Comments on: 5×5 for September 19 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/ education | teaching | math | technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:57:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: todd http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10719 todd Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:09:13 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10719 I had the pleasure of seeing SRV 4 times in concert. I even got a pick which, unfortunately, didn't impart any super guitar prowess. As a youngster I was amazed by his speed, but now I prefer the handful of slow ballads he did. If you like blues and jazz, Derek Trucks is my new guitar god. He has plenty of videos on youtube, too. If you're not familiar with him, check out the Internet archive live music archive for some bootlegs. You really have to see the band live... here's a decent quality <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/dtb2007-05-24.early.fm.flac16" rel="nofollow">radio show</a>. I had the pleasure of seeing SRV 4 times in concert. I even got a pick which, unfortunately, didn’t impart any super guitar prowess. As a youngster I was amazed by his speed, but now I prefer the handful of slow ballads he did.

If you like blues and jazz, Derek Trucks is my new guitar god. He has plenty of videos on youtube, too. If you’re not familiar with him, check out the Internet archive live music archive for some bootlegs. You really have to see the band live… here’s a decent quality radio show.

]]> By: jd2718 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10316 jd2718 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:34:12 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10316 3599 because it is not. They won't annoy you if you don't pay attention. Does 5x5 sort of violate 5? Saw the 80's incarnation of King Crimson. Cool. Very. Star from a Bruegel painting? 3599 because it is not.
They won’t annoy you if you don’t pay attention.
Does 5×5 sort of violate 5?
Saw the 80’s incarnation of King Crimson. Cool. Very.
Star from a Bruegel painting?

]]> By: Friday Random 10 for September 21 « Casting Out Nines http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10275 Friday Random 10 for September 21 « Casting Out Nines Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:10:37 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10275 [...] this week’s 5×5 I listed Stevie Ray Vaughan as one of the artists that I wish I’d seen perform live while he [...] [...] this week’s 5×5 I listed Stevie Ray Vaughan as one of the artists that I wish I’d seen perform live while he [...]

]]> By: Robert http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10244 Robert Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:53:50 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10244 Actually the alpha designation is now becoming fairly common. I'm using OmniFocus for my GTD/time-management tasks right now and it is an invitation-only alpha release from OmniGroup. There will be a public beta Real Soon Now. But true to form, the alpha version has all kinds of bugs and things that go wrong with it. But as long as my data are backed up I think that makes it sort of fun to use, in a wild-west way. Your point about link-whoring is my thought exactly. If you have to badger higher-traffic blogs and do all this data mining to get your blog read, perhaps there's a problem with the content. Actually the alpha designation is now becoming fairly common. I’m using OmniFocus for my GTD/time-management tasks right now and it is an invitation-only alpha release from OmniGroup. There will be a public beta Real Soon Now. But true to form, the alpha version has all kinds of bugs and things that go wrong with it. But as long as my data are backed up I think that makes it sort of fun to use, in a wild-west way.

Your point about link-whoring is my thought exactly. If you have to badger higher-traffic blogs and do all this data mining to get your blog read, perhaps there’s a problem with the content.

]]> By: Isabel http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10241 Isabel Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:43:48 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/5x5-for-september-19/#comment-10241 Regarding link-whoring: I'm convinced that one gets more viewers by writing a <i>better</i> blog, not by convincing people to link to you. If you write a better blog people will link to you because they find you interesting and think their readers might find you interesting as well. Regarding "Calling anything and everything “beta”" -- why doesn't it go past β? I think on the next paper I write I'll call the first draft the α version, the next draft the β version, the third draft the γ version, and so on. Regarding link-whoring: I’m convinced that one gets more viewers by writing a better blog, not by convincing people to link to you. If you write a better blog people will link to you because they find you interesting and think their readers might find you interesting as well.

Regarding “Calling anything and everything “beta”” — why doesn’t it go past β? I think on the next paper I write I’ll call the first draft the α version, the next draft the β version, the third draft the γ version, and so on.

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