March 2012
February 2012
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“Python has this wonderful ability to read like a description of the algorithm...”
– William Edwards, Programming Language Readability
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Io Sect – Malfunction
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Ode to American Idol et al.
“You sang that song superbly, but—”
[NOW PLAYING: JEERING.WAV]
“I think you did a really good—”
[NOW PLAYING: CHEERING.WAV]
No, eat MY shorts
From Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled:
Why do you bother me? Go to hell!
I am your destiny. Can’t you tell?
You’re not my father. Eat my shorts.
Come to the dark side. Feel the force.
As you might have guessed, that isn’t a poem, but a children’s skipping rhyme popular in the eighties. Lines three and four use a trochaic substitution for the dactyl in their second...
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“I took a great piece by an excellent reporter and created a version of it that...”
– ~ ~ ~ ~ L O L ~ ~ ~ ~ (via langer)
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I’ve been reading about musical cryptograms:...
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Minimal Mac: Microsoft's Biggest Miss →
And, as usual, my wife disagreed. She then laid down a thought so insightful, so deep, so damned perceptive, that it just about brought me to tears in it’s completeness.
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Softly resonant haze
In my enduring quest to make up for a lack of musical education, I’m currently reading about Claude Debussy’s Préludes, two ‘books’ of 12 pieces each for solo piano. The titles of the pieces alone will describe them better than I can. My favourites so far are Footsteps in the snow, What the west wind has seen, and The submerged cathedral.
Some of the performance...
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hintersatz:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays...
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Free chord progression for your next nerdcore hit
Modulating swiftly from G major to C♯ minor to E♭ major:
Em A C5 = vim vim vim
Use this knowledge wisely.
