bean

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is to Puyo Puyo as Tetris Attack is to Panel de Pon.

Reading

People suck at reading. We have signs everywhere, but they're difficult to read sometimes while driving, and many people ignore them.

We have internet conversations with people who are only reading our buzz words.

Valentine's Day Poem for those Crawling out the Friendzone

                                Thanks!

Thanks for being my friend

Thanks for giving me a reason to smile

Thanks for protecting me from the baddies of the night

Thanks for singing me to sleep with your less than sexy snores

Thanks for understanding my humor, to some extent

Thanks for saying “I love you”

Thanks for going along with my stoopid jokes

Thanks for kissing my boo-boo’s over the phone

Thanks for making me feel safe

Thanks for the honesty

Thanks for thinking of me

Thanks for letting me be me

Thanks for being you

Happy Valentines Day!

DoDasis - Don't You Like Nintendo

Check out this rocking song about video games. I especially love how raw it sounds.

All books should have illustrations

Why fill a book strictly with words? I think this deters people from reading more. Insert illustrations and you can paint a better picture into the mind of the reader.

A wall of text is intimidating, and very one-way when it comes to learning and absorbing information. Insert some character designs, maps, graphs, or other forms of visual art, and you can inspire more (children and adults) to continue reading.

Rocket Dreams

Rocket Dreams by Paul Bibbins.

Marked Pitches On The Guitar

While thinking too much about guitar, I wondered how many of the 12 pitches are actually marked on the board. Marked, in this case, means a fret that has an inlay. It's a visual cue on the guitar and can be very helpful when trying to remember a pattern.

I decided to just write them all out. For this observation, open notes are also considered marked.

You can access 11 out of 12 pitches if you go by marked alone. The only unmarked pitch is D#. After fret 12, the pattern repeats. [12,15,17,19,21] is the same as [0,3,5,7,9], but an octave higher.

Here's a graph to show you just how many marks each pitch has.

I know that some guitars have inlays on fret 1, but many I see do not. However, marking that fret would give you at least one D#.