ThumMusings

Bringing the user interface of music-making into the 21st Century, and changing the world... one note at a time.

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Name: ThumMeister
Location: Austin, Texas, United States

In the late 1980’s, I tried to write insanely great code for the Mac and help others do so, too. When Windows swept through the Valley in 1991-2, I realized my great code would become worthless if the Mac platform sank. I became very interested in knowing how to spot winning platforms. Since Microsoft clearly knew how to make its platforms succeed, I joined its Systems Strategy Group. While designing and executing practical "technology evangelism" campaigns, I studied the theory behind the practice, eventually teaching mandatory "how-to" seminars to Microsoft's new evangelists. I left Microsoft in 2000, looking for a new industry to disrupt. When my wife quit her piano lessons after six months of diligent practice, saying that “music is just too hard,” I knew I’d found it. Hammering the Web relentlessly, I found a novel combination of old ideas which could make music dramatically easier to teach, learn, & play, more emotionally expressive, and expand the frontiers of tonality. This blog tells the story of my bringing those innovations to market.

Friday, June 22, 2007

New Car!

There is more to life than music. Today I bought a new car. Well, a used car, actually, although it's new to me.

I was going to buy a Toyota Matrix for its headroom, mileage, and versatility, but a little research on the Web showed that the Pontiac Vibe was exactly the same car with a Pontiac logo slapped on it. I was able to find a loaded 16-month-old 2006 Vibe in excellent condition for $13,900. That's slightly under Edmonds' recommended dealer price of $14,694 (to the extent that that means anything) and $2,000 less than the equivalently-equipped Toyota Matrix ($15,922).

As with music theory, sometimes it pays to find the commonalities lurking just beneath the surface. ;-)

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