These rules originally appeared in my quick psuedo-bio and introduction to this web site. You can read that by clicking here. From now on, when I want to make changes to "The Rulez" (See #15) I will make those edits here. I also have taken the time to write up a Privacy Statement.
I will do as a please because this is my web site. Certainly nothing illegal, Big Brother, just good old rugged individualism.
If you want to do as you please, get YOUR OWN web site.
Sometimes certain things on this web site will not function properly. It will inevitably piss me off. I will endeavor to correct such errors as they occur.
I will take political positions that you will probably disagree with.
I will post links to things on the web that I like. You can submit things if you like, but I am in no way obligated to post nor read your submissions. (See #2)
I will occassionally offend someone. (See #7)
You will occassionally offend me. (See #8)
We have NO RIGHT to not be offended. . . it is part of life; deal with it. (See #6)
I will post songs that I have written and shamelessly ask you to listen to them.
I will write strange poetry when the mood strikes me. (See #6)
I will brag about how much smarter my kids are than yours. (And, they are 'cause they're MY kids.)
I will occassionally threaten to turn my wife loose in here. (Actually, she lurks around here often... sometimes she actually surprises me with a blog entry or something.)
Some anarchist hackers will probably attack my server just because they can. (See #3)
I will occassionally offend someone. (Did I say that already? See #16)
I make the rules here and will change them as I see fit. (See #1)
Sometimes I repeat myself. (See #16)
I will use the flip-off Smiley as often as I please and without hesitation. (See #6)
Last Updated ( Sunday, 25 September 2005 )
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Equal Temperament
A system for dividing an octave into 12 pitch steps, each of 100 cents. This has the effect of making all semitones equal in size. This became necessary once keyboard and fretted instruments became popular. It should be understood that the note A which appears in F# minor should have a slightly different frequency from the note A which appears in C major (this fine distinction is one of the reasons that pitch and frequency are not quite synonymous). This would normally be dealt with automatically by a proficient player on an instrument with continuous pitching such as a violin. A keyboard instrument would properly have to be tuned to a particular key, if music was then played in a different key, some or many of the intervals sounded would be flat or sharp. However since it was not convenient to retune these types of instruments correctly whenever a new key was required, various compromises were attempted. Equal temperament was one such compromise whereby the error was distributed equally between all the notes. This made the performance of music in different keys possible on the same instrument without retuning, in celebration of which J. S. Bach wrote not one, but two books, each of 24 preludes and fugues (a prelude and fugue in both the major and minor forms of 12 keys).
The Rulez 
These rules originally appeared in my quick psuedo-bio and introduction to this web site. You can read that by 
(See #7)
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