12-String Musings: July 2009

Tips, Techniques, Examples about my favorite musical instrument, the Twelve-String Guitar.

If you play guitar check out Playing Technique, or Strings / Setup. There are also some interesting posts about guitars at, you guessed it, Guitars.

If you want to spread your musical talents around, you will find some good info at Recording.

Marketing - meh - I'm probably the world's best bad example. Although you could find funny stuff there.

I've made some music videos through the years, and you can find them and other interesting music at Music I Like, Music I Play.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Now that all the upfront is done...

I'll go snooze.

The whole operating system distro switch was to get a working system to implement an idea I got listening to Steven Reich's violin phases.

Now that everything works, I don't have much energy to do anything about it.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

Or go bike riding.

Hello ma 'buntu, so long fedora!

OK, I've been pretty faithful to Fedora for a long time, from the tail end of my career as techie, then boss of techies, and finally clueless boss of smart-asses. I liked Fedora: cutting-edge, always willing to test the margins.

You get in this mode and life-force things that just shouldn't be allowed, creep into your narrow focus. You find yourself struggling more with the software. It used to be fun figuring it out at 2am while the web site was crashing and the boss was calling (techie's have their own kind of fun). Life was good when you slept and dreamt through the solution to a coding problem.