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Last Updated on Saturday, 25 April 2009 09:40 Written by Editor Tuesday, 07 April 2009 19:56
I can't say there has been that much of note lately. At least not that I thought was really worth writing about. Something happened at my parents' that I thought would make good fodder for this blog. I've forgotten it so I guess not. Oh, wait. I remember it. It will be fun. Guess you'll have to look for it in a day or two. I've now even written it down. This will help.
I did go see my niece play soccer for her school team. This is the first year/season she has played for her school. She has played several seasons for the YMCA league. My sister played soccer when she was a kid. She was fearless. I'm really glad to see my niece continue in the sport. I have to say I really like the sport though I admit to not always understanding some of the finer bits. I never played the sport for anything other than Phys. Ed. in school and even then, they sort of kept the ball far away from me. I sure do enjoy watching though. I managed to get shouts of encouragement in, in between my conversation with my nephew about the finer points of the coloring of the planet Mercury for his science project.
I'm in the process of that thing people call 'Spring Cleaning', except not really.
Playing Music
Written by Editor Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:58
A repair guy for where I live came by to look at a problem I turned in to the office. We got to talking about music. I play guitar and have one or two sitting out for ease of use. It was great. We got to talk about the different recording issues we've both run into with some of the stuff on the computer. We're neither one big operations. We just thought it'd be great to be able to record our music. We talked about different guitar things and pianos and such and I had a great time. He couldn't fix the problem that day so we scheduled for him to come back the next week.
The next week was Friday, I was the last stop for the repair guy and we got to talking again.
Our Universe is Music
Last Updated on Sunday, 22 February 2009 08:54 Written by Editor Sunday, 22 February 2009 08:50
I would like to submit a proposal. Our universe, the one we live in, is music. It is the result of some far off distant symphony. A picture created by the notes and phrases of some amazingly exotic instruments. At times it is the raucous equivalent of a heavy metal song and at others it is the quiet dulcet tones of a new age song.
I don't offer this idea up just out of poetry. I offer it out of evidence. Lets start with music. For how many centuries have composers used music to tell a story. Whether an Opera with words that help to explain the story or a symphony that in it's change of tone from movement to movement paints a picture of the tale. It fills not only with the basics of what is happening, music also manages to convey atmosphere and emotion, even better than the best writers. It, like much to the annoyance of one recording engineer I know, it even manages to convey color. It is amazing how it does it. I once told some one that I wanted to learn to make art that was a musical as music is visual.
Don't believe me? Have you ever listened to the 1812 Overture. Listened to the build up before the battle and the intense battle scene and then the lull and then a battle scene? The next time you hear it listen for it. It's all there. Much as there is a story in most music. Fabulous pictures. Why do you think most visual productions include background music.
I think this theory has merit in the scientific world as well. For many years scientist have been working on a theory of everything. The Unified Field Theory and such. As part of that they have been working on something called SuperString Theory. The idea that we get these wide variations in quantum particles based off of the vibrations of the quantum strings. They have for many years been dealing with the evidence that this theory is most elegant and complete when acknowledging the existence of 10 dimensions. There is another theory that uses 11 dimensions call the M-Theory or something close. Everything, all our current physics theories seem to roll up and unify themselves in these higher dimensions. So what to the idea that we a just a symphony being performed in another, higher dimension from our own.
Such for the wanderings and musings of my mind.
Cheers
Contentment...
Written by Editor Sunday, 15 February 2009 13:14
Most of the time I go about my life taking care of the things that need taking care of and getting stuff done. I'm very bad about the 'stop and smell the roses' concept. In addition to them making me sick.... Oh, I digress. So I go about my business and then forget to do the things I really like to do or whatever.
A good example of this for me is music. I like music a lot. I generally prefer music to tv. Many times if my tv is one, it's on one of the music choice channels. I have an eclectic collection of music. And some of what I've got is really good for setting a mood or feeling. Some is just good stuff. I have caught myself listing to my ipod shuffle and thinking, 'wow, I've got some good stuff. I should listen to it more.' Really, I've thought that. I've put something on to listen to and realised how much I enjoyed it and wondered why I don't put that on more often.
Some of the music I really enjoy listening to is a certain type of guitar music. Hey, I play, I have a bias. I like the Gipsy/Flamenco/classical/spanish guitar type of music. Yes. Many years ago. Ok about 20. I say a music video by the group Gipsy Kings. I was hooked from then on. I still have the cassette of the first album from then. Yep it's got "Bombaleo" on it. For many years I would see that they were going to have a show and I would think how I would like to see them and then I would think how the show was probably sold out or I might decided that due to circumstances it just wouldn't be feasible. So I never went to see them. Until this week.
Yes, I waited 20 years to see the Gipsy Kings. Silly, and true. I was not disappointed though. I didn't regret the price of the ticket or the time out or any of that. I so enjoyed myself. I had an awesome seat and I was truly content. I realised that if I were to put on their music, or similar, every evening when I got home and sit down for a few minutes to listen to them and relax, I would be so content, I would get nothing else done at all.
Cheers
Lately....
Written by Editor Monday, 02 February 2009 20:13
So I started this site out telling you all about the different softwares I have been trying on web stuff. I did ok for a while. I have to confess, I've gotten off track. There are several of the packages I need to go back to and do more testing and tweaking to really have a better assessment of how I feel about them.
After I did that for a bit I added The Blog! to have a place to add random thoughts, comments and observations. I've done a bit better with that. As you can see. I'm even updating that one tonight.
Still I have veered away somewhat from some of the original stuff. I hope you don't mind too much. I haven't been doing a lot of fiddling with the programs lately.
What I have been doing lately has been
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