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Just a little food for thought:

According to wikipedia:

Enthusiasm originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a god.

And I might be mistaken here, but I believe it is taken from the greek entheos, which literally means ‘the god within’.  Puts a different spin on the word, methinks.

You know, I haven’t listened to a great piece in 3 in a while.  The 2nd movement from Sibelius’ Third Symphony has so many great moments.  This recording by the Halle Orchestra

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An interesting read:

Carl Sagan on Skepticism and Wonder

Yeah, thought so

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I was wanting to back up some field recordings I did onto my web server. These are uncompressed wavs, very big and would take AGES to upload at home with Comcast. Luckily, Indiana University is faster. Much, much, faster. So fast, in fact, that they make my Comcast connection feel worthless. I was uploading 5 files each at over 900KB/s, for a grand total of 4.5 megabytes/second. Comcast tells the world that they need to limit the total monthly throughput of their customers while I can get on a different set of pipes in the same town, upload at roughly 30 times faster and not have my total throughput limited. I wish I knew how these intertubes worked. Maybe then I wouldn’t be so confused about why home connections always suck. Is it the last mile? The cost of upgrading infrastructure too great? Too little competition? Or should I stop whining and accept my connection speeds without question?

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