6am, i can has bed for two hours plz ( Read more... )

My new Arch-Nemesis is officially: Finale ( Read more... )

1. Pointing devices
2. Finale

1) For whatever reason, you, the executive director of the orchestra, have scheduled a concert in a small banquet hall. The concert is not billed as a dinner concert, but again, for whatever reason, food can be ordered from the kitchen on the side (through a large open counter). It is not a banquet setup, i.e. the chairs are all just facing the ( Read more... )

No, not an emo rant about wanting to do always something else ( Read more... )

Was playing back part of a piece I'm writing at the moment.

The tempo and harmonies lined up nicely with a commercial on TV in the other room, nicely enough that I thought "wow, I didn't remember adding glockenspiel to this part. Cool!" Especially weird, as my piece is in B major, and stuff on TV tends to not be friendly to such keys as often.

...when you have to do harmonic analysis on your OWN music to figure out WTF is going on.

I just saw a commercial. The gist of what the narrator said...

Secondhand smoke is bad and poisonous and awful. But even if everyone in YOUR house quits smoking, your poor defenseless 3-year-old can still be noxiously poisoned. If your NEIGHBOR smokes, even if you keep your windows closed ALL THE TIME (aside: that's not particularly good for ( Read more... )

1. Go into a public restroom (i.e. a restroom where it would be normal for someone to be inside and another person to enter). Stand near the door, perhaps at the sink.
2. Wait for someone else to enter.
3. Look in their direction (or, better yet, don't) and ask, expectantly, "Yes???"

I recently upgraded from Finale 2006 to 2008, in hopes that it had generally improved as a piece of notation software in the past two years ( Read more... )