Identi.ca
error getting credentials

Follow

Matt Campbell mwcampbell@identi.ca

  • 13 years ago 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.

  • 13 years ago 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.

  • 13 years ago 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.

  • 13 years ago 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.

  • 13 years ago via web To: Public

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

  • 13 years ago 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.

  • 13 years ago 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)

    John Goerzen at 13 years ago

  • 13 years ago via web To: Public

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

  • 13 years ago 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?

  • 13 years ago via web To: Public

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

  • 13 years ago via web To: Public

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

  • 13 years ago 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.

  • 13 years ago via web To: Public

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

  • 13 years ago via web To: Public

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

  • 13 years ago via web To: Public

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

  • 13 years ago 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 permissive

  • 13 years ago 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.

  • 13 years ago via web To: John Goerzen, Public

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

  • 13 years ago 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_engine

  • 13 years ago via web To: John Goerzen, Public

    @jgoerzen Where are you working now, anyway?
    @mwcampbell I'm at efolder.net now.

    John Goerzen at 13 years ago

    @jgoerzen I admit I'm surprised that you work for a SaaS company, since you're generally a strong supporter of free software.

    Matt Campbell at 13 years ago

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

    Matt Campbell at 13 years ago