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This is when the [poster] wall comes down

Here’s a video in which I take down my posters in my apartment in Vienna, in order to pack them up to move to the USA. It includes improvised song parodies and silly jokes from Joey Marianer and myself. I took this video partly to have a record of my poster wall (though I also have a photo of it which I sometimes use as a Zoom background) and partly because if I get permission to do so, I’ll…

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We did a Christmas

I’m visiting Joey Marianer for Christmas, so we sang a slowed-down cover of a Worm Quartet song, as Joey is wont to do. Worm Quartet is also known as Timothy F. Crist, so we wished everyone a merry Timothy F. Cristmas at the end. I hope you had one of those, whatever it means. I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t celebrate such a talented comedy musician. I did actually try some of that eggnog…

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This Tiling Never Repeats (Split Enz parody)

I mentioned in a previous post that I was working on a parody of History Never Repeats, by Split Enz, about the aperiodic monotiles that have been found recently. I’ve finished it, so here are the lyrics: This tiling never repeatsUnending plane the kite and dart completeWe wish to show we can improveWe may assume, there’s always more to proveIt was the best we used to knowFrom David Smith, a…

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Collaborations: All on My Own (among others)

Collaborations: All on My Own (among others)

This year’s MathsJam Annual Gathering was virtual, and rather than singing maths-related parody songs together at the MathsJam Jam, we were encouraged to send videos of ourselves singing them. Sam Hartburn, who has written many lyrics for MathsJam Jam songs, offered to write custom song lyrics for one of the participants. I don’t recall whether this was for the best submission or one chosen at…

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Pico, emacs, ed, vi (Pico and Sepulveda parody lyrics)

Pico, emacs, ed, vi (Pico and Sepulveda parody lyrics)

The following are parody lyrics to the song Pico and Sepulveda, about text editors. I imagine that if someone sang them, I’d want to make a music video consisting of the lyrics shown in each text editor in time with the song.

pico, emacs, ed, vi, pico, emacs, ed, vi…

SublimeText mcedit or Notepad… ++

xedit, TextEdit or Notepad… ++

You can use BBEdit or an IDE, EVE or Atom or ex.

TeachText never…

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Rompicapi, giochi matematici, enigmi logici: la matematica creativa al Pavia MathsJam

Rompicapi, giochi matematici, enigmi logici: la matematica creativa al Pavia MathsJam

Vi attirano i rompicapi, i giochi matematici e gli enigmi logici? Il MathsJam fa per voi!

I MathsJam sono incontri mensili di matematica ricreativa nati nel 2008 nel Regno Unito. Creatore di questi eventi è lo “stand-up mathematician” australiano Matt Parker (Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Discovery Channel Outrageous Acts of Science, Numberphile, etc). Il MathsJam di Pavia, nato nell’autunno…

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They Might Not Be Giants: now a song!

The other day I discovered that the ukuletrically charged Joey Marianer has once again set something I wrote to music! Truly, a Joey is an exciting kind of friend to have. (No, not a joey. Not everybody‘s got a baby kangaroo.) This time it’s They Might Not Be Giants. On the subject of people who could conceivably be called Joey, and…

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MathsJams in Nederland?

MathsJams zijn los-vaste maandelijkse samenkomsten in een lokale kroeg van mensen die iets (veel hoeft niet, mag wel) met wiskunde hebben, om gezamenlijk puzzeltjes op te lossen, games te delen, enz.

In de eigen woorden:

MathsJamis a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything…

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