Sunday, March 30, 2008

Flight of the Bumblekey

[INT. CAR. GEOFF is DRIVING.]

[ALGERNON the pentapede JUMPS onto GEOFF'S LEG and begins ATTACKING GEOFF'S KEYS]

GEOFF: Algernon, what are you doing?

ALGERNON: I'm practicing to join BrightonMusic.

GEOFF: What?

ALGERNON: You need someone to play the keys.

[ALGERNON ATTACKS the KEYS some more]

GEOFF: Why in the world would we need a key player?

ALGERNON: There are lots of songs that need keys.

GEOFF: Like what?

ALGERNON: "The Flight of the Bumblekey!"

Folk Music from Around the World (BrightonMusic)

April 13, 2008 45:30pmFolk Music from Around the World– at Brighton First Presbyterian Chruch, 510 S 27th Ave, Brighton, CO 80601
The BrightonMusic Choir and Orchestra will present "Folk Music from Around the World". Admission is free.

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Whither the firsts goeth...

I found this recently on a piece of (viola) sheet music...

I disagree with this bowing, but whither the firsts goeth, so must I.


It about sums it up.

Easter Story on One Step from Sunday

Ok, I've decided to start promoting the scribblings I make on One Step from Sunday here. The latest is Easter Story, which is about the true origin of Easter.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Something to add to your bag of tricks

When dealing with import buffer tables that you're planning on normalizing,
create the import buffer tables with both sets of fields (incoming field and
normalized field) so that you can avoid using a ton of alter table
statements, which are quite expensive.

Monday, March 03, 2008

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Horton Hears an Evangelical (Linkage)

Ok, this I have to let you know about.

From No More Hornets: Horton Hears an Evangelical, featuring such lines as:

In a place known as Whoville the folks got distraught
When Horton the elephant said what he thought.
“The oddest of oddities isn’t as odd
As people believing that there is a god.”


and

We’ll drive you from Whoville; we’ll send you away.
Or else we will force you to worship and pray.
A person’s a person, no matter how small
But an atheist isn’t a person at all!”

The City Born Great - How Long 'Til Black Future Month?

The second story in N. K. Jemisin's anthology How Long 'Til Black Future Month? , "The City Born Great," is an exciting ta...