{"id":333,"date":"2010-02-13T21:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-02-14T09:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T16:56:39","slug":"song-of-the-day-fundamental-by-puya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Fundamental” by Puya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grab a tall cool drink, and sit back and relax.\u00a0 This<\/a> will be your new favorite song.\u00a0 Alternatively, you can grab a short hot drink, and stand up to stretch.\u00a0 I guess.\u00a0 I’m enjoying a beverage myself.\u00a0 It’s a cup of delicious, piping hot Earl Grey tea.<\/p>\n

Liking the song?\u00a0 Like Salsa?\u00a0 I’m not talking about the condiment, even though that’s one fine condiment.\u00a0 I like to garnish certain dishes with Salsa myself.<\/p>\n

No, I’m talking about the music.\u00a0 That funky Latino dance music.\u00a0 These guys are from Puerto Rico, so they grew up listening to great stuff like that.\u00a0 And did the grinding Metal part kick in?\u00a0 Not yet?<\/p>\n

Okay, I’ll babble a bit while we wait for that.\u00a0 I bought a teacup from Wal-Mart.\u00a0 It has a broken chunk of ceramic material inside the handle somewhere.\u00a0 When I pick it up or put it down on a counter, it sounds like it’s cracking and breaking.\u00a0 It’s not broken though.<\/p>\n

Did the metal part kick in?\u00a0 Good.\u00a0 No one is more glad that I can stop boring you with details of my cheap and defective teacup than me.\u00a0 Incidentally, are you rocking?\u00a0 I wonder if you’re watching the video I found or just listening to the song.\u00a0 Maybe just listen to the song once, then watch the video with it.<\/p>\n

This video is a fan-made video, and it’s pretty damn WTF in some spots.\u00a0 Blood everywhere.\u00a0 Kind of over the top and funny.\u00a0 I’ve said before that I’m not a fan of videos with songs, so I think I can forget about the video for now.<\/p>\n

Except for the part at the end that says “Puya is back!”\u00a0 I just checked Wikipedia, and sure enough, the band has reformed and they have a new album out as of 2009.\u00a0 I will have to get that!\u00a0 Zoy!<\/p>\n

This is another band I found out about from a guy I worked with.\u00a0 He would pick orders on this dinky little Rubbermaid cart, and he had his sony discman and a set of mini speakers taped to one end.\u00a0 He even had a little cardboard box taped to the corner to hold batteries.\u00a0 Now THAT’S dedication.<\/p>\n

Dedication to music, not to work.\u00a0 That job got me in shape pretty good because there was lots of heavy lifting.\u00a0 There was no forklift, and I had to constantly move large crates.\u00a0 Some of them weighed up to 3000 pounds.\u00a0 I did all that with only a pallet jack, a Johnson bar<\/a> and some scrap blocks of wood.<\/p>\n

Look at that Wikipedia page.\u00a0 Sometimes Wikipedia is such a fucking joke.\u00a0 For the articles that get a lot of attention, it can be pretty damn good, even better than old-school paper encyclopedias.\u00a0 You remember those paper encyclopedias… the ones with 30 or so hardbound volumes that would cost you a few hundred dollars.\u00a0 They had research staff paid to research and write articles.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia can be like the library of 4Chan sometimes.\u00a0 Another former coworker of mine told me about a Wikipedia article he created as a joke.\u00a0 It was about the term “Sandwich Time”, which was used by Linux programmers to refer to the time it took to compile their programs from source.<\/p>\n

The only “real world” use of that term was his friend, who had said it once when they were in school.\u00a0 After the article went up on Wikipedia however, it wasn’t ever “fact checked”, but it sure had a lot of nice things added like templates and categories to make it look more like it belonged there.\u00a0 Even though it didn’t.<\/p>\n

I used to go check periodically to see if the article was still there.\u00a0 It was up for about 3 years, but it’s finally been deleted.\u00a0 So…. if you find out some neat information on Wikipedia, check the references they list to make sure it’s real.\u00a0 And if it doesn’t have references, don’t go assuming it’s real.\u00a0 Sometimes it takes the obsessive nerds at Wikipedia YEARS to catch on to the fact that they’re walking around with a “Kick Me” article on their back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grab a tall cool drink, and sit back and relax.\u00a0 This will be your new favorite song.\u00a0 Alternatively, you can grab a short hot drink, and stand up to stretch.\u00a0 I guess.\u00a0 I’m enjoying a beverage myself.\u00a0 It’s a cup of delicious, piping hot Earl Grey tea. Liking the song?\u00a0 Like Salsa?\u00a0 I’m not talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[180,182,179,181,183],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-metal","tag-puerto-rico","tag-puya","tag-salsa","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}