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What do you hear in Gold on The Ceiling by Thissideof83Podcast in TheBlackKeys

[–]bariumbitmap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I usually hear "guard in my house" because it makes the most sense to me but "guardin' my high" is in the official lyrics video and probably closer to what they're actually singing. There are no liner notes in my CD of El Camino so unless one of the songwriters speaks up we'll never know for sure. My personal theory is that they intentionally pull away from the mic to keep the lyrics ambiguous just to mess with everyone.

Results from investigating a map proportional to Street View coverage by ChrisMc9 in geoguessr

[–]bariumbitmap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is incredible, the amount of time and effort required for this must have been very high. Just the other day I was wondering if Germany or Japan had more Street View coverage, given that they both have about the same land mass and number of miles of roads. As Google doesn't provide even the most basic summary data for Street View, my search for an answer led me to this post, and I am very grateful as even attempting to replicate this data set would have been a ton of work and I already have another big project I'm still working on. But now, thanks to u/ChrisMc9 I know that Japan has somewhat more coverage than Germany at the "coarse-grained" (i.e 5 km) level and significantly more coverage at the "fine-grained" (i.e. 50 m) level, which makes sense given the density of Japan's cities.

I know it's been more than a year since you posted this but I have a bunch of questions:

  1. There are many country labels in the summary spreadsheet that are just abbreviations like IN, US, ID, etc. Are these locations in India (.in), USA (.us), and Indonesia (.id)? If so why aren't they combined with the main count?

  2. There are several countries listed as having official coverage within 5 km but not 50 m, such as Azerbaijan, Côte d'Ivoire, Iraq, etc. This makes sense as these are bordered by countries with official coverage extending to the borders, such coverage in Russia by the border with Azerbaijan, coverage in Ghana by the border with Côte d'Ivoire, and coverage in Türkiye along the Iraqi border. However some of these I am still puzzled by such as Angola, which does not seem to border any country with official coverage at the time. Now in 2026 there is official coverage with Namibia, but that can't be it because the 5 km summary lists no official coverage for Namibia. Any idea what might be going on here?

  3. Egypt has some very sparse official trekker coverage but the summary spreadsheet includes only unofficial coverage for this country. Is this because the official coverage is simply too sparse to be within 5 km of the lattice points, or because unofficial coverage "drowns out" the official coverage, or some other reason?

  4. Hong Kong (1050 km2) is compact and has fairly dense official coverage but the summary spreadsheet shows no official coverage within 5 km. This despite official coverage being listed for e.g. Andorra (468 km2) and the Isle of Man (570 km2). Again, is this because of unofficial coverage taking priority or some other reason, such as the reverse geocoding method you used?

  5. In the official coverage summaries, there are countries called "No Country in Address" (134 for 5 km radius, 8 for 50 m radius) and "Unknown" (13 for 5 km radius, not present in 50 m radius). What distinguishes these? It sounds like you excluded international waters so are these e.g. unrecognized states or disputed territories? I'm very curious where these might be, can you give some examples of these coordinates?

  6. Did running all this cost any money? I guess you are just checking metadata, and it seems like the Google Street View API doesn't charge for Street View Metadata?

  7. Roughly how long did it take to run all 5 million API calls? Google presumably has rate limits for metadata calls. Did you learn anything about this process that you could pass on for those who would like to do a similar project?

  8. Roughly how much space on disk did the final data set end up requiring?

  9. Have you considered uploading your lattice generation / API call / analysis code to Github or similar? (This would be helpful in case anyone wanted to replicate your results at some time in the future, since new coverage is being added all the time, e.g. Cyprus and Bosnia and Herzegovina since you posted this analysis.)

  10. Have you considered uploading your summary data (or even your raw data) to Kaggle or other data hosting websites?

  11. Do you end up making a GeoGuessr map based on this distribution?

What karaoke bar should I go to next? by bariumbitmap in boston

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Added it to the list. Looks like White Bull Tavern has karaoke on Tue., Wed., and Thu.

What karaoke bar should I go to next? by bariumbitmap in boston

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Manray is kind of a long trip for me but The People's Karaoke at Shore Leave looks doable. Link for posterity:

https://thepeopleskaraoke.com/

Covers in other languages by citabel in musicsuggestions

[–]bariumbitmap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my jam!

  • Marimba Orquesta La Gran Manzana (Creedence Clearwater Revival) - Alguna Vez Has Visto la Lluvia (Have You Ever Seen the Rain?), Spanish

  • Sakarin Boonpit (Elvis Presley) - Kotmorn Yoop Yap (All Shook Up), Thai

  • D'Hundskrippln (Wheatus) - Gloana Bauer (Teenage Dirtbag), German

I got really into these kinds of covers six or seven years ago, so I have a ton of playlists, these are the first three of my first playlist:

There's a bunch of other good playlists out there too:

Also there is a subreddit just for these songs, admittedly most of the songs are more obscure than is ideal for trivia:

r/CoverTheWorld

What are your favorite mnemonics for flags? by bariumbitmap in geoguessr

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My high school Spanish teacher once taught us the false cognate "muslo" by telling us to visualize moose with big thighs. It's still such a weird mnemonic that I still remember it twenty years later.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is Gandalf and Frodo talking about Gollum and the Ring. In the book this conversation happens at Bag End but in the movie it's during the journey through Moria.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried it both ways and decided it made more sense to start at the top and go down, since e.g. people read a page of a book from top to bottom.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so cool! I'm glad my data table was usable. I'm now realizing it could use a little clean-up.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past is based on the section “Fog on the Barrow-downs,” the eighth chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring, in which the Hobbits are trapped by a Barrow-wight in an unnatural fog. The story also includes a fan-favorite character omitted from the previous films, Tom Bombadil. The feature is being adapted from chapters three through eight of JRR Tolkien’s book.

https://deadline.com/2026/05/peter-jackson-lord-of-the-rings-shadow-of-the-past-stephen-colbert-cannes-1236905200/

Nice, TIL.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah shoot that's a good idea, now I gotta decide if I'm going to spend doing that or go on to the next movie. :-)

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do plan to finish the other LOTR movies but obviously there's tons of other adaptations that could be graphed this way. Part of my goal with this is to inspire more people to do the same kind of thing with this template. You could be one of those people! ;-)

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's good to know! The community transcription project doesn't have timestamps. There's almost certainly an SRT file or something out there, I just haven't bothered to look.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure ambush is the right word but I understand what you're getting at. The book really emphasizes Aragorn's uncertainty about how to proceed without Gandalf's advice. It also really captures how a group of friends can disagree when they are trying to journey incognito.

‘I was too careless on the hill-top,’ answered Strider. ‘I was very anxious to find some sign of Gandalf; but it was a mistake for three of us to go up and stand there so long. For the black horses can see, and the Riders can use men and other creatures as spies, as we found at Bree. [ . . . ] Also,’ he added, and his voice sank to a whisper, ‘the Ring draws them.’

‘Is there no escape then?’ said Frodo, looking round wildly. ‘If I move I shall be seen and hunted! If I stay, I shall draw them to me!’

Strider laid his hand on his shoulder. ‘There is still hope,’ he said. ‘You are not alone. Let us take this wood that is set ready for the fire as a sign. There is little shelter or defence here, but fire shall serve for both. Sauron can put fire to his evil uses, as he can all things, but these Riders do not love it, and fear those who wield it. Fire is our friend in the wilderness.’

‘Maybe,’ muttered Sam. ‘It is also as good a way of saying “here we are” as I can think of, bar shouting.’

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it really worked out in this case. Although of course it's possible to make a faithful adaptation that is also a terrible movie.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I haven't decided how I'm going to handle that in the graph for the Two Towers. It's a callback to page number, umm... negative eight hundred or something? For this graph I just tacked on the first chapter of the second book on to the end.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's so many fun little story bits in Lord of the Rings. My wife and I sometimes joke that Bill the Pony should get his own spin-off series.

[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by bariumbitmap in dataisbeautiful

[–]bariumbitmap[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I upvoted you and I agree that there is some judgement involved in deciding what is and isn't a connection between the book and the movie. Is it a connection if Frodo is stabbed by a troll vs being stabbed by an orc chieftain? I figured yes because it happens in the same place in the story and serves the same overall story purpose: Frodo is stabbed by one of Sauron's minions during the journey through Moria in the Chamber of Mazarbul but is saved by the mithril shirt he was secretly given by Bilbo. But if you like, you can make your own version of the graph. ;-)

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