admin Dear World, Here is a version of Ravel’s Tune in lead sheet format. Useful for improvisation. Wasn’t able to find one and just ended up writing it out. Jpeg Version http://www.alwinian.net/sheetmusic/Ravel_Pavane_(Lead_Sheet)_arr.alwin.jpg PDF Version http://www.alwinian.net/sheetmusic/Ravel_Pavane_(Lead_Sheet)_arr.alwin.pdf No restrictions on use. Can be copied + modified, rearranged, deranged freely. Enjoy! A
The cord juts out on the current model in a not-so-subtle way that makes it prone to break. A. This version would wrap the cord around a middle groove. B. The cord coming out would be angled in such a way that it never needs to point in any other direction.
Don’t have this figured out.. but what is the relationship between america’s first founders and silicon valley, when it comes to self-governance. There seems to be one, but it is across so many different ‘dimensions’ that its tough to describe. Successful self-governance between many parties is almost landing a bowling ball on a pin. The … Read more
The word for horse probably comes from word for hair right? english: hair –> horse spanish: cabello –> caballo french: cheveux –> cheval Guessing, hair came first and was later used to describe a horse (ie. running mane) –??? oui?
Macs OS, iphone, ipad etc all come with Safari pre-installed and bundled. Question: how is this different than what Microsoft did bundling IE with Windows, that lead to an anti-trust suit? Same situation no?
I’ve uploaded an omnigraffle stencil called user groups. You can download it here. http://graffletopia.com/stencils/903 Enjoy!
Hi All, my jazz group (think Miles in Moscow) – Perestroika will perform this Sunday at the Path Cafe. Details below. If you are able to join, please Do. – A
Don’t usually post these things, as Joni Mitchell put it ‘being part of the star-making machinery’. I had a chance to sit in on Shakira filming a video. It was a fun.
The new business cards are in.
…If you had a parent living in a house, who locked their children up in the basement, provided no school, no health, no care, no nursing, allowing a dank basement as the only place to be, living in derelict conditions. Almost all of society would condemn this as unfit parenting and yet it is what … Read more
Obscure in almost all circles, yet he was one of the most popular influential economists of his day. John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-born American economist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith
Larry Page was on Charlie Rose this week. He comments on a bunch of current initiatives. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12366
About 2 1/2 years ago, Adele came by work.. Work was VEVO and she sat down to play through her new album. My first impressions of the girl was that she was stout with an extreme cockney accent. She sat down to play some tracks of her new unreleased album. This was ’21’, which became … Read more
We are just entering a time period, whereby people’s lives, songs, videos photos, documents (classified or declassified) are entering into the public record. History is much more real, when you can see and hear in film what things were like. Recently I’ve been immersed daily in both reading and watching of early 20th century american … Read more
An old article written for Wall Street Survivor reposted here. J.L. Kelly Jr. was a very interesting member of the famed Bell Labs. There is a new book published this year, 2012 about Bell Labs incidentally called: The Idea Factory, by John Gertner. Peguin 2012 | http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/dp/1594203288 Enjoy! By Alwin Tong, for Wall Street Survivor … Read more
I’ve been using Siri and Text Recognition Programs such as Dragon Dictation. Great Programs. Today, i dictated the telephone number and text message with my phone. 100 other programs exist as stand alone applications. Does this technology make captcha irrelevant now (at least with the listen features). a. hook up voice recognition to any audio … Read more
Charlie Rose Interview with Pandora Founder, Tim Westergren. Originally a musician! : ) Check it out http://www.charlierose.com/view/content/11097
For anyone that knows me, they know that I am a huge van gogh fan. I learned something about van gogh today which was very moving. His variations seem never to be shown together, ever, one beside the other. Just like all his series: the sunflowers, potato eaters, violets, fields, shoes, etc. all seem to … Read more
She gets a bit technical, but clearly smart and sound regarding UX, Ideation and development. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10129
Saying that there are only 12 notes in music is a lot like saying there are only 5 moods in people.. it’s the compass and the pole.
RIM AND MICROSOFT You are 2 companies kinda sorta on the brink. Where once you were young and sexy, now you’re tattered and on the edge of a chasm, a couple stains on those suits and ties from 2000., If this sounds familiar – and coming from the music business – it does ring a … Read more
If any technology is to be used by the general population. It can’t be more complex than an ATM.
Quick Thought. Art and Sport. (wondering this while watching Australian Open) The fascination people have with both art and sport, at a higher level may be really the same thing (for instance how in physics, light and radio waves, or the weak and the strong nuclear force unite etc etc). It can be said, they … Read more
George Soros coined the term Reflexivity in the sense which i referring to it. Essentially meaning things are in a constant feedback loop (and more Mandebrotian, than Gaussian). My hunch is that the problem of modelling/predictive problems of Finance/Economics & Quantum Electrodynamics of particles is essentially the same phenomenom. Much like the apple that falls … Read more
And all other fourway sports… but soccer seems as good a candidate as any. The teams are aligned opposites face one another. Game Theory meets Bicycle Kicks.. teams can help each other out, encouraged, but not required. Teams with the highest score wins. A,B,C,D this encourages cooperation up to a certain point which is advantageous. … Read more
This Cauliflower exhibits a fractal pattern… how cool is that.
I’ve finally caught up on some reading. Some of the more interesting by-products of today’s deep thoughts and reading are listed below: drone subs: at any given second, we can see drone planes whizzing around, but there must be enumerable drone subs combing the bottom of the sea too. both commercial and military. Looking for … Read more
Less than a week into its debut. The VEVO App hit #1 Yesterday and is also the iTunes App of the Week. Availlable here.
Out of the thousands of videos on Netflix, off the beaten path, i found these and would recommend them to you. They more or less revolve around my passions: tennis, space, art/business, real-life (ie. the other side of the tracks). Honorary mention should go to Glass (about philip glass), Derrida (about jacques derrida), Word Wars … Read more
