Confirmation Dialogs

I know why Windows is riddled with confirmation dialogs everywhere! It’s a coding theory problem: the minimal distance between valid codewords in a windowed interface is much smaller than that in a command line interface, so you have to add check bits to increase the distance. In layman’s terms, the probability that [...]

Kickin’ What?

Here’s the session from May 16th:

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2007-05-16_07 – Bluegreen Boogie
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Right now, my favorite tracks are 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 13, and 14. Ugh, the beginning of 13 is so sloppy though.
Eric, our drummer, forgot to set up the kick mic, so there is some emptiness where there should be a bass drum.

Werepoker

The other day I was trying to think of a way that you could choose your role in Werewolf. This led me to the idea that you start people with money, and they can bid on the role they want. I mentioned this to Jude, Cami, Paul, and Travis, and Jude said that [...]

Vim nuthead

At work people tease me for using vim, you know, just because it’s awkward if you’ve only been using it for ten minutes. At last, here’s an article I can point them to: Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

SNW Practice

Here is the practice from May 9th:

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Oh, right, we have a Myspace page now.

Self-reference puzzle

I was browsing the internet for self-referential sentences when I came across this puzzle:

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with the correct numbers: In this sentence, the number of occurrences of 0 is _, 1 is _, 2 is _, 3 is _, 4 is _, 5 is _, 6 is [...]

Barbeque

The improv band had a small barbeque gig last Saturday. Joining us this time was Nolan on guitar. The results were definitely groovy.

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You pretty much can’t go wrong with these. #1 starts a little messy, but we get the hang of it after a few minutes. #7 [...]

Toe-stepping

Here are recordings from May 2nd, with the usual three plus Ben Burdette on guitar.

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I think my ears were off. I’m pretty sure I ruined #5; I was so busy doing effects that I completely missed the amazingly funky bassline.

Funkercises

I woke up this morning with a great rockin’ keyboard solo going through my head. I was just hearing it in my head, then I heard a motif which I realized I wouldn’t be able to play (specifically because my 4th and 5th finger trills aren’t fast yet). I jumped out of bed [...]

The Pruning Sessions

Unnamed improv band recordings from Apr 25:

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The lineup:

Eric – drums
Evan – bass
Luke – keyboard
Charlie – keyboard
Nolan – guitar
Devon – guitar

Nolan and Devon were playing the same guitar, (hopefully) not at the same time :-).