If you’re like me and you remember your first piano lessons at the age of 10. Maybe you’ve just started college or have recently graduated. You have your first apartment away from home, but you miss the music. Your life in the next few years is going to be hectic. Your living quarters are going to be small.
Maybe you’ve tried one of your friend electric keyboards or synthesizers. It sounded “ok” but not great. The grand piano setting sounds more like a video game than a Steinway. The ragtime piano setting sounds like a cell phone ring! But what’s really missing is the weighted keyboard. Piano keys that push back with a little bit of resistence.
In a real piano, this weight gives you feedback about your music and helps you shape the tone. It’s a tactile experience that no portable keyboard can give you. Or can it?
Weighted keyboards
Have you heard of weighted keyboards? Digital pianos with weighted key have been around for a few years now. They give you the best of both worlds, the ease of owning a portable digital piano, with the feedback and joy of having the keys talk back to your fingers!
Korg M3 88 Weighted Key Keyboard Synth Workstation Sampler M388 - MAKE AN OFFER!
I would like to start a petition to the greater English-speaking community to change the spelling of the word “the” to “teh”. So who’s with me? I have no (good) reason for this other than I like the way it looks. The pronunciation would remain the same. Why cause more trouble? English has been called a “living language”, meaning that it changes with time by use and mis-use. Unlike say, French, which seems to be more rigid (rigider?). Although French does change, albeit at a much slower rate. They refuse to admit that is does.
So where was/were I/we? Oh yea, The Teh.
Nevermind. The more I think about it, the more stupid it seems. Forget I mentioned it. Bloggity blogg.
I’ve just downloaded Flock to take part in the 30-day challenge. I’ve tried it once in the past and wasn’t terribly impressed by it. The reason being is that Flock is designed around the principles of the “social web”. You know, Web 2.0, social bookmarking, FRIENDS! All that sort of thing. Well, I work from home on my computer. I have no friends! And I don’t really think that if I threw a party, any of those 100 or so hotties that call themselves my friend on myspace would actually show up. Yes, I know that they’re all lonely housewives with stripper good looks and THEY approached ME. But I digress…
Oh yea, did I mention that I’m writing this directly from the browser? No big deal, except that I’m using part of the Flock interface and I’m not even online at the moment. Pretty cool, but not life-changing. Although, once I’ve set up all my blog accounts, I can write all my posts while I’m on the train, then upload them as soon as I get a signal. No more going to each site, finding my hidden wp-admin directories, remembering the password, clicking through the admin. This actually saves valuable seconds. And in the course of a year it could save me minutes…even hours! Hours that could be spent cleaning up all the dead animals that the cats are now bringing in. (I just found the head that belonged to the rabbit that was “delivered” two days ago)
Back to Flock. One thing that scared me a bit when installing Flock was that I wasn’t asked anything about my Firefox extensions. No extensions, no Flock. It’s as simple as that. But luckily, since the two browsers are built from the same engine, it supports most of them. And in my case, all of them. Where would I be without the Web Developer extension. Out of a job, that’s where!
Anyhow, I hope to bring more valuable insight to this “Firefox killer” in the future.
Hello world and welcome to teh internets. Big wet noodle and friends would like to thank you for stopping by and browsing our wares. Future installments of our little programme hope to entertain, amuse, delight and make you hungry. One day, some day, it’s all gonna happen. If you miss out, we ain’t turning this ship around. So onwards and upwards gang, let’s make some smoke.
Yeeeehhaaaaaaaaa!
