One Thousand Words

Just a quick note to note … erm … to take cognizance of the fact that, with last Friday’s Vocabulary post, my Lexicon now contains over one thousand (1,000) separate words. There are actually 1,010 entries, although 8 of these are entirely different definitions of words already present. (You can see these ‘duplicate’ entries by …

Analysis: The 4th Hundred Books

or, At Least The Unexamined Life Requires Less Math As I mentioned a little while back, I have now read 400 of the books in my personal library since I started tracking my reading back in June 2015. Below is a sketchy analysis of the books in this last hundred books. Of course, as usual, …

Data Analysis: The Eleven Myriad Things (110,000 Songs)

As promised, herewith begins the data analysis of my first 110,000 songs heard through iTunes. Top Level Saving the caveats for later, we dive in with the statement that I have listened at least once to 110,000 tracks in iTunes. Crossing this milestone occurred just before 5PM on April 17, 2019. Remaining to be heard …

110K Songs, for Real this time, no, seriously, I really Mean it

Yesterday, at approximately 4:51 PM, I heard my one hundred and ten thousandth track in iTunes. The particular track was a peppy instrumental version of “Fly Me to the Moon” from a Customusic sampler album. Customusic was — and still is, apparently (just don’t click on the main logo; the Customusic Web site does not …

300 Books: The List (Part II)

And now comes the second half of the list of the most recently read hundred books, books numbers 251 to 300. You may peruse the first half of the list here. This latter half-century has slightly more variety than the first had, though the mystery genre still has the lion’s share. Book read #251 is …

Time To Completion: at 300 Books

As previously mentioned, I want to focus upon a statistic first surfaced at the conclusion of my note explaining a data issue which messed up the analysis of my previous hundred books read. At that time I noted that at the then-current pace of 4.58 books per day I would need 106.5 years to complete …

Music Methodology Migration

or, Minuscule Mind Misses Mark, Mixing Music Movies More, Must Ameliorate Material Maintenance I must rescind my previous note that I had listened to 110K iTunes items, as I have discovered methodological problems which can no longer go unchallenged. I found the problems — or rather, found the problems to be intractable — whilst preparing …

Analysis: The 3rd Hundred Books

or, More Findings of No Ultimate Interest As I said last week, I have now read 300 books of my collection since I started tracking my reading back in June 2015. Now follows a shallow analysis of the books in this last hundred books, eschewing (mostly) reference to books in the “Comics & Graphic Novel” …

200 Books: The List

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 …

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 …