Whilst playing with Movable Type, I noticed that it logs what people search for in the search thingy. A hell of a lot of people search for ‘Insultotron’ which is not surprising because there’s a link over there with ‘Insultotron’ written on it leading to a mysterious zip file and no explanation.
Basically it’s a Windows app that runs in the icon tray. It does absolutely nothing for a very long time. Then, at random (Statistically about two or three times a year if you’re lucky,) it insults you. E.g. “Prick”.
That’s what it is. It’s the Insultotron.
So ends the customer feedback.
January 14th, 2004
About three years ago me and the missus bought a guitar, a guitar tuner and a book entitled ‘Guitar for beginners vol. 1′.
We learned the chords A, D, G, C and my personal favourites E and A minor.
It was when trying to place these chords into some kind of order and play them back again that the system began to unravel and the guitar was sent to the cupboard without parole.
I recently picked the thing up again and surprised myself by remembering most of the chords, but completely forgetting their names.
This inspired us to do something about it and last night a very nice man came round to give us our first guitar lesson. Last night I learned…
- That the guitar we have is good and cannot be blamed after all.
- The names of the afore-mentioned chords.
- E minor.
- That music is about maths.
- That any tune can be transposed into other keys to make them easier to play
- Minor means ‘sad sounding’.
- Major means ‘happy sounding’.
- Ambivalent chords have some other name.
All we need now is a second guitar to make lessons easier so an apology in advance to my brother for the theft that’s about to occur.
I comfortably predict that in no more than a month or so I’ll be a confident guitar virtuoso. I am Hank Marvin.
No, seriously, I haven’t had my breakfast yet.
January 14th, 2004
