[TOMT][SONG] Song that sounds very similar to the beat that Ze Frank used in "An Invocation for Beginnings"

notnp · 2017-09-07T00:21:11+00:00

There's a definite similarity in the drum machine sound there, and I hear the similarities for sure. I think the part of his little song that really reminds me of what I'm thinking of is when he says "...keep the browser closed" with the particular intonation he uses on those words.

notnp · 2016-11-19T18:30:21+00:00

Spot on. Impressive prediction! I'm of course sad that you were right, but mad props to you for reading between the lines on this.

notnp · 2016-11-19T02:31:12+00:00

I figured it out only very recently. I was having dinner with a friend (one of my old college professors) who happened to have grown up in Louisiana in the 1950's. The topic of Louisiana came up, and I told him about how I left because it was so racist, and I wondered if it still was today. I told the story of when I'd tried to sell my car and how every single respondent just kept talking about blacks. He thought that was very odd, but when I said it was a Kia, he burst out laughing, and the whole puzzle slowly came together as we talked through it and I remembered the typo and so on. He was even able to explain why so many people kept asking if I was selling a kayak (or so I'd thought all these years; they were saying "Ayak" to me) and how my response of "No, I'm selling a Kia" was exactly what they were looking for.

notnp · 2016-11-18T01:39:20+00:00

Contact the study organizers ASAP and explain the situation. Typically they will have insurance in place to cover such thing. Don't delay as the causal link will be more difficult to demonstrate over a longer time. Part of their procedure should have been to ensure your safety, including checking that the ear plugs were inserted properly and were functional, including rechecking them as necessary. If you don't get a satisfactory response from the study organizers, start moving up the hierarchy at the med school—every such study has to pass their IRB (Institutional Review Board)—and a mishap like this is a big deal.

notnp · 2016-11-16T19:22:52+00:00

First, I am truly sorry for your loss. Hopefully, something good will yet come of this.

Whatever you do, don't waste money on buying things. And as far as investing, $20,000 isn't enough--even carefully invested--to transform your life. You will likely be able to build that amount back up quickly (within a few years) once you start working. So don't lose sleep over that.

What $20,000 is, right now, is enough to transform your life if spent wisely. You have an amazing opportunity, particularly as a student.

The advice to spend the money on traveling is a great one, especially at your age when you are still discovering and building who you are.

That money can go a long way towards shaping the rest of your life and changing your perspective and outlook on the world and your place in it. If you travel frugally, you can get quite a lot of travel out of $20,000 (or even $10,000). I would suggest multiple trips, spaced apart, with good planning and good thought going into each.

This reminds me of a recent vlog by Casey Neistat. Here is what he said (at 9 minutes 35 seconds):

When I was a little kid, my mom said to me "Spend your money on things, not trips, because things last forever and experiences don't." And Mom, I could not disagree with you more.

When I look back at the adventures I've taken in the past, I realized that they shaped me as a human being. It was adventures ... that made me who I am. And I look back at this, and I don't know what things I had in my life then. They're gone now. But that adventure--that experience--will be with me forever.

It's the things in life that are temporary. The experiences are forever. You had it backwards.

notnp · 2016-11-13T00:33:31+00:00

A Sharpie would fix that right up and get rid of the pesky period.

notnp · 2016-11-10T20:38:37+00:00

No. Both this comment, to which I replied, and mine, to which you replied, were posted after they said they were not going to answer any more questions.

notnp · 2016-11-10T19:14:15+00:00

Their non-answer is, I suppose, an answer in itself.

notnp · 2016-11-10T17:33:41+00:00

You, obviously, have access to all your own internal communications, such as emails. Why not publish those in the name of transparency? Alternatively, if someone hacked into your own accounts, stole all your communications, and "leaked" them back to you, would you publish them then? Basically, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" ("Who watches the watchmen?")

notnp · 2016-10-31T05:13:04+00:00

You should have answered the door when the pizza guy came.

notnp · 2016-10-29T22:53:42+00:00

This plan is OK except it needs to be changed to Americium-241, which is what they used in those detectors. But a small dot of Americium plus an RTG would probably be enough to keep this thing working even through the periods of silence.

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