Bill's Conversational Musings

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 …

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

"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. …

Update: 05/30/2024 - Thank you for all who viewed this page. I have found a new career path. Please check my LinkedIn profile for the latest updates. If you are on this page, it is probably because I filled out a job application for your company and included this link. …

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 …

(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 12/12/2024) Chat Apps AI - A Commandline ChatGPT AI is a client in BASH where you can have a …

https://www.oolimo.de/index.php Another cool site for visualizing the fretboard. Oolimo covers the basics and theory with many good articles on the subject. They review the basic chord types like CAGED. And, there are chord progressions suggestions where you can see how progressions are used in different songs. Finally, you can test …

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 I had …

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 some …

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 long time. I found …

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 format so …

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 …

https://www.vipvgm.net/ "Vidya Intarweb Playlist | Video Game Music is a fantastic video game playlist maintained by Cats777 over at Aersia.net." This is great for coding or anything you want background music for. Afterall, video game music is supposed to be in the background anyway. https://github.com/fpgaminer/vip-html5-player

On Facebook, I made a post about a 1980s Paul Gilbert Guitar Player article back in Feb. 2020 about alternative picking. Essentially, this is the exercise he posted in an old Guitar Player magazine and the example is what you see below. It wasn't until the long, pandemic, stay-at-home that …