{"id":1261,"date":"2007-12-09T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/12\/09\/ich-bin-ein-bassist\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T07:11:00","slug":"ich-bin-ein-bassist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/12\/09\/ich-bin-ein-bassist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ich bin ein bassist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may just be a faulty translation, but I’m amused that the Vanksen|Culture-buzz blog<\/a> calls me a “bassist” for The Richter Scales. The post is, of course, about our wildly popular “Here Comes Another Bubble” music video–over 600,000 views on YouTube and counting!<\/p>\n

In other news, my friend Jeff bemoans the similarity of his name to many others<\/a> on LinkedIn. This inspired me to do a Google search for my own name, which showed up on a list of Sergey Brin’s favorite books<\/a>. Who knew?<\/p>\n

The “professional ‘headline'” on my LinkedIn profile is Polymath<\/span>. I didn’t choose that just to use obscure teminology, or to show off my vocabulary; it really is what I aspire to be. And none of the possible synonyms has the right connotation: “Renaissance Man” is a bit of a cliche thanks to overuse, and the even more esoteric “Homo universalis<\/span>” is just asking for a beatdown.<\/p>\n

I will be the first to admit that I’m not the best at anything I do. I’m not the best singer in the Richter Scales; I’m not the best writer in any forum; I’m not the best programmer at work. But I will argue that I am more well-rounded than many other people–and the distinction is that I don’t just like<\/span> a lot of different things, I do<\/span> a lot of different things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may just be a faulty translation, but I’m amused that the Vanksen|Culture-buzz blog calls me a “bassist” for The Richter Scales. The post is, of course, about our wildly popular “Here Comes Another Bubble” music video–over 600,000 views on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43,32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sci-tech","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}