Date and Code

Mary Beth and I had a downtown date night extravaganza last night. We first went over to Belle Tavern for some drinks and a snack. Then we walked over to the Rendezvous for some ribs. We overhear our waiter talking to some foreign tourist leaving with his takeout with some recommendations for other barbecue places (I didn't hear the beginning, but I'm sure the tourist asked him about additional recommendations) and our server mentioned Payne's having the best barbecue sandwich in town, so we're like, "yeah!" And then who should come up to us and say hi other than Tony, from the olden days at Huey's! (Super friendly guy who was constantly our server back when we went there all the time, especially late at night.) Anyway, he said he's been at Rendezvous for seven years and it's good gig and stuff. It was a little touching that he recognized us after all those years (and it's been a good deal longer even than those seven years that we've gone to Huey's on a regular basis). For the live score, I've been trying to work out a polymetric metronome. My latest tack is finding some people who have made open source polymetric drum machines to be able to repurpose those for my own purposes. I found one that I was pretty sure wouldn't be a problem to update the code and was already looking at it and making some changes, but when I tried to install and run it on my machine (it works where it's deployed online), I couldn't get it to even import the dependencies because it's using some old libraries that have some dependencies that don't exist anymore and just errors out trying to build it (it has two dependencies that have a problem and won't build). I'm thinking they are related only to the ui so I could take out the core logic and redo the ui part with a more contemporary framework like angular or something...but that seems like it'd be a TOTAL PAIN IN THE ASS! Then I found another person who had a polymetric drum machine on github so I'm looking at that one now. The npm install is working so that's a good sign. It does some annoying extra shit forcing it to be hooked up to a cloud database to store the sound files and patterns, but I should be able to disconnect that shit. Working on it now. Hopefully it's not another dead end. But again I think it's do-able. We'll see. I feel there was something I forgot to mention about the Earth show in my last post but now I can't remember it.