September 15, 2008

An Epiphany.

I’m the first to admit I’ve been slacking on my scales practice, mainly sticking to pentatonic (because I’m lazy). So while reading through my Scales and Modes book and I stumbled across something obvious, yet I’d never recognized. Each scale has a mode for each note in the scale- Major scale having 7, pentatonic scale having 5, etc. That I was remotely aware of, but didn’t think much of it.

September 15, 2008

Church of England apologizes to Darwin, booyah.

This is excellent, yet disappointing at the same time- both the Pope and now The Church of England have come forward and said “mah bad, Darwin was right, sorry about oppressing science… again…” The depressing part is while all of the old-world christian religions are coming to terms with evolution, those in the US are still desperately fighting reality. I’m wondering what it’s gonna take for people to accept it. It’s like there’s just enough unverified data and blatant mistruths out there to convince people who’ll deny the enormous mountain of data that disagrees.

September 7, 2008

It’s Happening Again…

I go through these obsessive cycles where I’l focus on one thing and ride it out for a few months, forgetting about everything else. Since I started talking to Mr. Bojangles about guitar lessons, I’ve been playing nonstop. My calluses are up to 80% already (after being at 2% for over a year) and I’ve been looking for all sorts of teaching resources. I’ve found some great tools that will help me improve and allow me to help others get better.

September 5, 2008

Writing another Book

So I’ve started on another book- this one however isn’t a novel, it’s a notebook for guitar students. The first two pages contain a layout of notes on the fretboard, commonly played chords (open, barred and power), pentatonic modes, and relationship of the guitar and tablature to standard musical notation. The rest of the book will follow a simple format, allowing notes, sketches and some notation on the left page and the right containing 6 tab staffs similar to this:

September 2, 2008

A reply from California Tortilla!

Pam to me show details 1:15 PM (48 minutes ago) Reply: We’re on it, Jesse! —–Original Message—– From: Comments [mailto:cments@californiatortilla.com] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:59 PM To: Comments Subject: Customer Comments Name: Jesse Morgan Store/Location: Troy, MI I require urgent assistance. I lived in the Arlington, VA area for 18 months and ate a BCCB almost every day for lunch. In 2006 I moved back to Michigan. I miss the BCCB.

August 28, 2008

California Tortilla’s Blackened Chicken Caeser Burrito.

I sent the following message to California Tortilla via their website. I hope they fulfill my request. I somehow doubt it, however. I require urgent assistance. I lived in the Arlington, VA area for 18 months and ate a BCCB almost every day for lunch. In 2006 I moved back to Michigan. I miss the BCCB. Please open a location in Troy, MI so I may once again enjoy a delicious BCCB.

August 23, 2008

This Thread Delivers!

So while browsing fark, I came across this: Feeling the urge to become so angry that you go cross-eyed? Enjoy the most insane website in the history of the internet And OH MAN, did it deliver. Wow. Einstein was a fraud, heliocentric model of the solar system is wrong, we live in the united states of Cabotia, Rockefeller is running a conspiracy with Encyclopedia Britannica to remove all negative catholic articles, the WTC attacks were NUCLEAR attacks, the us constitution is condemned by catholic law, Tesla blew up russia or some crazy shit, and the guy who runs the site knows everything about who killed kennedy… argh I just had an aneurysm from trying to gauge the level of dumbfuckery on that site.

August 19, 2008

The StraightSpam Express

So guess who I just got an email from? Rick Davis, McCain Campaign Manager [ecampaign@gop.com] Dear Supporter, The reviews are in from Saturday’s Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency, moderated by Pastor Rick Warren. The critics agree – John McCain’s straight talk emerged as the big winner of the night. blah blah blah You know what’s amusing about this? I did an experiment a few years back- used a bunk email address to try and “get an ipod absolutely free.

August 14, 2008

Science at work

So I read this awesome article about faster than light information transfer between two photons and thought it was an excellent example of scientific method at work. Here’s the short version of what I mean. Scientists did something and something SPOOKY happened. They observed something spooky and say “How the hell did that happen?” and take notes. They review their notes and say “This makes no damn sense, unless…” and come up with an idea of how it happened.

August 14, 2008

The Curse of Kevin Smith

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