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2008-12-24

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2008-12-16

My RubyFringe presentation is available online at InfoQ:

2008-12-15

Back in the day I took an electrical engineering course at UBC on the five senses and what
we can do with them using technology. When it came to sound, we had to sit through this
excruciating series of videos of nerds trying to rock out with wands, sticks, balls, helmets,
pretty much anything that wasn’t an instrument. Every video demonstrated a horribly dressed geek
waving his little thing around at random with no rhythmic sense making noise. It was awful,
and when it was over I said, “You know, the problem with all of that music is you just can’t
dance to it.”

I’m quickly coming to the end of my first semester in music school
and am considering taking a consulting gig for the two month
break we have. Not really sure what’s available these days, as
I actually haven’t touched a computer for the entire semester.

First off, I learned a ton so far and have improved my technique so
much, but I’m still way behind in what I need to know for the next
semester. I’ll be spending any spare time I have studying guitar,
piano, and voice so I can roll into the next semester ready to go.

That means at least 3 hours a week of private lessons and about
four hours a day of practice, which isn’t hard. These days I
get up at 6am to practice anyway so I’ll just continue that.

Now I have a choice: I can continue living poor for the next
two months and just do nothing but music, or I can try to get
a job to make the rest of the year easier.

In order to figure out this dilemma, I’m curious if anyone
has offers for a two month gig. If there’s something good
then I’ll do a job. If not, then I’ll continue to study.

If you have a job you think I might find interesting, then
contact me. If you have a job that’s totally mindless and
pays alright with flexible hours, then definitely contact me.

Here’s to being a starving artist!