Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”

If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

Working on some Medtner (for the next #weeklypiano) is always timely, as this 🧵 from a year ago (but really 15 years ago) reminds us.

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/107441444306734083

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I don’t have this #weeklypiano quite where I want it, but that’s nothing new. What’s different is how much I still want to get it righter. A bit off schedule, though, and gotta take my chances when they come.

#Bortkiewicz Nocturne Op. 24 #1 (Diana): https://youtu.be/E1JTPUAD8Pk

#pianominiatures #pianominiature #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianomusic #pianosolo #solopiano #ukrainianpianomusic #ukrainiancomposers #ukrainiancomposer #bortkevych

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They chose lollipops (!) #weihnachtsmarkt

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Time for some of this #weihnachtsmarkt business.

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After nearly a year away, everything needed cleaning. Tomorrow’s coffee will be good.

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@sevan@noc.social I remember reading about that update trick, but don’t remember it making the install any more straightforward. Someday I’ll get around to finding out 🙂

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10 months later, this MacBook2,1 needs its bespoke Ubuntu install upgraded, not so that it can continue being used by nobody (true and justified), but so that I can fall asleep.

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Time’s been tight here in the land of #weeklypiano. Here’s a tiny #pianominiature, the first from a set of 30 Jazz Miniatures by Mordasov.

https://youtu.be/AD3ayJUuhl0

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Sunset; moonrise.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109406865461343417

Not usually up and out this early.

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T: Here’s your dinosaur.

F: I don’t WANT my dinosaur.

Me: You don’t want your dinosaur? Are you serious??

F: Dinoserious.

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One of my many favorites from months of #dailypiano: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108976471950305717

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Being “cost-conscious” can be a costly way to become cost-aware. Or, in the worst case, an infuriatingly costly way not to.

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The fog lifted.

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15 years ago today, I won the Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest, with this: https://youtu.be/FIxXAoTgHQY

#BadPoetry #JoyceKilmer #Philolexian #ColumbiaUniversity

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Schumann, No. 11 from the Op. 6 Davidsbündlertänze. https://youtu.be/2t0Izt01j9o #weeklypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianomusic #piano #pianosolo #sightreading #romanticism #schumann

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109349274576416152

There and back.

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@classicalmusic @davenicolette@mastodon.social @jastsa my personal brand appears strong 🙂

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Most people in positions of power are at least trying to appear as though they’re balancing a complex set of responsibilities with care and skill, in exchange for which most everyone else appears to tolerate the structures being upheld.

Most, but not all.

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Yesterday’s and today’s walks.

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For this week’s #weeklypiano #pianominiature, we have a Zwiegesang (“Duet”) by Moszkowski from 1894. Mostly very sweet, might even seem demure, but beware a few surprising harmonic shifts hidden in the half-steps.

https://youtu.be/ebhUTM48Oj8

#pianominiatures #piano #pianomusic #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #chromaticism #moszkowski

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Today’s walk.

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Cool, now buy Google.

(Pardon the spicy take. I don't love what's happening here: rash decisions causing havoc for a great many people. But I would love a more federated internet, and this guy is sort of helping.)

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@craigmaloney just missed. Trifonov is on my list of "musicians who play Medtner", so he's important 😃

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@craigmaloney whoop yup thanks!

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