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Comment on Will o’ the Wisp by Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:07:16 +0000

What no tabs? Geez, give the musically challenged a break…

Comment on Kindle Impressions by Sunday Night Links: 10 August 2008 « Vavcare Blog

Sunday Night Links: 10 August 2008 « Vavcare Blog — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:36:33 +0000

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Comment on Ghost Killer by jasony

jasony — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:52:49 +0000

awful quiet ’round these parts. Yep…. awful quiet.

Comment on Pop Music and Vocal Range by Sean McMains

Sean McMains — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:45 +0000

Well, it’s been a week. Time to declare a winner.

In first place, with a sharp hat and a 2 and a 5th octave range, Jason Young, singing “Take on Me” by A-Ha!

In second, the polymath Greg Pierce and his haunting 2 octave rendition of “Crying” by Roy Orbison.

Running up, we have the inimitable Barry Brake with his octave and a half version of “The Star Spangled Banner” (play ball!) and Chris Morris and Jonatha Brooke’s lovely duet, “Is This All”. (Go buy Chris’ new CD, by the way:http://pianoalbum.us/)

Jason, the monkeys will be flying your prize out to you shortly.

Thanks to all for playing. It was fun!

Comment on Pop Music and Vocal Range by Mark McFail

Mark McFail — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:39:40 +0000

Ian Gillan from Deep Purple comes to mind…”Child in Time” shows his vocal range to be at least a high C…

Comment on Twitter Status Board by SeanMcTex

SeanMcTex — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:19:22 +0000

Hey Adam,

No, unfortunately not. Some of the optimizations we made for our version make it tougher to distribute in a meaningful way. (We’re running a cron job to collect the data now and then writing it to temporary files which the display application reads. Good efficiency, but raises the bar for setting it up somewhere else!)

I wish I had the time to clean it up and make it generally available, but for now I’m afraid I can’t swing it.

Sean

Comment on Pop Music and Vocal Range by Greg Pierce

Greg Pierce — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:23:45 +0000

Roy Orbison immediately jumps to mind. Google tells me “Crying” is an F#3-F#5 vocal range…and I’m not sure that’s the broadest range of one of his melodies. That, I would say is pure melody as well, not just vocal acrobatics, which I assume are not being counted.

Comment on Tabletop Roleplaying: The Nerdiest Post of the Year by Tanya

Tanya — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:10:15 +0000

What about Warhammer? Ken can give you the hook-up, and may have some old advanced D&D you can muck around with.

Comment on Honor Roll by Brandi Midkiff

Brandi Midkiff — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:58:09 +0000

What a nice homecoming that must have been. I remember when we visited you were thinking through possibilities for the former pool area. Would love to see pictures.

Comment on Honor Roll by Sean McMains

Sean McMains — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:06:18 +0000

You, my friend, are *far* too kind.

I’ll see what I can do about getting some garden photos up for you.