what's making you happy right now?

[DCDave]

The fibonacci series is some neat stuff, too.

[alexandra]

That is indeed really awesome, and I will be the first to get in the Ignorant Inquiries line and ask what it means.

it's an equation to calculate the Golden Ratio

I know absolutely nothing about anything save late '90s indie rock and how to overuse florid language so people sometimes think I'm smart (this is not an exaggeration), but reading about that gave me goosebumps.  So, so awesome.
Where do you learn/hear about these things?  (Not being sarcastic.)

my brother used to talk about math a lot when i was a kid and would show me signs of mathmatics in nature. phi shows up a whole lot and it always stuck with me. but yes, math class and the movie pi mention it. here's a cool page with awesome examples: http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html

[another max]

Antics is better than Bright Lights.  Or at least, it's a bit dancier.  Still, Bright Lights is awesome too.

[Andrew_TSKS]

it's from a camera phone, so the quality is crap

holy shit.

+200 points on the crush-o-meter

[Andrew_TSKS]

What's making me happy right now is the thought of TSKS reading Marvel Boy and liking it.

YOU READ IT RIGHT?

i did. it kind of blew my mind. i mean, it's hard to know at first if you're really supposed to see marvel boy as the good guy, considering all the damage he does to new york and etc. but then later, it becomes really apparent just how awful dr. midas is, and i guess that's when i started seeing more eye to eye with marvel boy. the ending was still a bit weird though.

hey, do you think grant morrison is an objectivist? that would explain a good bit.

oh, and what's making me happy: first of all, i finally downloaded the last of the 8 b-sides that idlewild has released from their new album, so i can burn a single disc of all of them. second of all, that less than two weeks after i decided to stop randomly emailing girls on internet dating profile websites, a girl randomly emailed ME. it's still very likely that no good will come of this, but it's a momentary ego boost if nothing else.

[DCDave]

What's making me happy right now is the thought of TSKS reading Marvel Boy and liking it.

YOU READ IT RIGHT?

i did. it kind of blew my mind. i mean, it's hard to know at first if you're really supposed to see marvel boy as the good guy, considering all the damage he does to new york and etc. but then later, it becomes really apparent just how awful dr. midas is, and i guess that's when i started seeing more eye to eye with marvel boy. the ending was still a bit weird though.

hey, do you think grant morrison is an objectivist? that would explain a good bit.

oh, and what's making me happy: first of all, i finally downloaded the last of the 8 b-sides that idlewild has released from their new album, so i can burn a single disc of all of them. second of all, that less than two weeks after i decided to stop randomly emailing girls on internet dating profile websites, a girl randomly emailed ME. it's still very likely that no good will come of this, but it's a momentary ego boost if nothing else.

Grant Morrison was planning to do Marvel Boy 2 but then got into a gigantic fight with the high-ups at Marvel at the time.

[Andrew_TSKS]

i see. so this wasn't supposed to be the end of the story.

well, damn. i wish it wasn't. it left me with a lot of unanswered questions.

[FreddyKnuckles]

- got my neighbors drunk last night and watched Dungen on Conan

[DCDave]

i see. so this wasn't supposed to be the end of the story.

well, damn. i wish it wasn't. it left me with a lot of unanswered questions.

Marvel Boy would make an awesome movie.

[alexandra]

it's from a camera phone, so the quality is crap

holy shit.

+200 points on the crush-o-meter

sweeeeeeet!

[Doctor Bob]

The fibonacci series is some neat stuff, too.

Aren't the Fibonacci Series and the Golden Ratio pretty much the same thing?
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, ...

89/55 = 1.6181818
55/89 = 0.6179775

144/89 = 1.6179775
89/144 = 0.6180556

The higher you go, the closer to the GR the figure becomes.

Golden Ratio (phi) = 0.618:1 or 1:1.618

I only know how to generate it geometrically- join two non-adjacent points of a pentagon and the line will be the GR of the length of the side.
There's another one with a semi-circle and two squares, but it defies easy written explanation.

I got to know it throught art/architectural history.  It's everywhere in classicism.

Alexandra- does the symbol ^ mean 'to the power of'?  And is the asterisk to denote 'multiplied by' ('times' in US English?)?

Edit- just realised this is probably in the link I didn't see initially.
Still, I was only showing off anyway, so I'm leaving it in.

[Lucy]

sister's sn (10:31:00 AM): i love you
sister's sn (10:31:02 AM): and stephen malkmus
sister's sn (10:31:03 AM): but more you

[Bernard]

i might be playing at the knitting factory with a friend in la!

Welcome to LA! Let us know when you're playing.

i fly into LAX wednesday at about 3 and then if all goes well, and we have time to practice, it'll be thursday night in the alternaknit lounge.

I don't get out of school until 7ish, but I'll try to make it.

Other good stuff: just bought tickets to dj assault and boris (not on the same bill, alas), and the bf has decided to move in several months earlier than previously planned, since he found a friend to rent his place. Yay!

[davy]

drummers!

[jebreject]

hip-hop!

holy jesus, i was feeling like shit all day yesterday, and then i started listening to hip-hop, and i feel so much better.

must never, ever stop listening to hip-hop

[rockmeamadeus]

derailing threads with talk of sweet, sweet drummers!

Also: Whiskeytown's Stranger's Almanac and this fall evening.

[coldforge]

Gene Hoglan!

Well, actually I only just finished watching that 'drum-off' video. But: the THOUGHT of Gene Hoglan!

[jebreject]

THE NEW PROPAGANDHI

[Greg Nog]

New boots!  I justified the purchase by being like, "Well, sure they're ostentatious, but I'll probably need them for, like, a costume or something."

But who am I kidding?  These things are fucking TASTY, and I wanted them cladding my gams.

[SPACERACE]

i've been thinking recently about getting a tattoo of the golden rectangle. not sure if it's a good idea or not, yet.

[another max]

jesus christ, those things are terrifying.

[another max]

the boots, not golden rectangles, i mean.

[stephanie]

Thinking about Doctor Bob reading his post out loud with a Dublin accent is making me happy, but not half as happy as this:

Robbers on High Street, "The Price and Style" (acoustic @ KUNI Studio One)

THEIR BEAUTIFUL VOICES ARE KILLING ME.  KILLING.  ME.

Full set here for the approx. NO ONE ELSE who cares.

Also, again:  vodka, and Ben Folds.

[basophil]

must never, ever stop listening to hip-hop

In a senseless attempt to tie various elements of this thread together, I once had a 3" CDR from a band called Golden Mean, that may or may not have had some sort of tenuous connection with the Dreadnots.  It was good.  I can't find it right now, but it was good.  It had a bear on the cover.  

Ooh look, a bird!

[Maaik]

New boots!  I justified the purchase by being like, "Well, sure they're ostentatious, but I'll probably need them for, like, a costume or something."

But who am I kidding?  These things are fucking TASTY, and I wanted them cladding my gams.

You could--and should--go around stomping holes and ruining shit in them thar boots.

I remember Cex wearing similar boots (his had more lift though) and a pair of Stu Copeland-short shorts after the last D-Plan show in Atlanta.  He was hanging around outside talking to people wearing a flap of cloth that would barely wrap around my wrist and some jacked-up looking death boots.  It was quite an awe-inspiring sight.