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Jerry Bauer (he/him/his), musician/composer (harp and other instruments), woodworker (amateur, episodic), software engineer (retired), old white male (liberal/progressive), pass as neurotypical, but, well...
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NOTE: Probably not serious-serious; but should be addressed.
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The synthesis program is "Ace Studio". Other programs used: Sibelius, iMovie.
The arrangement makes extensive use of parallel fifths and octaves. Don't do this in your composition class.
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It's pronounced "GUNK-Os"!
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You are Jenny Lawson and I claim my five pounds.
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fark.com
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Doors are stupid. Same design for centuries. Even the Star Trek "SSTHUP" sliders are stupid. We need better through-the-wall technology.
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Butt face! Butt face! Butt face!
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With the Crescent City Harbor Choir!
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Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
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So, you had an epiphany?
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We're doing black-eyed peas w/ham, white rice, diced tomatoes, and cornbread. My wife's a south Georgia expat here in Northern California.
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It was a non-catastrophic learning experience.
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Check them every time you bathe or shower. The suction can and does leak over time. (Ask me how I know. Or just guess.)
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I safety-pin sock-pairs for sort-free laundry.
(And I keep a hyphen-bag for skeet-posting.)
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Linguistic aside: My younger son, when he was bicycle-stunt age (Cupertino, CA - 1990s), used the expression "do a papa wheelie". This was common among his peers. Hello, Lady Mondegreen!
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"But mom, why do I have to make my bed? I'm just going to sleep in it again tonight?"
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We have those here (Crescent City, CA). I've never seen one catch a black oyster, though.
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bsky.app/profile/jopa...
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The tombolo here is anthropogenic, not a current-depositied sandy connection, but I can't think of a better word. Nobody says "Preston Tied Island", either.
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The loudest part of the storm has passed; I'm going back to bed now.
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Preston Island is that flat reef-like structure center-right, the remains of a near-shore seastack that was quarried for rock for the harbor jetty, ca 1918.
Though now not an island, it retains the name. Nobody wants to call it "Preston Tombolo".
(No one knows who "Preston" was.)
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That setting also asks for alt text for a video, which I responsibly write. And then I can't see it. How does alt text work for a video?
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All ten people who attended enjoyed it! And I only made 153 mistakes!
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It's a new kind. The originals/replicas are $$$$$. The lights are LED spots - you can see one reflected in the window. The lights can be set to a single color or to rotate through their spectrum.
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The "pt" in "ptarmigan" is pronounced just like the "pt" in "helicopter".
(Not really - English-speakers don't do that. But we should.)
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This is not better - it's worse in the context of orthodox musicianship. When I play a piece "from memory" I create it from the abstraction. For solo performance, this works all right, but when I play with others it gets complicated - I have to suss out others' recipes and make mine work with them.
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I think it's something more basic, primitive, abstract than the "sound" of a piece of music. It's like the "source code" or "recipe" or "gist"; what the piece is made of, how it fits together, how it works, what it feels like, what it means (to me). Not in words or images - just thoughts and ken.
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I have both. I experience the world by experiencing the world. I see and hear stuff in the world, in real time, right there.
I think, imagine, and remember things, not in words and images, rather in meanings and relationships.
Music in my head is not "sound", but "musicness".
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The statement is from the POV of the bully.
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I feel that way when I visit the Musical Instruments Museum in Scottsdale, AZ.
It helps that they have a well-kept grand piano in the lobby, available to anyone who needs relief from the frustration of seeing so many imprisoned silent instruments.
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Hey, you called it an elephant. Most people would have called it a kitten, but you do you. I'd just keep it as a pet. Ooo! Look at the cute widdle beans!
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Port linux to it and convert into a backup server, because it never forgets.