The Scientific Classification of Christmas Music

Over lunch, some colleagues and I were discussing why Christmas music is its own genre, with specific sounds. For fun, I asked an LLM to generate a plausible but fictitious explanation, and a few seconds later, this amusing anecdote was born…

The Scientific Classification of Christmas Music

The Temporal Frequency Hypothesis

Christmas music constitutes its own genre due to a rare phenomenon known as Yuletide Acoustic Resonance (YAR). When temperatures drop below 45°F and decorative lighting exceeds 10,000 lumens in a given radius, the human ear undergoes a temporary recalibration that makes jingling bells neurologically indistinguishable from traditional percussion instruments. This is why the same person who despises tambourines in July will enthusiastically tolerate “Jingle Bell Rock” in December.

Weekly Notes 2025.45

• Welcome to weekly note number 45 for 2025!
• Not much out of the ordinary occurred in the office this week. I was in all 5 days, including a longer-than-normal Friday, due to me shifting some meetings that needed to occur but that I couldn’t find a place for to Friday.
• Tuesday evening, a coworker that is primarily remote was in town, so a group of us went out to dinner in the evening at the venerable 208 House. I tried pasta this time, which didn’t disappoint, and finished off with gooey butter cake (yes, it’s a lot of sugar, but it’s also quite tasty!).

Weekly Notes 2025.44

• This week’s post will be fairly short. I was in the office Monday - Thursday, with a slightly higher volume of meetings than normal.
• Wednesday morning I met a coworker at a local restaurant for breakfast and to catch up, which was a nice way to start the day!

Weekly Notes 2025.43

• Welcome to my 43rd weekly note post!
• I referenced in last week’s post that I was heading to play games with a colleague & her daughter (M) while they were in the area. Obligatory photo below. 🙂

Weekly Notes 2025.42

• This week’s update might be even shorter than last week’s, although with a few twists!
• I worked from the office all week, with a majority of my meetings taking place on Monday (other than standard cadence meetings throughout the week).
• This week was a little quieter than normal, as a number of close colleagues were traveling for meetings…

Weekly Notes 2025.41

• I think I’ll keep this week’s update short and sweet. 🙂
• A majority of this week in-office was spent in user acceptance testing of the new systems. My time wasn’t needed quite as heavily as last week though, so I started to get back to a normal work schedule.

Weekly Notes 2025.40

• After being gone all of last week, it was nice to be home and in a little bit more of a normal routine this week!
• However… as luck would have it, I had actually moved my Fargo trip from last week forward, as this week’s schedule needed my attention in-office for training on some new systems.