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 …
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200 Books Update: What Happened
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 …
201 Books! (This Changes Everything)
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 …
Analysis: The 2nd Hundred Books [UPDATED]
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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200 Books [UPDATED]
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.) …
Time Parity Achieved!
I have finally regained ground in my iTunes collection and have listened to half my tracks in terms of time. Whilst adding the large selection of old radio shows which I enjoy (for the most part) listening to now, I no longer could claim to have listened to at least half of my iTunes collection …
One Hundred and Five Thousand Songs (105,000)
I have just listened to my 105,000th unique iTunes track, Ringo Starr’s “Six O’Clock” from his album Ringo. It’s a middling song from an otherwise surprisingly good solo album from the Fourth Beatle. 105,000 unique tracks makes up 771.99 GB of data, having a total duration of 376 days, 4 hours, 10 minutes, and 6 …
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Appendix: This Meme Is Bogus
Exercise: Prove the following meme is bogus Given: The meme consists of text superimposed upon a yellow background with a image to right. The text reads: Declaring to be an emerging economy the U.S. refused to recognize international copyrights for the first 100 years of its existence. No other emerging economy has been granted this …
One Hundred and Four Thousand Songs
Or, A Full Year’s Worth of Songs! I have just listened to my 104,000th unique iTunes track, Thelonious Monk’s “Ruby My Dear”. This particular version seems to have Glenn Gould-itis, as someone can be heard muttering into the microphone as the piano is played. 104,000 unique tracks comprises 760.81 GB of data, with a total …
One Hundred and Three Thousand Songs (Captain’s log, supplemental)
I listened to my 103,000th unique iTunes track a little while ago — on January 9 — but have not until this moment posted the news, due to fatigue, lack of time, and a realization of unimportance. Track number 103,000 was the 1947 Green Hornet episode, “City Hall Shakeup”, which originally aired on July 15 …
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