cach·in·nate | \ ˈka-kə-ˌnāt \ cachinnated; cachinnating
intransitive verb : to laugh loudly or immoderately
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The piano in its natural environment
New-to-me Yamaha U3 is in FULL EFFECT! Funny, it looks like it’s been there all its life. I’m absolutely thrilled with it so far. My main complaint: it sounds like it should play like a grand, and of course, it doesn’t. That said, I’m SO enjoying the feel of it, esp. for songwriting and classical music, e.g. Haydn sonatas. And a big thank you to Haydn for writing things that I can play. 😀
Here’s the move-in, w/ a bonus photo of one of the piano mover’s incredible waterproof shoes:
Bring ‘er round 
Putting the piano in place 
As if it’s always been there 
Whoa space boots
Love o’ jesus
When you spend all day learning and perfecting a JavaScript charts library, only to realize at 3:00pm that a table is actually the best solution.
Quote from “Double Birthday” by Willa Cather
Even in American cities, which seem so much alike, where people seem all to be living the same lives, striving for the same things, thinking the same thoughts, there are still individuals a little out of tune with the times — there are still survivals of a past more loosely woven, there are disconcerting beginnings of a future yet unforeseen.
This is a beautiful, kinda sad but also sweet little story written in 1929, a time that seems to me to be similar in some key ways to 2020. Success was the word of the day, and it meant money, and if you weren’t with it, and especially if you rejected it, you were OUT, friend. (We’re much more evolved today. Success means experiences, you see, the perfect, frictionless life, full of meaning, and beautiful things, and…oh wait. That shit is expensive, right?)
I’m not sure if our main character, Albert (the artist stuck in a time and place that doesn’t value art), turned out to be “the disconcerting beginnings” of the future or not. If he was, I guess that future is already past.
Quote from “The Man Who Shouted Teresa” by Italo Calvino
My shadow took fright at the moon and huddled between my feet.
First Nine is One Demo
Just a quick teaser demo of a new song that’s coming from Greg’s and my new collaboration, Nine is One. Much more work to do here, but we’re really psyched about the sound that’s growing!
Ichor – for when you need your bodily fluids to be more god-like
colloquy – for when you need to elevate your conversations
from col– together + –loquium speaking, from loqui to speak
- A talking together; a conversation, dialogue. Also, a written dialogue.
- A meeting for conference.
- Church blah blah.
All the modern dictionaries mention that it’s specific to elevated speech/conversation. Interesting that “colloquial” is used to mean common speech.
coruscate – for when you need a little flash and sparkle
VERB
literary
- (of light) flash or sparkle.
‘the light was coruscating through the walls’
Origin
Early 18th century from Latin coruscat- ‘glittered’, from the verb coruscare.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/coruscate
NB: Never doubt my commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Norman Mailer on Politics and Cigarettes
Politics has its virtues, all too many of them—it would not rank with baseball as a topic of conversation if it did not satisfy a great many things—but one can suspect that its secret appeal is close to nicotine. Smoking cigarettes insulates one from one’s life, one does not feel as much, often happily so, and politics quarantines one from history; most of the people who nourish themselves in the political life are in the game not to make history but to be diverted from the history which is being made.