I was just looking at a picture of the Alesis Micron MIDI controller and I said to myself: ‘Wow, that’s cool.  It’s pink!’  I am officially turning into Tomas an idiot.  In other news, a very funky and tasteful navy-blue M-audio Fast Track Pro is headed my way, along with a chunky silver Rode studio mic. I have been browsing around for samples of people’s fridge doors, toasters and bubblewrap (the later is totally overrated as a sound, btw). Musical goodness on teh way.

Here’s a story I heard today. I think it’s from a New Scientist article on learning:

Two people are in the kitchen talking, and one of them is preparing a leg of lamb. She takes a knife and chops off the ends of the bit of meat before putting in on the stove. The other asks her “Why did you do that?” and she says “Well, I’m not sure exactly why you do it. It’s just how my mother did it.” So later she goes and asks her mother why she always cuts off of the ends of the bit of meat and the mother says “I do it bcause that’s the way my mother always used to do it. I don’t know how it makes the meat taste better.” So mum doesn’t know anything, and then they drive over to granny’s place and sit her down and ask her about the meat. Why do you chop the ends off before you cook it? And granny says “Well that’s because I never had a pot big enough to get the whole thing in, so I always chopped the end bits off to make it fit.”

We don’t always do things the best way, often just the way we learned. Our habits are full of old junk. Just look at this obsolete qwerty keyboard.