http://jefftougas.com Automotive fanatic, computer scientist, musician, DIYer, entrepreneur, investor -- That's me, and these are my ramblings. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:33:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, so its been a really long time since I posted.  Lets see.. I moved into a new place downtown, I got in an accident on my Suzuki Motorcycle, bought a Honda CBR 600 F4i, had that stolen 3 weeks after buying it, and am now still in the process ... http://jefftougas.com/2008/10/04/its-been-a-while-a-couple-more-piano-videos-and-an-update/ What do these things have in common? I want to learn the piano music for all of them! This is mostly for my own future reference.  I will post up some videos once I've gotten good at some of these.  Also, I'm getting much better at Comptine d'un autre ete ... http://jefftougas.com/2008/07/14/in-the-hall-of-the-mountain-king-zelda-yann-tiersen-and-the-corpse-bride/ Yes yes, I'm still alive. Sorry for the long time with no posts. I've been very busy over the last few weeks. Timing belt on a 1990 Acura Legend gone wrong Firstly, I had quite the misadventure while working on my girlfriend's new car. You see, this particular Acura ... http://jefftougas.com/2008/07/07/timing-belts-kettle-bells-and-planar-graphs/ I found this wonderful piano sheet music site the other day, and just thought I'd post it here to share with you. This blog is where I got the sheet music for Comptine d'un autre: http://my-piano.blogspot.com/ Enjoy! http://jefftougas.com/2008/06/23/free-piano-sheet-music/ I posted an animated film with this song in it a couple days ago.. I've been hard at work trying to learn it.  Here is the result:     http://jefftougas.com/2008/06/22/me-playing-comptine-dun-autre-on-piano/ Well, its been a while since I've updated on my Locost build.  First, I will post some text from my locostusa.com log:   Posted Jan 25th, 2008: "Today I bought a donor car, finally. Its a 1991 Miata with 250k miles on it. 100k miles on the engine. What's really cool about it, ... http://jefftougas.com/2008/06/21/locost-update-miata-disassembled-build-table-done/ So.  You have a piano sitting in your dining room that never gets played.  You have a bed that's tucked away in storage.  You have a car that you need to sell.  You wish desperately that you could easily sell these items without paying someone to display your ad somewhere, ... http://jefftougas.com/2008/06/20/craigslist-tutorial/ This song is from the movie Amélie, which is itself quite a beautiful film. This is my new focus on the piano.. Hopefully I'll film myself playing this sometime soon.   http://jefftougas.com/2008/06/20/the-most-beautiful-piano-music-ever-comptine-dun-autre-ete/ I've just recently become infatuated with Flickr, in combination with my iPhone. Specifically, there is a third party app called iFlickr that makes uploading pictures from your iPhone a snap (pun intended). For people with a non-jailbroken iPhone, sending a picture to Flickr involves taking a picture, and ... http://jefftougas.com/2008/06/20/flickr-fanaticism/ I had to write this for a computer science ethics class. I didn't really put much time into it, and perhaps at some point I'll revise it.. but upon rereading it I thought it was pretty good. Here it is for your enjoyment.             Thirty years from now, computers ... http://jefftougas.com/2008/06/19/the-face-of-computing-in-2038/