Category: Nerd

I can only suppose this is some kind of server error. Although it may be the work of a cheeky developer.
Cgi-local folder within cgi-local folder to infinity.

This is the greatest resource for designers. And it’s such a simple idea – just slide the colors around until you see a combination you like. I’m smacking myself in the forehead for not thinking of something like this. Pure genius.

Sadly I’m so bad with numbers that I’d never be a real math geek (not that I aspire to it or anything), but I do enjoy the conceptual end of things, the applied mathematics. I’ve discovered how the application of mathematical concepts to guitar playing can make for a lot of practice material. Say you have three notes – with just those three notes you can make 27 exercises. Say I have three notes, A, B, and C:

That’s 27 sequences to practice – granted many of them are boring and useless, but you can weed out the ones that suck. Better yet you can mix and match to make 6-note sequences like CAB-CBA. I further discovered that you take any number, and take it to its power, and that will give you the number of possible exercises:

And so on. And that’s just a few particular notes. Factor that times a 12-tone system of music and a 4-octave guitar and you’ll never run out of crap to practice.

This just didn’t turn out as funny as I thought it would. Plus it’s a web geek joke, so not content with simply being lame, it’s also esoteric. Nevertheless, I feel it has a right to exist. I mean, we let these people run around freely, don’t we?

Happy birthday, Steve Vai. How big a fanboy am I that I know his birthdate? Well, it caught my eye when I read he was born on 6/6/60. Clearly rock and roll is the work of Satan.