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Will Smith

Pit bull


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I drove to East Point park today to find the gothic-romantically named geocache Finnegan's Tomb. Sadly it was a nofind but I will be back later. The beach is as lovely as I remembered it to be. Then I remembered that Charles and I spent a nice day there once in the summer. Well, I had a blast that day. He probably didn't enjoy it as much. I recall him cringing at the crumbling footpaths at the Cathedral Bluffs too. And doing phone things while I was clambering over the rocks in the surf. His loss.

My dad's dropping me off at Thompson Park later en route to work so I can make up the loss caching there.

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Marlene Arpe dead at 50

That woman's photo column was my #1 reason to read the Sunday Star. I will miss her and Celebrity Tongue and Disembodied Hands.    

- made walnut/chocolate/coffee brownies
- found a cache I missed last time
- scraped my stomach climbing down the tree
- found a baby white-throated sparrow on the side of the bike path! moved it to safety in the hydro field, since I could see some adult white-throated sparrows bouncing around a few dozen metres away. Its legs were so long! The body of the sparrow was the size of a ping-pong ball but its legs were the length of my pinky. Its wings were not very feathered, like half-inch long chicken wings.

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Lyric Intelligence in Popular Music: A Ten-Year Analysis

Notes
- I would have liked to see a bigger sample size. Maybe the Billboard Top 40 for every year, or top 20 per genre, per year? Speaking of which, more temporally diverse dataset would be nice too.
- Comparisons to different works: what is the Flesch-Kincaid score for, for example, Green Eggs and Ham (-1.3) or Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (~5.5), or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7.6)? Or something appropriate to the range at which top songs fall: perhaps Goodnight Moon (~2.8)? (Source)