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Finals Week: the storm before the calm.

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Nice spot for a gig. Beautiful day to drive up into the mountains with the windows down.

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@tinyroofnail this was also given to me with exactly that kind of gesture. Haven’t gotten to it yet but I will soon.

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@JohnBrady Thats right, I was playing with an e-bow (one string only) and lots of reverb. I wanted to mute as much noise from the other strings since the amp was pretty hot.

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The banjo with two thirds (a major and a minor) drove me crazy! I think I would go new standard tuning first.

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Thou shalt not let the fiscal year end with money left in your professional development budget.

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Lots here I’m excited about.

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@apoorplayer A little, we got a good coat of ice then three inches of snow (considered a lot here), but it wasn’t disruptive. I was the only person in my neighborhood to shovel my driveway, everyone else knew it would melt in a few days.

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@apoorplayer Greenville resident here. Our winters are mild, but February is still a pretty dark and depressing month here. Instead of snow we get a lot of 40 degree rainy days, much worse than snow IMO. And it does get below freezing for stretches, but never more than a few days.

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A far cry from my normal rig, but we made some noise tonight.

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@jaheppler “You know you really don’t want me to open the pod bay doors.”

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@miljko oh, I’m really looking forward to reading this.

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@jabel There’s a bilgy little pond at the end of my evening walk route. I made this recording of the frogs the other day. Endlessly fascinated by this sound.

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Sixty-eight degrees

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Evening bike ride on the trail

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Honeysuckle blooms

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@dwalbert Yes, you can imagine excitement building as the possibility grew, and a very close finish pushing them on. As Aslan tells Bri, you thought you were running as fast as you could but the lion showed you had more speed than you knew (paraphrasing).

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I just learned that not only was the 2-hour marathon barrier broken yesterday, but the 2nd place runner also broke 2 hours, and 3rd place broke the previous world record. Of course, the women’s winner also broke the women’s world record.

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Must have been the perfect day for running.

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@joshuapsteele Have you considered taking out one of her ankles or knees?

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Good sounds from last week: isaacgreene.com

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@dwalbert Plus: pollen. Just so much oak pollen all at once.

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@jabel The blurb is ever-so-slightly hyperbolic, but I dig the music! Nice addition to my current obsession with microtonal music. Didn’t know I needed an Orthodox byzantine dark-wave album in my life, but here we are.

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Bob Dylan in the prophetic mode:

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All that foreign oil controlling American soil\nLook around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed\nSheiks walkin’ around like kings\nWearing fancy jewels and nose rings\nDeciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris\nAnd there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

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Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters\nMasters of the bluff and masters of the proposition\nBut the enemy I see\nWears a cloak of decency\nAll nonbelievers and men stealers talkin’ in the name of religion\nAnd there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

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@rscottjones Well done! Fight on.

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@jabel This set of albums is one of the finest things ever recorded. I have so many favorites from these.

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Been sick at home with the flu all day, but got some very good news.

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@jabel Chatting with a colleague yesterday (who I swap teaching a music tech course with) I said something to the effect of “I want to be good enough with tech that I can use it as little as possible to get my work done, not because I love it.” I think this is in that spirit. Lots of computer work is drudgerous (a word not in the OED, but google AI overview is happy to define it for me), so leave it to the computers.

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@dwalbert swept away to Minusland! The part that happens in outer space is definitely the better half.

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📚Finished Reading: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl.

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Raucous fun for both me and E all the way through (and much weirder than I remember it). The last time I read it I didn’t appreciate the send up of the president’s cabinet, but it is truly hilarious. And… Vermicious Knids!

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@bradleyandroos Great list, big dog. (I’m not old, I promise)

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Ah, it is a glorious feeling to be done with class prep for the school year.

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Figured out to combine my two main hobbies (woodworking, espresso making) and use up some tiny rosewood scraps (from a broken piece on a danish table I’m restoring) with a little run of WDT tools.

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If you don’t know what this has to do with espresso I don’t want to ruin it for you.

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I read just about everything from L.M. Sacasas, but his latest in Comment is such vital writing on AI. Maybe the best single piece on the topic.

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@ayjay This is exactly my cup of tea, thank you! I listened to Fire Lapping at the Creek many times last year, didn’t know about this new project.

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@dwalbert There is so much grass here!

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Went into my classroom yesterday to find I had won a commanding victory in this informal poll of students. (Identities of my non-Amish colleagues protected). Must be how I manage to quote Wendell Berry occasionally teaching music theory.

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@todd This would not fly where I’m from in Pennsylvania. Whoopie pies are a big deal.

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@ablerism Well, @tinyroofnail just gave what I fully expect to be the actual report :)

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If I don’t crash into my summer coma too fast I’ll try to blog about it a bit too.

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Train Thoughts: isaacgreene.com

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@calebgreene Love the concept of a “spark bird” or a spark anything. In fact, I can remember my spark coffee. A day that has cost me a lot of money.

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@ReaderJohn Now I’m realizing that a bee colony is basically the animal kingdom equivalent of the british empire. Intensely matriarchal with significant royal support apparatus. Sending explorers around the world to bring back news of resources to be extracted. Occasionally setting up new governments nearby. Obsessed with the news everyone brings back.

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@tinyroofnail What a wonderful essay, just what I needed. Going down the path of parenthood (I have three, a 5yo and 3yo twins) and now knowing who these people will be is the most amazing and terrifying thing.

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@ablerism What a treasure trove! This is exactly what I needed to arm myself for the faculty “summit” we’re having in a few weeks about our future with AI (which, unless I miss my guess, will encourage more adoption/use). I know I’m on the losing side here, but at least I have studies on my side :)

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📚Finished Reading: Let Evening Come, Jane Kenyon.

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Really enjoyed this collection, the second of Kenyon’s I’ve read this year. It could be described as “depressed Annie Dillard writes poetry,” lots of natural imagery and close observation.

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Let it come, as it will, and don’t\nbe afraid. God does not leave us\ncomfortless, so let evening come.

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@jabel @johnbrady @dwalbert Has anyone identified the object lying right behind Jesus? I’m stumped.

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Actual footage of our family weekend (three bike rides not pictured).

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Two poems about Spring by Jane Kenyon.

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I guess there’s a first time for everything.

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🪕

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The distances of space are wildly counterintuitive. It took the Orion spaceship about a week to reach the moon travelling ~25,000MPH (Mach 32!). At the same speed it would take…15.3 years to reach Mars at it’s average distance from Earth.

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📚Finished Reading: Living Life Backwards, David Gibson.

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Read this with a group of guys from church and met weekly to discuss it. It’s a compelling interpretation of Ecclesiastes and easily the best book from Crossway I’ve ever read.

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📚Finished Reading: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle.

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I somehow missed this book as a child, but would have absolutely loved it when I was about 12. I loved it now, what a delightful book.

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Anole perched in the azaleas.

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It was a quick phone snap walking in the yard (with @calebgreene)I’m delighted how detailed the scales are.

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Music That Made Me: John Tavener, Lamentations and Praises \"\" : isaacgreene.com

","summary":"Recommended listening for Holy Week.","url":"https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/04/03/music-that-made-me-john.html","date_published":"2026-04-03T12:44:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-03 12:44","date_timestamp":1775220260,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87457389","content_html":"

Microtonal Music \"\"\"\" : isaacgreene.com

","summary":"Angine de Poitrine, Terry Riley, Alec Goldfarb.","url":"https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/04/02/microtonal-music.html","date_published":"2026-04-02T11:05:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-02 11:05","date_timestamp":1775127926,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}