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  1. Nov 2024
    1. In the video for Walk on Water (2017), a song about art, aging, self-doubt, insecurity, criticism, and creativity, Eminem and his various clones use SMC Classic 12 typewriters to type random words in a nod to Émile Borel's 1913 analogy of dactylographic monkeys with respect to statistical mechanics.

      The video closes with Eminem showing typed evidence of his creative genius: "So me and you are not alike / Bitch, I wrote 'Stan'".

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryr75N0nki0

      Notice the overlap of the dactylographic monkey idea and the creation of combinatorial creativity in Eminem's zettelkasten practice. The fact that he's brilliant enough to have created Stan (2000) is evidence that he's not just a random monkey, but that there is some directed thought and creativity which he has tacitly created during his career. https://boffosocko.com/2021/08/10/55794555/

  2. Apr 2021
    1. as it stands, this only goes to highlight what a miracle, what a classic for the ages Actraiser really is, whilst confirming itself as, unfortunately, one to avoid.
  3. Feb 2021
    1. the first step in improving academic writing is to learn to reduce the jargon academics use and express concepts clearly

      See Pinker, S. (2015). The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Reprint Edition). Penguin Books.

      Also, Thomas, F.-N., & Turner, M. (2011). Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose (2nd Edition). Princeton University Press.

  4. Nov 2017
    1. Toxoplasmosis

      Classic triad of findings in congenital toxoplasmosis includes:

      1. chorioretinitis
      2. hydrocephalus, and
      3. intracranial calcifications.
  5. Feb 2017
    1. Their style docs not suit modern taste and their theory docs not conform lo modem science.

      This paragraph reminds me of my microresponse of "what rhetoric will be." With Blair emphasizing the importance of knowing classic rhetoricians and their styles, his point of their styles not withstanding time illustrates the ever-changing nature and flexibility of rhetoric, while still managing to place that importance on where rhetoric came from, as well

  6. Nov 2016