I flew on a business trip yesterday. At the ticket counter, I gave the agent my driver license, as usual. She did the usual check-in process, then looked up.
“Mr. Turner, what is your date of birth?”
I gave her my birthdate and she continued typing.
Curiosity caught up with me. “So … I’ve never been asked for my birthdate before,” I said in a friendly tone. “What did you need that for?”
“Oh,” she replied casually, “just to clear you from the watch list.”
Very interesting, indeed.
The kids gave me a happy wake-up this morning, so I thought I’d have some fun and play some guitar while we were lounging around in our pajamas. It was the first time I played guitar since I injured my finger. I’ll be happy to note that the injury didn’t affect my playing at all: I play just as badly as I did before!
The kids didn’t seem to mind, though. I drew the line at getting out the electric guitar. Cranking up an amp at 7 AM is not a good way to keep your neighbors happy!
The only sign left of my finger injury is a small scab. In a few weeks, it will be good as new.
One thing I do is heal quickly and well.
I asked a programmer friend who’s also a musician if something existed to that would render a musical score in a web browser. Neither of us could find anything.
What I’d like is some sort of easy way to display sheet music in a browser. That way musicians could post their work and others could make clean (and correct) printouts of the music to play themselves. The format could be XML, or some HTML cousin, or perhaps the music could be in MIDI format and the browser could render that.
Does this sound useful to any musicians out there? Anyone good with Java?
Looks like hell has frozen, after all. At least hell has gotten as cool as a nice tall pint of speciality beer. The Pop The Cap initiave to bring high-alcohol speciality beers to North Carolina has gotten the bill through both legislatures. If the Gov has no objections, it will become law August 13th, or sooner.
The usual government-is-your-mommy crowd spoke up against the bill. New Government Mommies are Triangle representatives Fred Smith and former Raleigh city councilman Neal Hunt. Anyone arguing that teens wanting a buzz will somehow want to pay $6 a beer instead of drinking a 50 cent Beast is seriously fooling themselves.
Help top this one off by letting the governor know you want your high-end beer now!
Here’s to us!
