I think the lesson here is to pay attention when any captcha asks for more than 5 letters/numbers
TIL 5: Iambic pentameter
Ramkhamhaeng
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You shouldn't lick a steel post in Greenland. It's very cold there.
We have a Greek restaurant in town called It's All Greek to Me.
My dad was friends with the original owner, and did odd jobs and errands for him. One day he was asked to pick up an order from a local hardware store (for repairs and renovations). The clerk asked for the buyer's name for the paperwork, and my dad said, "It's All Greek to Me."
It took a few minutes for my dad to convince the clerk he wasn't being a jackass about it and that there really was a business in town with that name.
You shouldn't lick a steel post anywhere.
TIL: the physics behind why music moves us.
today.uconn.edu
This Is Your Brain On Music: Groundbreaking UConn-led Study Shows How the Brain Keeps the Beat - UConn Today
'Neural resonance theory' offers new way to understand how the brain transforms sound into music
today.uconn.edu
TIL: the physics behind why music moves us.
This Is Your Brain On Music: Groundbreaking UConn-led Study Shows How the Brain Keeps the Beat - UConn Today
'Neural resonance theory' offers new way to understand how the brain transforms sound into music
Predictability, and being sure that you know where the next chords are going to go is probably why I prefer folk music.
I just skimmed the article, so didn't notice if it mentions different genres of music.
It did not and suspect that the music one syncs most readily to is tied to the musical culture of one's first 20 or so years of like.
Okay, that makes sense.
I was heavily influenced by my dad's preference for folk and country/western, my grandmother's preference for old-fashioned dance music (the waltzes & polkas type of stuff), and in junior high we studied songs from various musicals and an opera (Carmen; we put on our own version of that and invited the parents to come and watch; my grandfather's opinion of the boys playing the guards was, "Somebody need t' teach dose boys how to march!"). That was when I was introduced to Gordon Lightfoot's music, and eventually in high school I started working backstage in musical theatre. I attended every rehearsal I could, and even though I was on the props crew, I absorbed the music as best I could. I've always been able to play by ear, and only learned to read music years after I started playing. One of the best parts of musical theatre was learning new songs to play for my grandmother, like "Wunderbar" (from Kiss Me, Kate) and "Edelweiss" (from The Sound of Music).
I didn't even think to check out music like The Beatles until a Russian ice-dancing team skated to a medley of their songs at the 1988 Olympics. There are individual songs I like, but I wouldn't say I'd spend an evening listening to them.
Yanni or Enya, though? Yep, I would - and have. Enya's been a tremendous inspiration for my writing, especially "Only Time" and "Tempus Vernum".
So not much rock music, though again, there are individual songs I like, and it's all really tame stuff compared with what's going on nowadays. So much of it's just noise to me*, with people shouting or mumbling, rather than really singing. I appreciate someone who can genuinely sing, which is why I like some of the a capella singers. I ran across someone on FB last night who posted a video of himself doing a medley of ABBA songs. Yes, there was a gimmick to it, much like Peter Hollens does (filming himself singing different parts, and then combining them all together later; with Hollens it looks like he's quintuplets), but it's really nice to listen to.
*And no arguments about that from anyone here, 'k? I'm perfectly aware that some of my musical preferences are just noise to other people who may think it's slow and plodding and old-fashioned.
My first experience of being a music fan was meeting The Mom & Dads in the music department in Woolco here in Red Deer; I was about 7, and was ecstatic to get my In the Blue Canadian Rockies album autographed. I had to wait another 20 years before my next music fan experience - meeting The Irish Rovers, when they did a concert a couple of blocks from where I lived. I'd had such a crush on Will Millar since I was 8 years old (not uncommon among their female fans; they appealed to every age group from children to seniors), and didn't get to meet him until I was nearly 30. He's retired now, living on Salt Spring Island in BC, and became a painter. When I ordered a couple of his CDs he'd made after quitting the Irish Rovers and forming a different group (Some Mad Irishmen), he included a print of one of his paintings.
TIL you can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
To spot JSON in base64: Whenever you see ey, that’s {" and then if it’s followed by a letter, you’ll get J followed by a letter.
base64 encoded certificates and private keys all start with LS, which reminds of the LS in “TLS certificate.”
To spot JSON in base64: Whenever you see ey, that’s {" and then if it’s followed by a letter, you’ll get J followed by a letter.
Bash:
$ echo "{" | base64
ewo=
$ echo "{\"" | base64
eyIK
$ echo "{\"s" | base64
eyJzCg==
$ echo "{\"a" | base64
eyJhCg==
$ echo "{\"word\"" | base64
eyJ3b3JkIgo=base64 encoded certificates and private keys all start with LS, which reminds of the LS in “TLS certificate.”
Bash:
$ echo -en "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" | base64
LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDRVJUSUZJQ0FURS0tLS0tTIL about Kyptos. An encrypted sculpture in the courtyard of the CIA HQ.
Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.
Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the four encrypted messages it bears. Of these four messages, the first three have been solved, while the fourth message remains one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. Artist Jim Sanborn has hinted that a fifth coded message will reveal itself after the first four are solved. The sculpture continues to be of interest to cryptanalysts, both amateur and professional, attempting to decode the fourth passage. The artist has so far given four clues to this passage.
The sculpture comprises four large copper plates with other elements consisting of water, wood, plants, red and green granite, white quartz, and petrified wood. The most prominent feature of the entire piece is a large vertical S-shaped copper screen resembling a scroll or a piece of paper emerging from a computer printer, half of which consists of encrypted text, that is located in the northwest corner of the New Headquarters Building courtyard, outside of the agency's cafeteria. The characters are all found within the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, along with question marks, and are cut out of the copper plates. The main sculpture contains four separate enigmatic messages, three of which have been deciphered.
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Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.
Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the four encrypted messages it bears. Of these four messages, the first three have been solved, while the fourth message remains one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. Artist Jim Sanborn has hinted that a fifth coded message will reveal itself after the first four are solved. The sculpture continues to be of interest to cryptanalysts, both amateur and professional, attempting to decode the fourth passage. The artist has so far given four clues to this passage.
Description
The sculpture comprises four large copper plates with other elements consisting of water, wood, plants, red and green granite, white quartz, and petrified wood. The most prominent feature of the entire piece is a large vertical S-shaped copper screen resembling a scroll or a piece of paper emerging from a computer printer, half of which consists of encrypted text, that is located in the northwest corner of the New Headquarters Building courtyard, outside of the agency's cafeteria. The characters are all found within the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, along with question marks, and are cut out of the copper plates. The main sculpture contains four separate enigmatic messages, three of which have been deciphered.
Kryptos - Wikipedia
Gori the Grey
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The fourth message just says "Bring me donuts."
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