If you’re wandering around the upper west side of Manhattan this Sunday, stop on by and hear The Broadway Bach Ensemble’s free concert. We’re doing the Bach “Wedding Cantata,” and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. The soprano soloist is Silvie Jensen who, from what I heard at rehearsal the other night, is the bomb.
I’m especially psyched [...]
If you enjoy the occasional zombie movie, you’ll like this.
You have to try this ultra-minimalist game. The whole thing weighs in at less than 2MB, but it’s remarkable the amount of content and meaning he works in. I know, strange concepts for a computer game that looks like something out of early Atari. Install it, play it, then read the author’s notes.
Via Kottke.
Last month marked twenty-five years since the release of the original “Blade Runner,” and in recognition “The Final Cut” was released theatrically and on DVD. I picked up my copy last week, and compared it with my memories of the original.
Now I’ve always had a weakness for sci-fi in general, but Blade Runner set [...]
If you’re of a “certain age” and you’re a music lover, you’ve got a stack of vinyl records laying around somewhere and no way to play them in your car. I’d been mulling this over for a while, with most of the pieces of the puzzle laying around here, and finally figured out a “duh” [...]
Some tips on setting up an older Palm Vx PDA with newer hardware. Hooking it up to an online calendar is even more of a challenge, but it looks do-able.
Not like I’ve followed football at all this year. But the game tonight against Green Bay has to go down as one of the classic playoff games. Two closely matched teams shot it out, with big plays, and very few turnovers. Good officiating too, such penalties as there were, were all legit. And the [...]
Lots of people have secret vices. Things that they do that they know are not good for them, but they get a secret satisfaction from doing them anyway. Things like watching soap operas, eating CoolWhip, going to Adam Sandler movies. Well I’ve got a secret, too.
I like to read The Wall Street Journal editorial [...]
Going to a movie is one thing. Reading a book is another. For many years I’ve been an avid reader of Cormac McCarthy. I’ve made it a point, in fact, to read everything by him at least twice. McCarthy’s style is heavy on landscape and theme, with plot somewhat de-emphasized. There is plot, and sometimes [...]
This morning we launched version 2 of transitionworks.org, the community site for members and participants of TransitionWorks.
It’s a radical simplification of the version 1 site, which tried to do more than it really needed to. After giving what users were doing some scrutiny, we honed it down to a few vital functions and got [...]
Edmund Hillary, dead at 88. He crossed over the last great frontier — at least the last great frontier here on Earth.
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