I've been accumulating browser tabs for a while, so here's a "misc" dump. (Aside: this new LJ "choose your icon by browsing pictures, and by the way we won't put them in alphabetical order or anything nice like that" interface really stinks. Grr.)
siderea posted The Music Theory Song: Intervals (YouTube)For anyone who's trying to work on ear training ( Read more... )

More from that parlor game: Comment to this post and say you want a set, and I will pick seven things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
jducoeur gave me ( Read more... )

Some professions require a certain amount of ongoing education every year, usually in the form of several-hour seminars. At least for the legal field, it seems like the subjects do not have to be all that closely related to American law. I routinely see advertisements for these in the Jewish press covering topics in halacha or Jewish ethics. But ( Read more... )

From Fantasy in Miniature: Check, Please, on playing a certain game with Death.

From Meirav Beale on G+: an epic tale of technology and grandparents. Excerpt: Some in the kingdom thought the cause of the darkness must be the Router. Little was known of the Router, legend told it had been installed behind the recliner long ago by a shadowy ( Read more... )

It's summer. High heat and humidity are normal for summer. I get that. But I still hold that, for Pittsburgh, temperatures in the 90s and heat indices in the 100s until 10PM and by 10AM are abnormal. Just sayin'. I sure hope I can catch a ride to Shabbat services tonight; there's nothing to do about the walk home, but it'd be nice to not ( Read more... )

Google Art Project appears to be collecting high-quality images from art museums around the world. I haven't explored much yet but it looks like it'll be nifty.

I thought this picture from APotD of the moon and Venus over Switzerland was a painting rather than a photo when I first saw it. Pretty ( Read more... )

Last night at choir practice a member asked me to sing in a subgroup that she'll be directing. Naturally, much medieval and renaissance music is religious (particularly Catholic), which poses problems for me, so when I was handed music without a translation I knew I'd have to do a quick check. The process went something like this:
Language: Latin ( Read more... )

Everything I know about work, I learned in the SCA, by metahacker.
Pumpkins in prison, a photo by ticklethepear. (Though it looks like they might be able to break out if they really had to.)
dagonell wrote that we show our humanity most in how we treat the weak, such as this aid for an ailing penguin. Neat!
From a locked post (I'll happily credit you if you like): ( Read more... )

Having completed the first pass at digitizing or replacing our folk music on old media (we still need to do some proof-listening), Dani and I are merging our iTunes libraries so this might be easier going forward. Oof. We're up to "S" so far. "T" is big because it includes all the "The"s. Tracking changes (e.g. to tagging) going forward is ( Read more... )

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