Ever since I started working on my own guitars, it’s been hard for me to buy a guitar off the shelf – not necessarily because I’m that great of a guitar technician, but mostly because…
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Did Valve Just Do a Google?
Yesterday (July 16th, 2021) my YouTube feed was abuzz with tech content creators fawning over Valve’s announcement of the Steam Deck, a handheld computer that would be able to play games straight off a user’s…
I asked 100 people about their best memories around food
One of my favorite memories is sitting around my dining room table with my college friends, eating a white truffle pizza that hung over the edges of the table because it was too big to…
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The Reality Check
I love flying. Up in the sky, I’m unfazed by the arid cabin air, the ever shrinking seats, and the occasional crying baby. I love the mushy food wrapped in packaging designed more for the…
The Red Button
I recently discovered a website called “Will You Press the Button?” where visitors are presented with a big red button. When pressed, a positive outcome – written by another user – would happen, accompanied by…
Covering my most played song in 2020 (Bad Ideas – Tessa Violet)
I sometimes wonder why songs get stuck in our heads. In the case of “Bad Ideas”, I think what’s really interesting is how the chord progression in the song (C-B/C-Am-G-F-Em-Dm-G), which highlights the descending diatonic…
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Littleroot Town – Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
I’ve never really thought about how video game music is composed, but recently, I’ve been learning common chord progressions in jazz/fusion/RnB, and have started noticing them in lots of different places. In the theme from…
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National Park Theme – Pokémon Gold/Silver
When I was 11 or 12, I inadvertently bought a pirated version of Pokémon Gold that didn’t have a battery in it, rendering the in-game clock inoperable. After a short couple of decades later, I’ve…
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A letter to my future self
Dear Friend, I hope things are better in the future than they are right now. I hope that you’re able to look back at this point in time, laugh about how crazy everything was, and…
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When we were both 16, my best friend had an early smartphone – one of the first that made use of a stylus. One day, as a group of us were hanging out, he reached…