{"id":596,"date":"2004-12-21T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=596"},"modified":"2004-12-21T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T16:47:00","slug":"matrix-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2004-12\/596-matrix-effect","title":{"rendered":"Matrix Effect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have found that when I&#8217;m doing some programming, and I mean the all-out, heads down, keyboard to the metal right into the guts of the code programming, heavy metal or punk music helps me concentrate best.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sitting here at the office TRYING to work, but I just can&#8217;t seem to concentrate with the NOISE from the management-type (or perhaps management-wannabe) woman who sits in the cubicle across the pathway from MY Dilberthole. This woman is LOUD. LOUD, with a capital LOUD! Talking on the phone&#8230; LOUD! Talking to the guy who occupies the other half of my cubicular space&#8230; LOUD! Talking to the secretary who sits on the other side of the office ove the wall and behind a bank of file closets&#8230; LOUD!<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that seems to work is even louder MUSIC! Me build WALLS OF SOUND! Gotta love my tunes!<\/p>\n<p>But my question is this: why does heavy metal or punk music work best to help build bigger, better, stronger walls? My favourite heads-down programming music is Deep Purple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found that when I&#8217;m doing some programming, and I mean the all-out, heads down, keyboard to the metal right into the guts of the code programming, heavy metal or punk music helps me concentrate best. So I&#8217;m sitting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2004-12\/596-matrix-effect\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}