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@bethanyh of course! I’m kind of a promiscuous reader (I read a little about a lot of things) so it was nice to see a theme connecting.

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A nice trio of recent posts surrounding similar themes:

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JA Westenberg on anger as a point of digital focus, an anti-hearth.

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@jabel’s beautiful post about deciding to be a Sticker.

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And @bradleyandroos on speaking the truth in love to build commonality and life together.

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@dwalbert Indeed. This research never seems to have reached my students, or many of their teachers it would seem. Now and then I have a student for whom a particular learning style is a matter of deep personal identity (and has been a life-long excuse, which is how I usually find out about it).

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@JudsonGreene I always get pushback on that one. I tell them to find me research supporting it and I’ll change my mind.

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Taught about practicing today. The most important class of the year.

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@tinyroofnail So far, so good! If you’re still running that receiver it’s a perfectly good transport, and it also sounds great through my powered speakers. (I’m not an audiophile by any means).

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My son has a tiny boombox in his room and he listens to it every day. The best.

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@bloftin2 @canneddragons I’ve definitely not gotten rid of any, but now I sort of regret the ten year pause in buying CDs. As I joked to my wife, it will be great to have offline listening material when AI breaks the web.

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The CD player is a huge hit with the family. There has been a pile of cds out every day when I get home from work and I’m listening some amazing old albums I haven’t thought about in years.

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Once again making progress by going back.

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@jabel So much wisdom here. A lesson hard to learn and harder to remember is that character is more important than opinion.

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@tinyroofnail Buying our first house in ’19 and second in ’22 (moving to another state) felt like we were in a different world.

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@JohnBrady If my experience teaching guitar camp last summer is any indication, Stairway is still preeminent.

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The People Who Take Guitar Lessons: isaacgreene.com

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@jaheppler amazing. Maybe soon we can do the teaching, administration can sit quietly in a room drawing a salary, and the agents can take care of everything else.

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@jaheppler Wait, they are actually asking you to write your portfolio with AI? I assume lots of my colleagues do (we had portfolio jubilee this year and there as much rejoicing), but I thought we were all supposed to pretend it was important.

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For the first time in many years I have a CD player set up in my home stereo. (This one, it’s just what I wanted). Time to visit some old friends.

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@JohnBrady Isn’t playing Hindemith on clarinet everyone’s dream? Clarinet was my first instrument. I only miss it when I listen to Mozart, Stravinsky, and those gnarly bass clarinet parts in early Philip Glass.

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I’ve taught many adults. Those who practice usually do it better than the kids, you’re right.

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Ask Questions Like a 3rd Grader: isaacgreene.com

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@gregmoore I always check Audio Science Reviews, it passes muster with them so I’m pretty sure it’ll be great on my very mid-tier system.

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@gregmoore This newish one from Fosi audio. I wanted something simple and small, and it reviews well.

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This hideous album art is hiding some of the best piano playing on record. Schumann and Brendel at their best

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@madaga This is easily my favorite Narnia book, and Puddleglum is one of my favorite characters ever.

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@gregmoore and I’ve been checking shipping updates on the new player headed my way. Very excited to be getting the cds back in the house and not just the car.

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@jaheppler Really though lt you were also wrapping up a needle-point too for a second there. Let us know how it is!

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@manton this is great, managing a domain is absolutely one of the biggest headaches for those of us that aren’t regulars to web-based work. That’s why I transferred mine here actually, I love that it’s all under the same hood now.

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“Shooting this machine gun blindfolded will probably kill some folks, but if I let go someone else will aim it at them so I better keep shooting.”

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This is the ethical argument made by Anthropic this week.

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I Was Ten Years Old: isaacgreene.com

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@bethanyh I take great inspiration from my late grandfather who took up the piano at 65 (and played about 15 years before enjoying 20 more in retirement), and my mother who, already a wonderful pianist, took up the flute around 50 and still practices it in her 70s.

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📚Finished Reading: Matilda, Roald Dahl.

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My son loved this one, I was horrified by how much worse the adults are than I remembered.

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@dwalbert One of the best things about having small kids is they frequently give very important reminders like “Look at that tree!”

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@ablerism Would 100% take this class.

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@elliotlovegrove Love to hear it. I think you’ll have a ton of fun - it’s one of the few singing environments where completely letting it rip is appropriate.

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@gbosarge I once went on a “weed walk” with an absolute encyclopedia of native plants. He could ID every plant we saw and was not stumped once. It was inspiring and a reminder that the more you know the more you see.

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Bach at his most introspective (and French).

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The longer I teach guitar the more convinced I am we need a guild with rigorous examinations before you are allowed to teach. There will be harsh punishments for the hacks who teach without a license. I am ready to name names.

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@mjkaul Nice track! I did not know Tzur but that woody sax tone is fantastic.

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@Miraz With all the studies showing the benefits of coffee, I try to hedge my bets and drink both in substantial amounts.

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@JudsonGreene And still no Yous/Yinz.

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Leaving

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Parting from you, rising\ninto the air, I enter again\nthe absence we came together in.\nMy ways in house and field\nand woods have reached an end,\ndismembered of each other\nand of me. And you remain\non the earth we knew, already changing\ninto the earth you know.\nFire-driven through the air,\nI go alone, a part of what, together, we became.

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Wendell Berry (1934-2026)

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Speaking of olfactory memories, today the twins and I rode to a cafe where they have this amazing bread. We hadn’t gotten ours yet when one of them said “remember when Mama got stuck at the airport and we went to get her?” That was in July, and when my wife called we were eating that bread.

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The insults do not stop:

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No professional singer would think of being accompanied on the guitar; and if the instrument maintains its ground in practice at all, it is in consequence of its convenience, of fashion, and above all, of the badness of people’s ears.

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General T. Perronet Thompson, Instruction to my Daughter for Playing on the Enharmonic Guitar (1829).

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Disguising his polemic as a method book, the General was one of the first in a long line of cranks railing against equal-tempered tuning, a tradition I proudly carry on. More about his tuning system here.

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📚Finished Reading: Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather.

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An understated book with a big impact. Just packed with passages of incredible beauty.

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Muscadine Memories: isaacgreene.com

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This Franscisco [Corbetta, a very important early guitarist] had just composed a sarabande which so charmed or desolated everyone, that all the guitar players in the court set about learning it, and God knows the strumming that ensued everywhere.

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Meanwhile, Samuel Pepys was “mightily troubled that all that pains should have been taken upon so bad an instrument.” Opinions were about as strong about guitars then as during the Worship Wars.

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Mr. Rogers and Dolly Parton: isaacgreene.com

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My cargo bike was stabled for several weeks waiting for parts and the time to work on it. Finally rode last night and remembered what a big part of our family sanity daily bike rides are.

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First day of classes, year five.

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Got to my office to discover a campuswide wifi outage - hopefully not a bad augury for the semester.

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Good update on the data center situation I blogged about: just talked to my brother and it seems the township is doing a good job creating an ordinance that protects farmland and residential areas. As of the last planning meeting he attended they are no longer a location under consideration.

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I got a strong whiff of the internet of my childhood from this website. I don’t even know what to call it, but it has a mudlarking section, a sacred wishing well, and a virtual microfilm machine.

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Place Oddities

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📚Finished Reading: What Art Does: An unfinished theory, Brian Eno & Bette A.

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I intended to start this while I ate lunch and read the whole thing. Some nice inspiration for the start of the semester.

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Back in the office this week.

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This piece really gets out of the gate. Manuel Ponce, Sonatina Meridional.

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