Where is the simpsons Springfield

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: November 14, 2006

I know the creators say they will not let people know what state the Simpsons live in, but I think we can get it down to a region. Well here is where I am coming from. To the best of my knowledge Principal Skinner has spent his life in Springfield (except for the time he was in Vietnam) and in the episode “Homer’s Paternity Coot” where Homer gets a 40 years old letter for his mother that states that she was having an affare with a life guard, Principal Skinner is talking on a Ham radio and he gives the call sign WA3QIZ as his call sign (a quick check of qrz does show that it belongs to a club, but that is unimportant in this case just a side note)
A quick check of the call districts in the US shows that there are 3 states and one district that has 3 in it. PA, MD, DE, and DC. We can remove DC from that list since DC is a city and not a state. So we have one of three states the Simpsons live in PA, MD, or DE.0

Yes I know this is a pointless post but I just thought it would be fun, I guess I should get a life, or a girlfriend.

Some fun tonight

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: November 11, 2006

Tonight a bunch of my friends and I went out to the Church Brew works to celebrate my 30th that was yesterday.

Tried to record my Tin Whistle Practice tonight.

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Irish Tin Whistle
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Published on: November 9, 2006

I tried to record my practicing, I used my palm pilot to try to record it. There was a problem as I was try to record it to the SD card, it was recording every 5th second so when I tried to play it back it was only 5 minutes long and just sounded so wrong, I will try to recording my practice tomorrow.

Due to spam

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff
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Published on: November 9, 2006

Due to spam I have set a limit you can only post one comment every 5 minutes. If I have to I will up that time, but for now I will test the 5 minutes rule.

My Plans for tomorrow.

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: November 8, 2006

Well I took tomorrow off, I planned this some time last month. I am going to sleep in tomorrow, then I will hit Matins tomorrow at church. I will probably come home and read. Why did I take tomorrow off, why would some one take a Thursday off. Well first I had 6 vacation days I have to use before the end of the year. And tomorrow is my 30th Birthday. It is a big round number, so I am going to take the day off.

Thanks to Rob and Terry

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Family, Politics
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Published on: November 7, 2006

Today, I asked two of my friends Terry and Rob to go with me when I went to vote, I was worried because back in 2004 moveon was doing aggressive campaigning inside the polling places, and there was almost no privacy on the new voting booths. I was glad when I went in and saw that there was no one campaigning inside the polling place this year. Thanks goes out Rob and Terry again.

An anser to Dan

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff, Irish Tin Whistle
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: November 6, 2006

Dan at Necessary Roughness asked the following question “I don’t know anything about your whistle, but one # in the key of G makes for slightly more readability than two-sharp D 🙂 Not that big a difference though.” To my Post on about transposing “A Mighty Fortress” But since I can not do table formatting in comments I will post the answer here so that I can use table tags in the answer. So here goes my answer.

Dan on the Tin Whistle, I just look at the key signature just to see how to play the C, to give idea how it works the finger is as follows.








The fingering for the Tin Whistle, O = open hole X = closed hole
HOLEABCC#DEF#G
1 XXOO XXX X
2 XOXO XXX X
3 OOXO XXX X
4 OOOO XXX O
5 OOOO XXO O
6 OOOO XOO O

So for me the key of D and G are just as easy as each other. and for transposing the song would look at this.






KeyDORAMEFASOLATEDO
D D E F#G A B C# D
G G A BC D E F# G
C C D EF G A B C

So as you can see going from the key of C to D is just upping the notes by only about one in most cases and in 2 cases only 1 1/2 step. For the key of G it would be 5 notes in 7 cases and in one case 5 1/2 steps. So for me I felt that it was just easier to go up to the key of D was best for me.

The fire up in Cabot

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: News
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Published on: November 5, 2006

There was a fire up at Concordia. I wish to send my best to any one that lives there. I know one person that lives there, I am just glad he was at church today as he is every Sunday. So he was safe at our church when the problem happend. He right now is staying with friends. But I wish this did not happen, but I am glad my friend is ok.

Learned how to transpose music for my instrument today

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Irish Tin Whistle
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: November 4, 2006

Well today in the Music Theory course I am taking, I learned how to transpose music when it comes to my Instrument (the Tin Whistle) Which can only play stuff in the key signature of D major, G major, E minor, and B minor.
I started some work (I will probably finish tomorrow) on taking “A mighty Fortress” from the C to the key of D ( I picked D since it is just upping the notes by one) And it sounds correct.

Sorry to my readers

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Blog Stuff
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Published on: November 2, 2006

If you tried to post a comment in the last couple of weeks, sorry, I was trying a new anti-spam setup, and well I guess everything was being considered spam. I have turned off the thing so you should be able to comment again.

The last miles of my biking this year just put up

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Biking
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Published on: October 31, 2006

I just entered the last 31.09 miles from my bike computer up here so my total miles for this year are 1045.10 for the year, so I guess for next year my goal should be 1200 miles.

Happy Reformation Day

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)
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Published on: October 31, 2006

Yes you read that right today is Reformation Day. This day in 1517 Luther posted his 95 Theses on the Church door in Wittenberg.
Also if you have children I hope they had a good and safe Halloween, I do feel sorry for the kids in the Pittsburgh region, since it rained tonight.
I also hope you all have a good All Saints day tomorrow, and a good All Souls day on the 2nd.

Does any one want to hear

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Irish Tin Whistle
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Published on: October 30, 2006

Does any one want to hear some of the Christmas Carols I have been practicing as of late. If any one want to hear some of them I am willing to record them and convert them to mp3’s and upload them here. So does any one want to hear any of them. The ones that I am will to put up are as follows

  • O Come, All Ye Faithful
  • Oh, Come, Oh, Come, Emmanuel
  • We Three Kings
  • O Christmas Tree
  • Away in a Manger
  • God Rest you Merry Gentlemen

if you would like to hear me do one of these I can record it and put it up, just let me know in your comment which one you would like to hear.

Pictures from the Pittsburgh Area Reformation Celebration

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Church, Pittsburgh stuff
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Published on: October 30, 2006

The Pictures from the Pittsburgh Area Reformation Celebration for this year are up now.

Today probably will be my last day biking to work this season

by Michael O'Connor
Categories: Biking
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Published on: October 30, 2006

Well since the daylight change, and that the sun is setting so close to 5, and that it is getting colder, I think the biking season is over for me. I will probably just walk to work for the winter. I will put the last of my miles up later.

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