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The following is an article from a newsletter our company designs:

"In Palm Beach [a manufactured home] community served notice of a new rule that anyone who did not speak English would be evicted and had to get out of the community at once. In fact, the rule required people, regardless if they were bi-lingual or not, to speak English at all times while in the community. Naturally, as soon as local housing advocates heard of the new rule, the government was involved through the Attorney General’s office. ... The community owner was upset that a homeowner had rented his home to a Hispanic family, but he thought a rule stating that homes could not be rented to Hispanics might be discriminatory, and the “speak English or else” rule seemed like a fair compromise to him."

Un-freakin'-believable.

I'm tossing this out there on the off chance any of you might have ideas. I'm looking for a program that will allow one to create music. The requirements are as follows:

• It would need to allow one to write music on a staff (in other words, input without a keyboard). I'd prefer it not be in ABC since that's not terribly intuitive, but I've done it before. If need be, I can suck it up and deal.
• It would need to be able to play four or five tracks at a time.
• It would need to have a selection of instruments so as to not come out in that horrible, tinny, old MIDI style.

What I want to do is take some four-part sheet music I have and make it into listenable music. The only program I'm familiar with (Reason) is far too advanced -- and expensive -- for what I need, and a Google search is returning mostly programs for DJs. Any suggestions on a program or combination of programs that would fit the bill?

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I'm just waiting for michaeltlh to make a post about Project Runway.

Ack, I've been tagged!

Four Jobs I’ve Had

1. Graphic Designer
2. Assistant Librarian
3. Tanning Salon Receptionist
4. Microfilmer

Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over Again

1. Clerks
2. Equilibrium
3. Dodgeball
4. Blade Runner

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch

1. The Shield
2. Project Runway
3. Family Guy
4. L O S T

Four Places I've Been on Vacation

1. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
2. Myrtle Beach, SC
3. Virginia Beach, VA
4. Epcot Center

Four Favorite Dishes

1. shrimp tikka masala
2. lamb vindaloo
3. most forms of sushi
4. smoked salmon

Four Websites I Visit Daily

1. livejournal.com
2. shadowcouncil.realmportal.com
3. Shadow Council realm forum
4. Google

Four Places I'd Rather Be

1. some sunny tropical beach with white sands and clear water
2. neo-Tokyo
3. Germany
4. home

Four Books I Love

1. Needful Things by Stephen King
2. Face Forward by Kevyn Aucoin
3. Faking It by Jennifer Crusie
4. Beware the Fish by Gordon Korman

Four Bloggers I'm Tagging

1. pertinacious
2. razordance
3. fsurneck
4. lovelyshrike

Two LJ posts in one day? Insanity!

But this question is better suited to this forum than my real journal... is anyone looking for an entry-level receptionist/accounting job? The girl we recently hired just e-mailed her resignation (effective immediately) this morning.

Katrina's birthday is coming up soon and she's leaving for the summer, so there will be a birthday/farewell party for her this Friday at our house. Spread the word!

This probably would have been easier with a different band, but what the hey.

Describe yourself using one band and song titles from that band
Created by naw5689 and taken 2736 times on bzoink!
Choose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band:	The Sisters of Mercy
Are you male or female:	Marian
Describe yourself:	On the Wire
How do some people feel about you:	Some Kind of Stranger
How do you feel about yourself:	Phantom
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend:	I Was Wrong
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend:	You Could Be The One
Describe where you want to be:	Neverland
Describe what you want to be:	Body Electric
Describe how you live:	Under the Gun
Describe how you love:	Body and Soul
Share a few words of wisdom	Walk Away
Create a Survey | Search Surveys | Go to bzoink!

Excellent job on the lyric identification! These are the answers, with kudos to the people who guessed them. Also, if you click the links of those that weren't guessed (within the next two days or so), you can download the songs. :)

( On to the answers... )

I really liked this idea from lady_isabella and thought it was more suited to LJ than my "real" journal.

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play.
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 15 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

And, naturally, no Googling for the answers. ;-)

( Name those lyrics! )

If anybody has sent me an email recently that should have gotten a reply and not received one, please resend it to cyborgirl-at-gmail-dot-com. I just realized this morning that my forwarding addresses have not been doing their job for a while. On the plus side, my cell phone has an antenna again; I apologise for being unreachable for the past week.

I've moved my blog to www.cyborgirl.com (getting rid of the subdomain); those of you who were watching it through livejournal might want to add cysyndicated to your friends list in place of cyborgirl2.

Come on over to celebrate New Year's! There will be a party at our place, starting around 9-ish on New Year's Eve. We hope to see you there!

It's Ron and Rachel's birthdays, so come on over to our place for snacks and other assorted sillyness. (Psst... pass it on.)

Even though my real blog can be accessed through cyborgirl2 now, this post is going here because it’s LJ-specific. Stolen from her who got it from him. (This is my first attempt at using lj-cut, so I hope it works...)

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I have *no* idea why six links to my wedding blog got dumped into my feed. Sorry about that... I'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again.

...to cyborgirl2. Kind of.

Cyborgirl2 picks up the RSS feed from my real site. The information it contains is currently just the title, a 20-word excerpt, and a link to the whole entry on my site (since my entries tend to be wordy). Use this information as you wish.

This is a cute idea.