Parts for basses have included notes as low as the B-flat two octaves and a tone below middle C…
Wow. Two octaves and a tone. That is to singing what “four score and seven years” is to mathematics. Damn you, wikipedia
Two Octaves and a Tone
Posted by Jason
on 21 Nov 2008
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XM Radio Beat Me
Posted by Jason
on 18 Nov 2008
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I called today to cancel my XM Radio subscription. I’m fond of several XM channels but I’ve been spending too little time listening to XM to justify the recurring monthly fee of $13.
When I called to cancel the associate ascertained that I was happy with the service, just not the price point, so he offered to give me a year’s worth of service for $7/month. Nice touch: haggle over the merchandise.
I took the deal.
Granting us Forgiveness
Posted by Jason
on 14 Nov 2008
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God, of course, is not injured or insulted or threatened by our sin. … All the insult and injury we do in sinning is to ourselves alone, not to God. … God’s forgiveness does not mean any change whatever in God. It just means the change in the sinner that God’s unwavering and eternal love brings about. … It would make no sense to speak of God as refusing to accept our repentence. Our repentence is God’s forgiveness of us. … We do not express our contrition in order to persuade God to grant us his forgiveness. Our contrition is God granting us forgiveness.
All that God asks of us is that we put aside the barriers, the illusions and the timidity that stand in the way of accepting his love. All that he asks is that we relax and let ourselves be filled with his love, which eliminates our sins and makes us channels and bearers of his love and forgiveness to everyone.
Herbert McCabe
Whether we are loved
Posted by Jason
on 14 Nov 2008
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Everything in human existence comes back to love — whom we love, how we love, whether we are loved.
Donna Britt, Washington Post
Spending Money
Posted by Jason
on 4 Nov 2008
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Two thoughts on where I can find some fun money during these belt-tightening times:
- Cancel XM radio subscription, then argue that the $13/mo we’re saving should be given to me to spend as I please. (If wife tries the same argument with the fiber optic internet connection, throw tantrum.)
- Potty train the baby early, then claim for myself the $60/mo we save on diapers until his 3rd birthday when, ideally, I’d have had him potty trained anyway. (If wife tries the same argument substituting me for baby, beer for diapers, and liver cirrhosis for potty training, throw tantrum.)
Failed Competence
Posted by Jason
on 29 Sep 2008
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From Typelogic.com
INTPs tend to have a sense of failed competence … expressed in a sense that one’s conclusion may well be met by an equally plausible alternative solution, and that, after all, one may very well have overlooked some critical bit of data.
A major concern for INTPs is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves.
A “Surge” in Afghanistan?
Posted by Jason
on 19 Sep 2008
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Fred Kaplan writing in Slate.com
But any realistic hopes hinge on understanding something crucial about the surge in Iraq—it has not yet “succeeded,” in any meaningful sense of the word.
Petraeus understands this. At his farewell ceremony as commander of multinational forces in Iraq, he said, “I don’t like to use words like victory or defeat,” and this remark did not stem from modesty. As anyone who’s read Clausewitz knows, war is fought for political aims—it is not won until those aims are achieved—and this war’s aims are not yet within sight: a stable, self-sustaining, democratic Iraq whose government is an ally in the war on terror.
Rubbermaid Pirates
Posted by Jason
on 18 Sep 2008
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Something New
Posted by Jason
on 12 Sep 2008
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Eiei.org is such a cool domain name! You simply have to use it.
Getting Blurry
Posted by Jason
on 29 Mar 2007
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You better stop drinking because you’re getting blurry.
Mono R. looking after his friends and his eighth shot of tequila.