Video Game Halftime Marching Band Show

If you haven't seen the video game halftime marching band show yet....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuRfQlMu2VY

This is really entertaining. It includes imagery and/or music from:

( Hidden under a cut in case you don't want to know in advance, although I warn you that the same information is over to the right on the link I just gave you. )

Sibelius is making me rip out my hair.

For some reason, Sibelius is extending its .wav files. It exports audio slow and flat.

But not always. In fact, I thought I had this problem fixed. I created a .mp3 cover of "I've Just Seen A Face" which is successfully recorded at Q = 132. I HAVE EVIDENCE THAT SIBELIUS CAN DO THIS CORRECTLY.

But not right now. Right now, it is saving everything slow and flat, so that I hear it and scream because it drags.

Before, when I wrote to Sibelius, they said "Make sure that you are setting the speed with metronome text instead of tempo text." And I said, "Oh, I will do that!" And it worked.

But now it isn't.

And I just discovered that I somehow got the two versions of "I Remember" (one correct, one slow and flat) mixed up. And I have a slow/flat version posted to Mossdog. And I can't find the correct version.

But I know it existed because this was what I did to demonstrate to myself, "Oh, look, Sibelius gave me good information and is all fixed now!"

...meh.

Steven Brust and Civilization.

Not civilization, Civilization, as in Sid Meier's.

Steven Brust (the guy who wrote Jhereg, which is the first fantasy novel about Vlad Taltos) wrote a great Civilization parody on "Addicted to Love". You can see it at http://skzbrust.livejournal.com/66515.html. I was greatly amused.

However...

I encountered his LJ through naamah_darling, who was using it to advise the world that he is having some financial trouble, not to show off his amusing parody, so I will pass along that he is having serious medical trouble and no health insurance. If you have any interest in helping out, you can do so by going to http://dreamcafe.com/donate.html. Or maybe just by buying a few more Vlad books. He's currently working on Iorich.