First!

Yer a scurvy bilge rat, ya pompous gasbag…..ARGG

YAR!

YAR again, I say!

Mike be a lousy excuse fer a man. He be only qualified t’ be a powder monkey!!! Since I missed th’ Yar on post three I give ‘t ou’ now
-PC.

http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl

Damn….th’ yar on post five as well
-PC

I hope I didna offend ye wi’ that last post. I didna check wi’ me buxom beauty before I posted an’ swashbucklers be generally rude, so I be jus’ gettin’ in th’ mood.
-PC

YAR!!!!!

Good Lord…..what kind o’ sissy be I? T’ hell wi’ if I offended ye. We be seafarin’ heartys today damn ‘t an’ I dasn’t be havin’ t’ apologize t’ ye or ere.
Man….this be fun.
-PC

Um, I saw a song about this, but I didn’t know it was for real.

ay, matey, tis real, arrr

We be havin’ reached another coveted prime number
-PC
Yar!

Seafarin’ heartys be havin’ taken o’er Google.
-PC
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate

Yar!

Thirteen be prime, says I.

I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat.

Yo ho, yo ho.

we rape and pillage and rape and pillage and rape and pillage and rape
we rape and pillage and rape and pillage
drink up me harties, Yo Ho!

OK, now that talk like a pirate day is over, we can turn this into a grab-bag talk-amongst-yourselves “where should I put this?” kind of thread. My goal is 1,000 comments.

Hey… it’s 5am and I’m awake. Happy Dailies Photo Day!

Is it kind of like “Open Mic Monday”? Remember that?

How did Erica’s dress turn out for the Dailies Photo shoot?

5 am … that’s not rock and roll.

I think it turned out really well.

(We’re on a break. We’re going out again to get the afternoon light.)

5am is not Rock and Roll alot. But the sunrise at Leo Carillo was pretty darn spectacular.

Dear Chad,
As stated in line four (4) of the original post, prime numbered responses must conclude with the word, “Yar”
In a very unique circumstance, you were responses 17 as well as 19, both of which are prime. In addition to this, they are a prime pair, very rarely seen in our number system.
-Pi

PS - Thar be shame on yer ‘arties, Yo Ho!

They are Chen twins!

Pi -

I am the anomaly in Mike’s mathematically correct world.

there, now you have ugly little numbers to assist you!

Quick show of hands, how many of you googled “Chen Twin Prime”? Don’t lie!

I did
-Yar

On Saturdays, we go get tri-tip sandwiches at a local deli, and we picnic at a huge wooded park right by the Disney compound. It’s the best thing ever.

With the Chen twins?

(…yar)

So, what’s everyone doing today?

As of this moment, I’m sitting in the computer lab at Yerba Buena Elementary School, surrounded by about 50 iMacs, waiting for my daughter’s kindergarten class to enter.

This is my 2nd week of my new gig… helping Kindergartners get baptized into the cult of mac.

This is Tuesday, daddy’s big day with the kiddies, as Erica has crammed all of her teaching into one afternoon and evening of marathon vocal acrobatics. I will be a taxi, basically. After school, and a little nap, I will schlep Ella over to her dance class, during which time I will play baseball with Zion. We will then get some takeout, so that we can grab Ella, feeding her in the car, and immediately schlep over to church, where she has Sparkies.

After Sparkies, I will bring them both home, put them to bed, and collapse.

Oh, in the meantime, somehow, I’m supposed to be approving final mixes with the Stickman.

Aaaaah Tuesday.

I’m modding a WPMU installation for a promotional site for a new book related to a movie releasing in the next couple weeks. Site demo to the movie distributor is today… and I don’t have direct access to the test server which sounds far more efficient than it is.

Bobby, why have I not handed off running this *&@% site to you yet?

I’m spending the day recording keyboard and writing charts. I’ve realized something today - I’m awful at knowing where to insert the dash between syllables for lyric notation. pro-mise? Prom-ise? an-swer-ed?

I have to go to the dictionary like 50 times per verse, to see where the syllable actually splits.

Mike - Because I’m this guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G23J-Fi8MNs) way too often.

I’d rather be the guy getting passed on by INO (which also happened today).

Dividing Words Into Syllables

There are four ways to split up a word into its syllables:
1. Divide between two middle consonants.

Split up words that have two middle consonants. For example:

hap/pen, bas/ket, let/ter, sup/per, din/ner, and Den/nis. The only exceptions are the consonant digraphs. Never split up consonant digraphs as they really represent only one sound. The exceptions are “th”, “sh”, “ph”, “th”, “ch”, and “wh”.

2. Usually divide before a single middle consonant.

When there is only one syllable, you usually divide in front of it, as in:

“o/pen”, “i/tem”, “e/vil”, and “re/port”. The only exceptions are those times when the first syllable has an obvious short sound, as in “cab/in”.

3. Divide before the consonant before an “-le” syllable.

When you have a word that has the old-style spelling in which the “-le” sounds like “-el”, divide before the consonant before the “-le”. For example: “a/ble”, “fum/ble”, “rub/ble” “mum/ble” and “thi/stle”. The only exception to this are “ckle” words like “tick/le”.

4. Divide off any compound words, prefixes, suffixes and roots which have vowel sounds.

Split off the parts of compound words like “sports/car” and “house/boat”. Divide off prefixes such at “un/happy”, “pre/paid”, or “re/write”. Also divide off suffixes as in the words “farm/er”, “teach/er”, “hope/less” and “care/ful”. In the word “stop/ping”, the suffix is actually “-ping” because this word follows the rule that when you add “-ing” to a word with one syllable, you double the last consonant and add the “-ing”.

More than you ever wanted to know about syllables. Love the former 1st and second grade teacher.

LOOOOVE Code Monkey. We talk about Jonathan Coulton and how he structured his music career in the Music & Ethics course, when we dig into alternate property models.

wait for it

Babe, I thought I was the nerd in the family!

Here’s a cool tidbit…I taught a cello lesson to June today…cool, huh? Small world!

Did she piss you off? She’s very controversial now.

:)

At what point do we officially rework our memories so that Brian and June are officially APU people. Corey’s already there.

Hey Corey, remember that one time… on tour… with the host home?

Good times.

oh man, you messed up my YAR Mike.

YAR!

HA! could i possibly love you more? I could not.

I am teaching (so therefore also studying) the Gershwin brothers. -Dug out an old CD… had forgotten how much I love “The Gershwin Connection” by Dave Grusin. Tasty stuff.

I sat in with the APU big band today. Sight reading is always fun.

Brandy is the best cello teacher ever! And I should know…I’ve had one other! Her baby and three-year-old and my four-year-old sat quietly during my entire lesson. Darling baby Ruscica only made a precious squeak at the very, very end….because she didn’t want me to stop playing, I’m certain.

Seriously, why didn’t one of you APU nerds tell me about Brandy sooner?!! I find your not telling me of her MOST offensive, insulting and degrading!

(I’ll stop soon. I promise.)

Hell hath no fury like the moderately wounded pride of June.

I’ve just become very attached to the rhythmic nature of those three words. (Try it to the tune of “Lions and tigers and bears…oh my!”)

I’m mixing worship music in Mandarin, and I really need to record some handclaps, but my Dad is sleeping on the bed in the studio.

I think Stick wins.

I need to buy new speakers. Our Friday morning family dance parties just don’t RAWK like they could. I think that justifies spending $800 on upgrading the speakers and amp.

Amongst other things, this morning I’ve Googled: “Homemade mole killer,” “determining learning styles in your child,” and “Josh Groban at the Emmy’s.”

I’m assuming the first and third search are related.

Hee hee hee! Yer funny Mike…you should have your own blog or something.

Our little guy was read to today by a State Senator, a County Commissioner and a School Board member. Apparently the event was not publicized well by Barnes and Noble as we were the only ones there…and that was a coincidence. The cool thing was he got all that individual attention!

We have dance parties too Mike. Ours are on a $30 radio from Target….I bet the speakers would make it sound better…..

June, did you find anything good for homemade mole killer?

a 22 rifle?

Yar…

Weren’t the “Yars” supposed to come on prime numbers?

if someone forgets to give the prime-al “Yar”, it is Pi’s duty to insert it on the next post.

Oh.

Is there a nerd threshold that we can cross at some point, or is it limitless, like God’s grace?

No you passed it a long time ago with the sex and aliens comments. But heck at least your not baptists

Karen, Google it and you’ll see: it’s a mixture of castor oil, soap and water.

Completely unrelated: Tom and Brandy are cool. Me and the B like them lots. Cute kids too!

Yar…again…

I saw that there were 67 comments, and went to look if the last one ended in Yar. It did not so I typed Yar…
Then I read the comments.
God’s grace is sufficient, even for the nerdiest of all nerds.
By the way, who would that be?

I think it would be the man in South America who makes bass trombone backpacks.

Yar!

Nice.

Yar!

Cathartic.

Kind of ironic that the prize is $100,000, which is extremely non-prime.

ummmm, prize? Somebody is giving away a prize?

It’s the 46th Mersenne Prime
12,978,189 digits
2^(43,112,609) - 1
What is amazing about this discovery is the use of excess processing power through the internet.

I gave the Children’s Church talk today on Praise.

I was able to tie in the Angels.

And I say…
Yar!

she rocked it!

How many teachers can legitimately show this in class? It will be a part of our Gershwin study. I love my job.

I heart the Muppets.

Yar! the muppets!

I’ve recently discovered golf polo shirts. 100% synthetic materials, totally breathable, sweat does not show.

Where have you been all my life, polyester golf polos? I think I love you.

My Son, with two fists crammed so full of cheerios that he can’t pick anything up, leans down slowly and proceeds to eat the rest of the cheerios directly with his mouth.

Like a little postcard from Gluttony, my boy.

ProTools 8 has been announced. It’s looking pretty excellent. I have a feeling my need for Logic just got a little smaller.

Don’t say things like that out loud! My students will hear you, and then I’ll have to teach them new skills.

Well, not so much… PT is looking a lot more like Logic.

Also, golf polos work best over plaid pants.

YAR for Golf Polos!

Babe, I’d love you even MORE in plaid pants. (I mean, you wearing plaid pants.)

Ok fine, I used Logic today for a quick orchestral film trailer cue.

Nice. Just completely ignore the plaid pants thing. You’re so not off the hook.