I don’t normally post about my own posts…but this is what happens when you are entirely to (expletive deleted) silly for your own good…

things that rhyme with 15

Reese, I know you will laugh….

11, 12, 13, 14, 15…
can’t think of nothing that rhymes with fifteen…
“Cheatin” Little Brother, The Minstrel Show 2005

All of my Little Brother fans will know what I mean…

latrine
Listerine
serene
unseen
wolverine
tangerine
Charlie Sheen
ruptured spleen
Khalid El-Amin
congolene
almondine
A. C. Green
St. Augustine

Damn, I sound like Ghostface now…no disrespect to Tony Starks but he comes with some random shit sometimes. It’s actually one of the things I like about him. It makes you want to listen again and again. I still catch new stuff in his Cuban Linx verses.

As I was so humorously informed at the Cleveland Webloggers Meetup, chasing the dragon was a reference to smoking heroin. Not surprising considering I lifted it from a Steely Dan song, (”Time Out of Mind” if you are wondering). In light of this development, I chose a new name…something that’s a little more me.

Enter, a subset of derek.

subset (noun): a set each of whose elements is an element of an inclusive set.

Source: Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.

So, a subset of derek is merely part of a whole. I am pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, as many of you know. Subsets are merely parts of a set. Subsets are also crucial to proving set equality. If two sets are subsets of each other (meaning that there is no item that can be found in A that cannot be found in B and vice versa, given that A and B are sets, of course) then they are equal. This reminds me of a problem that I need to be working on…

Later all…

I was born in Cleveland 30 years ago. I lived there until I went away to Allegheny College. In 1998, I moved to Akron (the first time). Moving to Akron was somewhat like moving away. Dad and I packed my stuff into his Camry (which almost got totaled by Dad almost hitting a deer on the way to get me in PA one day…but that’s another story) and I made my way down I-77 to Gallucci Hall at the University of Akron.

That’s when it started. Some of my best experiences were in Akron…some of my worst too. I have made lifelong friends here, a couple of which are from Cleveland. My son was born here and resides here.

So, which am I?

Think about how hip-hop would sound with no sampling…

I guess I am biased because I am a huge fan of sampling. There’s nothing like embodying the original like when DJ Premier scratches up a sample ’step-step-up’ (as in “Step in the Arena” which is in the headphones now) to strengthen the song or twisting the meaning of the song by totally pulling a sample out of left field like hmm…the song that inspired the name of this blog…

Just something to think about…peace!