Category: Musicology

  • Oft-neglected home page / journal / personal blog

    One of my new year’s resolutions was well not really but if I did make them would have been to spruce up my personal presence online. I’ve neglected both the journal site (wake up!) and the all-in-one compendium (my monolog at x-pollen), so i’ll be working on those over the next few weeks. Step one,…

  • Uncle John's, second arrangement

    I’ve been working out the intro and basic melody part on the baritone uke and guitar, so in my usual spirit of laying down tracks before I’ve even got my new parts rehearsed, here’s a funky-stoopit little instrumental take with melody part (mostly drowned out after the intro – you’ll thank me) on the bari…

  • How to teach science

    Quoting from The Poor Man: He Sat Right Down And Wrote Himself A Letter: [I]t is a waste of time to teach utterly uninterested schoolkids how to calculate reaction rates and trajectories of cannonballs and so on, things which are going to be about as useful to most of them in the grown-up world as…

  • Bloggers in the Oval Office

    Quoting The bloggers in the Oval Office… (BuzzMachine): Omar and Mohammed just told me about their visit to the Oval Office this week. They said President Bush assured them that we would finish the job this time. They told the President that they were grateful for their liberation and that the coalition did a great…

  • Google suggests

    Trying out the Google Guessing Rank (GGR) game outlined by Jon Scalzi, I got a kick out of watching what Google Suggest (it’s a beta) thought I might be searching for until I got four letters into my last name. Here’s the literal sequence if I type all the letters (counting even when it doesn’t…

  • Hoder on 'Starting a Local Blogosphere' (via Joho the Blog)

    Compare Hoder’s advice (via [VBB] BridgeBlogging, an eventblog entry by David Weinberger over at the weblog of the journal of the hyperlinked organization, aka JOHO the blog) to the things Dave Pollard has been doing right here in the Salon community at his How to Save the World blog: Hoder: You can only start a…