disappellation

Me, as of May 15.

CNN:

Jindal described the premise of the question -- "Do you want the president to fail?" -- as the "latest gotcha game" being perpetrated by Democrats against Republicans.

"Make no mistake: Anything other than an immediate and compliant, 'Why no sir, I don't want the president to fail,' is treated as some sort of act of treason, civil disobedience or political obstructionism," Jindal said at a political fundraiser attended by 1,200 people. "This is political correctness run amok."

We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

I'm playing this tonight.

Today in the library, just as I was reading about "noisiness and annoyance" in a psychological acoustics text, someone slammed a door right behind me.

I'm going to view it as coincidental that, while I'm here working night and day on an ever-increasingly annoying dissertation project, the latest trend in spam is to offer degrees for sale.

Oh Lilypond, how I love thee. Critical error:

C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/init.ly:63:66: error: syntax error, unexpected $end
(ly:parser-error parser (_ "expected error, but none found"))))

This profound journalism from CNN:

New research shows that, in men, the brain areas associated with handling tools and the intention to perform actions light up when viewing images of women in bikinis.

..."The suggestion might be that there's some hard-wiring there that can interfere with the average man's ability to interact on deeper levels with really hot looking stranger women in bikinis," he said.

I present the above with no comment.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/botnets-beat-sp.html

Why play the game when you can just use DoS attacks against your enemies?

Just had to take a second to describe what I'm doing. This is one week (this week):

1) Played two professional orchestra concerts.
2) Taught music theory and eartraining.
3) Led a clarinet masterclass.
4) Worked on my Chaos Theory dissertation.
5) Listened to a premiere of my first Chaos Theory piece by a professional percussion quartet.
6) Learned how to integrate javascript and Max5 in a musical application of Conway's Game of Life/cellular automata.
7) Did play a Mozart concerto on basset clarinet.
8) Will play Mendelssohn Concertpiece #2 on basset horn in a concert.
9) Will premier a concerto in concert this weekend.
10) Will teach an orchestra repertoire class.

It's a crazy life, really, but I'll miss it when I'm done with school and have to have a job...

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Eardrumsz offers the course to encourage and educate beginning musician
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anyone who wants to play. So if there is anyone that's in your mist that have
been wanting to bring out that inner drummer in them, please don't hesitate to
call me and set up an appointment to learn in more detail what the course
offers. The sessions are affordable and very exciting and still educative. The
facility that the sessions are held in or located in the downtown area of
Charlotte, at the prestigious North Carolina Music Factory.
Thank you for your attention, it is deeply appreciated and I look forward to
hearing from you very soon.

In other news, the GOP, having realized that the party has been completely marginalized in this country, have figured out the secret to Democratic success.

Yep: elect a black man.

Think anyone will fall for it?