I mean I get that it's a whole V-I thing and so G something but man that is not what I'd call it even given that. 😊

I'm like utterly untrained in this sort of jazz thinking, but those are not AT ALL how I would label either of those chords. The first one to my inversions-don't-matter brain is the "Purple Haze" 022133 chord. E7#9 or something, I dunno, Hendrix.

"She wears a hot glue gun in her holster, and carries a tractate of the Talmud with her at all times. This week she's studying the laws surrounding leprosy." Among other interesting things in her @description.

I just stuck my nose in there to poke around, and saw that your last connect was:

Friday, March 23, 2001 at 4:03:36 PM EST

Yeah, that's been a while.

The MOO is *still running* quietly, lonely, deserted, in a virtual machine I doggedly keep alive on the Internet just because I can't bear to shut it down. Good times indeed.

I think also, and I base this on nothing concrete, that even tho whitespace compresses well, having it in there still adds wee tokens to the output, sprinkled all through the payload. This is, again, just mostly speculation from ~15 years ago, I am -not- even moderately expert in compression.

At CL we were pathological about saving every byte for MAX SPEEDZ, so this was very compelling and we ended up doing that globally. I can totally, tho, see the arguments against minifying things that aren't widely-available libraries etc that can be inspected from their original source.

At craigslist, I investigated the gzip-vs-minify question. I had a cool chart, now lost, with raw, min, gzip, and min+gzip -- min+gzip was IIRC like ~15% smaller than gzip alone, using various stock libraries as the input. Not speaking to any other merits of min, just sharing that one factoid.

Hunh. I was right this second years old when I learned that. Fascinating.

Yeah this tour was pretty great, being with an actual band instead of just him solo with a loud guitar, which is what he'd been doing for a few years. Worth seeing that way if you get a chance, but better for sure with a full band. And yes, keeping an eye on the Sugar tour yes please kthx.

Recently saw Bob Mould, and he closed the show with this. It was a great callback and of course rocked.

100% yes.

I do like taking every opportunity, though, to mention that Wine and Proton are legit *MAGICAL* these days, and basically everyone should be jumping ship without delay.

(And then the numbers go up and the devs actually think to click the right compile checkboxes. We hope.)

"Workbook" continues to be a woefully underrated perfect album.

This was, and remains, the pinnacle of human artistic achievement.

I feel like a lot of Windows installers I've ever run across just go in and glom an entry onto PATH and leave it at that. Seems to be the way of things for CLI Windows tools.

That. Is. Bonkers.

I ran sound for the band, for a few minutes while my friend the actual sound guy went to the restroom, at the cast/wrap party for the Weird Al movie "UHF." Weird Al himself did not play, but I got to watch him and the rest of the cast wander around, from the back of the room.

A friend sent me the first three of these back when I think there -were- just three. A few years ago I discovered there were several more and got all caught up. Great stuff.

I'm still on team "bVI is subdominant" but since I can't tell you otherwise, then I'm gonna fall back on "yes, yes that counts." ;)

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

Oh wow, when I read your original post, I assumed it was the same bit that stuck with me -- when Venkman apologizes to Janine about "the bug-eyes thing." It's a quick cursory apology, but he noticed and did it unprompted, and that, yeah, made an impression on me as a kid.