My brother’s minuet

Feb 11

Music 2 Comments

My brother took a music course in his undergrad and as part of his coursework wrote a minuet. Its been sitting on the piano at home for some time, and a few days ago my parents, on the advice of my aunt, suggested that I record it for my grandparents. So, without further ado, here is “Minuet” by Nate Eldredge.

(Please excuse my pedantic playing, and the added upper lower neighbor tone “embellishment” near the end of the first repetition of the “B” section.)

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Youtube also caught my choir

Feb 7

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My idol, Paul Kim, put a few videos of my (our) choir on Youtube. He is the one singing the bass solo part in this one.

From Paul’s Youtube description:

San Francisco State University’s choir concert, December 15, 2007 at Most Holy Redeember Church in the Castro. “1st Katisma” – from “Vigilia” by Einojuhani Rautavaara, sung in Finnish. Conducted by Dr. Joshua Habermann.

Thanks Paul!

Music nerd limericks

Language, Music 1 Comment

With the advent of limerickdb.com, which is full of nerdy limericks because it was started by the author of xkcd, I was inspired to author some nerdy limericks within my field of nerd-dom.

First the “Famous poem rewritten as a limerick” type*:

A man held his boy by his side
as through the dark night he did ride.
The boy’s health; it lessened,
The Erlkönig beckoned!
When they finally got home, the boy’d died.

And then the “Only funny to a small group of specific nerds” type:

When singing the minor mode keys,
in F# you must mind your ‘sis’.
Though vulgar and raw,
descending from ‘la’,
letter names are pronounced as: ‘fees ees’.

I have submitted them both, but have yet to see them appear on the site.

* For more info on “Der Erlkönig” check out it’s Wikipedia article, and Fischer-Dieskau/Moore’s performance of the Schubert song. Creepy.

Update: I looks like my submissions to the database have been denied. Not up to snuff?

PGP Desktop was causing OS X to run slowly

Feb 5

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After months of my laptop running slower and slower, to the point where I stopped using it completely, I broke down and took it into the apple store. They checked everything they could think of but eventually told me they thought that I just had installed too many “apps” that were running the background. I have been running GPG for some time now, but still had PGP Desktop installed, because I simply could not figure out how to uninstall it. Somehow I managed to overlook the giant UNINSTALL button. Anyway, turns out that PGP Desktop was strangling my computer. But don’t worry. It’s all better now.