Bill's Conversational Musings

Building Blocks of Blue

Building Blocks of Blue

https://suno.com/

I am having the most fun with this site. It takes a prompt and turns it into a song with chord progressions, lyrics, and more.

So, I asked Angela for an idea and she said, "a blues song about building LEGO sets like pieces breaking or having …

Every Noise at Once

Every Noise

I have been meaning to bookmark Every Noise at Once for a long while. With an impressive collection of musical styles, including folk, electronic, and hip-hop, this site has something for every taste. Unfortunately, due to the departure of its creator from Spotify in 2024, it is currently in a …

Rax Trax

Various videos & tracks I produced while at Rackspace.

  • A Castle Tribute


  • Rackspace Video Challenge - HSD SMB - Can't Stop the Feeling!


  • Rackspace Culture Day


  • Rackspace Backyard Games 2018


  • Rackspace Backyard Games 2017


  • Rackspace Paper Airplane Race 2017


Seeking the Truth

Seeking Truth

"The sure barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it." - Chuck Missler.

Over the years, I've found it helpful to ask myself 'How sure am I?' whenever I think I know something. By posing this question, I'm able to test my hypotheses and challenge my assumptions. To …

AI Bookmarks

AI Bookmarks

(This is a carry-over from my tech-tips site. Seemed silly managing two sites.) Starting a running list of AI links as I start to use the tools more and more. (Updated 04/23/2024)

Chat Apps

Groq Chat
https://groq.com/ - Test llama3:70b - born with the vision of making …

Speaker Design - Yesterday vs. Today

Speaker Config

So, found this going through some old boxes. My friend Scott used to make some THUMPING subwoofer systems back in the day. Those who went to high school with me will know what I'm talking about. We were always in the front lot, early in the morning.

Back then your …

Fretbo.ar - Fretboard Visualization

Fretboard Image

https://fretbo.ar/

Very cool site to help you visualize your fretboard. Good for scales.

Fretbo is a tool to help you visualize the fretboard.

After hearing a few guitar virtuosos explain they visualize the fretboard in terms of intervalic functions from the root note of a scale, I knew …

DAW signal routing

Somebody on a FB group asked the question about routing a signal through a plug-in in their digital audio workstation or DAW. Then, 1/2 through the chain, send that signal somewhere else (another pedal), bring that signal back in to finish processing it, send it one more time to …

Scales

https://tones.wolfram.com/

At WolframTones, they have an amazing list of scales. I noticed they did not have a few scales so I have copied the list here so I can add/change them and add personal comments.

This is something I have wanted to explore for a very …

ChordPic - Easily Create Guitar Chords

CMaj7 Guitar Chord

https://chordpic.com/

Here is a quick bookbmark for creating guitar chords. ChordPic generates a clean, downloadable image. You can even change the shape of the notes and lable them too. There is a color option as well.

When you are done, you can download it as a .svg vector …

Our words and deeds

Going through some old notes I found this nugget of wisdom.

"Although the idea is noble, if the execution is flawed, it leaves the customer's story about us crafted by our words and deeds, unfavorable."

It's a good quote that basically says to do what you say you are going …