| huggles |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|08:30 pm] |
I just discovered something amazing. The word "huggle" has been in the English language for at least 300 years.
`Lye still, lye still, thou Little Musgrave,
And huggell me from the cold;
--Child Ballad 81, Little Musgrave, version A. First written down in 1658.
That makes me all warm and fuzzy inside! |
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[Jun. 9th, 2009|08:15 pm] |
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It's quite hard to tune a banjo head if you've never tuned a drum before! I have found this out! |
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| I R TEH RADIO |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|12:59 pm] |
One of the readers for the news Monday didn't show up, so I had to sit in and read the headlines. May or may not be interesting, but it's sort of exciting to be On The Radio. Audio here:
http://www.wfhb.org/audio/download/9132/DLN20090608.mp3
Note: apparently, Chad, the news director, takes out the stuttering before he posts it online.. that's nice :-)
Also, I bought another banjo yesterday :-) Maybe I'll post sexxy pictures of my banjo sometime. |
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[Jun. 1st, 2009|02:57 pm] |
+ 11 hours of sleep last night!
- My cell phone doesn't cell phone anymore. |
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| music groups |
[May. 25th, 2009|10:48 am] |
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I've been going to various musical jams/groups lately. There are two Irish music sessions in the same restaurant on different days, here. The Tuesday one has Grey Larsen, who's a fantastic flautist. It's really good, but the second time I came, someone told me that I wasn't supposed to try to learn the tunes while I was there, since they wanted to sound good, so I'd have to record them and bring them home and then I could learn them and come back and play them the next time. I guess that's reasonable, but the whole point of going to a group for me is to hang out and learn tunes---not being able to learn tunes really undermines the experience. The Friday session doesn't really have a good melody player right now, so it's hard to go there to learn tunes.
But, I was invited to my first old-time jam last night. And that was fantastic. I knew a lot of the people already, and we liked each other, and I knew some of the tunes already, and they played them for long enough for me to learn them. It was such good times! We sounded so good, too! So I am sorta hooked, now. Yay!
...Now, to try to finish a research project very very quickly.. :-P |
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[Apr. 17th, 2009|05:30 pm] |
Hi friends!
I'm going to be in Madison and Minneapolis and Northfield in the next week. Want to hang out? |
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[Apr. 7th, 2009|05:15 pm] |
- When you're writing Python in vim and use the smartindent option, it puts all comments at the beginning of the line instead of indented with the code where they should be.
+ Eventually I found out how to make it not do that.
- Jython is really hard to use in Eclipse, when I'm starting with a Java project and thinking about writing parts of it in Python.
+ I found out that Glade, a GUI constructor for GTK, can be used to make Python GUIs.
- Writing GUIs is a pain in the butt.
+ (with rolled eyes) I found my old copy of Rise Up Singing, after getting two used copies from Amazon.
++ I beat Tsugaru on heavy |
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[Mar. 25th, 2009|02:36 pm] |
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I got into an argument with someone on the Internet today. It's so dumb, I shouldn't do that. Even if I'm right, it feels so silly. Argh! |
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[Mar. 16th, 2009|10:15 pm] |
I got my new DDR pads today, and so far they fail :-( They have sticky, unresponsive buttons, which is just what I was trying to get away from. I'm hoping that leaving them to stretch out for a day will make them work, but so far they're worse than the crappy GameSpot thin pad that I got in the first place. :'(
I need to decide whether I'm going to drive to Louisville tomorrow, in the next hour or so. Any opinions? |
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| Nice afternoon! |
[Mar. 15th, 2009|11:38 pm] |
I spent a lot of today outside, on the lawn of the Laughing Planet, playing banjo and guitar. I talked to at least 6 or 7 people! Yay, meeting people! Some young skateboard punks sat and listened to me sing an old, English tragedy ballad (The Cruel Brother - something like version C). Having two instruments was great, a lot of people know how to play guitar, so several times people would come up and ask to sit in, and they'd play some guitar and I'd sing with them or banjo with them. One of these people is called Big John and he played enthusiastically and sang some good folk songs, giving me time to do banjo solos on some verses, and sing some harmony on the choruses, and that was really great. We sounded super good! He's starting a shop for semimotorized bicycles in town. Someone cool-seeming came up to us afterwards and said she played violin and wanted to start doing more fiddle-style playing, and we all traded phone numbers. Anyway, it was a nice afternoon. It was 70 degrees or something! Amazing! I'll do that again.
I was originally planning on putting out the banjo case for some money, but nobody was in a very giving mood, so I just put it away. That's fine, though, I don't need the money and it was nice to meet people.
I really need to get another copy or two of Rise Up Singing. I've already lost two copies... *sigh* |
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[Mar. 15th, 2009|01:45 pm] |
I got to playing music last night.
Will the circle be unbroken
Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io
I also made the moon in Katamari Damacy!
And, my new DDR pads should come tomorrow!!! |
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| Fiddle tunes I've learned pretty well on the banjo |
[Mar. 3rd, 2009|07:41 pm] |
Liberty (Old Time)
Over the Waterfall (Old Time)
Kitchen Girl (Old Time)
Cold Frosty Morning (Old Time)
Ian's Jävla Jig (Nordic)
Roarin' Donald / The Man Who Shot the Windmill (Celtic)
Maison de Glace (French-Canadian)
Salvation (Irish?)
Girl (Nordic?)
I just figured out that, when I'm learning a tune by ear, I should really focus on being able to hum along with it before I even try to pluck my strings. When I have the tune in my ear, it's really really easy to play it.
Found a group of really friendly people who play Irish music Fridays at the Runcible Spoon. It's fiendishly fast :-/ but I like the people a lot and I need to learn tunes, so I think I'm going to keep going when I can. Wheee! |
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[Mar. 2nd, 2009|12:56 am] |
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Today, a friend of mine told me that Vienna Teng was her math tutor in college. |
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[Feb. 15th, 2009|12:27 pm] |
I, a colony of ants, will speak to you now. I walk many paths at once, searching. Good and ill, confusion, work, and the touch of a hand come in together, in the care of my ants. What comes from outside is taken in through passages that twist together, and it feeds new things growing in secret places.
Who would tell me that I am one man, walking down one long road of life? |
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[Jan. 16th, 2009|02:17 pm] |
Gene Robinson, who is going to give the Inaugural Prayer on Tuesday, is going to ordain my sister as a priest, early in February. I'm going to be at the latter event, which is very exciting.
He gave the sermon at my sister's church while I was there.. it was really good! I think that some of the people who have only heard about him but never seen him in action might be a bit blown away when he gives the prayer. At least, I hope he gets long enough to make a good impression. I'm so glad that I got to hear his sermon, it was easy to see why New Hampshire decided to elect him their bishop. |
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