I've noticed a correlation between computer talent and musical talent, both requiring a combination of creativity and inate, intuitive mathematical ability. I'm afraid one could add a certain anal retentiveness, or more kindly, an attention to detail. I make my living as a graphics and multimedia artist and trainer, but have also supported myself as a watercolorist on hand-made paper. Both SDShad, another computer nerd, and I have been involved in theatre and I have actually been paid. SDShad is a lefty and plays a factory left-handed Ovation. I am very ambidexterous, thus in theory am both left and right brained.

The real credit for music, I believe should go to our doting parents, who offered us musical opportunities at a young age when our brains were open to such connections and perhaps gave us good DNA.

--Beth