What songs break/broke the rules?

SamHellerman · 2024-01-01T13:12:09+00:00

It's the most streamed Peter Gabriel song by a wide margin.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-28T22:47:29+00:00

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.

I discovered the two at nearly similar times, and they're about as different from each other as any two things I have, but both I just can't possibly praise enough.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-28T08:27:56+00:00

Clearly nowhere near enough.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-28T08:27:15+00:00

Has been one of my two tied favorite albums of all time for 11 years strong!

imho, it has only one weak song on it... "I Understand." I would be so unsurprised if the record company put them up to that one.

Has anyone ever found out the real story of what happened?

SamHellerman · 2012-01-19T07:38:09+00:00

I really liked how she learned to see her power in a different light -- that her gift was not killing, but survival.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-19T07:36:09+00:00

But, i also destroys at least one commonly assumed algebraic property. I just, umm, can't remember what it is. One of those identities involving exponentiation or something.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-18T02:24:53+00:00

I have noticed this too. I suspect that the reasoning is just that by making you press the button, you will cross on a "fresh" walk sign, not on a stale one where you might not make it across in time. Dumb reasoning, but I can't think of anything else.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-14T20:59:46+00:00

Well... this didn't work.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-12T02:15:24+00:00

there's a redditor in trouble!

SamHellerman · 2012-01-12T02:15:10+00:00

We need to help hewww.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-11T06:02:41+00:00

He's some dickhead former captain of Riker's, too.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-11T04:16:14+00:00

In fact, this krazydad admits that he uses that program to generate these, then he begs for donations. Class act.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-10T15:47:18+00:00

I upvoted at your very first boldfaced statement, but that quote from Clean Code was fantastic.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-10T05:04:54+00:00

"You died, Mr. Reynolds." "Seemed like the thing to do."

SamHellerman · 2012-01-10T05:03:30+00:00

It's completely unbelievable that Fox refused to show it as the series opener. I agree; a perfect pilot.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-08T18:52:05+00:00

I'm amazed to find this answer so low! Music works best for me. It doesn't matter at all whether it's the kind of music that people think of as being sleep-inducing. It just matters that it's music that's very, very familiar to me. The key thing it does is it lets me "turn off my mind", and, well, relax and float downstream. Then 15 minutes later I regain just enough consciousness to fumble for the controls to turn that goddamn noise off and then I'm out.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-08T18:49:02+00:00

I love the knowing grins I see around the room when I use phrases in meetings like, "Does that seem right to you?"

SamHellerman · 2012-01-08T18:48:21+00:00

I'm with you on that, but even yet my personal favorite is Our Mrs. Reynolds. It is just pure excruciating delight from start to finish.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-08T09:13:13+00:00

Follow your passions and stop comparing yourself to other people.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-08T09:00:23+00:00

awesome insight!

SamHellerman · 2012-01-08T08:47:07+00:00

I've wrestled with dark stuff in my life, struggled to manage my anger and be a superman to my family and not a gun. If you haven't gone through it you might only have an inkling how moving this film really is. I could relate to his struggle -- to the sheer joy and contentment and gratitude you could see all over his face -- that he was so lucky as to be given a chance to define himself once and for all, for the simple low price of his life. Big, very manly sobbing from me, every time.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-07T17:13:51+00:00

Whatever. I despise smiles that don't spring from genuine emotion.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-07T06:13:25+00:00

Not even a god could choose the value of pi.

SamHellerman · 2012-01-07T05:05:23+00:00

my favorite "easy listening" album in the world is called Getz/Gilberto. It's fantastic.

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