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Couldn’t resist. Bought this a moment ago. This will sound much better than the Mahalo I already have, it comes with a hard case and very good strings AND I ordered it directly from Hawaii! (Through Musicguymic’s ebay store.)

I can’t wait!

Random reminder that Dinosaur Comics Is Awesome. Awesome in the awe-inspiring sense.

When I started reading I was impressed by the fertility of the seemingly bare premises. There was already a ton (read months) of material to go through. I kept current for a long time. I stopped visiting it daily maybe two years ago. Just a quick dip once a moon. And always: this comic amazes me. Just plain fun. Witty, bright, clever, insane, profound, intelligent and so funny.

Ryan North has been doing this for more than 6 years. If the layout of the archives page is to be any hint we will still have them until the end of December 2009. Also: there are 1436 comics on this page. One thousand four hundred thirty six. I. Am. Amazed.

I declare Ryan North to be the most pertinaciously funny daily comic writer ever.

On somewhat of a whim, I decided to buy myself a ukulele. The impulse was so strong that - afraid I wouldn’t get to the store in time - I asked a friend to go and buy it for me to make sure I got it as soon as possible. So from Italmelodie on Jean-Talon I got a Mahalo Concert electro-acoustic Ukulele.

The same night I got the beast, I started looking online to see what’s available and how to start. I was very surprised at the quantity of quality material on the web. Lots of basic lessons, tutorial videos, reviews, techniques, songs tutorial and songbooks. It’s amazing!

I have very little experience with stringed instruments: a few weeks of bass guitar last year and a few hours of ukulele from my 4th grade or so. Just enough to know what I’m tackling. I have a good base of music theory but there’s not much from my four years of tuba in high-school that can be transposed to the Ukulele. So I really needed help to get started.

I am still practicing the basics, I won’t be posting my own stuff yet… but I should start linking to and posting ukulele stuff once in a while. For now let’s start with my basic bookmarks (if you’re in the least interested in learning to play the uke, be sure to visit ukuleleunderground.com):

• Ukulele Online Tuner
• Basic Ukulele Chords
• Aldrine’s Guerrero’s Ukulele Underground
• Aldrine Guerrero’s Viddler videos
• Ukulele Chord Finder
• ukulelesongs.com - a good list of ukulele songs
• Ukulele Boogaloo Songbook
• Richard G’s Ukulele Songbook
• Hawaii Music Supply’s Online lessons
• The Ukulizer english songs
• Chordie.com - a huge catalog of song chords

That’s it for now, I have to go back and work on my G chord family transitions.

Done with the website xtranormal.com, a very interesting toy. They even have Québécois voices and different style of characters and scenes.

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