Either ambient instrumental music (lots of Brian Eno) or any music that I know all the words to (so that my brain doesn't have to actively process the lyrics).

Much like Eiffel 65, I appear to be blue...

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Historically, it derives from the Northwest Territory, which stretched from Ohio in the east to Illinois, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota in the west. It was (poorly) relabeled, and retained the West part of its name instead of the North part, which is strange since the concept of manifest destiny was already in use since at least the 1840s, which argued for the inevitability of westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean.

This neither lines up with the Midwest census area, nor other cultural ideas of the Midwest, both which include parts of the great plains region.

Source: state history classes from inside the Midwest

"Maximum Overdrive" for me.

Also, great call on Megaforce.

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I cannot remember the last time I saw a KQ5 reference. Well done.

For anyone in RHEL / Fedora land (or using dnf somewhere else), try dnf needs-restarting to list executables that have mismatched files on disk vs memory. The -r flag will hint if a reboot is needed (due to things like kernel or glibc changes)

If you're having concentration problems made worse by the noise, and this has not historically been an issue for you, talk to your doctor. It may be depression or something similar.

Oh that's definitely true. I was just surprised to see something similar (especially the avoiding eye contact) in the animal kingdom.