boiled turtle notation
Hello. It's Monday night. I'm sitting in my favorite green chair with my turtle footstool. I'm watching The Suicide Squad (2021). Not to be confused with Suicide Squad (2016). It's a remake but also it's not a remake. How did we let them get away with that?
Anyway, here is some stuff I'd like you to know about.
No Boilerplate
This may be more interesting to programmers. I've been watching a lot of videos from this YouTube channel No Boilerplate. He makes videos about plain text, the cult of done, rust, and doing agile wrong. This video got me to start using the writing app Obsidian. I've been using Obsidian over the last week and I really like it. It's really simple, uses Markdown, has a lot of plugins, and is mostly free.
Music Notation (Rant that no one will care about)
I stumbled across this video: Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music. Despite playing a ton of trombone in school and taking piano lessons for the last year, I still find music notation to be frustrating. I'll save you from looking at the image, but this is a good example of what I'm talking about.
A major triad has no indicator while a minor triad requires a mi. A major 7th requires an ma7 while a minor 7th is just 7. What gives? And who thought Cmi(ma7) was a good idea? I know there are still things about music theory I haven't internalized yet that probably provide some context to this, but damn!
Listen, I know most of you don't care about this topic. But if you do, please let me know so we can commiserate together.
That's it! The Suicide Squad is over (it was okay) and I have nothing else to share this week.
But let's try something:
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