[HN Gopher] Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)
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Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)
Author : haunter
Score : 243 points
Date : 2023-09-15 21:30 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com)
| roflchoppa wrote:
| There's a great bar in San Jose, "Cash Only", get the frozen
| Irish coffee you won't be disappointed.
| cheesedoodle wrote:
| Music Hackday was great (Infinite Gagnam Style anyone? [0]) and I
| especially remember Reykjavik 2012 as a personal transformative
| event! I made Horisfy [1] and and won best hack, very similar to
| Johnny Cash, but riding horses on Iceland.
|
| This was the time before Echonest was bought by Spotify and
| Tomahawk (used in Johnny Cash hack) was sprawling.
|
| Fun memories :=)
|
| [0] https://blog.echonest.com/post/34826507401/infinite-
| gangnam-... [1]
| https://web.archive.org/web/20121031194040/https://wiki.musi...
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| It says "Tennesse Chicopee" in the data (which attempts to look
| up a "Chicopee Trail" in North Carolina) but Chicopee is actually
| a city near Springfield Massachusetts.
|
| Chicopee being a Nipmuk word referring to the local river.
|
| The Nipmuks were pushed out of the region by settlers in the late
| 17th century (despite their best efforts to stay... their numbers
| were dramatically reduced by disease brought by the Europeans).
| rospaya wrote:
| If you're into The Hold Steady (and you should be) the lyrics
| have a lot of references and the fandom does a great job of
| explaining them. The Clicks and hisses web has them all mapped as
| well.
|
| https://clicksandhisses.com/map
| pentagrama wrote:
| With Open Street Map is possible to self host a project like
| this?
|
| Like download a static full map and host it, for this project
| doesn't matter that will not get updated.
| butz wrote:
| You can download map tiles or build them yourself at required
| zoom level. But what might be even more interesting, especially
| for historical project, to use an era appropriate map.
| CSMastermind wrote:
| It is delightful that people make things like this and I hope
| that we never reach a point where this type of things ceases to
| be possible.
| daguava wrote:
| [dead]
| [deleted]
| Jugurtha wrote:
| I love this, even though "everywhere" here is similar to how
| Aliens view Earth in movies: The United States of America.
| tim333 wrote:
| They came to Jo'burg once. They seem to like places with tax
| incentives for movie making
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/
| pentagrama wrote:
| Delightful! This small ideas bring joy to the internet.
|
| Wondering what will happen if this where made with a song of a
| current mainstream popstar baked by a big label and go viral.
| Will be shut down or will be allowed as a marketing strategy?
| [deleted]
| pentagrama wrote:
| As viewing this on my phone, will like to enlarge those buttons a
| bit and make it more mobile friendly. Send it to my father but
| not sure if he will be able tap on that small things on even
| understand what is about :(
| zeristor wrote:
| Of this ilk Lemon Jelly released "Ramblin' Man" a bloke
| reflecting on his past.
|
| Going through a list of places he's been to:
|
| https://genius.com/Lemon-jelly-ramblin-man-lyrics
|
| Of note, the first letters some way down spells out BAGPUSS SEES
| ALL THINGS
|
| Which dates both it, and me.
| danparsonson wrote:
| I still sometimes sing "we will fix it!" in my head when I'm
| going to fix something <3
| zeristor wrote:
| The Marvellous mechanical mouse organ seems to be a bit like
| how some start ups fake it until you make it.
|
| If someone says they can make chocolate digestive biscuits
| from bread crumbs and butter beans don't fall for it:
|
| https://youtu.be/bBFwClllXQs
| rcme wrote:
| As computer scientists, we really should assume he took the
| shortest path between the final set of destinations rather than
| travel between them sequentially.
| JasonFruit wrote:
| I think the final picture adequately expresses Cash's response
| to your suggestion.
| gnfargbl wrote:
| Johnny Cash spent much of the 1950s and 1960s addicted to
| alcohol, barbiturates and amphetamines. Whilst we should assume
| he was probably familiar with contemporary work on finding
| shortest paths in weighted graphs, and almost certainly read
| the papers etc, it is likely that his addiction kept him from
| paying the proper attention that he would otherwise surely have
| done. Who knows how different the landscape of theoretical
| computer science might have been, had Cash spent more energy on
| algorithms and less on setting fires inside camper vans?
| wkat4242 wrote:
| Also, tours depend on a lot more than travel. Venue
| availability, other major events impacting attendance,
| advertising and marketing.
|
| Travel optimization isn't really a priority.
| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| I'm not sure if he would have covered that kind of material
| during his time with the Cryptographic Intelligence Unit
| anyway.
|
| https://military-
| history.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_Air_F...
| rospaya wrote:
| One of the best trivia pieces I have is that he is likely
| the first American to know Stalin died while he was posted
| in Germany, decoding morse code traffic.
| M3L0NM4N wrote:
| Dijkstra's been everywhere, man.
| 0x6c6f6c wrote:
| Assume, or optimize for.
| taylorius wrote:
| Was thinking the same thing - travelling salesman problem, no?
| codethief wrote:
| Traveling country musician :)
| dmurray wrote:
| I'm also a fan of this map of Area Codes in Which Ludacris Claims
| to have Hos.
|
| https://archive.ph/fwcw7
| trevithick wrote:
| This is really cool. I thought it was Hank Snow, not Johnny Cash,
| who made this popular. Not that it matters. (Looks like it was
| both, and a boatload of other people too.)
| harry8 wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Everywhere
|
| Placenames were all originally in Australia, adapted for the
| north american market.
| singingfish wrote:
| Also shout out to the Farrelly Brothers version
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunty_Jack_Sings_Wollongong
| karim79 wrote:
| Incredible site which I'll celebrate by posting this highly
| addictive cover:
|
| https://youtu.be/Uk2aHGjOdlQ?si=mIodxFSxrn7-t8Qj
| xeromal wrote:
| This is for folsom blues
| vlark wrote:
| This is the best link on this site today. Thank you.
| laen wrote:
| Devil's Lake didn't populate, not sure why, maybe too difficult
| to disambiguate? It's a city in North Dakota, but state parks in
| Oregon and Wisconsin.
| anonu wrote:
| The data in the javascript indicates it in ND:
|
| { "name": "Devils Lake", "full_name": "Devils Lake, ND 58301,
| USA", "lat": 48.112779, "lng": -98.8651202 },
| NoZebra120vClip wrote:
| populate
|
| disambiguate
|
| state
|
| indicate
|
| Devil's Lake
|
| https://youtu.be/Pr-Vfnd7Yno?si=ivrE5_ph4WPrzWdD
| dboreham wrote:
| Including Kinghorn.
| mixdup wrote:
| There were a lot of places that didn't map--some that were
| transcribed correctly and exist as places in the US, and some
| that didn't map because they were transcribed incorrectly
| aidenn0 wrote:
| What about the Geoff Mack version?
| te wrote:
| Starts slow, but really gets going.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZWi-mTkNU
| markphip wrote:
| Really nice! I wonder how they decided which Springfield to use?
| Looks like they went with Missouri
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (2012)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830222 - March 2022 (54
| comments)
| joelrwilliams1 wrote:
| This is the Internet content I live for.
| logbiscuitswave wrote:
| That was delightful. Reminds me of a Google Maps hack from back
| in the day that tracked Sir Mix-a-Lot's trip through the Seattle
| area as documented in the song Posse on Broadway.
| figbert wrote:
| Is there a link to a version of this that's still live? Would
| love to check it out.
| beezle wrote:
| Someone should do this with the Dead.
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