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Fri Oct 6 09:13:53 EDT 2017
Slept from ten-thirty to seven. Woke briefly around four.
Rainy. High of sixty-nine.
Work:
- Remember to change backup cartridge
Done.
- Fix Gab SQLite Asterisk database backup ("database is locked")
Done.
- Decide how to punish RentPayment for leaking our interface password. What the hell is wrong with our vendors? This is the third such incident in a year.
Scott's on vacation (at Disney!).
Huh. Brian Eno wrote the Windows 95 startup sound.
The version linked in the article below, slowed down to two-and-a-half minutes sounds absolutely Eno-like.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/50824/creating-windows-95-startup-sound
> The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem — solve it."
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> The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3.25 seconds long."
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> I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.
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> In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.
Fifteen-minute walk at lunch.
Light, steady rain.
Neither warm nor cold.
A somewhat busy day fielding user issues.
Home:
- Go stuff
Done.
Kate texted to invite me to see Pixies at the Fillmore. I think I'll go.
I went.
In the rain tonight, Detroit had a bit of a Blade Runner vibe.
Met Ryan and Kate, and their friend Kelly, and a couple more friends whose name I didn't catch.
Ryan's brother, Ben, comp'd us tickets.
Not a bad performance, although I missed Kim Deal, particularly her vocals.
Lunch: coffee, Thai catfish
Dinner: chips
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