Matt Campbell (mwcampbell)

Matt Campbell

If it were just to make the music fit the lyrics, then there wouldn't be 7 beats per measure in the first few bars of the intro.

Matt Campbell

On further consideration, I think "Subdivisions" uses 3 time signatures just because the members of Rush are good enough to pull it off.

Matt Campbell

Actually I like that song. But I just noticed that it uses three time signatures. Not a common characteristic of catchy tunes.

Matt Campbell

Case in point: "Subdivisions" by Rush. Of course, it helps that the guy who wrote the lyrics is also a very good drummer.

Matt Campbell

Possible sign of bad lyrics: when the musicians have to use three different time signatures to make the music fit.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen And now you've piqued my interest in xmonad. I may try to run that on my Lemote Yeeloong netbook.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Which X terminal program is Jacob using? Xfce's terminal, or something simpler like rxvt?

Matt Campbell

Wondering if I should buy anything from Amazon anymore. http://ur1.ca/9j4lm esp. the part about conditions for shipping workers

Matt Campbell

In pop music, why are the male singers that can routinely go at least half an octave above middle C the most popular?

Matt Campbell

Is it precisely because most men can't do that well?

Matt Campbell

And Shuttleworth seems so smugly satisfied with what Ubuntu has done the last few release cycles. http://ur1.ca/8j2jv

Matt Campbell

The GNOME project had a good thing going with GNOME 2.x. And Ubuntu 10.04 was polished. Why'd they both throw away what they had?

Matt Campbell

Reading this rant about the state of GNU/Linux on the desktop really makes me sad. http://ur1.ca/8lv9t

Matt Campbell

Blog post: Why I reject Christianity; what I now believe http://ur1.ca/88mkk

Matt Campbell

Blog post: Situational ethics http://ur1.ca/88kko

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen MARY also seems to have more sophisticated text processing. Both are free SW; MARY is LGPLv3; flite+hts_engine is permissive

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Both of them have a female voice based on the same recordings (the SLT voice); MARY's version is nicer IMO.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Flite+hts_engine is lighter on resources, being C/C++, whereas MARY is Java.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Following up on my suggestions about speech synths, I did a head to head comparison of MARY and Flite+hts_engine

Matt Campbell John Goerzen , Matt Campbell

@jgoerzen I don't mean that as an accusation, since I work on proprietary software too.