Genius In Progress

The Michigan music scene is losing a great musician this month. Dawn played her “Farewell to Michigan” show a couple of days ago in Canton, MI. Soon, it will require a trip to Chicago to hear her excellent music… all in all not a horrible thing, as Chicago is a great town and her music is worth the drive, but still a little bit less convenient than wandering over to Chelsea, Canton or Ann Arbor for a show.

At the farewell show, Dawn and I passed the time before she began her act by creating
The Top 10 Sci-Fi Dating Faux Pas, a collection of rules proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there were geeks involved in the making of the list. Ah, way too much fun.

This is what happens when computer geeks make rap music. If you don’t get it, just smile and nod. It’s funny. Really, it is. Particularly the part about big-O of log(n).

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
when sorrows like sea billows roll;
whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
let this blest assurance control,
that Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
and hath shed his own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
the clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
the trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
even so, it is well with my soul.

Eugene Harlan Stauffer (1926 - 2006)
We’ll miss you, Grandpa.