5:25am: QotD
"I have no patience these days with the Nietzschean
cliché, 'That which does not kill us makes us stronger.'
I've found that the deepest pain holds no meaning. It is not
purifying. It is not ennobling. It does not make you a better
human being. It just is.
"All the worst pain does
is reduce us to our most primal animal. We want it to stop. We
want to survive. It short-circuits any sense of self, diminishes
us to a bundle of biological reflexes." -- Dana Jennings,
"Pain Beyond Words, and an Impulse Just to Endure", 2009-09-21,
New York Times [thanks to
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realinterrobang for
pointing it out along with related thoughts about
disability.]
1:17pm: Transcription-Preference Survey
For the musicians reading my journal (or just
randomly dropping in), a question: Which of these
two ways of transcribing "Como poden per sas culpas"
do you find easier to read (less confusing, less
distracting, more obvious)?
( 800x654 image of sheet music )
Which would you rather sight-read from, cold? Is it
the same one you'd rather have on your stand for reminders
after already having rehearsed the piece?
(Or would you write it as being in 12/8?)
I didn't know abcm2ps would do that double
time-signature thing in the first version of the tune
until I needed it for this, and I tried the most obvious
syntax, and it just worked. Maybe I should read the
help files more carefully. Then again, as long as it
just does the right thing when I guess, R'ingTFM seems
kinda less-urgent than some other things ...
[Edit at 2009-10-06 16:15, to add:]
I experimented a little with abcm2ps and found that it
considers "M:6/8(3/4)" a valid time signature, producing
this, which at least avoids being mistaken for either 36/48
or 63/84, though it does nothing to address the complaint
(see
Dreamwidth comments) about finding oneself
doing the math on each measure.