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Perhaps 47 now believes himself next in line to inherit the Dread Pirate Roberts pseudonym from whoever inherited it from Westley - Inigo Montoya presumably.

Yeah, I've heard it called that, too. It seems reasonable to see it all as semantics and not worth disbanding NATO or burning Grove's in the fire pit. I wouldn't mind just calling it all, sequential or stacked, hemiola. Hemiola is much easier to type than sesq- whatever it is. Anyway, I guess we can agree that hemiolas are incidents, while complex rhythms are regular patterns inherent to meter? I sure don't see you or Ex as unschooled on the musical arts. And I'm a musical slacker next to the spouse and her half century as a professional musician with a double Master's and yard-long performance and teaching CV.

(AP News): Brownout covers two counties in West Virginia as data center processes Nigerian man's query about the relative ages of "tectonostructural units." Witnesses report a cascade of data retrieval failures starting with a mistyping of sediment as "sentiment" and accelerating with a confusion between bedrock and Bedrock, the town of the fictitious family, the Flintstones. This caused a conflation with the age of Exmoor bedrock and the town of Bedrock, which began in September 1960.

I think the problem lies here: Dartmoor national park: founded 1951 Exmoor national park: founded 1954 AI confused geology and national park status. Where was Steve when you needed him? 😀

It's a hemiola if it's added in - if it's a regular rhythmic change, as in "America," where there is a regular periodic shift from 6/8 to 3/4, then it's called complex rhythm. Hemiola applies to a momentary occurrence of three duple values in place of two triple ones -- sesquialtera is different, meaning a vertical two against three, like one measure with three quarters on top, two dotted quarters on bottom. Or a triplet played against two quarters. This bugs my wife, when people call sesquialteras or complex rhythms "hemiolas." My music teachers said you could call sesquialteras a "vertical hemiola" so that can give y'all an out. A classic misnomer is calling the complex 5/4 rhythm of Mission Impossible a hemiola. It's sorta like hemiola, but again, it's baked into the whole piece so it's complex rhythm. I find it easier in some places to grasp as 10/8 btw. 123, 123, 12, 12... The Morse Code for MI matches the rhythm, btw. Dash dash dot dot. https://youtu.be/XAYhNHhxN0A?si=oEQVvIbH1V9w65YO

Emily is more up on her 12-tone composers than i had realized. Em, a non-Semite, Alban Berg a Zagreb nab. - LA e-Times (no name) IT cadet: a Lulu tacit song aids diagnostic at ululated act I. Given the demands of the song, I think it's fitting her name is Fitzhowle.

Diaresis one way, but not the other? JK. That was great, though I struggle imagining Nat King Cole singing Agnus Dei in such a venue. Leon, DNAs, Goddamn mad dogs and Noël?

Maybe Kashmir, or When the Levee Breaks. But no, there are too many I love to pick favorites. Jimmy's acoustic is sublime on Going to California. Never was clear on why Houses of the Holy was on Physical Graffiti. I've heard the rationale, so I have to respect the artist's choice. Though perhaps that placement is a taxonomic error which we can relate to the thread topic. John Bonham kept so many rhythmic things happening at once that one could ask if he was more than a tetrapod*. I wouldn't rule out an extra limb somewhere in there. * I should note that the song Four Sticks does relate to this matter of Bonham's morphology. Possibly. And Four Sticks does indeed fit the taxonomy of LZ IV, as one will note the cover art of a thatcher carrying at least four sticks on his back. The key allusion is to a multitude of sticks and the ability to use them expertly. A fact often overlooked by scholars of Zeppelin, and dirigibles generally.

The Polyphemus moth is a common example. Has simulated owl eyes and owl facial pattern on its large wings to deter predators. Maybe started as a vaguely eye-like pattern on wings due to a mutation, which gave a slight selective advantage, which then favored small variations over time leading to something more definitely owl-like. Don't know if they swing on Sunday or not.

In Led Zeppelin's famous song, Escalator to the Celestial Realms, there is a mention of both the pill bug and the chucky pig. "If there's a pill bug in your woodpile, don't be anxious now, It's just a way to break down lignin. Dear lady there are two roads to decompose organic matter, Your compost chucky pigs will soon be fatter...."

Even I got how that's funny. Some Americans have learning skills matching those of seagulls. Exactly. They're keen observers. Primates in wildlife parks started.reaching in car windows and snatching people's glasses. Having a shiny bit of plunder is a status thing among many primates, so the others watched and learned to steal as well. This also became common behavior in zoos where caging allowed a reach-through at visitors standing too close. Same around temples in India. How bizarre. If one is going by headgear and they call it "the Lord's work"... some kind of far right anti-Muslim thing?

Hehe. Well something is certainly giving them a reproductive advantage. (says local man who recently assisted in an Earth Week neighborhood cleanup project) Worth noting re this... ...that gulls are among those avian species which are pretty smart and have excellent learning skills, like Corvids and Psittaciformes. I give this googly defense system a couple years before all the gulls (and boys) have figured this out.

Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs[1] or rolly pollies. (All that family shows convergent evolution with the myriapods like the millipedes, in morphology and pilling)

As long as they're using protection. As exampled by the pill bug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae

Bold move, dropping an Indian cherry yoghurt in there. Given the Hades invoking, one might hope to work Ceres in there, but I see the path would be awkward. I've already mixed Roman and Greek god names. In that vein, perhaps I can touch on the Ceres and Proserpine myth. God stop crop? Hades erect Ceres, Ed? Ah, porc pots, dog!

Emily has been learning about canals, as she follows the Star Mangled Spanner thread in Politics. Here are some of her notes... Zeus devastates radar set at saved Suez. A man, a prosopagnosia, is on Gap OS, or Panama. A man, a pot o' pee deep. O, to Panama! Eire? Erie!

The semantic trick is that it's worded as "choose an answer ..." and not "choose a letter." So any answer immediately negates itself even (and this is the beauty part) when it is 0. You can choose randomly (coins, twirling tetrahedrons, whatev), you can choose deliberately, you will never be correct. A semantic trick is that any answer promptly invalidates itself. If each letter was a different value, and only one was .25, then the problem would become trivial and easily resolved as .25.

That would make more sense. The Gulf is a cul de sac, so it was hard to see more traffic through Panama fixing that. But yes it could help with uncertainty about getting through Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea unscathed. Before the Pajama Canal or the Snooze Canal, naturally there was the Weary Canal, connecting Albany and Buffalo NY.

Question - how is the Pajama Canal an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz? I look at a map and it's hard to make sense of this report: https://apnews.com/article/panama-canal-trade-strait-of-hormuz-iran-war-middle-east-shipment-d6a2aa2a21f29bfdf313182e753e1c41 I see that typo. Too good to correct.

Mick West joins the pantheon of great debunkers, with folks like Philip Klass, Michael Shermer, and James Randi. My only footnote would be on murder rates, and doesn't at all quarrel with West's conclusion. Homicide rates across a broad population sample tend to be inaccurate for many narrower cross sections. Some demographics have massively higher rates than others. (But yeah, even if we fine-slice the demographics of middle-aged and senior aerospace and nuclear professionals, a murder or two is expected.)

Haha, yes, this is what lazily clicking on the AI search result gets you. Here's something a bit more...analog.

The part about Bach's goblet (shattered by BACH, in the old German notation) somehow caused me to notice that the letters of Janet Jackson's name which correspond to the diatonic scale, AEAC, are a variation of the of the first four tones of opening line of Bach's Little Fugue in Gm. (Modulated up a step) (Yes, it would actually be GDBbA) Anyway, all a silly excuse to post the real thing.

It's a Bayesian belief trick, since there are four choices of letter but only three choices of p value. A random choice of letter will, with many repetitions, approach 25% for each letter. But the probability for a specific p value selection approaches 50% for one value, and 25% for the other two values. So the act of random choice of letter is different from the act of random choice of p value. In essence, the paradox lies in a single overt act actually being one that's operating on two levels. It's a Bayesian trick, because there are two incompatible beliefs as to what is being picked. Choosing an answer is not the same as choosing a letter.

Bilaterians only have to have bilateral symmetry in embryonic or larval form to be in the clade. Echinoderms are included due to BS as larvae, even though they change to radial symmetry in adulthood. When they achieve, in some cases.... stardom. Then we should probably steer clear of pyroglyphidae, too. 😄 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroglyphidae VACUUMING MATTERS.

Yes. Was just expanding a bit on the concept, as arthropods provide interesting examples. (Haven't seen it yet but I think the alien in the current hit film Project Hail Mary is sort of spider-like - I'll be interested if they explore the conceptual territory around alien ecosystems where primordial species go a different direction)