Whoo, what a week! This past week I was singing every day until around 3 in the morning (or later...). Why? Because it was the annual Barbershop Harmony Society's international barbershop convention!!!!!!!!!!!!
I won't talk about it too much, but if you're ever curious, good groups to look up are Crossroads and, if you're into "edgier" stuff (hahaha), Ringmasters. A group from Sweden called Swedish Match won the college competition, while the regular competition was won by a COMEDY quartet known as "Storm Front." Their gold-medal performance was absolutely hilarious, and this is the second time in the event's history that a pure comedy quartet has won.
Besides that, it's been more butler coding with Lindsay. We moved from coding "type" of butler content (i.e., is this deception dealing with entering, exiting, or arranging communication?) to coding whether or not the self-coded lies were even truly deceptive, with the specific goal to eliminate texts meant as "jokes" from inclusion in our count of lies. Now that those are done, we'll be finishing up with coding the messages for ambiguity type -- that is, whether the message is deceptive about time, location, or activity, and whether that deception is with respect to a past, present, or future occurrence.
There were also problems with some of the coding for Sally's Facebook messages, so Crystal, Sally, and I have been working through them to try to resolve ambiguities in the coding. That's a bit of a pain but it has the strong benefit of improving the coding guidelines for future projects.
Finally, work on the website for Jeff's deception book is really beginning to ramp up. Jon and Crystal have already done a lot of work on it, and soon I'll do work on a quick project involving a 1-question quiz about where deception occurs most.
Meeeaanwhile I'm super excited about swimming tomorrow -- must come up with a good drink!!
This video's of last year's international champion's at their gold-medal performance. The lyrics are a bit dated, but it's sung beeaautifully.
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Oh yeah, one thing that's especially cool about these conventions? I got a chance to sing with the guys in this video and anybody else I felt like singing with! Even the "best" in the barbershop world are humble enough to sing with anybody else. Best. Community. Ever.
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