{"id":322,"date":"2006-06-12T01:31:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T01:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=322"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:01:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:01:26","slug":"recent_ideas_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/recent_ideas_th\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Ideas, Thoughts, Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"itunes-stars.png\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/itunes-stars.png\" width=\"525\" height=\"82\" title=\"It adds and removes stars all on its own\" \/><br \/>\nCorrelate iTunes track ratings with play counts, play count acceleration, and time. As in, for ex. as a song&#8217;s play count increases, and the durations between play cycles decreases, over time a predication could be made by the software as to that track&#8217;s star rating, for ex. A rapidly-increasing play count may indicate I like this song a lot and the rating goes from default 0 to maximum 5 stars. As play counts decrease rating slowly decreases. People&#8217;s music tastes change, and sometimes change abruptly. I don&#8217;t always listen to tracks I rated 5 stars last year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corp.delta.bc.ca\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"delta-masthead.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/delta-masthead.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"218\" title=\"Apparently\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA lot of teenagers seem to ride freestyle bikes around Ladner Exchange. The leisure centre nearby? Delta fashion? It is flat out there?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"transit-pass.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/transit-pass.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"170\" title=\"1000s of these everyday\" \/><br \/>\nVancouver transit fare system: inefficient, poor usability, costly, environmentally bad.<br \/>\nThe quite death of chequing?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"blue-velvet-frank.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/blue-velvet-frank.jpg\" width=\"319\" height=\"225\" title=\"Oh Frank\" \/><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t see Blue Velvet on a first date.<br \/>\nWikipedia as Google\/Internet.<br \/>\nResearch anything long enough and you can talk yourself into\/out of it.<br \/>\nWhat is my definition of West Coast? Why haven&#8217;t I taken more advantage of what it has to offer? Is the West Coast my truest sense of place?<br \/>\nStudent Furniture Design: A set of Criteria. Portable. Affordable. Budgetable. Buildable. Durable. Environmental. Sturdy. Creative Commons?<br \/>\nInstantSoupReview.com<br \/>\nManaging design \u201clike a film director\u201d &#8211; Professor Chen.<br \/>\nWhat would Jodorowsky say? Design with your testicles. Actually, Sagmeister might say that, too.<br \/>\nGraphic Design = Engineering image and text.<br \/>\n\u201cTechno-Economic\u201d \u2013 Design History TA Marsha<br \/>\nThe problem with razors: throughput. Bottle neck. Cleaning after each stroke.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"chest-hair.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/chest-hair.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"295\" title=\"This chest hair is new\" \/><br \/>\nBody hair: I have much more\/darker hair than I did a year ago. Why do men get more hair years after puberty? What is the evolutionary purpose? Or it&#8217;s a by-product\/the price to pay for having nicer, less-hair bodies in our teenage prime? <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/90447555@N00\/153427595\/\">Seeing into my crystal ball?<\/a><br \/>\nItching and scabs: if it&#8217;s better not to do them, why do we have an almost overwhelming desire to? By-product of being extra-aware or potential threats, body confuses scabs and itches as bugs?<br \/>\n<span class=\"discreet\">Freestyle biker photo I put in the Delta masthead a CC courtesy by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/bk\/30129789\/\">http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/bk\/30129789\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correlate iTunes track ratings with play counts, play count acceleration, and time. As in, for ex. as a song&#8217;s play count increases, and the durations between play cycles decreases, over time a predication could be made by the software as to that track&#8217;s star rating, for ex. A rapidly-increasing play count may indicate I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}