MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Here’s the October report. All data are averaged over the period from October 1st through November 1st, except for Tired of Waiting, which is listed just for the last week, and Make Show, which is still evolving rapidly and not included yet. (Tired of Waiting has actually already dropped out of the top 20 at V = 417 (#23) and C = 0.96 (#24).)
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simultaneous views:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: C = 13.07 (+5.93)
2) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 2.96 (-0.05)
3) Here Comes the Sun: C = 2.96 (-0.09)
4) Vincent: C = 2.26 (-0.32)
5) Wish You Were Here: C = 1.89 (+0.32)
6) Drive My Car (2012): C = 1.77 (-0.08)
7) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 1.77 (+0.20)
8) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 1.69 (-0.08)
9) If I Fell: C = 1.69 (-0.08)
10) You Can’t Do That: C = 1.65 (+0.12)
11) Africa: C = 1.48 (+0.23)
12) Monalisa Twins Interview 2016: C = 1.23 (+0.26)
13) Sound of Silence: C = 1.12 (+0.07)
14) Till There Was You: C = 1.12 (+0.07)
15) I’ll Follow the Sun: C = 1.11 (0.00)
16) Nowhere Man: C = 1.11 (0.00)
17) This Boy: C = 1.09 (+0.01)
18) I’m a Believer: C = 1.06 (+0.01)
19) Day Tripper: C = 1.06 (-0.03)
20) I’m Looking Through You: C = 1.06 (+0.02)
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views per day:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: V = 4608 (+2091)
2) Here Comes the Sun: V = 1218 (-37)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 934 (-16)
4) Drive My Car (2012): V = 918 (-39)
5) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 836 (-39)
6) If I Fell: V = 766 (-33)
7) Vincent: V = 764 (-107)
8) You Can’t Do That: V = 761 (+56)
9) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 750 +80)
10) Till There Was You: V = 591 (+40)
11) Wish You Were Here: V = 559 (+94)
12) I’m Looking Through You: V = 523 (+12)
13) Nowhere Man: V = 494 (+1)
14) Sound of Silence: V = 473 (+32)
15) This Boy: V = 466 (+6)
16) Day Tripper: V = 477 (-14)
17) Please Please Me: V = 457 (+61)
18) I’ll Follow the Sun: V = 445 (+2)
19) Africa: V = 440 (+68)
20) Twist and Shout: V = 435 (+104)
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All in all, not a lot of changes since last month, apart from a big surge back to the stratosphere by PMP. Here Comes the Sun appears to be shaping up to be a perennial contender for the #2 spot on the view list.
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I found them when the YouTube algorithm sent one of their covers my way after I had been watching Beatles videos. I imagine that’s the case for most of us, but it would be cool to hear about any alternate routes of discovery.
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What sort of show will Make Show make? For the next-to-last hour of October 29th, V = 7128 and C = 20.2. For October 30th, V = 5972 and C = 16.9. For October 31st, V = 3678 and C = 10.4. For November 1st, V = 2582 and C = 7.32. For November 2nd, V = 1999 and C = 5.67.
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Lucy just made its first pass by the Earth the other day on its way to visit some of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, and used the occasion to take some calibration images of the Earth and the Moon, including a photo that most spacecraft are never in position to obtain: Earth and Moon in the same frame, showing their relative sizes and brightness and their separation. I just thought I’d share it here because it’s one of those cool “you are here” kinds of experiences.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/tt1_0718931263_ega1_earth_moon.png
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Averaged over the past week, Tired of Waiting is at V = 592 and C = 1.36.
New monthly stats next week!
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Averaged over the past week, Tired of Waiting is at V = 1652 and C = 3.79.
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Happy Thanksgiving to Jacki, Jung, the rest of the Canadian club members, hockey fans, toque wearers, and all others who are Canadian at heart!
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Continuing with Tired of Waiting, for October 7th, V = 3754 and C = 8.60. For October 8th, V = 3346 and C = 7.67. For October 9th, V = 3589 and C = 8.22. For October 10th, V = 4577 and C = 10.5. And for October 11th, V = 4938 and C = 11.3. (That’s three daily increases in a row!)
The new “Why” short is great to see, but it won’t be possible to track its views accurately because, unless I’m missing something, views of shorts are only displayed to the nearest hundred after reaching 1,000 views, and to the nearest thousand after reaching 10,000 views.
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I was so pumped when George released his Cloud Nine album! It had been two or three years since I had discovered the Beatles, and at that time George appeared to be retired from making music, having not put out anything in several years. So it was a great treat to hear some new stuff from him, and this song and video in particular were so much fun!
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I think Any Other Day perfectly distills the unaffected carefree feeling you get when you realize you’ve found the perfect person for you. I keep picturing someone walking down the street with a smile and a faraway look, kind of like Tony in West Side Story when he sings “Maria”, but with a more lighthearted ambience.
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Hey, Jung.
This is a topic that I’ve really tried to educate myself on a lot recently, because labels color how we perceive things. Gnosticism/agnosticism refers to knowledge, and theism/atheism refers to belief. So you can be a gnostic theist (you believe and are certain), an agnostic theist (you believe but are uncertain), a gnostic atheist (you don’t believe and are certain), or an agnostic atheist (you don’t believe but are uncertain). The term agnostic by itself is not a neutral position.
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There are actually two flavors of atheism, often called hard and soft. A hard atheist asserts that no gods exist, and thus takes on a burden of proof for that claim. A soft atheist is simply not convinced of claims that gods do exist, thus leaving the burden of proof with theists. Einstein’s letter here suggests he was a soft atheist.
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The consensus conclusion of good math nerds is that if you extend the week by one part in seven, then the full cycle would take seven years: 3.5 years to get maximally out of sync, and 3.5 more to get back in sync, at which point you’d be one lap down, i.e. one year behind.
There’s actually an historical analog for this sort of thing. Due to an oversimplification in how the ancient Romans accounted for leap years, by the mid-1700’s the calendar was ten days behind where it should be based on the Earth’s position in its orbit. At that time, most European countries decided to jump the calendar forward ten days to catch up, and redo the leap year calculation more accurately for posterity.
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Ah, that would explain a lot. If you keep adding an extra day to each week, after a couple of years your calendar will be so far off that your seasons will be completely out of sync with the rest of the world.
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Yeah, I remember when that video came out. So cool!
Of course, the sight gag with Ringo and the long keyboard wasn’t very original:
