Matt Campbell mwcampbell@identi.ca
2012-07-07T17:09:59+00:00 via web To: Public
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.2012-07-07T17:09:10+00:00 via web To: Public
On further consideration, I think "Subdivisions" uses 3 time signatures just because the members of Rush are good enough to pull it off.2012-07-07T17:00:18+00:00 via web To: Public
Actually I like that song. But I just noticed that it uses three time signatures. Not a common characteristic of catchy tunes.2012-07-07T16:59:07+00:00 via web To: Public
Case in point: "Subdivisions" by Rush. Of course, it helps that the guy who wrote the lyrics is also a very good drummer.2012-07-07T16:58:33+00:00 via web To: Public
Possible sign of bad lyrics: when the musicians have to use three different time signatures to make the music fit.2012-06-25T22:02:41+00:00 via web To: John Goerzen, Public
@jgoerzen And now you've piqued my interest in xmonad. I may try to run that on my Lemote Yeeloong netbook.2012-06-25T21:58:15+00:00 via web To: John Goerzen, Public
@jgoerzen Which X terminal program is Jacob using? Xfce's terminal, or something simpler like rxvt?
@mwcampbell It's xfce4-terminal for now, but I may switch to xterm (fewer menus with persistent settings)2012-06-19T18:35:45+00:00 via web To: Public
Wondering if I should buy anything from Amazon anymore. http://ur1.ca/9j4lm esp. the part about conditions for shipping workers2012-04-21T17:30:59+00:00 via web To: Public
In pop music, why are the male singers that can routinely go at least half an octave above middle C the most popular?2012-04-21T17:30:54+00:00 via web To: Public
Is it precisely because most men can't do that well?2012-03-10T16:31:44+00:00 via web To: Public
And Shuttleworth seems so smugly satisfied with what Ubuntu has done the last few release cycles. http://ur1.ca/8j2jv2012-03-10T16:30:34+00:00 via web To: Public
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?Cédric Heintz, Cédric Heintz shared this.
2012-03-10T16:29:48+00:00 via web To: Public
Reading this rant about the state of GNU/Linux on the desktop really makes me sad. http://ur1.ca/8lv9t2012-02-18T18:43:33+00:00 via web To: Public
Blog post: Why I reject Christianity; what I now believe http://ur1.ca/88mkk2012-02-18T16:19:29+00:00 via web To: Public
Blog post: Situational ethics http://ur1.ca/88kko2012-02-16T03:12:58+00:00 via web To: John Goerzen, Public
@jgoerzen MARY also seems to have more sophisticated text processing. Both are free SW; MARY is LGPLv3; flite+hts_engine is permissive2012-02-16T03:12:16+00:00 via web To: John Goerzen, Public
@jgoerzen Both of them have a female voice based on the same recordings (the SLT voice); MARY's version is nicer IMO.2012-02-16T03:11:31+00:00 via web To: John Goerzen, Public
@jgoerzen Flite+hts_engine is lighter on resources, being C/C++, whereas MARY is Java.2012-02-16T03:10:39+00:00 via web To: John Goerzen, Public
@jgoerzen Following up on my suggestions about speech synths, I did a head to head comparison of MARY and Flite+hts_engine2012-02-14T16:02:33+00:00 via web To: John Goerzen, Public
@jgoerzen Where are you working now, anyway?