InevitableSwing [none/use name]

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Cake day: March 19th, 2022

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  • You can’t get any more American than that. Other countries usually use bollards to protect pedestrians, bicyclists, and people in general. Americans use bollards to protect property and to protect against terrorism. I’m American and I wonder how many Americans even know the word bollard. My guess is much less than 1%. My guess if an American is shown a photo of a regular old bollard used in a foreign country to protect people - he says “That’s like a smaller version of the anti-terrorism things we have to protect buildings.”




  • Jeff Beck said something like “Things work out better by accident but you can’t plan accidents.” And that idea is wrong. You can encourage randomness to sort of “guide” you potentially happy accidents.

    I remember googling “dérive” years ago and checking out the Wikipedia page but I didn’t like what I read. What’s a good, concise definition? Is dérive basically the walking around version of aleatory?

    aleatory (also aleatoric)

    1 Depending on the throw of a dice or on chance; random.

    1.1 Relating to or denoting music or other forms of art involving elements of random choice (sometimes using statistical or computer techniques) during their composition, production, or performance: aleatory music a photograph can capture the aleatory chaos of modern urban life

    Etymology: late 1600s from Latin aleatorius, from aleator “dice player”, from alea “die”, + -y^1.