Factoid

You may already be aware that -40°F and -40°C are the same temperature.

Hmm, what other temperature scales are there? Kelvin! There is no temperature where C and K have the same number, but after some trial and error with an online converter, I can reveal that 574.5875°F is the same as 574.5875°K.

"Album"

As I've been listening to a lot of albums recently, and coincidentally I was reading about recording formats.

A 78rpm record couldn't hold much music, so they were issued as sets for longer pieces with the paper sleeves bound together. It looked like a photo album. An LP could hold a whole album on one disc. The name stuck. But now there's no physical medium to limit on the length of a piece of music, but people still put out "albums". Why?

Listening to quite a lot of albums leads me to the conclusion that most artists can manage a few good songs. But (big insight coming up!) there's an awful lot of filler. If we got rid of that, what would happen? I guess that there's a marketing problem: record companies want a package to sell, not just a few songs. Maybe there's also an ego problem: You have to get artists to accept that not everything they do is worth listening to. Then for a successful artist, you can repackage the good bits as a greatest hist album and sell it again.

Harumph. Albums should die.
I have another 470 to go.