According to a report, the average length of a song is now significantly shorter. (Basically, Spotify is making songs shorter.)

The average length of a song on the Billboard Hot 100 has decreased by 20 seconds in the past five years. Songs now average 3 minutes and 30 seconds — and are steadily shrinking.

6% of hit songs also averaged 2 minutes and 30 seconds or shorter last year, and sub-3 minute songs are becoming increasingly common.

I wanted to go ol' skool and celebrate some of my fav long-ass singles --- and the passing of a generation of music that I doubt will ever be back again:



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And appropriately,

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Albeit not against high RPI teams, since the Rutgers series, the Hoosiers are 9-4 and have won 3 straight conference series, two of them against top 100 RPI teams in Illinois and Michigan. They've certainly improved their B1G standings and have a real shot now at making the conference tournament. I'll be the first to say, I didn't see it coming.

With that said, for the most part, the lineup and field players they've put out all year have been good enough to really good, in some cases, but the pitching was just a disaster. I don't know that the pitching qualifies even as good recently, but it's not been as disastrous.

Good on the team for not just cashing in their chips. It appears they've battled, gotten better and seem to play for one another. Those are all blocks that can be built upon for sure. If any of them can pitch next year, that would be even better LOL

I didn't watch the broadcast itself, so I don't know if this clip represents the entire segment. I will say that when he described himself as a "lifelong Republican" and with his background as a West Point grad with a 10 yr active duty career followed by decades as a policy wonk, I imagine he has much in common (philosophically) with someone like our own Aloha. Aside from the fact that they root for opposing sides in the Army/Navy game, of course...

My Dad was a Marine DI at Pearl during WW2. But I spent 6 1/2 yrs in Germany working in an MOS library and teaching BSEP and High School completion courses to enlisted personnel, and had lots of friends who were officers and NCOs. And the one thing they all had in common is that they were Army. So my own loyalties in that regard are split, since I never knew any of my Dad's Marine/Navy buddies...

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Too much for even Collins & Murkowski. Goes well beyond Roe. From the pro-abortion party.

Hi Guys,

I’m a new user on Uipath, and I’m facing my first problem trying to convert a string to a number.

I’m getting values from a DataTable into a variable (Heure_Minute_Actuelle_Row) :
row(2).ToString.Substring(9,2)+row(2).ToString.Substring(12,2) → Result is 1032 (as a string)

Then :
I try to convert as a number what I get into Heure_Minute_Actuelle_Row (so 1032) by assigning it a new variable (Heure_Minute_Actuelle_Row_Number) → cint(Heure_Minuite_Row) and I get 0 as number

Could someone help on the topic of how to convert this string into a number?

Thanks a lot.

Gordon Hartman is a badass

This guy sold his business to build a fun park for his daughter with special needs. In addition, park guests with special needs get free admission, and 1/3 of the employees have special needs.

A few interesting tidbits, such as Brown having not just left but was "dismissed" and where several guys ended up after entering the Portal ...

To see if they were interested in the job, and that person is another Bloomington native and member of IU's last Final 4 team, Jared Jeffries. Seems like he'd be a good fit for the role, or at least has some related experience, since he was a former scout and Director of Player Personnel or the Denver Nuggets. And he played for Woody in New York.

Looks like a good replacement for Buck. Works at NFL network. Former IU receiver.

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recruiting coordinator

Yes, *your* thoughts. I consider them important, even if the rest of the world holds them in derision.

Is Duke/Coach Krzy dirty? Or is everyone else just a bunch of soreheads?

I'm headed to Ireland on June 2 and as of right now the only COVID-related requirement is to have a negative test to come back to the US. I have what I assume to be good trip insurance, so I feel like I'm good there.

The wrinkle here is that I tested positive for COVID last week (tomorrow is my last day of self-isolation). Some reports suggest that you could test positive up to 90 days after actually having COVID. I talked with my doctor and she wrote a letter stating when I tested positive, but she was sort of non-committal about it, saying it 'should' work.

I'm just curious if 1) any of you have run into anything similar and 2) have any of you had to actually use trip insurance?

Watched it again this morning.

Its relevant again.

Abortion. Leaks. Law.

“Now you know and I know that we can’t tell you what to print, or what not to. We hope you folks in the press will act responsibly, but when you don’t there ain’t a hell of a lot anybody can do about it. But we can’t have people go around leaking stuff for their own reasons. It aint legal. And worse than that, by God it ain’t right. I can’t stop you, but I can damn well stop them.”

Congrats

Congrats to Jordy

Not basketball related but another 'gem' of a hire by Fred Glass:


Glad he is long gone!

No word yet as to what happened. Very sad...he was a tough player.

https://sports.yahoo.com/adreian-payne-former-michigan-state-142543076.html

Aird was a popular figure in the IUAD after his hiring.
Got a ton of attention from a lot of media involved with IU.

apparently not all that glitters is gold
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The Sunday games are over with and IU has moved ahead of Purdue for the 7th spot by percentage points with the Boilers losing to Iowa today. There are two games on Monday because of weather postponements with MD@Rutgers and MSU@PSU, but they won't affect the standings although both PSU and MSU are in that group that IU is in, trying get one of the final three spots in the B1G tournament. With their win today, PSU moves to 9-8 in 6th place ahead of IU, and PSU is right in the middle of 9 straight games against the bottom three teams in the standings in Minnesota, MSU, and OSU next weekend. IU needs to take care of business against the Gophers and hope that MSU can help out tomorrow against PSU, along with OSU next weekend. Actually, PSU will move into a tie with Michigan for 5th, if they win tomorrow. The Husker fans have to be pulling their hair out right now after the Huskers lost two of three to the Gophers in Minneapolis this weekend, which has a big impact on their hopes to make the B1G tournament. The Gophers had won just two conference games before the series with the Huskers. For once bigten.org was quick to update their standings after today's action:

I tried out rowing for exercise this week. First one was kind of a get to know the machine session.

Today I got after it a little. I did 4 sets of 5 minutes, averaged about 900 meters a set.

Will I feel like dying tomorrow?

Alec, Kyler, @Bloom. etc.

Do you think IU gets involved here? Read somewhere that he's "blowing up" this spring. Don't feel like I heard a ton about him with Carmel during the high school season.