Well, I'd disagree with the "too much thought" suggestion. Too many words? Oh probably so, but not much thought. Wait, that sounds dismissive or like faux-humil

Well, I'd disagree with the "too much thought" suggestion. Too many words? Oh probably so, but not much thought. Wait, that sounds dismissive or like faux-humility, but that isn't how I meant it. Working as I have for over three decades continually in IT, spanning industries, skills, tools, languages, responsibilities, seeing the coming and going of many "next" generations, etc.. I suppose the pool of words to choose from and the range of things to use as metaphors is just pretty large and much deprecated, outside of the contrived use case of tech nerd battle rap. Nerd flexing boast/diss tracks until now, I didn't know was already a thing. I kinda thought I was innovating. Lol, maybe I was from your description of it being too loaded with technical jargon, but the jargon, the word play, was the point. I was having fun with it. Some are shallow puns, others, like the ReiserFS lines were amusing to me because of the way they just wrote themselves. Hmm. There may be a distinction between real connections and patterns and apophenia, and there may be a way that it is missing in my head or blurred, in which case it may also be the case that the symbolism I find obvious and amusing just seems inane or pointless to everyone else. That would explain a lot of things now that I think about it. Heh. I knew "nerdy white guy raps" was a thing from a show called "Dave" (I think) a year or so ago with a (I think) real rapper called Lil Dicky. (Again, "I think".) The show was good but I wasn't connected enough to modern pop culture to really know how much was fictionalized or otherwise. (I did recently see that Selena Gomez got married and was a little too excited, announcing to nobody "that's... that's! From the show!" I just looked it up and his name is Benny Blanco so that part of the show was at least accurate about him existing in real life and being a producer or somehow connected to hip hop. That said, your message is the second time in a handful of days someone has mentioned ytcracker but the first time had less context, and the context I did have (it was related to a video) caused me to assume it was a mangled or auto-corrected term and that ytcracker referred to some tool for downloading videos (like yt-dl/yt-dlp) and so I didn't look further. I guess this is signal that maybe I should. I don't actually plan on making another track of this sort (though it has occurred to me a few times even though it wasn't on the table prior to putting it out there; I've never had so many people tell me they've had it on repeat - or maybe I've never had anyone ever tell me that about any music I've put out until this one, for which the response has been way more positive than expected. On the audio output from network traffic (oh congrats on the developing eurorack habit btw) I did something enough in that zone that it causes me to want to recommend a rabbit hole to you (if it is not one you've already been down.) That rabbit hole is Sonification. My entrance was specifically parameter-mapped sonification and a search will find you many interesting papers. I might save you some time, or possibly send you straight into an ocean of time-suckage by suggesting you start with "The Sonification Handbook". On the plus side it will reference and was edited by one of the authors of one of the main papers I was about to have to look up until. i remembered the larger work so there's two birds to get started, on the down-side it references loads of stuff that are rabbit holes of specialization that could prolong your foray underground. I hope that is useful to you.