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This is really cool. They’ve analyzed swing music to try and figure out why it makes you want to move your feet. It’s the backbeat, you can’t lose it. Check these out: That’s Ray Charles. Snapping his fingers. On the beat, with a variance of less than five milliseconds. That’s about one beat of a […]

Bye, Kurt.

I wasn’t going to write anything, but after seeing it all over the web, I didn’t want to seem cold and inconsiderate, even though I probably am. Kurt Vonnegut has passed away. He was only 84. One of the greatest American writers, I think. I read Catch-22 when I was in middle school and it […]

Lights, tunnels, stuff like that

I’m working on a place for the kids while we travel, it’s actually almost a done deal but you know how that goes 😉 (it’s my parents, and I’m waiting on their Proof of Insanity paperwork before I can let the kids go there) Of course, I’m also checking my timetables to see when the […]