Twittering
OK, I setup shop over at twitter.com (my handle is tomjnsn):
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EarToner 1.2 Released
With a big thanks to Gianfrancesco version 1.2 of EarToner has been released. The biggest change is that it is now in Italian. A minor change was made to the tuning interface to simplify it.
New Song (Keelan Over)
OK, after a much longer break than I planned on taking from posting I’m back. This time, I’ve got a little ditty to share.
There is a young pianist in the Boise area that shows great promise to doing great things if he can further combine his raw talent with some serious woodshedding. As I was thinking about him last night this tune came into my head. It isn’t anything serious just a fun tune, hopefully to solo over as well.
Kickoff gig
I’ll be playing with Ned Evett at the Visual Arts Collective on September 28th, 2006. It is a sort of kickoff concert for our tour to England and Ireland that we leave for the next day. Start time is 7:30. Come and see it!
The point of social formalities
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide the lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Benefit Concert for Victor Pacania
I’ll be playing in the Ned Evett Trio on July 22 at the Big Easy along with a handful of other Idaho musicians at the Big Easy. Get your tickets here.
rainy street (NYC)
Last summer I was helping some of my brothers-in-law to record some songs they had written. At the time I didn’t have a real sophisticated setup, so generally only the person doing the playing could listen to the other tracks while recording. We were all squished into the space above the garage, turning on the air conditioning when we were listening to playbacks, then sweating it out while recording. It was a fun time. One of the tunes had a drum beat that caught my ear. The tune itself was a pleasant tune about a guy needing a girl in his life. When I was listening during recording and could only hear the drum beat I heard a very different sound coming out. It was dark, gritty and reminded me of walking down rainy streets in NYC in the middle of the night coming home from gigs.
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EarToner 1.1 Released
A gentleman in Australia had a nice suggestion to have EarToner playback incorrect guesses so you can hear the difference between what you thought was correct and what is correct. I also created a single file executable for the windows platform that will make use of whatever Java you have installed already, with a splash screen. Get it here.
Toggler
I have been using the moo.fx for a few months now and have found it useful for alot of visual cueing on web pages. It is a light library though and doesn’t have alot of bells and whistles that, say dojo does. The tradeoff is obvious in the amount of data coming across the wire.
Last week however, I saw this article over on Dustin Diaz’s site and thought it might be worth checking out the Yahoo! UI Library (a.k.a. YUI). Although I do like the Scriptaculous library it feels quirky to me and still feels heavier than need be for what it offers.
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