Monthly Archives: June 2008
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Jun 08
On Radiolab and Earworms
A few months back, Radiolab had a post inviting readers to offer up their solutions for dealing with an earworm. You know, those songs that get stuck in your head. I threw in my two cents, which were based on an idea a guy I used to play in a band with had once mentioned: sing the Inspector Gadget theme or The Doors’ “Break On Through” to yourself. Yup, that’ll pretty much clear out any catchy Britney Spears or other dentist office music.
Shortly after posting my solution for earworms, I got an e-mail from one of the producers at Radiolab asking if they could call me and record a conversation for a show they were doing on earworms. Later that day, they called, I rambled on, and that was that. Although the listener/reader replies didn’t make it into the actual show on earworms, they did turn up in the recent podcast.
I’m the dork singing the Britney Spears, Inspector Gadget theme and The Doors.
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Jun 08
Ch-ch-changes
For anyone that visits these pages on even a semi-regular basis, it becomes apparent very quickly that there’s something different going on here. After numerous years of using Textpattern, a fine and friendly Content Management System, I’ve decided to switch over to using the ubiquitous WordPress. Part of the reason for this decision was that I’d buggered up my latest attempt to update Textpattern (at this time, I truly know Jackshit about PHP, let alone troubleshooting it), and part of it was that WordPress is clean, simple to use and has a ton of plug-ins and stylish themes available (yes, I’m giving a theme a go). I’m still finding my way around at the moment, so please do forgive any broken links, non-existent images and mp3s that don’t load and whose player has vanished; I’ll get to it.
