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1. wwII

   Take a break and catch up on history…

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon July 21, 2005 - 10:46 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-07-21-wwii/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-07-21-wwii/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

2. RAID0 Failure

   Yet more proof that county employee’s have too much time on their hands:

   RAID0 has been given a full burial. 👻

   Ben: He should have had more redundancy.
   Anonymous: Doesn’t he look like him self?

   Coincidentally, my morning client had a SCSI card failure and is now without a server, which I guess is kinda similar right? One of our other clients (not mine) also had a RAID1 failure today, but I think the engineer has it back online now, because it’s RAID1 and that can be done 😃

   Update! Now with Mourners.

   Amazing.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon July 14, 2005 - 4:34 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-07-13-raid0-failure/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-07-13-raid0-failure/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

3. No, you're not finishing -- you're not saying anything.

   Of course every time I turn on c-span anymore it’s always Today in Washington followed by pre-recorded call-in segments, at least the reason for that is because I no longer have the daily commute from hell. 😃

   Skim this White house press corps vs. Scott McClellan transcript for an interesting communications lesson.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon July 12, 2005 - 7:34 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-07-12-no-youre-not-finishing-youre-not-saying-anything/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-07-12-no-youre-not-finishing-youre-not-saying-anything/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

4. RAID

   Paul: lmao
   Paul: caught a cockroach off the floor here… shoo’d it into an empty water bottle w/ a piece of paper… stuck some leaves and sticks in there, a piece of a potatoe chip, and put a cap full of water in it… cut air holes in it and taped it sideways to the top of my monitor. Always wanted a pet at work!
   Grant: oh dear
   Paul: it just needs a name… was thinking Raid…. geeky, a pun, and it’s catchy!
   Grant: very
   Paul: He’ll be raid1, and when he dies…
   Paul: and so on
   Paul: 😛
   Grant: lol
   Grant: raid 0
   Grant: start at 0
   Paul: :derp: < –- meet raid0
   Paul: 😛
   Paul: lol
   Paul: my new pet is really boring
   Paul: he just sits there
   Paul: I should get him a little plastic ball to run around the room in:) lol

   Three weeks later:

   Grant: How’s raid0 doing?
   » still alive?
   Paul: yeah… I cut the lid off another bottle’s cap and attached the two bottles together, so now he has a condo.
   Grant: I can’t believe he’s lived this long
   » (just billing for that day, saw our initial chat in my IM logs)
   Paul: I give him water and feed him chips and stuff lol
   Grant: rofl

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon July 07, 2005 - 10:02 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-07-07-raid/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-07-07-raid/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

5. Suck

   Suck, at one point, was a reason to crank up the old 28.8.

   

   I was linking to them six years ago, and had been for 2 before that. It’s so easy to forget how different a place the web was.

   Read a history of suck.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon June 27, 2005 - 4:17 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-06-27-suck/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-06-27-suck/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

6. Brownout / Wilco

   My building had a brownout from about 4:45 last night to 6 this morning. As bad as the leasing office staff here is, and they are very very bad, I think they would have put out notice were it for planned maintenance. The strange thing is that the power never went out in the living room. I was playing guitar when it went out, along with the stereo, and never noticed. My building-provided internets lost connectivity. Amanda noticed the washing machine wouldn’t turn back on. The lights in the bathroom were no brighter than matches. The AC, and this is most annoying, was out.

   We then left to see Wilco at Merriweather. The elevator was out, the basement lights were out. Awesome.

   A group of kids parked themselves sans-blankets on the lawn in front of just us as the Roots, who’s set consisted of covering 70’s songs while unintelligibly rapping over them, were finishing their terrible godawful set to ask us – you know if you want to hear Whole Lotta Love, Black Betty, and a terrible bass solo, look no further. The best part of their set was when the singer took a break and let the backup signer and guitar player have a straight up 12-bar blues song. I’d go so far as to say it was the only part of their set that wasn’t utter shit. I’d rather hear a DJ mix the actual songs they covered with quality rapping over it than this hip wedding-band. So anyway, to ask us,

   “Did we miss The Roots?”
   “Yeah man.”
   “Damnit, that’s who we are here to see. So who’s left?”
   “Wilco”
   “Are they any good? I like weird stuff, what are they like?”
   me, to myself: Weird like The Roots?
   “They are like, alt-country pop music”
   John: “Kinda Beatle’sie, not alt-country anymore”
   Me: “Well, right.”
   kid’s girlfriend: “I heard they were like, indie.”
   me: “oh yeah, very indie” :rolleye:

   …later:

   kid: How are the cops?
   me: Assholes, everywhere (:tinfoil:)
   kid: Everywhere?
   me: Oh you mean here right now? I haven’t seen any.
   kid: Guess I should wait till the sun goes down 😉, you know 😉
   me: uh, yeah.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon June 27, 2005 - 1:57 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-06-27-brownout-wilco/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-06-27-brownout-wilco/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

7. Tom Cruise, Scientologist

   Too kooky.

   CRUISE: I’m a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It’s called Narconon.

   SPIEGEL: That’s not correct. Yours is never mentioned among the recognized detox programs. Independent experts warn against it because it is rooted in pseudo science.

   CRUISE: You don’t understand what I am saying. It’s a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period.

   SPIEGEL: With all due respect, we doubt that. Mr. Cruise, you made studio executives, for example from Paramount, tour Scientology’s “Celebrity Center” in Hollywood. Are you trying to extend Scientology’s influence in Hollywood?

   CRUISE: I just want to help people. I want everyone to do well.

   Interview back and forth I’ve never seen in the American press. 😦

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon June 24, 2005 - 1:42 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-06-24-tom-cruise-scientologist/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-06-24-tom-cruise-scientologist/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

8. Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization

   Does this have enough internally defined terms to challenge scientology or is my music theory rusty?

   Brief modal explanation:
   Doh Re Mi Fa So La Ti Doh

   In western music, it is so universal, it is called the “Major Scale”. Written music uses it to define ‘key signatures’, chord names are derived from how the notes deviate from a standard “1st note, third note, fifth note of the Major Scale” triad sequence, for some reason, and going from the fifth note to the first note sounds so fucking good that all music, anywhere, ever, does it over and over again.

   On a piano, from C to C, these are the white keys.

   Some are right next to each-other, others have a black key (sharp or flat) in the middle. Like this:

   Doh | Re | Mi Fa | So | La | Ti Doh

   So take that radical concept which western music has been using since Bach or earlier, and start a scale on the Re, instead of the Doh, of the keyboard.

   The black keys move! :monocle:

   Do this for every note in the major scale and you end up with seven scales, long ago given Greek names and called in modern theory, Church Modes, or just Modes.
   Ionian: C D E F G A B (C) Dorian: D E F G A B C (D) Phrygian: E F G A B C D (E) Lydian: F G A B C D E (F) Mixolydian: G A B C D E F (G) Aeolian: A B C D E F G (A) Locrian: B C D E F G A (B)
   The crazy idea here, is that western music is wrong, and that the Lydian scale is actually the one everyone should think about. The way it rotates away, the Lydian scale is one note away from our generic Doh, Re, Me… But when you move that one note, you make a scale, that you can re-arrange into repeated five-one intervals. Remember how I said western music loves the five-one interval? So does eastern music. So does all music for that matter. In the west, a five-one is called a Perfect Fifth. The first note is the Tonic, the fifth is the Dominant. Er, wait, Lydian-chromatic says that this is based on Gravity.

   Gravity. Fields.

   I like V-I movement enough to take it with a grain of salt.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon June 24, 2005 - 5:39 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-06-23-lydian-chromatic-concept-of-tonal-organization/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-06-23-lydian-chromatic-concept-of-tonal-organization/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

9. Elvis

   Hello, I’m Grant, and I’m a big Elvis Costello fan. On a whim I download his first album to see what all the fuss about. Amazing.

   I wasn’t worried back when I decided last year that Let It Be was the my favorite album of all time very much especially The End, after all, it’s a classic. I didn’t notice getting into Echo & the Bunnymen, starting to take Bowie seriously, or my recent penchant for ‘majory-stuff’ (Wilco and their ilk).

   Elvis Costello?

   WTF. I was into Minor Threat and NIN and RATM and Ministry, man. I was angry about, shit, and stuff, or something…

   The next time I roll my eye’s at Mom going to a Yanni show after growing up playing Hendrix albums, I’ll remember that she was also a Steely Dan fan, and be a bit more introspective.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon June 24, 2005 - 5:04 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-06-23-elvis/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-06-23-elvis/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

10. C's Get Degrees

    Amanda just got her congratulations letter from the State of Maryland on passing her Engineer in Training certification, making her an EIT.

    A 70 is required to pass.

    She got a 70.

    :eng101:

    Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon June 18, 2005 - 8:41 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-06-18-cs-get-degrees/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-06-18-cs-get-degrees/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.