Benoit Mandelbrot Has A Posse
Jonathan Coulton wrote a great song lauding Benoit Mandelbrot and his famous fractal. A discussion on the Penguicon mailing list of inviting Coulton to Penguicon (answer: we really should!) branched into a discussion of what kind of music counts as "filk". Of course Penguicon does not consider such categories when creating the Music track. We only consider what musicians our attendees like, and J.C. is as firmly within that category as anyone on the planet. Anyway, during the filk discussion said: "I consider filk to be music based on a fandom. A song about Something Positive is filk. A song about, say, the Mandlebrot Set is not." What? A denial of Mandelbrot fandom! This cannot be allowed to stand. So I made this as proof.
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ext_53192 on Apr. 27, 2007 6:32 PM
I have heard filk which was purely technical in nature. There's one I recall, which I sadly do not have in any form, which was about integrating systems on the S-100 bus.
ext_85062 on Apr. 27, 2007 6:44 PM
Dave and I got into this discussion in the car yesterday when I played him a song that he didn't see really fit the definition of "filk" as he knew it. I said "Filk is music played by filkers!" And he said "And I suppose next you'll say that filkers are people who play filk?" And I said "yup." And he said "I suppose that's about as clear a definition as I'm liable to get." :P
ext_214795 on Apr. 27, 2007 10:22 PM
Screw the Filk, I want the Mandelbrot T-Shirt.
ext_53902 on Apr. 27, 2007 10:54 PM
This is totally gonna be one of my T-Shirts at next Penguicon, with your permission, of course!
ext_526758 on Apr. 27, 2007 11:51 PM
Awesome artwork :-) If we get Coulton, we must have mass production of said image on T-shirts. :-D
ext_210685 on Apr. 28, 2007 1:09 AM
Why does he look like Dave Thomas? You're making me hungry. Fractal burgers, hmmmmm.
ext_177228 on Apr. 29, 2007 2:06 AM — Dave Thomas Mandelbrot
I knew this picture looked familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it until somebody else said it. It *does* look like Dave. Now I want a "triple with cheese".
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