A Comparative Analysis
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If USCA Rules croquet is a game of cat and mouse,
then Association Rules croquet is a game of cat and cat.
The Joys of Swamp Croquet!
I sing the praises of Swamp Croquet
In the absence of carpetlike greenery.
The Swamp is a small corridor of Heavenly Peace
Though lumpy and sprarse and sloping Southerly
It sharpens the body and mind for The Game.
No more shall I curse at its Moss or its Buttercups.
They've lasted through many a brutal roquet.
Nor the Squirrels that dig up their peanuts by night
For they're doing their part to break up the clay.
The metric system is totally stupid! I mean,
really, what shmegging well difference does it make if you eat 100
grams or 109 grams of cheese? And when was the last time you got
exactly 100 grams of cheese when you asked for it? And (further) when
was the last time you heard any reference to metric measurement in
popular song or verse?
Never, that's when.
And this is the reason: The human mind is not naturally inclined to
resonate in decimal based frequencies. If it was, the rhythms and
tonal scale of our music would not be based on 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, etc.
Popular rhythms resolve themselves in 3s and 4s and combinations
thereof. Waltzes, jigs, reels, rock, jazz, hiphop, rap, funk,
R&B, blues, punk, techno-pop, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. are
all structured around 3s and 4s.
"Take Five" is the only popular song with a rhythmic phrase based on
5s.
The human ear has been cunningly engineered to detect the subtle
overtones present in all complex sounds, the first twelve of which
comprise the Western 12 note octave. We are instinctively quite
capable of decyphering 12-based systems, unlike our frenetic binary
friend, the computer.
A computer is capable of making "Yes/No" decisions, while we are
cursed with the added dimension of "Maybe". Maybe that's why
computers seem so pathetic and stupid sometimes. The poor things are
not playing with a full deck. They are forced to deal with real world
situations armed with only cyber-world deduction skills. No wonder
they get frustrated and crash!
I could go on and on. As a matter of fact I think I just
did.
