I was so excited to schedule last Friday’s vocabulary for auto-publication that I neglected to note that I crossed another fictional milestone on Saturday, when I listened to my 107,000th unique iTunes track, a sad little number called “Atomic Watch” from a sad album given away to those who donated blood at this year’s Comic-Con, …
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1. coffle — train of beasts, slaves, etc., chained together The coffle of indicted legislators attempted to hold their bound hands before their faces as they were cajoled down the steep marble stairs. 2. toxophilite — a lover or devotee of archery Every tree looks like a bow to the toxophilite. 3. myrmecology …
Yet another glorious achievement, as I have now listened to just over 400 solid days of tracks in my iTunes collection. The song I heard which put me over the 400-day top was “Peace Train” by the quondam Cat Stevens. 400 days of tracks make up 106,902 items totaling 791.47 GB of files. There remain …
As promised, here’s the list of the most recently read hundred books, this time broken down into ten book bite-sized pieces. For each tenner of books, I’ve provided brief notes on one representative volume. To repeat, I’ve only counted non-comic books towards my number of books read, so the ‘#’ field in the below table …
God I miss smoking At least it’s something to do Instead of thinking.
Last night I listened to my 106,000th unique iTunes track, a middle-aged radio show entitled “The New Man at the Yard” from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. This particular episode dramatizes a ‘ride-along’ with Scotland Yard by the author Charles Dickens — sort of a 19th-century version of Castle — and originally aired on March …
As I said yesterday, the discovery of a missing datum threw some of the conclusions of recent posts into doubt. As of now I have updated those posts with correct information. The affected posts are listed below: 200 Books (Not really) 200 Books Analysis: The 2nd Hundred Books All of these posts have been amended …
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Previous post(s) about reading 200 books have errors. Please disregard. More details follow, with more to come. Well, that just shows that data analysis is only as good (at best) as the underlying data… Whilst scrubbing data in my books database — which is something I do, and you should do it …
NOTE: Due to recently (5 July 2018) discovered errors in underlying data, some statements in this post are incorrect. The original post is preserved, with new corrected information presented in monospace font. More information can be found in this blog post. As I just mentioned, I recently finished reading 200 books, counting from when I …
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NOTE: Due to recently (5 July 2018) discovered errors in underlying data, some statements in this post are incorrect. The original post is preserved, with new corrected information presented in monospace font. More information can be found in this blog post. This morning (Actually I reached the noted milestone six days earlier, on June 21.) …
