Flavigula

I must name the album. I must do it now. So what shall the album’s name be? Hm. Well, what is the theme, exactly? We have which titles so far?

• Intersection
• Filter
• Cycle
• She Ain’t My Girl
• Union
• Untitled
• Fold
• Untitled

The obvious conclusion is to title the album something regarding sets. So, what does set theory come up with when typed into the mighty Google, Wikipedia and Thinkexist. The results are, respectively:

Hm. Well, actually, that did not work very well, so let’s attempt putting all of the song titles (including the untitled ones, just for amusement’s sake) simultaneously into google and see what happens.

Again, nothing.

My cupped palms have come up empty.

As I was attempting to fall asleep at approximately 1.00 in the morning, I was musing over the last piece of the album. It’s name is Reductive, since there is a many to one mapping from each of the other pieces to it. I have also decided to title the other Untitled piece Injective since all of its themes can be mapped exactly to one theme of the following piece, Fold. Well, actually, we’ll see about that name later.

So back to the purpose of this entry.

I was musing also during the morning hours about Reductive. It will be in 7/4. A single bassoon note will begin. All alone, it will paint the initial two measures. The bass will begin on the third beat of the third measure, playing a repeating pattern which lasts three beats. Well, much like this:

(Elegant elk?)
Layout    | * * * * * * * | * * * * * * * | * * * * * * * |
Bass      |     x x x     |     x x x     |     x x x     |
Rhodes    |         x x   |         x x   |         x x   |
Bassoon   | - - - - x - - | x - - x - - - | - x - - - x - |

The xs are the beats on which the instruments play. The -s in the case of the Bassoon are a continuous note, the xs being the places where the note changes. I’ll possibly keep this same rhythm, in the spirit of minimalism, throughout, though variegating the harmony. With regard to the name Reduction, one theme from each previous piece will be included, scaled down and most likely transformed.

An irritant is quivering about within the sheepblog code. When a new entry is created, the time of the entry is always one minute past the hour. I searched for the error earlier, but came up with nothing. The culprit code must be in here somewhere:

(Elegant elk?)
post '/new' do
  if !get_user
    redirect_with_message '/login', 'You are not loged in, vole.'
  else
    m = %r{^\s*(\d\d\d\d)[-/]?(\d{1,2})[-/]?(\d{1,2})\s*$}.match(params[:arbitrary_date])
    timestamp = if m
                  mysql_time Time.local(m[1], m[2], m[3], 23, 59, 59) rescue my sql_time(Time.now)
                end
    entry = Entry.new(:subject => params[:subject],
                      :entry => params[:entry])
    if entry.save
      if timestamp
        entry.created_at = timestamp
      end
      params['topics'].split(',').each do |t|
        topic = Topic.first(:topic => t) || Topic.create(:topic => t)
        entry.topics << topic
      end
      entry.save
      redirect turnip_link_from_time(entry)
    else
      flash[:notice] = 'Problems:'
      entry.errors.each { |error|
        flash[:notice] += "<br />" + error[0]
      }
      redirect '/new'
    end
  end
end

I want everyone reading this to send me an email with your thoughts on what could be causing this caustic anomaly.