Great quote on Marshall amps, the sound of Jimi Hendrix, and the beauty of imperfection.

Brian Eno discusses music and technology in this great article. I especially liked this quote, which explains one of the many reasons I'm into vinyl.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called "electric guitar." Or think of grainy black-and-white film, or jittery Super 8, or scratches on vinyl. These limitations tell you something about the context of the work, where it sits in time, and by invoking that world they deepen the resonances of the work itself.
From The Revenge of the Intuitive

Don't ask why programmers are arrogant if you don't want them to give you a straight answer:

I love this answer to the question "Why are so many programmers arrogant?" on Stackexchange:

To quote Scott Adams in Dilbert Principle: "In contrast to 'normal' people, engineers have rational objectives for social interactions: (1) Get it over with as soon as possible; (2) Avoid getting invited to something unpleasant; (3) Demonstrate mental superiority and mastery of all subjects."

It is our nature. We want to be always right. We know we are always right.

 

It's an Anberlin kind of day. Love the new album.

I also like the Dylan Thomas poem they took the title of the album from:

And freely he goes lost
In the unknown, famous light of great
  And fabulous, dear God.
Dark is a way and light is a place,
  Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true,
  And, in that brambled void,
Plenty as blackberries in the woods
  The dead grow for His joy.

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