easy way to do so:
My SMT-Pod episode with Mazbou Q is out now! We discuss teaching theory and aural skills through and for hip hop, and Maz offers some great lesson plan ideas. smt-pod.org/episodes/sea...
SMT-Pod
The Society for Music Theory Podcast
smt-pod.org
May 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
My SMT-Pod episode with Mazbou Q is out now! We discuss teaching theory and aural skills through and for hip hop, and Maz offers some great lesson plan ideas. smt-pod.org/episodes/sea...
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"The Abysmal Urge: Compositional Structure and Gesture in Meshuggah's Breakdowns"
I need a co author who will keep me on task
I need a co author who will keep me on task
March 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"The Abysmal Urge: Compositional Structure and Gesture in Meshuggah's Breakdowns"
I need a co author who will keep me on task
I need a co author who will keep me on task
why is teaching a M/W/F class so much more work than a T/Th one
February 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
why is teaching a M/W/F class so much more work than a T/Th one
Anyone else's kids learning their letters by doing the wordle/quordle/octordle with you?
February 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Anyone else's kids learning their letters by doing the wordle/quordle/octordle with you?
They say fiction is a safe place to confront your deepest fears, which is probably why my 2 year old makes daily requests for stories about running out of goldfish.
January 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
They say fiction is a safe place to confront your deepest fears, which is probably why my 2 year old makes daily requests for stories about running out of goldfish.
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Tonight my 2 year old slapped me in the face with a dirty diaper and my wife laughed until she cried.
January 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Tonight my 2 year old slapped me in the face with a dirty diaper and my wife laughed until she cried.
always a delight watching my neighbor juggle his paper towels, dog food, canned goods, and assault rifle as he endeavors to make it from car to house in one trip
January 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
always a delight watching my neighbor juggle his paper towels, dog food, canned goods, and assault rifle as he endeavors to make it from car to house in one trip
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americans moving to rednote:
January 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
americans moving to rednote:
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thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
January 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
Just finished the Tenant of Wildfell Hall and there's no way I'm gonna believe the narrator said all that in a letter
January 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Just finished the Tenant of Wildfell Hall and there's no way I'm gonna believe the narrator said all that in a letter
Ethel Cain is the easy listening Lingua Ignota
January 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Ethel Cain is the easy listening Lingua Ignota
My child's love of magnets combined with toddler enunciation skills has resulted a lot of "I want to play maggots!" "I need more maggots!" and "Wow, so many maggots!"
January 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My child's love of magnets combined with toddler enunciation skills has resulted a lot of "I want to play maggots!" "I need more maggots!" and "Wow, so many maggots!"
The other day we learned that our child's preschool has a designated sandbox for consensual roughhousing that they call "fight square." Children who leave fight square crying aren't allowed back in for the rest of the day.
January 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The other day we learned that our child's preschool has a designated sandbox for consensual roughhousing that they call "fight square." Children who leave fight square crying aren't allowed back in for the rest of the day.