12/25/2003
Christmas is Past
Whoa. There goes Christmas. It made a whooshing sound...
UCSB's winter break is a little bit short for me. We get out around mid December and go back Jan. 5th. That's plenty fine as far as a vacation goes but it's a bit short for someone (ME ME ME!) who's used to the >month long vacations at Brown. Though I do need to get back to UCSB and start crankin' on those abstracts...
More work done on the PC-Set Analyzer (see previous post). Got a "NOOOOO!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ANYTHING BUT JAVASCRIPT" comment, which is understandable since JavaScript does suck the proverbial nut. Still, I stand by my points: I want it to be able to run in IE fairly simply. I have one (1) coputing reference. I want to design stuff and code. No doubt when I figure out how things work with this program in JavaScript, I'll tackle it in C# and some Palm OS's. Would be a good thing for a music theorist to have. I mean, we aren't exactly 007 types (we're more like <037> types...you know, 4-9 and all?). But that would be as close to cool new gadgetry as we could get. You see a piece and you FLIP out your PDA and punch in a couple numbers, hit enter, and WHAM!, villains are sent flying across the room. Orrrrr....you get some PC-set data. same thing. I'm like, Q, except I'm not.
Also, it seems that BLOGGER does do RSS feeds, except it only works in Blogger Pro. Damn. Really got to think about moving to movable (haha) type when I get some free time.
I miss ethernet...
// posted by Me @ 12/25/2003 09:34:00 PM
12/23/2003
I 0w|\|z Prime Form
So fresh off my getting hyped up on CS again, I go and think up a CS idea. I'd like to whip up something in C# at some point but since the only computing reference I have at home right now is the JavaScript Bible, 4th ed., I gotta code in JavaScript. But it's ok because...
The project I've decided to give myself is a PC-Set Analyzer. Go to the PC-Set Analyzer page to get an idea of what it's all about. In short though, it's a music thing. It's a data-generation tool designed to help theorists and musicologists get through the mechanical aspects of PC-Set data generation and onto the real analysis of looking for musically meaningful connections. Turned around, it could be used to quickly identify possible relationships between sonorities that one may hear as meaningful. In any case, it's only a couple of hours of work so far but go look at the PC-Set Analyzer. Jigga wha? Jigga PC-Set Analyzer.
...Oh right, it's OK it's in JavaScript for now because I want it to be portable. This way, anybody with IE (I'm not going to fool around with Netscape/Mozilla/Opera compatibility quite yet) can just download my scripts and run them.
Planning to be in New York (city), New York (state) for New Year (holiday). Can't wait to see Sooms and some old Brunonian friends.
2 weeks of vacation isn't enough. It's also too much. I think what I really need is a month of no classes, no papers, but still a library and reserach resources. That way I can have plenty of time to see friends, go skii or whatever, but still be working on what I want to work on. As it is now, I've got abstracts to write and no time to write them. And piano? Jigga Beethoven Sonata?
Oh...and I guess since I probably won't get around to it tomorrow:
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
// posted by Me @ 12/23/2003 08:19:00 AM
