Refactor Your Wetware

New book from the Author's of Pragmatic Programmer.

Thanks to Mani for mentioning this in a recent chat I had with him.
You can read the first two chapters for free.

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning

Victor Wooten

Sumanth (Our Master of Music) pointed us to this video of a bass guitar genius.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Wooten

Here are some lovely thoughts on music from him.

the bass makes no music ... you do

This philosophy seems closely related to another fundamental truth about Wooten's stated approach to and experience of bass and music in general, which is that music is a language. According to Wooten, when speaking or listening we don't focus on the mouth as it is forming words; similarly, when a musician is playing or performing the focus shouldn't be on the instrument.

People familiar with Indian Classical music will nod their heads when they hear this. Also reminded me of the opening scene of Bruce Lee's classic Enter The Dragon.



Look around 7:20 for pearls of wisdom from the Boss.

By the way, Victor Wooten has written a book, and you can read a couple of pages of it here - http://www.vixboox.com/The_Music_Lesson-Groove7.htm

Pretty interesting concepts there.

Halloween Costume With India Connection

Minute Repeater

Aimlessly browsing through Rediff.com I came across a slide show of the world's most expensive watches. And a feature that they all had was Minute Repeater. Naturally curious, I went and looked this up in the Wiki and this is what I found.

A repeater is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock that audibly chimes the hours and often minutes at the press of a button. There are many types of repeater, from the simple repeater which merely strikes the number of hours, to the minute repeater which chimes the time down to the minute, using separate tones for hours, quarter hours, and minutes. They originated before widespread artificial illumination, to allow the time to be determined in the dark,^[1] and were also used by the visually impaired.

Here are two examples -

Aakaash Bhora

Another salud to Dadi Baba...

[Major Scale]

|| S S , , S S , , ||
|| S S N(lower) R ||
|| M M M M P / M ||
|| M M M M R , P ||
|| P P M2 P M2 P D ||
|| P S R R G ||
|| M P M G R P M2 P D ||
|| P R S , , S , , ||