As a musician, I think there’s great value with the iPad for music display. No more flipping pages due to breezes, ease in organizing (adjusting play lists), quickly shifting pages (a simple touch) and the ability to have a huge sheet music library at your fingertips. If you’ve ever lugged several Fake books to gigs, you can see the potential. Of course, the device is relatively fragile (as any electronic device is), so there’s a challenge. Nothing should frighten musicians more than the thought of losing your performance materials.
Category: Random
Posterous Thoughts
I was just thinking it would be nice to have lists to manage the blogs I’m following here. Some people post daily, others multiple times during the day, and others infrequently. It would be nice to have a tools to filter through all the posts.
Early Morning Thoughts While I Should Be Asleep
Reading email (or most anything) late at night doesn’t tend to return me to sleep quickly. Rather, my mind awakens, engages, then wants to learn more. Knowledge is a vibrant engagement for me.
College Majors
Oh, I feel this pain…
History & Predictive Text
Predictive text will add a new challenge to the historians of our future. Before, reading through journals, we just muddled our way through the occasional misspelling or illegible word. Now, we need to be ready for strange word transpositions. Words appearing at random. Historians will need to incorporate an understanding of querty, and the possible mis-adjustment contemporary predictive text programs can use for substitutes.
I Love xkcd
Courtesy of my friends at xkcd.com.
Sharing Stories
Starbucks created this video featuring LA Artist Brady Smith, which I discovered here. Very nice piece.
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Mental Clarity and Purpose-Filled Living
One must clear the mind. Empty the random, blistering fast data stream and its withering pace, grasping calmness, tranquility. This mind-place crucial for grasping truth, the “real”, reclaiming values. Reactive living uproots tranquility and derails the purpose-filled live.
Made where?
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This shirt, "100% cotton, made in Malaysia" gave me pause. Was the shirt
sewn in Malaysia? Or was the cotton grown there? Curiosity…gets me all the
time.
Sent from my Windows Phone
Exploring sunlight, movement,
Daytime beckons, demands play,
Life outside, life well lived.