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Today's writing is a straight-up LJ entry about composing computer music. I've geeked out about it here in the past... Distant past, back when I dabbled in it myself. I was reminded of those good old days when petie_s reminded me of a song I shared with him once -- not one I wrote, just one I found very moving -- and he expressed an interest in how it ( Read more... )

I started my resolution yesterday by answering this question. Today I'm not channeling the good doctors, so I shall instead pastiche wine and chocolate (along with any other kinds of) afficionados. (It's all meant in good fun, rebeccmeister, honest.)

Our subject this evening is the lowly Pez candy. Though accused by plebeians of simply being sugar pressed ( Read more... )

I resolve, among other things, to try and rekindle my creative spark that's been all but dead for most of 2007. One step in that direction will be to try and write something (if only something short) on a daily basis. I may post it here on LJ, or I may not. Just some fair warning for both of you. (:

Time for my semi-annual explosion of verbal diahrrea. It's nice to flex my literary muscle, which has gotten quite cramped lately from disuse. I should do this more often. This post has a bit of religion in it; if you're bothered by that sort of thing, you might want to put on a smock before continuing ( Read more... )

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Best song ever, or BEST song ever? You decide.

( Angle Dance )

Anyone remember Quake 3 Arena? Anyone interested in a completely free and open-source version now that id has open-sourced the engine?

I've got another race under my belt! This morning was the Rattle Me Bones race to raise money for the local hospital. I ran the 10K in 50:24.9. I was hoping to match or beat my personal best of 49:43, but I can't really complain of a difference of less than a minute. I think I lit it up too hard at the beginning, and ran out of steam around ( Read more... )

I suppose I should post in here more than once a month. Particularly when I've got news in my life (good and not-so-much ( Read more... )

Three Sundays ago, I was running my Long Slow Distance run with the group, and it was good. But then, it wasn't. Slowly, gradually, so I didn't notice it until it was already rather irritating, I developed a pain in my knee joint, on the outside. It was irritating, but not outright painful, during the run. After the run, it hurt. A lot. It ( Read more... )