http://www.geekbyday.com Welcome to the rant, rave, and nerdy pun petting zoo Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:03:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my composition class the other day, while doing a harmonic analysis of a minuet & trio: Isn't that just about the worst chord in the worst inversion (iii64) you could possibly use as a pivot ever? Yeah, but when you get to real music and you're Haydn, you can do these ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/09/19/sound-and-system/ Having moved back to MIT for the academic year, I am now currently taking some classes.  This is a generally accepted side-effect of attending a rigorous college.  More specifically, I am taking the following five classes: 21F.304 - French IV 21M.250 - Schubert to Debussy 21M.303 - Writing in Tonal Forms I 6.004 - ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/09/09/semester-so-far/ I'm too scattered right now to put together coherent paragraphs, so I shall list some thoughts that I have had recently: In lieu of a laundry hamper, a towel wrapped around your clothes functions quite perfectly. Looking well-dressed is as easy as getting well-fitting, nice basics (good jeans, some t-shirts, some dress ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/08/08/a-random-list/ My colleague, Laura Nicholson, and I were discussing various topics over Skype one night, and I at one point mentioned my primitive system of classifying the myriad types of procrastination. We fleshed out some details together, made some terminology more specific, and eventually developed a fairly descriptive and useful ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/07/31/a-taxonomy-of-procrastination/ This past Thursday night was one of the most enjoyable nights in recent memory. The a cappella group that I'm a part of this summer, The Funktors, recently got its first gig: opening for Jon McLaughlin at a company barbeque on Monday.  This is very, very exciting.  We've been rehearsing about ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/07/27/we-walked-the-streets/ I ran out of my shampoo last Thursday.  This was problematic, mostly because I insist on using Redken Men Mint Clean shampoo, which is fancy and expensive and makes me feel like I'm a cool person, but also is only really sold in fancy salons and hair product stores.  It ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/07/14/oh-shampoo-how-i-have-missed-thee/ Does anyone else occasionally wake up from a nap and feel a little upset and angry for no particular reason?  It's the strangest thing.  I came home from work today and was hit by a veritably tsunami of lethargy, and had no choice but to meander around my apartment in ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/07/10/house-it-up/ Wordpress has been acting up lately and giving me all sorts of lip in the form of not loading pages intermittently.  Strange, this crops up as soon as I decide (once again) to try to blog more often; it's as if my blog is trying to tell me not to ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/07/05/in-which-i-am-awkward/ Today was probably one of the hardest dance classes I've ever been to.  It was only about an hour and a half long, but our instructor (Jeromeskee, from the Massive Monkees) pushed us hard, and we wound up doing number of exercises to train our endurance.  And to top it ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/07/03/dance-monkey-dance/ I was walking home from work the other day (my favorite non-specific temporal qualifier), and I witnessed probably the single best thing ever since my arrival in Seattle.  After crossing a street, I noticed a black guy ride by on a bicycle, followed immediately by a black guy on a ... http://www.geekbyday.com/2008/06/25/ghetto-segway/