electric counterpoint » Asides

Bon Iver – Woods guitar tab

Dan — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:35:13 +0000

Hey, why not tab out a song that doesn’t have a guitar part? Great idea, Dan! Anyway, this is my stab at Bon Iver’s blissed-out a capella track, “Woods.”

Tabs online

Dan — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:34:27 +0000

Quick note: I revamped the guitar tab section of the site. I noticed that my old subdomain had stopped working, so one new WP extension and much messing around in .htaccess later, I present to you http://danray.org/guitar-tabs/. Now substantially less ugly!

Zipcar discount

Dan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:04:21 +0000

Just a note to say I’ve added a Zipcar affiliate link to my list. If you’re signing up, using my link will give each of us $25.

And but so English

Dan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:26:47 +0000

This is good. David Foster Wallace, writing for Harper’s in 2001, covers the Usage Wars and standard written English, in (of course) his own idiolect (which idiolect¹ (q.v. Infinite Jest) makes the hard parts go down easier). Wallace was a walking liberal arts education.

¹ I thought including a footnote to illustrate DFW’s writing style would cross the border into parody, but I couldn’t help it when I discovered, upon checking to make sure “idiolect” really meant what I thought it did, that one of Wordnik’s usage examples is a reference to DFW’s own.

Javascript pop-up calendar improvement

Dan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:24:48 +0000

In the context of the below, here’s a small patch for Mark Grabanski’s amazing “Clean Calendar” — a lightweight, pop-up calendar for selecting dates on web forms. My edits forbid users from selecting dates in the past.

Weekend to the Winds

Dan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:30:53 +0000

Weekend to the Winds is a new project I’m working on for a final project in a (cross-registered) computer science class. Watch this space.

Dan’s theory of future artistic vitality

Dan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:40:09 +0000

Listening to a latter-day CS&N show, the following theory occurred to me: the quality of a band’s future output can probably be predicted as an inverse proportion to the duration, at its shows, between the start of their big song and the point where the majority of the audience recognizes it and starts cheering.

Recording the clink of teacups at Abbey Road

Dan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:25:06 +0000

I’m still not one hundred percent behind the effort to tack a video game on to the Beatles’ canon forty years after their last release, but this article left me feeling excited for The Beatles: Rock Band nevertheless.

Recap, replacing Pacer

Dan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:09:59 +0000

What a brilliant idea — documents on PACER, the federal courts’ filing system, are publicly owned, but PACER itself charges a fee to view them. Installing Recap will upload every PACER doc you view to the Internet Archive, and tell you when a PACER doc you’ve requested is already available there for free.

A year on the Harvard Law Review

Dan — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:32:16 +0000

This photo sums up my 2L year pretty well.