At age sixteen one typically gets their drivers license (in North America), but I think every sixteen years people should get another license.
Of their choice.
And since it’s your birthday today, Ryan, you get to pick whatever license you want! There’s an evil mastermind license, or a license to captain a starship, or perhaps the ever popular license to kill. Very handy for those annoying people that pop up on your birthday. Hey, the punch bowl!!! I’ll be right back! Oh and…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RYAN!!!

When working on various variosities, I like turning on some music to be inspired to. Typically I’ll reach for (in a digital sense) classical compositions and film scores.

Especially film scores.

And of those especial film scores, three names invariably pop up: John Williams, James Horner, and Jerry Goldsmith. Or the 3J’s as I like to refer to them as. (I think I might have mentioned this in an earlier post. Oh well, nothing like leftovers!) But since I named this post Jerry Goldsmith, I’m forced to only talk about him on this occasion.
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