The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / September 11, 2008 / John / 0
So, I’ve had a backlog of podcasts to listen to for a while now, on a wide range of different subjects. Well, thanks to roadworks on the way to work, I’ve finally caught up with them all. So, I thought, I’m going to have a wee look in the iTunes podcast directory and see if
Music / September 9, 2008 / John / 0
Well, that’s an odd thing! Getting a bit better now – the repeated scales and slurring exercises have enabled me to at least wrest a tune from its brassy bowels. Or something. But the odd thing is, since exercising in earnest, I can actually get a reasonable sound of a Mrs Gubbins tenor horn and
Ramblings / September 9, 2008 / John / 0
According to the BBC, swimming about in green stuff has the effective of – well – staining you green. And for those doubting thomases amongst us who may be sceptical of this, they’ve even provided a video of a polar bear. With green on it. I’m glad my license fee is going towards this kind
Music, Ramblings / September 8, 2008 / John / 0
Slurring. That’s what I need to do. Low G/A -> F is flawless. G -> B Fine. High(er) C->F fine. Low G/A -> High(er) F not as smooth as it could be – mostly because of the changes in embouchure at C, G and C. So back to C->G->C->G->C slurring. Over and over again. Until
Ramblings / September 8, 2008 / John / 0
Well, I’ve got a shot of a Bb Bass from the band. It’s certainly different from the baritone – needs a lot more air through it for a start. It’s not just the air though – my embouchure technique, while fine for my baritone, needs to be completely changed. The mouthpiece on the Bass is
Ramblings / September 4, 2008 / John / 0
Today was an odd day. Everything went remarkably smoothly in the morning and then Epic Fail began to flow across the interweb at me from the East. Fortunately, a few swift verbal corrections to counter the ridiculous groundless assertions (No! Black is NOT white!) countered the incoming bogon flux and from there the day improved.
Ramblings / September 3, 2008 / John / 0
Well, when I got up this morning, the rain had stopped and the sun was out. But it’s raining again! Bucketing down! With gusto. I mean, it’s really really trying hard.
Geekery, Ramblings / September 3, 2008 / John / 0
Ok, so the mighty mouse is a thing of beauty. It’s an accurate, comfortable and pretty mouse. Except it has a tiny little pea-sized rollerball embedded in the top for scrolling in 360 degrees. The trouble is, gunge, oose and muck get in there and, if it blocks the sensors, stops the scrollball from working.
Ramblings / September 2, 2008 / John / 0
It’s bucketing down here. Nothing new, you’re probably crying, because – after all – it’s rained a LOT this summer. No, really, A LOT. No, this is different rain. This is good honest-to-god hurtling towards earth making a colossal racket and hitting the ground hard enough to bounce three inches back into the air. It’s
Ramblings / September 2, 2008 / John / 0
Nelefa.org just isn’t right without wee Baguey being up t’top there.