Coincidence Is fun

I cannot be the first person to think that the opening bits of Calamity Song by the Decemberists sounds like a slowed down version of the Age of Consent by New Order.

Fun!

Replace pawlenty with jeb and 5 with 4

Not This Again:

http://whynotmike.blogspot.com/2011/06/growth-rates.html

Sustained super growth is only going to happen again when productivity goes up or we employ more people. In the late 90s we did pretty good with the internet but that well has gone dry. For more lucid commenting see this  Jordan Weissman Post

Non definitive list of tracks referenced in Jaw Knee Music by NOFX

Please leave any suggested tracks in the comments:

https://open.spotify.com/user/lobock/playlist/5fNyPOzEjhHUZ2NzRNxpZn

Hot Tip for Power Point Movies and Music Together

Say you got a silent movie and want to play a clip of music over it in Powerpoint. Many a fool would say go edit the movie in blah blah or pipe the blah throuch flac to blah. Fooey I say, Powerpoint can play the movie and the music at the same time. First Insert each item into a slide. For each Click on the Item and select Playback from the Audio or Video Tools Ribbon Select the Play Automatically Option:

But you say the two play consecutively, thats not what I wanted. I know I know but you can overcome this. Head to the Animation Ribbon and open the animation pane. Right Click on the second media item and set it to Start with Previous.

Once the Animation order numbers match (blue arrows) they two clips will play together, and you audience wont know you can't use iMovie.

Happy Birthday Whitey Ford

This... This is a black day for baseball.

Flatten a square matrix in Mathcad

Mathcad is awful,

If you like me are being forced to use Mathcad after several blissful years of Mathematica then you get very sad very fast.

Here is a function to flatten a square array of square arrays in Mathcad (click to pop)

It could be extended to non-square arrays by adding a few more arguments. The advantage over the stuff on this page (current top google hit : http://communities.ptc.com/thread/38326 ) is no if-else statements and it works on matrices, not just vectors. Note the ORIGIN is set to 0

More importantly the whole mess can be avoided with creative use of the augment and stack function for array building

A .mov that works in Mac Powerpoint 2011 via quicktime export.

Hey have you ever made a quicktime movie in final cut pro only to not have it work in powerpoint?

I made a movie (.mov) using final cut on a university computer and though it would play locally on my laptop in Quicktime it would not work in powerpoint. I do not have final cut or quicktime pro on my laptop.

I tired using VLC to convert it to an avi, but it would drop frames including the last one.

To do a quick conversion to get it to work open the .mov in quicktime and select File -> Export...

On the Formats Menu select anything, like 720p for instance, and export the movie.

Try it in powerpoint!

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