After a bad spate of Ivory acting up on me (how I love DRM-based software!), I am finally able to create audio mixdowns of my practice sessions again.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the first by-request topic for the practice log: The Patent Troll, as requested some weeks ago by Dave Moore.

This is a little song about the nasty creature that lives under the bridge of engineering, waiting to spoil any good-natured attempt to cross. No, he didn't build the bridge, and no, he doesn't ever try to cross it himself. But he figures as long as he was the first one to walk by and squat down underneath it, everyone should have to pay the toll.

And pay they must, at least as long as our country continues to forget its own constitution and the intent thereof. But lucky for the troll, as a nation, we're quite good at doing just that.

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