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"You. I kill you last."

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In last night's Music Theory class, the subject was intervals. Diminished, augmented perfect ... and tritones, which my teacher referred to as "the interval of the Devil!" And she referred to it in this manner quite a bit. She'd play us intervals on the piano, and have us guess what they were. And every so often, she'd play a tritone, and she'd call it out: "Tritone! Interval of the Devil!" So that was fun.

The homework assignment was identifying intervals as they were written out on the staff. And of course, being the computer guy that I am, I was able to cobble together a program that identifies intervals by their notes, to check my answers. (No, I didn't cheat, and yes, I got them right.)

In fact, yesterday was a big fun programming day for me. In addition to the music theory stuff, I put together a program to download MP3s from MP3.com. You may have heard that all the content from MP3.com is being deleted in a couple of weeks. Well, there's quite a few artists that I've been meaning to download, but never got around to doing so (because I didn't think that MP3.com would do something stupid like deleting all their content).

So I just threw together a simple Perl program that can retrieve and save the downloadable MP3s from an artist's site. Most artists have only a couple songs available, so this isn't normally an issue, but quite a few (like, say, Wayne and Liz) have a couple dozen songs available. Best to check them out now, before they're gone forever.

So it was a very productive day yesterday. Hopefully today will be just as good.

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