{"id":302,"date":"2013-02-22T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2013-03-01T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T13:10:28","slug":"fmus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"FMU’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first subject covered in my initial undergraduate chemical engineering class was unit conversions.\u00a0 You know, like how many seconds in a year, how many ounces in a ton, or answering questions like “If a chicken-and-a-half chicken can lay an egg-and-a-half in a day-and-a-half, how long will it take 2 chickens to lay 4 eggs?”<\/p>\n

I was reminded about unit conversions the other day at the studio (a.k.a. Brian’s Basement) when I saw a book Brian had purchased called An Inside Look at the Guitar Styles of Steely Dan<\/a>.\u00a0 The book itself is great.\u00a0 But the cover photo is just, well… surreal.\u00a0 In particular, check out Donald Fagen (the guy on the left).<\/p>\n

\"Walter<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sure, the man is a genius, but have you ever seen a photo of someone who looked so cheerless?<\/p>\n

Think about it.\u00a0 Someone took a picture of him, he looked at the picture, and said “USE THAT ONE.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And so, in honor of Donald, I have decided to rank my own fits of dissatisfaction using the FMU (Fagen Misery Units) scale.<\/p>\n

Have to re-record a bass line? That’s one FMU:\u00a0 \"FMU\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sucky project at work? That’s a three-bagger:\u00a0 \"FMU\"<\/a>\u00a0 \"FMU\"<\/a>\u00a0 \"FMU\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You get the idea.<\/p>\n

FMU’s.\u00a0 It’s gonna be a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first subject covered in my initial undergraduate chemical engineering class was unit conversions.\u00a0 You know, like how many seconds in a year, how many ounces in a ton, or answering questions like “If a chicken-and-a-half chicken can lay an egg-and-a-half in a day-and-a-half, how long will it take 2 chickens to lay 4 eggs?” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[111,112,104],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-goofy-stuff","tag-donald-fagen","tag-fmu","tag-steely-dan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s30IoQ-fmus","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}