Omnishortbus

This is going to be one of those posts. Basically I’m killing time waiting for Laura to arrive so we can do lunch together; she should be here in a half hour, leaving me a short while in which to write about anything that comes to mind.

She come to mind. But I won’t gross you all out. Just this: I thank God for her every day.

I got Notion yesterday. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a notation and playback program. And of course my problem has always been reading sheet music: I’ve got some sort of mental bock against it. You can imagine, then, that actually scoring anything is difficult for me. I have no background in scoring, dynamics, articulation, time signatures, and the like. The piano music I play is all in my head in a way that doesn’t translate in any real way to paper. Wrapping that music in a specific type of notation is like learning to write again, and I’m certainly not at all fluent.

There’s nothing quite like white chocolate. For those of you who know, I dislike regular milk chocolate passionately (unless it’s very mild). But white chocolate: that’s the stuff. Disgustingly good, if you will.

My main computer keeps shutting off randomly. I think Ye Olde Power Supply is slowly giving up the ghost, but the thought of perhaps having a hard drive failure has had me wondering about smooth, swift change-overs from computer to computer. Would it be practical to find a way to do this? To compile a list of programs, settings, and whatnot? To move it to a new computer regardless of operating system? I know; it’s a crazy pipe dream.

Christmas is upon us. But don’t make me watch Steven Curtis Chapman’s “Christmas is All in the Heart”. If I wanted to listen to soporific, banal, pedestrian, vapid, clichéd, asinine tripe, I’d already own the disc.

That’s all, folks.

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3 comments:

  1. Chris Hubbs:

    And of course my problem has always been reading sheet music: I’ve got some sort of mental bock against it…. The piano music I play is all in my head in a way that doesn’t translate in any real way to paper. Wrapping that music in a specific type of notation is like learning to write again, and I’m certainly not at all fluent.

    Eesh, that makes it more difficult, eh? How good is Notion at just letting you play something in and notating it for you? That might be a good start…

    Would it be practical to find a way to do this? To compile a list of programs, settings, and whatnot? To move it to a new computer regardless of operating system? I know; it’s a crazy pipe dream.

    Somewhat of a pipe dream, yes. So many of the settings are platform-specific. Still, for things that aren’t platform-specific, it’d be nice to have a way to globally store and migrate mass amounts of data.

    But don’t make me watch Steven Curtis Chapman’s “Christmas is All in the Heart”.

    To quote from Driving Miss Daisy, “I hope I don’t spit up.

    Enjoy your lunch w/ Laura!

    December 15th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
  2. Laurs:

    Lunch was nice :) AND we get to go to the cinema tonight tooo.. woohoo!!!

    December 15th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
  3. jules:

    *weep* i feel very far away right now…. sooo lonely….
    how is laura ever going to come visit me with you two being so cute and together all the time?? :(

    December 15th, 2006 at 3:39 pm

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