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A Musical News Flash
I finished a new piece today. It's only the second piece I've fully finished since my thesis. It took me four days, and while I've occasionally had complete sketches come together in a matter of hours, this is the fastest that I've gone from brainwave to the printed product ( Read more... ) -
A brief musical observation
I've been writing an awful lot of stuff in the key of D lately. Not necessarily D major; in fact, it's usually a blending of major and minor. Unless I'm overlooking something in my notebook, all but two of the pieces I've worked on since March -- that is, from my M.A. thesis forward -- have been in D, and one of the two counterexamples is a ( Read more... ) -
This is just to say
Very Good Things seem to happen when I lose my internet connection these days. Good Things also happen while my internet connection is working, but not quite as Good as the Things that happen when it is down.
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Out of the frying pan...
...and back to NoVa. I drive home tomorrow. I am free to be about and about Thursday, and will mostly remain so through Wednesday, 12/28. I will of course be busy right around Christmas, and next week I will have to spend some time getting to know my dad's fiancee. This means that I would love to have reasons to get away from my family, so if ( Read more... ) -
Uncaged
Recently (okay, it was a couple of months ago and I haven't gotten around to writing about it) I was thinking about the perception and reception of music, paticularly new music. ( How do you define music? ) -
Word Freak
So, my apartment has a kitchen. And my kitchen has a refrigerator. And the refrigerator has letter magnets. You know what I'm talking about, right? It was originally supposed to be a complete alphabet, but I guesss a few letters got lost some time ago. To be specific, we've got one of every letter except 'C,' 'N,' and 'R.' I, (that's me, not ( Read more... ) -
Bug me not
I am rather touchy about bugs. Well, that's not entirely true. I readily admit that arthropods are quite interesting, and one of my favorite exhibits at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History is the insect hall. I, like just about everyone else in existence, consider butterflies to be beautiful, and I have an odd fascination for ant ( Read more... ) -
LJ Math 2: Boolean Boogaloo
So, last night I pondered the problem of improving LJ's message filters through additional operators. In case you skipped over that entry, here's a summary: with LJ's current filter setup, which allows you to send messages to the union of any collection of filters, if you have n journals on your friends list, you would need n filters, one for each ( Read more... ) -
LJ Math
So, I was talking with sammka tonight, and our conversation turned to Livejournal. Specifically, friends lists. I was mentioning why I chose to keep my own friends list small -- I wanted to make sure my private posts were only seen by people I trusted, and I was had mistakenly thought that message filters were only available as a paid feature. Sammka ( Read more... )