(asking for a friend)
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New Yorker Magazine, Detroit Public Television
Oct23
debate night.
(asking for a friend)
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New Yorker Magazine, Detroit Public Television
Author Archives: beth
Oct22
hum.
Now you can hum to search Google for songs you can’t remember, but can’t forget. If you’ve ever had a song stuck in your head but can’t remember enough lyrics to search for it, Google has a solution: hum to search.
Google unveiled a new search feature Thursday that lets users search for songs by humming a few bars, in an attempt to help you identify music. This is now part of Google’s mobile app and Google Assistant, where you can say “what’s this song?” (add a “Hey Google” first on Google Assistant) and then hum, whistle, or sing for 10 to 15 seconds. The results will include several probable songs, along with the search engine’s estimation of how likely it is that each is the one you’re looking for.
Google said the feature will be available first in English on Apple’s iOS and in over 20 languages on Google’s Android mobile platform. Users don’t need to have perfect pitch in order to get the feature to work, according to Google.
Hum-to-search isn’t a brand new idea, though it is new to Google. Like many of Google’s search offerings, the feature uses machine learning: Essentially, software analyzes the tune you hum (or sing or whistle), turning it into a sequence of digits that can then be compared with tons of digitized songs to find a few that appear similar. The company has been working on using artificial intelligence for music recognition for a number of years.
The feature may be in high demand: Google’s vice president who introduced it during Google’s streamed event on Thursday, said people ask Google “what song is playing” nearly 100 million times each month.
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“but you make me sing like a guitar humming…”
-neil diamond
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Credit: Rachel Metz, CNN Business
Oct21
away.
the end of a wonderful, relaxing weekend away.
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“babies don’t need a vacation but i still see them at the beach.
i’ll go over to them and say,
“what are you doing here, you’ve never worked a day in your life!”
-stephen wright
Oct20
minnehaha.
seeing the bones of this ship on the shores of lake michigan
washed up on the camp arcadia beach
and wondering how they came to be here.
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The Minnehaha, built in 1880 by Linn & Craig in Gibralter, Michigan, was a 4-masted, 200 foot, wooden schooner used to haul cargo in Great Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan. On October 13th of 1893, the steam barge Henry J. Johnson was towing the Minnehaha from Chicago bound for Point Edward at the south end of Lake Huron with 58,000 bushels of corn when facing 90 mile per hour gale force winds, the ship was lost to the sea.
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“the sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning:
we are all in the same boat.
-jacques yves cousteau
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http://www.arcadiami.com/index.php/hidden-exhibits/hidden-shipwrecks/hidden-minnehaha
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credits: maritime history of the great lakes, bowling green state university, camp arcadia
Oct19
spectacle.
there is one spectacle grander than the sea,
that is the sky;
there is one spectacle grander than the sky,
that is the interior of the soul.
-victor hugo
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Arcadia Dunes, C.S. Mott Nature Preserve, on the shores of Lake Michigan, hiking Old Baldy Trail – October 2020
Oct18
renewed.
a blustery autumn day
on the shores of lake michigan
the wind and the sea so full of life.
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as wave is driven by wave
and each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead
so time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
always, forever and new, what was before
is left behind: what never was is now:
and every passing moment is renewed.
-ovid
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lake michigan, arcadia, michigan, usa – october 2020
Oct17
done.
even brave dragons
have their moments
when they sit down
between the goal posts
the football sits down
on the ground
and
they are just done.
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“by letting it go it all gets done.
the world is won by those who let it go.
but when you try and try
the world is beyond the winning.”
-lao tzu
Oct16
astonishing.
image credit: pictoral arts journal
Oct15
fingernail.
when i was a little girl
one of my sisters used to bite her nails
when i’d look out the window
see the sliver of a moon
i thought that was her nail up there
wanting endlessly
to think of a way to get it back for her.
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“it’s like we’re on a rocket ship that we were just painting,
and suddenly it took off
and we’re holding onto the ship with our fingernails.
– Esteban Contreras
Oct14
it’s complicated.
oh, we all have those days
you start out by not having your water bottle
so you get a special halloween cup of water
it gets tipped over when you are cutting
you go to get a paper towel to dry it up
but you come back with what you can find
toilet paper
that gets wet and mushy
the extra part rolls out on the floor
your coat falls off of the back of your chair
the paper you were cutting gets soaked and chopped into little pieces
because you are really good at cutting
you can’t find the cap to your marker
because it rolled off your table
now it might dry up
all you have left are the dark color crayons
you don’t get time to finish your cheez-its
because you are trying to clean up
the ones that are left get wet and are mushy
you go out to recess and run and run and go on a pirate adventure
your teachers love you anyway and tell you it happens to them too
and it’s all okay.
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“there’s no limit to how complicated things can get,
on account of one thing always leading to another.”
-E. B. White
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