Category: Rant
Reflections on Max/MSP
June 23rd, 2011(Or, "Because I don't have enough hate mail") I've wanted to write this one for a while -- been saving up. It's a loooong rant... One of my tasks this year was to teach Max/MSP to a graduate student. This has turned out to reinforce my feeling that S… more »
Rant: Pay software that should be free
December 21st, 2010One of my students came to his lesson today rhapsodizing about a program he wanted to use in his final project: Atomic Cloud. Naturally, I encourage this kind of independent research! But there's a catch... it's shareware, $19 to register (half price at… more »
One of those days
December 8th, 2010Yes, those.
Here's an idea -- why don't I give my first-year students a really strange synthesizer sound and ask them to make some musical sense out of it? A challenge, and an invitation to think about the raw materials of music, instead of just cranki… more »
Am I really so bizarre?
November 27th, 2010Don't answer that! It seems lately, though, that the developers of some well-known software packages just don't think the way I do. Take e-mail. I like to use an IMAP client instead of, say, gmail's web interface because it can save messages on disk an… more »
BP loses thumb-wrestling match, to the tune of $20B
June 17th, 2010Washington Post: BP preliminarily agrees to $20B escrow account to handle claims
In other words, after weeks of denying responsibility, now they pony up for some percent of the real damage. Would they have 'fessed up sooner if we sent Hulk Hogan after… more »
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