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This is a test of a blog post...Brian's blog in this case.

I've decided to start blogging here, rather than in 750 words, about programming.

Today, I'm setting up to work on IF.  But I'm also recording some thoughts about a festival program which would work in tandem with a self-assessment program, focusing on balance, coordination, agility, and the paired skills of musicality and musical expressiveness.

The self-assessment program would maintain data and share it with those nearby, who might want to find a stranger with good basic skills to dance with.  

These self-assessment programs might be calibrated by using the self-assessment figures obtained by popular social dancers as a basis of comparison.

One can start by assessing balance and smoothness much like the Wii started to do.  And remember we can hack into the Wii balance board USB protocol, with some help from Christopher!  With two balance boards, we could measure what the chiropractors measure: how much weight on each foot?

We could also measure the expressiveness skill of partial weight-shift or "touch&go" things like gancho setups.

Maybe the key thing is to create shoes like balance boards, mini-setups even using the same electronics for prototyping? That way we could even get a reading of axis position inside the foot.  If fact, if both partners were wearing these, weight transfer keyed to the musical moment could be precisely measured.

Some good ideas.

Now, back tot he problem at hand.  I could submit an invoice with head held high, but not today.  Mom's wake starts soon, and we're leaving in 15 minutes.

"In all beginnings dwells a magic force..."

"...for guiding us and helping us to live."
- Hermann Hesse

"Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- J.W. von Goethe

To mark the first time I have moved my physical address in fifteen years, I'm starting this blog about my attempts to meld the world of tango dancing and contemporary collaborative software development.  I am heartened to realize that I am not alone in perceiving the metaphysical juiciness that live at their intersection.  Tango dancing is innately creative, being an improvised dance for the leader, and being an experience of connection, surprise and flow for the follower.  Collaborative software development offers flow experiences of creativity and shared goals and intentions mixed with explosions of frustration when elusive bugs and/or communication breakdowns slam us against our limits of awareness and insight.  For both domains, the height of experience is to enter the sensation of oneness - with one's partner(s) in creation, with the dance/music or software development environment that contain our adventures in union.

On top of that, with tango dancing, the man-woman juiciness of the sexual polarization energy in the dance beckons me into mindfully exploring the incandescent arena of our male-female divine archetypes alive together in every moment of the dance.