What, you a musician, "yes!"

Let me preface this with the fact that I know next to nothing about music. Yeah, I listen to it all the time and have a ton of CDs. I might even still be able to play "hot cross buns" on the recorder, which I learned in fifth grade, but that is pure rote. I know nothing about chords, nothing sunk in during trumpet lessons, no 4/4 time, no C#, nothing. Yeah I know some words, but that's about it.

Enter computers.

Every once in a while I'll try fooling around with some music program. Mostly, that ends up sounding like crap or on a good day, like one of those sound collage…things. Imagine my thrill when I discovered that it is now possible to have a computer work out most of it for you, woo-hoo! Now you too can make music with just a "little" help. If you're curious, here's what a person who knows nothing about music, except what they like to listen to, can make. Experimental, is probably the best, but it is a lot more fun to make your own!

The whole thing is pretty mechanical sounding though, but when you start to think about adding a learning neural network, like NERO, and setting its inputs based on biofeedback from a crowd sort of like this. You'd get this DJ Robot making music up in response to real people, really getting down, maybe then we could get some decent pop music! All my phone votes go to DJ Robot! I just don't want to be in that first crowd.

Chernobyl

I enjoyed this article so much and have been sitting on the link forever because I can seemingly never send it out. It's not an upper. For some reason you can't just spam all your friends with something about Chernobyl and cleaning up after wars (even "cold" ones).

There's probably too much going on different parts of the world today and will be tomorrow, what with my early meeting and all, but if not now, when.