Fuzzy Logic

So, we’re all familiar with the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight“, initially made popular in the US by The Tokens.  Well, as I recently tweeted, I found out that a song that I and the other members of the Purdue Varsity Glee Club learned while on our South Africa Trip (Check out my pictures) called “Mbube” is the song that inspired “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”  According to a friend in PVGC, they told us this… but I obviously wasn’t paying attention, so I felt proud when I figured it out. Yup.

If you’re interested in hearing the evolution, as well as a few covers, I recommend checking out Coverville Episode 535: Mbube to Wimoweh.  It’s an amazing podcast in general and I found this really interesting now that I’ve been to South Africa and experienced a tiny bit of the culture there.  That episode of Coverville features an original Mbube (well, as original as you can get) as well as multiple evolutions as the song tranformed from Mbube to the popular “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” that we all know and love.  Check it out–it’s pretty cool to see how traditional songs morph into popular songs.

It’s now official–summer is boring.  I am so ridiculously un-motivated that it is not good news.  Part of the problem is that my summer job is ridiculously overpaying me ($35 for 75 minutes of work?  I think I can do that) and the other problem is that I am needing to do some serious coding and I can’t seem to focus on it.  Meh.  Not only do I have to write a backend that is more fully fledged than everything I have ever done, but I also have to do work that actually matters for my research project and, in the middle of it, learn an entirely new language.  I don’t care if Python is great for NASA and for CivIV–it’s a pain in the ass as far as I’m concerned!