Dirty Old Town CAGED arpeggios

July 27th, 2010

Dirty Old Town CAGED arpeggios

This tab picks out the melody of the song by using arpeggios from CAGED chord shapes.


Play Guitar with the Ventures

April 29th, 2010

Julie and me like to spend Saturday mornings at Flea Markets and Garage Sales. Found this one for $1.50.

Play Guitar With The Ventures Front Cover

Side One
Side two
Booklet


Well Read… Round One

April 26th, 2010

Kafka vs Orwell:

Practically Orwellian

Practically Kafkaesque

Orwell WINS


New version of google-define.el

February 22nd, 2010

Kevin Brubeck Unhammer added code to clear read-only properties on things at point.


Garage Band Rockabilly

February 15th, 2010

We got Tate’s guitar working with Garage band this weekend and I got to have some fun playing with it last night. Take a listen: rockabill-e.mp3


The one thing I looked forward to in chrome

February 4th, 2010

Not there.

Google Chrome bookmarks are separate from those saved in Google Bookmarks. While it’s currently not possible to automatically sync these two sets of bookmarks, you can use a bookmarklet to easily create Google Bookmarks in Google Chrome.

Drag this bookmarklet to the Google Chrome bookmarks bar: Google Bookmark

Any time you visit a webpage that you want to save to your Google Bookmarks page, simply click the bookmarklet in the bookmarks bar.

This makes no sense to me at all. Why have all of these web services and then not integrate them with your browser? If google would have synced all of my currently sorted bookmarks into the browser then I would use chrome. As of now it’s just another damn browser I have to test sites against.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure. ;)


We Wish You A Merry Christmas

December 10th, 2009

This kid is so good


Mash Up

November 20th, 2009

David Rappaport


One Liner

September 24th, 2009

I was able to get the gdef.sh script down to one line.


wget -q "http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=define%3a%22`echo $@ | sed 's/ */+/g'`%22&btnG=search" -U "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040613 Firefox/0.8.0+" -O - | awk 'BEGIN {RS="<li"; FS="(<|>)";} /^>/{printf("%s\n\n\n",$2)}' | fmt | sed 's/&.*;//g'


Google Define Shell Script

September 22nd, 2009

Here is a script that will pull definitions from google. It is a minimalistic version of google-define.el


getdef.sh pig latin


Will produce:

Pig Latin is a game of alterations played on the English language game. To
form the Pig Latin form of an English word the initial consonant sound ...


A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the
leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay - however,
if the ...


getdef.sh

#!/bin/sh

#Grab the definition of a term from google
#Jeremy English <jhe@jeremyenglish.org>
term=`echo $@ | sed 's/ */+/g'`

wget "http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=define%3a%22$term%22&btnG=search" -U "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040613 Firefox/0.8.0+" -O def.html 2>/dev/null

awk 'BEGIN {RS="<li"; FS="(<|>)";} /^>/{printf("%s\n\n\n",$2)}' def.html | fmt | sed 's/&.*;//g'