Turns out Cor64 also has covers of Ken's Theme (from Street Fighter 2) and the Rocky IV Training Montage song, so I guess I found a new favorite band today.

Can you imagine a better gig than touring the country playing live covers of Nintendo 64 soundtracks?

This is so cute, clever, and impressive. An easy subscribe for me.

Betteridge’s law of headlines unfortunately applies here, but this was such a fun watch.

I also snort laughed at “ROM MAXXING.”

Angela Collier made an apology video for making people feel dumb for not knowing that physicists use LaTeX instead of Word, and it’s so delightful.

I learned that LaTeX is pronounced “Lah-Tech”. I assumed for decades that it was pronounced like the fabric?

I also enjoyed her anti-Microsoft rants peppered throughout the video. As someone who inherited a legacy .NET project, I could not agree more with her sentiments here.

Well gang, I think we can call it a day. Nothing's gonna top this.

Maya is living the dream here. I could listen to her nerd out about React components for hours.

My buddy Paul gave a talk at Minnebar ostensibly about how he's able to take a 3d scan of a room and throw it into Blender to visualize how a furniture piece will look in a room.

It ended up being a love letter to creativity and learning.

I've known Paul for more than two decades now. Every time I see him, he's either recently completed or is midway on some insanely cool idea. It's annoyingly inspiring. I'm getting lunch with him in a couple days and I am 70% sure he's gonna say something like "yeah, I got irritated and decided to dig an underground bunker."

Just... just watch this talk. And if it blows your mind like it did mine, hire the man to make your house cool!

Also, for my own future notes, here's Paul's pithy checklist for how to approach projects:

1. Start small
2. Have a goal
3. Lower your expectations

And tonight, the category is: covers that go hard.

These madlads are back in the kitchen throwing down hard to perhaps my favorite System song.

How dare they. How dare they.

My daughter is gonna go nuts for that alto sax solo.

Of course that song won a Grammy this year.

From that first strum in Tema de Guile, I was hooked.

Edit:

I woke up this morning and the algorithm delivered me more SFII content, this time in the form of Japanese jazz fusion.

I have loved listening to Giant Steps since college, but never knew why so many musically-literate people love this album. I just liked it because it sounds good.

This is the first video that explained the circle of fifths in a way that made me want to learn more about music theory.

I found Dr. Becky's definition of a boundary very helpful:

Boundaries are what we tell someone we will do, and they require the other person to do nothing.

To illustrate this point, she talks about her son getting in an elevator and pressing all the buttons.

In the first example, she says to her son before getting in the elevator: "Don't press all the elevator buttons! It's annoying and disrespectful to other people."

Her son then goes ahead and presses them all anyway.

She points out that saying "my kid doesn't respect my boundaries" here is actually wrong, because she never set a boundary. She made a request.

In the second example, she says, "When we get in the elevator, I'm going to stand between you and the buttons. And even if you lunge for them, I will stop you." Then she'd actually physically be ready to block him.

That's a real boundary: she's telling him what she will do, and it doesn't require him to do anything.

On a similar note: saying "we don't do X" actually gives away your authority. The stronger language is "I'm not going to let you do that."

When you make requests and call them boundaries, you are giving away your power. A true boundary restores your power and protects your connection because you (theoretically) end up not yelling out of frustration.