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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." > > 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." > > 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. > > 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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