Hyundai Alternator, Again

Cutaway drawing of Alternator

It appears that the alternator has crapped out on the Hyundai again. It failed several years ago. They warned me at the time that there was an oil leak right above the alternator that I should probably get fixed. Not too long ago I took the car in for an oil change and ended up with half of an engine overhaul. One of the things they were going to fix was this oil leak. Didn't. Couple of weeks go by and it's pretty obvious from the smell and from the fresh oil covering the alternator that they hadn't fixed the leak. Turns out the valve cover was cracked. The car was in a front end accident before I got it, so the valve cover might have gotten hit in the accident, and gotten hit hard enough to start a crack that has gradually grown until it has become a real problem.  Or it might have been a flaw in the casting that was there from the beginning.

Whatever. They Fed-Ex'd a new valve cover in and replaced it, so the oil leak is fixed. However, it appears that the spirit of the alternator has gone to alternator heaven and its earthly remains will have to be removed and a new, live, alternator installed in its place.

Which got me thinking about tow trucks. (Cars break down and sometimes when than happens you are left stuck and you have to call a tow truck.) When I was younger, say 40 or 50 years ago, nobody ever called a tow truck. Nobody's car ever broke down, or if it did, you fixed it yourself, you didn't call for a tow truck, those things cost money! Nowadays I don't hear people complaining about the cost of a tow truck. My last run-in a couple of months ago cost about $100, which is chunk out of my weekly allowance, but not all that bad.

So what I am wondering is - have people in general quit complaining about the price of tow trucks, or do people still complain about the price but I just don't hear about it because I don't hang around with those folks (because I'm old)?

Update: next morning. Just started the car to take it to the shop and the red battery indicator was out. Checked the voltage at the battery and it was 13 point something, so the alternator is back on the job. The check engine light is still on, so something is not right. The Hyundai expert at my local repair shop had a heart attack last week, so they aren't going to be able to look at it till Monday. I guess I'll keep driving it and pray it doesn't die and leave me stranded and looking for a tow truck.

Armistice Day

Anthem Veterans Memorial

I've seen a bunch of posts about Armistice Day today. I wasn't going to say anything, but then this picture caught my eye. Wikipedia has the details.

WW1 was a disaster of epic proportions. I suspect that it was at least due in part to the population explosion of the 19th century. I suspect that the violence we see everyday is due to our natural propensity for hate. It would be nice if we could eliminate that, but it is part of our nature and no doubt played a large part in getting us where we are today. So maybe it's just something we are going to have to live with. The best we can do is to channel that rage and aggression into non-destructive endeavors, but even that may backfire on us. Keep building new things without destroying any old things and pretty soon you are going to be walled in on every side. And then what are you going to do, Bucky?

Crime & Punishment

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy [video] Album Version

It occurs to me that one reason why the Catholic Church has such a problem with pedophilia is that dispensing justice is not in the Church's purview. The church is in the business of forgiveness. You can bet that those who committed a sin while in the grip of some hormone induced compulsion, when they get to confession they will be truly repentant and will whole-hearted promise to sin no more. And the church, being the church can only accept them at their word. But people are animals. No matter how much we might like to think we are in control of ourselves, it's the hormones that are actually in control.

Quote of the Day

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Found on a Reddit post about The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear. - G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1909)

The more nonsensical our political conflicts become, the more I wonder about who we are. Society has been evolving for ten's of thousands of years (I could have used 'millennia', but for some reason 'tens of thousands of years' sounds better).  Most of what underpins our rules of behavior has been taken for granted for so long that we know longer know why we do what we do. Well, I don't anyway. I never thought fairy tales were harmful, but I never knew why felt that way, and I suspect most people don't either.

P.S. Could it be that the copyright on Peter Rabbit has expired? I think it must have.

P.P.S. St. George has appeared in these pages before.

 

Tuesday

I just stopped in the TV room to see that my wife was watching American Idol. They were just introducing a choir from Los Angeles so I stayed to watch. When the song was done and the judges started yapping, I left. This is pretty standard for me. I don't watch the news or weather or sports shows, any show that is mostly talking. It just occurred to me that I do this because listening to any broadcast of people talking is a waste of time. The amount of information contained in a broadcast would fit on a sheet of paper that could be read in couple of minutes. I don't need to spend the next hour listening to these guys jabber, especially since it's a one way street. They aren't listening to me, so they don't deserve any ear time from me. This might be why I don't like long conversations on the phone. If you've got something to say, i.e. some information to impart, spit it out. We don't need to spend the next a couple of minutes chatting about whatever. I do enjoy talking to people face to face, at least some people, some times. I can only do that for an hour or two at most. After that I need a break.

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We have come so far in large part because of our ability to devise solutions to large problems by finding small operations, easily repeated, that when endless repeated solve the problem. Hand woven Turkish carpets come to mind, as does dropping seeds in a furrow, one by one. Building the pyramids was essentially two operations: cutting blocks of stone, and hauling them up a ramp, and doing it over and over again. The modern assembly line consists of a zillion trivial operations performed in sequence. Each operation consists on doing one thing and then handing the part to the next operator. The printing press and broadcast radio and television repeat the same simple messages over and over. Much of computer programming consists of devising ways to do some simple thing over and over again.

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Elon Musk, aka SpaceX, got a contract a while back to delivery a dozen cargo capsules to the ISS (International Space Station). The contract was for $1.6 billion, which means NASA was paying $100 million per supply delivery. $100 million dollars is a large quantity of money. With that much money you could hire a thousand people for a year, which is essentially what happened. While some outfits may be making a bundle off of these contracts, I suspect many of them have invested serious money in developing the capabilities needed  to actually deliver the goods. We won't count the initial investment in time because these guys were doing what they loved. I mean, why else would you build a rocket unless you loved it? I mean they aren't really good for anything. We've got all the rocket power we need to put satellites in orbit, if you consider satellites useful. I'm not entirely convinced. The only reason they're doing this is because they want to learn how to build bigger and better rockets, rockets that will take us "to infinity and beyond!"

Feelings

These days it seems like everything produced by mass media is designed to inflame an emotion, facts be danged. People make decisions based on emotion, not on facts, so if you want to sway people's opinion on an issue, you need to make an emotional appeal, not a cold, calculating one, although that is exactly what the people behind the scenes are doing: coldly calculating what should go into their emotional appeal that will make it most effective.

Seems like everyone has an agenda these days, and every story that comes out is given a slanted emotional appeal designed to serve that agenda. Marc, one of our most vocal supporters of right wing politics (although I think a lot of it is just to irritate anyone who voices a liberal opinion), listens to NPR, who have some interesting stories. However, after you have listened to them for a bit it becomes pretty clear that the stories are designed to make you feel bad or guilty about whatever issue is under discussion. Never mind the facts.


CO2 and global warming popped up at Thursday lunch and things like CO2 from cow farts and rice paddies (and some other source that I have forgotten) are suspected of being bigger contributors to global warming than the burning of fossil fuels by the industrialized West. I discouraged any further exploration of the topic because it's an endless rathole. There is no bottom to it, mostly because every single story you will find has been painted with a big fat brush dripping with colored paint, red or blue.

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We finished watching season one of Goliath last night and while I enjoyed the show, it was kind of low on logic. It was basically a sequence of emotional scenes tied together with some pretty thin thread. For instance, there is a bad guy running around loose, wreaking havoc on our heroes, but he gets taken out. By who? No clue is ever given. A death bed confession is not convincing. And then there is the case of police brutality, or at least it seemed like it could have been a case, and should have been pursued, but there wasn't even a failed attempt to collect the video from police car camera. And what's with the hooker? Nothing she does makes much sense, but then if I was making $10,000 for a weekend of snorting coke and screwing my brains out, maybe I wouldn't be making any sense either.

Emotion

When I get tired I get cranky, and I must have been tired today because I sure was cranky. Doing the laundry, the washing machine seems like it's done, there's no water flowing and it's not spinning, let's open it up and get the laundry out, but we can't, the door is still locked. The fancy little digital display says it still has two minutes to run. WTF is it doing? It's turning the drum slowly. Why? Stupid machine. If I hadn't happened to walk in there at just that moment it wouldn't have been a problem, but I did, and I'm tired, so WTF are you doing you stupid machine? It finally finishes and beeps, so I open the door. Then the accursed POS beeps at me again. What kind of ignorant savages programmed this thing? Someone should cram one of these beepers in their ear.

I go to McDonald's to pick up a couple of sandwiches for dinner. It's dinner time and the drive up queue is full. This McDonald's is fancy, they have two (2!) speaker boxes for taking orders. I have been here before when they were operating smoothly and they will take orders at both boxes and never seem to get confused. Today is not one of those days. I pull up to the speaker box and it tells me to order at the next speaker box. Okay fine, not a problem. But then it tells me again. FU, you annoying POS, I heard you the first time.

Eventually I get to the goody window, but instead of handing me my bag of goodies, the large woman asks me to pull around front and park and they'll bring my order out to me. Well, sheet, but okay, that's what I get for ordering something with 'artisan' in the name. It's okay for five minutes, but when we get to ten I've had enough and stomp inside to find out what's going on. The small woman in charge tells me they are waiting for the chicken to come up. whatever the $%^ that means. Screw that, gimme my money back, which she does. I go to Wendy's and buy hamburgers. If they had warned me that it was going to take an hour when I ordered, that would have been one thing, but they didn't.

Some emotions are easy to identify. Cranky, cheerful, content, happy are pretty obvious. But stress can distort your emotional state without making itself known. My wife broke her wrist last week when she tripped over a stationary kindergärtner and fell. It didn't seem too bad. She went to the ER where they took some X-rays and and wrapped her arm up with a temporary cast. But then we go see the bone doctor and now it looks like surgery might be in order. It's not a big deal, they make two inch long incision, line up the broken bit of bone, slip in a little metal splint, screw it down and sew up the incision. Surgery was Thursday afternoon. I didn't sleep well Wednesday night, I got maybe a couple of hours. Surgery went well and last night I slept pretty well. Today I am still very tired and as a result I find even the littlest things immensely irritating, as you may have noticed.

Horch 851

1935 Horch 851

I am nearing the end of Masaryk Station by David Downing and I come across a passage where an East German bureaucrat is sent down to Aue to talk to the leader of the local labor union. His boss gives him a Horch 851 automobile to drive to "impress the Russians". He's not keen on any of this, but it's his job, so off he goes. He hasn't driven in a long time and it takes him a while to get sorted, but once he does:

"He loved trains, and the chance they gave you to sit by the window and watch the world go by; but there was something just as liberating about sitting alone in a car, controlling your own direction and speed. An illusion of independence perhaps, but an intoxicating one nonetheless." - Page 311

I've been hearing about America's love affair with the car since I was a kid, but I have seldom heard any kind of cogent explanation, and here I find one in an aside in an espionage novel. I enjoy encountering little bits of clarity like this.

This book is set in the same time period as another espionage thriller I read about a year ago: Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon. The Wismut uranium mines in Aue and the Berlin Airlift show up in both books.

Quotes of the Day

Anna Chapman in Moscow June 2011

The strength of Putin’s rule is not so much in his iron grip on everyone’s life, or the sophistication of his spies. It’s the deep-ingrained belief of many Russians, both among the elite and commoners, that the government is the only thing that can protect each of us from the rest of us. - Dima Vorobiev on Quora

I am glad to see that Russia is making some economic progress. Putin might be a killer, but is there anyone who would prefer that Stalin was still in charge? Did Putin order the execution of the Russians who were killed in Britain recently? Seems pretty thin to me. I mean our government is not always the most competent when ferreting out the details. I suspect someone had a personal grudge. Maybe it was Putin, maybe it was someone else. Whatever. In any case I am looking for a picture to post and I come across Anna Chapman, who was some sort of real-life Bond girl.

It's no secret that we live in an era of overabundance of information. Today a day a person learns more than a hundred years ago could learn for a lifetime. In this uncontrolled flow of knowledge it is difficult to understand: where we are honest and where we are deceived. And as a result, many take on faith all incoming information. Or, on the contrary, they throw themselves away, not even allowing the thought that it can be reliable. When this winter the swine flu epidemic hit most of Russia, there were many versions of its origin. Up to the point that it came to us from the territory of Ukraine - allegedly in the laboratory near Kharkov, the Americans are developing biological weapons. A crazy theory that, nevertheless, has a right to exist. - Anna Chapman via Google Translate

Seems like wacko conspiracy theories exist on both sides of the ideological divide. Oh wait, maybe the CIA actually did infect Russia with the swine flu. I wouldn't put it past them. They certainly have a long history of dirty tricks. I don't actually think they did. Mother Nature doesn't really care what we do or say. Sometimes her vicious nature just asserts itself and a zillion people die.

P.S. While looking at pictures of Anna, I came across several that had her posing with a gun. Well, if you're going to be one of the elite, and I'm pretty sure being a real-life Bond girl qualifies, you need to be able to handle a firearm. But this pic won out because we have a Russian church in the background. I don't think it's St. Basil's, but I am pretty sure it's in Moscow.

Effing Portand

Luftwaffe Eagle, sans Swastika

Angry Portland woman attacks Jewish-owned restaurant over suspected Nazi customer

Portland seems to have more than our share of people who’s joie-de-vivre is being offended, telling everyone all about it, and then rallying a big herd of sheep to attack the target of their ire. Are insanity and stupidity related? Are they contagious?

Via Quora

Conspiracies R Us

Question on Quora: What percentage of conspiracy theorists (e.g. JFK conspirators, flat Earthers, anti-vaxxers, and moon hoaxers) are trolls as opposed to true believers?

Response from Dave Consiglio:

There is also a third option: The easily swayed. I suspect that the vast majority of conspiracy theorists actually fall into this third category. Here’s my evidence:

In the first week of chemistry class, I pass out a half sheet of paper to each student. On it, there is a short amount of reading and four questions. Students have to read and answer the questions. What they don’t know is that half of them get assignment A and half get assignment B. I tell them I am really interested in their personal opinions, so please don’t share share their answers.

Reading from Assignment A:

• The cancer causing properties of Argon

Information about Argon:

• Argon is a rare gas that can be found in basements and elevators.
• It is claimed by some that breathing argon for long periods of time can cause cancer.
• People who do not have cancer that breathe argon sometimes develop cancer later in life.
• Argon is dumped into the air by power plants; some people claim that the government is doing this on purpose

Reading from Assignment B:

• The cancer fighting properties of Argon

Information about Argon:

• Argon is a rare gas that can be found in basements and elevators.
• It is claimed by some that breathing argon for long periods of time can help fight cancer.
• People who have cancer that breathe argon sometimes survive their cancer and live a long time.
• Argon is very cheap to produce in large quantities; some people claim that the government is hiding this from us

Questions for both assignments:

What do you think should be done about Argon?
Write three words that describe a person who gives Argon away for free to children.
Argon is heavier than air and tends to settle in basements. What would you do about this?
On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not at all confident and 10 is completely confident, how confident are you that Argon is dangerous?
Now, as you can see, I’ve switched a couple of words. After the students read and answer questions, I have them write their best word from question #2 on a white board and hold them up at the same time.

Half the kids write “Monster” or “Murderer” or “Horrible”. The other half write “Helper” “Doctor” “Amazing”.

Confusion reigns.

Then, I tell them to switch papers with their neighbor. The ruse is up pretty quickly.

After everyone gets over the fact that they’ve been duped, I ask them to discuss question #4. Almost invariably, both sides have an average confidence in the 7–8 range. No one thinks I’m fooling them. But I ask them to debate which side is right anyway. They get surprisingly heated on the conversation. Many students are truly convinced that Argon causes (or prevents) cancer. They want to believe.

After the debate, the students are always dying to know: “Which is it???”

That’s the moment when I try to break down the childish mind and replace it with a more adult one.

Argon does not cause cancer. It does not cure cancer. Argon is utterly inert. It makes up about 1% of our atmosphere and we all breathe it with every breath.

All of the statements I made, however, are true. I am the “some people” who claim that argon causes (and cures) cancer and that the government hides these things. Everyone who gets cancer breathes argon, and everyone who gets cured of cancer also breathes argon. Argon can settle in low spaces, and it’s cheap to produce, and it really does come out of smokestacks (it’s air) so all of those things are also true.

Now, the moral of the story:

After the activity, I ask them to rate their confidence again (on a scale of 1 to 10). Many student get it. They say, “OK, I see what you’re trying to teach me. Don’t believe everything I read. Some people lie for their own purposes. Don’t just trust authority figures.” They lower their confidence levels to 1 or 2 or 3 and we talk about whether it should be 1 or 2 or 3. That is, of course, the point of the lesson.

But a subset, perhaps 10%, don’t believe I’m lying to them. They believe that argon really does cause (or cure) cancer. They stick with their 10s (they’re nearly always 10s). They are so convinced that the first thing they read was true that they are unwilling (or unable) to believe anything else. The longer I’ve done this assignment, the more I focus on those students, trying to understand why they believe in something so obviously false.

My conclusion: Some people believe the first (or last) thing they heard. Some people get a belief in their heads that is fundamentally and obviously incorrect, but are unable or unwilling to let it go. Is it pride? Is it stubbornness? Is it something different?

That I do not know.

But, I am confident of this: many (and I suspect most) conspiracy theorists believe what they believe not because they are “true believers”, and not because they are trolls. They believe it because they have the kind of brain that easily accepts beliefs and then vehemently resists rejecting accepted beliefs.

Psychologists out there: Is there a name for people of this kind? I suspect they are the kinds of people who join cults, or are more likely to stay with an abusive partner, or send money to a Nigerian prince. Are these things better documented than I have done? Please comment!

Uptight

I think I am finally learning to relax, though it isn't doing me much good. Now I have trouble sleeping.

When I was a kid I thought I wanted to make money. I finally figured out (like this week) what I really want to do is play. I have all kinds of ideas for great things I could build, but coming up with the idea is the only part I am really interested in. Actually building stuff takes work. If you are building actual, physical things, it also takes money, but writing computer programs doesn't require any money, at least no special money. The computer I use for informing the world is perfectly fine for programming. I have several ideas for computer programs that could be useful and/or entertaining, but they would take some work. What I like right now is solving these silly little programming puzzles I find on Coding Game.

A while back I remember reading a story about Dennis Rodman getting busted for shooting craps (playing dice, not shooting people) in an alley outside a pool hall (or some similar situation). This was back when he was at the height of his career as a star basketball player, and I was aghast that a professional athlete would engage in such behavior. I mean, what were you thinking, you weirdo? (He was weird from the get-go). Now I know. He just wanted to have fun.

So we have relaxed and we have uptight.


NEW * Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder {Stereo} 1965
Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine
Uptight is opposite of relaxed, but you can't mention uptight without mentioning Stevie Wonder. But his use of the word is something completely different. It's kind of like the word "motherfucker". In can be a term of endearment for a good friend or a declaration of war against your worst enemy.



Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (1977) HQ "I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax."
I think I got it (being tense and nervous) from my dad. I think WW2 made a lot of people tense and nervous. I remember running into people when I was a teenager and being told "don't be so uptight, man". Generally speaking these people struck me as sloppy and wasteful.

I'm a little disappointed that it has taken me this long to figure this shit out. On the other hand, would knowing who I was have changed anything? I doubt it.


Popeye The Sailor Man Intro Theme Song - Evergreen Cartoon Series of 1990s It's not in Hindi, at least right now.
I yam what I am and that's all that I yam, I'm Popeye the sailor man. Toot, toot!

Update March 2019 replaced missing Talking Heads video.
Update November 2020 replaced missing Talking Heads video.
Update July 2022 replaced missing Stevie Wonder video.

Extreme Ridiculousness

TOYO TIRES | Ken Block’s Climbkhana: Pikes Peak Featuring the Hoonicorn V2
This has been sitting in my inbox for the last three days and I have been carefully avoiding it, but today I'm feeling a little weak and succumbed to the lure of the twin sirens of speed and power. I can't think of a more foolish waste of time and money, but I still watched the whole thing. You have to give Monsieur Block credit for finding a way to make money off of this nonsense. I mean, I hope he's making money, he certainly has enough commercial tie-ins to his hot rod empire.

People have been entranced by speed from the beginning (like a billion years ago, whenever the microbes first developed motility). If you are faster than the other guy / animal / entity you can escape their clutches -or- bring your clutches to bear, depending on whether you are the pursued or the pursuer. We'll leave out who which ones are good or bad, it all depends on your frame of reference and your allegiances. I know where my allegiances lie, or at least I think I do. How about you? Do you know where your allegiances lie?

Via Road & Track

Csikszentmihalyi flowsters in Utah

Flow

Detroit Steve sent me this link this morning. It must have rubbed me the wrong way because I responded with this little diatribe.

I'm sorry, but I think it's complete and utter horseshit. Good for Wheal for extracting money from fools. And one or two people may actually benefit from his advice, but mostly it's just an excuse to go somewhere new and hang out with a bunch of other people with more money than brains. (Doesn't mean they aren't smart, just that they have more money than brains.)

Okay, I'm a curmudgeon and I woke up on the grumpy side of bed this morning. As for flow, it might be a real thing, and there are times when I am really in the groove and working out complicated problems, but it's mostly a matter of getting enough sleep and not getting distracted by bullshit, which can be difficult because there is a great deal of very entertaining bullshit floating around in our world.

I like to think I'm worth $1,000 an hour when I'm in good form. Unfortunately, that only happens a couple of hours a week, and this summer, thanks to a string of minor catastrophic disruptions, it has hardly happened at all.

See my post Neural Net, especially the last paragraph.

Madman Theory

Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito, ca. 1675

The madman theory was a feature of Richard Nixon's foreign policy. He and his administration tried to make the leaders of hostile Communist Bloc nations think Nixon was irrational and volatile. According to the theory, those leaders would then avoid provoking the United States, fearing an unpredictable American response. - Wikipedia

Hoo boy, just what we need, a fake madman in charge. Somehow this doesn't seem like a good idea, but perhaps it worked? I mean Nixon (the evil criminal mastermind) did get us out of our Vietnam quagmire, which I think was all-in-all a good thing. Via The Adventures of Roberta X.

Serendipity versus Coincidence

[S]erendipity is a fortunate or pleasing coincidence. A coincidence need not necessarily always be fortunate.

I was trying to think of 'serendipity' this morning, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. 'Coincidence' I had, but I knew there was another word with similar meaning that started with an S. Five or ten minutes of mucking about with other stuff and the answer popped up, but now I am wondering what the difference is and why serendipity did not show up as a synonym on the Thesaurus.

The Road to Hell

The Most Powerful Dice - Numberphile
This guy has a very subtle style. He leads you down the primrose path, one logical step after another until you get to a conundrum.

I'm reading The Gone Away War by Nick Harkaway (who it turns out is John LeCarre's son) and a lot of what goes on in this book follows the same sort of inescapable logic. This leads to that which leads to this other which leads to war, murder, death and destruction.

Be careful with your logic. It can lead you to places you don't want to go. When that happens, you might want to go back and check your assumptions. It's a pretty safe bet that at least one of them is confusing fact with reality.

Whaa . . . ?

Cartier Love Bracelet

Saw this in an ad in the Wall Street Journal and my immediate reaction was WTF? Women are going for slave collars these days? Or are people buying high end collars for their dogs? I dismissed that last one quickly, even I know that Valentine's Day is coming. The bracelet is fine by itself, if you like that kind of thing, but the leather leashes tied all around it, that just strikes me as extremely perverse.

A Real Stand-Up Friend

Wondermark by David Malki

Aren't people wonderful?

Oh Yeah

☘️🎼🎧💋🍀Yello Oh Yeah Remix 2016☘️🎼🎧💋🍀
۶Ania۶ ۶ Es۶
Story in the WSJ this morning about how this song has made a fortune for the writer, a fortune so large that he was able to buy a 400 square mile ranch in Argentina. Unfortunately, the story is behind a paywall, but they have a video that gives some highlights.

I don't recognize the title, so I go look it up on YouTube and I am severely disappointed. It's not really a song at all, it's more like background music, which might explain why I didn't recognize the title, or even the tune (if there is one). The only recognizable feature is the deep bass voicing of the title phrase. So if this tune didn't make it to the top of the pop charts, how did it make so much money? By being background music in a whole bunch of movies and videos.

This video (above) is all jiggly girls and fast cars, the two things most likely to garner an exclamation of 'Oh Yeah' from male observers. Males, at some level, are very simple creatures. In any case, here is a little light entertainment to start your day.

Update January 29th (the next day) rewrote some, added some.
Update March 2019 replaced missing video.

Update July 2022 replaced missing video.