Paul Wiegand

Greta, my new kitten:

My other band (PhyNight) will be playing Slow Play Brewing May 9. Just a bunch of math, CS, and econ geeks playing some well known covers. More details soon!

Last night of Dumb Sweater Fest.

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Their measure was taken, and they folded like a paper swan. No one has a spine.

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Rock Hill City Council is selling the Gettys Center. Who knew that the "don't erase history" crowd would have been appeased by money? We should have been telling folks we were just melting those statues down to sell for money. Surprising they didn't really care about history, right?

March 21 and March 22: Courtroom in Rock Hill.

Habit keeps bringing me back to Facebook, but BlueSky is so much less stressful. I need to move my attention here.

The all-out assault on educators and scientists in this country is breaking my heart.

To any of my academic colleagues and friends at federal agencies: if you need someone to preserve / disseminate data, publications, reports, etc. then DM me. We'll find a way to have your backs.

Two great bands playing on March 1 at one of my favorite Rock Hill hangouts!

NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%

This is literally insane: www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

Feel better soon!

Downtown Jazz Jam tonight at Rock Hill's Powerhouse. Starts at 6p.

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It is impossible to overstate how stupid and horrifically bad this OMB memo is. This falls squarely in the bracket of, "Don't break things you don't understand."

Yeah. I wanted to like it, but found it pretty bad.

Section 31 should be renamed: Section Gratuitous Exposition.

Aluminum 6, Once-Below Joy, and Read-Only Time Travel at The Rooster in Gastonia tomorrow (Sat.25.Jan). Show starts at 7:30p.

Saw a headline that "Republicans are struggling" to explain DJT's pardoning of the Jan 6 domestic terrorists. But he said he would do exactly this. They didn't use the past few months to think about it? If you can't muster a backbone, at least contemplate your bootlicking.

I *suppose* banning TikTok might appear to be addressing the threat to people that have no idea how any of this works. To me, it's just a really quick way to teach young people concepts like "VPN" and "side loading". Security theater is exhausting.

YouTube video by R. Paul Wiegand Stand By Me, Noodling with voicings

This is pretty rough. I just wanted to play with mixing up different chord voices NGS and picking patterns in a simple song. I rushed it in places, and my voice is awful. But, it's an idea. youtu.be/_tJirtR9OwY?...